Ben Vezina

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 569 citations indexed

About

Ben Vezina is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Vezina has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 569 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Ben Vezina's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (5 papers). Ben Vezina is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (5 papers). Ben Vezina collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Ben Vezina's co-authors include Jane Hawkey, Louise M. Judd, Kelly L. Wyres, Kathryn E. Holt, Guillaume Méric, Louise Cerdeira, Ryan R. Wick, Thi Thu Hao Van, Robert J. Moore and Andrew Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Ben Vezina

24 papers receiving 562 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Trycycler: consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes

2021 247 citations Ryan R. Wick, Louise M. Judd et al. Genome biology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Vezina Australia	11	273	182	115	108	107	25	569
Margaret D. Weinroth United States	17	269 1.0×	209 1.1×	108 0.9×	87 0.8×	88 0.8×	27	601
Karen Apellanis Borges Brazil	16	175 0.6×	320 1.8×	108 0.9×	113 1.0×	76 0.7×	66	635
Ashgan M. Hessain Egypt	14	177 0.6×	189 1.0×	54 0.5×	113 1.0×	132 1.2×	27	598
Reham M. El‐Tarabili Egypt	16	259 0.9×	208 1.1×	96 0.8×	276 2.6×	153 1.4×	41	794
Cristina Garcı́a-Graells Belgium	12	211 0.8×	252 1.4×	59 0.5×	134 1.2×	192 1.8×	16	731
Helen Wimalarathna United Kingdom	7	209 0.8×	324 1.8×	132 1.1×	113 1.0×	224 2.1×	8	689
Mudit Chandra India	13	106 0.4×	218 1.2×	68 0.6×	98 0.9×	146 1.4×	73	609
Fabrice Touzain France	17	176 0.6×	172 0.9×	118 1.0×	109 1.0×	263 2.5×	36	637
Roberta J. Magnuson United States	11	216 0.8×	191 1.0×	111 1.0×	106 1.0×	114 1.1×	23	607
Amal Awad Egypt	18	170 0.6×	285 1.6×	90 0.8×	194 1.8×	96 0.9×	47	734

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Vezina

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20 of 20 papers shown

Vezina, Ben, Christopher K. Barlow, Sylvain Brisse, et al.. (2025). A metabolic atlas of the Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex reveals lineage-specific metabolism and capacity for intra-species co-operation. PLoS Biology. 23(12). e3003559–e3003559.

Vezina, Ben, Jane Hawkey, Virginie Passet, et al.. (2024). A validated pangenome-scale metabolic model for the Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex. Microbial Genomics. 10(2). 1 indexed citations

Maćešić, Nenad, Adelaide S. M. Dennis, Jane Hawkey, et al.. (2024). Genomic investigation of multispecies and multivariant bla_NDM outbreak reveals key role of horizontal plasmid transmission. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 45(6). 709–716. 2 indexed citations

Vezina, Ben, et al.. (2024). Wild-Type Domestication: Loss of Intrinsic Metabolic Traits Concealed by Culture in Rich Media. Microbial Ecology. 87(1). 144–144. 1 indexed citations

Maćešić, Nenad, Jane Hawkey, Ben Vezina, et al.. (2023). Genomic dissection of endemic carbapenem resistance reveals metallo-beta-lactamase dissemination through clonal, plasmid and integron transfer. Nature Communications. 14(1). 24 indexed citations

Vezina, Ben, Stephen C. Watts, Jane Hawkey, et al.. (2023). Bactabolize is a tool for high-throughput generation of bacterial strain-specific metabolic models. eLife. 12. 5 indexed citations

Vezina, Ben, et al.. (2023). Streptococcus ruminantium-associated sheep mastitis outbreak detected in Italy is distinct from bovine isolates. Veterinary Research. 54(1). 118–118. 1 indexed citations

Vezina, Ben, Stephen C. Watts, Jane Hawkey, et al.. (2023). Bactabolize is a tool for high-throughput generation of bacterial strain-specific metabolic models. eLife. 12. 6 indexed citations

Hawkey, Jane, Ben Vezina, Jonathan M. Monk, et al.. (2022). A curated collection of Klebsiella metabolic models reveals variable substrate usage and gene essentiality. Genome Research. 32(5). 1004–1014. 8 indexed citations

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Vezina, Ben, et al.. (2022). Genomic surveillance reveals antibiotic resistance gene transmission via phage recombinases within sheep mastitis-associated Streptococcus uberis. BMC Veterinary Research. 18(1). 264–264. 9 indexed citations

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Vezina, Ben, Theo R. Allnutt, Anthony L. Keyburn, et al.. (2021). Stable Recombinant-Gene Expression from a Ligilactobacillus Live Bacterial Vector via Chromosomal Integration. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(11). 5 indexed citations

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Wick, Ryan R., Louise M. Judd, Louise Cerdeira, et al.. (2021). Trycycler: consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes. Genome biology. 22(1). 266–266. 247 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vezina, Ben, et al.. (2021). Sequence characterisation and novel insights into bovine mastitis-associated Streptococcus uberis in dairy herds. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 3046–3046. 22 indexed citations

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Vezina, Ben, Róisín M. McMahon, Gordon J. King, et al.. (2020). Crystal structure and site-directed mutagenesis of circular bacteriocin plantacyclin B21AG reveals cationic and aromatic residues important for antimicrobial activity. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 17398–17398. 11 indexed citations

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Vezina, Ben, et al.. (2020). Campylobacter hepaticus, the Cause of Spotty Liver Disease in Chickens: Transmission and Routes of Infection. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 6. 505–505. 33 indexed citations

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Vezina, Ben, Bernd H. A. Rehm, & Andrew Smith. (2020). Bioinformatic prospecting and phylogenetic analysis reveals 94 undescribed circular bacteriocins and key motifs. BMC Microbiology. 20(1). 77–77. 23 indexed citations

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Williamson, Nicholas A., et al.. (2020). Discovery and characterisation of circular bacteriocin plantacyclin B21AG from Lactiplantibacillus plantarum B21. Heliyon. 6(8). e04715–e04715. 53 indexed citations

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Vezina, Ben, et al.. (2020). Prediction of Burkholderia pseudomallei DsbA substrates identifies potential virulence factors and vaccine targets. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0241306–e0241306. 2 indexed citations

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Van, Thi Thu Hao, Jake A. Lacey, Ben Vezina, et al.. (2019). Survival Mechanisms of Campylobacter hepaticus Identified by Genomic Analysis and Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of in vivo and in vitro Derived Bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 107–107. 22 indexed citations

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Lacey, Jake A., Theodore R. Allnutt, Ben Vezina, et al.. (2018). Whole genome analysis reveals the diversity and evolutionary relationships between necrotic enteritis-causing strains of Clostridium perfringens. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 379–379. 49 indexed citations

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