Benjamin Bolduc

9.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
33 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Bolduc is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Bolduc has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Ecology, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Bolduc's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (27 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (12 papers). Benjamin Bolduc is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (27 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (12 papers). Benjamin Bolduc collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Benjamin Bolduc's co-authors include Matthew B. Sullivan, Simon Roux, Ahmed A. Zayed, Dean Vik, Mark Young, Olivier Zablocki, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Ho Bin Jang, Guillermo Domínguez‐Huerta and Ann Gregory and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Bolduc

31 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses

2021 682 citations Jiarong Guo, Benjamin Bolduc et al. Microbiome profile →
DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function

2020 580 citations Michael Shaffer, Mikayla Borton et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks

2019 572 citations Ho Bin Jang, Benjamin Bolduc et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
The Gut Virome Database Reveals Age-Dependent Patterns of Virome Diversity in the Human Gut

2020 407 citations Ann Gregory, Olivier Zablocki et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
Healthy human gut phageome

2016 396 citations Benjamin Bolduc, Mark Young et al. profile →
Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing

2018 251 citations Gareth Trubl, Ho Bin Jang et al. mSystems profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Bolduc	3.3k	2.1k	984	706	436	33	4.2k
Frederik Schulz	2.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	335 0.5×	474 1.1×	72	4.2k
Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh	3.8k 1.1×	3.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	716 1.0×	483 1.1×	71	5.9k
Andrew Millard	3.8k 1.2×	2.5k 1.2×	830 0.8×	596 0.8×	351 0.8×	121	4.8k
Florent Angly	3.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	744 0.8×	781 1.1×	307 0.7×	27	4.7k
Dmitry Meleshko	1.8k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	839 0.9×	559 0.8×	366 0.8×	17	4.8k
Ben Felts	2.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	860 0.9×	730 1.0×	259 0.6×	21	3.5k
Martha R. J. Clokie	4.8k 1.5×	2.5k 1.2×	973 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	434 1.0×	131	5.7k
Evelien M. Adriaenssens	2.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	976 1.0×	609 0.9×	496 1.1×	74	3.6k
Karin Lagesen	2.0k 0.6×	4.0k 1.9×	1.2k 1.2×	304 0.4×	455 1.0×	37	6.0k
Tom O. Delmont	3.1k 0.9×	2.8k 1.4×	603 0.6×	332 0.5×	227 0.5×	52	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Bolduc

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Bolduc, Benjamin, Olivier Zablocki, Dann Turner, et al.. (2025). Machine learning enables scalable and systematic hierarchical virus taxonomy. Nature Biotechnology.

Yu, Hannah, Dong Xue, Guillermo Domínguez‐Huerta, et al.. (2025). CLAE: A High‐Fidelity Nanopore Sequencing Strategy for Read‐Level Viral Variant Detection and Environmental RNA Virus Discovery. Advanced Science. 12(44). e05978–e05978.

Howard‐Varona, Cristina, et al.. (2025). Infection and Genomic Properties of Single- and Double-Stranded DNA Cellulophaga Phages. Viruses. 17(3). 365–365. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Christine, Akbar Adjie Pratama, María Consuelo Gazitúa, et al.. (2024). Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient. Environmental Microbiology. 26(8). e16665–e16665. 4 indexed citations

Vik, Dean, Benjamin Bolduc, Simon Roux, et al.. (2023). MArVD2: a machine learning enhanced tool to discriminate between archaeal and bacterial viruses in viral datasets. ISME Communications. 3(1). 87–87. 4 indexed citations

Pratama, Akbar Adjie, Benjamin Bolduc, Ahmed A. Zayed, et al.. (2021). Expanding standards in viromics: in silico evaluation of dsDNA viral genome identification, classification, and auxiliary metabolic gene curation. PeerJ. 9. e11447–e11447. 73 indexed citations

Guo, Jiarong, Benjamin Bolduc, Ahmed A. Zayed, et al.. (2021). VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses. Microbiome. 9(1). 37–37. 682 indexed citations breakdown →

Tisza, Michael J., et al.. (2020). Cenote-Taker 2 democratizes virus discovery and sequence annotation. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veaa100–veaa100. 91 indexed citations

Gazitúa, María Consuelo, Dean Vik, Simon Roux, et al.. (2020). Potential virus-mediated nitrogen cycling in oxygen-depleted oceanic waters. The ISME Journal. 15(4). 981–998. 95 indexed citations

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Bolduc, Benjamin, Suzanne B. Hodgkins, R. K. Varner, et al.. (2020). The IsoGenie database: an interdisciplinary data management solution for ecosystems biology and environmental research. PeerJ. 8. e9467–e9467. 6 indexed citations

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Shaffer, Michael, Mikayla Borton, Bridget B. McGivern, et al.. (2020). DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(16). 8883–8900. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gregory, Ann, et al.. (2020). The Gut Virome Database Reveals Age-Dependent Patterns of Virome Diversity in the Human Gut. Cell Host & Microbe. 28(5). 724–740.e8. 407 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bolduc, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Biotic and Environmental Drivers of Plant Microbiomes Across a Permafrost Thaw Gradient. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 796–796. 22 indexed citations

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Trubl, Gareth, Simon Roux, Natalie Solonenko, et al.. (2019). Towards optimized viral metagenomes for double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses from challenging soils. PeerJ. 7. e7265–e7265. 43 indexed citations

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Trubl, Gareth, Ho Bin Jang, Simon Roux, et al.. (2018). Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing. mSystems. 3(5). 251 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vik, Dean, Simon Roux, Jennifer R. Brum, et al.. (2017). Putative archaeal viruses from the mesopelagic ocean. PeerJ. 5. e3428–e3428. 37 indexed citations

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Bolduc, Benjamin, et al.. (2017). vConTACT: an iVirus tool to classify double-stranded DNA viruses that infect Archaea and Bacteria. PeerJ. 5. e3243–e3243. 183 indexed citations

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Martinez‐Hernández, Francisco, Òscar Fornas, Mónica Lluesma Gómez, et al.. (2017). Single-virus genomics reveals hidden cosmopolitan and abundant viruses. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15892–15892. 139 indexed citations

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Bolduc, Benjamin, Ken Youens‐Clark, Simon Roux, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, & Matthew B. Sullivan. (2016). iVirus: facilitating new insights in viral ecology with software and community data sets imbedded in a cyberinfrastructure. The ISME Journal. 11(1). 7–14. 78 indexed citations

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Snyder, Jamie C., Benjamin Bolduc, & Mark Young. (2015). 40 Years of archaeal virology: Expanding viral diversity. Virology. 479-480. 369–378. 36 indexed citations

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