Benjamin K. Chan

5.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
44 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Benjamin K. Chan is a scholar working on Ecology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin K. Chan has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, 13 papers in Microbiology and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin K. Chan's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (36 papers), Microbial infections and disease research (12 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (10 papers). Benjamin K. Chan is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (36 papers), Microbial infections and disease research (12 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (10 papers). Benjamin K. Chan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Benjamin K. Chan's co-authors include Paul E. Turner, Stephen T. Abedon, Kaitlyn E. Kortright, Catherine Loc-Carrillo, Jonathan L. Koff, Deepak Narayan, Mark Sistrom, John E. Wertz, Hamid Mojibian and John A. Elefteriades and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin K. Chan

41 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Phage Therapy: A Renewed Approach to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

2019 777 citations Kaitlyn E. Kortright, Benjamin K. Chan et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
Phage Cocktails and the Future of Phage Therapy

2013 674 citations Benjamin K. Chan, Stephen T. Abedon et al. profile →
Phage selection restores antibiotic sensitivity in MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa

2016 512 citations Benjamin K. Chan, Mark Sistrom et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Phage treatment of an aortic graft infected withPseudomonas aeruginosa

2018 355 citations Benjamin K. Chan, Paul E. Turner et al. Evolution Medicine and Public Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin K. Chan United States	22	3.1k	1.3k	1.2k	620	618	44	3.8k
Laurent Debarbieux France	34	3.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	411 0.7×	687 1.1×	87	3.9k
Ніна Чанішвілі Georgia	25	2.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	890 0.7×	343 0.6×	466 0.8×	61	2.9k
Sandra Morales Australia	34	2.5k 0.8×	995 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	454 0.7×	346 0.6×	68	3.3k
Jochen Klumpp Switzerland	37	2.4k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	612 0.5×	390 0.6×	448 0.7×	89	3.6k
Pieter‐Jan Ceyssens Belgium	33	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	793 0.6×	362 0.6×	523 0.8×	79	2.9k
Ewa Jończyk‐Matysiak Poland	26	2.3k 0.7×	853 0.7×	873 0.7×	279 0.5×	394 0.6×	50	2.8k
Raymond Schuch United States	32	2.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	801 0.6×	464 0.7×	301 0.5×	72	3.6k
Beata Weber‐Dąbrowska Poland	44	4.8k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.5×	478 0.8×	793 1.3×	117	5.6k
Jason J. Gill United States	28	1.9k 0.6×	978 0.7×	746 0.6×	223 0.4×	571 0.9×	107	2.7k
Mathias Schmelcher Switzerland	29	2.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	727 0.6×	220 0.4×	261 0.4×	43	3.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chan, Benjamin K., et al.. (2024). Neutralizing antibodies after nebulized phage therapy in cystic fibrosis patients. Med. 5(9). 1096–1111.e6. 23 indexed citations

Cochrane, Christina, Benjamin K. Chan, Kaitlyn E. Kortright, et al.. (2024). Cystic Fibrosis Bacteriophage Study at Yale (CYPHY). A6808–A6808. 3 indexed citations

Würstle, Silvia, Kaitlyn E. Kortright, Gail Stanley, et al.. (2024). Optimized preparation pipeline for emergency phage therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa at Yale University. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2657–2657. 14 indexed citations

Chan, Benjamin K., Kaitlyn E. Kortright, Christina Cochrane, et al.. (2023). 41 CYstic Fibrosis bacterioPHage study at Yale (CYPHY). Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 22. S22–S22. 1 indexed citations

Köhler, Thilo, Alexandre Lüscher, Grégory Resch, et al.. (2023). Personalized aerosolised bacteriophage treatment of a chronic lung infection due to multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3629–3629. 48 indexed citations

Haidar, Ghady, Benjamin K. Chan, Shu‐Ting Cho, et al.. (2023). Phage therapy in a lung transplant recipient with cystic fibrosis infected with multidrug‐resistant Burkholderia multivorans. Transplant Infectious Disease. 25(2). e14041–e14041. 23 indexed citations

Würstle, Silvia, Alexander Hapfelmeier, Roland M. Schmid, et al.. (2023). Differentiation of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis from Secondary Peritonitis in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Retrospective Multicentre Study. Diagnostics. 13(5). 994–994. 2 indexed citations

Doub, James B., Benjamin K. Chan, & Aaron J. Johnson. (2023). Salphage: Salvage bacteriophage therapy for a chronic Enterococcus faecalis prosthetic joint infection. IDCases. 33. e01854–e01854. 8 indexed citations

Kortright, Kaitlyn E., Benjamin K. Chan, Benjamin Evans, & Paul E. Turner. (2022). Arms race and fluctuating selection dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria coevolving with phage OMKO1. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(11). 1475–1487. 21 indexed citations

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Doub, James B., Akira Shishido, Uma Srikumaran, et al.. (2022). Salphage: salvage bacteriophage therapy for a recalcitrant Klebsiella pneumoniae prosthetic shoulder infection — a case report. Acta Orthopaedica. 93. 756–759. 18 indexed citations

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Kenney, Patrick A., Benjamin K. Chan, Kaitlyn E. Kortright, et al.. (2021). Hydrogen peroxide vapor decontamination of N95 respirators for reuse. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 43(1). 45–47. 31 indexed citations

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Kortright, Kaitlyn E., et al.. (2021). Evolution of Bacterial Cross-Resistance to Lytic Phages and Albicidin Antibiotic. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 658374–658374. 26 indexed citations

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Gurney, James, Claire Gougat‐Barbera, Benjamin K. Chan, et al.. (2020). Phage steering of antibiotic-resistance evolution in the bacterial pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 2020(1). 148–157. 70 indexed citations

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Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Rogelio A., Chung Yin Leung, Benjamin K. Chan, Paul E. Turner, & Joshua S. Weitz. (2020). Quantitative Models of Phage-Antibiotic Combination Therapy. mSystems. 5(1). 76 indexed citations

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Chan, Benjamin K., Isabel M. Ott, Z.M. Harris, et al.. (2020). Bacteriophage Therapy Decreases Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Lung Inflammation. A2977–A2977. 2 indexed citations

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Kortright, Kaitlyn E., Benjamin K. Chan, Jonathan L. Koff, & Paul E. Turner. (2019). Phage Therapy: A Renewed Approach to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. Cell Host & Microbe. 25(2). 219–232. 777 indexed citations breakdown →

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Koff, Jonathan L., et al.. (2019). Clinical Use of Inhaled Bacteriophages to Treat Multi-Drug Resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa. A7381–A7381. 3 indexed citations

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Chan, Benjamin K., Mark Sistrom, John E. Wertz, et al.. (2016). Phage selection restores antibiotic sensitivity in MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 26717–26717. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chan, Benjamin K. & Stephen T. Abedon. (2012). Phage Therapy Pharmacology. Advances in applied microbiology. 78. 1–23. 161 indexed citations

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Zala, Sarah M., Benjamin K. Chan, Staci D. Bilbo, et al.. (2007). Genetic resistance to infection influences a male’s sexual attractiveness and modulation of testosterone. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 22(3). 381–387. 19 indexed citations

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