Blake E. Sanders

436 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 291 citations indexed

About

Blake E. Sanders is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Blake E. Sanders has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 291 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Blake E. Sanders's work include Gut microbiota and health (4 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (3 papers) and Oral microbiology and periodontitis research (2 papers). Blake E. Sanders is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (4 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (3 papers) and Oral microbiology and periodontitis research (2 papers). Blake E. Sanders collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Blake E. Sanders's co-authors include Ariana Umaña, Daniel J. Slade, Christopher C. Yoo, Michael A. Casasanta, Scott S. Verbridge, Barath Udayasuryan, Yao Zhang, Liwu Li, A. J. Duncan and Justin A. Lemkul and has published in prestigious journals such as Cancer Research, Journal of Bacteriology and Science Signaling.

In The Last Decade

Blake E. Sanders

7 papers receiving 288 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.

Fusobacterium nucleatum host-cell binding and invasion induces IL-8 and CXCL1 secretion that drives colorectal cancer cell migration

2020 227 citations Michael A. Casasanta, Christopher C. Yoo et al. Science Signaling profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Blake E. Sanders United States	5	189	69	62	53	41	7	291
Christopher C. Yoo United States	5	209 1.1×	68 1.0×	80 1.3×	53 1.0×	37 0.9×	6	336
Ariana Umaña United States	6	256 1.4×	87 1.3×	115 1.9×	69 1.3×	52 1.3×	8	420
Barath Udayasuryan United States	8	310 1.6×	83 1.2×	123 2.0×	65 1.2×	45 1.1×	11	477
Manosha Lakmali Perera Sri Lanka	5	152 0.8×	40 0.6×	31 0.5×	253 4.8×	33 0.8×	9	422
Akram Thabet Nasher Yemen	5	135 0.7×	20 0.3×	50 0.8×	216 4.1×	37 0.9×	8	381
Durga Reddi United Kingdom	8	151 0.8×	37 0.5×	36 0.6×	96 1.8×	24 0.6×	11	316
Anne Bertling Germany	7	140 0.7×	131 1.9×	10 0.2×	18 0.3×	47 1.1×	9	302
Khiem C. Lam United States	4	297 1.6×	72 1.0×	193 3.1×	9 0.2×	14 0.3×	7	483
Joan Sesing Lenz United States	7	182 1.0×	37 0.5×	24 0.4×	9 0.2×	10 0.2×	14	312
Rohit Mishra India	10	67 0.4×	39 0.6×	22 0.4×	110 2.1×	23 0.6×	38	331

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Blake E. Sanders

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Blake E. Sanders. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Blake E. Sanders based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Blake E. Sanders. Blake E. Sanders is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Dohlman, Anders B., Robin Mjelle, Henry M. Wood, et al.. (2025). Abstract 6530: A comprehensive genomic analysis elucidates the microbial landscape of cancer. Cancer Research. 85(8_Supplement_1). 6530–6530. 1 indexed citations

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Sanders, Blake E., Ariana Umaña, Tam T. D. Nguyen, et al.. (2023). Type IV pili facilitated natural competence in Fusobacterium nucleatum. Anaerobe. 82. 102760–102760. 4 indexed citations

3.

Sanders, Blake E., et al.. (2022). Fusobacterium and Colorectal Cancer: Important Association or Random Coincidence?. Cancer Research. 82(20). 3671–3672. 2 indexed citations

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Umaña, Ariana, et al.. (2022). Enhanced Fusobacterium nucleatum Genetics Using Host DNA Methyltransferases To Bypass Restriction-Modification Systems. Journal of Bacteriology. 204(12). e0027922–e0027922. 11 indexed citations

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Casasanta, Michael A., Christopher C. Yoo, Barath Udayasuryan, et al.. (2020). Fusobacterium nucleatum host-cell binding and invasion induces IL-8 and CXCL1 secretion that drives colorectal cancer cell migration. Science Signaling. 13(641). 227 indexed citations breakdown →

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Umaña, Ariana, Blake E. Sanders, Christopher C. Yoo, et al.. (2019). Utilizing Whole Fusobacterium Genomes To Identify, Correct, and Characterize Potential Virulence Protein Families. Journal of Bacteriology. 201(23). 32 indexed citations

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Sanders, Blake E., Ariana Umaña, Justin A. Lemkul, & Daniel J. Slade. (2018). FusoPortal: an Interactive Repository of Hybrid MinION-Sequenced Fusobacterium Genomes Improves Gene Identification and Characterization. mSphere. 3(4). 14 indexed citations

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