Braden Tierney

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Braden Tierney is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Braden Tierney has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Physiology and 6 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Braden Tierney's work include Gut microbiota and health (12 papers), Spaceflight effects on biology (5 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers). Braden Tierney is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (12 papers), Spaceflight effects on biology (5 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers). Braden Tierney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Braden Tierney's co-authors include Aleksandar D. Kostic, Jacob M. Luber, Zhen Yang, Marsha C. Wibowo, Chirag J. Patel, Sarah J. Lessard, Clary B. Clish, Sukanya Punthambaker, Renee Wurth and Angela Tung and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Braden Tierney

22 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Meta-omics analysis of elite athletes identifies a performance-enhancing microbe that functions via lactate metabolism

2019 579 citations Jacob M. Luber, Marsha C. Wibowo et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Braden Tierney United States	10	682	410	136	103	99	27	1.0k
Rocío González-Soltero Spain	11	738 1.1×	603 1.5×	130 1.0×	76 0.7×	79 0.8×	36	1.1k
Carlo Bressa Spain	12	624 0.9×	486 1.2×	112 0.8×	65 0.6×	61 0.6×	31	889
Margaret Humphreys Ireland	5	768 1.1×	665 1.6×	138 1.0×	115 1.1×	114 1.2×	10	1.1k
P. Lynn Hayes United States	3	748 1.1×	612 1.5×	136 1.0×	115 1.1×	111 1.1×	6	1.1k
Ahmadi-Vand Zahra Canada	4	534 0.8×	299 0.7×	62 0.5×	119 1.2×	56 0.6×	4	690
Elisabeth Henie Madslien Norway	13	365 0.5×	231 0.6×	127 0.9×	119 1.2×	46 0.5×	26	797
Marcin Folwarski Poland	17	358 0.5×	230 0.6×	54 0.4×	110 1.1×	40 0.4×	45	796
Sami Pietilä Finland	13	607 0.9×	312 0.8×	27 0.2×	84 0.8×	22 0.2×	23	884
G. E. Lobley United Kingdom	9	866 1.3×	715 1.7×	153 1.1×	114 1.1×	34 0.3×	13	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Braden Tierney

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Pataranutaporn, Pat, Benjamin Fram, Allison Z. Werner, et al.. (2025). Development and flight-testing of modular autonomous cultivation systems for biological plastics upcycling aboard the ISS. npj Microgravity. 11(1). 23–23.

González, Emmanuel, Michael Lee, Braden Tierney, et al.. (2024). Spaceflight alters host-gut microbiota interactions. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 10(1). 71–71. 8 indexed citations

Hoffmann, Sabine, Chirag J. Patel, Nicholas DeVito, et al.. (2024). What is the vibration of effects?. BMJ evidence-based medicine. 30(1). 61–65. 3 indexed citations

Amgarten, Deyvid, Krista Ryon, David Danko, et al.. (2024). Discovery and description of novel phage genomes from urban microbiomes sampled by the MetaSUB consortium. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7913–7913.

Rutter, Lindsay, Matthew MacKay, Henry Cope, et al.. (2024). Protective alleles and precision healthcare in crewed spaceflight. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6158–6158. 6 indexed citations

Tierney, Braden, et al.. (2023). Prioritization of COVID-19 risk factors in July 2020 and February 2021 in the UK. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 45–45.

Zimmerman, Samuel, Braden Tierney, Chirag J. Patel, & Aleksandar D. Kostic. (2023). Quantifying Shared and Unique Gene Content across 17 Microbial Ecosystems. mSystems. 8(2). e0011823–e0011823. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Yali, S. Emil Ruff, Nikolay Oskolkov, et al.. (2023). The microbial biodiversity at the archeological site of Tel Megiddo (Israel). Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1253371–1253371. 4 indexed citations

Tierney, Braden, et al.. (2022). Systematically assessing microbiome–disease associations identifies drivers of inconsistency in metagenomic research. PLoS Biology. 20(3). e3001556–e3001556. 19 indexed citations

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Sierra, Maria A., Krista Ryon, Braden Tierney, et al.. (2022). Microbiome and metagenomic analysis of Lake Hillier Australia reveals pigment-rich polyextremophiles and wide-ranging metabolic adaptations. Environmental Microbiome. 17(1). 60–60. 9 indexed citations

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Islam, Md Zohorul, Melissa Tran, Tao Xu, et al.. (2022). Reproducible and opposing gut microbiome signatures distinguish autoimmune diseases and cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Microbiome. 10(1). 218–218. 12 indexed citations

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Tierney, Braden, James Versalovic, Alessio Fasano, et al.. (2022). Functional response to a microbial synbiotic in the gastrointestinal system of children: a randomized clinical trial. Pediatric Research. 93(7). 2005–2013. 4 indexed citations

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Tierney, Braden, Nitin K. Singh, Anna Simpson, et al.. (2022). Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter pittii is adapting to and exhibiting potential succession aboard the International Space Station. Microbiome. 10(1). 210–210. 17 indexed citations

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Tierney, Braden, Pedro Madrigal, Christopher E. Mason, et al.. (2022). The Maleth program: Malta's first space mission discoveries on the microbiome of diabetic foot ulcers. Heliyon. 8(12). e12075–e12075.

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Tierney, Braden, Elizabeth C. Anderson, Kajal Claypool, et al.. (2021). Leveraging vibration of effects analysis for robust discovery in observational biomedical data science. PLoS Biology. 19(9). e3001398–e3001398. 15 indexed citations

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Tierney, Braden, et al.. (2021). Gene-level metagenomic architectures across diseases yield high-resolution microbiome diagnostic indicators. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2907–2907. 38 indexed citations

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Tierney, Braden, Erika Szymanski, James R. Henriksen, Aleksandar D. Kostic, & Chirag J. Patel. (2021). Using Cartesian Doubt To Build a Sequencing-Based View of Microbiology. mSystems. 6(5). e0057421–e0057421. 1 indexed citations

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Tierney, Braden, et al.. (2019). Repurposing large health insurance claims data to estimate genetic and environmental contributions in 560 phenotypes. Nature Genetics. 51(2). 327–334. 53 indexed citations

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Tierney, Braden, Zhen Yang, Jacob M. Luber, et al.. (2019). The Landscape of Genetic Content in the Gut and Oral Human Microbiome. Cell Host & Microbe. 26(2). 283–295.e8. 218 indexed citations

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Luber, Jacob M., Braden Tierney, Evan M. Cofer, Chirag J. Patel, & Aleksandar D. Kostic. (2017). Aether: leveraging linear programming for optimal cloud computing in genomics. Bioinformatics. 34(9). 1565–1567. 4 indexed citations

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