Caroline C. Gillis

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 971 citations indexed

About

Caroline C. Gillis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Caroline C. Gillis has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 971 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Infectious Diseases and 4 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Caroline C. Gillis's work include Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (3 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (3 papers). Caroline C. Gillis is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (3 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (3 papers). Caroline C. Gillis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Italy. Caroline C. Gillis's co-authors include Maria G. Winter, Sebastian Winter, Luisella Spiga, Wenhan Zhu, Elizabeth R. Hughes, Cassie L. Behrendt, Lora V. Hooper, Breck A. Duerkop, Renato L. Santos and Tatiane Furtado de Carvalho and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Infection and Immunity and Cell Host & Microbe.

In The Last Decade

Caroline C. Gillis

9 papers receiving 963 citations

Hit Papers

Precision editing of the gut microbiota ameliorates colitis 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Precision editing of the gut microbiota ameliorates colitis
    2018 425 citations Wenhan Zhu, Maria G. Winter et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Caroline C. Gillis United States 9 713 275 208 150 107 9 971
Elizabeth R. Hughes United States 9 804 1.1× 313 1.1× 220 1.1× 171 1.1× 113 1.1× 11 1.1k
Sandrine Brugiroux Germany 8 787 1.1× 297 1.1× 289 1.4× 108 0.7× 146 1.4× 12 1.1k
Fiona B. Tamburini United States 10 632 0.9× 236 0.9× 158 0.8× 99 0.7× 70 0.7× 14 937
Melissa Ellermann United States 14 512 0.7× 172 0.6× 123 0.6× 123 0.8× 73 0.7× 22 818
Luisella Spiga United States 14 993 1.4× 405 1.5× 343 1.6× 199 1.3× 139 1.3× 21 1.4k
Jonathan Thévenot France 13 405 0.6× 126 0.5× 290 1.4× 101 0.7× 153 1.4× 19 789
Laura Huuskonen Finland 6 893 1.3× 260 0.9× 293 1.4× 119 0.8× 187 1.7× 7 1.1k
Nicolas Dreux France 9 454 0.6× 117 0.4× 182 0.9× 243 1.6× 126 1.2× 10 887
Carl Alpert Germany 17 688 1.0× 134 0.5× 215 1.0× 300 2.0× 148 1.4× 21 1.0k
Stefan Jellbauer United States 10 403 0.6× 179 0.7× 124 0.6× 112 0.7× 87 0.8× 12 905

Countries citing papers authored by Caroline C. Gillis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Caroline C. Gillis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Caroline C. Gillis. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Caroline C. Gillis. The network helps show where Caroline C. Gillis may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Caroline C. Gillis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Caroline C. Gillis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Caroline C. Gillis 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 Caroline C. Gillis. Caroline C. Gillis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Winter, Maria G., Elizabeth R. Hughes, Rachael B. Chanin, et al.. (2023). Formate oxidation in the intestinal mucus layer enhances fitness of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. mBio. 14(4). e0092123–e0092123. 8 indexed citations
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Winter, Maria G., Caroline C. Gillis, Rachael B. Chanin, et al.. (2022). Colonocyte-derived lactate promotes E. coli fitness in the context of inflammation-associated gut microbiota dysbiosis. Microbiome. 10(1). 200–200. 34 indexed citations
3.
Hughes, Elizabeth R., Maria G. Winter, Caroline C. Gillis, et al.. (2021). Reshaping of bacterial molecular hydrogen metabolism contributes to the outgrowth of commensal E. coli during gut inflammation. eLife. 10. 9 indexed citations
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Chanin, Rachael B., Maria G. Winter, Luisella Spiga, et al.. (2020). Epithelial-Derived Reactive Oxygen Species Enable AppBCX-Mediated Aerobic Respiration of Escherichia coli during Intestinal Inflammation. Cell Host & Microbe. 28(6). 780–788.e5. 59 indexed citations
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Gillis, Caroline C., Maria G. Winter, Rachael B. Chanin, et al.. (2019). Host-Derived Metabolites Modulate Transcription of Salmonella Genes Involved in l -Lactate Utilization during Gut Colonization. Infection and Immunity. 87(4). 27 indexed citations
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Zhu, Wenhan, Maria G. Winter, Mariana X. Byndloss, et al.. (2018). Precision editing of the gut microbiota ameliorates colitis. Nature. 553(7687). 208–211. 425 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gillis, Caroline C., Elizabeth R. Hughes, Luisella Spiga, et al.. (2018). Dysbiosis-Associated Change in Host Metabolism Generates Lactate to Support Salmonella Growth. Cell Host & Microbe. 23(4). 570–570. 41 indexed citations
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Spiga, Luisella, Maria G. Winter, Tatiane Furtado de Carvalho, et al.. (2017). An Oxidative Central Metabolism Enables Salmonella to Utilize Microbiota-Derived Succinate. Cell Host & Microbe. 22(3). 291–301.e6. 123 indexed citations
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Hughes, Elizabeth R., Maria G. Winter, Breck A. Duerkop, et al.. (2017). Microbial Respiration and Formate Oxidation as Metabolic Signatures of Inflammation-Associated Dysbiosis. Cell Host & Microbe. 21(2). 208–219. 245 indexed citations

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