Catherine Lozupone

153.2k total citations · 19 hit papers
104 papers, 48.8k citations indexed

About

Catherine Lozupone is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine Lozupone has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 48.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Infectious Diseases and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Catherine Lozupone's work include Gut microbiota and health (73 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (20 papers). Catherine Lozupone is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (73 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (20 papers). Catherine Lozupone collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Norway. Catherine Lozupone's co-authors include Rob Knight, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Micah Hamady, Noah Fierer, J. Gregory Caporaso, Ruth E. Ley, Jesse Stombaugh, Donna Berg-Lyons and Christian L. Lauber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Catherine Lozupone

102 papers receiving 48.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

2010 7.1k citations Catherine Lozupone, Noah Fierer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial Communities

2005 6.3k citations Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight profile →
Obesity alters gut microbial ecology

2005 4.7k citations Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Diversity, stability and resilience of the human gut microbiota

2012 3.9k citations Catherine Lozupone, Jesse Stombaugh et al. profile →
Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil

2010 3.2k citations Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

2008 2.7k citations Micah Hamady, Catherine Lozupone et al. profile →
UniFrac: an effective distance metric for microbial community comparison

2010 2.1k citations Catherine Lozupone, Dan Knights et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Quantitative and Qualitative β Diversity Measures Lead to Different Insights into Factors That Structure Microbial Communities

2007 2.0k citations Catherine Lozupone, Micah Hamady et al. profile →
Normalization and microbial differential abundance strategies depend upon data characteristics

2017 1.3k citations Sophie Weiss, Zhenjiang Zech Xu et al. Microbiome profile →
Global patterns in bacterial diversity

2007 1.3k citations Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
UniFrac – An online tool for comparing microbial community diversity in a phylogenetic context

2006 1.3k citations Catherine Lozupone, Micah Hamady et al. profile →
Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota

2008 1.2k citations Catherine Lozupone, Micah Hamady et al. profile →
Fast UniFrac: facilitating high-throughput phylogenetic analyses of microbial communities including analysis of pyrosequencing and PhyloChip data

2009 928 citations Micah Hamady, Catherine Lozupone et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Cohabiting family members share microbiota with one another and with their dogs

2013 760 citations Elizabeth K. Costello, Catherine Lozupone et al. profile →
Environmental and ecological factors that shape the gut bacterial communities of fish: a meta‐analysis

2012 734 citations Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight et al. profile →
Short pyrosequencing reads suffice for accurate microbial community analysis

2007 551 citations Catherine Lozupone, Micah Hamady et al. profile →
Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision

2016 542 citations Sophie Weiss, Catherine Lozupone et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Identifying Genetic Determinants Needed to Establish a Human Gut Symbiont in Its Habitat

2009 534 citations Andrew L. Goodman, Nathan P. McNulty et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
Low diversity gut microbiota dysbiosis: drivers, functional implications and recovery

2018 294 citations Nichole Nusbacher, Catherine Lozupone et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Agrarian diet improves metabolic health in HIV-positive men with Prevotella -rich microbiomes: results from a randomized trial 2025 ·mSystems ·John B. O’Connor, Jennifer Fouquier, C. Preston Neff, John Sterrett, (unknown), Suzanne Fiorillo, Janet Siebert, Jennifer Schneider, Nichole Nusbacher, Amy T. Noe, Blair Fennimore, Janine Higgins, Thomas Campbell, Brent E. Palmer, Catherine Lozupone	0
2	Appearance of green tea compounds in plasma following acute green tea consumption is modulated by the gut microbiome in mice 2025 ·Microbiology Spectrum ·John Sterrett, (unknown), (unknown), Nichole Nusbacher, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Harry Smith, Laura Saba, Kristine A. Kuhn, Catherine Lozupone, Nichole Reisdorph	1
3	Deciphering HIV-associated inflammation: microbiome's influence and experimental insights 2024 ·Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS ·(unknown), John B. O’Connor, C. Preston Neff, Catherine Lozupone, Brent E. Palmer	2
4	SCNIC: Sparse correlation network investigation for compositional data 2022 ·Molecular Ecology Resources ·Michael Shaffer, (unknown), John Sterrett, Catherine Lozupone	26
5	Elevated inflammatory fecal immune factors in men who have sex with men with HIV associate with microbiome composition and gut barrier function 2022 ·Frontiers in Immunology ·(unknown), Jennifer M. Schneider, C. Preston Neff, (unknown), Janet Siebert, Nichole Nusbacher, (unknown), Ian M. Cartwright, Abigail Armstrong, (unknown), Catherine Lozupone, Brent E. Palmer	13
6	A phylogenetic model for the recruitment of species into microbial communities and application to studies of the human microbiome 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·John L. Darcy, Alex Washburne, Michael S. Robeson, (unknown), Steven K. Schmidt, Catherine Lozupone	20
7	Gut microbiota from high-risk men who have sex with men drive immune activation in gnotobiotic mice and in vitro HIV infection 2019 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Sam X. Li, Sharon Sen, Jennifer M. Schneider, (unknown), Nichole Nusbacher, (unknown), Michael Shaffer, Abigail Armstrong, (unknown), Kristine A. Kuhn, C. Preston Neff, Martin D. McCarter, Thomas Campbell, Catherine Lozupone, Brent E. Palmer	55
8	Differences in fecal microbial metabolites and microbiota of children with autism spectrum disorders 2017 ·Anaerobe ·Dae‐Wook Kang, Zehra Esra Ilhan, Nancy Isern, David Hoyt, Daniel P. Howsmon, Michael Shaffer, Catherine Lozupone, Juergen Hahn, James B. Adams, Rosa Krajmalnik‐Brown	265
9	Normalization and microbial differential abundance strategies depend upon data characteristics breakdown → 2017 ·Microbiome ·Sophie Weiss, Zhenjiang Zech Xu, Shyamal D. Peddada, Amnon Amir, Kyle Bittinger, Antonio González, Catherine Lozupone, Jesse Zaneveld, Yoshiki Vázquez‐Baeza, Amanda Birmingham, Embriette R. Hyde, Rob Knight	1349
10	The HIV-Associated Enteric Microbiome Has Gone Viral 2016 ·Cell Host & Microbe ·Brent E. Palmer, Sam X. Li, Catherine Lozupone	8
11	RNASTAR: An RNA STructural Alignment Repository that provides insight into the evolution of natural and artificial RNAs 2012 ·RNA ·Jeremy Widmann, Jesse Stombaugh, Daniel McDonald, Jana Vacek Chocholoušová, Paul P. Gardner, Matthew K. Iyer, Zongzhi Liu, Catherine Lozupone, John L. Quinn, Sandra Smit, (unknown), Jesse Zaneveld, Rob Knight	20
12	Human Immunodeficiency Virus nef Signature Sequences Are Associated with Pulmonary Hypertension 2011 ·AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses ·Sharilyn Almodóvar, Rob Knight, Amanda A. Allshouse, Sarah C. Roemer, Catherine Lozupone, Daniel McDonald, Jeremy Widmann, Norbert F. Voelkel, (unknown), Edu Suárez, (unknown), Cécile Goujard, Nicola Petrosillo, Gérald Simonneau, Priscilla Y. Hsue, Marc Humbert, Sonia C. Flores	42
13	Human-Associated Microbial Signatures: Examining Their Predictive Value 2011 ·Cell Host & Microbe ·Dan Knights, Laura Wegener Parfrey, Jesse Zaneveld, Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight	100
14	Stable tRNA-based phylogenies using only 76 nucleotides 2010 ·RNA ·Jeremy Widmann, J. Kirk Harris, Catherine Lozupone, Alexey Wolfson, Rob Knight	32
15	Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa 2010 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Diana R. Nemergut, Elizabeth K. Costello, Micah Hamady, Catherine Lozupone, Lin Jiang, Steven K. Schmidt, Noah Fierer, Alan R. Townsend, Cory C. Cleveland, Lee F. Stanish, Rob Knight	337
16	Identifying Genetic Determinants Needed to Establish a Human Gut Symbiont in Its Habitat breakdown → 2009 ·Cell Host & Microbe ·Andrew L. Goodman, Nathan P. McNulty, Yue Zhao, (unknown), Robi D. Mitra, Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight, Jeffrey I. Gordon	534
17	Global patterns in bacterial diversity breakdown → 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight	1338
18	Size, constant sequences, and optimal selection 2005 ·RNA ·Michał Łęgiewicz, Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight, Michael Yarus	52
19	Selection of the simplest RNA that binds isoleucine 2003 ·RNA ·Catherine Lozupone, (unknown), Irene Majerfeld, Michael Yarus	71
20	The molecular basis of nuclear genetic code change in ciliates 2001 ·Current Biology ·Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight, Laura F. Landweber	154

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