Christine Sun

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Christine Sun is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine Sun has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Christine Sun's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers). Christine Sun is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers). Christine Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Russia. Christine Sun's co-authors include Jillian F. Banfield, David A. Relman, Daniela S. Aliaga Goltsman, Brian C. Thomas, Gary M. Shaw, David K. Stevenson, Daniel B. DiGiulio, Susan Holmes, Elizabeth K. Costello and Ronald J. Wong and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Christine Sun

28 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Temporal and spatial variation of the human microbiota during pregnancy

2015 799 citations Daniel B. DiGiulio, Benjamin J. Callahan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Replication and refinement of a vaginal microbial signature of preterm birth in two racially distinct cohorts of US women

2017 271 citations Benjamin J. Callahan, Daniel B. DiGiulio et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christine Sun United States	19	1.3k	738	659	637	320	31	2.5k
Daniela S. Aliaga Goltsman United States	11	862 0.7×	321 0.4×	578 0.9×	600 0.9×	317 1.0×	18	1.8k
Raymond Ruimy France	44	2.1k 1.6×	660 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	331 0.5×	139 0.4×	128	5.2k
Cindy M. Liu United States	27	934 0.7×	567 0.8×	441 0.7×	450 0.7×	138 0.4×	63	3.1k
Susannah J. Salter United Kingdom	12	1.6k 1.3×	692 0.9×	705 1.1×	326 0.5×	52 0.2×	19	3.2k
Shobha Sharma India	14	1.7k 1.4×	813 1.1×	471 0.7×	254 0.4×	83 0.3×	44	3.5k
Ursel M. E. Schütte United States	13	1.1k 0.9×	420 0.6×	843 1.3×	954 1.5×	333 1.0×	22	2.5k
Luisa W. Hugerth Sweden	23	1.3k 1.0×	751 1.0×	232 0.4×	229 0.4×	90 0.3×	44	2.4k
Szymon Calus United Kingdom	10	1.6k 1.3×	688 0.9×	506 0.8×	190 0.3×	42 0.1×	11	3.0k
Sujatha Srinivasan United States	28	1.3k 1.1×	266 0.4×	1.3k 2.0×	2.0k 3.1×	575 1.8×	83	3.4k
Arjen Speksnijder Netherlands	30	510 0.4×	610 0.8×	773 1.2×	486 0.8×	94 0.3×	72	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Christine Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christine Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christine Sun

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gilbert, Naomi E., Gary R. LeCleir, Helena L. Pound, et al.. (2025). Seasonal enhancement of the viral shunt catalyzes a subsurface oxygen maximum in the Sargasso Sea. Nature Communications. 17(1). 352–352.

Solonenko, Natalie, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking with synthetic communities provides a baseline for virus-host inferences from Hi-C proximity linking. PLoS Biology. 23(11). e3003510–e3003510.

Sun, Christine, Akbar Adjie Pratama, María Consuelo Gazitúa, et al.. (2024). Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient. Environmental Microbiology. 26(8). e16665–e16665. 4 indexed citations

Vik, Dean, Benjamin Bolduc, Simon Roux, et al.. (2023). MArVD2: a machine learning enhanced tool to discriminate between archaeal and bacterial viruses in viral datasets. ISME Communications. 3(1). 87–87. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Christine, et al.. (2023). 5-HT _1A Agonists for levodopa-induced Dyskinesia in Parkinson’s Disease. Neurodegenerative Disease Management. 13(2). 101–112. 1 indexed citations

Vik, Dean, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Christine Sun, et al.. (2020). Genome‐resolved viral ecology in a marine oxygen minimum zone. Environmental Microbiology. 23(6). 2858–2874. 12 indexed citations

Goltsman, Daniela S. Aliaga, Christine Sun, Diana M. Proctor, et al.. (2018). Metagenomic analysis with strain-level resolution reveals fine-scale variation in the human pregnancy microbiome. Genome Research. 28(10). 1467–1480. 107 indexed citations

Arneson, Douglas, et al.. (2017). Multidimensional Integrative Genomics Approaches to Dissecting Cardiovascular Disease. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 4. 8–8. 25 indexed citations

Dudek, Natasha K., Christine Sun, David Burstein, et al.. (2017). Novel Microbial Diversity and Functional Potential in the Marine Mammal Oral Microbiome. Current Biology. 27(24). 3752–3762.e6. 55 indexed citations

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Costello, Elizabeth K., Christine Sun, Erica M. Carlisle, et al.. (2017). Candidatus Mycoplasma girerdii replicates, diversifies, and co-occurs with Trichomonas vaginalis in the oral cavity of a premature infant. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 3764–3764. 17 indexed citations

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Burstein, David, Christine Sun, Christopher T. Brown, et al.. (2016). Major bacterial lineages are essentially devoid of CRISPR-Cas viral defence systems. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10613–10613. 165 indexed citations

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DiGiulio, Daniel B., Benjamin J. Callahan, Paul J. McMurdie, et al.. (2015). Temporal and spatial variation of the human microbiota during pregnancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(35). 11060–11065. 799 indexed citations breakdown →

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Páez-Espino, David, Wesley Morovic, Christine Sun, et al.. (2013). Strong bias in the bacterial CRISPR elements that confer immunity to phage. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1430–1430. 140 indexed citations

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Sun, Christine, Suzanna L. Bräuer, Hinsby Cadillo‐Quiroz, Stephen H. Zinder, & Joseph B. Yavitt. (2012). Seasonal Changes in Methanogenesis and Methanogenic Community in Three Peatlands, New York State. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3. 81–81. 44 indexed citations

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Weinberger, Ariel D., Christine Sun, Mateusz M. Pluciński, et al.. (2012). Persisting Viral Sequences Shape Microbial CRISPR-based Immunity. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(4). e1002475–e1002475. 104 indexed citations

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Walkiewicz, Katarzyna, et al.. (2012). Small changes in enzyme function can lead to surprisingly large fitness effects during adaptive evolution of antibiotic resistance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(52). 21408–21413. 46 indexed citations

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Pride, David T., Christine Sun, Julia Salzman, et al.. (2010). Analysis of streptococcal CRISPRs from human saliva reveals substantial sequence diversity within and between subjects over time. Genome Research. 21(1). 126–136. 85 indexed citations

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Goltsman, Daniela S. Aliaga, Vincent J. Denef, Steven W. Singer, et al.. (2009). Community genomic and proteomic analysis of chemoautotrophic, iron-oxidizing "Leptospirillum rubarum" (Group II) and Leptospirillum ferrodiazotrophum (Group III) in acid mine drainage biofilms. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 6 indexed citations

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Cadillo‐Quiroz, Hinsby, Suzanna L. Bräuer, Erika Yashiro, et al.. (2006). Vertical profiles of methanogenesis and methanogens in two contrasting acidic peatlands in central New York State, USA. Environmental Microbiology. 8(8). 1428–1440. 168 indexed citations

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Scheetz, Todd E., Darryl Nishimura, Jack M. Gardiner, et al.. (2001). Generation of a High-Density Rat EST Map. Genome Research. 11(3). 497–502. 24 indexed citations

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