Christopher D. Johnston

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Christopher D. Johnston is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher D. Johnston has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Epidemiology and 6 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Christopher D. Johnston's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (8 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (7 papers). Christopher D. Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (8 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (7 papers). Christopher D. Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and South Africa. Christopher D. Johnston's co-authors include Susan Bullman, Kaitlyn D. LaCourse, Samuel S. Minot, Jorge Luis Galeano Niño, Hanrui Wu, Neal D. Futran, Alison Taylor, Jeffrey Houlton, Brittany Barber and Ewa Sicińska and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christopher D. Johnston

34 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Effect of the intratumoral microbiota on spatial and cellular heterogeneity in cancer

2022 516 citations Jorge Luis Galeano Niño, Hanrui Wu et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher D. Johnston United States	16	689	270	201	148	132	36	1.2k
Jawad Abed Israel	7	962 1.4×	455 1.7×	255 1.3×	77 0.5×	111 0.8×	8	1.6k
Falk Ponath Germany	9	411 0.6×	180 0.7×	128 0.6×	97 0.7×	70 0.5×	13	670
Joanne Cummins Ireland	6	533 0.8×	266 1.0×	155 0.8×	56 0.4×	81 0.6×	7	839
Payam Fathi United States	7	803 1.2×	360 1.3×	125 0.6×	36 0.2×	78 0.6×	8	1.1k
Johanna Emgård Sweden	7	567 0.8×	277 1.0×	118 0.6×	33 0.2×	42 0.3×	10	1.0k
Amalie Grenov Israel	8	497 0.7×	218 0.8×	95 0.5×	24 0.2×	34 0.3×	8	787
Joan C. Olson United States	23	976 1.4×	87 0.3×	92 0.5×	72 0.5×	48 0.4×	44	1.5k
Sun Hee Ahn South Korea	22	730 1.1×	140 0.5×	65 0.3×	32 0.2×	47 0.4×	56	1.4k
Qian Gao China	22	532 0.8×	79 0.3×	63 0.3×	100 0.7×	24 0.2×	43	1.2k
Vahid Khalaj Iran	19	536 0.8×	62 0.2×	104 0.5×	34 0.2×	117 0.9×	65	936

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Zepeda‐Rivera, Martha A., Floyd E. Dewhirst, Susan Bullman, & Christopher D. Johnston. (2025). Addressing controversy in Fusobacterium nomenclature: what exactly does “ F. nucleatum ” refer to?. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2514797–2514797. 2 indexed citations

Johnston, Christopher D. & Jennifer A. Wargo. (2024). Engineering immunity: bacterial delivery of cancer neoantigen vaccines. Trends in Immunology. 45(12). 931–933. 3 indexed citations

Zepeda‐Rivera, Martha A., Hanrui Wu, Claudia Mengoni, et al.. (2024). Fusobacterium sphaericum sp. nov., isolated from a human colon tumor adheres to colonic epithelial cells and induces IL-8 secretion. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2442522–2442522. 2 indexed citations

Johnston, Christopher D. & Susan Bullman. (2024). Bacteria-derived L-lactate fuels cervical cancer chemoradiotherapy resistance. Trends in cancer. 10(2). 97–99. 9 indexed citations

O’Brien, Valerie P., et al.. (2023). Helicobacter pylori Chronic Infection Selects for Effective Colonizers of Metaplastic Glands. mBio. 14(1). e0311622–e0311622. 7 indexed citations

Johnston, Christopher D., et al.. (2023). Enhanced transformation efficiency in Treponema denticola enabled by SyngenicDNA‐based plasmids lacking restriction–modification target motifs. Molecular Oral Microbiology. 38(6). 455–470. 2 indexed citations

Fanedl, Lijana, Maša Zorec, Dakota S. Jones, et al.. (2023). Expanding the rumen Prevotella collection: The description of Prevotella communis, sp. nov. of ovine origin. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 46(4). 126437–126437. 4 indexed citations

Rosconi, Federico, Jon Anthony, Matthew W. Frank, et al.. (2022). A bacterial pan-genome makes gene essentiality strain-dependent and evolvable. Nature Microbiology. 7(10). 1580–1592. 61 indexed citations

Johnston, Christopher D. & Susan Bullman. (2022). The tumour-associated microbiome. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 19(6). 347–348. 18 indexed citations

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Niño, Jorge Luis Galeano, Hanrui Wu, Kaitlyn D. LaCourse, et al.. (2022). Effect of the intratumoral microbiota on spatial and cellular heterogeneity in cancer. Nature. 611(7937). 810–817. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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LaCourse, Kaitlyn D., et al.. (2022). The cancer chemotherapeutic 5-fluorouracil is a potent Fusobacterium nucleatum inhibitor and its activity is modified by intratumoral microbiota. Cell Reports. 41(7). 111625–111625. 107 indexed citations

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Zepeda‐Rivera, Martha A., et al.. (2022). Complete Genome Sequence of Clostridium cadaveris IFB3C5, Isolated from a Human Colonic Adenocarcinoma. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 11(3). e0113521–e0113521. 1 indexed citations

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Ramos, Stephany Flores, Silvio D. Brugger, Isabel F. Escapa, et al.. (2021). Genomic Stability and Genetic Defense Systems in Dolosigranulum pigrum , a Candidate Beneficial Bacterium from the Human Microbiome. mSystems. 6(5). e0042521–e0042521. 17 indexed citations

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LaCourse, Kaitlyn D., Christopher D. Johnston, & Susan Bullman. (2021). The relationship between gastrointestinal cancers and the microbiota. The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology. 6(6). 498–509. 31 indexed citations

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Johnston, Christopher D., Sean L. Cotton, Susan R. Rittling, et al.. (2019). Systematic evasion of the restriction-modification barrier in bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(23). 11454–11459. 65 indexed citations

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Johnston, Christopher D., et al.. (2017). Restriction-modification mediated barriers to exogenous DNA uptake and incorporation employed by Prevotella intermedia. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0185234–e0185234. 17 indexed citations

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Johnston, Christopher D.. (2014). Enhanced expression of codon optimized Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis antigens in Lactobacillus salivarius. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 4. 120–120. 15 indexed citations

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Feeney, Audrey, et al.. (2014). Analysis of the role of the Cronobacter sakazakii ProP homologues in osmotolerance. Gut Pathogens. 6(1). 15–15. 30 indexed citations

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Feeney, Audrey, Christopher D. Johnston, Jim O’Mahony, et al.. (2014). The role of the Cronobacter sakazakii ProP C-terminal coiled coil domain in osmotolerance. Gut Pathogens. 6(1). 46–46. 6 indexed citations

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Johnston, Christopher D., et al.. (2010). Development of a novel oral vaccine against Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis and Johne disease. PubMed. 1(3). 155–163. 11 indexed citations

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