Christopher Ruis

7.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
21 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Christopher Ruis is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Ruis has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Infectious Diseases, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Christopher Ruis's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (6 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (5 papers). Christopher Ruis is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (6 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (5 papers). Christopher Ruis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Christopher Ruis's co-authors include Oliver G. Pybus, Verity Hill, Andrew Rambaut, Áine O’Toole, Edward C. Holmes, John T. McCrone, Louis du Plessis, Julian Parkhill, R. Andrés Floto and Gerry Tonkin‐Hill and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Ruis

18 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology

2020 1.4k citations Andrew Rambaut, Edward C. Holmes et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline

2020 576 citations Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Neil MacAlasdair et al. Genome biology profile →
A molnupiravir-associated mutational signature in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes

2023 97 citations Theo Sanderson, I’ah Donovan-Banfield et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Ruis United Kingdom	12	1.7k	768	370	330	255	21	2.4k
James Hadfield United Kingdom	16	1.6k 0.9×	834 1.1×	297 0.8×	550 1.7×	271 1.1×	32	2.8k
Joerg Jores Switzerland	27	944 0.5×	418 0.5×	415 1.1×	384 1.2×	450 1.8×	111	2.6k
Changwen Ke China	34	2.0k 1.1×	487 0.6×	257 0.7×	1.2k 3.6×	118 0.5×	178	3.6k
Ewan M. Harrison United Kingdom	32	3.6k 2.1×	2.1k 2.8×	261 0.7×	532 1.6×	497 1.9×	72	5.2k
Samson S. Y. Wong Hong Kong	27	1.9k 1.1×	382 0.5×	569 1.5×	1.1k 3.3×	120 0.5×	56	3.2k
Khalil Abudahab United Kingdom	9	749 0.4×	543 0.7×	127 0.3×	267 0.8×	221 0.9×	17	1.7k
Liam P. Shaw United Kingdom	22	915 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	119 0.3×	303 0.9×	387 1.5×	34	2.9k
Futoshi Hasebe Japan	28	1.9k 1.1×	490 0.6×	120 0.3×	500 1.5×	111 0.4×	91	3.0k
Ben Taylor United Kingdom	7	718 0.4×	491 0.6×	124 0.3×	234 0.7×	186 0.7×	9	1.5k
Pilar Domingo‐Calap Spain	22	734 0.4×	721 0.9×	120 0.3×	214 0.6×	861 3.4×	60	2.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hagting, Anja, Christopher Ruis, David Summers, et al.. (2025). Metabolic control of porin permeability influences antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli. Nature Microbiology. 10(12). 3202–3214.

Wilson, Hayley, Jianbao Dong, Andries J. van Tonder, et al.. (2025). Progressive evolution of Streptococcus equi from Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus and adaption to equine hosts. Microbial Genomics. 11(3). 2 indexed citations

Tonkin‐Hill, Gerry, Christopher Ruis, Stephen D. Bentley, Katrina Lythgoe, & Josephine M. Bryant. (2025). Within-host bacterial evolution and the emergence of pathogenicity. Nature Microbiology. 10(8). 1829–1840.

McBroome, Jakob, Adriano de Bernardi Schneider, Cornelius Roemer, et al.. (2024). A framework for automated scalable designation of viral pathogen lineages from genomic data. Nature Microbiology. 9(2). 550–560. 6 indexed citations

Roemer, Cornelius, Daniel J. Sheward, Kenta Sato, et al.. (2023). SARS-CoV-2 evolution in the Omicron era. Nature Microbiology. 8(11). 1952–1959. 54 indexed citations

Ruis, Christopher, Thomas P. Peacock, Luis Mariano Polo, et al.. (2023). A lung-specific mutational signature enables inference of viral and bacterial respiratory niche. Microbial Genomics. 9(5). 11 indexed citations

Ruis, Christopher, Aaron Weimann, Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, et al.. (2023). Mutational spectra are associated with bacterial niche. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7091–7091. 7 indexed citations

Sanderson, Theo, I’ah Donovan-Banfield, Hassan Hartman, et al.. (2023). A molnupiravir-associated mutational signature in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes. Nature. 623(7987). 594–600. 97 indexed citations breakdown →

Fan, Catherine, et al.. (2023). Impact of transient acquired hypermutability on the inter- and intra-species competitiveness of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The ISME Journal. 17(11). 1931–1939. 5 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez, Bernardo, Hugo G. Castelán‐Sánchez, Darlan da Silva Cândido, et al.. (2022). Emergence and widespread circulation of a recombinant SARS-CoV-2 lineage in North America. Cell Host & Microbe. 30(8). 1112–1123.e3. 20 indexed citations

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Hill, Verity, Christopher Ruis, Sumali Bajaj, Oliver G. Pybus, & Moritz U. G. Kraemer. (2021). Progress and challenges in virus genomic epidemiology. Trends in Parasitology. 37(12). 1038–1049. 50 indexed citations

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Ruis, Christopher, Josephine M. Bryant, Scott C. Bell, et al.. (2021). Dissemination of Mycobacterium abscessus via global transmission networks. Nature Microbiology. 6(10). 1279–1288. 60 indexed citations

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Ruis, Christopher, Lisa C. Lindesmith, Michael L. Mallory, et al.. (2020). Preadaptation of pandemic GII.4 noroviruses in unsampled virus reservoirs years before emergence. Virus Evolution. 6(2). veaa067–veaa067. 19 indexed citations

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Rambaut, Andrew, Edward C. Holmes, Áine O’Toole, et al.. (2020). A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology. Nature Microbiology. 5(11). 1403–1407. 1402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tonkin‐Hill, Gerry, Neil MacAlasdair, Christopher Ruis, et al.. (2020). Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline. Genome biology. 21(1). 180–180. 576 indexed citations breakdown →

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Monit, Christopher, E.R. Morris, Christopher Ruis, et al.. (2019). Positive selection in dNTPase SAMHD1 throughout mammalian evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(37). 18647–18654. 13 indexed citations

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Ruis, Christopher, Sunando Roy, Julianne R. Brown, et al.. (2017). The emerging GII.P16-GII.4 Sydney 2012 norovirus lineage is circulating worldwide, arose by late-2014 and contains polymerase changes that may increase virus transmission. PLoS ONE. 12(6). e0179572–e0179572. 57 indexed citations

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Brown, Julianne R., et al.. (2016). Norovirus molecular epidemiology in a paediatric UK hospital: Unexpected diversity, seasonality and sources of infection. Journal of Clinical Virology. 82. S12–S12. 1 indexed citations

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Brown, Julianne R., Sunando Roy, Christopher Ruis, et al.. (2016). Norovirus Whole-Genome Sequencing by SureSelect Target Enrichment: a Robust and Sensitive Method. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 54(10). 2530–2537. 56 indexed citations

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Brown, Julianne R., et al.. (2015). SureSelect target enrichment: A robust and sensitive method for sequencing of whole norovirus genomes direct from clinical specimens. Journal of Clinical Virology. 70. S12–S13.

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