Claire Watkins

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Claire Watkins is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Claire Watkins has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 4 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Claire Watkins's work include Gut microbiota and health (8 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (4 papers) and Infant Nutrition and Health (4 papers). Claire Watkins is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (8 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (4 papers) and Infant Nutrition and Health (4 papers). Claire Watkins collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, Germany and United States. Claire Watkins's co-authors include Catherine Stanton, R. Paul Ross, Silvia Arboleya, C. Anthony Ryan, Eugene Dempsey, Cian J. Hill, Richard Malley, Kiera Murphy, Ian B. Jeffery and Paul W. O’ Toole and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Nutrition and Infection and Immunity.

In The Last Decade

Claire Watkins

14 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Gut Bifidobacteria Populations in Human Health and Aging

2016 485 citations Silvia Arboleya, Claire Watkins et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →
Evolution of gut microbiota composition from birth to 24 weeks in the INFANTMET Cohort

2017 412 citations Cian J. Hill, Denise B. Lynch et al. Microbiome profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claire Watkins Ireland	12	1.1k	397	397	302	264	14	1.7k
Hadar Neuman Israel	15	1.1k 1.1×	314 0.8×	237 0.6×	203 0.7×	127 0.5×	24	2.0k
Thomas Battaglia United States	15	1.4k 1.4×	402 1.0×	271 0.7×	250 0.8×	180 0.7×	20	2.0k
Alexandra R. Sitarik United States	16	855 0.8×	425 1.1×	261 0.7×	180 0.6×	162 0.6×	52	1.6k
Jorge Rodríguez United States	10	1.1k 1.0×	413 1.0×	218 0.5×	440 1.5×	126 0.5×	51	2.2k
Jeroen van Bergenhenegouwen Netherlands	20	831 0.8×	310 0.8×	332 0.8×	220 0.7×	277 1.0×	47	1.7k
Radhika Ganu United States	8	1.2k 1.1×	390 1.0×	387 1.0×	439 1.5×	114 0.4×	12	2.3k
Giacomo Biasucci Italy	23	786 0.7×	385 1.0×	362 0.9×	277 0.9×	134 0.5×	118	2.1k
Fábio Takeo Sato Brazil	11	1.3k 1.2×	583 1.5×	281 0.7×	201 0.7×	243 0.9×	14	2.0k
Sara Quercia Italy	16	1.3k 1.2×	640 1.6×	251 0.6×	167 0.6×	213 0.8×	23	1.8k
Marta Selma‐Royo Spain	21	950 0.9×	434 1.1×	580 1.5×	301 1.0×	148 0.6×	53	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Claire Watkins

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Fields of papers citing papers by Claire Watkins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claire Watkins

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

Patangia, Dhrati, et al.. (2021). The ultra-structural, metabolomic and metagenomic characterisation of the sudanese smokeless tobacco ‘Toombak’. Toxicology Reports. 8. 1498–1512. 13 indexed citations

Oluwagbemigun, Kolade, Jana Foerster, Claire Watkins, et al.. (2019). Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Serum Metabolite Patterns and Their Association Is Influenced by Gut Bacteria among Older German Adults. Journal of Nutrition. 150(1). 149–158. 13 indexed citations

Fouhy, Fiona, Claire Watkins, Cian J. Hill, et al.. (2019). Perinatal factors affect the gut microbiota up to four years after birth. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1517–1517. 191 indexed citations

Wolters, Maike, Marina Romaní‐Pérez, Claire Watkins, et al.. (2018). Dietary fat, the gut microbiota, and metabolic health – A systematic review conducted within the MyNewGut project. Clinical Nutrition. 38(6). 2504–2520. 206 indexed citations

Watkins, Claire, Kiera Murphy, Eugene Dempsey, et al.. (2018). The viability of probiotics in water, breast milk, and infant formula. European Journal of Pediatrics. 177(6). 867–870. 8 indexed citations

Clarke, Gerard, Aoife Nolan, Claire Watkins, et al.. (2018). Tryptophan metabolic profile in term and preterm breast milk: implications for health. Journal of Nutritional Science. 7. e13–e13. 35 indexed citations

Watkins, Claire, Kiera Murphy, Eugene Dempsey, et al.. (2018). Dose-interval study of a dual probiotic in preterm infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal. 104(2). F159–F164. 14 indexed citations

Watkins, Claire, Catherine Stanton, C. Anthony Ryan, & R. Paul Ross. (2017). Microbial Therapeutics Designed for Infant Health. Frontiers in Nutrition. 4. 48–48. 12 indexed citations

Hill, Cian J., Denise B. Lynch, Kiera Murphy, et al.. (2017). Evolution of gut microbiota composition from birth to 24 weeks in the INFANTMET Cohort. Microbiome. 5(1). 4–4. 412 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watkins, Claire, Kiera Murphy, Ilaria Carafa, et al.. (2017). Effects of therapeutic hypothermia on the gut microbiota and metabolome of infants suffering hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy at birth. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 93. 110–118. 11 indexed citations

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Arboleya, Silvia, Claire Watkins, Catherine Stanton, & R. Paul Ross. (2016). Gut Bifidobacteria Populations in Human Health and Aging. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1204–1204. 485 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barrett, Eoin, C. Anthony Ryan, Eugene Dempsey, et al.. (2015). The neonatal gut harbours distinct bifidobacterial strains. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal. 100(5). F405–F410. 30 indexed citations

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Malley, Richard, Amit Srivastava, Marc Lipsitch, et al.. (2006). Antibody-Independent, Interleukin-17A-Mediated, Cross-Serotype Immunity to Pneumococci in Mice Immunized Intranasally with the Cell Wall Polysaccharide. Infection and Immunity. 74(4). 2187–2195. 143 indexed citations

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Srivastava, Amit Kumar, Philipp Henneke, Alberto Visintin, et al.. (2005). The Apoptotic Response to Pneumolysin Is Toll-Like Receptor 4 Dependent and Protects against Pneumococcal Disease. Infection and Immunity. 73(10). 6479–6487. 134 indexed citations

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