Dan I. Andersson

31.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
285 papers, 21.9k citations indexed

About

Dan I. Andersson is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan I. Andersson has authored 285 papers receiving a total of 21.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Genetics, 111 papers in Molecular Biology and 109 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Dan I. Andersson's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (109 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (81 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (45 papers). Dan I. Andersson is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (109 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (81 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (45 papers). Dan I. Andersson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Denmark. Dan I. Andersson's co-authors include Diarmaid Hughes, Otto G. Berg, Linus Sandegren, Bruce R. Levin, John R. Roth, Jonas T. Björkman, Karin Hjort, Erik Gullberg, Hervé Nicoloff and Sophie Maisnier‐Patin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Dan I. Andersson

270 papers receiving 21.3k 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.

Antibiotic resistance and its cost: is it possible to reverse resistance?

2010 1.7k citations Dan I. Andersson, Diarmaid Hughes Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Microbiological effects of sublethal levels of antibiotics

2014 1.3k citations Dan I. Andersson, Diarmaid Hughes Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Selection of Resistant Bacteria at Very Low Antibiotic Concentrations

2011 1.2k citations Otto G. Berg, Diarmaid Hughes et al. profile →
The biological cost of antibiotic resistance

1999 654 citations Dan I. Andersson, Bruce R. Levin profile →
Mechanisms and consequences of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial peptides

2016 546 citations Dan I. Andersson, Diarmaid Hughes et al. profile →
Mechanisms and clinical relevance of bacterial heteroresistance

2019 320 citations Dan I. Andersson, Hervé Nicoloff et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
A review of data centers as prosumers in district energy systems: Renewable energy integration and waste heat reuse for district heating

2019 263 citations Dan I. Andersson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan I. Andersson Sweden	73	8.7k	7.4k	5.9k	3.9k	2.7k	285	21.9k
Stuart B. Levy United States	72	8.1k 0.9×	9.4k 1.3×	4.3k 0.7×	4.6k 1.2×	2.9k 1.1×	256	24.1k
Julian Davies Canada	74	12.9k 1.5×	6.2k 0.8×	3.4k 0.6×	4.2k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	251	25.5k
Gerard D. Wright Canada	83	12.3k 1.4×	9.0k 1.2×	2.6k 0.4×	5.1k 1.3×	4.2k 1.5×	296	27.0k
Kim Lewis United States	67	10.7k 1.2×	5.7k 0.8×	5.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	2.9k 1.1×	135	20.9k
Yang Wang China	65	5.2k 0.6×	10.4k 1.4×	1.5k 0.3×	5.3k 1.4×	4.0k 1.5×	525	20.7k
Herbert P. Schweizer United States	57	9.1k 1.1×	4.1k 0.6×	4.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.3×	751 0.3×	201	15.5k
Kathryn E. Holt Australia	69	9.5k 1.1×	9.2k 1.3×	1.7k 0.3×	1.6k 0.4×	3.5k 1.3×	224	23.6k
Bruce R. Levin United States	67	4.7k 0.5×	3.1k 0.4×	6.4k 1.1×	862 0.2×	1.8k 0.7×	159	15.6k
Ole Lund Denmark	83	18.3k 2.1×	7.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.2×	2.1k 0.5×	5.8k 2.1×	324	36.2k
Alfred Pühler Germany	84	15.9k 1.8×	2.4k 0.3×	5.3k 0.9×	3.5k 0.9×	735 0.3×	485	31.9k

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Paranjape, Kiran, et al.. (2025). Host-Specific Adaptation of Legionella pneumophila to Single and Multiple Hosts. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(8).

Tang, Po-Cheng, et al.. (2024). Within-species variability of antibiotic interactions in Gram-negative bacteria. mBio. 15(3). e0019624–e0019624. 4 indexed citations

Levin, Bruce R., Teresa Gil‐Gil, Jacob E. Choby, et al.. (2024). Theoretical considerations and empirical predictions of the pharmaco- and population dynamics of heteroresistance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(16). e2318600121–e2318600121. 5 indexed citations

Babiker, Ahmed, et al.. (2024). Heteroresistance to piperacillin/tazobactam in Klebsiella pneumoniae is mediated by increased copy number of multiple β-lactamase genes. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 6(2). dlae057–dlae057. 5 indexed citations

Nicoloff, Hervé, et al.. (2019). A portable epigenetic switch for bistable gene expression in bacteria. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11261–11261. 14 indexed citations

Knopp, Michael & Dan I. Andersson. (2018). Predictable Phenotypes of Antibiotic Resistance Mutations. mBio. 9(3). 67 indexed citations

Kaçar, Betül, et al.. (2017). Functional Constraints on Replacing an Essential Gene with Its Ancient and Modern Homologs. mBio. 8(4). 31 indexed citations

Knöppel, Anna, Joakim Näsvall, & Dan I. Andersson. (2017). Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance without Antibiotic Exposure. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 61(11). 81 indexed citations

Akbergenov, Rashid, et al.. (2016). Nonmutational compensation of the fitness cost of antibiotic resistance in mycobacteria by overexpression of tlyA rRNA methylase. RNA. 22(12). 1836–1843. 37 indexed citations

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Hjort, Karin, Hervé Nicoloff, & Dan I. Andersson. (2016). Unstable tandem gene amplification generates heteroresistance (variation in resistance within a population) to colistin in Salmonella enterica. Molecular Microbiology. 102(2). 274–289. 79 indexed citations

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Sundqvist, Martin, et al.. (2015). Amdinocillin (Mecillinam) Resistance Mutations in Clinical Isolates and Laboratory-Selected Mutants of Escherichia coli. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 59(3). 1718–1727. 80 indexed citations

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Andersson, Dan I., et al.. (2014). Triads at the interface between supply networks and logistics service networks. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Andersson, Dan I., Erik Fridell, & Árni Halldórsson. (2013). A TOTAL COST TOOL FOR INTERNALISING LOGISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Näsvall, Joakim, Lei Sun, John R. Roth, & Dan I. Andersson. (2012). Real-Time Evolution of New Genes by Innovation, Amplification, and Divergence. Science. 338(6105). 384–387. 177 indexed citations

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Pränting, Maria & Dan I. Andersson. (2010). Escape from growth restriction in small colony variants of Salmonella typhimurium by gene amplification and mutation. Molecular Microbiology. 79(2). 305–315. 34 indexed citations

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Lind, Peter A., Otto G. Berg, & Dan I. Andersson. (2010). Mutational Robustness of Ribosomal Protein Genes. Science. 330(6005). 825–827. 87 indexed citations

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Andersson, Dan I. & Diarmaid Hughes. (2010). Antibiotic resistance and its cost: is it possible to reverse resistance?. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 8(4). 260–271. 1671 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bergthorsson, Ulfar, Dan I. Andersson, & John R. Roth. (2007). Ohno's dilemma: Evolution of new genes under continuous selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(43). 17004–17009. 278 indexed citations

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Koskiniemi, Sanna, et al.. (2005). Bacterial genome size reduction by experimental evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(34). 12112–12116. 182 indexed citations

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Hendrickson, Heather, E. Susan Slechta, Ulfar Bergthorsson, Dan I. Andersson, & John R. Roth. (2002). Amplification–mutagenesis: Evidence that “directed” adaptive mutation and general hypermutability result from growth with a selected gene amplification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(4). 2164–2169. 134 indexed citations

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