David A. Mills

38.5k citations

255 papers · 24.2k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 83

Impact in

Nutrition and Dietetics top 0.01%
- Infant Nutrition and Health
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management top 0.05%

Papers in

Nutrition and Dietetics 128
- Infant Nutrition and Health 102
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology 28
Food Science 112
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods 91
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis 33

Co-authors: Nicholas A. Bokulich J. Bruce German Carlito B. Lebrilla Jeffrey I. Gordon Sathish Subramanian Jeremiah J. Faith Dirk Gevers Rob Knight
Journals: Applied and Environmental Microbiology (25 papers)PLoS ONE (9 papers)American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (8 papers)Scientific Reports (7 papers)Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom China

In The Last Decade

David A. Mills

247 papers receiving 23.8k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Associations among Wine Grape Microbiome, Metabolome, and Fermentation Behavior Suggest Microbial Contribution to Regional Wine Characteristics 2016 · 331 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 mBio
2015 Microbiome
2015 mBio
2014 Pediatric Research
2013 Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2012 Nature Methods
2011 Cell Host & Microbe
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside David A. Mills, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	A tale of two vineyards: parsing site-specific differences in bacterial and fungal communities of wine grapes from proximal vineyards and their changes during processing in a single winery Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Reid G. Griggs, Lena Flörl, Michael Swadener, Rodrigo Hernández-Velázquez, David A. Mills, Nicholas A. Bokulich	2025	2
2	Development of a comprehensive food glycomic database and its application: Associations between dietary carbohydrates and insulin resistance Food Chemistry ·Christopher Suarez, Shawn Ehlers Cheang, Jules A Larke, Jiani Jiang, Cheng-Yu Weng, A. Stacy, Garret Couture, Ye Chen, Nikita P. Bacalzo, Jennifer T. Smilowitz, J. Bruce German, David A. Mills, Danielle G. Lemay, Carlito B. Lebrilla	2025	0
3	Microbial remodeling of gut tryptophan metabolism and indole-3-lactate production regulate epithelial barrier repair and viral suppression in human and simian immunodeficiency virus infections Mucosal Immunology ·Clarissa Santos Rocha, Katie L. Alexander, Carolina Herrera, Mariana G. Weber, Irina Grishina, Lauren A. Hirao, Debra Kramer, Juan Arredondo, Abigail Mende, Katti R. Crakes, Anne Fenton, Maria L. Marco, David A. Mills, John C. Kappes, Lesley E. Smythies, Paul Ziprin, Sumathi Sankaran‐Walters, Phillip D. Smith, Satya Dandekar	2025	6
4	Probiotics and Human Milk Differentially Influence the Gut Microbiome and NEC Incidence in Preterm Pigs Nutrients ·Valeria Meléndez Hebib, Diana H. Taft, Barbara J. Stoll, Jinxin Liu, Lee Call, Gregory Guthrie, Nicholas O. Jensen, Amy B. Hair, David A. Mills, Douglas G. Burrin	2023	7
5	Transient Effect of Infant Formula Supplementation on the Intestinal Microbiota Nutrients ·Ning Chin, Gema Méndez‐Lagares, Diana H. Taft, Victoria Laleau, Hung Kieu, Nicole Narayan, Susan B. Roberts, David A. Mills, Dennis J. Hartigan-O’Connor, Valerie J. Flaherman	2021	9
6	Bifidobacterium catabolism of human milk oligosaccharides overrides endogenous competitive exclusion driving colonization and protection Gut Microbes ·Britta E. Heiss, Amy M. Ehrlich, María X. Maldonado-Gómez, Diana H. Taft, Jules A Larke, Michael L. Goodson, Carolyn M. Slupsky, Daniel J. Tancredi, Helen E. Raybould, David A. Mills	2021	37
7	Cervicovaginal Microbiome Composition Is Associated with Metabolic Profiles in Healthy Pregnancy mBio ·Andrew Oliver, Brandon LaMere, Claudia Weihe, Stephen Wandro, Karen L. Lindsay, Pathik D. Wadhwa, David A. Mills, David T. Pride, Oliver Fiehn, Trent R. Northen, Markus de Raad, Huiying Li, Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Susan V. Lynch, Katrine Whiteson	2020	39
8	Bifidobacterium Abundance in Early Infancy and Vaccine Response at 2 Years of Age PEDIATRICS ·M. Nazmul Huda, Shaikh Meshbahuddin Ahmad, Jahangir Alam, Afsana Khanam, Karen M. Kalanetra, Diana H. Taft, Rubhana Raqib, Mark A. Underwood, David A. Mills, Charles B. Stephensen	2019	109
9	Fetal exposure to maternal inflammation interrupts murine intestinal development and increases susceptibility to neonatal intestinal injury Disease Models & Mechanisms ·Timothy G. Elgin, Erin M. Fricke, Huiyu Gong, Jeff Reese, David A. Mills, Karen M. Kalantera, Mark A. Underwood, Steven J. McElroy	2019	26
10	The fecal resistome of dairy cattle is associated with diet during nursing Nature Communications ·Jinxin Liu, Diana H. Taft, María X. Maldonado-Gómez, Daisy Johnson, Michelle L. Treiber, Danielle G. Lemay, Edward J. DePeters, David A. Mills	2019	132
11	Mechanisms by which sialylated milk oligosaccharides impact bone biology in a gnotobiotic mouse model of infant undernutrition Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Carrie A. Cowardin, Philip P. Ahern, Vanderlene L. Kung, Martin L. Hibberd, Jiye Cheng, Janaki L. Guruge, Vinaik Sundaresan, Richard D. Head, Daniela Barile, David A. Mills, Michael J. Barratt, Sayeeda Huq, Tahmeed Ahmed, Jeffrey I. Gordon	2019	57
12	Production of functional mimics of human milk oligosaccharides by enzymatic glycosylation of bovine milk oligosaccharides International Dairy Journal ·Valerie Weinborn, Yanhong Li, Ishita M. Shah, Hai Yu, David C. Dallas, J. Bruce German, David A. Mills, Xi Chen, Daniela Barile	2019	23
13	Loss of murine Paneth cell function alters the immature intestinal microbiome and mimics changes seen in neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis PLoS ONE ·Shiloh R. Lueschow, Jessica Stumphy, Huiyu Gong, Stacy L. Kern, Timothy G. Elgin, Mark A. Underwood, Karen M. Kalanetra, David A. Mills, Melissa H. Wong, David K. Meyerholz, Misty Good, Steven J. McElroy	2018	61
14	Lipopolysaccharide‐induced maternal inflammation induces direct placental injury without alteration in placental blood flow and induces a secondary fetal intestinal injury that persists into adulthood American Journal of Reproductive Immunology ·Erin M. Fricke, Timothy G. Elgin, Huiyu Gong, Jeff Reese, Katherine N. Gibson‐Corley, Robert M. Weiss, Kathy Zimmerman, Noelle C. Bowdler, Karen M. Kalantera, David A. Mills, Mark A. Underwood, Steven J. McElroy	2018	55
15	Impact of Lactic Acid and Hydrogen Ion on the Simultaneous Fermentation of Glucose and Xylose by the Carbon Catabolite Derepressed Lactobacillus brevis ATCC 14869 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Kyung Hun Jeong, Beenish Israr, Sharon P. Shoemaker, David A. Mills, Jae‐Han Kim	2016	6
16	Microbial biogeography of wine grapes is conditioned by cultivar, vintage, and climate Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Nicholas A. Bokulich, J.H. Thorngate, Paul M. Richardson, David A. Mills Hit paper breakdown →	2013	742
17	Microbial Terroir of Wine: Deep Insight into Site-Specific Winery and Vineyard Microbial Communities American Journal of Enology and Viticulture ·Nicholas A. Bokulich, David A. Mills	2012	4
18	The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis reveals adaptations for milk utilization within the infant microbiome Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David A. Sela, Jarrod Chapman, A. Adeuya, Jae‐Han Kim, Fuhong Chen, Terence R. Whitehead, Alla Lapidus, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Carlito B. Lebrilla, J. Bruce German, Neil P. J. Price, Paul M. Richardson, David A. Mills Hit paper breakdown →	2008	682
19	Enhancing Foods with Functional Genomics Food technology ·Bart C. Weimer, David A. Mills	2002	5
20	Direct profiling of the yeast dynamics in wine fermentations FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Luca Cocolin, Linda F. Bisson, David A. Mills	2000	384

About David A. Mills

David A. Mills is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Molecular Biology and Pharmacy, having authored 255 papers that have together received 24.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Infant Nutrition and Health (102 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (91 papers), Gut microbiota and health (85 papers), Digestive system and related health (34 papers), Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (33 papers), Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (28 papers), Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (22 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nutrition and Dietetics (8.5k citations), Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (761 citations), Food Science (7.9k citations), Molecular Biology (11.8k citations) and Pharmacy (835 citations). David A. Mills has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Nicholas A. Bokulich, J. Bruce German, Carlito B. Lebrilla, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Sathish Subramanian, Jeremiah J. Faith, Dirk Gevers, Rob Knight, J. Gregory Caporaso and David A. Sela. Their work appears in journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, PLoS ONE, American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, Scientific Reports and Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.

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