David A. Relman

67.2k citations

249 papers · 43.8k indexed · 22 hit papers · h-index 83

Impact in

Microbiology top 0.02%
Infectious Diseases top 0.05%
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research

Papers in

Microbiology 53
- Bacterial Infections and Vaccines 29
Infectious Diseases 60
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research 22

Co-authors: Les Dethlefsen Elisabeth M. Bik Paul B. Eckburg Steven R. Gill William Nelson Elizabeth Purdom Çharles N. Bernstein Michael Sargent
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (19 papers)The Journal of Infectious Diseases (14 papers)Science (9 papers)PLoS ONE (9 papers)Nature Communications (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Canada

In The Last Decade

David A. Relman

244 papers receiving 42.5k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Role of priority effects in the early-life assembly of the gut microbiota 2018 · 270 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2018 Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
2018 Microbiome
2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2016 Nature Microbiology
2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2014 Journal of Clinical Investigation
2012 Cell
2012 Science
2010 The ISME Journal
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2008 PLoS ONE
2008 PLoS Biology
2008 PLoS Genetics
2007 Nature
2007 PLoS Biology
2006 Science
2006 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2005 Science
2003 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1996 Clinical Microbiology Reviews
1992 New England Journal of Medicine
1990 New England Journal of Medicine

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Laura Symul, Pratheepa Jeganathan, Elizabeth K. Costello, Michael France, Seth M. Bloom, Douglas S. Kwon, Jacques Ravel, David A. Relman, Susan Holmes	2023	15
2	Are bacteria, fungi, and archaea present in the midtrimester amniotic fluid? Journal of Perinatal Medicine ·Roberto Romero, Maria Teresa Gervasi, Daniel B. DiGiulio, Eunjung Jung, Manaphat Suksai, Jezid Miranda, Kevin R. Theis, Francesca Gotsch, David A. Relman	2023	2
3	Characterizing the oral and distal gut microbiota of the threatened southern sea otter ( Enhydra lutris nereis ) to enhance conservation practice Conservation Science and Practice ·Natasha K. Dudek, Emily Lutz, Elizabeth K. Costello, Michael J. Murray, Joseph A. Tomoleoni, Michelle M. Staedler, M. Tim Tinker, David A. Relman	2022	8
4	Microbial biogeography and ecology of the mouth and implications for periodontal diseases Periodontology 2000 ·Diana M. Proctor, Rogall Eike Thorben, Antonio González, Agnes Blikslager-Memming, Les Dethlefsen, Adam R. Burns, Peter M. Loomer, Gary C. Armitage, Mark I. Ryder, VB Awasarmal, Rob Knight, Susan Holmes, David A. Relman	2019	51
5	Treatment-Specific Composition of the Gut Microbiota Is Associated With Disease Remission in a Pediatric Crohn’s Disease Cohort Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ·Daniel D. Sprockett, Natalie Fischer, Rotem Sigall Boneh, Dan Turner, Jarosław Kierkuś, Małgorzata Sładek, Johanna C. Escher, Eytan Wine, Baruch Yerushalmi, Jorge Amil Dias, Ron Shaoul, Michal Kori, Scott B. Snapper, Susan Holmes, Athos Bousvaros, Arie Levine, David A. Relman	2019	21
6	Microbiome as a tool and a target in the effort to address antimicrobial resistance Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David A. Relman, Marc Lipsitch	2018	65
7	Cathelicidin Insufficiency in Patients with Fatal Leptospirosis PLoS Pathogens ·Janet C. Lindow, Elsio A. Wunder, Stephen J. Popper, R. P. Perkins, Praveen Mannam, Anup Srivastava, Yi Yao, Kathryn P. Hacker, Khadir Raddassi, Patty J. Lee, Ruth R. Montgomery, Albert C. Shaw, José E. Hagan, Lauren Gosse, Nívison Nery, David A. Relman, Charles C. Kim, Mitermayer Galvão dos Reis, Albert I. Ko	2016	25
8	Type I Interferon Suppresses Type II Interferon–Triggered Human Anti-Mycobacterial Responses Science ·Rosane M. B. Teles, Thomas G. Graeber, Stephan R. Krutzik, Dennis Montoya, Mirjam Schenk, Delphine J. Lee, Evangelia Komisopoulou, Kindra M. Kelly‐Scumpia, Rene F. Chun, Shankar S. Iyer, Euzenir Nunes Sarno, Thomas H. Rea, Martin Hewison, John S. Adams, Stephen J. Popper, David A. Relman, Steffen Stenger, Barry R. Bloom, Genhong Cheng, Robert L. Modlin	2013	296
9	The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome Science ·Elizabeth K. Costello, Keaton Stagaman, Les Dethlefsen, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, David A. Relman Hit paper breakdown →	2012	1030
10	The human indigenous microbiota The biomedical & life sciences collection. ·David A. Relman	2009	0
11	Linking Microbial Phylogeny to Metabolic Activity at the Single-Cell Level by Using Enhanced Element Labeling-Catalyzed Reporter Deposition Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (EL-FISH) and NanoSIMS Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Sebastian Behrens, Tina Lösekann, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Peter Weber, Yuxiang Lu, Bradley S. Stevenson, I. D. Hutcheon, David A. Relman, Alfred M. Spormann	2008	170
12	Host Transmission of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Is Controlled by Virulence Factors and Indigenous Intestinal Microbiota Infection and Immunity ·Trevor D. Lawley, Donna M. Bouley, Dian Soraya Nasution, Christiane Gerke, David A. Relman, Denise M. Monack	2007	233
13	Dissecting biological “dark matter” with single-cell genetic analysis of rare and uncultivated TM7 microbes from the human mouth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yann Marcy, Cleber Ouverney, Elisabeth M. Bik, Tina Lösekann, Natalia Ivanova, Héctor García Martín, Ernest Szeto, Darren Platt, Philip Hugenholtz, David A. Relman, Stephen R. Quake	2007	467
14	Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome Science ·Steven R. Gill, Mihai Pop, Robert T. DeBoy, Paul B. Eckburg, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Buck S. Samuel, Jeffrey I. Gordon, David A. Relman, Claire M. Fraser, William Nelson Hit paper breakdown →	2006	3466
15	Molecular analysis of the bacterial microbiota in the human stomach Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Elisabeth M. Bik, Paul B. Eckburg, Steven R. Gill, William Nelson, Elizabeth Purdom, Fritz François, (unknown), Martin J. Blaser, David A. Relman Hit paper breakdown →	2006	817
16	Methanogenic Archaea and human periodontal disease Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Paul W. Lepp, Mary M. Brinig, Cleber Ouverney, Van Minh Nguyen, Gary C. Armitage, David A. Relman	2004	288
17	Genome-wide responses of a pathogenic bacterium to its host Journal of Clinical Investigation ·David A. Relman	2002	10
18	Genome-wide responses of a pathogenic bacterium to its host Journal of Clinical Investigation ·David A. Relman	2002	1
19	Does Blood of Healthy Subjects Contain Bacterial Ribosomal DNA? Journal of Clinical Microbiology ·Simo Nikkari, Ian McLaughlin, Raymund de la Cruz, Deborah E. Dodge, David A. Relman	2001	197
20	[16] Phylogenetic identification of uncultured pathogens using ribosomal RNA sequences Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Thomas M. Schmidt, David A. Relman	1994	60

About David A. Relman

David A. Relman is a scholar working on Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Periodontics and Virology, having authored 249 papers that have together received 43.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (73 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (29 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (24 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (22 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (22 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (20 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (15 papers) and Whipple's Disease and Interleukins (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Microbiology (3.8k citations), Infectious Diseases (8.6k citations), Periodontics (2.1k citations), Gastroenterology (2.3k citations) and Biological Psychiatry (991 citations). David A. Relman has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Les Dethlefsen, Elisabeth M. Bik, Paul B. Eckburg, Steven R. Gill, William Nelson, Elizabeth Purdom, Çharles N. Bernstein, Michael Sargent, Daniel B. DiGiulio and Patrick O. Brown. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Science, PLoS ONE and Nature Communications.

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