David Baker

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

David Baker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Baker has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in David Baker's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). David Baker is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). David Baker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. David Baker's co-authors include Steven S. Smith, Matthew D. Clark, Florian Jupe, Kamil Witek, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Agnieszka Witek, Ali Laayoun, Ulrike Mathesius, Christine Le Signor and Julie Plet and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

David Baker

66 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Fecal microbiota transfer between young and aged mice reverses hallmarks of the aging gut, eye, and brain

2022 222 citations Aimée Parker, Rebecca Ansorge et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Baker United Kingdom	26	1.3k	858	270	175	145	69	2.2k
Geneviève Alloing France	19	862 0.7×	477 0.6×	238 0.9×	166 0.9×	93 0.6×	27	2.5k
Chad H. Stahl United States	24	555 0.4×	407 0.5×	171 0.6×	124 0.7×	232 1.6×	55	1.6k
Lei Liu China	28	1.5k 1.2×	280 0.3×	970 3.6×	79 0.5×	194 1.3×	159	2.9k
Yves Millet France	15	972 0.8×	793 0.9×	176 0.7×	118 0.7×	183 1.3×	33	2.0k
Dawn Thompson United States	22	2.1k 1.6×	389 0.5×	318 1.2×	96 0.5×	179 1.2×	37	2.9k
Baohua Zhao China	24	579 0.5×	285 0.3×	174 0.6×	111 0.6×	53 0.4×	103	1.6k
Ming Zou China	24	491 0.4×	222 0.3×	214 0.8×	125 0.7×	171 1.2×	81	1.4k
Thiruvarangan Ramaraj United States	20	798 0.6×	690 0.8×	170 0.6×	83 0.5×	145 1.0×	49	1.5k
María de la Paz Sánchez Mexico	27	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	102 0.4×	81 0.5×	51 0.4×	70	2.3k
Víctor M. Baizabal‐Aguirre Mexico	23	739 0.6×	516 0.6×	120 0.4×	32 0.2×	196 1.4×	42	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by David Baker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Baker

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Pallen, Mark J., Alise J. Ponsero, Andrea Telatin, et al.. (2025). Faecal metagenomes of great tits and blue tits provide insights into host, diet, pathogens and microbial biodiversity. Access Microbiology. 7(4). 1 indexed citations

James, Steve A., et al.. (2025). Draft genome sequence of a kombucha isolate of Pichia kudriavzevii. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 14(9). e0047825–e0047825.

Baker, David, Andrea Telatin, George M. Savva, et al.. (2025). Assessing Bias and Reproducibility of Viral Metagenomics Methods for the Combined Detection of Faecal RNA and DNA Viruses. Viruses. 17(2). 155–155. 1 indexed citations

Chattaway, Marie Anne, Hassan Hartman, Timothy J. Dallman, et al.. (2024). A One Health Perspective on Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis, an Emerging Human Multidrug-Resistant Pathogen. Emerging infectious diseases. 30(4). 701–710. 23 indexed citations

Le-Viet, Thanh, et al.. (2024). Genomic diversity and antimicrobial resistance in clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from tertiary hospitals in Southern Ghana. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 79(7). 1529–1539. 3 indexed citations

Cook, Ryan, Andrea Telatin, Mohammad Tariq, et al.. (2024). Nanopore and Illumina sequencing reveal different viral populations from human gut samples. Microbial Genomics. 10(4). 7 indexed citations

Yasir, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Evolution, persistence, and host adaption of a gonococcal AMR plasmid that emerged in the pre-antibiotic era. PLoS Genetics. 19(5). e1010743–e1010743. 4 indexed citations

James, Steve A., Aimée Parker, Andrea Telatin, et al.. (2022). The Cynomolgus Macaque Intestinal Mycobiome Is Dominated by the Kazachstania Genus and K. pintolopesii Species. Journal of Fungi. 8(10). 1054–1054. 5 indexed citations

Jones, Emily, Régis Stentz, Andrea Telatin, et al.. (2021). The Origin of Plasma-Derived Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles in Healthy Individuals and Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Pilot Study. Genes. 12(10). 1636–1636. 26 indexed citations

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Juneja, Vijay K., et al.. (2021). Inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes , Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Salmonella spp. on dates by antimicrobial washes. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation. 45(3). 2 indexed citations

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Greig, David R., Gemma C. Langridge, David Baker, et al.. (2021). Characterization of a pESI-like plasmid and analysis of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica Infantis isolates in England and Wales. Microbial Genomics. 7(10). 31 indexed citations

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Foster-Nyarko, Ebenezer, Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, Anuradha Ravi, et al.. (2020). Genomic diversity of Escherichia coli isolates from non-human primates in the Gambia. Microbial Genomics. 6(9). 15 indexed citations

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Etherington, Graham, Darren Heavens, David Baker, et al.. (2020). Sequencing smart: De novo sequencing and assembly approaches for a non-model mammal. GigaScience. 9(5). 16 indexed citations

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James, Stephen A., Andrea Telatin, David Baker, et al.. (2020). Preterm Infants Harbour a Rapidly Changing Mycobiota That Includes Candida Pathobionts. Journal of Fungi. 6(4). 273–273. 26 indexed citations

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Saeed, Muhammad, Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, David Baker, et al.. (2020). Emergence of Resistance to Fluoroquinolones and Third-Generation Cephalosporins in Salmonella Typhi in Lahore, Pakistan. Microorganisms. 8(9). 1336–1336. 38 indexed citations

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Paajanen, Pirita, George Kettleborough, Elena López‐Girona, et al.. (2019). A critical comparison of technologies for a plant genome sequencing project. GigaScience. 8(3). 45 indexed citations

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Stephenson, Pauline, David Baker, Thomas Girin, et al.. (2010). A rich TILLING resource for studying gene function in Brassica rapa. BMC Plant Biology. 10(1). 62–62. 115 indexed citations

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Baker, David, Ali Laayoun, & Steven S. Smith. (1993). Transition State Analogs as Affinity Labels for Human DNA Methyltransferases. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 196(2). 864–871. 8 indexed citations

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Smith, Steven S., et al.. (1991). Recognition of unusual DNA structures by human DNA(cytosine-5)methyltransferase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 217(1). 39–51. 93 indexed citations

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Smith, Steven S., David Baker, & Lori Jardines. (1989). A G4-DNA/B-DNA junction at codon 12 of c-Ha-ras is actively and asymmetrically methylated by DNA (cytosine-5)methyltransferase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 160(3). 1397–1402. 27 indexed citations

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