Dean Vik

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
19 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Dean Vik is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dean Vik has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Dean Vik's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (15 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Dean Vik is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (15 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Dean Vik collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Dean Vik's co-authors include Simon Roux, Benjamin Bolduc, Matthew B. Sullivan, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Ahmed A. Zayed, Akbar Adjie Pratama, Jiarong Guo, Arvind Varsani, Tom O. Delmont and Guillermo Domínguez‐Huerta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Scientific Reports and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Dean Vik

18 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses

2021 682 citations Jiarong Guo, Benjamin Bolduc et al. Microbiome profile →
DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function

2020 580 citations Michael Shaffer, Mikayla Borton et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing

2018 251 citations Gareth Trubl, Ho Bin Jang et al. mSystems profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dean Vik

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19 of 19 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Evaluating urine volume and host depletion methods to enable genome-resolved metagenomics of the urobiome 2025 ·Microbiome ·(unknown), (unknown), Christopher Madden, Dean Vik, Ahmed A. Zayed, Garrett J. Smith, Sheryl S. Justice, Adam J. Rudinsky, Jessica A. Hokamp, Vanessa L. Hale	0
2	Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient 2024 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Christine Sun, Akbar Adjie Pratama, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Dylan Cronin, Bridget B. McGivern, James M. Wainaina, Dean Vik, Ahmed A. Zayed, Benjamin Bolduc, (unknown), Kelly Wrighton, Virginia I. Rich, Matthew B. Sullivan	4
3	MArVD2: a machine learning enhanced tool to discriminate between archaeal and bacterial viruses in viral datasets 2023 ·ISME Communications ·Dean Vik, Benjamin Bolduc, Simon Roux, Christine Sun, Akbar Adjie Pratama, Mart Krupovìč, Matthew B. Sullivan	4
4	Lower viral evolutionary pressure under stable versus fluctuating conditions in subzero Arctic brines 2023 ·Microbiome ·Zhi-Ping Zhong, Dean Vik, Josephine Z. Rapp, Olivier Zablocki, Heather Maughan, Ben Temperton, Jody W. Deming, Matthew B. Sullivan	11
5	Ecogenomics reveals viral communities across the Challenger Deep oceanic trench 2022 ·Communications Biology ·Yingli Zhou, Paraskevi Mara, Dean Vik, Virginia P. Edgcomb, Matthew B. Sullivan, Yong Wang	17
6	VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses breakdown → 2021 ·Microbiome ·Jiarong Guo, Benjamin Bolduc, Ahmed A. Zayed, Arvind Varsani, Guillermo Domínguez‐Huerta, Tom O. Delmont, Akbar Adjie Pratama, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Dean Vik, Matthew B. Sullivan, Simon Roux	682
7	Expanding standards in viromics: in silico evaluation of dsDNA viral genome identification, classification, and auxiliary metabolic gene curation 2021 ·PeerJ ·Akbar Adjie Pratama, Benjamin Bolduc, Ahmed A. Zayed, Zhi-Ping Zhong, Jiarong Guo, Dean Vik, María Consuelo Gazitúa, James M. Wainaina, Simon Roux, Matthew B. Sullivan	73
8	High-throughput identification of viral termini and packaging mechanisms in virome datasets using PhageTermVirome 2021 ·Scientific Reports ·Julian R. Garneau, (unknown), Martial Marbouty, Maximilian O. Press, Dean Vik, Louis‐Charles Fortier, Matthew B. Sullivan, David Bikard, Marc Monot	2
9	Potential virus-mediated nitrogen cycling in oxygen-depleted oceanic waters 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·María Consuelo Gazitúa, Dean Vik, Simon Roux, Ann Gregory, Benjamin Bolduc, Brittany Widner, Margaret R. Mulholland, Steven Hallam, Osvaldo Ulloa, Matthew B. Sullivan	95
10	Viral elements and their potential influence on microbial processes along the permanently stratified Cariaco Basin redoxcline 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·Paraskevi Mara, Dean Vik, Maria Pachiadaki, Elizabeth A. Suter, Bonnie T. Poulos, Gordon T. Taylor, Matthew B. Sullivan, Virginia P. Edgcomb	40
11	DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function breakdown → 2020 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Michael Shaffer, Mikayla Borton, Bridget B. McGivern, Ahmed A. Zayed, (unknown), Lindsey Solden, Pengfei Liu, Adrienne B. Narrowe, Josué Rodríguez-Ramos, Benjamin Bolduc, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Rebecca A. Daly, Garrett J. Smith, Dean Vik, Phillip B. Pope, Matthew B. Sullivan, Simon Roux, Kelly Wrighton	580
12	Genome‐resolved viral ecology in a marine oxygen minimum zone 2020 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Dean Vik, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Christine Sun, Ahmed A. Zayed, Montserrat Aldunate, Margaret R. Mulholland, Osvaldo Ulloa, Matthew B. Sullivan	12
13	Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing breakdown → 2018 ·mSystems ·Gareth Trubl, Ho Bin Jang, Simon Roux, Joanne Emerson, Natalie Solonenko, Dean Vik, Lindsey Solden, Jared Ellenbogen, (unknown), Benjamin Bolduc, Ben J. Woodcroft, S. R. Saleska, Gene W. Tyson, Kelly Wrighton, Matthew B. Sullivan, Virginia I. Rich	251
14	Fighting Fire with Fire: Phage Potential for the Treatment of E. coli O157 Infection 2018 ·Antibiotics ·Cristina Howard‐Varona, Dean Vik, Natalie Solonenko, (unknown), María Consuelo Gazitúa, Lauren Chittick, (unknown), A. E. Jensen, (unknown), (unknown), Anika Kinkhabwala, Stephen T. Abedon, Matthew B. Sullivan	16
15	Whole-Genome Sequences of Phages p000v and p000y, Which Infect the Bacterial Pathogen Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli 2018 ·Microbiology Resource Announcements ·Cristina Howard‐Varona, Dean Vik, Natalie Solonenko, María Consuelo Gazitúa, (unknown), Ryan W. Honaker, Anika Kinkhabwala, Matthew B. Sullivan	3
16	Putative archaeal viruses from the mesopelagic ocean 2017 ·PeerJ ·Dean Vik, Simon Roux, Jennifer R. Brum, Benjamin Bolduc, Joanne Emerson, Cory C. Padilla, Frank J. Stewart, Matthew B. Sullivan	37
17	Nectar Robbery and Thievery in the Hawk Moth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)-Pollinated Western Prairie Fringed OrchidPlatanthera praeclara 2015 ·Annals of the Entomological Society of America ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Dean Vik, Pati Vitt, M. O. Harris	12
18	Molecular characterization of symbiotic algae (Symbiodinium spp.) in soritid foraminifera (Sorites orbiculus) and a scleractinian coral (Orbicella annularis) from St John, US Virgin Islands 2014 ·Marine Biology ·Xavier Pochon, R. D. Gates, Dean Vik, Peter J. Edmunds	11
19	Pollination of a threatened orchid by an introduced hawk moth species in the tallgrass prairie of North America 2013 ·Biological Conservation ·(unknown), Pati Vitt, (unknown), (unknown), Steven E. Travers, Dean Vik, M. O. Harris	17

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