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, France and Canada. Dean Vik's co-authors include Benjamin Bolduc, Simon Roux, Matthew B. Sullivan, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Ahmed A. Zayed, Akbar Adjie Pratama, Jiarong Guo, Tom O. Delmont, Arvind Varsani 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

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.

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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Dean Vik	1.4k	836	440	250	222	19	1.9k
María Consuelo Gazitúa	1.2k 0.9×	765 0.9×	318 0.7×	212 0.8×	158 0.7×	16	1.7k
Ahmed A. Zayed	1.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	470 1.1×	353 1.4×	211 1.0×	20	2.4k
Guillaume Jospin	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	308 0.7×	206 0.8×	250 1.1×	61	2.5k
Kristopher Kieft	1.1k 0.8×	726 0.9×	319 0.7×	181 0.7×	117 0.5×	15	1.5k
Felipe H. Coutinho	1.3k 1.0×	833 1.0×	258 0.6×	165 0.7×	152 0.7×	51	1.9k
Alexander I. Culley	1.4k 1.0×	505 0.6×	595 1.4×	201 0.8×	290 1.3×	49	1.9k
Olivier Zablocki	1.3k 0.9×	738 0.9×	509 1.2×	268 1.1×	185 0.8×	22	1.8k
Natalia Mikhailova	890 0.6×	932 1.1×	484 1.1×	151 0.6×	132 0.6×	42	1.8k
Scott Clingenpeel	865 0.6×	998 1.2×	655 1.5×	183 0.7×	141 0.6×	21	2.2k
Linda Wegley	1.9k 1.4×	729 0.9×	295 0.7×	175 0.7×	137 0.6×	12	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Dean Vik

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dean Vik

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19 of 19 papers shown

Madden, Christopher, Dean Vik, Ahmed A. Zayed, et al.. (2025). Evaluating urine volume and host depletion methods to enable genome-resolved metagenomics of the urobiome. Microbiome. 13(1). 199–199.

Sun, Christine, Akbar Adjie Pratama, María Consuelo Gazitúa, et al.. (2024). Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient. Environmental Microbiology. 26(8). e16665–e16665. 4 indexed citations

Vik, Dean, Benjamin Bolduc, Simon Roux, et al.. (2023). MArVD2: a machine learning enhanced tool to discriminate between archaeal and bacterial viruses in viral datasets. ISME Communications. 3(1). 87–87. 4 indexed citations

Zhong, Zhi-Ping, Dean Vik, Josephine Z. Rapp, et al.. (2023). Lower viral evolutionary pressure under stable versus fluctuating conditions in subzero Arctic brines. Microbiome. 11(1). 174–174. 11 indexed citations

Zhou, Yingli, Paraskevi Mara, Dean Vik, et al.. (2022). Ecogenomics reveals viral communities across the Challenger Deep oceanic trench. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1055–1055. 17 indexed citations

Pratama, Akbar Adjie, Benjamin Bolduc, Ahmed A. Zayed, et al.. (2021). Expanding standards in viromics: in silico evaluation of dsDNA viral genome identification, classification, and auxiliary metabolic gene curation. PeerJ. 9. e11447–e11447. 73 indexed citations

Guo, Jiarong, Benjamin Bolduc, Ahmed A. Zayed, et al.. (2021). VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses. Microbiome. 9(1). 37–37. 682 indexed citations breakdown →

Garneau, Julian R., Martial Marbouty, Maximilian O. Press, et al.. (2021). High-throughput identification of viral termini and packaging mechanisms in virome datasets using PhageTermVirome. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 18319–18319. 2 indexed citations

Gazitúa, María Consuelo, Dean Vik, Simon Roux, et al.. (2020). Potential virus-mediated nitrogen cycling in oxygen-depleted oceanic waters. The ISME Journal. 15(4). 981–998. 95 indexed citations

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Mara, Paraskevi, Dean Vik, Maria Pachiadaki, et al.. (2020). Viral elements and their potential influence on microbial processes along the permanently stratified Cariaco Basin redoxcline. The ISME Journal. 14(12). 3079–3092. 40 indexed citations

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Shaffer, Michael, Mikayla Borton, Bridget B. McGivern, et al.. (2020). DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(16). 8883–8900. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vik, Dean, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Christine Sun, et al.. (2020). Genome‐resolved viral ecology in a marine oxygen minimum zone. Environmental Microbiology. 23(6). 2858–2874. 12 indexed citations

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Trubl, Gareth, Ho Bin Jang, Simon Roux, et al.. (2018). Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing. mSystems. 3(5). 251 indexed citations breakdown →

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Howard‐Varona, Cristina, Dean Vik, Natalie Solonenko, et al.. (2018). Fighting Fire with Fire: Phage Potential for the Treatment of E. coli O157 Infection. Antibiotics. 7(4). 101–101. 16 indexed citations

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Howard‐Varona, Cristina, Dean Vik, Natalie Solonenko, et al.. (2018). Whole-Genome Sequences of Phages p000v and p000y, Which Infect the Bacterial Pathogen Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 7(20). 3 indexed citations

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Vik, Dean, Simon Roux, Jennifer R. Brum, et al.. (2017). Putative archaeal viruses from the mesopelagic ocean. PeerJ. 5. e3428–e3428. 37 indexed citations

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Vik, Dean, et al.. (2015). Nectar Robbery and Thievery in the Hawk Moth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)-Pollinated Western Prairie Fringed OrchidPlatanthera praeclara. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 108(6). 1000–1013. 12 indexed citations

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Pochon, Xavier, R. D. Gates, Dean Vik, & Peter J. Edmunds. (2014). Molecular characterization of symbiotic algae (Symbiodinium spp.) in soritid foraminifera (Sorites orbiculus) and a scleractinian coral (Orbicella annularis) from St John, US Virgin Islands. Marine Biology. 161(10). 2307–2318. 11 indexed citations

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Vitt, Pati, et al.. (2013). Pollination of a threatened orchid by an introduced hawk moth species in the tallgrass prairie of North America. Biological Conservation. 167. 316–324. 17 indexed citations

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