Douwe van Sinderen

53.3k total citations · 11 hit papers
571 papers, 35.4k citations indexed

About

Douwe van Sinderen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Douwe van Sinderen has authored 571 papers receiving a total of 35.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 455 papers in Molecular Biology, 293 papers in Food Science and 187 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Douwe van Sinderen's work include Probiotics and Fermented Foods (290 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (219 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (184 papers). Douwe van Sinderen is often cited by papers focused on Probiotics and Fermented Foods (290 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (219 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (184 papers). Douwe van Sinderen collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, Italy and Netherlands. Douwe van Sinderen's co-authors include Marco Ventura, Gerald F. Fitzgerald, Francesca Turroni, Jennifer Mahony, Christian Milani, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Sabrina Duranti, Francesca Bottacini and Leonardo Mancabelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Douwe van Sinderen

563 papers receiving 34.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The First Microbial Colonizers of the Human Gut: Composition, Activities, and Health Implications of the Infant Gut Microbiota

2017 1.3k citations Christian Milani, Sabrina Duranti et al. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews profile →
Bacteria as vitamin suppliers to their host: a gut microbiota perspective

2012 1.1k citations Christian Milani, Douwe van Sinderen et al. profile →
Genomics ofActinobacteria: Tracing the Evolutionary History of an Ancient Phylum

2007 803 citations Marco Ventura, Carlos Canchaya et al. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews profile →
Bifidobacteria and Their Role as Members of the Human Gut Microbiota

2016 767 citations Douwe van Sinderen et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →
Carbohydrate metabolism in Bifidobacteria

2011 615 citations Gerald F. Fitzgerald, Douwe van Sinderen et al. Genes & Nutrition profile →
T-cell activation by transitory neo-antigens derived from distinct microbial pathways

2014 612 citations Jennifer Mahony, Douwe van Sinderen et al. profile →
Stress Physiology of Lactic Acid Bacteria

2016 566 citations R. Paul Ross, Catherine Stanton et al. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews profile →
Diversity of Bifidobacteria within the Infant Gut Microbiota

2012 502 citations Francesca Turroni, Clelia Peano et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Bifidobacterial surface-exopolysaccharide facilitates commensal-host interaction through immune modulation and pathogen protection

2012 427 citations Lindsay J. Hall, Mary O’Connell Motherway et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Shaping the Future of Probiotics and Prebiotics

2021 409 citations Douwe van Sinderen et al. profile →
Stable Engraftment of Bifidobacterium longum AH1206 in the Human Gut Depends on Individualized Features of the Resident Microbiome

2016 342 citations Francesca Bottacini, Marco Ventura et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douwe van Sinderen Ireland	95	23.9k	15.5k	8.9k	6.7k	4.9k	571	35.4k
Gerald F. Fitzgerald Ireland	90	17.0k 0.7×	15.3k 1.0×	8.4k 0.9×	4.9k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	370	29.6k
Michiel Kleerebezem Netherlands	92	18.0k 0.8×	14.3k 0.9×	6.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.3×	3.6k 0.7×	317	27.3k
Paul D. Cotter Ireland	96	22.3k 0.9×	17.5k 1.1×	5.4k 0.6×	2.8k 0.4×	2.1k 0.4×	460	37.5k
Colin Hill Ireland	109	31.1k 1.3×	30.8k 2.0×	9.2k 1.0×	7.7k 1.2×	4.2k 0.8×	644	56.8k
B. Brett Finlay Canada	128	23.8k 1.0×	14.1k 0.9×	3.8k 0.4×	4.9k 0.7×	9.0k 1.8×	532	57.8k
Todd R. Klaenhammer United States	83	15.5k 0.6×	17.6k 1.1×	7.9k 0.9×	4.4k 0.7×	3.5k 0.7×	287	25.3k
R. Paul Ross Ireland	130	39.2k 1.6×	29.9k 1.9×	14.1k 1.6×	9.1k 1.4×	4.5k 0.9×	867	68.6k
Bruno Pot Belgium	71	13.6k 0.6×	12.6k 0.8×	5.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.3×	1.9k 0.4×	176	23.9k
Marco Ventura Italy	80	15.6k 0.7×	8.9k 0.6×	5.1k 0.6×	2.2k 0.3×	2.4k 0.5×	359	22.1k
Gregor Reid Canada	92	21.4k 0.9×	15.1k 1.0×	8.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.2×	3.1k 0.6×	411	40.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douwe van Sinderen

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López‐Tello, Jorge, Raymond Kiu, Zoe Schofield, et al.. (2024). Maternal gut Bifidobacterium breve modifies fetal brain metabolism in germ-free mice. Molecular Metabolism. 88. 102004–102004. 5 indexed citations

Killeen, Sarah Louise, Conor Feehily, Rebecca Moore, et al.. (2023). Maternal breastfeeding is associated with offspring microbiome diversity; a secondary analysis of the MicrobeMom randomized control trial. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1154114–1154114. 14 indexed citations

Courtin, Pascal, Alain Guillot, Christine Péchoux, et al.. (2023). Molecular mechanisms underlying the structural diversity of rhamnose-rich cell wall polysaccharides in lactococci. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(1). 105578–105578. 1 indexed citations

Sadovskaya, Irina, Jennifer Mahony, Thierry Grard, et al.. (2023). Structural studies of the deacylated glycolipids and lipoteichoic acid of Lactococcus cremoris 3107. Carbohydrate Research. 531. 108898–108898. 4 indexed citations

Killeen, Sarah Louise, David Byrne, Aisling A. Geraghty, et al.. (2022). Higher Inflammation Is Associated with Cardiometabolic Phenotype and Biochemical Health in Women with Obesity. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 78(3). 177–182. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Christopher C., Rebbeca M. Duar, Xiaoxi B. Lin, et al.. (2020). Ecological Importance of Cross-Feeding of the Intermediate Metabolite 1,2-Propanediol between Bacterial Gut Symbionts. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(11). 43 indexed citations

Mahony, Jennifer, Horst Neve, Charles M. A. P. Franz, et al.. (2019). Biodiversity and Classification of Phages Infecting Lactobacillus brevis. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2396–2396. 10 indexed citations

James, Kieran, Francesca Bottacini, José Iván Serrano-Contreras, et al.. (2019). Metabolism of the predominant human milk oligosaccharide fucosyllactose by an infant gut commensal. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15427–15427. 60 indexed citations

Borrero, Juan, Paula M. O’Connor, Philip Kelleher, et al.. (2017). Plantaricyclin A, a Novel Circular Bacteriocin Produced by Lactobacillus plantarum NI326: Purification, Characterization, and Heterologous Production. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(1). 67 indexed citations

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Ferrario, Chiara, Rosario Statello, Luca Carnevali, et al.. (2017). How to Feed the Mammalian Gut Microbiota: Bacterial and Metabolic Modulation by Dietary Fibers. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1749–1749. 72 indexed citations

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Motherway, Mary O’Connell, Florian Brodhun, R. Paul Ross, et al.. (2013). Identification and characterization of an oleate hydratase-encoding gene fromBifidobacterium breve. Bioengineered. 4(5). 313–321. 39 indexed citations

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Veesler, David, Silvia Spinelli, Jennifer Mahony, et al.. (2012). Structure of the phage TP901-1 1.8 MDa baseplate suggests an alternative host adhesion mechanism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(23). 8954–8958. 114 indexed citations

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Turroni, Francesca, Clelia Peano, Daniel A. Pass, et al.. (2012). Diversity of Bifidobacteria within the Infant Gut Microbiota. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e36957–e36957. 502 indexed citations breakdown →

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Capozzi, Vittorio, Valeria Menga, Pasquale De Vita, et al.. (2011). Biotechnological Production of Vitamin B2-Enriched Bread and Pasta. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 59(14). 8013–8020. 105 indexed citations

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Ventura, Marco, et al.. (2010). The impact of bacteriophages on probiotic bacteria and gut microbiota diversity. Genes & Nutrition. 6(3). 205–207. 36 indexed citations

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Mahony, Jennifer, Stephen McGrath, Gerald F. Fitzgerald, & Douwe van Sinderen. (2008). Identification and Characterization of Lactococcal-Prophage-Carried Superinfection Exclusion Genes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(20). 6206–6215. 78 indexed citations

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Ventura, Marco, Carlos Canchaya, Andreas Tauch, et al.. (2007). Genomics ofActinobacteria: Tracing the Evolutionary History of an Ancient Phylum. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 71(3). 495–548. 803 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Driscoll, Jonathan, et al.. (2006). Sequence Analysis of the Lactococcal Plasmid pNP40: a Mobile Replicon for Coping with Environmental Hazards. Journal of Bacteriology. 188(18). 6629–6639. 47 indexed citations

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Vegge, Christina S., Finn K. Vogensen, Stephen Mc Grath, et al.. (2005). Identification of the Lower Baseplate Protein as the Antireceptor of the Temperate Lactococcal Bacteriophages TP901-1 and Tuc2009. Journal of Bacteriology. 188(1). 55–63. 62 indexed citations

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Crispie, Fiona, et al.. (2002). Identification of a phosphofructokinase-encoding gene from Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ1205 – a novel link between carbon metabolism and gene regulation?. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 268(4). 500–509. 4 indexed citations

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