Efrem S. Lim

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Efrem S. Lim is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Efrem S. Lim has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Infectious Diseases, 18 papers in Epidemiology and 16 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Efrem S. Lim's work include Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (9 papers), SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (9 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (9 papers). Efrem S. Lim is often cited by papers focused on Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (9 papers), SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (9 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (9 papers). Efrem S. Lim collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and Singapore. Efrem S. Lim's co-authors include Lori R. Holtz, David Wang, Michael Emerman, Guoyan Zhao, Harmit S. Malik, Lindsay Droit, I. Malick Ndao, Phillip I. Tarr, Barbara Warner and Cynthia Rodríguez and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Efrem S. Lim

45 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Early life dynamics of the human gut virome and bacterial microbiome in infants

2015 460 citations Efrem S. Lim, Guoyan Zhao et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Efrem S. Lim United States	19	731	626	455	435	329	48	2.0k
Kristine M. Wylie United States	30	1.2k 1.6×	582 0.9×	863 1.9×	333 0.8×	162 0.5×	69	2.9k
Mauro Bendinelli Italy	34	467 0.6×	1.2k 2.0×	1.5k 3.4×	96 0.2×	199 0.6×	137	3.6k
Roberta L. DeBiasi United States	28	510 0.7×	1.8k 2.9×	1.3k 2.9×	60 0.1×	215 0.7×	87	3.5k
David Wang United States	23	456 0.6×	1.3k 2.1×	343 0.8×	501 1.2×	83 0.3×	38	2.1k
Lindsay Droit United States	19	1.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.7×	538 1.2×	877 2.0×	128 0.4×	31	2.5k
Claude Kwe Yinda United States	23	266 0.4×	1.4k 2.3×	302 0.7×	290 0.7×	61 0.2×	61	2.1k
Jean‐Louis Mège France	35	620 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	681 1.5×	156 0.4×	89 0.3×	66	3.6k
Jonathan L. Jacobs United States	24	688 0.9×	656 1.0×	610 1.3×	93 0.2×	80 0.2×	47	1.9k
Annelie Bjerkner Sweden	9	251 0.3×	1.4k 2.2×	1.5k 3.3×	152 0.3×	461 1.4×	11	2.5k
Komal Jain United States	24	259 0.4×	1.1k 1.8×	443 1.0×	165 0.4×	40 0.1×	49	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Efrem S. Lim

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Wu, Kaiyue, et al.. (2025). Programmable fluorescent aptamer-based RNA switches for rapid identification of point mutations. Nature Chemistry. 17(12). 1826–1838.

Mitchell, Caroline M., Jaime Soria, Alberto La Rosa, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal cervicovaginal bacteriome and virome alterations associate with discordant shedding and ART duration in women living with HIV in Peru. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7904–7904. 1 indexed citations

Begnel, Emily R., Efrem S. Lim, Soren Gantt, et al.. (2025). The Linda Kizazi study: a comparison of morbidity and mortality from birth to 2 years between children who are HIV-unexposed and HIV-exposed, uninfected in the era of universal antiretroviral therapy. BMJ Global Health. 10(1). e015841–e015841.

Driver, Erin M., et al.. (2024). Seasonality of respiratory, enteric, and urinary viruses revealed by wastewater genomic surveillance. mSphere. 9(5). e0010524–e0010524. 13 indexed citations

Begnel, Emily R., Bhavna Chohan, LaRinda A. Holland, et al.. (2023). HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infection in postpartum Kenyan women and their infants. PLoS ONE. 18(1). e0278675–e0278675. 2 indexed citations

Yaglom, Hayley D., Matthew Maurer, Jolene R. Bowers, et al.. (2022). One health genomic surveillance and response to a university-based outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta AY.25 lineage, Arizona, 2021. PLoS ONE. 17(10). e0272830–e0272830. 4 indexed citations

Yeh, Steve T., Sriram Ambadapadi, Jacquelyn Kilbourne, et al.. (2022). Virus-Derived Chemokine Modulating Protein Pre-Treatment Blocks Chemokine–Glycosaminoglycan Interactions and Significantly Reduces Transplant Immune Damage. Pathogens. 11(5). 588–588. 1 indexed citations

Begnel, Emily R., Hannah L. Itell, LaRinda A. Holland, et al.. (2022). Comparison of nucleocapsid and spike antibody ELISAs for determining SARS‐CoV‐2 seropositivity in Kenyan women and infants. Journal of Medical Virology. 95(1). e28221–e28221. 2 indexed citations

Rodríguez, Cynthia, Carla Hall-Moore, Julie Hoffmann, et al.. (2022). Longitudinal gut virome analysis identifies specific viral signatures that precede necrotizing enterocolitis onset in preterm infants. Nature Microbiology. 7(5). 653–662. 47 indexed citations

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Yaron, Jordan R., Sriram Ambadapadi, Scott A. Tibbetts, et al.. (2020). Immune protection is dependent on the gut microbiome in a lethal mouse gammaherpesviral infection. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 2371–2371. 18 indexed citations

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Koh, Jasmine Shimin, Mohamad Rosman, Kriti Prasad, et al.. (2020). Psychological impact of isolation due to COVID-19 among young and fit dormitory residents. Psychological Medicine. 53(1). 288–289. 2 indexed citations

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Lim, Efrem S., Cynthia Rodríguez, & Lori R. Holtz. (2018). Amniotic fluid from healthy term pregnancies does not harbor a detectable microbial community. Microbiome. 6(1). 21–21. 106 indexed citations

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Zhao, Guoyan, Guang Wu, Efrem S. Lim, et al.. (2017). VirusSeeker, a computational pipeline for virus discovery and virome composition analysis. Virology. 503. 21–30. 103 indexed citations

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Janowski, Andrew B., Siddharth R. Krishnamurthy, Efrem S. Lim, et al.. (2017). Statoviruses, A novel taxon of RNA viruses present in the gastrointestinal tracts of diverse mammals. Virology. 504. 36–44. 14 indexed citations

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Reddy, Kirthi C., Tal Dror, Jessica N. Sowa, et al.. (2017). An Intracellular Pathogen Response Pathway Promotes Proteostasis in C. elegans. Current Biology. 27(22). 3544–3553.e5. 70 indexed citations

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Lim, Efrem S., Song Cao, Lori R. Holtz, et al.. (2014). Discovery of rosavirus 2, a novel variant of a rodent-associated picornavirus, in children from The Gambia. Virology. 454-455. 25–33. 17 indexed citations

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Lim, Efrem S., Oliver I. Fregoso, Connor O. McCoy, et al.. (2012). The Ability of Primate Lentiviruses to Degrade the Monocyte Restriction Factor SAMHD1 Preceded the Birth of the Viral Accessory Protein Vpx. Cell Host & Microbe. 11(2). 194–204. 213 indexed citations

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Lim, Efrem S., Lily I. Wu, Harmit S. Malik, & Michael Emerman. (2012). The function and evolution of the restriction factor viperin in primates was not driven by lentiviruses. Retrovirology. 9(1). 55–55. 26 indexed citations

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Lim, Efrem S., Alejandro Reyes, Martín Antonio, et al.. (2012). Discovery of STL polyomavirus, a polyomavirus of ancestral recombinant origin that encodes a unique T antigen by alternative splicing. Virology. 436(2). 295–303. 141 indexed citations

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Spindler, Katherine R., et al.. (2010). The Major Locus for Mouse Adenovirus Susceptibility Maps to Genes of the Hematopoietic Cell Surface-Expressed LY6 Family. The Journal of Immunology. 184(6). 3055–3062. 22 indexed citations

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