Eric A. Franzosa

35.7k citations

64 papers · 10.4k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 36

Biological Psychiatry top 0.5%
Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Gut microbiota and health 36
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks 15
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 15
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies 10
- Gene expression and cancer classification 7
Periodontics top 0.5%
Infectious Diseases top 0.5%
Gastroenterology top 1%
Ecology
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 10
Food Science
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods 9
Physiology
- Diet and metabolism studies 7

Co-authors: Curtis Huttenhower Nicola Segata Lauren J. McIver George Weingart Ali Rahnavard Yu Xia Xochitl C. Morgan Yancong Zhang
Cited by: Biological Psychiatry Molecular Biology Periodontics
Partner nations: United States New Zealand Italy

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Eric A. Franzosa

61 papers receiving 10.3k citations

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2023 Gut microbial metabolism of 5-ASA diminishes its clinical efficacy in inflammatory bowel disease
2021 Multivariable association discovery in population-scale meta-omics studies
2021 Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3
2021 A bacterial bile acid metabolite modulates Treg activity through the nuclear hormone receptor NR4A1
2018 Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes
2017 Strains, functions and dynamics in the expanded Human Microbiome Project
2016 Linking the Human Gut Microbiome to Inflammatory Cytokine Production Capacity
2016 Natural history of the infant gut microbiome and impact of antibiotic treatment on bacterial strain diversity and stability
2015 Sequencing and beyond: integrating molecular 'omics' for microbial community profiling
2014 Relating the metatranscriptome and metagenome of the human gut

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1	MaAsLin 3: refining and extending generalized multivariable linear models for meta-omic association discovery William A. Nickols,Thomas Kuntz,Jiaxian Shen,Sagun Maharjan,Himel Mallick,Eric A. Franzosa,J. E. Tolan,Jacob T. Nearing,Curtis Huttenhower	2026	1
2	Capturing sequence ambiguity among taxa in a primer-specific manner to improve taxonomic classification of amplicon sequencing Jacob T. Nearing,Kelsey N. Thompson,Thomas Kuntz,Artemis S. Louyakis,Amrisha Bhosle,Tobyn Branck,Dayakar V. Badri,Eric A. Franzosa,Christoph Brockel,Curtis Huttenhower,Meghan I. Short	2025	0
3	Profiling lateral gene transfer events in the human microbiome using WAAFLE Tiffany Hsu,Étienne Nzabarushimana,Dennis Wong,Chengwei Luo,Robert G. Beiko,Morgan G. I. Langille,Curtis Huttenhower,Long H. Nguyen,Eric A. Franzosa	2025	6
4	Predicting functions of uncharacterized gene products from microbial communities Yancong Zhang,Amrisha Bhosle,Sena Bae,Kelly Eckenrode,Xueying Huang,Jingjing Tang,Danylo Lavrentovich,Lana Awad,Hua Ji,Ya Wang,Xochitl C. Morgan,Bin Li,Andy Krueger,Wendy S. Garrett,Eric A. Franzosa,Curtis Huttenhower	2025	0
5	Integrated annotation prioritizes metabolites with bioactivity in inflammatory bowel disease Amrisha Bhosle,Sena Bae,Yancong Zhang,Eunyoung Chun,Julián Ávila-Pacheco,Ludwig Geistlinger,Gleb Pishchany,Jonathan N. Glickman,Monia Michaud,Levi Waldron,Clary B. Clish,Ramnik J. Xavier,Hera Vlamakis,Eric A. Franzosa,Wendy S. Garrett,Curtis Huttenhower	2024	3
6	1245 INTERPLAY BETWEEN COFFEE INTAKE AND THE GUT MICROBIOME IN RELATION TO HOST METABOLOME Kai Wang,Wenjie Ma,Hang Dong,Kelsey N. Thompson,Eric A. Franzosa,Francesco Asnicar,Eric B. Rimm,Wendy S. Garrett,Nicola Segata,Qi Sun,Andrew T. Chan,Curtis Huttenhower,Mingyang Song	2023	0
7	Pulsed antibiotic treatments of gnotobiotic mice manifest in complex bacterial community dynamics and resistance effects Philipp C. Münch,Claudia Eberl,Simon Woelfel,Diana Ring,Adrian Fritz,Simone Herp,Iris Lade,Robert Geffers,Eric A. Franzosa,Curtis Huttenhower,Alice C. McHardy,Bärbel Stecher	2023	7
8	Gut microbial metabolism of 5-ASA diminishes its clinical efficacy in inflammatory bowel diseasebreakdown → Raaj S. Mehta,Jared R. Mayers,Yancong Zhang,Amrisha Bhosle,Nathaniel R. Glasser,Long H. Nguyen,Wenjie Ma,Sena Bae,Tobyn Branck,Kijun Song,Luke Sebastian,Julián Ávila-Pacheco,Hyuk‐Soo Seo,Clary B. Clish,Sirano Dhe‐Paganon,Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan,Eric A. Franzosa,Emily P. Balskus,Andrew T. Chan,Curtis Huttenhower	2023	95
9	Statistical approaches for differential expression analysis in metatranscriptomics Yancong Zhang,Kelsey N. Thompson,Curtis Huttenhower,Eric A. Franzosa	2021	32
10	Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3breakdown → Francesco Beghini,Lauren J. McIver,Aitor Blanco‐Míguez,Léonard Dubois,Francesco Asnicar,Sagun Maharjan,Ana Mailyan,Paolo Manghi,Matthias Scholz,Andrew Maltez Thomas,Mireia Valles‐Colomer,George Weingart,Yancong Zhang,Moreno Zolfo,Curtis Huttenhower,Eric A. Franzosa,Nicola Segata	2021	1173
11	Growth effects of N-acylethanolamines on gut bacteria reflect altered bacterial abundances in inflammatory bowel disease Nadine Fornelos,Eric A. Franzosa,Jason Bishai,John W. Annand,Akihiko Oka,Jason Lloyd‐Price,Timothy D. Arthur,Ashley Garner,Julián Ávila-Pacheco,Henry J. Haiser,Andrew C. Tolonen,Jeffrey A. Porter,Clary B. Clish,R. Balfour Sartor,Curtis Huttenhower,Hera Vlamakis,Ramnik J. Xavier	2020	74
12	Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomesbreakdown → Eric A. Franzosa,Lauren J. McIver,Ali Rahnavard,Luke Thompson,Melanie Schirmer,George Weingart,Karen Schwarzberg Lipson,Rob Knight,J. Gregory Caporaso,Nicola Segata,Curtis Huttenhower	2018	1019
13	Alterations in oral bacterial communities are associated with risk factors for oral and oropharyngeal cancer Daniela Börnigen,Boyu Ren,Robert K. L. Pickard,Jingfeng Li,Enver Özer,Erica M. Hartmann,Weihong Xiao,Timothy L. Tickle,Jennifer R. Rider,Dirk Gevers,Eric A. Franzosa,Mary E. Davey,Maura L. Gillison,Curtis Huttenhower	2017	106
14	Strains, functions and dynamics in the expanded Human Microbiome Projectbreakdown → Jason Lloyd‐Price,Anup Mahurkar,Ali Rahnavard,Jonathan Crabtree,Joshua Orvis,A. Brantley Hall,Arthur Brady,Heather H. Creasy,Carrie McCracken,Michelle Giglio,Daniel McDonald,Eric A. Franzosa,Rob Knight,Owen White,Curtis Huttenhower	2017	804
15	Identifying personal microbiomes using metagenomic codes Eric A. Franzosa,Katherine Huang,James Meadow,Dirk Gevers,Katherine P. Lemon,Brendan J. M. Bohannan,Curtis Huttenhower	2015	320
16	Advancing the Microbiome Research Community Curtis Huttenhower,Rob Knight,C. Titus Brown,J. Gregory Caporaso,José C. Clemente,Dirk Gevers,Eric A. Franzosa,Scott T. Kelley,Dan Knights,Ruth E. Ley,Anup Mahurkar,Jacques Ravel,Owen White	2014	52
17	Quantitative Residue-Level Structure–Evolution Relationships in the Yeast Membrane Proteome Eric A. Franzosa,Ran Xue,Yu Xia	2013	9
18	Signatures of Pleiotropy, Economy and Convergent Evolution in a Domain-Resolved Map of Human–Virus Protein–Protein Interaction Networks Sara Garamszegi,Eric A. Franzosa,Yu Xia	2013	47
19	Protein evolution in yeast transcription factor subnetworks Yong Wang,Eric A. Franzosa,Xiang-Sun Zhang,Yu Xia	2010	16
20	Integrated Assessment of Genomic Correlates of Protein Evolutionary Rate Yu Xia,Eric A. Franzosa,Mark Gerstein	2009	48

About Eric A. Franzosa

Eric A. Franzosa is a scholar working on Periodontics, Molecular Biology and Food Science, having authored 64 papers that have together received 10.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (36 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (15 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (9 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (7 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biological Psychiatry (477 citations), Molecular Biology (7.6k citations) and Periodontics (445 citations). Eric A. Franzosa has collaborated with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Curtis Huttenhower, Nicola Segata, Lauren J. McIver, George Weingart, Ali Rahnavard, Yu Xia, Xochitl C. Morgan, Yancong Zhang, Dirk Gevers and Ramnik J. Xavier.

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