Eric C. Martens

25.7k citations

106 papers · 15.9k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 56

Impact in

Nutrition and Dietetics top 0.05%
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Food composition and properties
Food Science top 0.05%
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods

Papers in

Food Science 49
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods 47
Nutrition and Dietetics 33
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology 21
- Food composition and properties 13

Co-authors: Nicole M. Koropatkin Jeffrey I. Gordon Nicholas A. Pudlo Elizabeth A. Cameron Mahesh S. Desai Herbert C. Chiang Bernard Henrissat Nobuhiko Kamada
Journals: Cell Host & Microbe (10 papers)mBio (8 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (7 papers)Journal of Bacteriology (5 papers)Cell Reports (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom France

In The Last Decade

Eric C. Martens

103 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

The human gut Firmicute Roseburia intestinalis is a primary degrader of dietary β-mannans 2019 · 225 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nature Communications
2019 Cell Host & Microbe
2018 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2016 Cell
2015 Cell Metabolism
2014 Nature
2012 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2012 Science
2011 PLoS Biology
2011 Cell Host & Microbe
2009 Journal of Biological Chemistry
2008 Cell Host & Microbe

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1	Description of Hoskinsella mucinilytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a mucin-degrading isolate from human faeces, and reclassification of Amedibacillus hominis Abdugheni et al. 2023 as a later heterotypic synonym of Eubacterium hominis Liu et al. 2022 within the genus Hoskinsella gen. nov. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·Kakita Asaka, Yaou Liu, Shaleni Singh, Rebecca M. Pollet, Thomas M. Schmidt, 海林潘, Maria Chuvochina, Sabina Leanti La Rosa, Eric C. Martens	2026	0
2	When simplicity triumphs: niche specialization of gut bacteria exists even for simple fiber structures ISME Communications ·Haidi Xu, Nicholas A. Pudlo, Thaisa M. Cantu-Jungles, Yunus E. Tunçil, Markus Münster, Amandeep Kaur, Bradley L. Reuhs, Eric C. Martens, Bruce R. Hamaker	2024	2
3	Ruminococcus torques is a keystone degrader of intestinal mucin glycoprotein, releasing oligosaccharides used by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron mBio ·Geneva Van Horne, Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira, Ana S. Luís, Luis Fernando Aros Borau, Nicolas Terrapon, A Admadei, Chunsheng Jin, Bernard Henrissat, Gunnar C. Hansson, Eric C. Martens	2024	36
4	The NQR Complex Regulates the Immunomodulatory Function of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron The Journal of Immunology ·Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves, Robert W. P. Glowacki, 张洪业, Clifford V. Harding, Eric C. Martens, Philip P. Ahern	2023	5
5	Multiple TonB homologs are important for carbohydrate utilization by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Journal of Bacteriology ·Rebecca M. Pollet, Matthew H. Foley, Steven Bohwan Seo, Aleksandra Gierlińska, 道廣山田, Manxing Zhang, Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira, Eric C. Martens, Nicole M. Koropatkin	2023	5
6	Experimental evaluation of ecological principles to understand and modulate the outcome of bacterial strain competition in gut microbiomes The ISME Journal ·Rafael R. Segura Muñoz, Mary Konyavko, Inés Martínez, Fuyong Li, Robert Schmaltz, Nicholas A. Pudlo, Karthik Urs, Eric C. Martens, Jens Walter, Amanda E. Ramer‐Tait	2022	41
7	Sulfated glycan recognition by carbohydrate sulfatases of the human gut microbiota Nature Chemical Biology ·Ana S. Luís, Arnaud Baslé, Dominic P. Byrne, Gareth S. A. Wright, K. P. Hymavathy, Chunsheng Jin, Niclas G. Karlsson, Gunnar C. Hansson, Patrick A. Eyers, Mirjam Czjzek, Tristan Barbeyron, Edwin A. Yates, Eric C. Martens, Alan Cartmell	2022	27
8	Phenotypic and Genomic Diversification in Complex Carbohydrate-Degrading Human Gut Bacteria mSystems ·Nicholas A. Pudlo, Karthik Urs, Ryan Crawford, Ali Pirani, Todd Atherly, Guled Abdijalil, Nicolas Terrapon, Bernard Henrissat, Daniel A. Peterson, Cherie J. Ziemer, Evan S. Snitkin, Eric C. Martens	2022	42
9	Human Gut Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Deploys a Highly Efficient Conserved System To Cross-Feed on β-Mannan-Derived Oligosaccharides mBio ·C. Li, Bâ I, Junjia Fan, Yasar Onel, Leszek Michalak, Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira, Åsmund K. Røhr, Eric C. Martens, Lauren S. McKee, Petra Louis, Sylvia H. Duncan, Bjørge Westereng, Phillip B. Pope, Sabina Leanti La Rosa	2021	55
10	Leveraging diet to engineer the gut microbiome Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology ·Mathis Wolter, Erica T. Grant, Marie Boudaud, Alex Steimle, Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira, Eric C. Martens, Mahesh S. Desai	2021	144
11	Deprivation of dietary fiber in specific-pathogen-free mice promotes susceptibility to the intestinal mucosal pathogen Citrobacter rodentium Gut Microbes ·Mareike Neumann, Alex Steimle, Erica T. Grant, Mathis Wolter, Amy Parrish, Matthew W. Meador, Dirk Brenner, Eric C. Martens, Mahesh S. Desai	2021	52
12	Dietary Xanthan Gum Alters Antibiotic Efficacy against the Murine Gut Microbiota and Attenuates Clostridioides difficile Colonization mSphere ·Matthew K. Schnizlein, Kimberly C. Vendrov, Yong‐Feng Ou, Eric C. Martens, Vincent B. Young	2020	27
13	Interleukin-22-mediated host glycosylation prevents Clostridioides difficile infection by modulating the metabolic activity of the gut microbiota Nature Medicine ·Hiroko Nagao‐Kitamoto, Jhansi L. Leslie, Sho Kitamoto, Chunsheng Jin, Kristina A. Thomsson, Merritt Gillilland, Peter Kuffa, Yoshiyuki Goto, Robert R. Jenq, Chiharu Ishii, Akiyoshi Hirayama, Anna M. Seekatz, Eric C. Martens, Kathryn A. Eaton, John Y. Kao, Shinji Fukuda, Peter Higgins, Niclas G. Karlsson, Vincent B. Young, Nobuhiko Kamada	2020	164
14	Synergy between Cell Surface Glycosidases and Glycan-Binding Proteins Dictates the Utilization of Specific Beta(1,3)-Glucans by Human Gut Bacteroides mBio ·Guillaume Déjean, Kazune Tamura, XiaoChun LI, Namrata Jain, Nicholas A. Pudlo, Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira, Alexander Holm Viborg, Filip Van Petegem, Eric C. Martens, Harry Brumer	2020	65
15	Effect of fructans, prebiotics and fibres on the human gut microbiome assessed by 16S rRNA-based approaches: a review Beneficial Microbes ·Kelly S. Swanson, Willem M. de Vos, Eric C. Martens, Jack A. Gilbert, Ravi S. Menon, Pilar Henar Mariscal, Tatiana Garcés Vidales, P Meyer, Klaudyna Borewicz, Elaine E. Vaughan, Joanne Slavin	2020	58
16	Neonatal acquisition of Clostridia species protects against colonization by bacterial pathogens Science ·Yun‐Gi Kim, H. Evard, Sang‐Uk Seo, Joseph M. Pickard, Merritt Gillilland, Nicholas A. Pudlo, Matthew J. Hoostal, Xue Li, Thomas D. Wang, Taylor Feehley, Andrew Stefka, Thomas M. Schmidt, Eric C. Martens, Shinji Fukuda, Naohiro Inohara, Cathryn R. Nagler, Gabriel Núñez	2017	191
17	Colitogenic Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Antigens Access Host Immune Cells in a Sulfatase-Dependent Manner via Outer Membrane Vesicles Cell Host & Microbe ·Christina Hickey, Kristine A. Kuhn, David L. Donermeyer, Nathan T. Porter, Chunsheng Jin, Elizabeth A. Cameron, Haerin Jung, Gerard E. Kaiko, Marta Wegorzewska, Nicole P. Malvin, Robert W. P. Glowacki, Gunnar C. Hansson, Paul M. Allen, Eric C. Martens, Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck	2015	179
18	Regulated Virulence Controls the Ability of a Pathogen to Compete with the Gut Microbiota Science ·Nobuhiko Kamada, Yun‐Gi Kim, Ho Pan Sham, Bruce A. Vallance, José L. Puente, Eric C. Martens, Gabriel Núñez Hit paper breakdown →	2012	499
19	How glycan metabolism shapes the human gut microbiota Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Nicole M. Koropatkin, Elizabeth A. Cameron, Eric C. Martens Hit paper breakdown →	2012	1085
20	Functional foods for health promotion: microbes and health Extended abstracts from the 11th Annual Conference on Functional Foods for Health Promotion, April 2008 Nutrition Reviews ·W. Allan Walker, Eric C. Martens, Philip M. Sherman, Johanna W. Lampe, Meredith A.J. Hullar, Christine D. Wu	2008	3

About Eric C. Martens

Eric C. Martens is a scholar working on Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Gastroenterology, having authored 106 papers that have together received 15.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (75 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (47 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (23 papers), Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (21 papers), Food composition and properties (13 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (7 papers) and Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nutrition and Dietetics (3.7k citations), Food Science (4.1k citations), Molecular Biology (11.2k citations), Gastroenterology (891 citations) and Biological Psychiatry (353 citations). Eric C. Martens has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include Nicole M. Koropatkin, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Nicholas A. Pudlo, Elizabeth A. Cameron, Mahesh S. Desai, Herbert C. Chiang, Bernard Henrissat, Nobuhiko Kamada, Thomas J. Smith and Nathan T. Porter. Their work appears in journals such as Cell Host & Microbe, mBio, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Bacteriology and Cell Reports.

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