Eva M. Top

12.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Eva M. Top is a scholar working on Pollution, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eva M. Top has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Pollution, 53 papers in Molecular Biology and 51 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Eva M. Top's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (49 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (32 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (27 papers). Eva M. Top is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (49 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (32 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (27 papers). Eva M. Top collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Germany. Eva M. Top's co-authors include Willy Verstraete, Nico Boon, Dirk Springael, Thibault Stalder, Celeste J. Brown, Johan Goris, Steven D. Siciliano, Paul de Vos, Larry J. Forney and Andreas Schlüter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Eva M. Top

138 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

Plasmids, a molecular cornerstone of antimicrobial resistance in the One Health era

2023 154 citations Eva M. Top, Thibault Stalder et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Eva M. Top	4.0k	3.1k	3.0k	2.3k	1.2k	139	9.1k
Elizabeth M. H. Wellington	3.3k 0.8×	4.7k 1.5×	2.8k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	2.8k 2.2×	185	12.2k
François Lépine	3.0k 0.7×	5.6k 1.8×	1.2k 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	602 0.5×	132	9.7k
Éric Déziel	2.7k 0.7×	7.6k 2.4×	1.4k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	166	11.9k
Holger Heuer	5.0k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	3.4k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	4.2k 3.4×	141	12.0k
Anne O. Summers	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	652 0.5×	102	8.4k
Jan Roelof van der Meer	4.5k 1.1×	5.6k 1.8×	2.5k 0.8×	466 0.2×	1.2k 1.0×	213	11.4k
Andreas Schlüter	2.0k 0.5×	2.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	170	7.5k
Edward R. B. Moore	2.4k 0.6×	5.2k 1.7×	3.7k 1.2×	459 0.2×	2.7k 2.1×	226	11.3k
Erik Kristiansson	4.1k 1.0×	3.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	2.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.7×	145	10.8k
Loren Hauser	2.2k 0.5×	8.1k 2.6×	6.4k 2.1×	534 0.2×	1.8k 1.4×	77	14.1k

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Rolfsmeier, Michael, Olivia Kosterlitz, Paul A. Rowley, et al.. (2025). Evolution of a Plasmid Regulatory Circuit Ameliorates Plasmid Fitness Cost. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(4).

Coats, Erik R., et al.. (2024). Epidemiological model can forecast COVID-19 outbreaks from wastewater-based surveillance in rural communities. Water Research. 268(Pt A). 122671–122671. 3 indexed citations

Risely, Alice, Thibault Stalder, Benno I. Simmons, et al.. (2024). Host- plasmid network structure in wastewater is linked to antimicrobial resistance genes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 555–555. 20 indexed citations

Kosterlitz, Olivia, et al.. (2023). Evolutionary “Crowdsourcing”: Alignment of Fitness Landscapes Allows for Cross-species Adaptation of a Horizontally Transferred Gene. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(11). 4 indexed citations

Top, Eva M., et al.. (2023). Plasmids, a molecular cornerstone of antimicrobial resistance in the One Health era. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 22(1). 18–32. 154 indexed citations breakdown →

Severin, Geoffrey B., Benjamin J. Ridenhour, Kristin N. Parent, et al.. (2022). Phage defence by deaminase-mediated depletion of deoxynucleotides in bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 7(8). 1210–1220. 59 indexed citations

Stalder, Thibault, Maximilian O. Press, Shawn Sullivan, Ivan Liachko, & Eva M. Top. (2019). Linking the resistome and plasmidome to the microbiome. The ISME Journal. 13(10). 2437–2446. 183 indexed citations

Blau, Khald, Antje Bettermann, Sven Jechalke, et al.. (2018). The Transferable Resistome of Produce. mBio. 9(6). 87 indexed citations

Ridenhour, Benjamin J., Genevieve A. Metzger, Michael France, et al.. (2017). Persistence of antibiotic resistance plasmids in bacterial biofilms. Evolutionary Applications. 10(6). 640–647. 26 indexed citations

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Borgogna, Joanna-Lynn C., et al.. (2015). High Diversity of CTX-M Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases in Municipal Wastewater and Urban Wetlands. Microbial Drug Resistance. 22(4). 312–320. 15 indexed citations

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Stolze, Yvonne, Felix Eikmeyer, Daniel Wibberg, et al.. (2012). IncP-1β plasmids of Comamonas sp. and Delftia sp. strains isolated from a wastewater treatment plant mediate resistance to and decolorization of the triphenylmethane dye crystal violet. Microbiology. 158(8). 2060–2072. 22 indexed citations

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Meervenne, Eva Van, Els Van Coillie, Frederiek‐Maarten Kerckhof, et al.. (2012). Strain-Specific Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance from an Environmental Plasmid to Foodborne Pathogens. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2012. 1–8. 29 indexed citations

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Yano, Hirokazu, et al.. (2012). Cointegrate-resolution of toluene-catabolic transposon Tn4651: Determination of crossover site and the segment required for full resolution activity. Plasmid. 69(1). 24–35. 11 indexed citations

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Top, Eva M., et al.. (2011). On the meaning and estimation of plasmid transfer rates for surface-associated and well-mixed bacterial populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 294. 144–152. 50 indexed citations

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Sota, Masahiro, Hirokazu Yano, Julie M. Hughes, et al.. (2010). Shifts in the host range of a promiscuous plasmid through parallel evolution of its replication initiation protein. The ISME Journal. 4(12). 1568–1580. 79 indexed citations

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Heuer, Holger, et al.. (2005). Genomics of resistance plasmids isolated from wastewater treatment plants. Plasmid. 53(1). 41. 2 indexed citations

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Boever, Patrick De, Willem Dhooge, Eva M. Top, et al.. (2002). Assessment of the Estrogenic Activity of Flue Gases from Burning Processes by Means of the Yeast Based Human Estrogen Receptor (hER) Bioassay. Environmental Technology. 23(3). 287–291. 3 indexed citations

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Dejonghe, Winnie, et al.. (2000). Microbiological and genetic characterization of a linuron degrading consortium.. 65(4). 69–73. 2 indexed citations

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Hill, Katja E. & Eva M. Top. (1998). Gene transfer in soil systems using microcosms. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 25(4). 319–329. 67 indexed citations

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Verstraete, Willy & Eva M. Top. (1993). Holistic environmental biotechnology. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 14 indexed citations

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