Feargal J. Ryan

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
39 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Feargal J. Ryan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Feargal J. Ryan has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Feargal J. Ryan's work include Gut microbiota and health (19 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (6 papers). Feargal J. Ryan is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (19 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (6 papers). Feargal J. Ryan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Ireland and United Kingdom. Feargal J. Ryan's co-authors include Marcus J. Claesson, Fergus Shanahan, Colin Hill, R. Paul Ross, Adam G. Clooney, Thomas Sutton, Lorraine A. Draper, Ian B. Jeffery, Timothy G. Dinan and John F. Cryan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Gut.

In The Last Decade

Feargal J. Ryan

36 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Tumour-associated and non-tumour-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer

2016 588 citations Burkhardt Flemer, Denise B. Lynch et al. Gut profile →
The Human Gut Virome Is Highly Diverse, Stable, and Individual Specific

2019 467 citations Andrey N. Shkoporov, Adam G. Clooney et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
Whole-Virome Analysis Sheds Light on Viral Dark Matter in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

2019 284 citations Adam G. Clooney, Thomas Sutton et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
Long-term perturbation of the peripheral immune system months after SARS-CoV-2 infection

2022 187 citations Feargal J. Ryan, Miriam A. Lynn et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Feargal J. Ryan Australia	21	2.3k	1.0k	903	456	367	39	3.6k
Bryan D. Merrill United States	16	2.2k 0.9×	415 0.4×	493 0.5×	190 0.4×	677 1.8×	24	3.0k
Lindsay J. Hall United Kingdom	29	2.2k 0.9×	218 0.2×	805 0.9×	298 0.7×	352 1.0×	103	3.8k
Nitin Kumar United Kingdom	19	2.1k 0.9×	275 0.3×	970 1.1×	721 1.6×	320 0.9×	38	3.5k
Nicolas Lapaque France	32	2.1k 0.9×	236 0.2×	450 0.5×	577 1.3×	844 2.3×	44	4.2k
Randy Longman United States	29	3.5k 1.5×	331 0.3×	1.4k 1.6×	1.0k 2.2×	646 1.8×	88	7.0k
Mahesh S. Desai Luxembourg	19	2.8k 1.2×	203 0.2×	591 0.7×	289 0.6×	784 2.1×	43	4.4k
Parameth Thiennimitr Thailand	20	2.0k 0.9×	286 0.3×	867 1.0×	199 0.4×	486 1.3×	44	3.5k
Boyu Ren United States	13	1.9k 0.8×	208 0.2×	466 0.5×	290 0.6×	522 1.4×	52	3.2k
Janelle S. Ayres United States	26	1.7k 0.7×	182 0.2×	804 0.9×	648 1.4×	392 1.1×	38	4.3k
Christopher S. Smillie United States	17	2.3k 1.0×	760 0.7×	560 0.6×	224 0.5×	291 0.8×	21	3.7k

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Cakouros, Dimitrios, Feargal J. Ryan, David J. Lynn, et al.. (2025). DNA hydroxy methylases Tet1 and Tet2 regulate bone aging and bone marrow stromal cell metabolism through the IGF-1/mTOR signaling axis. Stem Cells. 43(8).

Manning, Sarah K, Natalie E. Stevens, Feargal J. Ryan, et al.. (2025). Acute urinary tract infection elicits bladder afferent hypersensitivity. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 47. 100944–100944. 1 indexed citations

Ryan, Feargal J., et al.. (2024). The role of the gut microbiota in regulating responses to vaccination: current knowledge and future directions. FEBS Journal. 292(6). 1480–1499. 4 indexed citations

Ryan, Feargal J., et al.. (2024). Spatial MS multiomics on clinical prostate cancer tissues. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 416(7). 1745–1757. 8 indexed citations

Cooper, Robert, Josephine A. Wright, Jia Q. Ng, et al.. (2023). Engineered bacteria detect tumor DNA. Science. 381(6658). 682–686. 39 indexed citations

Stockdale, Stephen R., Andrey N. Shkoporov, Ekaterina V. Khokhlova, et al.. (2023). Interpersonal variability of the human gut virome confounds disease signal detection in IBD. Communications Biology. 6(1). 221–221. 18 indexed citations

Ma, Yuefang, Liam M. Ashander, Binoy Appukuttan, et al.. (2023). Selective Transcription Factor Blockade Reduces Human Retinal Endothelial Cell Expression of Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 and Leukocyte Binding. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(4). 3304–3304. 5 indexed citations

Lynn, Miriam A., et al.. (2022). Protocol to assess the impact of early-life antibiotic exposure on murine longevity. STAR Protocols. 3(1). 101220–101220. 4 indexed citations

Stevens, Natalie E., Feargal J. Ryan, Byron Brook, et al.. (2021). Immunisation with the BCG and DTPw vaccines induces different programs of trained immunity in mice. Vaccine. 40(11). 1594–1605. 8 indexed citations

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Blake, Stephen J., Feargal J. Ryan, José A. Caparrós‐Martín, et al.. (2021). The immunotoxicity, but not anti-tumor efficacy, of anti-CD40 and anti-CD137 immunotherapies is dependent on the gut microbiota. Cell Reports Medicine. 2(12). 100464–100464. 26 indexed citations

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Ryan, Feargal J., Jillian M. Carr, João M. Furtado, et al.. (2021). Zika Virus Infection of Human Iris Pigment Epithelial Cells. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 644153–644153. 12 indexed citations

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Draper, Lorraine A., Feargal J. Ryan, Marion Dalmasso, et al.. (2020). Autochthonous faecal viral transfer (FVT) impacts the murine microbiome after antibiotic perturbation. BMC Biology. 18(1). 173–173. 62 indexed citations

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Moloney, Gerard M., Feargal J. Ryan, Marcel van de Wouw, et al.. (2019). Differential gene expression in the mesocorticolimbic system of innately high- and low-impulsive rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 364. 193–204. 9 indexed citations

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Ryan, Feargal J., Damian P. Drew, Lex E. X. Leong, et al.. (2019). Changes in the Composition of the Gut Microbiota and the Blood Transcriptome in Preterm Infants at Less than 29 Weeks Gestation Diagnosed with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. mSystems. 4(5). 30 indexed citations

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Clooney, Adam G., Thomas Sutton, Andrey N. Shkoporov, et al.. (2019). Whole-Virome Analysis Sheds Light on Viral Dark Matter in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Cell Host & Microbe. 26(6). 764–778.e5. 284 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sutton, Thomas, Adam G. Clooney, Feargal J. Ryan, R. Paul Ross, & Colin Hill. (2019). Choice of assembly software has a critical impact on virome characterisation. Microbiome. 7(1). 12–12. 110 indexed citations

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Stilling, Roman M., Gerard M. Moloney, Feargal J. Ryan, et al.. (2018). Social interaction-induced activation of RNA splicing in the amygdala of microbiome-deficient mice. eLife. 7. 82 indexed citations

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Flemer, Burkhardt, Denise B. Lynch, Ian B. Jeffery, et al.. (2016). Tumour-associated and non-tumour-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer. Gut. 66(4). 633–643. 588 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stilling, Roman M., Feargal J. Ryan, Alan E. Hoban, et al.. (2015). Microbes & neurodevelopment – Absence of microbiota during early life increases activity-related transcriptional pathways in the amygdala. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 50. 209–220. 182 indexed citations

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Allard, Guy, Feargal J. Ryan, Ian B. Jeffery, & Marcus J. Claesson. (2015). SPINGO: a rapid species-classifier for microbial amplicon sequences. BMC Bioinformatics. 16(1). 324–324. 108 indexed citations

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