Fiona Walsh

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Fiona Walsh is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Pollution and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fiona Walsh has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Medicine, 32 papers in Pollution and 23 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Fiona Walsh's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (40 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (31 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (13 papers). Fiona Walsh is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (40 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (31 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (13 papers). Fiona Walsh collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Fiona Walsh's co-authors include Thị Thùy, Marko Virta, Antti Karkman, Henning Sørum, Célia M. Manaia, Helmut Bürgmann, David Drissner, Brion Duffy, José Luis Martínez and Eddie Cytryn and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Journal of Immunology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Fiona Walsh

62 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Tackling antibiotic resis... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2017 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Tackling antibiotic resistance: the environmental framework
    2015 1.7k citations Fiona Walsh et al. profile →
  2. Antibiotic-Resistance Genes in Waste Water
    2017 677 citations Thị Thùy, Fiona Walsh et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Fiona Walsh 2.6k 1.9k 995 636 441 68 4.3k
Carl‐Fredrik Flach 2.6k 1.0× 1.9k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 601 0.9× 626 1.4× 63 5.3k
Heike Schmitt 3.2k 1.2× 1.5k 0.8× 719 0.7× 688 1.1× 431 1.0× 80 4.7k
Marie-Cécile Ploy 2.4k 0.9× 2.3k 1.2× 985 1.0× 621 1.0× 352 0.8× 101 4.7k
Linus Sandegren 1.6k 0.6× 2.1k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 501 0.8× 368 0.8× 58 3.9k
Antti Karkman 2.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 954 1.0× 771 1.2× 314 0.7× 34 3.7k
Liang-Ying He 3.4k 1.3× 1.5k 0.8× 712 0.7× 687 1.1× 198 0.4× 79 4.9k
Chandan Pal 1.7k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 944 0.9× 694 1.1× 230 0.5× 44 3.5k
Robert D. Stedtfeld 3.5k 1.4× 1.8k 1.0× 1.8k 1.8× 1.0k 1.6× 271 0.6× 76 5.6k
Kornelia Smalla 4.5k 1.7× 2.1k 1.1× 1.3k 1.3× 1.5k 2.4× 298 0.7× 79 6.0k
Daqing Mao 4.2k 1.6× 2.0k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 849 1.3× 354 0.8× 82 5.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fiona Walsh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fiona Walsh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fiona Walsh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fiona Walsh based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fiona Walsh. Fiona Walsh is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Motherway, Mary O’Connell, Lisa O’Connor, Declan Bolton, et al.. (2024). Assessment of the safety of “probiotics” in food supplements. 2(4). 2 indexed citations
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Drissner, David, et al.. (2024). Private and well drinking water are reservoirs for antimicrobial resistant bacteria. PubMed. 2(1). 7–7. 14 indexed citations
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Jenkins, Benjamin, Helen Heneghan, Fiona Walsh, et al.. (2024). Iron Is Critical for Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cell Metabolism and Effector Functions. The Journal of Immunology. 212(11). 1706–1713. 4 indexed citations
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Murphy, Richard, et al.. (2024). Yeast mannan rich fraction positively influences microbiome uniformity, productivity associated taxa, and lay performance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 9–9. 3 indexed citations
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Thùy, Thị, et al.. (2023). Differential impact of swine, bovine and poultry manure on the microbiome and resistome of agricultural grassland. The Science of The Total Environment. 886. 163926–163926. 13 indexed citations
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Thùy, Thị, et al.. (2022). Metagenomic and HT-qPCR analysis reveal the microbiome and resistome in pig slurry under storage, composting, and anaerobic digestion. Environmental Pollution. 305. 119271–119271. 18 indexed citations
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Carolan, James C., et al.. (2021). Global protein responses of multidrug resistance plasmid-containing Escherichia coli to ampicillin, cefotaxime, imipenem and ciprofloxacin. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 28. 90–96.
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Delaney, Sarah, et al.. (2021). Investigation into the effect of mannan-rich fraction supplementation on the metagenome of broiler chickens. Microbial Genomics. 7(7). 2 indexed citations
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Walsh, Fiona, et al.. (2021). Tracing Antibiotic Resistance Genes along the Irrigation Water Chain to Chive: Does Tap or Surface Water Make a Difference?. Antibiotics. 10(9). 1100–1100. 5 indexed citations
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Ah, Ueli von, et al.. (2018). Tracing back multidrug-resistant bacteria in fresh herb production: from chive to source through the irrigation water chain. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 94(11). 22 indexed citations
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Thùy, Thị, Javier Tamames, Robert D. Stedtfeld, et al.. (2017). Antibiotic Resistance Gene Detection in the Microbiome Context. Microbial Drug Resistance. 24(5). 542–546. 15 indexed citations
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Bunge, John, Amy D. Willis, & Fiona Walsh. (2013). Estimating the Number of Species in Microbial Diversity Studies. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 1(1). 427–445. 58 indexed citations
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Walsh, Fiona, S. G. B. Amyes, & Brion Duffy. (2013). Challenging the concept of bacteria subsisting on antibiotics. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 41(6). 558–563. 12 indexed citations
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Walsh, Fiona, et al.. (2011). Real-time PCR methods for quantitative monitoring of streptomycin and tetracycline resistance genes in agricultural ecosystems. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 86(2). 150–155. 60 indexed citations
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Roche, Cicely, Teck Wee Boo, Fiona Walsh, & Brendan Crowley. (2008). Detection and molecular characterisation of plasmidic AmpC β-lactamases in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from a tertiary-care hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 14(6). 616–618. 13 indexed citations
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Walsh, Fiona. (2007). Doripenem: A new carbapenem antibiotic a review of comparative antimicrobial and bactericidal activities.. MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). 24 indexed citations
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Casey, Richard E., et al.. (1992). Oceanographic effects of the 1992 Point Loma sewage pipe spill. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States). 1 indexed citations

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