Francesca Bottacini

7.5k citations

88 papers · 5.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 35

Impact in

Food Science top 0.2%
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
Nutrition and Dietetics top 0.5%
- Infant Nutrition and Health
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology

Papers in

Food Science 53
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods 53
Nutrition and Dietetics 26
- Infant Nutrition and Health 15
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology 12

Co-authors: Douwe van Sinderen Marco Ventura Francesca Turroni Mary O’Connell Motherway Jennifer Mahony Sabrina Duranti Christian Milani Gabriele Andrea Lugli
Journals: Scientific Reports (12 papers)Frontiers in Microbiology (12 papers)Applied and Environmental Microbiology (11 papers)BMC Genomics (5 papers)Microbial Biotechnology (4 papers)
Partner nations: Ireland Italy Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Francesca Bottacini

86 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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The First Microbial Colonizers of the Human Gut: Composition, Activities, and Health Implications of the Infant Gut Microbiota 2017 · 1.3k citations

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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.

2017 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
2016 Cell Host & Microbe

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1	Comparative genomic analysis of selected lactic acid bacteria and phenotypic association of the key genes involved in fructan and ribose utilisation Nomeda Šatkauskienė, Colin Buttimer, Francesca Bottacini, Elke K. Arendt, Aidan Coffey	2025	3
2	Gene-trait matching among Bifidobacterium dentium strains reveals various glycan metabolism loci including a strain-specific fucosyllactose utilization cluster Frontiers in Microbiology ·Jianxin Xu, Stephen P. McKenna, Ian O’Neill, Paul D. Cotter, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Aidan Coffey, Douwe van Sinderen, Francesca Bottacini	2025	0
3	Phage defence loci of Streptococcus thermophilus—tip of the anti-phage iceberg? Nucleic Acids Research ·Philip Kelleher, Rozeena Huma, Ramos M. Luisa, Natalia Díaz‐Garrido, Francesca Bottacini, Seyed Ali Moosaniaye Zare, Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Marco Ventura, Alexey Fomenkov, Pascal Quénée, Saulius Kulakauskas, Jéssika Cosme, Noël N. M. E. van Peij, Christian Cambillau, Richard J. Roberts, SYAMSUAR MANYULLEI, Jennifer Mahony	2024	2
4	Unveiling metabolic pathways of selected plant-derived glycans by Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum Frontiers in Microbiology ·Nandisa Das, Francesca Bottacini, Layla Hanna-Bashara, María Esteban-Torres, Kilian, Rebecca Moore, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Natalia Magalí Flores, Douwe van Sinderen	2024	2
5	BiGAMi: Bi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Fitness Function for Feature Selection on Microbiome Datasets Methods and Protocols ·SA Solla, Francesca Bottacini, Haithem Afli, Bruno Gabriel Nascimento Andrade	2022	2
6	Broad Purpose Vector for Site-Directed Insertional Mutagenesis in Bifidobacterium breve Frontiers in Microbiology ·Emily C. Hoedt, Francesca Bottacini, 叶建君, Roger S. Bongers, Kees van Limpt, Kaouther Ben Amor, Jan Knol, John MacSharry, Douwe van Sinderen	2021	10
7	Infant-Associated Bifidobacterial β-Galactosidases and Their Ability to Synthesize Galacto-Oligosaccharides Frontiers in Microbiology ·Кондратьев Дмитрий Валерьевич, Francesca Bottacini, John O’Callaghan, Eoghan Casey, Erny Herlin Setyorini Fasichatus Sakdiyah, Puig Pérez, Sara ;Aliño Costa, Marta ;Duque Moreno, Aranzazu ;Pellín Carceller, Ana, Linqiu Cao, Bas J.H. Kuipers, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Margriet H. C. Schoterman, Douwe van Sinderen	2021	12
8	Bifidobacterium breve Exopolysaccharide Blocks Dendritic Cell Maturation and Activation of CD4+ T Cells Frontiers in Microbiology ·Valdete Noveli Rhoden, Panagiota Stamou, Y. SANNOMIYA, (unknown), María Esteban-Torres, Francesca Bottacini, Jerzy A. Woznicki, Hirotaka Mitsuki, Silvia Melgar, Marco Ventura, Douwe van Sinderen, Valerio Rossini, Kenneth Nally	2021	26
9	Biochemical analysis of cross‐feeding behaviour between two common gut commensals when cultivated on plant‐derived arabinogalactan Microbial Biotechnology ·José Muñoz-Muñoz, Kieran James, Francesca Bottacini, Douwe van Sinderen	2020	30
10	Riboflavin Biosynthesis and Overproduction by a Derivative of the Human Gut Commensal Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis ATCC 15697 Frontiers in Microbiology ·Ana Solopova, Francesca Bottacini, Guillermo Benjaminsen, Alberto Amaretti, Stefano Raimondi, Maddalena Rossi, Douwe van Sinderen	2020	29
11	Author Correction: Metabolism of the predominant human milk oligosaccharide fucosyllactose by an infant gut commensal Scientific Reports ·Kieran James, Francesca Bottacini, José Iván Serrano-Contreras, Randy Thompson, Muireann Egan, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Elaine Holmes, Douwe van Sinderen	2020	2
12	Bifidobacterial biofilm formation is a multifactorial adaptive phenomenon in response to bile exposure Scientific Reports ·Sandra M. Kelly, Yunus Serhat Çayır, Ian O’Neill, Francesca Bottacini, Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Alice Viappiani, Francesca Turroni, Marco Ventura, Douwe van Sinderen	2020	47
13	Metabolism of the predominant human milk oligosaccharide fucosyllactose by an infant gut commensal Scientific Reports ·Kieran James, Francesca Bottacini, José Iván Serrano-Contreras, Randy Thompson, Muireann Egan, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Elaine Holmes, Douwe van Sinderen	2019	60
14	The Lactococcus lactis Pan-Plasmidome Frontiers in Microbiology ·Philip Kelleher, Jennifer Mahony, Francesca Bottacini, Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Marco Ventura, Douwe van Sinderen	2019	29
15	Staying alive: growth and survival of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. animalis under in vitro and in vivo conditions Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Muireann Egan, Francesca Bottacini, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Patrick G. Casey, І. Л. Грабчук, Silvia Melgar, Jean‐Michel Faurie, Christian Chervaux, Tamara Smokvina, Douwe van Sinderen	2018	6
16	The essential genomic landscape of the commensal Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 Scientific Reports ·Lorena Ruíz, Francesca Bottacini, Christine J. Boinett, Amy K. Cain, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Trevor D. Lawley, Douwe van Sinderen	2017	25
17	Comparative genomics and functional analysis of the 936 group of lactococcal Siphoviridae phages Scientific Reports ·James Murphy, Francesca Bottacini, Jennifer Mahony, Philip Kelleher, Horst Neve, Aldert Zomer, Arjen Nauta, Douwe van Sinderen	2016	56
18	Comparative genomics of the Bifidobacterium brevetaxon BMC Genomics ·Francesca Bottacini, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Justin Kuczynski, Esther Kuper, Fausta Serafini, Sabrina Duranti, Christian Milani, Francesca Turroni, Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Aldert Zomer, Daria Zhurina, Christian U. Riedel, Marco Ventura, Douwe van Sinderen	2014	109
19	Lactobacillus rossiae, a Vitamin B12 Producer, Represents a Metabolically Versatile Species within the Genus Lactobacillus PLoS ONE ·Maria De Angelis, Francesca Bottacini, Bruno Fosso, Philip Kelleher, Maria Calasso, Raffaella Di Cagno, Marco Ventura, Ernesto Picardi, Douwe van Sinderen, Marco Gobbetti	2014	83
20	Genetic analysis and morphological identification of pilus-like structures in members of the genus Bifidobacterium Microbial Cell Factories ·Elena Foroni, Fausta Serafini, Davide Amidani, Francesca Turroni, Fei He, Francesca Bottacini, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Alice Viappiani, Ziding Zhang, Claudio Rivetti, Douwe van Sinderen, Marco Ventura	2011	97

About Francesca Bottacini

Francesca Bottacini is a scholar working on Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, Microbiology, Biotechnology and Microbiology, having authored 88 papers that have together received 5.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Probiotics and Fermented Foods (53 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (44 papers), Gut microbiota and health (26 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (24 papers), Infant Nutrition and Health (15 papers), Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (12 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (8 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Food Science (2.2k citations), Nutrition and Dietetics (1.5k citations), Molecular Biology (3.6k citations), Pharmacy (192 citations) and Infectious Diseases (598 citations). Francesca Bottacini has collaborated with scholars based in Ireland, Italy and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Douwe van Sinderen, Marco Ventura, Francesca Turroni, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Jennifer Mahony, Sabrina Duranti, Christian Milani, Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Abelardo Margollés and Leonardo Mancabelli. Their work appears in journals such as Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, BMC Genomics and Microbial Biotechnology.

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