George Bouras

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

George Bouras is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Otorhinolaryngology. According to data from OpenAlex, George Bouras has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Surgery, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 18 papers in Otorhinolaryngology. Recurrent topics in George Bouras's work include Sinusitis and nasal conditions (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers). George Bouras is often cited by papers focused on Sinusitis and nasal conditions (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers). George Bouras collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Japan. George Bouras's co-authors include Evan Diamadopoulos, Evita Agrafioti, Dimitrios Kalderis, Sarah Vreugde, Ara Darzi, Peter‐John Wormald, Alkis J. Psaltis, Ghais Houtak, Roshan Nepal and Elaine M. Burns and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

George Bouras

74 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Biochar production by sewage sludge pyrolysis 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2022 100 200 300 400 500
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. Biochar production by sewage sludge pyrolysis
    2013 500 citations George Bouras et al. profile →
  2. Pharokka: a fast scalable bacteriophage annotation tool
    2022 219 citations George Bouras, Roshan Nepal et al. Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George Bouras Australia 21 419 323 311 293 213 84 2.0k
Laura Rossi Italy 27 147 0.4× 158 0.5× 149 0.5× 407 1.4× 63 0.3× 118 2.4k
Ross E. McKinney United States 33 373 0.9× 58 0.2× 109 0.4× 300 1.0× 86 0.4× 121 3.8k
Carlos Emílio Levy Brazil 26 269 0.6× 74 0.2× 351 1.1× 416 1.4× 112 0.5× 127 2.3k
Tanvir Kaur India 31 371 0.9× 173 0.5× 123 0.4× 564 1.9× 92 0.4× 128 3.4k
Husen Zhang United States 27 415 1.0× 321 1.0× 63 0.2× 2.3k 7.9× 454 2.1× 35 4.7k
Michalis Leotsinidis Greece 24 169 0.4× 69 0.2× 91 0.3× 156 0.5× 91 0.4× 71 1.9k
Johnson Lin South Africa 35 305 0.7× 180 0.6× 184 0.6× 1.2k 4.2× 543 2.5× 179 4.4k
Tao Bai China 27 380 0.9× 17 0.1× 200 0.6× 647 2.2× 119 0.6× 153 2.9k
Rohan B. H. Williams Singapore 30 377 0.9× 440 1.4× 287 0.9× 1.0k 3.6× 144 0.7× 87 3.0k
Yolanda López‐Vidal Mexico 27 663 1.6× 122 0.4× 122 0.4× 408 1.4× 37 0.2× 122 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by George Bouras

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Bouras

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Bouras

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of George Bouras. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of George Bouras 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 George Bouras. George Bouras is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Nepal, Roshan, Ghais Houtak, George Bouras, et al.. (2025). A φSa3int (NM3) Prophage Domestication in Staphylococcus aureus Leads to Increased Virulence Through Human Immune Evasion. MedComm. 6(8). e70313–e70313. 1 indexed citations
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Ramezanpour, Mahnaz, Clare Cooksley, George Bouras, et al.. (2024). Increased antibiotic resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from chronic rhinosinusitis patients grown in anaerobic conditions. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. 9(3). e1244–e1244. 2 indexed citations
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Papudeshi, Bhavya, Michael J. Roach, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, et al.. (2024). Sphae: an automated toolkit for predicting phage therapy candidates from sequencing data. Bioinformatics Advances. 5(1). vbaf004–vbaf004. 4 indexed citations
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Houtak, Ghais, Roshan Nepal, George Bouras, et al.. (2024). Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm-Secreted Factors Cause Mucosal Damage, Mast Cell Infiltration, and Goblet Cell Hyperplasia in a Rat Rhinosinusitis Model. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(6). 3402–3402. 6 indexed citations
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Bouras, George, Louise M. Judd, Robert A. Edwards, et al.. (2024). How low can you go? Short-read polishing of Oxford Nanopore bacterial genome assemblies. Microbial Genomics. 10(6). 23 indexed citations
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Mallawaarachchi, Vijini, Hansheng Xue, Bhavya Papudeshi, et al.. (2024). Solving genomic puzzles: computational methods for metagenomic binning. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(5). 6 indexed citations
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Cooksley, Clare, George Bouras, Mahnaz Ramezanpour, et al.. (2024). S. aureus biofilm properties correlate with immune B cell subset frequencies and severity of chronic rhinosinusitis. Clinical Immunology. 263. 110221–110221. 3 indexed citations
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Bouras, George, Clare Cooksley, Erich Vyskocil, et al.. (2024). Chitogel with deferiprone following endoscopic sinus surgery: improved wound healing and microbiome. Frontiers in Surgery. 11. 1338209–1338209.
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Bouras, George, Kevin Yeo, Kevin Fenix, et al.. (2024). Characterising the allergic fungal rhinosinusitis microenvironment using full‐length 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and fungal ITS sequencing. Allergy. 79(11). 3082–3094. 4 indexed citations
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Bouras, George, Eric Smith, William G. Murphy, et al.. (2024). A comparison between full-length 16S rRNA Oxford nanopore sequencing and Illumina V3-V4 16S rRNA sequencing in head and neck cancer tissues. Archives of Microbiology. 206(6). 248–248. 12 indexed citations
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Houtak, Ghais, George Bouras, Roshan Nepal, et al.. (2023). The intra-host evolutionary landscape and pathoadaptation of persistent Staphylococcus aureus in chronic rhinosinusitis. Microbial Genomics. 9(11). 6 indexed citations
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Mallawaarachchi, Vijini, Michael J. Roach, Przemysław Decewicz, et al.. (2023). Phables: from fragmented assemblies to high-quality bacteriophage genomes. Bioinformatics. 39(10). 26 indexed citations
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Arhi, Chanpreet, Elaine M. Burns, George Bouras, et al.. (2018). Complications after discharge and delays in adjuvant chemotherapy following colonic resection: a cohort study of linked primary and secondary care data. Colorectal Disease. 21(3). 307–314. 15 indexed citations
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Bouras, George, Sheraz R. Markar, Elaine M. Burns, et al.. (2016). The psychological impact of symptoms related to esophagogastric cancer resection presenting in primary care: A national linked database study. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 43(2). 454–460. 27 indexed citations
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Bouras, George, Charalambos Antoniades, Νικόλαος Παπαγεωργίου, et al.. (2011). Methionine-Induced Homocysteinemia Impairs Endothelial Function in Hypertensives: The Role of Asymmetrical Dimethylarginine and Antioxidant Vitamins. American Journal of Hypertension. 24(8). 936–942. 11 indexed citations
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Bouras, George, et al.. (2011). Comparative Analysis of Station-specific Lymph Node Yield in Laparoscopic and Open Distal Gastrectomy for Early Gastric Cancer. Surgical Laparoscopy Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques. 21(6). 424–428. 10 indexed citations
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Παπαγεωργίου, Νικόλαος, Charalambos Antoniades, George Bouras, et al.. (2009). Acute effects of different types of oil consumption on endothelial function, oxidative stress status and vascular inflammation in healthy volunteers. British Journal Of Nutrition. 103(1). 43–49. 20 indexed citations

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