George‐John E. Nychas

27.0k citations

309 papers · 20.4k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 79

Impact in

Food Science top 0.01%
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
Animal Science and Zoology top 0.01%
- Meat and Animal Product Quality

Papers in

Biotechnology 120
- Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety 99
- Microbial Inactivation Methods 44
Animal Science and Zoology 102
- Meat and Animal Product Quality 100

Co-authors: Panagiotis Skandamis Efstathios Ζ. Panagou Chrysoula C. Tassou Nikos Chorianopoulos R.J.W. Lambert Peter J. Coote Konstantinos Koutsoumanis Agapi I. Doulgeraki
Journals: International Journal of Food Microbiology (36 papers)Food Microbiology (31 papers)Journal of Food Protection (22 papers)Foods (16 papers)Applied and Environmental Microbiology (16 papers)
Partner nations: Greece United Kingdom Italy

In The Last Decade

George‐John E. Nychas

308 papers receiving 19.4k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Critical review on biofilm methods 2016 · 736 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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.

2016 Critical Reviews in Microbiology
2014 Food Microbiology
2012 International Journal of Food Microbiology
2012 Food Microbiology
2007 Meat Science
2001 Journal of Applied Microbiology

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1	Deciphering the inhibitory mechanisms of cinnamaldehyde on biofilm formation of Listeria monocytogenes and implement these strategies to control its transfer to beef surfaces Food Research International ·宫哲兵, Pengcheng Dong, Xudong Hu, George‐John E. Nychas, Xin Luo, Lixian Zhu, Yanwei Mao, Geri A. Locker, Nadia Aleem, Yunge Liu, Yimin Zhang	2025	6
2	Utilizing lactic acid bacteria and their metabolites for controlling Listeria monocytogenes in meat products: Applications, limitations, and future perspectives Trends in Food Science & Technology ·宫哲兵, Yunge Liu, George‐John E. Nychas, Xin Luo, Lixian Zhu, Yanwei Mao, Pengcheng Dong, Yimin Zhang	2024	13
3	A Thorough Insight into the Biofilm Properties of Potential Fish Pathogen Tenacibaculum discolor Strain FMCC B487 SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Fredelle Zaiman Spiegel, Laetitia Marchand‐Martin, Agata Zykwinska, Corinne Sinquin, Françoise Leroi, Christine Delbarre‐Ladrat, George‐John E. Nychas	2024	0
4	Two-Month Consumption of Orange Juice Enriched with Vitamin D3 and Probiotics Decreases Body Weight, Insulin Resistance, Blood Lipids, and Arterial Blood Pressure in High-Cardiometabolic-Risk Patients on a Westernized Type Diet: Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial Nutrients ·Emilia Papakonstantinou, Safieh Kananikandeh, Georgios Georgiopoulos, 鈴木義弘, Xiong DeYong, Аделия Александровна Шайдулина, Hengxuan Cai, Xinzhang Wang, Olga S. Papadopoulou, Lyla Furey, Evangelos C. Alexopoulos, 育彦寺田, Kalliopi Keramida, Agapi I. Doulgeraki, Д. В. Карпов, George‐John E. Nychas, Chrysoula C. Tassou	2024	4
5	Monitoring the Bioprotective Potential of Lactiplantibacillus pentosus Culture on Pathogen Survival and the Shelf-Life of Fresh Ready-to-Eat Salads Stored under Modified Atmosphere Packaging Pathogens ·Naoji Tetsuo, Olga S. Papadopoulou, Sven Danz, Adrienne Berard, Vojtěch Hlouch, Chrysoula C. Tassou, Panagiotis Skandamis, George‐John E. Nychas, Nikos Chorianopoulos	2024	2
6	Investigation of the Photoinduced Antimicrobial Properties of N-Doped TiO2 Nanoparticles under Visible-Light Irradiation on Salmonella Typhimurium Biofilm Applied Sciences ·Linian Cheng, Nikos Chorianopoulos, George‐John E. Nychas, Evangelia A. Pavlatou	2023	7
7	Role of Microbial Interactions across Food-Related Bacteria on Biofilm Population and Biofilm Decontamination by a TiO2-Nanoparticle-Based Surfactant Pathogens ·Agapi I. Doulgeraki, Jasmin Sonntag, George‐John E. Nychas, Anthoula A. Argyri, Chrysoula C. Tassou, Naohiro Uezono, Nikos Chorianopoulos	2023	1
8	Study of the transfer of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli during the slaughter of cattle using molecular typing combined with epidemiologic data Meat Science ·Xueqing Jiang, Yimin Zhang, George‐John E. Nychas, Lixian Zhu, Yanwei Mao, Ke Li, Xiaoyin Yang, Xin Luo, Pengcheng Dong	2023	2
9	Microbiological Quality Estimation of Meat Using Deep CNNs on Embedded Hardware Systems Sensors ·Johan Elowsson, L. Trivelli, Jens Michael Carstensen, Nur Mazira Nasirah Najirahmat, George‐John E. Nychas, Iosif Mporas	2023	6
10	Quality and Safety Assessment of Edible Seaweeds Alaria esculenta and Saccharina latissima Cultivated in Scotland Foods ·Anastasia Lytou, Fredelle Zaiman Spiegel, Yunge Liu, M. Khurshid Alam, Michele S. Stanley, Efstathios Ζ. Panagou, George‐John E. Nychas	2021	25
11	Microbiological Quality Assessment of Chicken Thigh Fillets Using Spectroscopic Sensors and Multivariate Data Analysis Foods ·Yuan-Meng Guo, Alam Ibrahim Siddiqi, George‐John E. Nychas, Efstathios Ζ. Panagou	2021	11
12	A machine learning workflow for raw food spectroscopic classification in a future industry Scientific Reports ·Panagiοtis Tsakanikas, Masatoshi Nishii, Efstathios Ζ. Panagou, George‐John E. Nychas	2020	48
13	Intra- and inter-species interactions within biofilms of important foodborne bacterial pathogens Frontiers in Microbiology ·Efstathios Giaouris, Even Heir, Mickaël Desvaux, Michel Hébraud, Trond Møretrø, Solveig Langsrud, Agapi I. Doulgeraki, George‐John E. Nychas, Miroslava Kačániová, Katarzyna Czaczyk, Hülya Ölmez, Manuel Simões	2015	249
14	Quantification of Aspergillus carbonarius in grapes using a real time PCR assay Food Microbiology ·Paschalitsa Tryfinopoulou, Dimosthenis Kizis, George‐John E. Nychas, Efstathios Ζ. Panagou	2015	10
15	An in vitro study of Lactobacillus plantarum strains for the presence of plantaricin genes and their potential control of the table olive microbiota Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ·Agapi I. Doulgeraki, 谭祺媛, George‐John E. Nychas, Efstathios Ζ. Panagou	2012	16
16	Growth of Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella typhimurium in the presence of quorum sensing signalling compounds produced by spoilage and pathogenic bacteria Food Microbiology ·Dimitra Dourou, Mohammed Salim Ammor, Panagiotis Skandamis, George‐John E. Nychas	2011	29
17	Survival of Bacillus cereus Vegetative Cells during Spanish-Style Fermentation of Conservolea Green Olives Journal of Food Protection ·Efstathios Ζ. Panagou, Chrysoula C. Tassou, B A Asanov, Наталія Сороколіт, George‐John E. Nychas	2008	14
18	Disinfectant test against monoculture and mixed-culture biofilms composed of technological, spoilage and pathogenic bacteria: bactericidal effect of essential oil and hydrosol of Satureja thymbra and comparison with standard acid–base sanitizers Journal of Applied Microbiology ·Nikos Chorianopoulos, Efstathios Giaouris, Panagiotis Skandamis, Serkos A. Haroutounian, George‐John E. Nychas	2008	158
19	Inhibition of oregano essential oil and EDTA on Escherichia coli O157:H7 Italian Journal of Food Science ·P.N. Skandamis, K. Koutsoumanis, Alok Goyal, George‐John E. Nychas	2001	97
20	Staphylococcus aureus S‐6: factors affecting its growth, enterotoxin B production and exoprotein formation Journal of Applied Bacteriology ·George‐John E. Nychas, Howard S. Tranter, Rossalyn D. Brehm, R. G. Board	1991	10

About George‐John E. Nychas

George‐John E. Nychas is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Animal Science and Zoology, Food Science, Analytical Chemistry and Endocrinology, having authored 309 papers that have together received 20.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Meat and Animal Product Quality (100 papers), Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (99 papers), Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (63 papers), Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity (58 papers), Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (57 papers), Microbial Inactivation Methods (44 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (39 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (37 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Food Science (10.8k citations), Animal Science and Zoology (5.7k citations), Biotechnology (4.1k citations), Biochemistry (1.5k citations) and Analytical Chemistry (1.9k citations). George‐John E. Nychas has collaborated with scholars based in Greece, United Kingdom and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Panagiotis Skandamis, Efstathios Ζ. Panagou, Chrysoula C. Tassou, Nikos Chorianopoulos, R.J.W. Lambert, Peter J. Coote, Konstantinos Koutsoumanis, Agapi I. Doulgeraki, Danilo Ercolini and Efstathios Giaouris. Their work appears in journals such as International Journal of Food Microbiology, Food Microbiology, Journal of Food Protection, Foods and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

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