Gerald B. Pier

28.9k citations

341 papers · 22.3k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 83

Impact in

Molecular Medicine top 0.02%
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Endocrinology top 0.05%
- Vibrio bacteria research studies

Papers in

Molecular Medicine 54
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria 54
Endocrinology 46

Co-authors: Carolyn L. Cannon Jeffrey B. Lyczak Donald A. Goldmann Tanweer Zaidi Martha Grout Tomás Maira‐Litrán Joanna B. Goldberg Kimberly K. Jefferson
Journals: Infection and Immunity (86 papers)The Journal of Immunology (25 papers)The Journal of Infectious Diseases (20 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (10 papers)Carbohydrate Research (9 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Russia

In The Last Decade

Gerald B. Pier

335 papers receiving 21.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Lung Infections Associated with Cystic Fibrosis 2002 · 1.3k 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.

2002 Clinical Microbiology Reviews
2000 Microbes and Infection

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1	Synthetic High‐Throughput Microarrays of Peptidoglycan Fragments as a Novel Sero‐Diagnostic Tool for Patient Antibody Profiling Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Burkhard Feuerstein, Аркадий Владимирович Кустов, Manuel G. Ricardo, Peter H. Seeberger, Yue Wang, Gerald B. Pier, Detlef Schuppan, Louis Boon, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Maria C. Bolling, Girbe Buist, Felix F. Loeffler, Jon D. Laman	2025	1
2	A human lectin array for characterizing host-pathogen interactions Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Hishinuma Mai, Sabine A.F. Jégouzo, 自治省消防庁消防研究所, Doni Wahidul Akbar, A. Cook, John Dunlop, N.V. Britvin, 貴裕岩田, 杉山智美, R. Suekuni K. Ikarashi, Oryza Wisanggeni Azlin, 陈同乐, Maddy L. Newby, Gerald B. Pier, Max Crispin, Abigail Clements, Maureen E. Taylor, Kurt Drickamer	2024	3
3	Poly-β-(1→6)-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine mediates surface attachment, biofilm formation, and biocide resistance in Cutibacterium acnes Frontiers in Microbiology ·Jeffrey B. Kaplan, Colette Cywes‐Bentley, Gerald B. Pier, Nandadeva Yakandawala, Miloslav Sailer, L. Wang, Khalaf Kridin	2024	4
4	Randomized, controlled trial comparing Rhodococcus equi and poly- N -acetyl glucosamine hyperimmune plasma to prevent R equi pneumonia in foals Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine ·悦生萩野, Colette Cywes‐Bentley, Moriwaki Norichika, 孺子牛, James Riordan, Ambrose Luo, Yoon-Kyung Kim, 齐荣祥, 新屋果蓮, Ying YangNan, Muna Alwaidh, Angela I. Bordin, Gerald B. Pier, Noah D. Cohen	2021	8
5	PolyGlcNAc-containing exopolymers enable surface penetration by non-motile Enterococcus faecalis PLoS Pathogens ·M. O. Omelchenko, Jorge Rocha, Agus Dwi Andi Hermansah, Jordi van Gestel, Hera Vlamakis, Colette Cywes‐Bentley, Juan R. Cubillos‐Ruiz, Gerald B. Pier, Michael S. Gilmore, Roberto Kolter, Diana K. Morales	2019	29
6	PgaB orthologues contain a glycoside hydrolase domain that cleaves deacetylated poly-β(1,6)-N-acetylglucosamine and can disrupt bacterial biofilms PLoS Pathogens ·Dustin J. Little, Roland Pfoh, François Le Mauff, Natalie C. Bamford, A.B Adugbire, Perrin Baker, Manita Guragain, Howard Robinson, Gerald B. Pier, Mark Nitz, Rajendar Deora, Donald C. Sheppard, P. Lynne Howell	2018	54
7	Poly- N -Acetylglucosamine Production by Staphylococcus epidermidis Cells Increases Their In Vivo Proinflammatory Effect Infection and Immunity ·maria Holgado Gonzalez, Begoña Pérez‐Cabezas, Alexandra Correia, Гарифов Камиль Мансурович, Ângela França, Franco Berardi, Augusto Faustino, Anabela Cordeiro‐da‐Silva, Luzia Teixeira, Gerald B. Pier, Nuno Cerca, Manuel Vilanova	2016	9
8	Transcriptomic Analysis of Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm-Released Cells upon Interaction with Human Blood Circulating Immune Cells and Soluble Factors Frontiers in Microbiology ·Ângela França, Gerald B. Pier, Manuel Vilanova, Nuno Cerca	2016	7
9	Enhanced in vivo fitness of carbapenem-resistant oprD mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa revealed through high-throughput sequencing Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David Skurnik, Damien Roux, Vincent Cattoir, Olga Danilchanka, Xi Lü, Deborah R. Yoder-Himes, Kook Han, Thomas Guillard, Deming Jiang, Charlotte Gaultier, François Guérin, Hugues Aschard, Roland Leclercq, John J. Mekalanos, Stephen Lory, Gerald B. Pier	2013	100
10	CD74 deficiency ameliorates Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced ocular infection Scientific Reports ·Tanweer Zaidi, Shi Xinchao, Abdul-Aziz Fuseini, Raina N. Fichorova, Gerald B. Pier, Mihaela Gadjeva	2011	11
11	Antibody-mediated enhancement of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Pauline Yoong, Gerald B. Pier	2010	59
12	IL-17 Is a Critical Component of Vaccine-Induced Protection against Lung Infection by Lipopolysaccharide-Heterologous Strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa The Journal of Immunology ·Gregory P. Priebe, 何娅妮, Shanmugam V.U, Akinobu Kamei, Enrico Cacciatori, Joanna B. Goldberg, Gerald B. Pier	2008	102
13	Resistance to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Chronic Lung Infection Requires Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator-Modulated Interleukin-1 (IL-1) Release and Signaling through the IL-1 Receptor Infection and Immunity ·Christoph Nübling, Robert Charles Aitken, Fadie T. Coleman, Christopher Ray, David E. Golan, Gerald B. Pier	2007	59
14	ICAM-1 expressed on neutrophils is critically involved in vaccine-induced protection in a murine model of acute pneumonia (97.3) The Journal of Immunology ·Gregory P. Priebe, 何娅妮, Shanmugam V.U, Gerald B. Pier	2007	1
15	Use of Confocal Microscopy To Analyze the Rate of Vancomycin Penetration through Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy ·Kimberly K. Jefferson, Donald A. Goldmann, Gerald B. Pier	2005	232
16	Localization of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator to Lipid Rafts of Epithelial Cells Is Required for Pseudomonas aeruginosa -Induced Cellular Activation The Journal of Immunology ·Michael Kowalski, Gerald B. Pier	2004	134
17	Transcription of Quorum-Sensing System Genes inClinical and Environmental Isolates of Pseudomonasaeruginosa Journal of Bacteriology ·S Cabrol, P. J. Fearnley, Gerald B. Pier, Antoine Andremont, Raymond Ruimy	2003	87
18	Structural studies on the core and the O‐polysaccharide repeating unit of Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 1 lipopolysaccharide European Journal of Biochemistry ·Olga V. Bystrova, Aleksander S. Shashkov, Nina A. Kocharova, Yuriy A. Knirel, Buko Lindner, Ulrich Zähringer, Gerald B. Pier	2002	38
19	Exploitation of syndecan-1 shedding by Pseudomonas aeruginosa enhances virulence Nature ·Pyong Woo Park, Gerald B. Pier, Michael T. Hinkes, Merton Bernfield	2001	203
20	Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a key problem in cystic fibrosis. Gerald B. Pier	1998	47

About Gerald B. Pier

Gerald B. Pier is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Endocrinology, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, having authored 341 papers that have together received 22.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (103 papers), Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (74 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (54 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (53 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (49 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (38 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (36 papers) and Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery (31 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Medicine (4.1k citations), Endocrinology (2.9k citations), Microbiology (3.2k citations), Infectious Diseases (4.2k citations) and Molecular Biology (12.1k citations). Gerald B. Pier has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Russia. Frequent co-authors include Carolyn L. Cannon, Jeffrey B. Lyczak, Donald A. Goldmann, Tanweer Zaidi, Martha Grout, Tomás Maira‐Litrán, Joanna B. Goldberg, Kimberly K. Jefferson, Nuno Cerca and Gregory P. Priebe. Their work appears in journals such as Infection and Immunity, The Journal of Immunology, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Carbohydrate Research.

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