Ilana Brito

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Ilana Brito is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilana Brito has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ilana Brito's work include Gut microbiota and health (35 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (9 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (9 papers). Ilana Brito is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (35 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (9 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (9 papers). Ilana Brito collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Canada. Ilana Brito's co-authors include Eric J. Alm, Qiaojuan Shi, Hao Zhou, Angelika Amon, Dirk Gevers, Katherine Huang, Michael J. Satlin, Paul C. Blainey, Albert C. Vill and Juan Felipe Beltrán and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ilana Brito

66 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Examining horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2024 50 100 150 200
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. Examining horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities
    2021 247 citations Ilana Brito profile →
  2. Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease
    2024 50 citations Ilana Brito et al. profile →

Peers

Ilana Brito
Jens Roat Kultima Germany
Christopher S. Smillie United States
Sean C. Daugherty United States
Matthew L. Workentine Canada
Junyan Liu China
Karl A. Hassan Australia
Wei Shen China
Ajai A. Dandekar United States
Thomas Schmidt Switzerland
Alexandro Rodríguez-Rojas Germany
Jens Roat Kultima Germany
Ilana Brito
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Fields of papers citing papers by Ilana Brito

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilana Brito

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Arias, Sandra L., et al.. (2025). The role of human intestinal mucus in the prevention of microplastic uptake and cell damage. Biomaterials Science. 13(4). 1010–1020. 5 indexed citations
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Arias, Sandra L., Joshua P. Jones, Christopher Crawford, et al.. (2025). Environmental factors drive bacterial degradation of gastrointestinal mucus. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 11(1). 133–133.
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Brito, Ilana, et al.. (2025). Antibiotic effects on the gut microbiome across diverse geographies. Trends in Microbiology. 33(11). 1224–1236. 1 indexed citations
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Cyphert, Erika L., Bowen Wang, Albert C. Vill, et al.. (2024). Microbiome–induced increases and decreases in bone matrix strength can be initiated after skeletal maturity. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 39(11). 1621–1632. 1 indexed citations
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Grodner, Benjamin, Hao Shi, Albert C. Vill, et al.. (2024). Spatial mapping of mobile genetic elements and their bacterial hosts in complex microbiomes. Nature Microbiology. 9(9). 2262–2277. 26 indexed citations
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Brink, Heidi Vanden, Doris Vandeputte, Ilana Brito, et al.. (2024). Changes in the Bile Acid Pool and Timing of Female Puberty: Potential Novel Role of Hypothalamic TGR5. Endocrinology. 165(9). 10 indexed citations
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Han, Lin, et al.. (2024). Chemoproteomic profiling of substrate specificity in gut microbiota-associated bile salt hydrolases. Cell chemical biology. 32(1). 145–156.e9. 9 indexed citations
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Beghini, Francesco, et al.. (2024). Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks. Nature. 637(8044). 167–175. 15 indexed citations
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Shi, Qiaojuan, Nguyen Vinh Trung, Fayaz Umrani, et al.. (2023). Clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes are linked to a limited set of taxa within gut microbiome worldwide. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7366–7366. 27 indexed citations
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Porras, Ana Maria, et al.. (2022). Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Gut Commensals Degrade Components of the Extracellular Matrix. mBio. 13(6). e0220122–e0220122. 23 indexed citations
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Clark, Andrew G., et al.. (2022). Collective effects of human genomic variation on microbiome function. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 3839–3839. 3 indexed citations
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Arias, Sandra L. & Ilana Brito. (2021). Biophysical determinants of biofilm formation in the gut. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. 18. 100275–100275. 20 indexed citations
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Shi, Hao, Qiaojuan Shi, Benjamin Grodner, et al.. (2020). Highly multiplexed spatial mapping of microbial communities. Nature. 588(7839). 676–681. 143 indexed citations
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Parasar, Bibudha, et al.. (2019). Chemoproteomic Profiling of Gut Microbiota-Associated Bile Salt Hydrolase Activity. ACS Central Science. 5(5). 867–873. 70 indexed citations
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Kim, Sungwoong, Hao Zhou, Marysol Luna, et al.. (2019). Immunomodulatory nanogels overcome restricted immunity in a murine model of gut microbiome–mediated metabolic syndrome. Science Advances. 5(3). eaav9788–eaav9788. 33 indexed citations
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Brito, Ilana, Thomas Gurry, Shijie Zhao, et al.. (2019). Transmission of human-associated microbiota along family and social networks. Nature Microbiology. 4(6). 964–971. 135 indexed citations
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Champer, Jackson, et al.. (2017). The role of the vaginal microbiome in gynaecological cancer. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 125(3). 309–315. 125 indexed citations
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Brito, Ilana, Suzan Yilmaz, Katherine Huang, et al.. (2016). Mobile genes in the human microbiome are structured from global to individual scales. Nature. 535(7612). 435–439. 172 indexed citations
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Brito, Ilana, et al.. (2016). Virtual microfluidics for digital quantification and single-cell sequencing. Nature Methods. 13(9). 759–762. 76 indexed citations

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