Jacob L. Steenwyk

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
71 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Jacob L. Steenwyk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob L. Steenwyk has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Plant Science and 17 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Jacob L. Steenwyk's work include Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (17 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (17 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers). Jacob L. Steenwyk is often cited by papers focused on Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (17 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (17 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers). Jacob L. Steenwyk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and China. Jacob L. Steenwyk's co-authors include Antonis Rokas, Xing‐Xing Shen, Yuanning Li, Thomas J. Buida, Gustavo H. Goldman, Matthew E. Mead, Abigail L. LaBella, Chris Todd Hittinger, Nicholas H. Oberlies and Huzefa A. Raja and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jacob L. Steenwyk

67 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

ClipKIT: A multiple sequence alignment trimming software for accurate phylogenomic inference

2020 327 citations Jacob L. Steenwyk, Thomas J. Buida et al. PLoS Biology profile →
A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi

2021 180 citations Yuanning Li, Jacob L. Steenwyk et al. Current Biology profile →
Incongruence in the phylogenomics era

2023 110 citations Jacob L. Steenwyk, Yuanning Li et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jacob L. Steenwyk United States	25	1.1k	823	474	371	353	71	2.2k
Marina Marcet‐Houben Spain	28	1.6k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	528 1.1×	287 0.8×	237 0.7×	58	2.8k
John G. Gibbons United States	21	854 0.8×	592 0.7×	246 0.5×	235 0.6×	181 0.5×	47	1.7k
Barbara Robbertse United States	15	1.2k 1.0×	914 1.1×	577 1.2×	127 0.3×	169 0.5×	24	2.2k
Alfons J. M. Debets Netherlands	34	1.7k 1.5×	1.8k 2.2×	1.1k 2.3×	535 1.4×	394 1.1×	118	3.8k
Mathieu Paoletti France	23	925 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	600 1.3×	154 0.4×	304 0.9×	27	2.0k
Meritxell Riquelme Mexico	30	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	992 2.1×	163 0.4×	442 1.3×	68	2.7k
Alena Kubátová Czechia	26	301 0.3×	890 1.1×	762 1.6×	247 0.7×	221 0.6×	83	1.9k
Isheng Jason Tsai Taiwan	26	1.2k 1.0×	731 0.9×	144 0.3×	136 0.4×	101 0.3×	67	2.2k
Marc J. Orbach United States	30	1.8k 1.6×	2.1k 2.5×	1.2k 2.6×	397 1.1×	296 0.8×	66	3.5k
Georgiana May United States	35	2.2k 1.9×	3.4k 4.1×	989 2.1×	212 0.6×	328 0.9×	75	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Steenwyk, Jacob L., et al.. (2025). Solu: a cloud platform for real-time genomic pathogen surveillance. BMC Bioinformatics. 26(1). 12–12. 8 indexed citations

Biango‐Daniels, Megan N., et al.. (2024). Genomic, transcriptomic, and ecological diversity of Penicillium species in cheese rind microbiomes. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 171. 103862–103862. 3 indexed citations

Gonçalves, Carla, Marie‐Claire Harrison, Jacob L. Steenwyk, et al.. (2024). Diverse signatures of convergent evolution in cactus-associated yeasts. PLoS Biology. 22(9). e3002832–e3002832. 6 indexed citations

Steenwyk, Jacob L., et al.. (2024). The promise and pitfalls of synteny in phylogenomics. PLoS Biology. 22(5). e3002632–e3002632. 16 indexed citations

Kang, Seogchan, et al.. (2024). Characterization of genome-wide phylogenetic conflict uncovers evolutionary modes of carnivorous fungi. mBio. 15(10). e0213324–e0213324.

Mead, Matthew E., Patrícia Alves de Castro, Jacob L. Steenwyk, et al.. (2023). COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis Isolates Are Genomically Diverse but Similar to Each Other in Their Responses to Infection-Relevant Stresses. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(2). e0512822–e0512822. 3 indexed citations

Horta, Maria Augusta Crivelente, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Matthew E. Mead, et al.. (2022). Examination of Genome-Wide Ortholog Variation in Clinical and Environmental Isolates of the Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. mBio. 13(4). e0151922–e0151922. 8 indexed citations

Steenwyk, Jacob L., Thomas J. Buida, Carla Gonçalves, et al.. (2022). BioKIT: a versatile toolkit for processing and analyzing diverse types of sequence data. Genetics. 221(3). 20 indexed citations

Steenwyk, Jacob L., et al.. (2022). OrthoSNAP: A tree splitting and pruning algorithm for retrieving single-copy orthologs from gene family trees. PLoS Biology. 20(10). e3001827–e3001827. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Yuanning, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Ying Chang, et al.. (2021). A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi. Current Biology. 31(8). 1653–1665.e5. 180 indexed citations breakdown →

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Steenwyk, Jacob L., et al.. (2021). Examination of Gene Loss in the DNA Mismatch Repair Pathway and Its Mutational Consequences in a Fungal Phylum. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(10). 13 indexed citations

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Steenwyk, Jacob L., Matthew E. Mead, Sonja L. Knowles, et al.. (2020). Variation Among Biosynthetic Gene Clusters, Secondary Metabolite Profiles, and Cards of Virulence Across Aspergillus Species. Genetics. 216(2). 481–497. 43 indexed citations

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Santos, Renato, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Olga Rivero-Menéndez, et al.. (2020). Genomic and Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Clinical Isolates of the Human Pathogens Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus lentulus, and Aspergillus fumigatiaffinis. Frontiers in Genetics. 11. 459–459. 38 indexed citations

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Rokas, Antonis, Matthew E. Mead, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Nicholas H. Oberlies, & Gustavo H. Goldman. (2020). Evolving moldy murderers: Aspergillus section Fumigati as a model for studying the repeated evolution of fungal pathogenicity. PLoS Pathogens. 16(2). e1008315–e1008315. 28 indexed citations

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Libkind, Diego, David Peris, Francisco A. Cubillos, et al.. (2020). Into the wild: new yeast genomes from natural environments and new tools for their analysis. FEMS Yeast Research. 20(2). 30 indexed citations

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Steenwyk, Jacob L., Megan N. Biango‐Daniels, Erik K. Kastman, et al.. (2019). Rapid Phenotypic and Metabolomic Domestication of Wild Penicillium Molds on Cheese. mBio. 10(5). 43 indexed citations

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Steenwyk, Jacob L. & Antonis Rokas. (2019). Treehouse: a user-friendly application to obtain subtrees from large phylogenies. BMC Research Notes. 12(1). 541–541. 13 indexed citations

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Mead, Matthew E., Huzefa A. Raja, Jacob L. Steenwyk, et al.. (2019). Draft Genome Sequence of the Griseofulvin-Producing Fungus Xylaria flabelliformis Strain G536. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 8(38). 11 indexed citations

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Segal, E., Bhawna Yadav, Jacob L. Steenwyk, et al.. (2018). Gene Essentiality Analyzed by In Vivo Transposon Mutagenesis and Machine Learning in a Stable Haploid Isolate of Candida albicans. mBio. 9(5). 101 indexed citations

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Steenwyk, Jacob L. & Antonis Rokas. (2017). Extensive Copy Number Variation in Fermentation-Related Genes Among Saccharomyces cerevisiae Wine Strains. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 7(5). 1475–1485. 47 indexed citations

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