James Butcher

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

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James Butcher is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James Butcher has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 14 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in James Butcher's work include Gut microbiota and health (21 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (13 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers). James Butcher is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (21 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (13 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers). James Butcher collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. James Butcher's co-authors include Alain Stintzi, Alain Stintzi, Daniel Figeys, Xu Zhang, Jennifer Li, David R. Mack, Leyuan Li, David Mack, Annika Flint and Shelley A. Deeke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

James Butcher

53 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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Butyrate’s role in human health and the current progress towards its clinical application to treat gastrointestinal disease

2022 193 citations Kendra Hodgkinson, Peter Dobranowski et al. Clinical Nutrition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Butcher Canada	26	1.4k	546	421	420	340	57	2.6k
Lin Zeng China	40	1.8k 1.3×	387 0.7×	305 0.7×	283 0.7×	397 1.2×	136	4.8k
Jean‐Paul Motta Canada	28	1.2k 0.8×	363 0.7×	284 0.7×	531 1.3×	272 0.8×	46	2.8k
Sinéad C. Corr Ireland	24	2.2k 1.6×	912 1.7×	386 0.9×	454 1.1×	291 0.9×	38	4.3k
Marcus C. de Goffau Netherlands	22	1.6k 1.1×	247 0.5×	301 0.7×	427 1.0×	457 1.3×	42	3.0k
Joseph M. Pickard United States	13	1.6k 1.1×	440 0.8×	250 0.6×	619 1.5×	267 0.8×	15	2.4k
Hilary P. Browne United Kingdom	20	2.1k 1.5×	549 1.0×	235 0.6×	1.0k 2.5×	244 0.7×	26	3.1k
Christina Hickey United States	11	1.7k 1.2×	432 0.8×	351 0.8×	415 1.0×	296 0.9×	17	2.6k
Nitin Kumar United Kingdom	19	2.1k 1.5×	484 0.9×	291 0.7×	970 2.3×	290 0.9×	38	3.5k
Indrani Mukhopadhya United Kingdom	22	1.3k 0.9×	420 0.8×	265 0.6×	825 2.0×	401 1.2×	39	2.3k

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Sané, Alain Théophile, Valérie Marcil, James Butcher, et al.. (2025). Therapeutic Potential of Cranberry Proanthocyanidins in Addressing the Pathophysiology of Metabolic Syndrome: A Scrutiny of Select Mechanisms of Action. Antioxidants. 14(3). 268–268.

Li, Leyuan, Janice Mayne, Zhibin Ning, et al.. (2025). Systematic metaproteomics mapping reveals functional and ecological landscapes of Ex vivo human gut microbiota responses to therapeutic drugs. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9383–9383.

Sané, Alain Théophile, Natalie Patey, Schohraya Spahis, et al.. (2024). Glycomacropeptide as an Efficient Agent to Fight Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Metabolic Syndrome. Nutrients. 16(6). 871–871. 4 indexed citations

Hodgkinson, Kendra, Peter Dobranowski, James Butcher, et al.. (2022). Butyrate’s role in human health and the current progress towards its clinical application to treat gastrointestinal disease. Clinical Nutrition. 42(2). 61–75. 193 indexed citations breakdown →

Yonemitsu, Chloe, James Butcher, Sylvia H. Ley, et al.. (2021). Oligosaccharides and Microbiota in Human Milk Are Interrelated at 3 Months Postpartum in a Cohort of Women with a High Prevalence of Gestational Impaired Glucose Tolerance. Journal of Nutrition. 151(11). 3431–3441. 15 indexed citations

Butcher, James, Sylvia H. Ley, Anthony J. Hanley, et al.. (2020). Examining the relationship between maternal body size, gestational glucose tolerance status, mode of delivery and ethnicity on human milk microbiota at three months post-partum. BMC Microbiology. 20(1). 219–219. 27 indexed citations

Butcher, James, Sylvia H. Ley, Anthony J. Hanley, et al.. (2020). Maternal Diet and Infant Feeding Practices Are Associated with Variation in the Human Milk Microbiota at 3 Months Postpartum in a Cohort of Women with High Rates of Gestational Glucose Intolerance. Journal of Nutrition. 151(2). 320–329. 37 indexed citations

Yan, Austin, James Butcher, David Mack, & Alain Stintzi. (2020). Virome Sequencing of the Human Intestinal Mucosal–Luminal Interface. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 10. 582187–582187. 16 indexed citations

Nothaft, Harald, Martin Ståhl, Xiaoming Bian, et al.. (2020). The gastrointestinal pathogen Campylobacter jejuni metabolizes sugars with potential help from commensal Bacteroides vulgatus. Communications Biology. 3(1). 2–2. 29 indexed citations

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Repentigny, Yves De, et al.. (2019). Characterization of gastrointestinal pathologies in the dystonia musculorum mouse model for hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type VI. Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 32(4). e13773–e13773. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xu, Shelley A. Deeke, Zhibin Ning, et al.. (2018). Metaproteomics reveals associations between microbiome and intestinal extracellular vesicle proteins in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2873–2873. 191 indexed citations

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Butcher, James, et al.. (2018). Variation on a theme: investigating the structural repertoires used by ferric uptake regulators to control gene expression. BioMetals. 31(5). 681–704. 28 indexed citations

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Butcher, James, Sharon Unger, Jennifer Li, et al.. (2018). Independent of Birth Mode or Gestational Age, Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants Fed Their Mothers' Milk Rapidly Develop Personalized Microbiotas Low in Bifidobacterium. Journal of Nutrition. 148(3). 326–335. 22 indexed citations

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Nyangahu, Donald, Katie Lennard, Bryan P. Brown, et al.. (2018). Disruption of maternal gut microbiota during gestation alters offspring microbiota and immunity. Microbiome. 6(1). 124–124. 126 indexed citations

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Mottawea, Walid, Cheng‐Kang Chiang, Marcus Mühlbauer, et al.. (2016). Altered intestinal microbiota–host mitochondria crosstalk in new onset Crohn’s disease. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13419–13419. 328 indexed citations

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Butcher, James, et al.. (2015). Refined analysis of the Campylobacter jejuni iron-dependent/independent Fur- and PerR-transcriptomes. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 498–498. 31 indexed citations

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Naikare, Hemant, James Butcher, Annika Flint, et al.. (2013). Campylobacter jejuni ferric–enterobactin receptor CfrA is TonB3 dependent and mediates iron acquisition from structurally different catechol siderophores. Metallomics. 5(8). 988–988. 27 indexed citations

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Flint, Annika, et al.. (2010). Use of a Rabbit Soft Tissue Chamber Model to Investigate Campylobacter Jejuni–Host Interactions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 1. 126–126. 8 indexed citations

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Palyada, Kiran, Yi‐Qian Sun, Annika Flint, et al.. (2009). Characterization of the oxidative stress stimulon and PerR regulon of Campylobacter jejuni. BMC Genomics. 10(1). 481–481. 118 indexed citations

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Butcher, James & John Pasi. (2006). Fatal postoperative pulmonary embolism in mild haemophilia. Haemophilia. 12(2). 179–182. 16 indexed citations

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