Karoline Faust

22.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
65 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Karoline Faust is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Karoline Faust has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Karoline Faust's work include Gut microbiota and health (33 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (20 papers). Karoline Faust is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (33 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (20 papers). Karoline Faust collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and China. Karoline Faust's co-authors include Jeroen Raes, Lisa Röttjers, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Curtis Huttenhower, Nicola Segata, Dirk Gevers, Jacques Izard, Didier Gonze, Leo Lahti and Rob Knight and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Karoline Faust

63 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Microbial interactions: from networks to models

2012 2.8k citations Karoline Faust, Jeroen Raes profile →
Microbial Co-occurrence Relationships in the Human Microbiome

2012 1.1k citations Karoline Faust, Nicola Segata et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision

2016 542 citations Catherine Lozupone, Karoline Faust et al. The ISME Journal profile →
From hairballs to hypotheses–biological insights from microbial networks

2018 414 citations Lisa Röttjers, Karoline Faust FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →
Earth microbial co-occurrence network reveals interconnection pattern across microbiomes

2020 388 citations Karoline Faust, Rob Knight et al. Microbiome profile →
Open challenges for microbial network construction and analysis

2021 193 citations Karoline Faust The ISME Journal profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karoline Faust Belgium	31	4.5k	3.6k	1.5k	834	689	65	8.3k
Ben Nichols United Kingdom	12	3.6k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	395 0.5×	571 0.8×	40	7.8k
Frédéric Mahé France	25	5.0k 1.1×	4.7k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	448 0.5×	656 1.0×	59	10.0k
Yanni Sun China	34	3.3k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	852 1.0×	673 1.0×	151	7.2k
Louise Fraser United Kingdom	6	3.4k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	942 0.6×	526 0.6×	788 1.1×	10	7.5k
Markus Bauer Austria	6	3.2k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	924 0.6×	526 0.6×	776 1.1×	9	6.9k
Folker Meyer United States	45	6.0k 1.3×	4.2k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	393 0.5×	949 1.4×	115	10.6k
Mark Rojas United States	11	4.6k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	870 0.6×	415 0.5×	822 1.2×	15	8.9k
Pengwei Hu China	27	5.8k 1.3×	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	415 0.5×	818 1.2×	120	11.3k
Ashley Shade United States	39	2.9k 0.6×	3.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.4×	857 1.0×	760 1.1×	87	7.6k
Todd Z. DeSantis United States	25	3.0k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.6×	727 0.9×	601 0.9×	29	8.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karoline Faust

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20 of 20 papers shown

Faust, Karoline, et al.. (2025). A high-throughput and time-efficient Nanopore full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing protocol for synthetic microbial communities. Methods. 240. 14–20. 1 indexed citations

Garza, Daniel, et al.. (2025). Emergence of alternative states in a synthetic human gut microbial community. Nature Communications. 17(1). 326–326.

Garza, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Exploiting gut microbial traits and trade-offs in microbiome-based therapeutics. Nature Reviews Bioengineering. 2(5). 364–366. 2 indexed citations

Bernaerts, Kristel, et al.. (2024). Predicting microbial interactions with approaches based on flux balance analysis: an evaluation. BMC Bioinformatics. 25(1). 36–36. 17 indexed citations

Gao, Yu, et al.. (2023). miaSim: an R/Bioconductor package to easily simulate microbial community dynamics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(8). 1967–1980. 6 indexed citations

Garza, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Metabolic models of human gut microbiota: Advances and challenges. Cell Systems. 14(2). 109–121. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Bin, Daniel Garza, Didier Gonze, et al.. (2023). Starvation responses impact interaction dynamics of human gut bacteriaBacteroides thetaiotaomicronandRoseburia intestinalis. The ISME Journal. 17(11). 1940–1952. 12 indexed citations

Sommeria‐Klein, Guilhem, et al.. (2022). Quantifying the impact of ecological memory on the dynamics of interacting communities. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(6). e1009396–e1009396. 20 indexed citations

Huys, Geert, et al.. (2022). Fast quantification of gut bacterial species in cocultures using flow cytometry and supervised classification. ISME Communications. 2(1). 40–40. 14 indexed citations

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Krawczyk, Aleksandra I., Lisa Röttjers, Manoj Fonville, et al.. (2022). Quantitative microbial population study reveals geographical differences in bacterial symbionts of Ixodes ricinus. Microbiome. 10(1). 120–120. 25 indexed citations

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Cao, Xinyi, Dayong Zhao, Chaoran Li, et al.. (2021). Regime transition Shapes the Composition, Assembly Processes, and Co-occurrence Pattern of Bacterioplankton Community in a Large Eutrophic Freshwater Lake. Microbial Ecology. 84(2). 336–350. 6 indexed citations

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Deutschmann, Ina Maria, Gipsi Lima‐Mendez, Anders K. Krabberød, et al.. (2021). Disentangling environmental effects in microbial association networks. Microbiome. 9(1). 232–232. 28 indexed citations

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Vandeputte, Doris, Lindsey De Commer, Raúl Y. Tito, et al.. (2021). Temporal variability in quantitative human gut microbiome profiles and implications for clinical research. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6740–6740. 127 indexed citations

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McBain, Andrew J., Catherine O’Neill, Alejandro Amézquita, et al.. (2019). Consumer Safety Considerations of Skin and Oral Microbiome Perturbation. Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 32(4). 16 indexed citations

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Wang, Honggui, Zhong Wei, Lijuan Mei, et al.. (2016). Combined use of network inference tools identifies ecologically meaningful bacterial associations in a paddy soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 105. 227–235. 64 indexed citations

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Bálint, Miklós, Mohammad Bahram, A. Murat Eren, et al.. (2016). Millions of reads, thousands of taxa: microbial community structure and associations analyzed via marker genes. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 40(5). 686–700. 143 indexed citations

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Faust, Karoline, Leo Lahti, Didier Gonze, Willem M. de Vos, & Jeroen Raes. (2015). Metagenomics meets time series analysis: unraveling microbial community dynamics. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 25. 56–66. 280 indexed citations

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Edwards, Robert A., Katelyn McNair, Karoline Faust, Jeroen Raes, & Bas E. Dutilh. (2015). Computational approaches to predict bacteriophage–host relationships. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 40(2). 258–272. 309 indexed citations

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Lozupone, Catherine, Karoline Faust, Jeroen Raes, et al.. (2012). Identifying genomic and metabolic features that can underlie early successional and opportunistic lifestyles of human gut symbionts. Genome Research. 22(10). 1974–1984. 108 indexed citations

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Faust, Karoline, Didier Croes, & Jacques van Helden. (2009). Metabolic Pathfinding Using RPAIR Annotation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 388(2). 390–414. 47 indexed citations

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