Karoline Faust

22.7k citations

65 papers · 8.3k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 31

Impact in

Ecology top 0.2%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Soil Science top 1%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Papers in ⓘ

Ecology 25
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 23
Molecular Biology 51
- Gut microbiota and health 33
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks 20
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction 14
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 7
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies 5

Co-authors: Jeroen Raes (22 shared papers)Lisa Röttjers (8 shared papers)Curtis Huttenhower (2 shared papers)J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti (2 shared papers)Nicola Segata (2 shared papers)Jacques Izard (1 shared paper)Dirk Gevers (1 shared paper)Didier Gonze (11 shared papers)
Journals: The ISME Journal (6 papers)FEMS Microbiology Reviews (4 papers)Microbiome (4 papers)Nature Reviews Microbiology (3 papers)Nature Communications (2 papers)
Partner nations: Belgium United States China

In The Last Decade

Karoline Faust

63 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Open challenges for microbial network construction and analysis 2021 · 193 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2021 The ISME Journal
2020 Microbiome
2018 FEMS Microbiology Reviews
2016 The ISME Journal
2012 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2012 PLoS Computational Biology

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1	Microbial interactions: from networks to models Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Karoline Faust, Jeroen Raes Hit paper breakdown →	2012	2790
2	Microbial Co-occurrence Relationships in the Human Microbiome PLoS Computational Biology ·Karoline Faust, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Jacques Izard, Nicola Segata, Dirk Gevers, Jeroen Raes, Curtis Huttenhower Hit paper breakdown →	2012	1132
3	Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision The ISME Journal ·Sophie Weiss, Will Van Treuren, Catherine Lozupone, Karoline Faust, Jonathan Friedman, Ye Deng, (unknown), Zhenjiang Zech Xu, Luke K. Ursell, Eric J. Alm, Amanda Birmingham, Jacob A. Cram, Jed A. Fuhrman, Jeroen Raes, Fengzhu Sun, Jizhong Zhou, Rob Knight Hit paper breakdown →	2016	542
4	From hairballs to hypotheses–biological insights from microbial networks FEMS Microbiology Reviews ·Lisa Röttjers, Karoline Faust Hit paper breakdown →	2018	414
5	Earth microbial co-occurrence network reveals interconnection pattern across microbiomes Microbiome ·Bin Ma, Yiling Wang, Shudi Ye, Shan Liu, Erinne Stirling, Jack A. Gilbert, Karoline Faust, Rob Knight, Janet Jansson, César Cardona, Lisa Röttjers, Jianming Xu Hit paper breakdown →	2020	388
6	Computational approaches to predict bacteriophage–host relationships FEMS Microbiology Reviews ·Robert A. Edwards, Katelyn McNair, Karoline Faust, Jeroen Raes, Bas E. Dutilh	2015	309
7	Metagenomics meets time series analysis: unraveling microbial community dynamics Current Opinion in Microbiology ·Karoline Faust, Leo Lahti, Didier Gonze, Willem M. de Vos, Jeroen Raes	2015	280
8	Open challenges for microbial network construction and analysis The ISME Journal ·Karoline Faust Hit paper breakdown →	2021	193
9	Millions of reads, thousands of taxa: microbial community structure and associations analyzed via marker genes FEMS Microbiology Reviews ·Miklós Bálint, Mohammad Bahram, A. Murat Eren, Karoline Faust, Jed A. Fuhrman, Björn D. Lindahl, Robert B. O’Hara, Maarja Öpik, Mitchell L. Sogin, Martin Unterseher, Leho Tedersoo	2016	143
10	Cross-biome comparison of microbial association networks Frontiers in Microbiology ·Karoline Faust, Gipsi Lima‐Mendez, Jean‐Sébastien Lerat, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Rob Knight, Curtis Huttenhower, Tom Lenaerts, Jeroen Raes	2015	139
11	Soil microbiome responses to the short‐term effects of Amazonian deforestation Molecular Ecology ·Acácio Aparecido Navarrete, Siu Mui Tsai, Lucas William Mendes, Karoline Faust, Mattias de Hollander, Noriko A. Cassman, Jeroen Raes, Johannes A. van Veen, Eiko E. Kuramae	2015	134
12	Temporal variability in quantitative human gut microbiome profiles and implications for clinical research Nature Communications ·Doris Vandeputte, Lindsey De Commer, Raúl Y. Tito, Gunter Kathagen, João Sabino, Séverine Vermeire, Karoline Faust, Jeroen Raes	2021	127
13	Microbial communities as dynamical systems Current Opinion in Microbiology ·Didier Gonze, Katharine Z. Coyte, Leo Lahti, Karoline Faust	2018	114
14	Synthetic ecology of the human gut microbiota Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Gino Vrancken, Ann Gregory, Geert Huys, Karoline Faust, Jeroen Raes	2019	114
15	Identifying genomic and metabolic features that can underlie early successional and opportunistic lifestyles of human gut symbionts Genome Research ·Catherine Lozupone, Karoline Faust, Jeroen Raes, Jeremiah J. Faith, Daniel N. Frank, Jesse Zaneveld, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Rob Knight	2012	108
16	Multi-stability and the origin of microbial community types The ISME Journal ·Didier Gonze, Leo Lahti, Jeroen Raes, Karoline Faust	2017	79
17	Genetic correlation network prediction of forest soil microbial functional organization The ISME Journal ·Bin Ma, Kankan Zhao, Xiaofei Lv, Weiqin Su, Zhong‐Min Dai, Jack A. Gilbert, Philip C. Brookes, Karoline Faust, Jianming Xu	2018	73
18	Network Analysis Tools: from biological networks to clusters and pathways Nature Protocols ·Sylvain Brohée, Karoline Faust, Gipsi Lima‐Mendez, Gilles Vanderstocken, Jacques van Helden	2008	70
19	Integrated culturing, modeling and transcriptomics uncovers complex interactions and emergent behavior in a three-species synthetic gut community eLife ·Kevin D’hoe, Stefan Vet, Karoline Faust, Frédéric Moens, Gwen Falony, Didier Gonze, Verónica Lloréns‐Rico, Lendert Gelens, Jan Danckaert, Luc De Vuyst, Jeroen Raes	2018	70
20	NeAT: a toolbox for the analysis of biological networks, clusters, classes and pathways Nucleic Acids Research ·S. Brohée, Karoline Faust, Gipsi Lima‐Mendez, Olivier Sand, Rekin’s Janky, Gilles Vanderstocken, Yves Deville, Jacques van Helden	2008	70

About Karoline Faust

Karoline Faust is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology, Periodontics, Biological Psychiatry and Parasitology, having authored 65 papers that have together received 8.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (33 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (20 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (5 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (3.6k citations), Soil Science (834 citations), Molecular Biology (4.5k citations), Pollution (689 citations) and Biological Psychiatry (135 citations). Karoline Faust has collaborated with scholars based in Belgium, United States and China. Frequent co-authors include Jeroen Raes, Lisa Röttjers, Curtis Huttenhower, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Nicola Segata, Jacques Izard, Dirk Gevers, Didier Gonze, Leo Lahti and Rob Knight. Their work appears in journals such as The ISME Journal, FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Microbiome, Nature Reviews Microbiology and Nature Communications.

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