Karsten Kristiansen

101.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
391 papers, 25.8k citations indexed

About

Karsten Kristiansen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karsten Kristiansen has authored 391 papers receiving a total of 25.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 261 papers in Molecular Biology, 109 papers in Physiology and 48 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Karsten Kristiansen's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (72 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (71 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (67 papers). Karsten Kristiansen is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (72 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (71 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (67 papers). Karsten Kristiansen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, China and Norway. Karsten Kristiansen's co-authors include Jun Wang, Ruiqiang Li, Yingrui Li, Lise Madsen, Siu‐Ming Yiu, Tak‐Wah Lam, Chang Yu, Rasmus K. Petersen, Huanming Yang and Xiaodong Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Karsten Kristiansen

381 papers receiving 25.2k citations

Hit Papers

SOAP2: an improved ultrafast tool for short read alignment 2008 2026 2014 2020 2009 2008 2009 2009 2010 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. SOAP2: an improved ultrafast tool for short read alignment
    2009 2.8k citations Karsten Kristiansen, Jun Wang et al. profile →
  2. SOAP: short oligonucleotide alignment program
    2008 2.6k citations Karsten Kristiansen, Jun Wang et al. profile →
  3. De novo assembly of human genomes with massively parallel short read sequencing
    2009 2.1k citations Karsten Kristiansen, Huanming Yang et al. Genome Research profile →
  4. SNP detection for massively parallel whole-genome resequencing
    2009 676 citations Huanming Yang, Karsten Kristiansen et al. Genome Research profile →
  5. The emergence of cold-induced brown adipocytes in mouse white fat depots is determined predominantly by white to brown adipocyte transdifferentiation
    2010 624 citations Lise Madsen, Karsten Kristiansen et al. profile →
  6. Multi-cohort analysis of colorectal cancer metagenome identified altered bacteria across populations and universal bacterial markers
    2018 360 citations Karsten Kristiansen et al. Microbiome profile →
  7. Aberrant intestinal microbiota in individuals with prediabetes
    2018 339 citations Benjamin A. H. Jensen, Karsten Kristiansen et al. profile →
  8. Developmental trajectory of the healthy human gut microbiota during the first 5 years of life
    2021 275 citations Pia Kiilerich, Karsten Kristiansen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karsten Kristiansen Denmark 71 15.5k 5.3k 3.2k 2.8k 2.6k 391 25.8k
Jianguo Xia Canada 52 17.4k 1.1× 3.5k 0.7× 3.2k 1.0× 2.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.6× 145 29.8k
Michael A. Fischbach United States 82 23.8k 1.5× 5.0k 0.9× 2.3k 0.7× 2.4k 0.8× 2.8k 1.1× 188 36.6k
Stephen A. Bustin United Kingdom 47 18.3k 1.2× 2.0k 0.4× 2.9k 0.9× 2.2k 0.8× 3.4k 1.3× 153 32.1k
Claire M. Fraser United States 73 16.7k 1.1× 2.9k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 2.7k 0.9× 3.6k 1.4× 260 27.9k
Oliver Fiehn United States 102 30.6k 2.0× 3.8k 0.7× 7.1k 2.2× 2.1k 0.7× 2.5k 0.9× 504 45.0k
Yulong Yin China 93 16.2k 1.0× 7.3k 1.4× 3.7k 1.2× 2.1k 0.7× 2.6k 1.0× 960 41.0k
Masahira Hattori Japan 78 16.8k 1.1× 2.1k 0.4× 2.9k 0.9× 1.9k 0.7× 3.5k 1.3× 333 28.0k
Manuel C. Peitsch Switzerland 56 14.0k 0.9× 2.1k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.5× 2.0k 0.8× 291 23.6k
Jaime Huerta‐Cepas Spain 35 19.3k 1.2× 1.4k 0.3× 3.8k 1.2× 1.7k 0.6× 3.1k 1.2× 59 30.8k
Yoko Sato Japan 31 19.1k 1.2× 1.3k 0.3× 4.0k 1.2× 1.4k 0.5× 2.8k 1.1× 137 30.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karsten Kristiansen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Karsten Kristiansen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Karsten Kristiansen 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 Karsten Kristiansen. Karsten Kristiansen 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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Larsen, Jeppe Madura, Niels Banhos Danneskiold‐Samsøe, Si Brask Sonne, et al.. (2025). Prophylactic Peanut Allergen Ara h 6 Sublingual Immunotherapy Drives Expansion of FoxP3+Helios− Regulatory T Cells in the Absence of Allergen‐Specific IgA. Immunology. 174(3). 340–348.
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Wang, Haoyu, Shengnan Yu, Xiaomin Liu, et al.. (2025). Faecalibacterium longum alleviates high-fat diet-induced obesity and protects the intestinal epithelial barrier in mice. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1).
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Rasmussen, Jacob Agerbo, Laurène Alicia Lecaudey, Varsha Kale, et al.. (2024). A holo-omics analysis shows how sugar kelp can boost gut health in Atlantic salmon. Aquaculture. 597. 741913–741913. 1 indexed citations
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Nilsson, Anna Christine, Muhammad Malik, Heidi Lausten Munk, et al.. (2024). Dynamics of inflammation-associated plasma proteins following faecal microbiota transplantation in patients with psoriatic arthritis and healthy controls: exploratory findings from the FLORA trial. RMD Open. 10(1). e003750–e003750. 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianwei, Xiaoqian Lin, Wenxin He, et al.. (2024). Comparison of the DNBSEQ platform and Illumina HiSeq 2000 for bacterial genome assembly. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 1292–1292. 4 indexed citations
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Raju, Sajan C., Antonio Molinaro, Ayodeji Awoyemi, et al.. (2024). Microbial-derived imidazole propionate links the heart failure-associated microbiome alterations to disease severity. Genome Medicine. 16(1). 27–27. 16 indexed citations
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Ren, Huahui, Zhun Shi, Fangming Yang, et al.. (2024). Deciphering unique and shared interactions between the human gut microbiota and oral antidiabetic drugs. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). e179–e179. 2 indexed citations
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Glendinning, Laura, Xinzheng Jia, Adebabay Kebede, et al.. (2024). Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia. Microbiome. 12(1). 1 indexed citations
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Eyben, Finn Edler von, Karsten Kristiansen, Daniel S. Kapp, et al.. (2023). Epigenetic Regulation of Driver Genes in Testicular Tumorigenesis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(4). 4148–4148. 6 indexed citations
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Hu, Tu, Tanja Todberg, Daniel Andersen, et al.. (2022). Profiling the Atopic Dermatitis Epidermal Transcriptome by Tape Stripping and BRB-seq. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(11). 6140–6140. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Chong, Fan Zhao, Yun Bai, et al.. (2022). In vitro digestion mimicking conditions in young and elderly reveals marked differences between profiles and potential bioactivity of peptides from meat and soy proteins. Food Research International. 157. 111215–111215. 22 indexed citations
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Dawson, Samantha L., Martin O’Hely, Felice N. Jacka, et al.. (2021). Maternal prenatal gut microbiota composition predicts child behaviour. EBioMedicine. 68. 103400–103400. 65 indexed citations
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Kristensen, David M., Christèle Lethimonier, Abigail L. Mackey, et al.. (2018). Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce a state of compensated hypogonadism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(4). E715–E724. 91 indexed citations
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Wei, Bing, Ди Шао, Qing Yang, et al.. (2018). A Novel Next-Generation Sequencing Approach without Donor-Derived Material for Acute Rejection and Infection Monitoring in Solid Organ Transplantation. Journal of Cancer Therapy. 9(9). 623–638. 1 indexed citations
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Jensen, Benjamin A. H., Thomas S. Nielsen, Andreas M. Fritzen, et al.. (2016). Dietary fat drives whole-body insulin resistance and promotes intestinal inflammation independent of body weight gain. Metabolism. 65(12). 1706–1719. 22 indexed citations
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Luda, Katarzyna M., Thorsten Joeris, Emma K. Persson, et al.. (2016). IRF8 dependent classical dendritic cells are essential for intestinal T cell homeostasis. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 1 indexed citations
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Sverrild, Asger, Pia Kiilerich, Celeste Porsbjerg, et al.. (2014). The airway microbiota is significantly altered in subjects with eosinophilic asthma. European Respiratory Journal. 44(Suppl 58). P3874–P3874. 1 indexed citations
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Petersen, Rasmus K., Lise Madsen, Lone Møller Pedersen, et al.. (2008). Cyclic AMP (cAMP)-Mediated Stimulation of Adipocyte Differentiation Requires the Synergistic Action of Epac- and cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase-Dependent Processes. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 28(11). 3804–3816. 135 indexed citations
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Wang, Wen, Hongkun Zheng, Shuang Yang, et al.. (2005). Origin and evolution of new exons in rodents. Genome Research. 15(9). 1258–1264. 87 indexed citations
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Bonnevie‐Nielsen, V., et al.. (1991). Lymphocytic 2′,5′-O1igoadenylate Synthetase Is Insensitive to dsRNA and Interferon Stimulation in Autoimmune BB Rats. Journal of Interferon Research. 11(6). 351–356. 4 indexed citations

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