Kyle Bittinger

93.1k total citations · 14 hit papers
163 papers, 21.1k citations indexed

About

Kyle Bittinger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyle Bittinger has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 21.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Infectious Diseases and 28 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Kyle Bittinger's work include Gut microbiota and health (97 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (28 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (20 papers). Kyle Bittinger is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (97 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (28 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (20 papers). Kyle Bittinger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and China. Kyle Bittinger's co-authors include Frederic D. Bushman, Rob Knight, Gary D. Wu, James D. Lewis, Hongzhe Li, J. Gregory Caporaso, Gary L. Andersen, Todd Z. DeSantis, Christian Hoffmann and Robert N. Baldassano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kyle Bittinger

153 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes

2011 4.7k citations Gary D. Wu, Kyle Bittinger et al. Science profile →
PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

2009 2.9k citations Kyle Bittinger, Frederic D. Bushman et al. profile →
Normalization and microbial differential abundance strategies depend upon data characteristics

2017 1.3k citations Kyle Bittinger et al. Microbiome profile →
Topographical Continuity of Bacterial Populations in the Healthy Human Respiratory Tract

2011 814 citations Kyle Bittinger, Frederic D. Bushman et al. profile →
Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances

2012 732 citations Kyle Bittinger, James D. Lewis et al. profile →
Association Between Breast Milk Bacterial Communities and Establishment and Development of the Infant Gut Microbiome

2017 728 citations Kyle Bittinger, Aubrey Bailey et al. profile →
Correlation Between Intraluminal Oxygen Gradient and Radial Partitioning of Intestinal Microbiota

2014 642 citations Lindsey Albenberg, Kyle Bittinger et al. Gastroenterology profile →
Inflammation, Antibiotics, and Diet as Environmental Stressors of the Gut Microbiome in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease

2015 612 citations James D. Lewis, Robert N. Baldassano et al. profile →
Dysbiosis-Induced Secondary Bile Acid Deficiency Promotes Intestinal Inflammation

2020 573 citations Kyle Bittinger et al. profile →
Optimizing methods and dodging pitfalls in microbiome research

2017 386 citations Lisa M. Mattei, Ceylan Tanes et al. Microbiome profile →
Comparative metabolomics in vegans and omnivores reveal constraints on diet-dependent gut microbiota metabolite production

2014 381 citations Gary D. Wu, Kyle Bittinger et al. profile →
Comparison of placenta samples with contamination controls does not provide evidence for a distinct placenta microbiota

2016 377 citations Aubrey Bailey, Alice Laughlin et al. Microbiome profile →
Power and sample-size estimation for microbiome studies using pairwise distances and PERMANOVA

2015 308 citations Brendan J. Kelly, Kyle Bittinger et al. profile →
Role of dietary fiber in the recovery of the human gut microbiome and its metabolome

2021 201 citations Ceylan Tanes, Kyle Bittinger et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kyle Bittinger	13.4k	3.8k	3.6k	2.7k	2.3k	163	21.1k
Joseph F. Petrosino	13.4k 1.0×	4.1k 1.1×	3.1k 0.9×	3.1k 1.2×	1.7k 0.7×	231	23.1k
Julian R. Marchesi	14.9k 1.1×	3.8k 1.0×	3.6k 1.0×	4.0k 1.5×	1.9k 0.8×	295	24.5k
Omry Koren	11.6k 0.9×	3.5k 0.9×	2.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	2.7k 1.2×	147	20.1k
Steven R. Gill	14.5k 1.1×	3.0k 0.8×	5.3k 1.5×	2.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	130	22.3k
Gary D. Wu	14.2k 1.1×	4.7k 1.2×	4.0k 1.1×	3.2k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	171	21.4k
Michael A. Fischbach	23.8k 1.8×	5.0k 1.3×	3.6k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	188	36.6k
Jeroen Raes	18.9k 1.4×	4.3k 1.1×	3.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	4.8k 2.1×	224	27.8k
Dan Knights	19.5k 1.5×	5.5k 1.4×	4.6k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	4.2k 1.8×	125	29.4k
Masahira Hattori	16.8k 1.3×	2.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	333	28.0k
Scot E. Dowd	10.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	3.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	2.6k 1.1×	289	23.3k

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Tanes, Ceylan, Weiming Hu, Elliot S. Friedman, et al.. (2025). Distinguishing diet- and microbe-derived metabolites in the human gut. Microbiome. 13(1). 206–206.

Cucchiara, Andrew J., Michael J. Kallan, Magda Feres, et al.. (2025). Developing Predictive Models for Periodontitis Progression Using Artificial Intelligence: A Longitudinal Cohort Study. Journal Of Clinical Periodontology. 52(10). 1478–1490. 3 indexed citations

Daniel, Scott G., Linda D. Baker, Nagaraju Indugu, et al.. (2024). Effects of dietary zinc on the gut microbiome and resistome of the gestating cow and neonatal calf. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 39–39. 1 indexed citations

Swisa, Avital, Julia E. Kieckhaefer, Scott G. Daniel, et al.. (2024). The evolutionarily ancient FOXA transcription factors shape the murine gut microbiome via control of epithelial glycosylation. Developmental Cell. 59(16). 2069–2084.e8. 3 indexed citations

Mahalak, Karley K., Jenni Firrman, Adrienne B. Narrowe, et al.. (2023). Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) differentially modifies the in vitro gut microbiota in an age-dependent manner. Frontiers in Nutrition. 9. 1058910–1058910. 36 indexed citations

Jaime-Lara, Rosario B., Scott G. Daniel, Ana F. Diallo, et al.. (2023). Administration of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis strain BB-12® in healthy children: characterization, functional composition, and metabolism of the gut microbiome. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1165771–1165771. 6 indexed citations

Hong, Gina, Scott G. Daniel, Jung‐Jin Lee, et al.. (2023). Distinct community structures of the fungal microbiome and respiratory health in adults with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 22(4). 636–643. 8 indexed citations

Green, Jamal, Jean‐Bernard Lubin, Derek A. Oldridge, et al.. (2023). IgA deficiency destabilizes homeostasis toward intestinal microbes and increases systemic immune dysregulation. Science Immunology. 8(83). eade2335–eade2335. 39 indexed citations

Liu, LinShu, Adrienne B. Narrowe, Jenni Firrman, et al.. (2023). Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus Strain GG (LGG) Regulate Gut Microbial Metabolites, an In Vitro Study Using Three Mature Human Gut Microbial Cultures in a Simulator of Human Intestinal Microbial Ecosystem (SHIME). Foods. 12(11). 2105–2105. 10 indexed citations

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Afroz, Sumbul, Ceylan Tanes, Kyle Bittinger, et al.. (2022). SARS-CoV-2–specific T cells in unexposed adults display broad trafficking potential and cross-react with commensal antigens. Science Immunology. 7(76). eabn3127–eabn3127. 29 indexed citations

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Firrman, Jenni, Karley K. Mahalak, Jamshed Bobokalonov, et al.. (2022). Modulation of the Gut Microbiota Structure and Function by Two Structurally Different Lemon Pectins. Foods. 11(23). 3877–3877. 18 indexed citations

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Mahalak, Karley K., Jenni Firrman, Jamshed Bobokalonov, et al.. (2022). Persistence of the Probiotic Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus Strain GG (LGG) in an In Vitro Model of the Gut Microbiome. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(21). 12973–12973. 12 indexed citations

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Tanes, Ceylan, Vincent Tu, Lindsey Albenberg, et al.. (2022). A Microbial Signature for Paediatric Perianal Crohn’s Disease. Journal of Crohn s and Colitis. 16(8). 1281–1292. 16 indexed citations

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Littmann, Eric R., Jung‐Jin Lee, Joshua E. Denny, et al.. (2021). Host immunity modulates the efficacy of microbiota transplantation for treatment of Clostridioides difficile infection. Nature Communications. 12(1). 755–755. 63 indexed citations

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Mahalak, Karley K., Jenni Firrman, Jung‐Jin Lee, et al.. (2020). Triclosan has a robust, yet reversible impact on human gut microbial composition in vitro. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0234046–e0234046. 16 indexed citations

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Liang, Guanxiang, Máire Conrad, Judith R. Kelsen, et al.. (2020). Dynamics of the Stool Virome in Very Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal of Crohn s and Colitis. 14(11). 1600–1610. 59 indexed citations

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Mahalak, Karley K., Jenni Firrman, Peggy M. Tomasula, et al.. (2019). Impact of Steviol Glycosides and Erythritol on the Human and Cebus apella Gut Microbiome. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 68(46). 13093–13101. 40 indexed citations

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Friedman, Elliot S., Yun Li, Ting‐Chin David Shen, et al.. (2018). FXR-Dependent Modulation of the Human Small Intestinal Microbiome by the Bile Acid Derivative Obeticholic Acid. Gastroenterology. 155(6). 1741–1752.e5. 120 indexed citations

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Kelly, Brendan J., Ize Imai, Kyle Bittinger, et al.. (2016). Composition and dynamics of the respiratory tract microbiome in intubated patients. Microbiome. 4(1). 7–7. 126 indexed citations

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Osborne, Lisa C., Laurel A. Monticelli, Timothy J. Nice, et al.. (2014). Virus-helminth coinfection reveals a microbiota-independent mechanism of immunomodulation. Science. 345(6196). 578–582. 221 indexed citations

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