Mark Achtman

28.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
173 papers, 17.5k citations indexed

About

Mark Achtman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Achtman has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 17.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Microbiology and 51 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Mark Achtman's work include Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (50 papers), Escherichia coli research studies (36 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (29 papers). Mark Achtman is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (50 papers), Escherichia coli research studies (36 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (29 papers). Mark Achtman collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Ireland. Mark Achtman's co-authors include Giovanna Morelli, Sebastian Suerbaum, Zhemin Zhou, Bodo Linz, Barica Kušećek, Neil Willetts, Daniel Falush, Gerd Pluschke, Michael Wagner and Martin J. Sergeant and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark Achtman

173 papers receiving 16.4k 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.

Yersinia pestis , the cause of plague, is a recently emerged clone of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

1999 781 citations Mark Achtman, Giovanna Morelli et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Traces of Human Migrations in Helicobacter pylori Populations

2003 742 citations Daniel Falush, Thierry Wirth et al. Science profile →
An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori

2007 664 citations Bodo Linz, Yoshan Moodley et al. profile →
GrapeTree: visualization of core genomic relationships among 100,000 bacterial pathogens

2018 636 citations Zhemin Zhou, Mark Achtman et al. Genome Research profile →
Multilocus Sequence Typing as a Replacement for Serotyping in Salmonella enterica

2012 499 citations Mark Achtman, John Wain et al. PLoS Pathogens profile →
A genomic overview of the population structure of Salmonella

2018 375 citations Zhemin Zhou, Mark Achtman et al. PLoS Genetics profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	HierCC: a multi-level clustering scheme for population assignments based on core genome MLST 2021 ·Bioinformatics ·Zhemin Zhou, Jane Charlesworth, Mark Achtman	62
2	Helicobacter pylori’s historical journey through Siberia and the Americas 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yoshan Moodley, Andrea Brunelli, Silvia Ghirotto, (unknown), А. С. Маады, (unknown), (unknown), Zhemin Zhou, Andrea Manica, Bodo Linz, Mark Achtman	14
3	Metagenomics of the modern and historical human oral microbiome with phylogenetic studies on Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus 2020 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Mark Achtman, Zhemin Zhou	13
4	Neutral Genomic Microevolution of a Recently Emerged Pathogen, Salmonella enterica Serovar Agona 2013 ·PLoS Genetics ·Zhemin Zhou, A. McCann, Eva Litrup, Ronan A. Murphy, Martin Cormican, Séamus Fanning, Derek Brown, David S. Guttman, Sylvain Brisse, Mark Achtman	69
5	Multilocus Sequence Typing as a Replacement for Serotyping in Salmonella enterica breakdown → 2012 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Mark Achtman, John Wain, François‐Xavier Weill, Satheesh Nair, Zhemin Zhou, Vartul Sangal, Mary G. Krauland, James Hale, Heather Harbottle, Alexandra Uesbeck, Gordon Dougan, Lee H. Harrison, Sylvain Brisse, (unknown)	499
6	Phylogeography and Molecular Epidemiology of Yersinia pestis in Madagascar 2011 ·PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Amy J. Vogler, (unknown), David M. Wagner, Philippe Roumagnac, Judy Lee, (unknown), Mark Eppinger, Jacques Ravel, Lila Rahalison, B Rasoamanana, Stephen M. Beckstrom‐Sternberg, Mark Achtman, S Chanteau, Paul Keim	65
7	A multiplex single nucleotide polymorphism typing assay for detecting mutations that result in decreased fluoroquinolone susceptibility in Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A 2010 ·Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ·Yajun Song, Philippe Roumagnac, François‐Xavier Weill, John Wain, Christiane Dolecek, Camila J. Mazzoni, Kathryn E. Holt, Mark Achtman	32
8	The Peopling of the Pacific from a Bacterial Perspective 2009 ·Science ·Yoshan Moodley, Bodo Linz, Yoshio Yamaoka, Helen M. Windsor, Sébastien Breurec, Jeng‐Yih Wu, А. С. Маады, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Peter Siba, David Y. Graham, Barry J. Marshall, Mark Achtman	227
9	Epidemic multiple drug resistant Salmonella Typhimurium causing invasive disease in sub-Saharan Africa have a distinct genotype 2009 ·Genome Research ·Robert A. Kingsley, Chisomo Msefula, Nicholas R. Thomson, Samuel Kariuki, Kathryn E. Holt, Melita A. Gordon, David T. Harris, Louise Clarke, Sally Whitehead, Vartul Sangal, Kevin Marsh, Mark Achtman, Malcolm E. Molyneux, Martin Cormican, Julian Parkhill, Calman A. MacLennan, Robert S. Heyderman, Gordon Dougan	415
10	The rise and spread of a new pathogen: Seroresistant Moraxella catarrhalis 2007 ·Genome Research ·Thierry Wirth, Giovanna Morelli, (unknown), Alex van Belkum, (unknown), Axel Meyer, Mark Achtman	64
11	Clonal Waves of Neisseria Colonisation and Disease in the African Meningitis Belt: Eight- Year Longitudinal Study in Northern Ghana 2007 ·PLoS Medicine ·Julia Leimkugel, Abraham Hodgson, Abudulai Adams Forgor, Valentin Pflüger, Jean‐Pierre Dangy, Thomas A. Smith, Mark Achtman, Sébastien Gagneux, Gerd Pluschke	77
12	Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective 2006 ·HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) ·Thierry Wirth, (unknown), Ruiting Lan, Frances M. Colles, (unknown), Lothar H. Wieler, Helge Karch, Peter R. Reeves, (unknown), Howard Ochman, Mark Achtman	48
13	Who Ate Whom? Adaptive Helicobacter Genomic Changes That Accompanied a Host Jump from Early Humans to Large Felines 2006 ·PLoS Genetics ·Mark Eppinger, Claudia Baar, Bodo Linz, Günter Raddatz, Christa Lanz, Heike Keller, Giovanna Morelli, (unknown), Mark Achtman, Stephan C. Schuster	136
14	Microevolution and history of the plague bacillus, Yersinia pestis 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Mark Achtman, Giovanna Morelli, Peixuan Zhu, Thierry Wirth, Ines Diehl, Barica Kušećek, Amy J. Vogler, David M. Wagner, Christopher J. Allender, W. Ryan Easterday, Viviane Chenal‐Francisque, Patricia L. Worsham, Nicholas R. Thomson, Julian Parkhill, Luther E. Lindler, Élisabeth Carniel, Paul Keim	344
15	Distinguishing human ethnic groups by means of sequences from Helicobacter pylori : Lessons from Ladakh 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Thierry Wirth, Xiaoyan Wang, Bodo Linz, Richard P. Novick, J. Koji Lum, Martin J. Blaser, Giovanna Morelli, Daniel Falush, Mark Achtman	124
16	Helicobacter pylori: recombination, population structure and human migrations 2004 ·International Journal of Medical Microbiology ·Sebastian Suerbaum, Mark Achtman	42
17	Traces of Human Migrations in Helicobacter pylori Populations breakdown → 2003 ·Science ·Daniel Falush, Thierry Wirth, Bodo Linz, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Matthew Stephens, Mark Kidd, Martin J. Blaser, David Y. Graham, (unknown), (unknown), Yoshio Yamaoka, Françis Mégraud, Kristina Otto, (unknown), Elena Katzowitsch, Xiaoyan Wang, Mark Achtman, Sebastian Suerbaum	742
18	Yersinia pestis , the cause of plague, is a recently emerged clone of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis breakdown → 1999 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Mark Achtman, (unknown), Giovanna Morelli, Gabriela Torrea, Annie Guiyoule, Élisabeth Carniel	781
19	Variable expression of the Opc outer membrane protein in Neisseria meningitidis is caused by size variation of a promoter containing poly‐cytidine 1994 ·Molecular Microbiology ·(unknown), (unknown), E. Richard Moxon, Mark Achtman	165
20	Variation in Class 5 Protein Expression by Serogroup A Meningococci during a Meningitis Epidemic 1991 ·The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Mark Achtman, (unknown), Matthias Bopp, Barica Kušećek, Giovanna Morelli, (unknown), M. Hassan-King	48

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