Mark Smith

6.3k citations

70 papers · 3.6k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 25

Impact in

Gastroenterology top 0.5%
- Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
Infectious Diseases top 1%
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research

Papers in ⓘ

Gastroenterology 11
- Gastrointestinal motility and disorders 9
Infectious Diseases 32
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research 32

Co-authors: Eric J. Alm (21 shared papers)Christopher S. Smillie (4 shared papers)Jonathan Friedman (2 shared papers)Otto X. Cordero (1 shared paper)Lawrence A. David (1 shared paper)Stephen B. Hanauer (1 shared paper)Zain Kassam (30 shared papers)Jenny Sauk (2 shared papers)
Journals: Gastroenterology (12 papers)Journal of Pediatric Surgery (6 papers)Open Forum Infectious Diseases (4 papers)The American Journal of Gastroenterology (4 papers)Nature (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Australia

In The Last Decade

Mark Smith

67 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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A Gut Commensal-Produced Metabolite Mediates Colonization Resistance to Salmonella Infection 2018 · 354 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.

2018 Cell Host & Microbe
2017 Hepatology
2014 Clinical Infectious Diseases
2011 Nature

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

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1	Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome Nature ·Christopher S. Smillie, Mark Smith, Jonathan Friedman, Otto X. Cordero, Lawrence A. David, Eric J. Alm Hit paper breakdown →	2011	663
2	Fecal microbiota transplant from a rational stool donor improves hepatic encephalopathy: A randomized clinical trial Hepatology ·Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Zain Kassam, Andrew Fagan, Edith Gavis, Eric Liu, I. Jane Cox, Raffi Kheradman, Douglas M. Heuman, Jessica Wang, Thomas Gurry, Roger Williams, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Michael Fuchs, Eric J. Alm, Binu V. John, Leroy R. Thacker, Antonio Riva, Mark Smith, Simon D. Taylor‐Robinson, Patrick M. Gillevet Hit paper breakdown →	2017	439
3	A Gut Commensal-Produced Metabolite Mediates Colonization Resistance to Salmonella Infection Cell Host & Microbe ·Amanda Jacobson, Lilian H. Lam, Manohary Rajendram, Fiona B. Tamburini, Jared Honeycutt, Trung H.M. Pham, Will Van Treuren, Kali M. Pruss, Stephen Russell Stabler, Kyler Lugo, Donna M. Bouley, José G. Vilches-Moure, Mark Smith, Justin L. Sonnenburg, Ami S. Bhatt, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Denise M. Monack Hit paper breakdown →	2018	354
4	Fecal Microbiota Transplant for Relapsing Clostridium difficile Infection Using a Frozen Inoculum From Unrelated Donors: A Randomized, Open-Label, Controlled Pilot Study Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Ilan Youngster, Jenny Sauk, Christina Pindar, Robin Wilson, Jess L. Kaplan, Mark Smith, Eric J. Alm, Dirk Gevers, George H. Russell, Elizabeth Hohmann Hit paper breakdown →	2014	349
5	Strain Tracking Reveals the Determinants of Bacterial Engraftment in the Human Gut Following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Cell Host & Microbe ·Christopher S. Smillie, Jenny Sauk, Dirk Gevers, Jonathan Friedman, Jaeyun Sung, Ilan Youngster, Elizabeth Hohmann, Christopher Staley, Alexander Khoruts, Michael J. Sadowsky, Jessica R. Allegretti, Mark Smith, Ramnik J. Xavier, Eric J. Alm	2018	246
6	Rapid closure of Crohn's disease fistulas with continuous intravenous cyclosporin A. PubMed ·Stephen B. Hanauer, Mark Smith	1993	186
7	Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: A Pilot Clinical Trial The American Journal of Gastroenterology ·Jessica R. Allegretti, Zain Kassam, Madeline Carrellas, Benjamin H. Mullish, Julian R. Marchesi, Alexandros Pechlivanis, Mark Smith, Ylaine Gerardin, Sonia Timberlake, Daniel S. Pratt, Joshua R. Korzenik	2019	166
8	Policy: How to regulate faecal transplants Nature ·Mark Smith, Colleen Kelly, Eric J. Alm	2014	111
9	Single Delivery of High-Diversity Fecal Microbiota Preparation by Colonoscopy Is Safe and Effective in Increasing Microbial Diversity in Active Ulcerative Colitis Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ·Vinita Jacob, Carl V. Crawford, Shirley Cohen‐Mekelburg, Monica Viladomiu, Gregory Putzel, Yecheskel Schneider, Fatiha Chabouni, Sarah OʼNeil, Brian P. Bosworth, Viola Woo, Nadim J. Ajami, Joseph F. Petrosino, Ylaine Gerardin, Zain Kassam, Mark Smith, Iliyan D. Iliev, Gregory F. Sonnenberg, David Artis, Ellen Scherl, Randy Longman	2017	87
10	Profiling Living Bacteria Informs Preparation of Fecal Microbiota Transplantations PLoS ONE ·Nathaniel D. Chu, Mark Smith, Allison Perrotta, Zain Kassam, Eric J. Alm	2017	71
11	Metagenomic mining of regulatory elements enables programmable species-selective gene expression Nature Methods ·Nathan I Johns, Antonio L. C. Gomes, Sung Sun Yim, Anthony Yang, Tomasz Blazejewski, Christopher S. Smillie, Mark Smith, Eric J. Alm, Sriram Kosuri, Harris H. Wang	2018	69
12	Effect of antibiotic pretreatment on bacterial engraftment after Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) in IBS-D Gut Microbes ·Prashant Singh, Eric J. Alm, John M. Kelley, Vivian Cheng, Mark Smith, Zain Kassam, Judy Nee, Johanna Iturrino, Anthony Lembo	2022	69
13	Forty-year experience with second malignancies after treatment of childhood cancer: Analysis of outcome following the development of the second malignancy Journal of Pediatric Surgery ·Mark Smith, Hasen Xue, Louise C. Strong, Hiroshi Takahashi, Norman Jaffe, Hugh Ried, Hallie Zietz, Richard J. Andrassy	1993	66
14	Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Capsules with Targeted Colonic Versus Gastric Delivery in Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: A Comparative Cohort Analysis of High and Lose Dose Digestive Diseases and Sciences ·Jessica R. Allegretti, Monika Fischer, Sashidhar Sagi, Matthew Bohm, Hala M. Fadda, Sejal R. Ranmal, Shrish Budree, Abdul W. Basit, Dean L. Glettig, Eva L. de la Serna, Amanda Gentile, Ylaine Gerardin, Sonia Timberlake, Rotem Gura Sadovsky, Mark Smith, Zain Kassam	2018	53
15	Numb Chin Syndrome – a reflection of systemic malignancy World Journal of Surgical Oncology ·Ramesh Kapa Baskaran, Krishnamoorthy, Mark Smith	2006	46
16	Transfer of noncoding DNA drives regulatory rewiring in bacteria Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yaara Oren, Mark Smith, Nathan I Johns, Millie Kaplan Zeevi, Dvora Biran, Eliora Z. Ron, Jukka Corander, Harris H. Wang, Eric J. Alm, Tal Pupko	2014	44
17	DOES GLYCINE ANTAGONISM UNDERLIE THE EXCITATORY EFFECTS OF METHOHEXITONE AND PROPOFOL British Journal of Anaesthesia ·S.J. Dolin, Mark Smith, Jasmeet Soar, Patrick J. Morris	1992	35
18	Dynamic Colonization of Microbes and Their Functions after Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Inflammatory Bowel Disease mBio ·Nathaniel D. Chu, Jessica W. Crothers, Le T. T. Nguyen, Sean M. Kearney, Mark Smith, Zain Kassam, Cheryl Collins, Ramnik J. Xavier, Peter L. Moses, Eric J. Alm	2021	34
19	Second malignant neoplasms in children after treatment of soft tissue sarcoma Journal of Pediatric Surgery ·Donna C Rich, Cyndy Corpron, Mark Smith, Charles T. Black, Kevin P. Lally, Richard J. Andrassy	1997	33
20	Computational Methods for High-Throughput Comparative Analyses of Natural Microbial Communities Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Sarah P. Preheim, Allison Perrotta, Jonathan Friedman, Chris Smilie, Ilana Brito, Mark Smith, Eric J. Alm	2013	30

About Mark Smith

Mark Smith is a scholar working on Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and Pharmacy, having authored 70 papers that have together received 3.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (32 papers), Gut microbiota and health (23 papers), Gastrointestinal motility and disorders (9 papers), Microscopic Colitis (7 papers), Nosocomial Infections in ICU (6 papers), Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies (6 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and Tumors and Oncological Cases (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Gastroenterology (569 citations), Infectious Diseases (1.4k citations), Molecular Medicine (206 citations), Hepatology (267 citations) and Epidemiology (1.0k citations). Mark Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Eric J. Alm, Christopher S. Smillie, Jonathan Friedman, Otto X. Cordero, Lawrence A. David, Stephen B. Hanauer, Zain Kassam, Jenny Sauk, Dirk Gevers and Elizabeth Hohmann. Their work appears in journals such as Gastroenterology, Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, The American Journal of Gastroenterology and Nature.

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