Martin Wu

18.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
92 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Martin Wu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin Wu has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Epidemiology and 24 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Martin Wu's work include Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (27 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (23 papers). Martin Wu is often cited by papers focused on Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (27 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (23 papers). Martin Wu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Martin Wu's co-authors include Jonathan A. Eisen, Luiz E. Bermudez, Zhang Wang, Alexandra J. Scott, Douglas Taylor, Daniel B. Sloan, Tiantian Ren, Lawrence S. Young, Andrew J. Alverson and Jeffrey D. Palmer 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

Martin Wu

90 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates

2012 505 citations Daniel B. Sloan, Andrew J. Alverson et al. profile →
Seasonal, spatial, and maternal effects on gut microbiome in wild red squirrels

2017 335 citations Tiantian Ren, Stan Boutin et al. Microbiome profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martin Wu United States	43	3.9k	1.5k	1.1k	1.0k	727	92	6.2k
Sean M. Hemmingsen Canada	36	3.8k 1.0×	867 0.6×	592 0.6×	498 0.5×	812 1.1×	78	6.3k
Jennifer Lu United States	13	3.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	679 0.6×	736 0.7×	593 0.8×	26	6.0k
Olivier Jousson Italy	35	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	837 0.8×	453 0.6×	81	5.8k
Niall Gormley United Kingdom	22	3.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.6×	486 0.5×	615 0.6×	1000 1.4×	36	8.3k
Sathish Subramanian United States	12	4.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	405 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	884 1.2×	17	7.4k
James R. Brown United States	47	4.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	759 0.7×	742 0.7×	913 1.3×	166	8.5k
Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén Denmark	38	5.2k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	716 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	95	9.8k
Knut Rudi Norway	58	6.1k 1.6×	1.4k 0.9×	640 0.6×	1.5k 1.5×	602 0.8×	223	11.1k
Doyle V. Ward United States	36	5.8k 1.5×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	642 0.9×	77	9.4k
Jason R. Grant Switzerland	26	4.4k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	524 0.5×	803 0.8×	1.5k 2.0×	89	8.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Martin Wu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Martin Wu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Martin Wu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Martin Wu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Martin Wu 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 Martin Wu. Martin Wu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Petrullo, Lauren, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, et al.. (2023). Consistent spatial patterns in microbial taxa of red squirrel gut microbiomes. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 16(1). e13209–e13209. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Martin, et al.. (2022). Modeling Pulsed Evolution and Time-Independent Variation Improves the Confidence Level of Ancestral and Hidden State Predictions. Systematic Biology. 71(5). 1225–1232. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Zhang, Yuqiong Yang, Zhengzheng Yan, et al.. (2020). Multi-omic meta-analysis identifies functional signatures of airway microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The ISME Journal. 14(11). 2748–2765. 52 indexed citations

Grippo, Ryan M., Laura M. Sipe, Aarti M. Purohit, et al.. (2020). Dopamine Signaling in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Enables Weight Gain Associated with Hedonic Feeding. Current Biology. 30(2). 196–208.e8. 33 indexed citations

Ren, Tiantian, Stan Boutin, Murray M. Humphries, et al.. (2017). Seasonal, spatial, and maternal effects on gut microbiome in wild red squirrels. Microbiome. 5(1). 163–163. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

Ren, Tiantian & Martin Wu. (2016). PhyloCore: A phylogenetic approach to identifying core taxa in microbial communities. Gene. 593(2). 330–333. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Zhang & Martin Wu. (2015). An integrated phylogenomic approach toward pinpointing the origin of mitochondria. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 7949–7949. 111 indexed citations

Wang, Zhang & Martin Wu. (2013). A Phylum-Level Bacterial Phylogenetic Marker Database. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(6). 1258–1262. 77 indexed citations

Sloan, Daniel B., Andrew J. Alverson, Martin Wu, Jeffrey D. Palmer, & Douglas Taylor. (2012). Recent Acceleration of Plastid Sequence and Structural Evolution Coincides with Extreme Mitochondrial Divergence in the Angiosperm Genus Silene. Genome Biology and Evolution. 4(3). 294–306. 103 indexed citations

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Lu, Hsiao‐Pei, et al.. (2012). Metagenomic analysis reveals a functional signature for biomass degradation by cecal microbiota in the leaf-eating flying squirrel (Petaurista alborufus lena). BMC Genomics. 13(1). 466–466. 23 indexed citations

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Wu, Dongying, Martin Wu, Aaron L. Halpern, et al.. (2011). Stalking the Fourth Domain in Metagenomic Data: Searching for, Discovering, and Interpreting Novel, Deep Branches in Marker Gene Phylogenetic Trees. PLoS ONE. 6(3). e18011–e18011. 67 indexed citations

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Wu, Dongying, Jason Raymond, Martin Wu, et al.. (2009). Complete Genome Sequence of the Aerobic CO-Oxidizing Thermophile Thermomicrobium roseum. PLoS ONE. 4(1). e4207–e4207. 87 indexed citations

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Wu, Martin, et al.. (2009). Visualization of ribosomal RNA operon copy number distribution. BMC Microbiology. 9(1). 208–208. 46 indexed citations

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Wu, Martin & Jonathan A. Eisen. (2008). A simple, fast, and accurate method of phylogenomic inference. Genome biology. 9(10). R151–R151. 364 indexed citations

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Kent, Michael L., Virginia Watral, Martin Wu, & Luiz E. Bermudez. (2006). In vivoandin vitrogrowth ofMycobacterium marinumat homoeothermic temperatures. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 257(1). 69–75. 17 indexed citations

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Yamazaki, Yoshitaka, Lia Danelishvili, Martin Wu, et al.. (2005). The ability to form biofilm influences Mycobacterium avium invasion and translocation of bronchial epithelial cells. Cellular Microbiology. 8(5). 806–814. 94 indexed citations

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Ermolaeva, Maria D., Martin Wu, Jonathan A. Eisen, & Steven L. Salzberg. (2003). The age of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome duplication. Plant Molecular Biology. 51(6). 859–866. 85 indexed citations

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Bermudez, Luiz E., Clark B. Inderlied, Peter Kolonoski, Martin Wu, & Lowell S. Young. (1998). Activity of HMR3004 against Mycobacterium avium complex in vitro, in human macrophages and in beige mice. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 4(6). 325–331. 3 indexed citations

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Bermudez, Luiz E., Martin Wu, Lowell S. Young, & Clark B. Inderlied. (1992). Postantibiotic Effect of Amikacin and Rifapentine against Mycobacterium avium Complex. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 166(4). 923–926. 15 indexed citations

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Bermudez, Luiz E., et al.. (1990). Protection against gram-negative bacteremia in neutropenic mice with recombinant granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Cytokine. 2(4). 287–293. 16 indexed citations

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