Matthew B. Sullivan

43.4k citations

155 papers · 18.8k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 70

Impact in

Ecology top 0.01%
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Endocrinology top 0.2%

Papers in

Ecology 142
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 127
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 72
Endocrinology 12
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research 10

Co-authors: Simon Roux Sallie W. Chisholm Bonnie L. Hurwitz Steven Hallam Benjamin Bolduc Jennifer R. Brum François Enault Cristina Howard‐Varona
Journals: The ISME Journal (17 papers)Environmental Microbiology (16 papers)PeerJ (9 papers)Nature Communications (8 papers)Microbiome (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada France

In The Last Decade

Matthew B. Sullivan

150 papers receiving 18.6k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses 2021 · 682 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.

2021 Microbiome
2020 Nucleic Acids Research
2020 Cell Host & Microbe
2019 Nature Biotechnology
2019 Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2019 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2017 Microbiome
2017 The ISME Journal
2015 PeerJ
2015 eLife
2011 Nucleic Acids Research
2006 Science

Peers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

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All Works

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1	Phage resistance mutations in a marine bacterium impact biogeochemically relevant cellular processes Nature Microbiology ·Marion Urvoy, Cristina Howard‐Varona, Carlos Owusu-Ansah, Andrew J. Stai, John A. Bouranis, Marie Burris, Natalie Solonenko, Robert L. Hettich, Karin Holmfeldt, Malak Tfaily, Karna Gowda, Matthew B. Sullivan	2025	1
2	Polyphenol rewiring of the microbiome reduces methane emissions The ISME Journal ·Bridget B. McGivern, Jared Ellenbogen, David Hoyt, John A. Bouranis, Brooke Stemple, Rebecca A. Daly, Samantha Bosman, Matthew B. Sullivan, Ann Hagerman, Jeffrey P. Chanton, Malak Tfaily, Kelly Wrighton	2025	3
3	Seasonal enhancement of the viral shunt catalyzes a subsurface oxygen maximum in the Sargasso Sea Nature Communications ·Naomi E. Gilbert, Daniel Muratore, Camelia Shopen Gochev, Gary R. LeCleir, Shelby M. Cagle, Helena L. Pound, Christine Sun, Alfonso Carrillo, Kimberley S Ndlovu, Ilia Maidanik, Ashley R. Coenen, Lauren Chittick, Jennifer M. DeBruyn, Alison Buchan, Debbie Lindell, Matthew B. Sullivan, Joshua S. Weitz, Steven W. Wilhelm	2025	0
4	Viral potential to modulate microbial methane metabolism varies by habitat Nature Communications ·Zhi-Ping Zhong, Jingjie Du, Stephan Köstlbacher, Petra Pjevac, Sandi Orlić, Matthew B. Sullivan	2024	20
5	Long-read powered viral metagenomics in the oligotrophic Sargasso Sea Nature Communications ·Joanna Warwick-Dugdale, Funing Tian, Michelle L. Michelsen, Dylan Cronin, Karen Moore, Audrey Farbos, Lauren Chittick, Ashley Bell, Ahmed A. Zayed, Holger H. Buchholz, Luis M. Bolaños, Rachel Parsons, Michael J. Allen, Matthew B. Sullivan, Ben Temperton	2024	8
6	Interrogating the viral dark matter of the rumen ecosystem with a global virome database Nature Communications ·Ming Yan, Akbar Adjie Pratama, Sripoorna Somasundaram, Zongjun Li, Yu Jiang, Matthew B. Sullivan, Zhongtang Yu	2023	49
7	kb_DRAM: annotation and metabolic profiling of genomes with DRAM in KBase Bioinformatics ·Michael Shaffer, Mikayla Borton, Ben Bolduc, José P. Faria, Rory M. Flynn, Parsa Ghadermazi, Janaka N. Edirisinghe, Elisha M. Wood‐Charlson, Christopher S. Miller, Siu Hung Joshua Chan, Matthew B. Sullivan, Christopher S. Henry, Kelly Wrighton	2023	5
8	Viruses infecting a warm water picoeukaryote shed light on spatial co-occurrence dynamics of marine viruses and their hosts The ISME Journal ·Charles Bachy, Charmaine C. M. Yung, David M. Needham, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Simon Roux, Alexander J. Limardo, Chang Jae Choi, Danielle M. Jorgens, Matthew B. Sullivan, Alexandra Z. Worden	2021	15
9	Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses Current Opinion in Virology ·Bas E. Dutilh, Arvind Varsani, Yigang Tong, Peter Simmonds, Sead Sabanadzovic, Luisa Rubino, Simon Roux, Alejandro Reyes, Cédric Lood, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, Jens H. Kuhn, Mart Krupovìč, Robert A. Edwards, J. Rodney Brister, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Matthew B. Sullivan	2021	35
10	Viral elements and their potential influence on microbial processes along the permanently stratified Cariaco Basin redoxcline The ISME Journal ·Paraskevi Mara, Dean Vik, Maria Pachiadaki, Elizabeth A. Suter, Bonnie T. Poulos, Gordon T. Taylor, Matthew B. Sullivan, Virginia P. Edgcomb	2020	40
11	Potential virus-mediated nitrogen cycling in oxygen-depleted oceanic waters The ISME Journal ·María Consuelo Gazitúa, Dean Vik, Simon Roux, Ann Gregory, Benjamin Bolduc, Brittany Widner, Margaret R. Mulholland, Steven Hallam, Osvaldo Ulloa, Matthew B. Sullivan	2020	95
12	Fighting Fire with Fire: Phage Potential for the Treatment of E. coli O157 Infection Antibiotics ·Cristina Howard‐Varona, Dean Vik, Natalie Solonenko, Yueh-Fen Li, María Consuelo Gazitúa, Lauren Chittick, Jennifer Samiec, A. E. Jensen, Paige Anderson, Adrian Howard-Varona, Anika Kinkhabwala, Stephen T. Abedon, Matthew B. Sullivan	2018	16
13	Phages rarely encode antibiotic resistance genes: a cautionary tale for virome analyses The ISME Journal ·François Enault, Arnaud Briet, Léa Bouteille, Simon Roux, Matthew B. Sullivan, Marie‐Agnès Petit	2016	301
14	Regulation of infection efficiency in a globally abundant marine Bacteriodetes virus The ISME Journal ·Cristina Howard‐Varona, Simon Roux, Hugo Doré, Natalie Solonenko, Karin Holmfeldt, Lye Meng Markillie, Galya Orr, Matthew B. Sullivan	2016	42
15	iVirus: facilitating new insights in viral ecology with software and community data sets imbedded in a cyberinfrastructure The ISME Journal ·Benjamin Bolduc, Ken Youens‐Clark, Simon Roux, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, Matthew B. Sullivan	2016	78
16	Seasonal time bombs: dominant temperate viruses affect Southern Ocean microbial dynamics The ISME Journal ·Jennifer R. Brum, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, Oscar Schofield, Hugh W. Ducklow, Matthew B. Sullivan	2015	205
17	Depth-stratified functional and taxonomic niche specialization in the ‘core’ and ‘flexible’ Pacific Ocean Virome The ISME Journal ·Bonnie L. Hurwitz, Jennifer R. Brum, Matthew B. Sullivan	2014	135
18	Sequencing platform and library preparation choices impact viral metagenomes BMC Genomics ·Sergei A. Solonenko, J. Cesar Ignacio‐Espinoza, Adriana Alberti, Corinne Cruaud, Steven Hallam, Kostas Konstantinidis, Gene W. Tyson, Patrick Wincker, Matthew B. Sullivan	2013	71
19	Contrasting Life Strategies of Viruses that Infect Photo- and Heterotrophic Bacteria, as Revealed by Viral Tagging mBio ·Li Deng, Ann Gregory, Suzan Yilmaz, Bonnie T. Poulos, Philip Hugenholtz, Matthew B. Sullivan	2012	80
20	Transfer of photosynthesis genes to and from Prochlorococcus viruses Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Debbie Lindell, Matthew B. Sullivan, Zackary I. Johnson, Andrew C. Tolonen, Forest Rohwer, Sallie W. Chisholm	2004	397

About Matthew B. Sullivan

Matthew B. Sullivan is a scholar working on Ecology, Endocrinology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science, having authored 155 papers that have together received 18.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (127 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (72 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (58 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (37 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (14 papers), Microbial infections and disease research (13 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (10 papers) and Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (14.1k citations), Endocrinology (1.4k citations), Microbiology (1.3k citations), Molecular Biology (9.9k citations) and Plant Science (3.9k citations). Matthew B. Sullivan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Frequent co-authors include Simon Roux, Sallie W. Chisholm, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, Steven Hallam, Benjamin Bolduc, Jennifer R. Brum, François Enault, Cristina Howard‐Varona, Maureen L. Coleman and Ahmed A. Zayed. Their work appears in journals such as The ISME Journal, Environmental Microbiology, PeerJ, Nature Communications and Microbiome.

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