Matthew B. Sullivan

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 875 citations indexed

About

Matthew B. Sullivan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew B. Sullivan has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 875 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Matthew B. Sullivan's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Matthew B. Sullivan is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Matthew B. Sullivan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Matthew B. Sullivan's co-authors include Simon Roux, Joanne Emerson, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Frank Uhlmann, Gareth Trubl, Virginia I. Rich, Natalie Solonenko, Gene W. Tyson, Jared Ellenbogen and Dean Vik and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Matthew B. Sullivan

10 papers receiving 866 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.

  1. Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing
    2018 251 citations Gareth Trubl, Ho Bin Jang et al. mSystems profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Matthew B. Sullivan 527 444 297 163 127 11 875
Donna Cassidy-Hanley 339 0.6× 757 1.7× 111 0.4× 131 0.8× 40 0.3× 26 1.0k
Natalia Quinones‐Olvera 185 0.4× 704 1.6× 271 0.9× 34 0.2× 68 0.5× 8 998
Enrico Rubagotti 209 0.4× 233 0.5× 184 0.6× 47 0.3× 50 0.4× 8 520
Anne Goris 146 0.3× 483 1.1× 234 0.8× 161 1.0× 31 0.2× 11 693
Elizabeth B. Perry 330 0.6× 473 1.1× 104 0.4× 90 0.6× 39 0.3× 13 730
Peik Haugen 301 0.6× 824 1.9× 246 0.8× 64 0.4× 187 1.5× 44 1.1k
Mohammed‐Amin Madoui 228 0.4× 413 0.9× 357 1.2× 48 0.3× 44 0.3× 27 787
Shoko Ueki 95 0.2× 364 0.8× 808 2.7× 74 0.5× 99 0.8× 36 1.2k
Donna Perkins-Balding 96 0.2× 296 0.7× 93 0.3× 46 0.3× 76 0.6× 14 543
Tobias Mourier 92 0.2× 513 1.2× 200 0.7× 24 0.1× 32 0.3× 22 823

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew B. Sullivan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew B. Sullivan

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

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Pérez-Carrascal, Olga M., Akbar Adjie Pratama, Matthew B. Sullivan, & Kirsten Küsel. (2025). Unveiling plasmid diversity and functionality in pristine groundwater. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 42–42.
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Roux, Simon, Gareth Trubl, Danielle Goudeau, et al.. (2019). Optimizing de novo genome assembly from PCR-amplified metagenomes. PeerJ. 7. e6902–e6902. 26 indexed citations
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Mizuno, Carolina Megumi, Simon Roux, Régis Lavigne, et al.. (2019). Numerous cultivated and uncultivated viruses encode ribosomal proteins. Nature Communications. 10(1). 752–752. 63 indexed citations
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Trubl, Gareth, Ho Bin Jang, Simon Roux, et al.. (2018). Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing. mSystems. 3(5). 251 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rogers, Kerry A., Luay Mousa, Qiuhong Zhao, et al.. (2017). Incidence and Type of Opportunistic Infections during Ibrutinib Treatment at a Single Academic Center. Blood. 130(Suppl_1). 830–830. 23 indexed citations
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Roux, Simon, Joanne Emerson, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, & Matthew B. Sullivan. (2017). Benchmarking viromics: an in silico evaluation of metagenome-enabled estimates of viral community composition and diversity. PeerJ. 5. e3817–e3817. 185 indexed citations
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Silas, Sukrit, Kira S. Makarova, Sergey Shmakov, et al.. (2017). On the Origin of Reverse Transcriptase-Using CRISPR-Cas Systems and Their Hyperdiverse, Enigmatic Spacer Repertoires. mBio. 8(4). 46 indexed citations
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Brum, Jennifer R., J. Cesar Ignacio‐Espinoza, Eun‐Hae Kim, et al.. (2016). Illuminating structural proteins in viral “dark matter” with metaproteomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(9). 2436–2441. 53 indexed citations
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Trubl, Gareth, Natalie Solonenko, Lauren Chittick, et al.. (2016). Optimization of viral resuspension methods for carbon-rich soils along a permafrost thaw gradient. PeerJ. 4. e1999–e1999. 40 indexed citations
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Snead, Jennifer L., Matthew B. Sullivan, Drew M. Lowery, et al.. (2007). A Coupled Chemical-Genetic and Bioinformatic Approach to Polo-like Kinase Pathway Exploration. Chemistry & Biology. 14(11). 1261–1272. 70 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Matthew B., et al.. (2001). Orchestrating anaphase and mitotic exit: separase cleavage and localization of Slk19. Nature Cell Biology. 3(9). 771–777. 118 indexed citations

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