Melhem Bilen

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 907 citations indexed

About

Melhem Bilen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Melhem Bilen has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 907 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 7 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Melhem Bilen's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (31 papers), Gut microbiota and health (22 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (18 papers). Melhem Bilen is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (31 papers), Gut microbiota and health (22 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (18 papers). Melhem Bilen collaborates with scholars based in France, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Melhem Bilen's co-authors include Didier Raoult, F. Cadoret, Jean‐Christophe Lagier, Pierre‐Edouard Fournier, Matthieu Million, Florence Fenollar, Anthony Levasseur, Jean‐Marc Rolain, Ziad Daoud and Jean-Charles Dufour and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Reviews Microbiology and Frontiers in Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Melhem Bilen

42 papers receiving 899 citations

Hit Papers

Culturing the human microbiota and culturomics 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Culturing the human microbiota and culturomics
    2018 581 citations Jean‐Christophe Lagier, Matthieu Million et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melhem Bilen France 10 661 190 152 136 95 42 907
F. Cadoret France 13 872 1.3× 235 1.2× 196 1.3× 174 1.3× 130 1.4× 74 1.2k
Shabhonam Caim United Kingdom 15 483 0.7× 123 0.6× 164 1.1× 74 0.5× 62 0.7× 18 765
Caroline Michelle France 16 561 0.8× 88 0.5× 190 1.3× 157 1.2× 158 1.7× 63 907
Blessing O. Anonye United Kingdom 5 987 1.5× 304 1.6× 345 2.3× 188 1.4× 80 0.8× 7 1.2k
Maria Trancassini Italy 15 457 0.7× 125 0.7× 168 1.1× 58 0.4× 135 1.4× 46 1.0k
Natalie Knox Canada 17 795 1.2× 181 1.0× 380 2.5× 120 0.9× 301 3.2× 42 1.4k
Aaron G. Wexler United States 9 693 1.0× 182 1.0× 244 1.6× 87 0.6× 60 0.6× 10 1.1k
Joseph Horwinski United States 14 361 0.5× 169 0.9× 130 0.9× 67 0.5× 189 2.0× 15 1.5k
Melissa R. Cruz United States 15 523 0.8× 176 0.9× 381 2.5× 69 0.5× 127 1.3× 23 985
Jayoung Paek South Korea 15 465 0.7× 143 0.8× 93 0.6× 141 1.0× 65 0.7× 49 669

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melhem Bilen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melhem Bilen

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

All Works

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Bilen, Melhem, et al.. (2025). The impact of Helicobacter pylori infection and eradication therapies on gut microbiota: a systematic review of microbial dysbiosis and its implications in gastric carcinogenesis. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 15. 1592977–1592977. 2 indexed citations
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Bilen, Melhem, Maryam Tidjani Alou, Cheikh Ibrahima Lo, et al.. (2023). Description of Agathobaculum massiliense sp. nov., a new bacterial species prevalent in the human gut and predicted to produce indole and tryptophan based on genomic analysis. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 116(6). 541–555. 2 indexed citations
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Akiana, Jean, Melhem Bilen, Florence Fenollar, et al.. (2022). Peptostreptococcus faecalis sp. nov., new bacterial species isolated from healthy indigenous congolese volunteer. Heliyon. 8(3). e09102–e09102. 7 indexed citations
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Matar, Ghassan M. & Melhem Bilen. (2022). Culturomics, a potential approach paving the way toward bacteriotherapy. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 69. 102194–102194. 14 indexed citations
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Lo, Cheikh Ibrahima, Sory Ibrahima Traore, Awa Diop, et al.. (2022). Arabiibacter massiliensis gen. nov. sp. nov., New Anaerobic Bacterium Isolated from the Human Gut. Current Microbiology. 79(2). 47–47. 5 indexed citations
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Fonkou, Maxime Descartes Mbogning, Melhem Bilen, Nina Gouba, et al.. (2019). Non-contiguous finished genome sequencing and description of Enterococcus timonensis sp. nov. isolated from human sputum. New Microbes and New Infections. 29. 100532–100532. 2 indexed citations
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Bilen, Melhem, Maxime Descartes Mbogning Fonkou, Magali Richez, et al.. (2019). Dysgonomonas massiliensis sp. nov., a new species isolated from the human gut and its taxonogenomic description. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 112(6). 935–945. 8 indexed citations
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Bilen, Melhem, Maxime Descartes Mbogning Fonkou, S. Khelaifia, et al.. (2018). EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Taxonogenomics description of Parabacteroides timonensis sp. nov. isolated from a human stool sample. MicrobiologyOpen. 8(4). e00702–e00702. 8 indexed citations
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Bilen, Melhem, Maxime Descartes Mbogning Fonkou, Nicholas Armstrong, et al.. (2018). EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Eggerthella timonensis sp. nov, a new species isolated from the stool sample of a pygmy female. MicrobiologyOpen. 7(5). e00575–e00575. 4 indexed citations
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Bilen, Melhem, Jean-Charles Dufour, Jean‐Christophe Lagier, et al.. (2018). The contribution of culturomics to the repertoire of isolated human bacterial and archaeal species. Microbiome. 6(1). 94–94. 136 indexed citations
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Bilen, Melhem, Mamadou Beye, Maxime Descartes Mbogning Fonkou, et al.. (2018). EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Genomic and phenotypic description of the newly isolated human species Collinsella bouchesdurhonensis sp. nov.. MicrobiologyOpen. 7(5). e00580–e00580. 2 indexed citations
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Bilen, Melhem, F. Cadoret, Mame Codou Guèye, et al.. (2017). ‘Phoenicibacter massiliensis’ gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the human gut of a pygmy woman. New Microbes and New Infections. 19. 43–44. 2 indexed citations
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Benamar, Samia, et al.. (2017). Developmental Cycle and Genome Analysis of Protochlamydia massiliensis sp. nov. a New Species in the Parachlamydiacae Family. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 7. 385–385. 10 indexed citations
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Bilen, Melhem, S. Ndongo, F. Cadoret, et al.. (2016). ‘Mobilibacterium massiliense’ gen. nov. and ‘Mobilibacterium timonense’ sp. nov., identified in a human stool specimen. New Microbes and New Infections. 15. 61–62. 1 indexed citations
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Bilen, Melhem, F. Cadoret, Ziad Daoud, Pierre‐Edouard Fournier, & Didier Raoult. (2016). “Collinsella bouchesdurhonensis” sp. nov., identified in human stool sample. New Microbes and New Infections. 17. 39–40. 2 indexed citations

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