Michael J. Barratt

7.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
41 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Michael J. Barratt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Barratt has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 9 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Barratt's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (16 papers), Gut microbiota and health (13 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (9 papers). Michael J. Barratt is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (16 papers), Gut microbiota and health (13 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (9 papers). Michael J. Barratt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bangladesh and United Kingdom. Michael J. Barratt's co-authors include Louis C. Mahadevan, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Anthony C. Willis, Tahmeed Ahmed, Alison L. Clayton, Sathish Subramanian, Catherine A. Hazzalin, Mustafa Mahfuz, Sayeeda Huq and Eva Cano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Barratt

38 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Persistent gut microbiota immaturity in malnourished Bangladeshi children

2014 868 citations Sayeeda Huq, Rashidul Haque et al. profile →
Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children

2016 542 citations Michael J. Barratt, Siddarth Venkatesh et al. profile →
A Microbiota-Directed Food Intervention for Undernourished Children

2021 156 citations Robert Y. Chen, Ishita Mostafa et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael J. Barratt United States	22	2.5k	899	593	500	270	41	3.6k
Jiye Cheng United States	21	2.2k 0.9×	571 0.6×	710 1.2×	635 1.3×	482 1.8×	27	3.3k
Giacinto Abele Donato Miggiano Italy	20	2.5k 1.0×	507 0.6×	1.4k 2.4×	586 1.2×	404 1.5×	50	4.3k
Matthew Jackson United Kingdom	24	3.0k 1.2×	280 0.3×	1.5k 2.6×	552 1.1×	269 1.0×	38	4.4k
Ettje F. Tigchelaar Netherlands	14	2.3k 0.9×	249 0.3×	1.0k 1.7×	459 0.9×	240 0.9×	15	3.7k
Bernard M. Corfe United Kingdom	31	2.5k 1.0×	434 0.5×	880 1.5×	342 0.7×	456 1.7×	111	4.7k
Henrik M. Roager Denmark	23	3.2k 1.3×	614 0.7×	1.6k 2.7×	533 1.1×	595 2.2×	41	4.5k
Eileen F. Murphy Ireland	20	3.3k 1.3×	701 0.8×	2.1k 3.6×	475 0.9×	700 2.6×	30	4.8k
Jordan E. Bisanz United States	28	2.0k 0.8×	342 0.4×	805 1.4×	339 0.7×	355 1.3×	51	3.4k
Rebecca Wall Ireland	19	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	837 1.4×	247 0.5×	454 1.7×	28	3.4k
Reinaldo B. Oriá Brazil	33	603 0.2×	1.1k 1.2×	367 0.6×	690 1.4×	104 0.4×	122	3.3k

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Zhou, Cyrus, Bo Pilgaard, M. Paul Vuillemin, et al.. (2025). Glycoside hydrolase–mediated glucomannan catabolism in Segatella copri , a target of microbiota-directed foods for malnourished children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(49). e2521522122–e2521522122.

Arzamasov, Aleksandr A., Dmitry A. Rodionov, Janaki L. Guruge, et al.. (2025). Integrative genomic reconstruction reveals heterogeneity in carbohydrate utilization across human gut bifidobacteria. Nature Microbiology. 10(8). 2031–2047. 3 indexed citations

Siefried, Krista J., Amy Peacock, Michael J. Barratt, et al.. (2025). From environmental disasters to emerging drugs; a framework to understand, map and assess drug-related early warning systems. International Journal of Drug Policy. 145. 104946–104946.

Mostafa, Ishita, Martin L. Hibberd, Steven J. Hartman, et al.. (2024). A microbiota-directed complementary food intervention in 12–18-month-old Bangladeshi children improves linear growth. EBioMedicine. 104. 105166–105166. 13 indexed citations

Couture, Garret, Juan J. Castillo, Omar Delannoy-Bruno, et al.. (2024). A multi-glycomic platform for the analysis of food carbohydrates. Nature Protocols. 19(11). 3321–3359. 11 indexed citations

Gordon, Jeffrey I., Michael J. Barratt, Martin L. Hibberd, Mustafizur Rahman, & Tahmeed Ahmed. (2024). Establishing human microbial observatory programs in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1540(1). 13–20. 1 indexed citations

Mostafa, Ishita, Shah Mohammad Fahim, Subhasish Das, et al.. (2022). Developing shelf-stable Microbiota Directed Complementary Food (MDCF) prototypes for malnourished children: study protocol for a randomized, single-blinded, clinical study. BMC Pediatrics. 22(1). 385–385. 4 indexed citations

Cheng, Jiye, Omar Delannoy-Bruno, Daniel M. Webber, et al.. (2022). Microbial liberation of N-methylserotonin from orange fiber in gnotobiotic mice and humans. Cell. 185(14). 2495–2509.e11. 43 indexed citations

Barratt, Michael J., Tahmeed Ahmed, & Jeffrey I. Gordon. (2022). Gut microbiome development and childhood undernutrition. Cell Host & Microbe. 30(5). 617–626. 20 indexed citations

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Weagley, James, Mark A. Zaydman, Siddarth Venkatesh, et al.. (2022). Products of gut microbial Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domain NADase activities in gnotobiotic mice and Bangladeshi children with malnutrition. Cell Reports. 39(4). 110738–110738. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Robert Y., Ishita Mostafa, Martin L. Hibberd, et al.. (2021). Melding microbiome and nutritional science with early child development. Nature Medicine. 27(9). 1503–1506. 6 indexed citations

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Chang, Hao-Wei, Nathan P. McNulty, Martin L. Hibberd, et al.. (2021). Gut microbiome contributions to altered metabolism in a pig model of undernutrition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(21). 18 indexed citations

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Luccia, Blanda Di, Philip P. Ahern, Nicholas W. Griffin, et al.. (2020). Combined Prebiotic and Microbial Intervention Improves Oral Cholera Vaccination Responses in a Mouse Model of Childhood Undernutrition. Cell Host & Microbe. 27(6). 899–908.e5. 40 indexed citations

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Mostafa, Ishita, Sayeeda Huq, Mustafa Mahfuz, et al.. (2020). Proof-of-concept study of the efficacy of a microbiota-directed complementary food formulation (MDCF) for treating moderate acute malnutrition. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 242–242. 22 indexed citations

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Cowardin, Carrie A., Philip P. Ahern, Vanderlene L. Kung, et al.. (2019). Mechanisms by which sialylated milk oligosaccharides impact bone biology in a gnotobiotic mouse model of infant undernutrition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(24). 11988–11996. 57 indexed citations

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Hibberd, Martin L., Meng Wu, Dmitry A. Rodionov, et al.. (2017). The effects of micronutrient deficiencies on bacterial species from the human gut microbiota. Science Translational Medicine. 9(390). 176 indexed citations

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Mahfuz, Mustafa, Subhasish Das, Ramendra Nath Mazumder, et al.. (2017). Bangladesh Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (BEED) study: protocol for a community-based intervention study to validate non-invasive biomarkers of environmental enteric dysfunction. BMJ Open. 7(8). e017768–e017768. 49 indexed citations

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Barratt, Michael J., et al.. (2017). The Gut Microbiota, Food Science, and Human Nutrition: A Timely Marriage. Cell Host & Microbe. 22(2). 134–141. 79 indexed citations

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Clayton, Alison L., et al.. (2000). Phosphoacetylation of histone H3 on c- fos - and c- jun -associated nucleosomes upon gene activation. The EMBO Journal. 19(14). 3714–3726. 352 indexed citations

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Hazzalin, Catherine A., Eva Cano, Ana Cuenda, et al.. (1996). p38/RK is essential for stress-induced nuclear responses: JNK/SAPKs and c-Jun/ATF-2 phosphorylation are insufficient. Current Biology. 6(8). 1028–1031. 193 indexed citations

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