Michelle Rooks

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Michelle Rooks is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle Rooks has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Michelle Rooks's work include Gut microbiota and health (5 papers), Gastrointestinal motility and disorders (2 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (2 papers). Michelle Rooks is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (5 papers), Gastrointestinal motility and disorders (2 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (2 papers). Michelle Rooks collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Germany. Michelle Rooks's co-authors include Wendy S. Garrett, Gregory J. Hannon, Leonardo Brizuela, Emily Hodges, Arindam Bhattacharjee, Zhenyu Xuan, W. Richard McCombie, Monia Michaud, Jonathan N. Glickman and Patrick Veiga and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature reviews. Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Michelle Rooks

12 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Gut microbiota, metabolites and host immunity

2016 2.4k citations Michelle Rooks, Wendy S. Garrett Nature reviews. Immunology profile →
Targeted Investigation of the Neandertal Genome by Array-Based Sequence Capture

2010 202 citations Hernán A. Burbano, Emily Hodges et al. Science profile →

Peers

Michelle Rooks

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Natasha A. Barry United States

Mahesh S. Desai Luxembourg

Aaron C. Ericsson United States

Camilla Hartmann Friis Hansen Denmark

Myunghoo Kim South Korea

Vanessa K. Ridaura United States

Imke Mulder United Kingdom

Clelia Peano Italy

Caleb Kelly United States

Bjoern O. Schroeder Sweden

Natasha A. Barry United States

Michelle Rooks

2.3k ×0.9

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403 ×0.7

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686 ×1.2

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724 ×1.3

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436 ×1.1

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Citations per year, relative to Michelle Rooks Michelle Rooks (= 1×) peers Natasha A. Barry

Countries citing papers authored by Michelle Rooks

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michelle Rooks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Michelle Rooks. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Michelle Rooks. The network helps show where Michelle Rooks may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michelle Rooks

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

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Bhute, Shrikant S., Jon G. Sanders, Se Jin Song, et al.. (2025). ChIP provides 10-fold microbial DNA enrichment from tissue while minimizing bias. Molecular Biology Reports. 52(1). 258–258. 1 indexed citations

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Busciglio, Irene, Deborah J. Eckert, Michael Ryks, et al.. (2025). Effects of Ricinoleic Acid (Castor Oil) on Gut Permeability in Healthy Participants: Provocative Test for Treatments Aimed at Restoring Barrier Function. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. 16(7). e00865–e00865.

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Jelinsky, Scott A., Eric B. Bauman, Carla S. Veríssimo, et al.. (2022). Molecular and Functional Characterization of Human Intestinal Organoids and Monolayers for Modeling Epithelial Barrier. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 29(2). 195–206. 35 indexed citations

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Rooks, Michelle & Wendy S. Garrett. (2016). Gut microbiota, metabolites and host immunity. Nature reviews. Immunology. 16(6). 341–352. 2407 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rooks, Michelle, Patrick Veiga, Analise Z. Reeves, et al.. (2016). QseC inhibition as an antivirulence approach for colitis-associated bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(1). 142–147. 47 indexed citations

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Rooks, Michelle, Patrick Veiga, Timothy L. Tickle, et al.. (2014). Gut microbiome composition and function in experimental colitis during active disease and treatment-induced remission. The ISME Journal. 8(7). 1403–1417. 325 indexed citations

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Rooks, Michelle & Wendy S. Garrett. (2011). Bacteria, food, and cancer. F1000 Biology Reports. 3. 12–12. 13 indexed citations

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Albert, Frank W., Emily Hodges, Jeffrey D. Jensen, et al.. (2011). Targeted resequencing of a genomic region influencing tameness and aggression reveals multiple signals of positive selection. Heredity. 107(3). 205–214. 24 indexed citations

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Rosa-Rosa, Juan Manuel, Emily Hodges, Guillermo Pita, et al.. (2010). Deep Sequencing of Target Linkage Assay-Identified Regions in Familial Breast Cancer: Methods, Analysis Pipeline and Troubleshooting. PLoS ONE. 5(4). e9976–e9976. 5 indexed citations

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Burbano, Hernán A., Emily Hodges, Richard E. Green, et al.. (2010). Targeted Investigation of the Neandertal Genome by Array-Based Sequence Capture. Science. 328(5979). 723–725. 202 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hodges, Emily, Andrew D. Smith, Jude Kendall, et al.. (2009). High definition profiling of mammalian DNA methylation by array capture and single molecule bisulfite sequencing. Genome Research. 19(9). 1593–1605. 175 indexed citations

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Hodges, Emily, Michelle Rooks, Zhenyu Xuan, et al.. (2009). Hybrid selection of discrete genomic intervals on custom-designed microarrays for massively parallel sequencing. Nature Protocols. 4(6). 960–974. 138 indexed citations

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Erlich, Yaniv, Kenneth Chang, Assaf Gordon, et al.. (2009). DNA Sudoku—harnessing high-throughput sequencing for multiplexed specimen analysis. Genome Research. 19(7). 1243–1253. 111 indexed citations

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