Niels van Best

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 864 citations indexed

About

Niels van Best is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Niels van Best has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 864 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Infectious Diseases and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Niels van Best's work include Gut microbiota and health (20 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (8 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (4 papers). Niels van Best is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (20 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (8 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (4 papers). Niels van Best collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Niels van Best's co-authors include John Penders, Paul H. M. Savelkoul, Mathias W. Hornef, Monique Mommers, Danyta I. Tedjo, Daisy Jonkers, Ad Masclee, Liene Bervoets, Marieke Pierik and Gianluca Galazzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Gastroenterology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Niels van Best

22 papers receiving 857 citations

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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.

Development of the Microbiota and Associations With Birth Mode, Diet, and Atopic Disorders in a Longitudinal Analysis of Stool Samples, Collected From Infancy Through Early Childhood

2020 198 citations Gianluca Galazzo, Niels van Best et al. Gastroenterology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niels van Best Netherlands	11	624	186	163	136	118	22	864
Kévin Vervier United Kingdom	8	668 1.1×	149 0.8×	200 1.2×	181 1.3×	136 1.2×	15	1.0k
Françoise Le Vacon France	10	716 1.1×	164 0.9×	173 1.1×	194 1.4×	112 0.9×	21	1.2k
Petya Koleva Canada	21	560 0.9×	324 1.7×	317 1.9×	113 0.8×	185 1.6×	42	1.3k
Linda Wampach Luxembourg	6	610 1.0×	109 0.6×	101 0.6×	141 1.0×	86 0.7×	7	789
Toni-Ann Mistretta United States	12	846 1.4×	185 1.0×	159 1.0×	162 1.2×	333 2.8×	12	1.5k
Juliana Durack United States	10	732 1.2×	312 1.7×	65 0.4×	209 1.5×	115 1.0×	18	1.2k
Victoria Ruiz United States	10	607 1.0×	170 0.9×	72 0.4×	207 1.5×	87 0.7×	17	970
Julie Mirpuri United States	15	571 0.9×	78 0.4×	210 1.3×	238 1.8×	191 1.6×	24	1.3k
Xiaojuan Tong China	5	832 1.3×	216 1.2×	70 0.4×	190 1.4×	124 1.1×	7	1.1k
Taylor Feehley United States	9	700 1.1×	374 2.0×	138 0.8×	219 1.6×	81 0.7×	12	1.4k

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Kujawska, Magdalena, Manuel Bernabeu, María Carmen Collado, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive analysis of Enterococcus spp. from two European healthy infant cohorts shows stable genomic traits including antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2516699–2516699. 1 indexed citations

Guchelaar, Henk‐Jan, Janine Ziemons, John Penders, et al.. (2025). The role of the gut microbiota in chemotherapy response, efficacy and toxicity: a systematic review. npj Precision Oncology. 9(1). 265–265. 3 indexed citations

Galazzo, Gianluca, Niels van Best, Monique Mommers, et al.. (2023). Edge and modular significance assessment in individual-specific networks. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 7868–7868. 2 indexed citations

Best, Niels van, Maris S. Arcilla, Jarne M. van Hattem, et al.. (2023). Post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome after intercontinental travel: a prospective multicentre study. Journal of Travel Medicine. 30(6). 3 indexed citations

Galazzo, Gianluca, Niels van Best, Monique Mommers, et al.. (2023). Capturing the dynamics of microbial interactions through individual-specific networks. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1170391–1170391. 8 indexed citations

Bích, Vũ Thị Ngọc, Ngoc Giang Le, David Barnett, et al.. (2022). Moderate and transient impact of antibiotic use on the gut microbiota in a rural Vietnamese cohort. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 20189–20189. 5 indexed citations

Dizzell, Sara, Liene Bervoets, Julia Simioni, et al.. (2021). Infants’ First Solid Foods: Impact on Gut Microbiota Development in Two Intercontinental Cohorts. Nutrients. 13(8). 2639–2639. 56 indexed citations

Dizzell, Sara, Jennifer C. Stearns, Niels van Best, et al.. (2021). Investigating colonization patterns of the infant gut microbiome during the introduction of solid food and weaning from breastmilk: A cohort study protocol. PLoS ONE. 16(4). e0248924–e0248924. 11 indexed citations

Best, Niels van & Mathias W. Hornef. (2021). Early life host regulation of the mammalian enteric microbiota composition. International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 311(3). 151498–151498. 1 indexed citations

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Bervoets, Liene, Hans Ippel, Agnieszka Smolinska, et al.. (2021). Practical and Robust NMR-Based Metabolic Phenotyping of Gut Health in Early Life. Journal of Proteome Research. 20(11). 5079–5087. 6 indexed citations

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Best, Niels van, Ulrike Rolle‐Kampczyk, Frank G. Schaap, et al.. (2020). Bile acids drive the newborn’s gut microbiota maturation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3692–3692. 139 indexed citations

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Galazzo, Gianluca, Niels van Best, Birke J. Benedikter, et al.. (2020). How to Count Our Microbes? The Effect of Different Quantitative Microbiome Profiling Approaches. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 10. 403–403. 84 indexed citations

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Galazzo, Gianluca, Niels van Best, Liene Bervoets, et al.. (2020). Development of the Microbiota and Associations With Birth Mode, Diet, and Atopic Disorders in a Longitudinal Analysis of Stool Samples, Collected From Infancy Through Early Childhood. Gastroenterology. 158(6). 1584–1596. 198 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pieper, Robert, Niels van Best, Kira van Vorst, et al.. (2020). Toward a porcine in vivo model to analyze the pathogenesis of TLR5-dependent enteropathies. Gut Microbes. 12(1). 1782163–1782163. 1 indexed citations

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Bannier, Michiel, Liene Bervoets, Niels van Best, et al.. (2019). Gut microbiota in wheezing preschool children and the development of childhood asthma. PA4507–PA4507. 1 indexed citations

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Verdier, Julien, Niels van Best, Inga Benz, et al.. (2018). Subcellular antigen localization in commensal E. coli is critical for T cell activation and induction of specific tolerance. Mucosal Immunology. 12(1). 97–107. 6 indexed citations

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Best, Niels van, Carel Thijs, Paul H. M. Savelkoul, et al.. (2017). Gut Colonization by Methanogenic Archaea Is Associated with Organic Dairy Consumption in Children. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 355–355. 51 indexed citations

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Best, Niels van, Mathias W. Hornef, Paul H. M. Savelkoul, & John Penders. (2015). On the origin of species: Factors shaping the establishment of infant's gut microbiota. Birth Defects Research Part C Embryo Today Reviews. 105(4). 240–251. 59 indexed citations

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Best, Niels van, Peter L. M. Jansen, & Sander S. Rensen. (2015). The gut microbiota of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: current methods and their interpretation. Hepatology International. 9(3). 406–415. 29 indexed citations

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Tedjo, Danyta I., Daisy Jonkers, Paul H. M. Savelkoul, et al.. (2015). The Effect of Sampling and Storage on the Fecal Microbiota Composition in Healthy and Diseased Subjects. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0126685–e0126685. 151 indexed citations

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