Patrick Veiga

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Patrick Veiga is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Veiga has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Food Science and 9 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Veiga's work include Gut microbiota and health (16 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (12 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (9 papers). Patrick Veiga is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (16 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (12 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (9 papers). Patrick Veiga collaborates with scholars based in France, Netherlands and United States. Patrick Veiga's co-authors include Muriel Derrien, Wendy S. Garrett, Monia Michaud, Jonathan N. Glickman, Carey Ann Gallini, Johan E. T. van Hylckama Vlieg, Sonia Ballal, Chenhong Zhang, Johan van Hylckama Vlieg and Rémi Brazeilles and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Veiga

27 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Bilophila wadsworthia aggravates high fat diet induced metabolic dysfunctions in mice

2018 386 citations Johan van Hylckama Vlieg, Patrick Veiga et al. Nature Communications profile →
The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health

2025 16 citations Yolanda Sanz, John F. Cryan et al. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Veiga France	18	1.6k	682	470	343	307	27	2.2k
Ro Osawa Japan	17	1.5k 0.9×	386 0.6×	504 1.1×	226 0.7×	309 1.0×	31	2.1k
Valentina Taverniti Italy	27	1.6k 1.0×	999 1.5×	377 0.8×	212 0.6×	349 1.1×	48	2.5k
Christina Hickey United States	11	1.7k 1.1×	432 0.6×	553 1.2×	296 0.9×	415 1.4×	17	2.6k
Doris Vandeputte Belgium	12	1.9k 1.2×	400 0.6×	682 1.5×	218 0.6×	426 1.4×	20	2.6k
Mathis Wolter Luxembourg	5	1.7k 1.0×	431 0.6×	596 1.3×	298 0.9×	351 1.1×	5	2.3k
Samuel A. Smits United States	9	2.0k 1.3×	384 0.6×	723 1.5×	260 0.8×	559 1.8×	11	2.5k
Aitor Blanco‐Míguez Spain	12	1.8k 1.1×	620 0.9×	398 0.8×	153 0.4×	375 1.2×	32	2.5k
Ashwana D. Fricker United States	9	1.8k 1.1×	335 0.5×	457 1.0×	247 0.7×	447 1.5×	14	2.4k
Herbert C. Chiang United States	7	1.9k 1.2×	796 1.2×	292 0.6×	287 0.8×	465 1.5×	7	2.7k
Yumiko Nakanishi Japan	20	2.0k 1.3×	726 1.1×	492 1.0×	305 0.9×	433 1.4×	44	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Veiga

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Veiga

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sanz, Yolanda, John F. Cryan, Mélanie Deschasaux, et al.. (2025). The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 22(8). 534–555. 16 indexed citations breakdown →

Benallaoua, Mourad, Anne‐Sophie Alvarez, Nicolas Pons, et al.. (2025). Associations Among Diet, Health, Lifestyle, and Gut Microbiota Composition in the General French Population: Protocol for the Le French Gut – Le Microbiote Français Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 14. e64894–e64894. 1 indexed citations

Tap, Julien, Franck Lejzerowicz, Aurélie Cotillard, et al.. (2023). Global branches and local states of the human gut microbiome define associations with environmental and intrinsic factors. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3310–3310. 20 indexed citations

FitzGerald, Jamie A., Shriram Patel, Julia Eckenberger, et al.. (2022). Improved gut microbiome recovery following drug therapy is linked to abundance and replication of probiotic strains. Gut Microbes. 14(1). 2094664–2094664. 17 indexed citations

Roy, Caroline Le, Alexander Kurilshikov, Emily R. Leeming, et al.. (2022). Yoghurt consumption is associated with changes in the composition of the human gut microbiome and metabolome. BMC Microbiology. 22(1). 39–39. 58 indexed citations

Nevé, Boris Le, Zixuan Xie, Matthieu Pichaud, et al.. (2022). Human gut metatranscriptome changes induced by a fermented milk product are associated with improved tolerance to a flatulogenic diet. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 20. 1632–1641. 1 indexed citations

Cotillard, Aurélie, Nicole S. Litwin, Franck Lejzerowicz, et al.. (2021). A posteriori dietary patterns better explain variations of the gut microbiome than individual markers in the American Gut Project. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 115(2). 432–443. 52 indexed citations

Veiga, Patrick, et al.. (2020). Danone: The gut microbiome and probiotics-100 years of shared history. Nature. 577(7792). 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Chenhong, Muriel Derrien, Florence Levenez, et al.. (2016). Ecological robustness of the gut microbiota in response to ingestion of transient food-borne microbes. The ISME Journal. 10(9). 2235–2245. 175 indexed citations

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Derrien, Muriel & Patrick Veiga. (2016). Rethinking Diet to Aid Human–Microbe Symbiosis. Trends in Microbiology. 25(2). 100–112. 82 indexed citations

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Solopova, Ana, Cécile Formosa‐Dague, Pascal Courtin, et al.. (2016). Regulation of Cell Wall Plasticity by Nucleotide Metabolism in Lactococcus lactis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(21). 11323–11336. 15 indexed citations

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Veiga, Patrick, Julien Tap, & Muriel Derrien. (2016). Microbiote intestinal, la clé pour une meilleure alimentation ?. médecine/sciences. 32(11). 999–1002. 1 indexed citations

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Ballal, Sonia, Patrick Veiga, Kathrin Fenn, et al.. (2015). Host lysozyme-mediated lysis of Lactococcus lactis facilitates delivery of colitis-attenuating superoxide dismutase to inflamed colons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(25). 7803–7808. 83 indexed citations

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Veiga, Patrick, Anurag K. Agrawal, Raish Oozeer, et al.. (2014). Changes of the human gut microbiome induced by a fermented milk product. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 6328–6328. 186 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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Veiga, Patrick, Carey Ann Gallini, Monia Michaud, et al.. (2010). Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis fermented milk product reduces inflammation by altering a niche for colitogenic microbes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(42). 18132–18137. 182 indexed citations

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Campelo, Ana B., et al.. (2009). Contribution of the CesR-regulated genes llmg0169 and llmg2164-2163 to Lactococcus lactis fitness. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 133(3). 279–285. 15 indexed citations

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Veiga, Patrick, Sylviane Furlan, Marie‐Pierre Chapot‐Chartier, et al.. (2007). SpxB Regulates O-Acetylation-dependent Resistance of Lactococcus lactis Peptidoglycan to Hydrolysis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(27). 19342–19354. 82 indexed citations

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Veiga, Patrick, Sandra Piquet, Sylviane Furlan, et al.. (2006). Identification of an essential gene responsible for d‐Asp incorporation in the Lactococcus lactis peptidoglycan crossbridge. Molecular Microbiology. 62(6). 1713–1724. 56 indexed citations

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Veiga, Patrick, et al.. (2004). Correlation between faecal microbial community structure and cholesterol-to-coprostanol conversion in the human gut. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 242(1). 81–86. 56 indexed citations

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