Paul Igor Costea

19.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Paul Igor Costea is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Igor Costea has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Infectious Diseases and 3 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Paul Igor Costea's work include Gut microbiota and health (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (3 papers). Paul Igor Costea is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (3 papers). Paul Igor Costea collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. Paul Igor Costea's co-authors include Peer Bork, Shinichi Sunagawa, Luís Pedro Coelho, Georg Zeller, Anita Y. Voigt, Simone S. Li, Thomas Schmidt, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Matthew R. Hayward and Renato Alves and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Paul Igor Costea

17 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Durable coexistence of donor and recipient strains after fecal microbiota transplantation

2016 389 citations Simone S. Li, Ana Zhu et al. Science profile →
Extensive transmission of microbes along the gastrointestinal tract

2019 376 citations Thomas Schmidt, Matthew R. Hayward et al. eLife profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Igor Costea Germany	14	1.5k	517	299	267	223	17	2.0k
Heather H. Creasy United States	11	1.4k 1.0×	317 0.6×	275 0.9×	215 0.8×	192 0.9×	18	2.1k
Kazuyoshi Gotoh Japan	20	1.1k 0.7×	468 0.9×	269 0.9×	247 0.9×	165 0.7×	57	2.4k
Emma Schwager United States	11	1.5k 1.0×	283 0.5×	394 1.3×	207 0.8×	199 0.9×	18	2.2k
Yancong Zhang United States	12	2.2k 1.5×	447 0.9×	537 1.8×	350 1.3×	327 1.5×	22	3.2k
Francesco Beghini Italy	12	2.2k 1.5×	479 0.9×	365 1.2×	398 1.5×	539 2.4×	13	3.0k
Aitor Blanco‐Míguez Spain	12	1.8k 1.2×	375 0.7×	398 1.3×	620 2.3×	183 0.8×	32	2.5k
Paolo Manghi Italy	13	2.2k 1.5×	445 0.9×	384 1.3×	434 1.6×	545 2.4×	20	3.0k
Michelle I. Smith Canada	16	1.4k 1.0×	464 0.9×	382 1.3×	174 0.7×	207 0.9×	39	2.1k
Kelvin Li United States	18	2.1k 1.4×	644 1.2×	498 1.7×	197 0.7×	316 1.4×	29	3.4k
Vinod K. Gupta United States	12	1.3k 0.9×	255 0.5×	224 0.7×	220 0.8×	289 1.3×	29	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Igor Costea

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All Works

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Hamburger, Franz, et al.. (2025). Automation-aided construction and characterization of Bacillus subtilis PrsA strains for the secretion of amylases. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 12. 1479626–1479626. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Biwen, Gaurav Dugar, Frans van der Kloet, et al.. (2025). Ribosome pausing in amylase producing Bacillus subtilis during long fermentation. Microbial Cell Factories. 24(1). 31–31. 1 indexed citations

Rossum, Thea Van, Paul Igor Costea, Lucas Paoli, et al.. (2021). metaSNV v2: detection of SNVs and subspecies in prokaryotic metagenomes. Bioinformatics. 38(4). 1162–1164. 11 indexed citations

Schmidt, Thomas, Matthew R. Hayward, Luís Pedro Coelho, et al.. (2019). Extensive transmission of microbes along the gastrointestinal tract. eLife. 8. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

Milanese, Alessio, Daniel R. Mende, Lucas Paoli, et al.. (2019). Microbial abundance, activity and population genomic profiling with mOTUs2. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1014–1014. 243 indexed citations

Kushugulova, Аlmagul, Sofia K. Forslund, Paul Igor Costea, et al.. (2018). Metagenomic analysis of gut microbial communities from a Central Asian population. BMJ Open. 8(7). e021682–e021682. 27 indexed citations

Korpela, Katri, Paul Igor Costea, Luís Pedro Coelho, et al.. (2018). Selective maternal seeding and environment shape the human gut microbiome. Genome Research. 28(4). 561–568. 210 indexed citations

Coelho, Luís Pedro, Jens Roat Kultima, Paul Igor Costea, et al.. (2018). Similarity of the dog and human gut microbiomes in gene content and response to diet. Microbiome. 6(1). 72–72. 231 indexed citations

Dopffel, Nicole, Felix Kögler, Holger Hartmann, et al.. (2018). Microbial induced mineral precipitations caused by nitrate treatment for souring control during microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR). International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 135. 71–79. 27 indexed citations

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Costea, Paul Igor, Luís Pedro Coelho, Shinichi Sunagawa, et al.. (2017). Subspecies in the global human gut microbiome. Molecular Systems Biology. 13(12). 960–960. 88 indexed citations

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Costea, Paul Igor, et al.. (2017). metaSNV: A tool for metagenomic strain level analysis. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0182392–e0182392. 72 indexed citations

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Junqueira, Ana Carolina M., Aakrosh Ratan, Enzo Acerbi, et al.. (2017). The microbiomes of blowflies and houseflies as bacterial transmission reservoirs. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16324–16324. 105 indexed citations

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Li, Simone S., Ana Zhu, Vladimı́r Beneš, et al.. (2016). Durable coexistence of donor and recipient strains after fecal microbiota transplantation. Science. 352(6285). 586–589. 389 indexed citations breakdown →

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Voigt, Anita Y., Paul Igor Costea, Jens Roat Kultima, et al.. (2015). Temporal and technical variability of human gut metagenomes. Genome Biology. 16(1). 73–73. 121 indexed citations

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Costea, Paul Igor, Joakim Lundeberg, & Pelin Akan. (2013). TagGD: Fast and Accurate Software for DNA Tag Generation and Demultiplexing. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e57521–e57521. 31 indexed citations

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Mucaki, Eliseos J., et al.. (2013). Interpretation, Stratification and Evidence for Sequence Variants Affecting mRNA Splicing in Complete Human Genome Sequences. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 11(2). 77–85. 13 indexed citations

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Akan, Pelin, Andrey Alexeyenko, Paul Igor Costea, et al.. (2012). Comprehensive analysis of the genome transcriptome and proteome landscapes of three tumor cell lines. Genome Medicine. 4(11). 86–86. 36 indexed citations

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