Peter J. Turnbaugh

161.0k total citations · 25 hit papers
129 papers, 72.2k citations indexed

About

Peter J. Turnbaugh is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter J. Turnbaugh has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 72.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Physiology and 23 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Peter J. Turnbaugh's work include Gut microbiota and health (102 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (40 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (21 papers). Peter J. Turnbaugh is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (102 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (40 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (21 papers). Peter J. Turnbaugh collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Peter J. Turnbaugh's co-authors include Jeffrey I. Gordon, Ruth E. Ley, Rob Knight, Catherine Lozupone, Samuel Klein, Michael A. Mahowald, Vincent Magrini, Elaine R. Mardis, Fredrik Bäckhed and Micah Hamady and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Peter J. Turnbaugh

125 papers receiving 70.6k citations

Hit Papers

An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capac... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2006 2013 2010 2006 2008 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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.

  1. An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest
    2006 9.2k citations Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ruth E. Ley et al. Nature profile →
  2. Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome
    2013 7.2k citations Lawrence A. David, Corinne F. Maurice et al. Nature profile →
  3. Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample
    2010 7.1k citations Catherine Lozupone, Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Human gut microbes associated with obesity
    2006 6.9k citations Ruth E. Ley, Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. Nature profile →
  5. A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins
    2008 5.9k citations Peter J. Turnbaugh, Micah Hamady et al. Nature profile →
  6. Obesity alters gut microbial ecology
    2005 4.7k citations Ruth E. Ley, Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. The Human Microbiome Project
    2007 4.1k citations Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ruth E. Ley et al. Nature profile →
  8. Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome
    2006 3.5k citations Steven R. Gill, Mihai Pop et al. Science profile →
  9. Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes
    2008 2.7k citations Ruth E. Ley, Micah Hamady et al. Science profile →
  10. Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets
    2011 2.3k citations Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. Science profile →
  11. Diet-Induced Obesity Is Linked to Marked but Reversible Alterations in the Mouse Distal Gut Microbiome
    2008 2.3k citations Peter J. Turnbaugh, Jeffrey I. Gordon et al. profile →
  12. The Effect of Diet on the Human Gut Microbiome: A Metagenomic Analysis in Humanized Gnotobiotic Mice
    2009 2.3k citations Peter J. Turnbaugh, Jeremiah J. Faith et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →
  13. Energy-balance studies reveal associations between gut microbes, caloric load, and nutrient absorption in humans
    2011 923 citations Peter J. Turnbaugh, Jeffrey I. Gordon et al. profile →
  14. Diet Dominates Host Genotype in Shaping the Murine Gut Microbiota
    2014 825 citations Rachel N. Carmody, Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. profile →
  15. Conserved Shifts in the Gut Microbiota Due to Gastric Bypass Reduce Host Weight and Adiposity
    2013 752 citations Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →
  16. The core gut microbiome, energy balance and obesity
    2009 744 citations Peter J. Turnbaugh, Jeffrey I. Gordon profile →
  17. Xenobiotics Shape the Physiology and Gene Expression of the Active Human Gut Microbiome
    2013 615 citations Corinne F. Maurice, Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. Cell profile →
  18. Metagenomic systems biology of the human gut microbiome reveals topological shifts associated with obesity and inflammatory bowel disease
    2011 612 citations Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  19. Characterizing a model human gut microbiota composed of members of its two dominant bacterial phyla
    2009 559 citations Peter J. Turnbaugh, Bernard Henrissat et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  20. Dietary Polyphenols Promote Growth of the Gut Bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila and Attenuate High-Fat Diet–Induced Metabolic Syndrome
    2015 534 citations Rachel N. Carmody, Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. profile →
  21. Discovery and inhibition of an interspecies gut bacterial pathway for Levodopa metabolism
    2019 510 citations Vayu Maini Rekdal, Elizabeth N. Bess et al. Science profile →
  22. The microbial pharmacists within us: a metagenomic view of xenobiotic metabolism
    2016 507 citations Peter Spanogiannopoulos, Elizabeth N. Bess et al. profile →
  23. Predicting and Manipulating Cardiac Drug Inactivation by the Human Gut Bacterium Eggerthella lenta
    2013 501 citations David B. Gootenberg, Emily P. Balskus et al. Science profile →
  24. Ketogenic Diets Alter the Gut Microbiome Resulting in Decreased Intestinal Th17 Cells
    2020 390 citations Qi Yan Ang, Margaret Alexander et al. Cell profile →
  25. A Metabolite-Triggered Tuft Cell-ILC2 Circuit Drives Small Intestinal Remodeling
    2018 335 citations Qi Yan Ang, Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter J. Turnbaugh United States 61 50.6k 22.1k 10.2k 8.5k 6.4k 129 72.2k
Ruth E. Ley United States 71 51.4k 1.0× 19.9k 0.9× 11.3k 1.1× 9.1k 1.1× 6.0k 0.9× 150 74.2k
Fredrik Bäckhed Sweden 99 52.7k 1.0× 28.1k 1.3× 9.1k 0.9× 8.0k 0.9× 1.8k 0.3× 223 74.5k
Curtis Huttenhower United States 89 38.0k 0.8× 7.6k 0.3× 8.0k 0.8× 5.8k 0.7× 7.4k 1.2× 255 57.9k
Willem M. de Vos Netherlands 157 68.4k 1.4× 15.0k 0.7× 15.3k 1.5× 30.1k 3.5× 7.5k 1.2× 884 98.8k
Jeremy K. Nicholson United Kingdom 130 54.2k 1.1× 12.9k 0.6× 3.2k 0.3× 3.7k 0.4× 2.8k 0.4× 776 76.1k
Martin J. Blaser United States 122 21.2k 0.4× 5.3k 0.2× 10.9k 1.1× 10.1k 1.2× 4.0k 0.6× 645 66.1k
R. Paul Ross Ireland 130 39.2k 0.8× 7.0k 0.3× 7.4k 0.7× 29.9k 3.5× 9.1k 1.4× 867 68.6k
David A. Relman United States 83 24.9k 0.5× 4.7k 0.2× 8.6k 0.8× 5.1k 0.6× 5.3k 0.8× 249 43.8k
Catherine Stanton Ireland 115 29.7k 0.6× 9.9k 0.4× 4.0k 0.4× 15.6k 1.8× 1.8k 0.3× 651 57.0k
Jeffrey I. Gordon United States 150 103.2k 2.0× 32.8k 1.5× 20.8k 2.0× 18.9k 2.2× 9.3k 1.4× 491 146.9k

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All Works

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Kyaw, Than S., C. Anders Olson, Cecilia Noecker, et al.. (2025). Expansion of a bacterial operon during cancer treatment ameliorates fluoropyrimidine toxicity. Science Translational Medicine. 17(794). eadq8870–eadq8870. 2 indexed citations
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Alexander, Margaret, Vaibhav Upadhyay, A. Lorenzo, et al.. (2024). A diet-dependent host metabolite shapes the gut microbiota to protect from autoimmunity. Cell Reports. 43(11). 114891–114891. 15 indexed citations
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McCurry, Megan D., Gabriel D. D’Agostino, Jordan E. Bisanz, et al.. (2024). Gut bacteria convert glucocorticoids into progestins in the presence of hydrogen gas. Cell. 187(12). 2952–2968.e13. 42 indexed citations
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Olson, C. Anders, et al.. (2024). Pharma[e]cology: How the Gut Microbiome Contributes to Variations in Drug Response. The Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology. 65(1). 355–373. 6 indexed citations
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Pieper, Lindsey M., Peter Spanogiannopoulos, Regan Volk, et al.. (2023). The global anaerobic metabolism regulator fnr is necessary for the degradation of food dyes and drugs by Escherichia coli. mBio. 14(5). e0157323–e0157323. 3 indexed citations
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Upadhyay, Vaibhav, Rahul K. Suryawanshi, Victoria Murray, et al.. (2023). Mild SARS-CoV-2 infection results in long-lasting microbiota instability. mBio. 14(4). e0088923–e0088923. 15 indexed citations
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Bustion, Annamarie E., Renuka R. Nayak, Ayushi Agrawal, Peter J. Turnbaugh, & Katherine S. Pollard. (2023). SIMMER employs similarity algorithms to accurately identify human gut microbiome species and enzymes capable of known chemical transformations. eLife. 12. 12 indexed citations
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Ang, Qi Yan, Diana Alba, Vaibhav Upadhyay, et al.. (2021). The East Asian gut microbiome is distinct from colocalized White subjects and connected to metabolic health. eLife. 10. 42 indexed citations
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Rekdal, Vayu Maini, Michael U. Luescher, Jordan E. Bisanz, et al.. (2020). A widely distributed metalloenzyme class enables gut microbial metabolism of host- and diet-derived catechols. eLife. 9. 56 indexed citations
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Parker, Matthew F.L., Justin Luu, Tony L. Huynh, et al.. (2020). Sensing Living Bacteria in Vivo Using d-Alanine-Derived 11C Radiotracers. ACS Central Science. 6(2). 155–165. 53 indexed citations
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Zou, Ling, Peter Spanogiannopoulos, Lindsey M. Pieper, et al.. (2020). Bacterial metabolism rescues the inhibition of intestinal drug absorption by food and drug additives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(27). 16009–16018. 41 indexed citations
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Rekdal, Vayu Maini, Elizabeth N. Bess, Jordan E. Bisanz, Peter J. Turnbaugh, & Emily P. Balskus. (2019). Discovery and inhibition of an interspecies gut bacterial pathway for Levodopa metabolism. Science. 364(6445). 510 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bess, Elizabeth N., Jordan E. Bisanz, Fauna Yarza, et al.. (2019). Genetic basis for the cooperative bioactivation of plant lignans by Eggerthella lenta and other human gut bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 5(1). 56–66. 74 indexed citations
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Devoto, Audra E., Joanne M. Santini, Matthew R. Olm, et al.. (2019). Megaphages infect Prevotella and variants are widespread in gut microbiomes. Nature Microbiology. 4(4). 693–700. 134 indexed citations
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David, Lawrence A., Corinne F. Maurice, Rachel N. Carmody, et al.. (2013). Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. Nature. 505(7484). 559–563. 7181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Turnbaugh, Peter J., Christopher Quince, Jeremiah J. Faith, et al.. (2010). Organismal, genetic, and transcriptional variation in the deeply sequenced gut microbiomes of identical twins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(16). 7503–7508. 365 indexed citations
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Ley, Ruth E., Micah Hamady, Catherine Lozupone, et al.. (2008). Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes. Science. 320(5883). 1647–1651. 2726 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gill, Steven R., Mihai Pop, Robert T. DeBoy, et al.. (2006). Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome. Science. 312(5778). 1355–1359. 3466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ley, Ruth E., Peter J. Turnbaugh, Samuel Klein, & Jeffrey I. Gordon. (2006). Human gut microbes associated with obesity. Nature. 444(7122). 1022–1023. 6854 indexed citations breakdown →

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