Ramy K. Aziz

23.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
118 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Ramy K. Aziz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Ramy K. Aziz has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Infectious Diseases and 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Ramy K. Aziz's work include Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (26 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (25 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (20 papers). Ramy K. Aziz is often cited by papers focused on Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (26 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (25 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (20 papers). Ramy K. Aziz collaborates with scholars based in Egypt, United States and Australia. Ramy K. Aziz's co-authors include Robert A. Edwards, Malak Kotb, Victor Nizet, Sajia Akhter, John T. Buchanan, Mariam R. Rizkallah, Rita G. Kansal, Radwa Sharaf, M. Khalifa and Mya Breitbart and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ramy K. Aziz

115 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes

2014 567 citations Ramy K. Aziz, Robert A. Edwards et al. profile →
DNase Expression Allows the Pathogen Group A Streptococcus to Escape Killing in Neutrophil Extracellular Traps

2006 541 citations John T. Buchanan, Ramy K. Aziz et al. Current Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ramy K. Aziz Egypt	37	2.5k	1.8k	1.5k	1.2k	766	118	5.8k
Jean‐Yves Coppée France	45	3.5k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	578 0.4×	686 0.6×	744 1.0×	119	6.8k
Anchun Cheng China	37	1.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	872 0.6×	362 0.3×	1.3k 1.7×	440	6.3k
Paul H. M. Savelkoul Netherlands	47	2.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	726 0.5×	672 0.6×	341 0.4×	139	7.5k
Philippe Moreillon Switzerland	37	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	945 0.6×	639 0.5×	210 0.3×	92	4.6k
Chit Laa Poh Malaysia	42	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	413 0.3×	383 0.3×	686 0.9×	170	5.3k
Renyong Jia China	41	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	711 0.5×	319 0.3×	1.3k 1.7×	469	7.6k
Alan R. Hauser United States	47	4.5k 1.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	768 0.7×	647 0.8×	126	8.1k
Torsten Hain Germany	44	2.2k 0.9×	758 0.4×	418 0.3×	535 0.5×	583 0.8×	133	6.0k
Jian Yang China	33	3.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.1×	382 0.3×	1.4k 1.2×	538 0.7×	152	7.6k

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Khedr, Reham, Ahmed Sayed, Lobna Shalaby, et al.. (2025). Changes in Gut Microbial Diversity and Correlation with Clinical Outcome in Children with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Receiving Induction Chemotherapy. Children. 12(9). 1176–1176.

Szubin, Richard, et al.. (2025). Sequencing and genome-scale virulome reconstruction of Enterococcus faecalis clinical isolates delineate genes involved in gelatinase activity and biofilm formation. Microbial Pathogenesis. 206. 107721–107721. 1 indexed citations

Kashef, Mona T., et al.. (2024). Genotype–phenotype correlation of fecal Streptococcus regulator (fsr) locus with gelatinase activity and biofilm formation intensity in clinical E. faecalis isolates. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(1).

Aziz, Ramy K., et al.. (2023). The curious case of Prevotella copri. Gut Microbes. 15(2). 2249152–2249152. 66 indexed citations

Mwaura, Francis, et al.. (2023). Phenotypic characterization of phage vB_vcM_Kuja. Journal of Basic Microbiology. 63(5). 481–488. 4 indexed citations

Farag, Mohamed A., et al.. (2023). Integrating Microbiome Analysis, Metabolomics, Bioinformatics, and Histopathology to Elucidate the Protective Effects of Pomegranate Juice against Benzo-alpha-pyrene-Induced Colon Pathologies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(13). 10691–10691. 11 indexed citations

Aziz, Ramy K., et al.. (2022). In Vitro and Pre-Clinical Evaluation of Locally Isolated Phages, vB_Pae_SMP1 and vB_Pae_SMP5, Formulated as Hydrogels against Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Viruses. 14(12). 2760–2760. 18 indexed citations

Ziko, Laila, et al.. (2022). Bioprospecting the microbiome of Red Sea Atlantis II brine pool for peptidases and biosynthetic genes with promising antibacterial activity. Microbial Cell Factories. 21(1). 109–109. 3 indexed citations

Moustafa, Ahmed, et al.. (2021). Traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Peripheral Blood Cells of Patients with COVID-19. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 25(8). 475–483. 7 indexed citations

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Speicher, David J. & Ramy K. Aziz. (2021). Profiling the Human Oral Mycobiome in Tissue and Saliva Using ITS2 DNA Metabarcoding Compared to a Fungal-Specific Database. Methods in molecular biology. 2327. 253–269. 1 indexed citations

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Soliman, May S., et al.. (2020). A Gapless, Unambiguous RNA Metagenome-Assembled Genome Sequence of a Unique SARS-CoV-2 Variant Encoding Spike S813I and ORF1a A859V Substitutions. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 25(2). 123–128. 4 indexed citations

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Szubin, Richard, et al.. (2019). Draft Genome Sequences of Four Metallo-Beta-Lactamase-Producing Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Clinical Isolates, Including Two Colistin-Resistant Strains, from Cairo, Egypt. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 8(7). 9 indexed citations

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Samir, Reham, et al.. (2019). Two putative MmpL homologs contribute to antimicrobial resistance and nephropathy of enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7. Gut Pathogens. 11(1). 15–15. 5 indexed citations

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Latif, Haythem, Howard J. Li, Pep Charusanti, Bernhard Ø. Palsson, & Ramy K. Aziz. (2014). A Gapless, Unambiguous Genome Sequence of the Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strain EDL933. Genome Announcements. 2(4). 47 indexed citations

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Akhter, Sajia, Barbara Bailey, Peter Salamon, Ramy K. Aziz, & Robert A. Edwards. (2013). Applying Shannon's information theory to bacterial and phage genomes and metagenomes. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 1033–1033. 23 indexed citations

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Aziz, Ramy K. & Victor Nizet. (2010). Pathogen Microevolution in High Resolution. Science Translational Medicine. 2(16). 16ps4–16ps4. 14 indexed citations

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McNeil, Leslie Klis & Ramy K. Aziz. (2009). In silico Reconstruction of the Metabolic and Pathogenic Potential of Bacterial Genomes Using Subsystems. PubMed. 6. 21–34. 4 indexed citations

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Arthur, Janelle C., John D. Lich, Ramy K. Aziz, Malak Kotb, & Jenny P.‐Y. Ting. (2007). Heat Shock Protein 90 Associates with Monarch-1 and Regulates Its Ability to Promote Degradation of NF-κB-Inducing Kinase. The Journal of Immunology. 179(9). 6291–6296. 56 indexed citations

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Walker, Mark J., Andrew Hollands, Martina Sanderson‐Smith, et al.. (2007). DNase Sda1 provides selection pressure for a switch to invasive group A streptococcal infection. Nature Medicine. 13(8). 981–985. 338 indexed citations

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Buchanan, John T., Ramy K. Aziz, George Y. Liu, et al.. (2006). DNase Expression Allows the Pathogen Group A Streptococcus to Escape Killing in Neutrophil Extracellular Traps. Current Biology. 16(4). 396–400. 541 indexed citations breakdown →

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