Rob J. L. Willems

21.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
228 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

Rob J. L. Willems is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob J. L. Willems has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Infectious Diseases, 88 papers in Molecular Biology and 76 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Rob J. L. Willems's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (148 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (76 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (45 papers). Rob J. L. Willems is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (148 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (76 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (45 papers). Rob J. L. Willems collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. Rob J. L. Willems's co-authors include Marc J. M. Bonten, Janetta Top, Willem van Schaik, Marc JM Bonten, Helen L. Leavis, Teresa M. Coque, Fernando Baquero, Antoni P. A. Hendrickx, Anita C. Schürch and Sergio Arredondo-Alonso and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Rob J. L. Willems

223 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

Multilocus Sequence Typing System for Campylobacter jejuni 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2018 2022 2025 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Multilocus Sequence Typing System for Campylobacter jejuni
    2001 682 citations Rob J. L. Willems et al. Journal of Clinical Microbiology profile →
  2. Whole genome sequencing options for bacterial strain typing and epidemiologic analysis based on single nucleotide polymorphism versus gene-by-gene–based approaches
    2018 335 citations Anita C. Schürch, Sergio Arredondo-Alonso et al. profile →
  3. Effects of early-life antibiotics on the developing infant gut microbiome and resistome: a randomized trial
    2022 185 citations Rob J. L. Willems, Willem van Schaik et al. profile →
  4. Fusobacterium nucleatum upregulates the immune inhibitory receptor PD-L1 in colorectal cancer cells via the activation of ALPK1
    2025 14 citations Coco Duizer, Merel van Gogh et al. Gut Microbes profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rob J. L. Willems Netherlands 65 8.3k 4.9k 4.3k 2.6k 2.4k 228 14.0k
Richard V. Goering United States 46 7.6k 0.9× 5.0k 1.0× 4.2k 1.0× 1.7k 0.6× 4.4k 1.8× 141 14.7k
Luca Guardabassi Denmark 54 4.6k 0.6× 3.3k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 2.5k 1.0× 214 9.8k
Jaap A. Wagenaar Netherlands 65 6.7k 0.8× 3.0k 0.6× 1.5k 0.4× 5.8k 2.2× 2.3k 1.0× 317 14.3k
Cármen Torres Spain 65 5.7k 0.7× 5.1k 1.0× 2.9k 0.7× 4.5k 1.7× 6.7k 2.8× 501 16.5k
Mark C. Enright United Kingdom 52 9.8k 1.2× 6.9k 1.4× 5.1k 1.2× 786 0.3× 1.0k 0.4× 102 14.4k
Stephen D. Bentley United Kingdom 70 4.5k 0.5× 6.0k 1.2× 1.9k 0.4× 1.8k 0.7× 2.3k 0.9× 278 17.1k
Alexander Mellmann Germany 53 6.2k 0.7× 3.3k 0.7× 2.2k 0.5× 1.9k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 292 11.4k
Teresa M. Coque Spain 65 4.8k 0.6× 3.9k 0.8× 3.0k 0.7× 2.1k 0.8× 8.7k 3.6× 186 15.5k
Julian I. Rood Australia 63 9.1k 1.1× 3.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.3× 918 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 239 13.9k
Dag Harmsen Germany 48 5.4k 0.6× 3.5k 0.7× 2.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 904 0.4× 116 9.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Paganelli, Fernanda L., Joris M. van Montfrans, Pauline M. Ellerbroek, et al.. (2025). Gut microbial dysbiosis, IgA, and Enterococcus in common variable immunodeficiency with immune dysregulation. Microbiome. 13(1). 12–12. 6 indexed citations
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Duizer, Coco, Merel van Gogh, Merel Stok, et al.. (2025). Fusobacterium nucleatum upregulates the immune inhibitory receptor PD-L1 in colorectal cancer cells via the activation of ALPK1. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2458203–2458203. 14 indexed citations breakdown →
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Viveen, Marco C., Janicke Visser, Lapo Mughini‐Gras, et al.. (2025). Effect of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae oil feed inclusion on growth performance and fecal microbiome development in post-weaning pigs. Livestock Science. 301. 105819–105819. 1 indexed citations
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Horsfield, Samuel, Anna K. Pöntinen, Sergio Arredondo-Alonso, et al.. (2024). Pangenome-spanning epistasis and coselection analysis via de Bruijn graphs. Genome Research. 34(7). 1081–1088.
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Hal, Sebastiaan J. van, Rob J. L. Willems, Theodore Gouliouris, et al.. (2021). The global dissemination of hospital clones of Enterococcus faecium. Genome Medicine. 13(1). 52–52. 43 indexed citations
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Arredondo-Alonso, Sergio, Martin Bootsma, Malbert R. C. Rogers, et al.. (2020). gplas: a comprehensive tool for plasmid analysis using short-read graphs. Bioinformatics. 36(12). 3874–3876. 17 indexed citations
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Janssen, Axel B., Denise van Hout, Marc J. M. Bonten, Rob J. L. Willems, & Willem van Schaik. (2020). Microevolution of acquired colistin resistance in Enterobacteriaceae from ICU patients receiving selective decontamination of the digestive tract. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 75(11). 3135–3143. 20 indexed citations
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Top, Janetta, Sergio Arredondo-Alonso, Anita C. Schürch, et al.. (2020). Genomic rearrangements uncovered by genome-wide co-evolution analysis of a major nosocomial pathogen, Enterococcus faecium. Microbial Genomics. 6(12). 11 indexed citations
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Janssen, Axel B., Dennis J. Doorduijn, Grant Mills, et al.. (2020). Evolution of Colistin Resistance in the Klebsiella pneumoniae Complex Follows Multiple Evolutionary Trajectories with Variable Effects on Fitness and Virulence Characteristics. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 65(1). 26 indexed citations
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Stege, Paul B., et al.. (2019). CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 366(22). 27 indexed citations
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Bayjanov, Jumamurat R., et al.. (2019). Enterococcus faecium genome dynamics during long-term asymptomatic patient gut colonization. Microbial Genomics. 5(7). 29 indexed citations
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Arredondo-Alonso, Sergio, Malbert R. C. Rogers, Johanna C. Braat, et al.. (2018). mlplasmids: a user-friendly tool to predict plasmid- and chromosome-derived sequences for single species. Microbial Genomics. 4(11). 126 indexed citations
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Paganelli, Fernanda L., Helen L. Leavis, Nina M. van Sorge, et al.. (2018). Group IIA-Secreted Phospholipase A 2 in Human Serum Kills Commensal but Not Clinical Enterococcus faecium Isolates. Infection and Immunity. 86(8). 12 indexed citations
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Arredondo-Alonso, Sergio, Rob J. L. Willems, Willem van Schaik, & Anita C. Schürch. (2017). On the (im)possibility of reconstructing plasmids from whole-genome short-read sequencing data. Microbial Genomics. 3(10). e000128–e000128. 175 indexed citations
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Lebreton, François, Willem van Schaik, Abigail L. Manson, et al.. (2013). Emergence of Epidemic Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecium from Animal and Commensal Strains. mBio. 4(4). 314 indexed citations
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Top, Janetta, Hetty E. M. Blok, Titia E. M. Hopmans, et al.. (2008). High acquisition and environmental contamination rates of CC17 ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a Dutch hospital. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 62(6). 1401–1406. 42 indexed citations
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Leavis, Helen L., Rob J. L. Willems, Willem J. B. van Wamel, et al.. (2007). Insertion Sequence–Driven Diversification Creates a Globally Dispersed Emerging Multiresistant Subspecies of E. faecium. PLoS Pathogens. 3(1). e7–e7. 163 indexed citations
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Titze‐de‐Almeida, Ricardo, Alex van Belkum, Maria Sueli Soares Felipe, et al.. (2006). Multilocus Sequence Typing of Hospital-Associated Enterococcus faecium from Brazil Reveals Their Unique Evolutionary History. Microbial Drug Resistance. 12(2). 121–125. 15 indexed citations
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Homan, Wieger L., D. E. Tribe, Mei Li, et al.. (2002). Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Enterococcus faecium. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 40(6). 1963–1971. 446 indexed citations
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