Rob Lavigne

24.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
349 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Rob Lavigne is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Lavigne has authored 349 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 268 papers in Ecology, 208 papers in Molecular Biology and 91 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Rob Lavigne's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (263 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (106 papers) and Microbial infections and disease research (74 papers). Rob Lavigne is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (263 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (106 papers) and Microbial infections and disease research (74 papers). Rob Lavigne collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. Rob Lavigne's co-authors include Yves Briers, Andrew M. Kropinski, Pieter‐Jan Ceyssens, Guido Volckaert, Jean‐Paul Noben, Jean‐Paul Pirnay, Jeroen Wagemans, Dieter Vandenheuvel, Maarten Walmagh and Abram Aertsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Rob Lavigne

343 papers receiving 15.1k 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.

Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks

2019 572 citations Rob Lavigne et al. profile →
Targeting mechanisms of tailed bacteriophages

2018 404 citations Rob Lavigne et al. profile →
Combination of pre-adapted bacteriophage therapy and antibiotics for treatment of fracture-related infection due to pandrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

2022 194 citations Cédric Lood, Vera van Noort et al. Nature Communications profile →
Bacteriophage therapy for multidrug-resistant infections: current technologies and therapeutic approaches

2025 27 citations Qingquan Chen, Rob Lavigne et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Rob Lavigne	12.0k	7.3k	4.1k	2.9k	1.9k	349	15.3k
Andrew M. Kropinski	8.4k 0.7×	5.8k 0.8×	2.6k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	255	12.4k
Stephen T. Abedon	7.8k 0.7×	3.0k 0.4×	2.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	96	8.9k
Vincent A. Fischetti	6.2k 0.5×	7.4k 1.0×	3.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.4×	2.0k 1.0×	244	17.7k
Elizabeth Kutter	5.6k 0.5×	2.9k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	978 0.3×	1.0k 0.5×	77	6.8k
Eduardo P. C. Rocha	6.3k 0.5×	10.8k 1.5×	1.1k 0.3×	2.5k 0.9×	4.6k 2.4×	223	18.0k
Jean‐Paul Pirnay	4.7k 0.4×	2.7k 0.4×	2.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	755 0.4×	133	6.9k
Waldemar Vollmer	3.9k 0.3×	8.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	6.5k 3.4×	227	16.1k
José R. Penadés	3.4k 0.3×	6.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.4×	629 0.2×	1.7k 0.9×	126	10.0k
Sangryeol Ryu	3.5k 0.3×	3.3k 0.4×	983 0.2×	987 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	280	8.4k
Olaf Schneewind	2.2k 0.2×	18.6k 2.5×	2.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	6.0k 3.1×	275	29.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Volke, Daniel C., et al.. (2025). Engineering a phi15-based expression system for stringent gene expression in Pseudomonas putida. Communications Biology. 8(1). 171–171. 5 indexed citations

Cesta, Novella, Cesira Giordano, Simona Barnini, et al.. (2025). Characterisation of four novel bacteriophages targeting carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and their lytic activity alone and in combination. Current Research in Microbial Sciences. 9. 100509–100509.

Lavigne, Rob, et al.. (2024). Obtaining Detailed Phage Transcriptomes Using ONT-Cappable-Seq. Methods in molecular biology. 2793. 207–235. 1 indexed citations

Boon, Maarten, et al.. (2024). Assessing the transcriptional landscape of Pseudomonas phage 201ϕ2‐1: Uncovering the small regulatory details of a giant phage. Microbial Biotechnology. 17(10). e70037–e70037. 1 indexed citations

Esfahani, Bahram Nasr, et al.. (2024). Alhagi maurorum extract in combination with lytic phage cocktails: a promising therapeutic approach against biofilms of multi-drug resistant P. mirabilis. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 15. 1483055–1483055. 1 indexed citations

Post, Virginia, Stephan Zeiter, Matteo D’Este, et al.. (2024). Combination of bacteriophages and vancomycin in a co-delivery hydrogel for localized treatment of fracture-related infections. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 10(1). 77–77. 11 indexed citations

Moghim, Sharareh, et al.. (2024). Antibiotic profile classification of Proteus mirabilis using machine learning: An investigation into multidimensional radiomics features. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 182. 109131–109131. 4 indexed citations

Lavigne, Rob, et al.. (2024). Endolysin NC5 improves early cloxacillin treatment in a mouse model of Streptococcus uberis mastitis. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 108(1). 118–118. 4 indexed citations

Boon, Maarten, et al.. (2024). Refining the transcriptional landscapes for distinct clades of virulent phages infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PubMed. 5. uqae002–uqae002. 9 indexed citations

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Hendrix, Hanne, A. Van Ítterbeek, Marta Vallino, et al.. (2024). PlzR regulates type IV pili assembly in Pseudomonas aeruginosa via PilZ binding. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8717–8717. 6 indexed citations

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Wagemans, Jeroen, Seyed Shahram Shekarforoush, Marta Vallino, et al.. (2023). Isolation and molecular characterization of the Salmonella Typhimurium orphan phage Arash. BMC Microbiology. 23(1). 297–297. 6 indexed citations

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Boon, Maarten, et al.. (2023). Assessing the Orthogonality of Phage-Encoded RNA Polymerases for Tailored Synthetic Biology Applications in Pseudomonas Species. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(8). 7175–7175. 6 indexed citations

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Kratochvil, Michael J., Qingquan Chen, Maryam Hajfathalian, et al.. (2023). Rapid assessment of changes in phage bioactivity using dynamic light scattering. PNAS Nexus. 2(12). pgad406–pgad406. 9 indexed citations

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Lavigne, Rob, et al.. (2022). Fish Hydrolysate Supplementation Prevents Stress-Induced Dysregulation of Hippocampal Proteins Relative to Mitochondrial Metabolism and the Neuronal Network in Mice. Foods. 11(11). 1591–1591. 2 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez, Diana, et al.. (2022). A Bioluminescence-Based Ex Vivo Burn Wound Model for Real-Time Assessment of Novel Phage-Inspired Enzybiotics. Pharmaceutics. 14(12). 2553–2553. 3 indexed citations

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Lood, Cédric, et al.. (2020). Completed Genomic Sequence of Bacillus thuringiensis HER1410 Reveals a Cry -Containing Chromosome, Two Megaplasmids, and an Integrative Plasmidial Prophage. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(9). 2927–2939. 17 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez, Diana, et al.. (2020). Advanced engineering of third-generation lysins and formulation strategies for clinical applications. Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 46(5). 548–564. 51 indexed citations

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Macron, Charlotte, Rob Lavigne, Antonio Núñez Galindo, et al.. (2020). Exploration of human cerebrospinal fluid: A large proteome dataset revealed by trapped ion mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 31. 105704–105704. 16 indexed citations

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Botelho, João, Cédric Lood, Sally R. Partridge, et al.. (2019). Combining sequencing approaches to fully resolve a carbapenemase-encoding megaplasmid in a Pseudomonas shirazica clinical strain. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 8(1). 1186–1194. 13 indexed citations

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Leiman, P.G., Katrien Vandersteegen, An Van den Bossche, et al.. (2014). L isteria phage A 511, a model for the contractile tail machineries of SPO 1‐related bacteriophages. Molecular Microbiology. 92(1). 84–99. 57 indexed citations

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