Robert A. Quinn

15.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Robert A. Quinn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert A. Quinn has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Ecology and 16 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Robert A. Quinn's work include Gut microbiota and health (32 papers), Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (15 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (10 papers). Robert A. Quinn is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (32 papers), Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (15 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (10 papers). Robert A. Quinn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. Robert A. Quinn's co-authors include Douglas V. Guzior, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Rob Knight, James T. Morton, Forest Rohwer, Neha Garg, Katrine Whiteson, Yan Wei Lim, Louis‐Félix Nothias and Zhenjiang Zech Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Robert A. Quinn

65 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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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.

Microbiome-wide association studies link dynamic microbial consortia to disease

2016 496 citations Robert A. Quinn, James T. Morton et al. Nature profile →
Review: microbial transformations of human bile acids

2021 475 citations Douglas V. Guzior, Robert A. Quinn Microbiome profile →
Bile salt hydrolase acyltransferase activity expands bile acid diversity

2024 80 citations Douglas V. Guzior, C. R. Bridges et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert A. Quinn United States	27	2.1k	546	500	365	292	70	3.4k
Daniel P. Smith United States	31	2.6k 1.3×	749 1.4×	331 0.7×	373 1.0×	725 2.5×	59	4.8k
Katrine Whiteson United States	33	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 2.2×	496 1.0×	351 1.0×	651 2.2×	94	4.1k
Kai Zhou China	36	1.6k 0.8×	485 0.9×	248 0.5×	374 1.0×	605 2.1×	206	4.8k
Takuji Yamada Japan	32	3.1k 1.5×	659 1.2×	201 0.4×	545 1.5×	330 1.1×	143	5.1k
Caitlin A. Brennan United States	17	2.4k 1.1×	269 0.5×	217 0.4×	421 1.2×	461 1.6×	19	3.7k
Ying Li China	31	1.8k 0.8×	179 0.3×	380 0.8×	267 0.7×	301 1.0×	280	3.9k
De Wu China	40	2.2k 1.1×	283 0.5×	218 0.4×	652 1.8×	472 1.6×	336	6.4k
Michael J. Morowitz United States	40	2.9k 1.4×	606 1.1×	556 1.1×	423 1.2×	845 2.9×	97	5.4k
Fei Chen China	39	3.2k 1.6×	376 0.7×	148 0.3×	346 0.9×	556 1.9×	220	5.4k
Mark P. Molloy Australia	42	4.4k 2.1×	374 0.7×	563 1.1×	548 1.5×	174 0.6×	223	8.0k

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Roach, Ty N. F., Crawford Drury, Joshua R. Hancock, et al.. (2025). Intergenerational metabolomic signatures of bleaching resistance in corals. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5971–5971.

Bridges, C. R., et al.. (2025). Linking volatile metabolites from bacterial pathogens to exhaled breath condensate of people with cystic fibrosis. Microbiology. 171(2).

Fu, Yousi, Douglas V. Guzior, C. R. Bridges, et al.. (2025). Balance between bile acid conjugation and hydrolysis activity can alter outcomes of gut inflammation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3434–3434. 7 indexed citations

Williams, Jake, Nathalie Pettorelli, Aaron C. Hartmann, et al.. (2024). Decline of a distinct coral reef holobiont community under ocean acidification. Microbiome. 12(1). 75–75. 2 indexed citations

Guzior, Douglas V., C. R. Bridges, Yousi Fu, et al.. (2024). Bile salt hydrolase acyltransferase activity expands bile acid diversity. Nature. 626(8000). 852–858. 80 indexed citations breakdown →

Guzior, Douglas V., et al.. (2024). Longitudinal analyses of infants’ microbiome and metabolome reveal microbes and metabolites with seemingly coordinated dynamics. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1506–1506. 1 indexed citations

Roach, Ty N. F., Shayle B. Matsuda, Christian Martin, et al.. (2023). Single-polyp metabolomics reveals biochemical structuring of the coral holobiont at multiple scales. Communications Biology. 6(1). 3 indexed citations

Martin, Christian, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal microbial and molecular dynamics in the cystic fibrosis lung after Elexacaftor–Tezacaftor–Ivacaftor therapy. Respiratory Research. 24(1). 317–317. 11 indexed citations

Neugebauer, Kerri A., et al.. (2022). Korean Red Ginseng extract treatment prevents post-antibiotic dysbiosis-induced bone loss in mice. Journal of Ginseng Research. 47(2). 265–273. 10 indexed citations

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Quinn, Melissa A., Ruma Raghuvanshi, Christian Martin, et al.. (2022). Longitudinal effects of growth restriction on the murine gut microbiome and metabolome. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. 323(2). E159–E170. 1 indexed citations

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Drury, Crawford, Joshua R. Hancock, Christian Martin, et al.. (2022). Intrapopulation adaptive variance supports thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral. Communications Biology. 5(1). 486–486. 26 indexed citations

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Moyne, Oriane, Florence Castelli, Dominique Bicout, et al.. (2021). Metabotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Correlate with Antibiotic Resistance, Virulence and Clinical Outcome in Cystic Fibrosis Chronic Infections. Metabolites. 11(2). 63–63. 20 indexed citations

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Quinn, Robert A., Ken Liu, Maryam Goudarzi, et al.. (2021). Bridging the Gap between Analytical and Microbial Sciences in Microbiome Research. mSystems. 6(5). e0058521–e0058521. 4 indexed citations

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Roach, Ty N. F., et al.. (2021). Metabolomic signatures of coral bleaching history. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(4). 495–503. 75 indexed citations

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Schepper, Jonathan D., Fraser L. Collins, Naiomy D. Rios‐Arce, et al.. (2019). Involvement of the Gut Microbiota and Barrier Function in Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 35(4). 801–820. 155 indexed citations

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Morton, James T., Alexander A. Aksenov, Louis‐Félix Nothias, et al.. (2019). Learning representations of microbe–metabolite interactions. Nature Methods. 16(12). 1306–1314. 175 indexed citations

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Quinn, Robert A., Heather Maughan, Louis‐Félix Nothias, et al.. (2018). Before platelets: the production of platelet-activating factor during growth and stress in a basal marine organism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1884). 20181307–20181307. 17 indexed citations

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Quinn, Robert A., et al.. (2017). Real-time PCR assay for Aquimarina macrocephali subsp. homaria and its distribution in shell disease lesions of Homarus americanus, Milne-Edwards, 1837, and environmental samples. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 139. 61–67. 10 indexed citations

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Quinn, Robert A., Katrine Whiteson, Yan Wei Lim, et al.. (2016). Ecological networking of cystic fibrosis lung infections. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 2(1). 4–4. 62 indexed citations

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Whiteson, Katrine, Barbara Bailey, Megan Bergkessel, et al.. (2014). The Upper Respiratory Tract as a Microbial Source for Pulmonary Infections in Cystic Fibrosis. Parallels from Island Biogeography. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 189(11). 1309–1315. 80 indexed citations

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