Robert K. Ernst

17.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
255 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Robert K. Ernst is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert K. Ernst has authored 255 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Molecular Biology, 70 papers in Molecular Medicine and 57 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Robert K. Ernst's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (70 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (46 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (30 papers). Robert K. Ernst is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (70 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (46 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (30 papers). Robert K. Ernst collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Robert K. Ernst's co-authors include Samuel I. Miller, Edward A. Miao, Martin W. Bader, Daniel A. Powell, Jon A. Hagar, David R. Goodlett, Youssef Aachoui, Samuel M. Moskowitz, Adeline M. Hajjar and John S. Gunn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert K. Ernst

245 papers receiving 13.1k 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.

Cytoplasmic LPS Activates Caspase-11: Implications in TLR4-Independent Endotoxic Shock

2013 991 citations Jon A. Hagar, Daniel A. Powell et al. Science profile →
LPS, TLR4 and infectious disease diversity

2004 787 citations Samuel I. Miller, Robert K. Ernst et al. profile →
Noncanonical Inflammasome Activation of Caspase-4/Caspase-11 Mediates Epithelial Defenses against Enteric Bacterial Pathogens

2014 354 citations Robert K. Ernst et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert K. Ernst United States	59	6.8k	3.5k	2.8k	2.1k	2.1k	255	13.3k
Miguel A. Valvano Canada	62	6.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	2.5k 1.2×	3.8k 1.8×	238	12.9k
Eric P. Skaar United States	71	8.9k 1.3×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	268	18.3k
Trinad Chakraborty Germany	74	6.5k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	3.4k 1.6×	373	20.4k
Andrew Camilli United States	72	7.4k 1.1×	2.7k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	3.0k 1.4×	6.0k 2.8×	182	16.0k
Chris Whitfield Canada	62	7.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.5×	2.9k 1.0×	4.3k 2.0×	4.1k 2.0×	190	15.9k
Laurence G. Rahme United States	53	7.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.4×	2.8k 1.0×	2.5k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	119	11.3k
M. Stephen Trent United States	48	4.3k 0.6×	1.7k 0.5×	3.0k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	125	9.1k
Ulrich Zähringer Germany	72	7.6k 1.1×	5.3k 1.5×	796 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	247	16.4k
David P. Speert Canada	60	7.4k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	183	14.7k
Joanna B. Goldberg United States	54	5.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	210	9.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert K. Ernst

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Smith, Richard D., Robert K. Ernst, Christine M. Bojanowski, et al.. (2025). Mutational signature analysis predicts bacterial hypermutation and multidrug resistance. Nature Communications. 16(1). 19–19. 2 indexed citations

Mikhael, Abanoub, Helena Pětrošová, Pamela Kibsey, et al.. (2024). A lipidomics-based method to eliminate negative urine culture in general population. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 62(10). e0081924–e0081924. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Hyojik, et al.. (2024). A Multimodal System for Lipid A Structural Analysis from a Single Colony. Analytical Chemistry. 1 indexed citations

Mandal, Rahul Shubhra, et al.. (2023). A protein subunit vaccine elicits a balanced immune response that protects against Pseudomonas pulmonary infection. npj Vaccines. 8(1). 37–37. 8 indexed citations

Keller, Sarah L., John F. Reinhard, Caitlin E. Cornell, et al.. (2023). Reversible, large-scale, liquid-liquid phase separation in living yeast membranes. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 8a–8a.

Porsch, Eric A., Artur Muszyński, J. Vlach, et al.. (2022). Surface Anchoring of the Kingella kingae Galactan Is Dependent on the Lipopolysaccharide O-Antigen. mBio. 13(5). e0229522–e0229522. 5 indexed citations

Smith, Richard D., et al.. (2022). MgrB-Dependent Colistin Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae Is Associated with an Increase in Host-to-Host Transmission. mBio. 13(2). e0359521–e0359521. 32 indexed citations

Harberts, Erin, et al.. (2022). Lipid A Variants Activate Human TLR4 and the Noncanonical Inflammasome Differently and Require the Core Oligosaccharide for Inflammasome Activation. Infection and Immunity. 90(8). e0020822–e0020822. 18 indexed citations

Gauthier, Anna E., Courtney E. Chandler, Valentina Poli, et al.. (2021). Deep-sea microbes as tools to refine the rules of innate immune pattern recognition. Science Immunology. 6(57). 27 indexed citations

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Adamiak, Justyna, Vincent Bonifay, Courtney E. Chandler, et al.. (2021). Loss of RND-Type Multidrug Efflux Pumps Triggers Iron Starvation and Lipid A Modifications in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 65(10). e0059221–e0059221. 23 indexed citations

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Ernst, Orna, Mohd M. Khan, Benjamin L. Oyler, et al.. (2021). Species-Specific Endotoxin Stimulus Determines Toll-Like Receptor 4- and Caspase 11-Mediated Pathway Activation Characteristics. mSystems. 6(4). e0030621–e0030621. 18 indexed citations

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Yang, Hyojik, Courtney E. Chandler, Shelley N. Jackson, et al.. (2020). On-Tissue Derivatization of Lipopolysaccharide for Detection of Lipid A Using MALDI-MSI. Analytical Chemistry. 92(20). 13667–13671. 17 indexed citations

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Yang, Hyojik, Shelley N. Jackson, Amina S. Woods, et al.. (2020). Streamlined Analysis of Cardiolipins in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Samples Using a Norharmane Matrix by MALDI-MSI. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 31(12). 2495–2502. 14 indexed citations

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Heinrich, Frank, Fernando G. Dupuy, Anja Penk, et al.. (2020). Synergistic Biophysical Techniques Reveal Structural Mechanisms of Engineered Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides in Lipid Model Membranes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(28). 6247–6256. 17 indexed citations

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Harberts, Erin, Sarah Valencia, Chelsea Sanders, et al.. (2020). Optimization of RG1-VLP vaccine performance in mice with novel TLR4 agonists. Vaccine. 39(2). 292–302. 20 indexed citations

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Harberts, Erin, Mark Pelletier, Corinne Cayatte, et al.. (2017). Rationally Designed TLR4 Ligands for Vaccine Adjuvant Discovery. mBio. 8(3). 78 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chengcui, Kook Han, Courtney E. Chandler, et al.. (2017). Probing the sRNA regulatory landscape of P. aeruginosa : post‐transcriptional control of determinants of pathogenicity and antibiotic susceptibility. Molecular Microbiology. 106(6). 919–937. 87 indexed citations

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Hagar, Jon A., Daniel A. Powell, Youssef Aachoui, Robert K. Ernst, & Edward A. Miao. (2013). Cytoplasmic LPS Activates Caspase-11: Implications in TLR4-Independent Endotoxic Shock. Science. 341(6151). 1250–1253. 991 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Yanyan, Daniel A. Powell, Scott A. Shaffer, et al.. (2012). LPS remodeling is an evolved survival strategy for bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(22). 8716–8721. 146 indexed citations

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Haagensen, Janus A. J., Mikkel Klausen, Robert K. Ernst, et al.. (2006). Differentiation and Distribution of Colistin- and Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Tolerant Cells in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms. Journal of Bacteriology. 189(1). 28–37. 142 indexed citations

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