Ryan Cook

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 327 citations indexed

About

Ryan Cook is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Cook has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 327 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Ryan Cook's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Microbial infections and disease research (5 papers). Ryan Cook is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Microbial infections and disease research (5 papers). Ryan Cook collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Ryan Cook's co-authors include Andrew Millard, Michael Jones, Jon L. Hobman, Dov J. Stekel, Branko Rihtman, Nathan Brown, Tamsin Redgwell, Martha R. J. Clokie, Megan Barnes and Urmi Trivedi and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Naturalist, Cell Reports and Journal of General Virology.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Cook

12 papers receiving 327 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.

INfrastructure for a PHAge REference Database: Identification of Large-Scale Biases in the Current Collection of Cultured Phage Genomes

2021 195 citations Ryan Cook, Nathan Brown et al. PubMed profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan Cook United Kingdom	7	287	186	82	69	44	14	327
Julien Lossouarn France	9	351 1.2×	240 1.3×	63 0.8×	86 1.2×	47 1.1×	16	403
Quentin Lamy-Besnier France	8	210 0.7×	152 0.8×	44 0.5×	58 0.8×	74 1.7×	13	271
Éric Olo Ndela United States	4	227 0.8×	149 0.8×	63 0.8×	54 0.8×	24 0.5×	7	250
Alexander Byth Carstens Denmark	11	275 1.0×	191 1.0×	130 1.6×	64 0.9×	22 0.5×	20	337
Elisabeth Moncaut France	7	280 1.0×	206 1.1×	61 0.7×	56 0.8×	107 2.4×	8	357
Ghais Houtak Australia	7	226 0.8×	140 0.8×	49 0.6×	68 1.0×	40 0.9×	12	315
Malwina Richert Poland	7	295 1.0×	130 0.7×	67 0.8×	112 1.6×	69 1.6×	7	344
Catherine A. Hernandez United States	7	225 0.8×	92 0.5×	105 1.3×	52 0.8×	32 0.7×	9	295
Hans W. Ackermann Canada	6	392 1.4×	209 1.1×	87 1.1×	135 2.0×	65 1.5×	7	424
Lidija Truncaitė Lithuania	11	324 1.1×	226 1.2×	86 1.0×	67 1.0×	50 1.1×	28	370

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Cook

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Cook, Ryan, Raymond Kiu, Teagan L. Brown, et al.. (2025). Diverse defense systems and prophages in human-associated Bifidobacterium species reveal coevolutionary “arms race” dynamics. Cell Reports. 44(11). 116542–116542.

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Adriaenssens, Evelien M., Ryan Cook, Valerian V. Dolja, et al.. (2025). ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Duplodnaviria 2025. Journal of General Virology. 106(9).

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Cook, Ryan, Andrea Telatin, Mohammad Tariq, et al.. (2024). Nanopore and Illumina sequencing reveal different viral populations from human gut samples. Microbial Genomics. 10(4). 7 indexed citations

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Cook, Ryan, et al.. (2024). Decoding huge phage diversity: a taxonomic classification of Lak megaphages. Journal of General Virology. 105(5). 6 indexed citations

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Cook, Ryan, et al.. (2024). Phage diversity in One Health. Essays in Biochemistry. 68(5). 607–619. 5 indexed citations

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Cook, Ryan, Nathan Brown, Branko Rihtman, et al.. (2024). The long and short of it: benchmarking viromics using Illumina, Nanopore and PacBio sequencing technologies. Microbial Genomics. 10(2). 17 indexed citations

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Cook, Ryan, Andrea Telatin, George Bouras, et al.. (2024). Driving through stop signs: predicting stop codon reassignment improves functional annotation of bacteriophages. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae079–ycae079. 5 indexed citations

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Cook, Ryan, et al.. (2023). Viral metagenomics reveals diverse virus-host interactions throughout the soil depth profile. mBio. 14(6). e0224623–e0224623. 16 indexed citations

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Parry, Hailey A., Ryan Cook, Matthew E. Wolak, et al.. (2022). Reduced Mitochondrial Respiration in Hybrid Asexual Lizards. The American Naturalist. 199(5). 719–728. 3 indexed citations

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Cook, Ryan, et al.. (2022). Complete Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacteriophage vB_PaeP_PaCe. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 11(8). e0046322–e0046322. 1 indexed citations

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Cook, Ryan, Nathan Brown, Tamsin Redgwell, et al.. (2021). INfrastructure for a PHAge REference Database: Identification of Large-Scale Biases in the Current Collection of Cultured Phage Genomes. PubMed. 2(4). 214–223. 195 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cook, Ryan, Urmi Trivedi, Christine E. R. Dodd, et al.. (2021). Hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome reveals a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism and virulence of veterinary pathogens. Microbiome. 9(1). 65–65. 48 indexed citations

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Michniewski, Slawomir, Branko Rihtman, Ryan Cook, et al.. (2021). A new family of “megaphages” abundant in the marine environment. ISME Communications. 1(1). 58–58. 23 indexed citations

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Cook, Ryan, et al.. (2010). Hip Flexibility and Strength Immediately Following Manual Therapy Interventions. Holmes Museum Of Anthropology (Wichita State University). 1 indexed citations

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