Samuel A. Smits

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Samuel A. Smits is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel A. Smits has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Physiology and 4 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Samuel A. Smits's work include Gut microbiota and health (9 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (4 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (4 papers). Samuel A. Smits is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (9 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (4 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (4 papers). Samuel A. Smits collaborates with scholars based in United States, Tanzania and Canada. Samuel A. Smits's co-authors include Justin L. Sonnenburg, Erica D. Sonnenburg, Steven K. Higginbottom, Ned S. Wingreen, Mikhail Tikhonov, Rob Knight, Jeff Leach, Joshua S. Lichtman, Joshua E. Elias and Alphaxard Manjurano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Samuel A. Smits

11 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Diet-induced extinctions in the gut microbiota compound over generations

2016 1.2k citations Erica D. Sonnenburg, Samuel A. Smits et al. Nature profile →
Seasonal cycling in the gut microbiome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania

2017 567 citations Samuel A. Smits, Jeff Leach et al. Science profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel A. Smits

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Samuel A. Smits. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Samuel A. Smits based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Samuel A. Smits. Samuel A. Smits is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Microbiota-accessible carbohydrates suppress Clostridium difficile infection in a murine model 2018 ·Nature Microbiology ·(unknown), William Van Treuren, Samuel A. Smits, Nicole M. Davis, Jackson O. Gardner, Donna M. Bouley, Justin L. Sonnenburg	178
2	Links between environment, diet, and the hunter-gatherer microbiome 2018 ·Gut Microbes ·Gabriela K. Fragiadakis, Samuel A. Smits, Erica D. Sonnenburg, William Van Treuren, Gregor Reid, Rob Knight, Alphaxard Manjurano, John Changalucha, Maria Gloria Domínguez-Bello, Jeff Leach, Justin L. Sonnenburg	104
3	Seasonal cycling in the gut microbiome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania breakdown → 2017 ·Science ·Samuel A. Smits, Jeff Leach, Erica D. Sonnenburg, Carlos G. Gonzalez, Joshua S. Lichtman, Gregor Reid, Rob Knight, Alphaxard Manjurano, John Changalucha, Joshua E. Elias, Maria Gloria Domínguez-Bello, Justin L. Sonnenburg	567
4	Diet-induced extinctions in the gut microbiota compound over generations breakdown → 2016 ·Nature ·Erica D. Sonnenburg, Samuel A. Smits, Mikhail Tikhonov, Steven K. Higginbottom, Ned S. Wingreen, Justin L. Sonnenburg	1200
5	Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Pathogenesis of Antibiotic-Associated Diseases 2016 ·Cell Reports ·Joshua S. Lichtman, Jessica A. Ferreyra, Katharine M. Ng, Samuel A. Smits, Justin L. Sonnenburg, Joshua E. Elias	58
6	Individualized Responses of Gut Microbiota to Dietary Intervention Modeled in Humanized Mice 2016 ·mSystems ·Samuel A. Smits, Ãngela Marcobal, Steven K. Higginbottom, Justin L. Sonnenburg, Purna Kashyap	39
7	Genetically dictated change in host mucus carbohydrate landscape exerts a diet-dependent effect on the gut microbiota 2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Purna Kashyap, Ãngela Marcobal, Luke K. Ursell, Samuel A. Smits, Erica D. Sonnenburg, Elizabeth K. Costello, Steven K. Higginbottom, Steven E. Domino, Susan Holmes, David A. Relman, Rob Knight, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Justin L. Sonnenburg	209
8	481 Individualized Responses of Gut Microbiota to Dietary Intervention Modeled in Humanized Mice 2013 ·Gastroenterology ·Purna Kashyap, Ãngela Marcobal, Steven K. Higginbottom, Samuel A. Smits, Justin L. Sonnenburg	1
9	In Search of an Uncultured Human-Associated TM7 Bacterium in the Environment 2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Jorge M. Dinis, David Barton, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Wendy Lee, (unknown), (unknown), Samuel A. Smits, Cleber Ouverney	48
10	Phylometrics: a pipeline for inferring phylogenetic trees from a sequence relationship network perspective 2010 ·BMC Bioinformatics ·Samuel A. Smits, Cleber Ouverney	1
11	jsPhyloSVG: A Javascript Library for Visualizing Interactive and Vector-Based Phylogenetic Trees on the Web 2010 ·PLoS ONE ·Samuel A. Smits, Cleber Ouverney	63

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