Samuel C. Forster

10.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
53 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Samuel C. Forster is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel C. Forster has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Infectious Diseases and 13 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Samuel C. Forster's work include Gut microbiota and health (30 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (14 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (10 papers). Samuel C. Forster is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (30 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (14 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (10 papers). Samuel C. Forster collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Samuel C. Forster's co-authors include Trevor D. Lawley, Paul J. Hertzog, Nitin Kumar, Mark Stares, Bridget A. Neville, Hilary P. Browne, Alexandre Almeida, Alex Mitchell, ROBERT FINN and Blessing O. Anonye and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Samuel C. Forster

51 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

A new genomic blueprint of the human gut mi... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2019 2016 2019 2012 2019 250 500 750
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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.

  1. A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota
    2019 840 citations Alexandre Almeida, Samuel C. Forster et al. Nature profile →
  2. Culturing of ‘unculturable’ human microbiota reveals novel taxa and extensive sporulation
    2016 797 citations Hilary P. Browne, Samuel C. Forster et al. Nature profile →
  3. Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caesarean-section birth
    2019 671 citations Yan Shao, Samuel C. Forster et al. Nature profile →
  4. INTERFEROME v2.0: an updated database of annotated interferon-regulated genes
    2012 610 citations Samuel C. Forster, Simon Yu et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. A human gut bacterial genome and culture collection for improved metagenomic analyses
    2019 347 citations Samuel C. Forster, Nitin Kumar et al. profile →
  6. IFNβ-dependent increases in STAT1, STAT2, and IRF9 mediate resistance to viruses and DNA damage
    2013 254 citations HyeonJoo Cheon, Elise Holvey-Bates et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
  7. Exercise, the Gut Microbiome and Gastrointestinal Diseases: Therapeutic Impact and Molecular Mechanisms
    2025 18 citations Samuel C. Forster, Edward Giles et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samuel C. Forster Australia 29 3.8k 1.4k 1.1k 859 826 53 6.3k
Nicholas Arpaia United States 20 3.3k 0.9× 1.9k 1.3× 935 0.9× 704 0.8× 517 0.6× 30 6.6k
Randy Longman United States 29 3.5k 0.9× 2.0k 1.4× 1.4k 1.3× 608 0.7× 1.0k 1.2× 88 7.0k
Seth Rakoff-Nahoum United States 26 4.1k 1.1× 2.7k 1.9× 1.1k 1.0× 749 0.9× 662 0.8× 40 8.1k
Markus B. Geuking Switzerland 30 3.6k 0.9× 1.7k 1.2× 1.3k 1.2× 580 0.7× 952 1.2× 48 6.3k
André Bleich Germany 40 2.7k 0.7× 1.5k 1.0× 945 0.9× 464 0.5× 685 0.8× 190 6.0k
Zhiheng Pei United States 45 3.7k 1.0× 540 0.4× 1.0k 0.9× 733 0.9× 836 1.0× 93 7.6k
Timothy W. Hand United States 26 3.7k 1.0× 2.6k 1.8× 1.2k 1.1× 962 1.1× 853 1.0× 51 7.5k
Mansour Mohamadzadeh United States 43 2.9k 0.8× 2.2k 1.5× 1.5k 1.4× 465 0.5× 746 0.9× 100 7.2k
Heidi H. Kong United States 41 4.2k 1.1× 1.9k 1.3× 1.4k 1.3× 571 0.7× 2.1k 2.6× 84 13.1k
Maayan Levy Israel 28 5.5k 1.4× 1.5k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 448 0.5× 818 1.0× 44 8.2k

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All Works

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Gulliver, Emily L., Dinesh Subedi, Nathan R. Campbell, et al.. (2025). Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut. Nature. 647(8090). 698–705. 1 indexed citations
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Gulliver, Emily L., et al.. (2024). Unlocking the potential for microbiome‐based therapeutics to address the sustainable development goal of good health and wellbeing. Microbial Biotechnology. 17(11). e70041–e70041.
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Rudloff, Ina, et al.. (2023). Understanding respiratory microbiome–immune system interactions in health and disease. Science Translational Medicine. 15(678). eabq5126–eabq5126. 35 indexed citations
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Gulliver, Emily L., Vanessa R. Marcelino, Robert V. Bryant, et al.. (2022). Review article: the future of microbiome‐based therapeutics. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 56(2). 192–208. 82 indexed citations
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Forster, Samuel C., Junyan Liu, Nitin Kumar, et al.. (2022). Strain-level characterization of broad host range mobile genetic elements transferring antibiotic resistance from the human microbiome. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1445–1445. 108 indexed citations
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Forster, Samuel C., Simon Clare, Katherine Harcourt, et al.. (2022). Identification of gut microbial species linked with disease variability in a widely used mouse model of colitis. Nature Microbiology. 7(4). 590–599. 70 indexed citations
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Marcelino, Vanessa R., et al.. (2022). expam—high-resolution analysis of metagenomes using distance trees. Bioinformatics. 38(20). 4814–4816. 2 indexed citations
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Toubia, John, et al.. (2021). Making use of transcription factor enrichment to identify functional microRNA-regulons. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 19. 4896–4903. 4 indexed citations
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Browne, Hilary P., Alexandre Almeida, Nitin Kumar, et al.. (2021). Host adaptation in gut Firmicutes is associated with sporulation loss and altered transmission cycle. Genome biology. 22(1). 204–204. 48 indexed citations
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Santos-Paulo, Stephanie, Samuel P. Costello, Samuel C. Forster, Simon Travis, & Robert V. Bryant. (2021). The gut microbiota as a therapeutic target for obesity: a scoping review. Nutrition Research Reviews. 35(2). 207–220. 24 indexed citations
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Gearing, Linden J., Helen Cumming, Ross Chapman, et al.. (2019). CiiiDER: A tool for predicting and analysing transcription factor binding sites. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0215495–e0215495. 136 indexed citations
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Forster, Samuel C., Michelle D. Tate, & Paul J. Hertzog. (2015). MicroRNA as Type I Interferon-Regulated Transcripts and Modulators of the Innate Immune Response. Frontiers in Immunology. 6. 334–334. 105 indexed citations
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Sarvestani, Soroush T., H. James Stunden, Mark A. Behlke, et al.. (2014). Sequence-dependent off-target inhibition of TLR7/8 sensing by synthetic microRNA inhibitors. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(2). 1177–1188. 37 indexed citations
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Weerd, Nicole A. de, J.P. Vivian, Niamh E. Mangan, et al.. (2013). Structural basis of a unique interferon-β signaling axis mediated via the receptor IFNAR1. Nature Immunology. 14(9). 901–907. 202 indexed citations
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Cheon, HyeonJoo, Elise Holvey-Bates, John W. Schoggins, et al.. (2013). IFNβ-dependent increases in STAT1, STAT2, and IRF9 mediate resistance to viruses and DNA damage. The EMBO Journal. 32(20). 2751–2763. 254 indexed citations breakdown →
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Forster, Samuel C., Simon Yu, Anitha Kannan, et al.. (2012). INTERFEROME v2.0: an updated database of annotated interferon-regulated genes. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D1040–D1046. 610 indexed citations breakdown →
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Khoo, Jing Jing, Samuel C. Forster, & Ashley Mansell. (2011). Toll-Like Receptors as Interferon-Regulated Genes and Their Role in Disease. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 31(1). 13–25. 44 indexed citations
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Hertzog, Paul J., Samuel C. Forster, & Shamith Samarajiwa. (2011). Systems Biology of Interferon Responses. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 31(1). 5–11. 95 indexed citations
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Plant, Kathryn E., Elizabeth A. Anderson, Richard C. D. Brown, et al.. (2008). The neuroprotective action of the mood stabilizing drugs lithium chloride and sodium valproate is mediated through the up-regulation of the homeodomain protein Six1. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 235(1). 124–134. 26 indexed citations

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