Samuel K. Sheppard

11.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
158 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Samuel K. Sheppard is a scholar working on Food Science, Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel K. Sheppard has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Food Science, 62 papers in Infectious Diseases and 50 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Samuel K. Sheppard's work include Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (82 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (46 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers). Samuel K. Sheppard is often cited by papers focused on Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (82 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (46 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers). Samuel K. Sheppard collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Samuel K. Sheppard's co-authors include Martin Maiden, William O. C. Symondson, Noel McCarthy, Guillaume Méric, Keith A. Jolley, James D. Harwood, Ben Pascoe, Daniel Falush, Frances M. Colles and Norval J. C. Strachan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Samuel K. Sheppard

154 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Ribosomal multilocus sequence typing: universal characterization of bacteria from domain to strain

2012 442 citations Keith A. Jolley, Carly M. Bliss et al. Microbiology profile →

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Frank Pasmans Belgium

Keith A. Jolley United Kingdom

An Martel Belgium

William G. Miller United States

Peter Kuhnert Switzerland

Karl Pedersen Denmark

Günter Klein Germany

Steven P. Djordjevic Australia

Jianguo Xu China

Martin Hunt United Kingdom

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Fields of papers citing papers by Samuel K. Sheppard

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel K. Sheppard

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Samuel K. Sheppard. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Samuel K. Sheppard 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 K. Sheppard. Samuel K. Sheppard is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tewolde, Rediat, Joshua C D'Aeth, Rebecca Thombre, et al.. (2025). Comparative genomic analysis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae isolated in the United Kingdom, between 2016 and 2024. BMC Genomics. 26(1). 893–893.

Tonkin‐Hill, Gerry, Anna K. Pöntinen, Jessica Calland, et al.. (2024). Detecting co-selection through excess linkage disequilibrium in bacterial genomes. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 6(2). lqae061–lqae061.

Mourkas, Evangelos, Megan De Ste Croix, Jay Lucidarme, et al.. (2024). High-throughput phenotype-to-genotype testing of meningococcal carriage and disease isolates detects genetic determinants of disease-relevant phenotypic traits. mBio. 15(12). e0305924–e0305924. 1 indexed citations

Corrigan, Rebecca M., et al.. (2023). Loss of Pde1 function acts as an evolutionary gateway to penicillin resistance inStreptococcus pneumoniae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(41). e2308029120–e2308029120. 5 indexed citations

Woodall, Claire A., Ashley Hammond, David Cleary, et al.. (2023). Oral and gut microbial biomarkers of susceptibility to respiratory tract infection in adults: A feasibility study. Heliyon. 9(8). e18610–e18610. 4 indexed citations

Mageiros, Leonardos, Edward Archer, Evangelos Mourkas, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal Investigation of Antibiotic Resistance in the Urban Water Cycle Influenced by Environmental and Anthropogenic Activity. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(5). e0247322–e0247322. 10 indexed citations

Calland, Jessica, Evangelos Mourkas, Matthew D. Hitchings, et al.. (2022). Genetic diversity and variation in antimicrobial-resistance determinants of non-serotype 2 Streptococcus suis isolates from healthy pigs. Microbial Genomics. 8(11). 10 indexed citations

Mourkas, Evangelos, Koji Yahara, Sion Bayliss, et al.. (2022). Host ecology regulates interspecies recombination in bacteria of the genus Campylobacter. eLife. 11. 24 indexed citations

Mageiros, Leonardos, Guillaume Méric, Sion Bayliss, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Genome evolution and the emergence of pathogenicity in avian Escherichia coli. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1934–1934. 6 indexed citations

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Mageiros, Leonardos, Guillaume Méric, Sion Bayliss, et al.. (2021). Genome evolution and the emergence of pathogenicity in avian Escherichia coli. Nature Communications. 12(1). 765–765. 83 indexed citations

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Pascoe, Ben, Francesca Schiaffino, Susan Murray, et al.. (2020). Genomic epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni associated with asymptomatic pediatric infection in the Peruvian Amazon. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(8). e0008533–e0008533. 20 indexed citations

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Bayliss, Sion, Harry A. Thorpe, Nicola M. Coyle, Samuel K. Sheppard, & Edward J. Feil. (2019). PIRATE: A fast and scalable pangenomics toolbox for clustering diverged orthologues in bacteria. GigaScience. 8(10). 155 indexed citations

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Arnold, Brian, Michael U. Gutmann, Yonatan H. Grad, et al.. (2018). Weak Epistasis May Drive Adaptation in Recombining Bacteria. Genetics. 208(3). 1247–1260. 37 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Harry A., Sion Bayliss, Samuel K. Sheppard, & Edward J. Feil. (2018). Piggy: a rapid, large-scale pan-genome analysis tool for intergenic regions in bacteria. GigaScience. 7(4). 1–11. 49 indexed citations

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Gupta, Srishti, David M. Bailey, Paul Wigley, et al.. (2017). Identification and initial characterisation of a protein involved in Campylobacter jejuni cell shape. Microbial Pathogenesis. 104. 202–211. 11 indexed citations

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Revez, Joana, Ben Pascoe, Yasmin Friedmann, et al.. (2016). Large Sequence Diversity within the Biosynthesis Locus and Common Biochemical Features of Campylobacter coli Lipooligosaccharides. Journal of Bacteriology. 198(20). 2829–2840. 9 indexed citations

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Torralbo, Alicia, C. Borge, Alberto Allepuz, et al.. (2014). Prevalence and risk factors of Campylobacter infection in broiler flocks from southern Spain. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 114(2). 106–113. 41 indexed citations

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Jolley, Keith A., Carly M. Bliss, Julia S. Bennett, et al.. (2012). Ribosomal multilocus sequence typing: universal characterization of bacteria from domain to strain. Microbiology. 158(4). 1005–1015. 442 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sheppard, Samuel K., Noel McCarthy, Daniel Falush, & Martin Maiden. (2008). Convergence of Campylobacter Species: Implications for Bacterial Evolution. Science. 320(5873). 237–239. 187 indexed citations

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Forbes, Ken J., John F. Dallas, Fraser J. Gormley, et al.. (2007). CaMPS: The Campylobacter MLST project in Scotland. Zoonoses and Public Health. 54. 43–44. 1 indexed citations

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