Sara Mitri

4.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
45 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Sara Mitri is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Mitri has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 21 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sara Mitri's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (20 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (18 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers). Sara Mitri is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (20 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (18 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers). Sara Mitri collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and France. Sara Mitri's co-authors include Melanie Ghoul, Kevin R. Foster, Philippe Piccardi, Björn Vessman, Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, João B. Xavier, René Niehus, Ellen Clarke and Stéphane Magnenat and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sara Mitri

43 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Competition

2016 597 citations Sara Mitri et al. profile →
Toxicity drives facilitation between 4 bacterial species

2019 204 citations Philippe Piccardi, Björn Vessman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities

2022 135 citations Daniel Machado, Isabel Rocha et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Mitri Switzerland	21	1.1k	769	712	565	333	45	2.6k
William R. Harcombe United States	27	1.5k 1.3×	680 0.9×	900 1.3×	497 0.9×	233 0.7×	50	3.1k
Álvaro Sánchez United States	30	2.1k 1.9×	692 0.9×	914 1.3×	420 0.7×	281 0.8×	58	3.1k
Jeffrey L. Blanchard United States	29	2.7k 2.4×	900 1.2×	1.9k 2.7×	394 0.7×	672 2.0×	45	4.8k
Christian Kost Germany	32	1.8k 1.6×	926 1.2×	1.3k 1.9×	508 0.9×	1.1k 3.4×	53	4.4k
Ákos T. Kovács Denmark	39	2.9k 2.5×	1.4k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	192 0.3×	1.3k 3.9×	161	5.0k
S. Brook Peterson United States	25	2.8k 2.5×	1.1k 1.4×	1.0k 1.4×	201 0.4×	741 2.2×	37	5.4k
Tim F. Cooper United States	27	1.4k 1.3×	315 0.4×	1.9k 2.7×	668 1.2×	210 0.6×	50	2.6k
Djordje Bajić United States	15	818 0.7×	439 0.6×	349 0.5×	249 0.4×	159 0.5×	22	1.4k
Juli Peretό Spain	26	1.5k 1.3×	476 0.6×	496 0.7×	74 0.1×	438 1.3×	92	3.0k
Shan Gao China	26	2.8k 2.5×	733 1.0×	528 0.7×	62 0.1×	1.5k 4.5×	107	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Mitri

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Mitri

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Mitri

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bakkeren, Erik, et al.. (2025). MEEhubs2024: A hub-based conference on microbial ecology and evolution fostering sustainability. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 372. 1 indexed citations

Salazar, Alex & Sara Mitri. (2025). Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 84. 102596–102596. 1 indexed citations

Mitri, Sara, Nicolas Louka, Tristan Rossignol, Richard G. Maroun, & Mohamed Koubaa. (2025). Brewer's spent grain and crude glycerol: Sustainable substrates for 2-phenylethanol production by Yarrowia lipolytica.. Future Foods. 11. 100569–100569. 3 indexed citations

Mitri, Sara, Nicolas Louka, Tristan Rossignol, Richard G. Maroun, & Mohamed Koubaa. (2024). Bioproduction of 2-Phenylethanol by Yarrowia lipolytica on Sugar Beet Molasses as a Low-Cost Substrate. Fermentation. 10(6). 290–290. 5 indexed citations

Vessman, Björn, et al.. (2024). Artificial selection improves pollutant degradation by bacterial communities. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7836–7836. 13 indexed citations

Piccardi, Philippe, et al.. (2024). The evolution of reduced facilitation in a four-species bacterial community. Evolution Letters. 8(6). 828–840. 4 indexed citations

Mitri, Sara, et al.. (2023). Microbial interactions in theory and practice: when are measurements compatible with models?. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 75. 102354–102354. 14 indexed citations

Mitri, Sara, et al.. (2023). A spatially structured mathematical model of the gut microbiome reveals factors that increase community stability. iScience. 26(9). 107499–107499. 4 indexed citations

Piccardi, Philippe, et al.. (2022). Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves. The ISME Journal. 16(12). 2644–2652. 17 indexed citations

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Mitri, Sara, Anissa Khelfa, Estelle Léonard, et al.. (2022). Valorization of Brewers’ Spent Grains: Pretreatments and Fermentation, a Review. Fermentation. 8(2). 50–50. 72 indexed citations

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Mitri, Sara, Mohamed Koubaa, Richard G. Maroun, et al.. (2022). Bioproduction of 2-Phenylethanol through Yeast Fermentation on Synthetic Media and on Agro-Industrial Waste and By-Products: A Review. Foods. 11(1). 109–109. 60 indexed citations

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Machado, Daniel, Isabel Rocha, Jeremy M. Chacón, et al.. (2022). Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(7). 855–865. 135 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mitri, Sara, et al.. (2020). Controlling evolutionary dynamics to optimize microbial bioremediation. Evolutionary Applications. 13(9). 2460–2471. 14 indexed citations

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Piccardi, Philippe, Björn Vessman, & Sara Mitri. (2019). Toxicity drives facilitation between 4 bacterial species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(32). 15979–15984. 204 indexed citations breakdown →

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Berger, Sarah, et al.. (2019). Spatial structure affects phage efficacy in infecting dual-strain biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Communications Biology. 2(1). 48 indexed citations

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Frost, Isabel, William P. J. Smith, Sara Mitri, et al.. (2018). Cooperation, competition and antibiotic resistance in bacterial colonies. The ISME Journal. 12(6). 1582–1593. 149 indexed citations

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Schlüter, Jonas, Armin Schoech, Kevin R. Foster, & Sara Mitri. (2016). The Evolution of Quorum Sensing as a Mechanism to Infer Kinship. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(4). e1004848–e1004848. 50 indexed citations

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Niehus, René, Sara Mitri, Alexander G. Fletcher, & Kevin R. Foster. (2015). Migration and horizontal gene transfer divide microbial genomes into multiple niches. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8924–8924. 93 indexed citations

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Mitri, Sara, Steffen Wischmann, Dario Floreano, & Laurent Keller. (2012). Using robots to understand social behaviour. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 88(1). 31–39. 52 indexed citations

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Floreano, Dario, Sara Mitri, Stéphane Magnenat, & Laurent Keller. (2007). Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots. Current Biology. 17(6). 514–519. 130 indexed citations

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