Sarah Vreugde

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
189 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Sarah Vreugde is a scholar working on Otorhinolaryngology, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Vreugde has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Otorhinolaryngology, 50 papers in Molecular Biology and 46 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Sarah Vreugde's work include Sinusitis and nasal conditions (95 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (31 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (23 papers). Sarah Vreugde is often cited by papers focused on Sinusitis and nasal conditions (95 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (31 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (23 papers). Sarah Vreugde collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and Japan. Sarah Vreugde's co-authors include Peter‐John Wormald, Alkis J. Psaltis, Ahmed Bassiouni, Mahnaz Ramezanpour, Clare Cooksley, Amanda Drilling, George Bouras, Camille Jardeleza, Karen B. Avraham and Peter J. Wormald and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Vreugde

179 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Pharokka: a fast scalable bacteriophage annotation tool

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Vreugde Australia	35	1.6k	1.2k	745	650	569	189	4.5k
Alkis J. Psaltis Australia	36	858 0.6×	3.0k 2.4×	538 0.7×	2.1k 3.2×	195 0.3×	226	5.1k
Peter‐John Wormald Australia	53	1.4k 0.9×	5.3k 4.3×	735 1.0×	4.3k 6.6×	235 0.4×	300	9.2k
Lauren O. Bakaletz United States	51	2.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.0×	519 0.7×	216 0.3×	141 0.2×	199	7.9k
Thomas O. Moninger United States	31	3.0k 1.9×	81 0.1×	155 0.2×	312 0.5×	332 0.6×	51	6.3k
Matthias Krämer Germany	32	214 0.1×	262 0.2×	69 0.1×	286 0.4×	208 0.4×	182	2.7k
Richard P. Darveau United States	55	2.9k 1.9×	109 0.1×	262 0.4×	392 0.6×	16 0.0×	130	10.4k
Yuping Lai China	33	1.9k 1.2×	88 0.1×	122 0.2×	216 0.3×	23 0.0×	57	5.3k
Jürgen Harder Germany	48	3.9k 2.5×	65 0.1×	183 0.2×	523 0.8×	38 0.1×	125	10.1k
Klaus I. Matthaei Australia	48	2.5k 1.6×	42 0.0×	224 0.3×	1.4k 2.2×	79 0.1×	130	9.1k
Paul L. Bollyky United States	42	1.8k 1.1×	47 0.0×	1.1k 1.5×	660 1.0×	17 0.0×	128	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Vreugde

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Vreugde

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All Works

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Bouras, George, et al.. (2026). Electrospun Phage-Loaded Bilayer Nanofibrous Scaffolds for Wound Dressing Applications: A Comparative Study of Different Bacteriophages. Journal of Functional Biomaterials. 17(2). 60–60.

Cooksley, Clare, John Finnie, Mahnaz Ramezanpour, et al.. (2025). An immunocompetent rat model of Mycobacterium abscessus multinodular granulomatous lung infection. Tuberculosis. 152. 102629–102629. 2 indexed citations

Ramezanpour, Mahnaz, Clare Cooksley, George Bouras, et al.. (2024). Increased antibiotic resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from chronic rhinosinusitis patients grown in anaerobic conditions. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. 9(3). e1244–e1244. 2 indexed citations

Lee, James, Miguel Carda‐Diéguez, Sarah Vreugde, et al.. (2024). Characterising the role of enolase in a stable Small Colony Variant of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a diabetic foot infection patient with osteomyelitis. Microbial Pathogenesis. 196. 106918–106918. 1 indexed citations

Houtak, Ghais, Roshan Nepal, George Bouras, et al.. (2024). Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm-Secreted Factors Cause Mucosal Damage, Mast Cell Infiltration, and Goblet Cell Hyperplasia in a Rat Rhinosinusitis Model. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(6). 3402–3402. 6 indexed citations

Bouras, George, et al.. (2024). Double blind randomized controlled trial measuring the efficacy of nebulized steroid at half dose in comparison to high volume squeeze bottle steroid irrigation in management of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology. 14(8). 1375–1377.

Smith, Eric, Peter‐John Wormald, Rowan Valentine, et al.. (2024). Is Short-Read 16S rRNA Sequencing of Oral Microbiome Sampling a Suitable Diagnostic Tool for Head and Neck Cancer?. Pathogens. 13(10). 826–826. 2 indexed citations

Bouras, George, Louise M. Judd, Robert A. Edwards, et al.. (2024). How low can you go? Short-read polishing of Oxford Nanopore bacterial genome assemblies. Microbial Genomics. 10(6). 23 indexed citations

Hassan, Kamrul, Mahnaz Ramezanpour, Jonathan A. Campbell, et al.. (2024). Development of novel iron(iii) crosslinked bioinks comprising carboxymethyl cellulose, xanthan gum, and hyaluronic acid for soft tissue engineering applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 12(27). 6627–6642. 10 indexed citations

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Houtak, Ghais, George Bouras, Roshan Nepal, et al.. (2023). The intra-host evolutionary landscape and pathoadaptation of persistent Staphylococcus aureus in chronic rhinosinusitis. Microbial Genomics. 9(11). 6 indexed citations

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Rastin, Hadi, Mahnaz Ramezanpour, Kamrul Hassan, et al.. (2021). 3D bioprinting of a cell-laden antibacterial polysaccharide hydrogel composite. Carbohydrate Polymers. 264. 117989–117989. 61 indexed citations

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Rastin, Hadi, Trần Thanh Tùng, Kamrul Hassan, et al.. (2021). Converging 2D Nanomaterials and 3D Bioprinting Technology: State‐of‐the‐Art, Challenges, and Potential Outlook in Biomedical Applications. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 10(22). e2101439–e2101439. 26 indexed citations

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Mazinani, Arash, Hadi Rastin, Md Julker Nine, et al.. (2021). Comparative antibacterial activity of 2D materials coated on porous-titania. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 9(32). 6412–6424. 18 indexed citations

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Paramasivan, Sathish, Alkis J. Psaltis, Peter‐John Wormald, & Sarah Vreugde. (2020). Tertiary Lymphoid Organs: A Primer for Otolaryngologists. The Laryngoscope. 131(8). 1697–1703. 1 indexed citations

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Ooi, Eng H., et al.. (2019). Manuka honey sinus irrigations in recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis: phase 1 randomized, single‐blinded, placebo‐controlled trial. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology. 9(12). 1470–1477. 23 indexed citations

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Ramezanpour, Mahnaz, et al.. (2019). The effect of neutrophil serine proteases on human nasal epithelial cell barrier function. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology. 9(10). 1220–1226. 31 indexed citations

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Ramezanpour, Mahnaz, et al.. (2019). Deferiprone has anti-inflammatory properties and reduces fibroblast migration in vitro. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 2378–2378. 23 indexed citations

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Vreugde, Sarah, et al.. (2017). The effect of topical treatments for CRS on the sinonasal epithelial barrier. Rhinology Journal. 55(2). 161–169. 13 indexed citations

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Drilling, Amanda, Geoffrey W. Coombs, Julie Pearson, et al.. (2014). Cousins, siblings, or copies: the genomics of recurrentStaphylococcus aureusinfections in chronic rhinosinusitis. Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University). 2 indexed citations

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Walsh, Tom, Sarah Vreugde, Ronna Hertzano, et al.. (2002). From flies' eyes to our ears: Mutations in a human class III myosin cause progressive nonsyndromic hearing loss DFNB30. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(11). 7518–7523. 170 indexed citations

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