Saria Otani

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 586 citations indexed

About

Saria Otani is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Saria Otani has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 586 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Saria Otani's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (7 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Saria Otani is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (7 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Saria Otani collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Netherlands and United States. Saria Otani's co-authors include Michael Poulsen, Frank M. Aarestrup, Søren J. Sørensen, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Duur K. Aanen, Aram Mikaelyan, N’golo Abdoulaye Koné, Andreas Brune, Tânia Nobre and Jacobus J. Boomsma and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Saria Otani

33 papers receiving 571 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.

Ongoing mpox outbreak in Kamituga, South Kivu province, associated with monkeypox virus of a novel Clade I sub-lineage, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2024

2024 56 citations Jean Claude Udahemuka, Leonard Schuele et al. Eurosurveillance profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saria Otani Denmark	12	222	193	190	176	74	40	586
Dana Nayduch United States	22	79 0.4×	801 4.2×	145 0.8×	288 1.6×	6 0.1×	52	1.2k
Christine B. Graham United States	18	187 0.8×	114 0.6×	50 0.3×	166 0.9×	7 0.1×	27	716
Purificación Carrasco Spain	16	339 1.5×	233 1.2×	369 1.9×	41 0.2×	32 0.4×	16	1.0k
G. C. Graham Australia	18	103 0.5×	216 1.1×	192 1.0×	93 0.5×	36 0.5×	36	945
Souaïbou Farougou Benin	15	62 0.3×	98 0.5×	64 0.3×	243 1.4×	20 0.3×	128	827
Peter Brodmann Switzerland	16	129 0.6×	95 0.5×	676 3.6×	36 0.2×	5 0.1×	28	950
Toni G. Patton United States	14	192 0.9×	90 0.5×	493 2.6×	77 0.4×	2 0.0×	20	877
Charlotte F. Quist United States	13	25 0.1×	23 0.1×	67 0.4×	106 0.6×	28 0.4×	24	570
Ivo Papoušek Czechia	18	145 0.7×	23 0.1×	101 0.5×	74 0.4×	5 0.1×	51	824
Sandra Nizza Italy	12	113 0.5×	526 2.7×	65 0.3×	12 0.1×	8 0.1×	25	831

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Saria Otani

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

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Udahemuka, Jean Claude, Leonard Schuele, David F. Nieuwenhuijse, et al.. (2025). Epidemiological and genomic evolution of the ongoing outbreak of clade Ib mpox virus in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nature Medicine. 31(5). 1459–1463. 11 indexed citations

Schuele, Leonard, Hayley Cassidy, Philip T. L. C. Clausen, et al.. (2025). Metagenomic sequencing of mpox virus clade Ib lesions identifies possible bacterial and viral co-infections in hospitalized patients in eastern DRC. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(7). e0051225–e0051225.

Zaeck, Luca M., Pacifique Ndishimye, Jean Claude Udahemuka, et al.. (2025). Serological evidence of clade Ib Mpox transmission by sex workers and within household in South Kivu, DRC. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7056–7056.

Skarlupka, Joseph H., Serafino Teseo, Saria Otani, et al.. (2025). Genomic evidence for flies as carriers of zoonotic pathogens on dairy farms. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 11(1). 111–111.

Kaas, Rolf Sommer, et al.. (2025). ListPred: A predictive ML tool for virulence potential and disinfectant tolerance in Listeria monocytogenes. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 130. 105739–105739. 1 indexed citations

Kaas, Rolf Sommer, et al.. (2024). Analysis of genetic signatures of virulence and resistance in foodborne Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Algeria. LWT. 209. 116754–116754. 5 indexed citations

Udahemuka, Jean Claude, Leonard Schuele, Pacifique Ndishimye, et al.. (2024). Ongoing mpox outbreak in Kamituga, South Kivu province, associated with monkeypox virus of a novel Clade I sub-lineage, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2024. Eurosurveillance. 29(11). 56 indexed citations breakdown →

Brinch, Christian, Saria Otani, Patrick Munk, et al.. (2024). Discovery of Vibrio cholerae in Urban Sewage in Copenhagen, Denmark. Microbial Ecology. 87(1). 102–102. 1 indexed citations

Kjeldgaard, Jette Sejer, Saria Otani, Christina Aaby Svendsen, et al.. (2024). A novel metagenomic approach uncovers phage genes as markers for increased disinfectant tolerance in mixed Listeria monocytogenes communities. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 119. 105582–105582.

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Brinch, Christian, et al.. (2023). Transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the gut microbiome of gregarious cockroaches: the importance of interaction between antibiotic exposed and non-exposed populations. mSystems. 9(1). e0101823–e0101823. 4 indexed citations

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Ferreira, Catarina, Saria Otani, Frank M. Aarestrup, & Célia M. Manaia. (2023). Quantitative PCR versus metagenomics for monitoring antibiotic resistance genes: balancing high sensitivity and broad coverage. PubMed. 4. xtad008–xtad008. 34 indexed citations

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Otani, Saria, et al.. (2023). Interplay between strain fitness and transmission frequency determines prevalence of antimicrobial resistance. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 1 indexed citations

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Cesare, Alessandra De, et al.. (2023). Foodborne Pathogen Dynamics in Meat and Meat Analogues Analysed Using Traditional Microbiology and Metagenomic Sequencing. Antibiotics. 13(1). 16–16. 5 indexed citations

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Perry, Meghan, Bryan A. Wee, Saria Otani, et al.. (2023). Distinctive hospital and community resistomes in Scottish urban wastewater: Metagenomics of a paired wastewater sampling design. The Science of The Total Environment. 902. 165978–165978. 7 indexed citations

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Otani, Saria, et al.. (2022). Global Distribution and Diversity of Prevalent Sewage Water Plasmidomes. mSystems. 7(5). e0019122–e0019122. 5 indexed citations

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Aytan-Aktug, Derya, Philip T. L. C. Clausen, Patrick Munk, et al.. (2022). PlasmidHostFinder: Prediction of Plasmid Hosts Using Random Forest. mSystems. 7(2). e0118021–e0118021. 19 indexed citations

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Juraschek, Katharina, Maria Borowiak, Simon H. Tausch, et al.. (2021). Outcome of Different Sequencing and Assembly Approaches on the Detection of Plasmids and Localization of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Commensal Escherichia coli. Microorganisms. 9(3). 598–598. 38 indexed citations

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Sapountzis, Panagiotis, Serafino Teseo, Saria Otani, et al.. (2021). FI: The Fecobiome Initiative. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 19(7). 441–447. 1 indexed citations

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Leekitcharoenphon, Pimlapas, et al.. (2021). Evaluating the usefulness of next-generation sequencing for herb authentication. Food Chemistry Molecular Sciences. 3. 100044–100044. 3 indexed citations

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Otani, Saria, et al.. (2017). Pycnoscelus surinamensis cockroach gut microbiota respond consistently to a fungal diet without mirroring those of fungus-farming termites. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0185745–e0185745. 11 indexed citations

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