Scott A. Handley

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Scott A. Handley is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott A. Handley has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Infectious Diseases, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Scott A. Handley's work include Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (10 papers). Scott A. Handley is often cited by papers focused on Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (10 papers). Scott A. Handley collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Scott A. Handley's co-authors include Herbert W. Virgin, Lindsay Droit, Jason M. Norman, Virginia L. Miller, Megan T. Baldridge, David Wang, Guoyan Zhao, Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, Cynthia L. Monaco and Peter H. Dube and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Scott A. Handley

57 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Disease-Specific Alterations in the Enteric Virome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

2015 906 citations Scott A. Handley, Megan T. Baldridge et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott A. Handley United States	29	1.5k	1.3k	724	606	558	59	3.2k
Craig Martens United States	30	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	314 0.4×	422 0.7×	715 1.3×	109	3.6k
Alistair C. Darby United Kingdom	41	1.3k 0.9×	756 0.6×	598 0.8×	676 1.1×	544 1.0×	151	5.3k
Jens Peter Christensen Denmark	41	2.1k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	420 0.6×	848 1.4×	704 1.3×	168	5.7k
John L. Mokili United States	21	687 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	892 1.2×	250 0.4×	449 0.8×	31	2.9k
Dolores Gavier‐Widén Sweden	35	898 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	250 0.3×	374 0.6×	768 1.4×	102	3.1k
Daisy Vanrompay Belgium	41	997 0.7×	929 0.7×	219 0.3×	601 1.0×	1.2k 2.2×	191	5.1k
L. Garry Adams United States	41	2.3k 1.5×	1.7k 1.3×	607 0.8×	562 0.9×	1.4k 2.6×	186	7.0k
Martin L. Cross New Zealand	29	1.1k 0.8×	860 0.7×	303 0.4×	273 0.5×	385 0.7×	74	3.3k
Jônatas Santos Abrahão Brazil	33	1.1k 0.7×	654 0.5×	1.4k 1.9×	347 0.6×	1.2k 2.1×	181	3.7k
B. Brett Finlay Canada	34	2.2k 1.5×	1.0k 0.8×	606 0.8×	961 1.6×	332 0.6×	59	4.6k

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Molleston, Jerome M., Lawrence A. Schriefer, Lindsay Droit, et al.. (2025). Single cell viral tagging of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii reveals rare bacteriophages omitted by other techniques. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2526719–2526719. 2 indexed citations

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Leonard, Maureen M., et al.. (2025). Gut virome dynamics: from commensal to critical player in health and disease. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 23(2). 126–144.

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Ngono, Annie Elong, Kathie A. Mihindukulasuriya, Lindsay Droit, et al.. (2024). Dengue virus surveillance in Nepal yields the first on-site whole genome sequences of isolates from the 2022 outbreak. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 3 indexed citations

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Droit, Lindsay, et al.. (2024). Tracking the prevalence and emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern using a regional genomic surveillance program. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(8). e0422523–e0422523. 2 indexed citations

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Roach, Michael J., Sarah J. Beecroft, Kathie A. Mihindukulasuriya, et al.. (2024). Hecatomb: an integrated software platform for viral metagenomics. GigaScience. 13. 7 indexed citations

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Droit, Lindsay, Alejandro A. Vega, Kathie A. Mihindukulasuriya, et al.. (2023). Draft genomes of 12 Bifidobacterium isolates from human IBD fecal samples. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(1). e0013023–e0013023. 1 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hongbing, Astha Joshi, Andrew B. Janowski, et al.. (2023). The Highly Conserved Stem-Loop II Motif Is Dispensable for SARS-CoV-2. Journal of Virology. 97(6). e0063523–e0063523. 8 indexed citations

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Barth, Julia M. I., Scott A. Handley, Guy Leonard, et al.. (2023). The history and organization of the Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics. Evolution Education and Outreach. 16(1). 2–2. 1 indexed citations

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Kafai, Natasha M., Lauren E. Williamson, Elad Binshtein, et al.. (2022). Neutralizing antibodies protect mice against Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus aerosol challenge. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 219(4). 16 indexed citations

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VanBlargan, Laura A., John M. Errico, Natasha M. Kafai, et al.. (2021). Broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies protect against multiple tick-borne flaviviruses. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(5). 21 indexed citations

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Li, Yuhao, Scott A. Handley, & Megan T. Baldridge. (2021). The dark side of the gut: Virome–host interactions in intestinal homeostasis and disease. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(5). 37 indexed citations

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Desai, Chandni, Scott A. Handley, Rachel Rodgers, et al.. (2020). Growth velocity in children with Environmental Enteric Dysfunction is associated with specific bacterial and viral taxa of the gastrointestinal tract in Malawian children. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(6). e0008387–e0008387. 19 indexed citations

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Lee, Sanghyun, Hejun Liu, Craig B. Wilen, et al.. (2019). A Secreted Viral Nonstructural Protein Determines Intestinal Norovirus Pathogenesis. Cell Host & Microbe. 25(6). 845–857.e5. 55 indexed citations

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Presti, Rachel M., Scott A. Handley, Lindsay Droit, et al.. (2018). Alterations in the oral microbiome in HIV-infected participants after antiretroviral therapy administration are influenced by immune status. AIDS. 32(10). 1279–1287. 39 indexed citations

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Handley, Scott A.. (2016). The virome: a missing component of biological interaction networks in health and disease. Genome Medicine. 8(1). 32–32. 37 indexed citations

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Park, Sunmin, Michael D. Buck, Chandni Desai, et al.. (2016). Autophagy Genes Enhance Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68 Reactivation from Latency by Preventing Virus-Induced Systemic Inflammation. Cell Host & Microbe. 19(1). 91–101. 49 indexed citations

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Handley, Scott A., Peter H. Dube, & Virginia L. Miller. (2006). Histamine signaling through the H ₂ receptor in the Peyer’s patch is important for controlling Yersinia enterocolitica infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(24). 9268–9273. 47 indexed citations

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Alsmark, Cecilia, A. Carolin Frank, E. Olof Karlberg, et al.. (2004). The louse-borne human pathogen Bartonella quintana is a genomic derivative of the zoonotic agent Bartonella henselae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(26). 9716–9721. 189 indexed citations

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Cummings, Michael P., Scott A. Handley, Daniel S. Myers, et al.. (2003). Comparing Bootstrap and Posterior Probability Values in the Four-Taxon Case. Systematic Biology. 52(4). 477–487. 249 indexed citations

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Cummings, Michael P., Scott A. Handley, Daniel S. Myers, et al.. (2003). Comparing Bootstrap and Posterior Probability Values in the Four-Taxon Case. Systematic Biology. 52(4). 477–487. 8 indexed citations

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