Sean Conlan

33.0k total citations · 9 hit papers
56 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Sean Conlan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Dermatology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Conlan has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Dermatology and 11 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Sean Conlan's work include Dermatology and Skin Diseases (11 papers), Gut microbiota and health (10 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (10 papers). Sean Conlan is often cited by papers focused on Dermatology and Skin Diseases (11 papers), Gut microbiota and health (10 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (10 papers). Sean Conlan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Sean Conlan's co-authors include Julia A. Segre, Heidi H. Kong, Julia Oh, Clayton Deming, Clay Deming, Patrick R. Murray, Elizabeth A. Grice, Maria L. Turner, Hagan Bayley and Allyson L. Byrd and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Sean Conlan

54 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

Topographical and Tempora... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2009 2012 2013 2012 2014 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Topographical and Temporal Diversity of the Human Skin Microbiome
    2009 2.1k citations Elizabeth A. Grice, Heidi H. Kong et al. Science profile →
  2. Temporal shifts in the skin microbiome associated with disease flares and treatment in children with atopic dermatitis
    2012 1.3k citations Heidi H. Kong, Julia Oh et al. Genome Research profile →
  3. Topographic diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in human skin
    2013 839 citations Keisha Findley, Julia Oh et al. Nature profile →
  4. Compartmentalized Control of Skin Immunity by Resident Commensals
    2012 820 citations Shruti Naik, Nicolas Bouladoux et al. Science profile →
  5. Biogeography and individuality shape function in the human skin metagenome
    2014 781 citations Julia Oh, Allyson L. Byrd et al. Nature profile →
  6. Commensal–dendritic-cell interaction specifies a unique protective skin immune signature
    2014 603 citations Shruti Naik, Nicolas Bouladoux et al. Nature profile →
  7. Stochastic sensing of organic analytes by a pore-forming protein containing a molecular adapter
    1999 592 citations Sean Conlan et al. Nature profile →
  8. A New Arenavirus in a Cluster of Fatal Transplant-Associated Diseases
    2008 454 citations Gustavo Palacios, Thomas Briese et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  9. Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis strain diversity underlying pediatric atopic dermatitis
    2017 415 citations Allyson L. Byrd, Clay Deming et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Sean Conlan 3.9k 3.6k 1.9k 1.9k 1.3k 56 10.6k
Heidi H. Kong 6.7k 1.7× 4.2k 1.2× 2.1k 1.1× 1.4k 0.8× 2.3k 1.7× 84 13.1k
Mark Willcox 1.2k 0.3× 5.0k 1.4× 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 622 21.0k
Julia A. Segre 8.1k 2.1× 7.8k 2.2× 3.0k 1.5× 2.4k 1.3× 2.4k 1.8× 99 20.6k
Patrick R. Murray 1.9k 0.5× 1.9k 0.5× 2.9k 1.5× 2.3k 1.2× 725 0.5× 198 9.1k
Allyson L. Byrd 2.3k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 871 0.5× 656 0.3× 585 0.4× 22 5.9k
Martin Schaller 1.9k 0.5× 4.6k 1.3× 4.2k 2.2× 5.0k 2.6× 398 0.3× 321 15.1k
Alexander R. Horswill 982 0.2× 10.5k 2.9× 1.2k 0.6× 6.6k 3.5× 419 0.3× 206 16.9k
Takashi Sugita 1.4k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 3.8k 2.0× 2.0k 1.1× 354 0.3× 317 7.9k
Mogens Kilian 1.1k 0.3× 4.1k 1.1× 4.8k 2.5× 1.6k 0.8× 186 0.1× 255 17.0k
Patrick M. Schlievert 1.7k 0.4× 8.5k 2.4× 3.5k 1.8× 15.6k 8.2× 1.0k 0.8× 388 27.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Conlan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chandrasekaran, Prabha, Noriko Mitsuiki, Annemarie Gabrysch, et al.. (2025). The intestinal microbiome and metabolome discern disease severity in cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 deficiency. Microbiome. 13(1). 51–51. 1 indexed citations
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Conlan, Sean, Poorani Subramanian, Jung-Ho Youn, et al.. (2024). Whole-genome sequence of Mucor velutinosus NIH1002, a strain associated with disseminated disease. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(7). e0006224–e0006224.
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Escapa, Isabel F., Wei Gao, Julia A. Segre, et al.. (2024). Metabolic capabilities are highly conserved among human nasal-associated Corynebacterium species in pangenomic analyses. mSystems. 9(12). e0113224–e0113224. 2 indexed citations
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Conlan, Sean, Matthew J. Arduino, Mia Mattioli, et al.. (2024). Acanthamoeba Infection in a Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipient: Challenges in Diagnosis, Management, and Source Identification. Transplant Infectious Disease. 27(1). e14425–e14425.
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Kashaf, Sara Saheb, Catriona P. Harkins, Clay Deming, et al.. (2023). Staphylococcal diversity in atopic dermatitis from an individual to a global scale. Cell Host & Microbe. 31(4). 578–592.e6. 40 indexed citations
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Sim, Choon Kiat, Sara Saheb Kashaf, Apollo Stacy, et al.. (2022). A mouse model of occult intestinal colonization demonstrating antibiotic-induced outgrowth of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Microbiome. 10(1). 43–43. 17 indexed citations
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Huang, Xin, Rory M. Welsh, Clay Deming, et al.. (2021). Skin Metagenomic Sequence Analysis of Early Candida auris Outbreaks in U.S. Nursing Homes. mSphere. 6(4). e0028721–e0028721. 29 indexed citations
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Conlan, Sean, Anna F. Lau, Clay Deming, et al.. (2019). Plasmid Dissemination and Selection of a Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain during Transplant-Associated Antibiotic Therapy. mBio. 10(5). 14 indexed citations
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Singer, Jeffrey R., Carlene L. Zindl, Daniel J. Silberger, et al.. (2019). Preventing dysbiosis of the neonatal mouse intestinal microbiome protects against late-onset sepsis. Nature Medicine. 25(11). 1772–1782. 107 indexed citations
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Weingarten, Rebecca A., Ryan C. Johnson, Sean Conlan, et al.. (2018). Genomic Analysis of Hospital Plumbing Reveals Diverse Reservoir of Bacterial Plasmids Conferring Carbapenem Resistance. mBio. 9(1). 141 indexed citations
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Conlan, Sean, Clay Deming, Shih-Queen Lee-Lin, et al.. (2018). Expanded skin virome in DOCK8-deficient patients. Nature Medicine. 24(12). 1815–1821. 85 indexed citations
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Johnson, Ryan C., Clay Deming, Sean Conlan, et al.. (2018). Investigation of a Cluster of Sphingomonas koreensis Infections. New England Journal of Medicine. 379(26). 2529–2539. 41 indexed citations
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Byrd, Allyson L., Clay Deming, Sara K. B. Cassidy, et al.. (2017). Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis strain diversity underlying pediatric atopic dermatitis. Science Translational Medicine. 9(397). 415 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jo, Jay‐Hyun, Clay Deming, Elizabeth A. Kennedy, et al.. (2016). Diverse Human Skin Fungal Communities in Children Converge in Adulthood. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 136(12). 2356–2363. 99 indexed citations
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Oh, Julia, Allyson L. Byrd, Clay Deming, et al.. (2014). Biogeography and individuality shape function in the human skin metagenome. Nature. 514(7520). 59–64. 781 indexed citations breakdown →
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Findley, Keisha, Julia Oh, Joy Yang, et al.. (2013). Topographic diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in human skin. Nature. 498(7454). 367–370. 839 indexed citations breakdown →
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Naik, Shruti, Nicolas Bouladoux, Christoph Wilhelm, et al.. (2012). Compartmentalized Control of Skin Immunity by Resident Commensals. Science. 337(6098). 1115–1119. 820 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kong, Heidi H., Julia Oh, Clay Deming, et al.. (2012). Temporal shifts in the skin microbiome associated with disease flares and treatment in children with atopic dermatitis. Genome Research. 22(5). 850–859. 1262 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grice, Elizabeth A., Heidi H. Kong, Sean Conlan, et al.. (2009). Topographical and Temporal Diversity of the Human Skin Microbiome. Science. 324(5931). 1190–1192. 2098 indexed citations breakdown →
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Palacios, Gustavo, Jeffrey Hui, P. Lan Quan, et al.. (2008). Genetic Analysis of Israel Acute Paralysis Virus: Distinct Clusters Are Circulating in the United States. Journal of Virology. 82(13). 6209–6217. 87 indexed citations

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