Shirin Moossavi

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Shirin Moossavi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shirin Moossavi has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Epidemiology and 13 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Shirin Moossavi's work include Gut microbiota and health (26 papers), Infant Nutrition and Health (13 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (7 papers). Shirin Moossavi is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (26 papers), Infant Nutrition and Health (13 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (7 papers). Shirin Moossavi collaborates with scholars based in Iran, Canada and United States. Shirin Moossavi's co-authors include Meghan B. Azad, Ehsan Khafipour, Shadi Sepehri, Faraz Bishehsari, Piush J. Mandhane, Theo J. Moraes, Stuart E. Turvey, Padmaja Subbarao, Malcolm R. Sears and Allan B. Becker and has published in prestigious journals such as The FASEB Journal, Cell Host & Microbe and Nutrients.

In The Last Decade

Shirin Moossavi

57 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Composition and Variation of the Human Milk Microbiota Are Influenced by Maternal and Early-Life Factors

2019 373 citations Shirin Moossavi, Shadi Sepehri et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
Supplementation with a probiotic mixture accelerates gut microbiome maturation and reduces intestinal inflammation in extremely preterm infants

2022 122 citations Jumana Samara, Shirin Moossavi et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shirin Moossavi Iran	22	908	688	479	209	190	57	1.9k
Giacomo Biasucci Italy	23	786 0.9×	362 0.5×	277 0.6×	385 1.8×	209 1.1×	118	2.1k
Jeroen van Bergenhenegouwen Netherlands	20	831 0.9×	332 0.5×	220 0.5×	310 1.5×	112 0.6×	47	1.7k
Amanda Prince United States	19	1.3k 1.4×	425 0.6×	469 1.0×	424 2.0×	84 0.4×	52	2.5k
Stephanie C. Ganal‐Vonarburg Switzerland	16	1.4k 1.5×	332 0.5×	282 0.6×	399 1.9×	199 1.0×	25	2.5k
Rüdiger Adam Germany	16	654 0.7×	318 0.5×	262 0.5×	161 0.8×	79 0.4×	42	1.5k
Thomas Gensollen United States	9	1.1k 1.2×	253 0.4×	181 0.4×	292 1.4×	101 0.5×	9	1.7k
Kathryn A. Knoop United States	21	1.1k 1.2×	259 0.4×	215 0.4×	300 1.4×	332 1.7×	37	2.6k
Lucia Zampini Italy	21	458 0.5×	1.2k 1.8×	812 1.7×	234 1.1×	247 1.3×	49	2.0k
Lei Lu United States	18	606 0.7×	876 1.3×	176 0.4×	149 0.7×	220 1.2×	26	1.6k
Diana Ir United States	29	1.4k 1.6×	286 0.4×	545 1.1×	526 2.5×	355 1.9×	54	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shirin Moossavi

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Ramay, Hena R., Shirin Moossavi, Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe, et al.. (2024). Divergent maturational patterns of the infant bacterial and fungal gut microbiome in the first year of life are associated with inter-kingdom community dynamics and infant nutrition. Microbiome. 12(1). 22–22. 12 indexed citations

Ambalavanan, Amirthagowri, Yang Zhang, Kelsey Fehr, et al.. (2024). Networks of human milk microbiota are associated with host genomics, childhood asthma, and allergic sensitization. Cell Host & Microbe. 32(10). 1838–1852.e5. 5 indexed citations

Gutierrez, Mackenzie W., Shirin Moossavi, Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe, et al.. (2023). Maturational patterns of the infant gut mycobiome are associated with early-life body mass index. Cell Reports Medicine. 4(2). 100928–100928. 23 indexed citations

Shah, Shrushti, Chunlong Mu, Shirin Moossavi, et al.. (2023). Physical activity‐induced alterations of the gut microbiota are BMI dependent. The FASEB Journal. 37(4). e22882–e22882. 14 indexed citations

Salahandish, Razieh, Shirin Moossavi, Sultan Khetani, et al.. (2023). CoVSense: Ultrasensitive Nucleocapsid Antigen Immunosensor for Rapid Clinical Detection of Wildtype and Variant SARS‐CoV‐2. Advanced Science. 10(15). e2206615–e2206615. 7 indexed citations

Shajari, Shaghayegh, Razieh Salahandish, Mohsen Hassani, et al.. (2023). MicroSweat: A Wearable Microfluidic Patch for Noninvasive and Reliable Sweat Collection Enables Human Stress Monitoring (Adv. Sci. 7/2023). Advanced Science. 10(7). 3 indexed citations

Alshaikh, Belal, Jumana Samara, Shirin Moossavi, et al.. (2022). Multi-strain probiotics for extremely preterm infants: a randomized controlled trial. Pediatric Research. 92(6). 1663–1670. 20 indexed citations

Samara, Jumana, Shirin Moossavi, Belal Alshaikh, et al.. (2022). Supplementation with a probiotic mixture accelerates gut microbiome maturation and reduces intestinal inflammation in extremely preterm infants. Cell Host & Microbe. 30(5). 696–711.e5. 122 indexed citations breakdown →

Moossavi, Shirin, Marie‐Claire Arrieta, Amir Sanati‐Nezhad, & Faraz Bishehsari. (2022). Gut-on-chip for ecological and causal human gut microbiome research. Trends in Microbiology. 30(8). 710–721. 31 indexed citations

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Moossavi, Shirin, Kelsey Fehr, Ehsan Khafipour, & Meghan B. Azad. (2021). Repeatability and reproducibility assessment in a large-scale population-based microbiota study: case study on human milk microbiota. Microbiome. 9(1). 41–41. 16 indexed citations

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Moossavi, Shirin, et al.. (2020). Biological observations in microbiota analysis are robust to the choice of 16S rRNA gene sequencing processing algorithm: case study on human milk microbiota. BMC Microbiology. 20(1). 290–290. 16 indexed citations

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Moossavi, Shirin, Kelsey Fehr, Hooman Derakhshani, et al.. (2020). Human milk fungi: environmental determinants and inter-kingdom associations with milk bacteria in the CHILD Cohort Study. BMC Microbiology. 20(1). 146–146. 31 indexed citations

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Moossavi, Shirin, Shadi Sepehri, Bianca Robertson, et al.. (2019). Composition and Variation of the Human Milk Microbiota Are Influenced by Maternal and Early-Life Factors. Cell Host & Microbe. 25(2). 324–335.e4. 373 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moossavi, Shirin, Kozeta Miliku, Shadi Sepehri, et al.. (2019). Integrated Analysis of Human Milk Microbiota With Oligosaccharides and Fatty Acids in the CHILD Cohort. Frontiers in Nutrition. 6. 58–58. 79 indexed citations

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Moossavi, Shirin, Kozeta Miliku, Shadi Sepehri, Ehsan Khafipour, & Meghan B. Azad. (2018). The Prebiotic and Probiotic Properties of Human Milk: Implications for Infant Immune Development and Pediatric Asthma. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 6. 197–197. 102 indexed citations

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Azad, Meghan B., Shirin Moossavi, Arthur H. Owora, & Shadi Sepehri. (2017). Early-Life Antibiotic Exposure, Gut Microbiota Development, and Predisposition to Obesity. Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop series. 88. 67–80. 30 indexed citations

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Vosough, Massoud, Shirin Moossavi, Soura Mardpour, et al.. (2016). Repeated Intraportal Injection of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Combination with Pioglitazone in Patients with Compensated Cirrhosis: A Clinical Report of Two Cases.. PubMed. 19(2). 131–6. 21 indexed citations

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Al‐Samadi, Ahmed, Shirin Moossavi, Abdelhakim Salem, et al.. (2015). Distinctive expression pattern of interleukin-17 cytokine family members in colorectal cancer. Tumor Biology. 37(2). 1609–1615. 39 indexed citations

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Moossavi, Shirin & Reza Ansari. (2013). Intestinal Stem Cell Imaging in Colorectal Cancer Screening. PubMed. 9(2). 37–39. 3 indexed citations

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Moossavi, Shirin & Nima Rezaei. (2013). Toll-like receptor signalling and their therapeutic targeting in colorectal cancer. International Immunopharmacology. 16(2). 199–209. 31 indexed citations

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