Shraddha Shitut

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 734 citations indexed

About

Shraddha Shitut is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shraddha Shitut has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 734 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Shraddha Shitut's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers). Shraddha Shitut is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers). Shraddha Shitut collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Egypt. Shraddha Shitut's co-authors include Christian Kost, Silvio Waschina, Glen G D’Souza, Samay Pande, Samir Giri, Claudia Colesie, Ilka B. Bischofs, Martin Westermann, Lisa P. Freund and Leonardo Oña and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Shraddha Shitut

12 papers receiving 726 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.

Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria

2018 336 citations Glen G D’Souza, Shraddha Shitut et al. Natural Product Reports profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shraddha Shitut Netherlands	9	437	225	168	91	88	13	734
Glen G D’Souza Switzerland	9	490 1.1×	266 1.2×	234 1.4×	130 1.4×	79 0.9×	13	828
Alex V. Carr United States	5	365 0.8×	226 1.0×	75 0.4×	53 0.6×	65 0.7×	9	633
William J. Riehl United States	6	655 1.5×	163 0.7×	175 1.0×	61 0.7×	54 0.6×	8	861
Jean C. C. Vila United States	13	442 1.0×	180 0.8×	170 1.0×	130 1.4×	88 1.0×	20	741
Nuno M. Oliveira United Kingdom	8	352 0.8×	171 0.8×	212 1.3×	131 1.4×	37 0.4×	10	669
Samay Pande India	11	656 1.5×	369 1.6×	366 2.2×	226 2.5×	70 0.8×	16	1.1k
Philipp Hübner Switzerland	19	673 1.5×	215 1.0×	214 1.3×	33 0.4×	123 1.4×	29	1.0k
Shaul Pollak United States	12	353 0.8×	190 0.8×	178 1.1×	40 0.4×	38 0.4×	18	539
Samir Giri Germany	7	182 0.4×	115 0.5×	81 0.5×	64 0.7×	47 0.5×	9	342
Catherine Grandclément France	9	435 1.0×	103 0.5×	87 0.5×	30 0.3×	46 0.5×	17	812

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shraddha Shitut

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Shitut, Shraddha, Thomas van Dijk, Dennis Claessen, & Daniel E. Rozen. (2025). Bacterial heterozygosity promotes survival under multidrug selection. Current Biology. 35(7). 1437–1445.e3.

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Zhong, Xiaobo, Shraddha Shitut, Chao Du, et al.. (2025). The stomatin-like protein StlP organizes membrane microdomains to govern polar growth in filamentous actinobacteria under hyperosmotic stress. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2669–2669. 2 indexed citations

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Shitut, Shraddha, Le Zhang, Marit de Beer, et al.. (2022). Endocytosis-like DNA uptake by cell wall-deficient bacteria. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5524–5524. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zheren, et al.. (2022). Mutational meltdown of putative microbial altruists in Streptomyces coelicolor colonies. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2266–2266. 15 indexed citations

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Giri, Samir, et al.. (2022). Prevalent emergence of reciprocity among cross-feeding bacteria. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 14 indexed citations

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Shitut, Shraddha, Mengjie Shen, Rico J. E. Derks, et al.. (2022). Generating Heterokaryotic Cells via Bacterial Cell-Cell Fusion. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(4). e0169322–e0169322. 9 indexed citations

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Giri, Samir, Leonardo Oña, Silvio Waschina, et al.. (2021). Metabolic dissimilarity determines the establishment of cross-feeding interactions in bacteria. Current Biology. 31(24). 5547–5557.e6. 52 indexed citations

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Zhong, Xiaobo, et al.. (2020). Formation of wall‐less cells in Kitasatospora viridifaciens requires cytoskeletal protein FilP in oxygen‐limiting conditions. Molecular Microbiology. 115(6). 1181–1190. 6 indexed citations

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Giri, Samir, Shraddha Shitut, & Christian Kost. (2020). Harnessing ecological and evolutionary principles to guide the design of microbial production consortia. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 62. 228–238. 47 indexed citations

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Shitut, Shraddha, et al.. (2020). Use of Permanent Wall-Deficient Cells as a System for the Discovery of New-to-Nature Metabolites. Microorganisms. 8(12). 1897–1897. 7 indexed citations

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Shitut, Shraddha, et al.. (2019). Nanotube‐mediated cross‐feeding couples the metabolism of interacting bacterial cells. Environmental Microbiology. 21(4). 1306–1320. 30 indexed citations

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D’Souza, Glen G, et al.. (2018). Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria. Natural Product Reports. 35(5). 455–488. 336 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pande, Samay, Shraddha Shitut, Lisa P. Freund, et al.. (2015). Metabolic cross-feeding via intercellular nanotubes among bacteria. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6238–6238. 198 indexed citations

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