Silvio Waschina

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Silvio Waschina is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvio Waschina has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Silvio Waschina's work include Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (5 papers). Silvio Waschina is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (5 papers). Silvio Waschina collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Silvio Waschina's co-authors include Christoph Kaleta, Christian Kost, Glen G D’Souza, Johannes Zimmermann, Shraddha Shitut, Samay Pande, Katrin Bohl, Samir Giri, Jan Rupp and Γεώργιος Μαρίνος and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Silvio Waschina

33 papers receiving 1.3k 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
Silvio Waschina Germany	18	834	259	249	136	114	36	1.3k
Jonathan Friedman Israel	12	633 0.8×	304 1.2×	165 0.7×	109 0.8×	119 1.0×	23	1.1k
Oleksandr M. Maistrenko Ukraine	11	715 0.9×	274 1.1×	99 0.4×	143 1.1×	34 0.3×	20	1.2k
Eugen Bauer Germany	15	903 1.1×	147 0.6×	173 0.7×	115 0.8×	28 0.2×	18	1.5k
María Mercedes Zambrano Colombia	19	974 1.2×	396 1.5×	563 2.3×	111 0.8×	51 0.4×	46	1.7k
Tulika Prakash India	15	617 0.7×	182 0.7×	257 1.0×	105 0.8×	15 0.1×	36	1.1k
Beny Spira Brazil	21	474 0.6×	178 0.7×	391 1.6×	77 0.6×	19 0.2×	55	1.1k
Kenny C. Mok United States	12	1.3k 1.6×	316 1.2×	471 1.9×	87 0.6×	15 0.1×	19	1.7k
Ruben A. Mars United States	15	598 0.7×	155 0.6×	352 1.4×	191 1.4×	16 0.1×	25	1.2k
Daniela I. Drautz‐Moses Singapore	23	748 0.9×	263 1.0×	176 0.7×	75 0.6×	13 0.1×	70	1.6k
Kar‐Wai Hong Malaysia	15	439 0.5×	154 0.6×	141 0.6×	58 0.4×	15 0.1×	41	761

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Silvio Waschina

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20 of 20 papers shown

Waschina, Silvio, et al.. (2025). Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities. Current Biology. 35(6). 1258–1268.e6. 1 indexed citations

Aden, Konrad, et al.. (2025). Comparative analysis of amino acid auxotrophies and peptidase profiles in non-dysbiotic and dysbiotic small intestinal microbiomes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 27. 821–831.

Faust, Kirstin, Simon Graspeuntner, Silvio Waschina, et al.. (2025). Use of Macrogol to Accelerate Feeding Advancement in Extremely Preterm Infants. Neonatology. 122(3). 350–359.

Μαρίνος, Γεώργιος, Reena Debray, Nancy Obeng, et al.. (2024). Metabolic model predictions enable targeted microbiome manipulation through precision prebiotics. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(2). e0114423–e0114423. 12 indexed citations

Zhang, Shan, Weizhi Song, Γεώργιος Μαρίνος, et al.. (2024). Genome-scale metabolic modelling reveals interactions and key roles of symbiont clades in a sponge holobiont. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10858–10858. 3 indexed citations

Zimmermann, Johannes, Sven Schuchardt, Derk Frank, et al.. (2023). Amino acid auxotrophies in human gut bacteria are linked to higher microbiome diversity and long-term stability. The ISME Journal. 17(12). 2370–2380. 33 indexed citations

Wijewardene, Lishani, Uta Ulrich, Nicola Fohrer, et al.. (2023). Selection of aquatic microbiota exposed to the herbicides flufenacet and metazachlor. Environmental Microbiology. 25(12). 2972–2987. 3 indexed citations

Waschina, Silvio, et al.. (2022). Bovine milk microbiota: Evaluation of different DNA extraction protocols for challenging samples. MicrobiologyOpen. 11(2). 10 indexed citations

Boßung, Verena, Julia Pagel, Achim Rody, et al.. (2022). Timing of antimicrobial prophylaxis for cesarean section is critical for gut microbiome development in term born infants. Gut Microbes. 14(1). 2038855–2038855. 17 indexed citations

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Waschina, Silvio & Karsten Seeger. (2022). Using in-tube extraction and slice selective NMR experiments allow imaging via statistical analysis of metabolic profiles. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1231. 340419–340419. 1 indexed citations

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Schilf, Paul, Axel Künstner, Michael Olbrich, et al.. (2021). A Mitochondrial Polymorphism Alters Immune Cell Metabolism and Protects Mice from Skin Inflammation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(3). 1006–1006. 20 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Johannes, Christoph Kaleta, & Silvio Waschina. (2021). gapseq: informed prediction of bacterial metabolic pathways and reconstruction of accurate metabolic models. Genome biology. 22(1). 81–81. 161 indexed citations

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Stewart, Fiona, et al.. (2021). Modeling Drosophila gut microbe interactions reveals metabolic interconnectivity. iScience. 24(11). 103216–103216. 2 indexed citations

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Pagel, Julia, Tanja K. Rausch, Silvio Waschina, et al.. (2020). Increased Regulatory T Cells Precede the Development of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Preterm Infants. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 565257–565257. 24 indexed citations

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Μαρίνος, Γεώργιος, Christoph Kaleta, & Silvio Waschina. (2020). Defining the nutritional input for genome-scale metabolic models: A roadmap. PLoS ONE. 15(8). e0236890–e0236890. 26 indexed citations

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Effenberger, Maria, Simon Reider, Silvio Waschina, et al.. (2020). Microbial Butyrate Synthesis Indicates Therapeutic Efficacy of Azathioprine in IBD Patients. Journal of Crohn s and Colitis. 15(1). 88–98. 45 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Johannes, Christoph Kaleta, & Silvio Waschina. (2020). gapseq source code. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Johannes, Nancy Obeng, Wentao Yang, et al.. (2019). The functional repertoire contained within the native microbiota of the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The ISME Journal. 14(1). 26–38. 68 indexed citations

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Yang, Wentao, Carola Petersen, Barbara Pees, et al.. (2019). The Inducible Response of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to Members of Its Natural Microbiota Across Development and Adult Life. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1793–1793. 24 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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