Sofia K. Forslund

51.4k citations

99 papers · 25.6k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.1%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Endocrinology top 0.5%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 79
- Gut microbiota and health 43
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 25
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 12
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 9
Physiology 18
- Diet and metabolism studies 15

Co-authors: Peer Bork Jaime Huerta‐Cepas Christian von Mering Lars Juhl Jensen Damian Szklarczyk Davide Heller Michael Kuhn Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (11 papers)Bioinformatics (7 papers)Cardiovascular Research (4 papers)Molecular Biology and Evolution (4 papers)Nature Communications (3 papers)
Partner nations: Germany Sweden United States

In The Last Decade

Sofia K. Forslund

92 papers receiving 25.4k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Gut Microbiome Composition in Obese and Non-Obese Persons: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 2021 · 241 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nutrients
2018 Nucleic Acids Research
2017 Molecular Biology and Evolution
2016 Nature Communications
2015 Nucleic Acids Research
2014 Nucleic Acids Research
2013 Nucleic Acids Research
2011 Nucleic Acids Research
2009 Nucleic Acids Research
2007 Nucleic Acids Research

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1	Reinforcing gut integrity: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials assessing probiotics, synbiotics, and prebiotics on intestinal permeability markers Pharmacological Research ·Zeinab Ghorbani, Nargeskhatoon Shoaibinobarian, Morvarid Noormohammadi, Kate Taylor, Asma Kazemi, Ali Bonyad, Sara Khoshdooz, Ulrike Löber, Sofia K. Forslund	2025	3
2	Gut microbiome alterations precede graft rejection in kidney transplantation patients American Journal of Transplantation ·Johannes Holle, Rosa Reitmeir, Felix Behrens, Dharmesh Singh, Daniela Schindler, Olena Potapenko, Victoria McParland, Harithaa Anandakumar, Nele Kanzelmeyer, Claudia Sommerer, Steffen Hartleif, Joachim Andrassy, Uwe Heemann, Michael Neuenhahn, Sofia K. Forslund, Markus Gerhard, Jun Oh, Nicola Wilck, Ulrike Löber, Hendrik Bartolomaeus	2025	3
3	CFTR modulator therapy drives microbiome restructuring through improved host physiology in cystic fibrosis: the IMMProveCF phase IV trial Nature Communications ·Rebecca L. Knoll, Melanie Brauny, Evelyn Robert, Louisa Cloos, Lydia Waser, Katja Hilbert, Nina Ulmer, Barlo Hillen, Till Birkner, Theda Ulrike Patricia Bartolomaeus, Oliver Nitsche, Víctor Hugo Jarquín‐Díaz, Susan V. Lynch, Stephan Gehring, Lisa Maier, Krystyna Poplawska, Sofia K. Forslund	2025	0
4	Deep Phenotyping of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Through Multi-Omics Integration European Journal of Heart Failure ·Jakob Versnjak, Titus Küehne, Pauline Fahjen, Nina Jovanović, Ulrike Löber, Gabriele G. Schiattarella, Nicola Wilck, Holger Gerhardt, Dominik N. Müller, Frank Edelmann, Philipp Mertins, Roland Eils, Michael Gotthardt, Sofia K. Forslund, Benjamin Wild, Marcus Kelm	2025	2
5	Gut-Heart Axis: The Role of Gut Microbiota and Metabolites in Heart Failure Circulation Research ·Matthew Snelson, Rikeish R. Muralitharan, Chia‐Feng Liu, Lajos Markó, Sofia K. Forslund, Francine Z. Marques, W.H. Wilson Tang	2025	8
6	Mucosal washes are useful for sampling intestinal mucus-associated microbiota despite low biomass Gut Microbes ·Jennifer N. Martínez-Medina, Fereshteh Ghazisaeedi, Catharina Kramer, J Ziegler, Victoria McParland, Paul W. Mönch, Britta Siegmund, Víctor Hugo Jarquín‐Díaz, Marcus Fulde, Sofia K. Forslund	2025	0
7	Oral microbiota of patients with phenylketonuria: A nation‐based cross‐sectional study Journal Of Clinical Periodontology ·Memduh Bingöl, Alessio Cardilli, Anne Carolin Bingöl, Ulrike Löber, Corinna Bang, André Franke, Theodosia Bartzela, Skadi Beblo, E. Mönch, Simone Stolz, Arne S. Schäefer, Sofia K. Forslund, G. Richter	2024	1
8	Antibiotic-perturbed microbiota and the role of probiotics Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology ·Hania Szajewska, Karen P. Scott, Tim de Meij, Sofia K. Forslund, Rob Knight, Omry Koren, Paul Little, Bradley C. Johnston, Jan Łukasik, Jotham Suez, Daniel J. Tancredi, Mary Ellen Sanders	2024	22
9	Resilience and stability of the CF- intestinal and respiratory microbiome during nutritional and exercise intervention BMC Microbiology ·Rebecca L. Knoll, Víctor Hugo Jarquín‐Díaz, Jonas Klopp, Alissa Kemper, Katja Hilbert, Barlo Hillen, Daniel Pfirrmann, Perikles Simon, Viola Bähner, Oliver Nitsche, Stephan Gehring, Lajos Markó, Sofia K. Forslund, Krystyna Poplawska	2023	5
10	Gut microbiome and atrial fibrillation—results from a large population-based study EBioMedicine ·Joonatan Palmu, Christin S. Börschel, Alfredo Ortega‐Alonso, Lajos Markó, Michael Inouye, Pekka Jousilahti, Rodolfo A. Salido, Karenina Sanders, Caitriona Brennan, Gregory Humphrey, Jon G. Sanders, Friederike Gutmann, Dominik Linz, Veikko Salomaa, Aki S. Havulinna, Sofia K. Forslund, Rob Knight, Leo Lahti, Teemu Niiranen, Renate B. Schnabel	2023	37
11	Metabolomic and microbiome profiling reveals personalized risk factors for coronary artery disease Nature Medicine ·Yeela Talmor‐Barkan, Noam Bar, Aviv A. Shaul, Nir Shahaf, Anastasia Godneva, Yuval Bussi, Maya Lotan‐Pompan, Adina Weinberger, Alon Shechter, Chava Chezar‐Azerrad, Ziad Arow, Yoav Hammer, Kanta Chechi, Sofia K. Forslund, Sébastien Fromentin, Marc‐Emmanuel Dumas, S. Dusko Ehrlich, Oluf Pedersen, Ran Kornowski, Eran Segal	2022	125
12	Gut Microbiome Composition in Obese and Non-Obese Persons: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Nutrients ·Mariona Pinart, Andreas Dötsch, Kristina Schlicht, Matthias Laudes, Jildau Bouwman, Sofia K. Forslund, Tobias Pischon, Katharina Nimptsch Hit paper breakdown →	2021	241
13	Enhanced Ca²⁺signaling, mild primary aldosteronism, and hypertension in a familial hyperaldosteronism mouse model (Cacna1h^M1560V/+) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Eric Seidel, Julia Schewe, Junhui Zhang, Hoang An Dinh, Sofia K. Forslund, Lajos Markó, Nicole Hellmig, Jörg Peters, Dominik N. Müller, Richard P. Lifton, Timothy Nottoli, Gabriel Stölting, Ute I. Scholl	2021	15
14	The Gut Microbiome in Hypertension Circulation Research ·Ellen G. Avery, Hendrik Bartolomaeus, András Maifeld, Lajos Markó, Helge Wiig, Nicola Wilck, Stephan P. Rosshart, Sofia K. Forslund, Dominik N. Müller	2021	119
15	A computational framework to integrate high-throughput ‘-omics’ datasets for the identification of potential mechanistic links Nature Protocols ·Helle Pedersen, Sofia K. Forslund, Valborg Guðmundsdóttir, Anders Østergaard Petersen, Falk Hildebrand, Tuulia Hyötyläinen, Trine Nielsen, Torben Hansen, Peer Bork, S. Dusko Ehrlich, Søren Brunak, Matej Orešič, Oluf Pedersen, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen	2018	79
16	The gut microbiome is associated with behavioural task in honey bees Insectes Sociaux ·Julia C. Jones, Carmelo Fruciano, J. H. Marchant, Falk Hildebrand, Sofia K. Forslund, Peer Bork, Philipp Engel, William O. H. Hughes	2018	95
17	Subspecies in the global human gut microbiome Molecular Systems Biology ·Paul Igor Costea, Luís Pedro Coelho, Shinichi Sunagawa, Robin Munch, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Sofia K. Forslund, Falk Hildebrand, Аlmagul Kushugulova, Georg Zeller, Peer Bork	2017	88
18	Metagenomic insights into the human gut resistome and the forces that shape it BioEssays ·Sofia K. Forslund, Shinichi Sunagawa, Luís Pedro Coelho, Peer Bork	2014	68
19	A Phylogeny-Based Benchmarking Test for Orthology Inference Reveals the Limitations of Function-Based Validation PLoS ONE ·Kalliopi Trachana, Sofia K. Forslund, Tomas Larsson, Sean Powell, Tobias Doerks, Christian von Mering, Peer Bork	2014	12
20	Predicting protein function from domain content Bioinformatics ·Sofia K. Forslund, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer	2008	75

About Sofia K. Forslund

Sofia K. Forslund is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology, Molecular Medicine, Genetics and Food Science, having authored 99 papers that have together received 25.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (43 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (15 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (12 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (10 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (10 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (16.9k citations), Endocrinology (700 citations), Ecology (3.5k citations), Molecular Medicine (607 citations) and Cancer Research (1.7k citations). Sofia K. Forslund has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. Frequent co-authors include Peer Bork, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Christian von Mering, Lars Juhl Jensen, Damian Szklarczyk, Davide Heller, Michael Kuhn, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, Alexander Röth and Kalliopi P. Tsafou. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, Cardiovascular Research, Molecular Biology and Evolution and Nature Communications.

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