Stephen D. Bentley

45.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
278 papers, 17.1k citations indexed

About

Stephen D. Bentley is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen D. Bentley has authored 278 papers receiving a total of 17.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 176 papers in Epidemiology, 95 papers in Microbiology and 77 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Stephen D. Bentley's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (145 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (90 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (66 papers). Stephen D. Bentley is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (145 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (90 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (66 papers). Stephen D. Bentley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Stephen D. Bentley's co-authors include Julian Parkhill, Nicholas J. Croucher, Simon R. Harris, Matthew T. G. Holden, Michael A. Quail, Jukka Corander, Thomas R. Connor, Aidan Delaney, Andrew J. Page and Jacqueline A. Keane and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephen D. Bentley

269 papers receiving 16.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Rapid phylogenetic analysis of large samples of recombinant bacterial whole genome sequences using Gubbins

2014 1.6k citations Nicholas J. Croucher, Stephen D. Bentley et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Evolution of MRSA During Hospital Transmission and Intercontinental Spread

2010 818 citations Simon R. Harris, Edward J. Feil et al. Science profile →
Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline

2020 576 citations Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Neil MacAlasdair et al. profile →
Genetic Analysis of the Capsular Biosynthetic Locus from All 90 Pneumococcal Serotypes

2006 567 citations Stephen D. Bentley, David M. Aanensen et al. profile →
Rapid Whole-Genome Sequencing for Investigation of a Neonatal MRSA Outbreak

2012 462 citations Matthew T. G. Holden, Claire Chewapreecha et al. profile →
Whole-genome sequencing for analysis of an outbreak of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a descriptive study

2012 409 citations Simon R. Harris, Matthew T. G. Holden et al. profile →
A New Pneumococcal Capsule Type, 10D, is the 100th Serotype and Has a Large cps Fragment from an Oral Streptococcus

2020 261 citations Lesley McGee, Andries J. van Tonder et al. mBio profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen D. Bentley

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Genomic characterization of group B Streptococcus from Argentina: insights into prophage diversity, virulence factors and antibiotic resistance genes 2025 ·Microbial Genomics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Josefina Campos, (unknown), Stephen D. Bentley, Dorota Jamrozy, Marta Mollerach, (unknown)	1
2	Comparison of gene-by-gene and genome-wide short nucleotide sequence-based approaches to define the global population structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae 2024 ·Microbial Genomics ·(unknown), Narender Kumar, Kate C. Mellor, Paulina A. Hawkins, Lesley McGee, Nicholas J. Croucher, Stephen D. Bentley, John A. Lees, Stephanie W. Lo	2
3	Investigating genomic diversity of Staphylococcus aureus associated with pediatric atopic dermatitis in South Africa 2024 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Dorota Jamrozy, Stephen D. Bentley, Adebayo Shittu, Felix S. Dube	1
4	Estimating between-country migration in pneumococcal populations 2024 ·G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·(unknown), Henri Pesonen, Nicholas J. Croucher, Stephen D. Bentley, Jukka Corander	1
5	Nasopharyngeal competition dynamics are likely to be altered following vaccine introduction: bacteriocin prevalence and diversity among Icelandic and Kenyan pneumococci 2023 ·Microbial Genomics ·(unknown), Melissa J. Jansen van Rensburg, Angela Karani, (unknown), Donald Akech, (unknown), (unknown), Andries J. van Tonder, (unknown), Gunnsteinn Haraldsson, Stephen D. Bentley, Helga Erlendsdóttir, Ásgeir Haraldsson, Karl G. Kristinsson, J. Anthony G. Scott, Angela B. Brueggemann	1
6	A global genomic perspective on the multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae 15A-CC63 sub-lineage following pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction 2023 ·Microbial Genomics ·Paulina A. Hawkins, Sopio Chochua, (unknown), (unknown), Martín Antonio, Brenda Kwambana-Adams, Anne von Gottberg, Mignon du Plessis, Jennifer Cornick, Bernard Beall, Robert F. Breiman, Stephen D. Bentley, Lesley McGee	5
7	Population genomics of Group B Streptococcus reveals the genetics of neonatal disease onset and meningeal invasion 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Chrispin Chaguza, Dorota Jamrozy, Merijn W. Bijlsma, Taco W. Kuijpers, Diederik van de Beek, Arie van der Ende, Stephen D. Bentley	17
8	Pneumococcal genetic variability in age-dependent bacterial carriage 2022 ·eLife ·Philip H. C. Kremer, Bart Ferwerda, Hester J. Bootsma, (unknown), Alienke J. Wijmenga‐Monsuur, Elisabeth A. M. Sanders, Krzysztof Trzciński, Anne L. Wyllie, Paul Turner, Arie van der Ende, Matthijs C. Brouwer, Stephen D. Bentley, Diederik van de Beek, John A. Lees	7
9	Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes that frequently colonise the human nasopharynx are common recipients of penicillin-binding protein gene fragments from Streptococcus mitis 2021 ·Microbial Genomics ·(unknown), Chrispin Chaguza, Andrea Gori, (unknown), Sandra Beleza, Martín Antonio, Bernard Beall, David Goldblatt, Brenda Kwambana-Adams, Stephen D. Bentley, Robert S. Heyderman	14
10	Genomic surveillance of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in the period pre-PCV10 and post-PCV10 introduction in Brazil 2021 ·Microbial Genomics ·Samanta Cristine Grassi Almeida, Stephanie W. Lo, Paulina A. Hawkins, Rebecca A. Gladstone, (unknown), Keith P. Klugman, Robert F. Breiman, Stephen D. Bentley, Lesley McGee, Maria-Cristina de C. Brandileone	13
11	Early Signals of Vaccine-driven Perturbation Seen in Pneumococcal Carriage Population Genomic Data 2019 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Chrispin Chaguza, Ellen Heinsbroek, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Terence Tafatatha, Maaike Alaerts, Chikondi Peno, Jennifer Cornick, Patrick Musicha, Naor Bar‐Zeev, Arox W. Kamng’ona, Aras Kadioglu, Lesley McGee, William P. Hanage, Robert F. Breiman, Robert S. Heyderman, Neil French, Dean Everett, Stephen D. Bentley	8
12	Genome-wide epistasis and co-selection study using mutual information 2019 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Johan Pensar, Santeri Puranen, Brian J. Arnold, Neil MacAlasdair, (unknown), Gerry Tonkin‐Hill, Maiju Pesonen, (unknown), (unknown), Leonor Sánchez-Busó, John A. Lees, Claire Chewapreecha, Stephen D. Bentley, Simon R. Harris, Julian Parkhill, Nicholas J. Croucher, Jukka Corander	30
13	Synergistic Activity of Mobile Genetic Element Defences in Streptococcus pneumoniae 2019 ·Genes ·Min Jung Kwun, Marco R. Oggioni, Stephen D. Bentley, Christophe Fraser, Nicholas J. Croucher	6
14	Pneumococcal vaccine impacts on the population genomics of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae 2018 ·Microbial Genomics ·David Cleary, (unknown), Denise E. Morris, Karen L. Osman, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Stephen D. Bentley, Saul N. Faust, Stuart C. Clarke	19
15	pyseer: a comprehensive tool for microbial pangenome-wide association studies 2018 ·Bioinformatics ·John A. Lees, Marco Galardini, Stephen D. Bentley, Jeffrey N. Weiser, Jukka Corander	172
16	PANINI: Pangenome Neighbour Identification for Bacterial Populations 2018 ·Microbial Genomics ·Khalil Abudahab, Joaquín M. Prada, Zhirong Yang, Stephen D. Bentley, Nicholas J. Croucher, Jukka Corander, David M. Aanensen	23
17	The Contribution of Genetic Variation of Streptococcus pneumoniae to the Clinical Manifestation of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease 2018 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Amelieke J. H. Cremers, Fredrick M. Mobegi, Christa E. van der Gaast‐de Jongh, (unknown), (unknown), Minna Vehkala, Mirjam J. Knol, Hester J. Bootsma, Niko Välimäki, Nicholas J. Croucher, Jacques F. Meis, Stephen D. Bentley, Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum, Jukka Corander, Aldert Zomer, Gerben Ferwerda, Marien I. de Jonge	18
18	Large scale genomic analysis shows no evidence for pathogen adaptation between the blood and cerebrospinal fluid niches during bacterial meningitis 2016 ·Microbial Genomics ·John A. Lees, Philip H. C. Kremer, Ana Sousa Manso, Nicholas J. Croucher, Bart Ferwerda, Mercedes Valls Serón, Marco R. Oggioni, Julian Parkhill, Matthijs C. Brouwer, Arie van der Ende, Diederik van de Beek, Stephen D. Bentley	30
19	Novel Determinants of Antibiotic Resistance: Identification of Mutated Loci in Highly Methicillin-Resistant Subpopulations of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus 2014 ·mBio ·Janina Dordel, Choon Kim, Marilyn Chung, María Pardos de la Gándara, Matthew T. G. Holden, Julian Parkhill, Hermínia de Lencastre, Stephen D. Bentley, Alexander Tomasz	64
20	Evolution of MRSA During Hospital Transmission and Intercontinental Spread breakdown → 2010 ·Science ·Simon R. Harris, Edward J. Feil, Matthew T. G. Holden, Michael A. Quail, Emma K. Nickerson, Narisara Chantratita, Susana Gardete, Ana Tavares, Nick Day, Jodi A. Lindsay, Jonathan D. Edgeworth, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Julian Parkhill, Sharon J. Peacock, Stephen D. Bentley	818

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