Stijn Wittouck

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Stijn Wittouck is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Periodontics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stijn Wittouck has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Food Science and 7 papers in Periodontics. Recurrent topics in Stijn Wittouck's work include Probiotics and Fermented Foods (15 papers), Gut microbiota and health (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers). Stijn Wittouck is often cited by papers focused on Probiotics and Fermented Foods (15 papers), Gut microbiota and health (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers). Stijn Wittouck collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Italy and Netherlands. Stijn Wittouck's co-authors include Sarah Lebeer, Sander Wuyts, Paola Mattarelli, Michael G. Gänzle, Jinshui Zheng, Giovanna E. Felis, Hugh M. B. Harris, Bruno Pot, Koichi Watanabe and Charles M. A. P. Franz and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Bioinformatics and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Stijn Wittouck

31 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae

2020 2.2k citations Jinshui Zheng, Stijn Wittouck et al. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY profile →

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Sander Wuyts Belgium

Elisa Salvetti Italy

Hugh M. B. Harris Ireland

Antonio Maldonado‐Barragán Spain

Tine Verhoeven Belgium

Paola Mattarelli Italy

Pablo F. Pérez Argentina

Gaspar Pérez-Martı́nez Spain

Akihito Endo Japan

Yasushi Kawai Japan

Sander Wuyts Belgium

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Countries citing papers authored by Stijn Wittouck

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stijn Wittouck

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stijn Wittouck

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stijn Wittouck. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stijn Wittouck based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Stijn Wittouck. Stijn Wittouck is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wittouck, Stijn, et al.. (2025). Tidytacos: An R package for analyses on taxonomic composition of microbial communities. The Journal of Open Source Software. 10(105). 6313–6313. 2 indexed citations

Gehrmann, Thies, Irina Spacova, Stijn Wittouck, et al.. (2025). Microbial and seminal traces of sexual intercourse and forensic implications. Microbiome. 13(1). 237–237. 1 indexed citations

Beeck, Wannes Van, et al.. (2025). Host-independent synergism between Lactobacillus crispatus and other vaginal lactobacilli. Cell Reports. 44(9). 116171–116171. 2 indexed citations

Wittouck, Stijn, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive atlas of the bonobo gut bacteriome and its associated host and exposome factors. Cell Reports. 44(8). 116128–116128.

Allonsius, Camille Nina, Ilke De Boeck, Stijn Wittouck, et al.. (2024). P-333 Combining deep shotgun metagenomic sequencing and culturomics for in-depth characterization of a potential endometrial microbiome. Human Reproduction. 39(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Wittouck, Stijn, Tom Eilers, Vera van Noort, & Sarah Lebeer. (2024). SCARAP: scalable cross-species comparative genomics of prokaryotes. Bioinformatics. 41(1). 1 indexed citations

Boeck, Ilke De, Thies Gehrmann, Camille Nina Allonsius, et al.. (2024). The inner elbow skin microbiome contains Lactobacillus among its core taxa and varies with age, season and lifestyle. PubMed. 3(3). 43–43.

Eilers, Tom, et al.. (2024). Distribution of C30 carotenoid biosynthesis genes suggests habitat adaptation function in insect-adapted and nomadic Lactobacillaceae. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1610–1610. 2 indexed citations

Haba, Rafael R. de la, David R. Arahal, Cristina Sánchez‐Porro, et al.. (2023). A long-awaited taxogenomic investigation of the family Halomonadaceae. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1293707–1293707. 18 indexed citations

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Lebeer, Sarah, Thies Gehrmann, Stijn Wittouck, et al.. (2023). A citizen-science-enabled catalogue of the vaginal microbiome and associated factors. Nature Microbiology. 8(11). 2183–2195. 79 indexed citations

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Qiao, Nanzhen, Stijn Wittouck, Paola Mattarelli, et al.. (2022). After the storm—Perspectives on the taxonomy of Lactobacillaceae. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 222–227. 36 indexed citations

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Lebeer, Sarah, Eline Oerlemans, Ingmar Claes, et al.. (2022). Selective targeting of skin pathobionts and inflammation with topically applied lactobacilli. Cell Reports Medicine. 3(2). 100521–100521. 56 indexed citations

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Boeck, Ilke De, Stijn Wittouck, Katleen Martens, et al.. (2021). The nasal mutualist Dolosigranulum pigrum AMBR11 supports homeostasis via multiple mechanisms. iScience. 24(9). 102978–102978. 19 indexed citations

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Zheng, Jinshui, Stijn Wittouck, Elisa Salvetti, et al.. (2020). A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 70(4). 2782–2858. 2189 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oerlemans, Eline, Gert Bellen, Ingmar Claes, et al.. (2020). Impact of a lactobacilli-containing gel on vulvovaginal candidosis and the vaginal microbiome. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 7976–7976. 44 indexed citations

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Wittouck, Stijn, Sander Wuyts, Conor J. Meehan, Vera van Noort, & Sarah Lebeer. (2019). A Genome-Based Species Taxonomy of the Lactobacillus Genus Complex. mSystems. 4(5). 51 indexed citations

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Wuyts, Sander, Camille Nina Allonsius, Stijn Wittouck, et al.. (2019). Comparative genome analysis of Lactobacillus mudanjiangensis, an understudied member of the Lactobacillus plantarum group. Microbial Genomics. 5(9). 13 indexed citations

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Boeck, Ilke De, Stijn Wittouck, Katleen Martens, et al.. (2019). Anterior Nares Diversity and Pathobionts Represent Sinus Microbiome in Chronic Rhinosinusitis. mSphere. 4(6). 48 indexed citations

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Allonsius, Camille Nina, Wannes Van Beeck, Ilke De Boeck, Stijn Wittouck, & Sarah Lebeer. (2019). The microbiome of the invertebrate model host Galleria mellonella is dominated by Enterococcus. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 7–7. 47 indexed citations

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Wittouck, Stijn & Vera van Noort. (2017). Correlated duplications and losses in the evolution of palmitoylation writer and eraser families. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1). 83–83. 3 indexed citations

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