Tim Peto

44.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
258 papers, 17.8k citations indexed

About

Tim Peto is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Peto has authored 258 papers receiving a total of 17.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Infectious Diseases, 102 papers in Epidemiology and 56 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Tim Peto's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (39 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (38 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (33 papers). Tim Peto is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (39 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (38 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (33 papers). Tim Peto collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam. Tim Peto's co-authors include Derrick W. Crook, A. Sarah Walker, David W. Eyre, Daniel J. Wilson, David Wyllie, Nicole Stoesser, Xavier Didelot, A Sarah Walker, David Griffiths and Rory Bowden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tim Peto

252 papers receiving 17.5k 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.

Whole-genome sequencing to delineate Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreaks: a retrospective observational study

2012 644 citations A Sarah Walker, Camilla L. C. Ip et al. profile →
Transforming clinical microbiology with bacterial genome sequencing

2012 538 citations Xavier Didelot, Rory Bowden et al. profile →
Prospective Evaluation of Criteria for Microbiological Diagnosis of Prosthetic-Joint Infection at Revision Arthroplasty

1998 531 citations Bridget L. Atkins, Derrick W. Crook et al. Journal of Clinical Microbiology profile →
U.K. Controlled Trial of Intrapleural Streptokinase for Pleural Infection

2005 515 citations Tim Peto et al. profile →
Diverse Sources of C. difficile Infection Identified on Whole-Genome Sequencing

2013 487 citations David W. Eyre, Madeleine Cule et al. profile →
Effect of Delta variant on viral burden and vaccine effectiveness against new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the UK

2021 330 citations Koen B. Pouwels, Emma Pritchard et al. profile →
Effect of Covid-19 Vaccination on Transmission of Alpha and Delta Variants

2022 284 citations David W. Eyre, Koen B. Pouwels et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Tim Peto	7.0k	6.5k	3.8k	2.4k	2.2k	258	17.8k
Derrick W. Crook	8.7k 1.2×	9.0k 1.4×	4.9k 1.3×	3.6k 1.5×	2.2k 1.0×	328	21.7k
Eleftherios Mylonakis	9.3k 1.3×	7.7k 1.2×	5.4k 1.4×	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	430	22.5k
Karen C. Carroll	9.7k 1.4×	8.4k 1.3×	3.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	2.7k 1.2×	376	18.6k
Trish M. Perl	8.4k 1.2×	5.2k 0.8×	6.0k 1.6×	2.1k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	287	24.6k
Shan‐Chwen Chang	7.9k 1.1×	6.6k 1.0×	2.9k 0.8×	4.2k 1.8×	1.8k 0.8×	652	19.0k
Henri A. Verbrugh	11.8k 1.7×	5.9k 0.9×	6.1k 1.6×	2.1k 0.9×	2.7k 1.2×	387	22.8k
Maurizio Sanguinetti	9.6k 1.4×	7.8k 1.2×	4.4k 1.2×	1.9k 0.8×	937 0.4×	585	18.9k
Jacques Schrenzel	6.1k 0.9×	3.5k 0.5×	7.9k 2.1×	1.9k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	447	18.1k
David H. Persing	13.2k 1.9×	8.1k 1.2×	4.7k 1.2×	3.1k 1.3×	3.3k 1.5×	259	26.6k
Marc J. M. Bonten	8.7k 1.2×	8.6k 1.3×	4.1k 1.1×	4.8k 2.0×	2.2k 1.0×	558	24.7k

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Crook, Derrick W., Tim Peto, Philip W. Fowler, et al.. (2025). Evaluating 12 automated, whole-genome sequencing analysis pipelines for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: a comparative study. The Lancet Microbe. 6(12). 101210–101210. 1 indexed citations

Pritchard, Emma, Karina-Doris Vihta, David W. Eyre, et al.. (2024). Detecting changes in population trends in infection surveillance using community SARS-CoV-2 prevalence as an exemplar. American Journal of Epidemiology. 193(12). 1848–1860. 1 indexed citations

Lipworth, Samuel, Liam P. Shaw, Karina-Doris Vihta, et al.. (2024). The plasmidome associated with Gram-negative bloodstream infections: A large-scale observational study using complete plasmid assemblies. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1612–1612. 8 indexed citations

Lipworth, Samuel, Derrick W. Crook, Andrew Walker, Tim Peto, & Nicole Stoesser. (2024). Exploring uncatalogued genetic variation in antimicrobial resistance gene families in Escherichia coli: an observational analysis. The Lancet Microbe. 5(11). 100913–100913. 2 indexed citations

Sanderson, Nicholas D., Natalia Kapel, Gillian Rodger, et al.. (2023). Comparison of R9.4.1/Kit10 and R10/Kit12 Oxford Nanopore flowcells and chemistries in bacterial genome reconstruction. Microbial Genomics. 9(1). 58 indexed citations

Vihta, Karina-Doris, Koen B. Pouwels, Tim Peto, et al.. (2022). Omicron-associated changes in SARS-CoV-2 symptoms in the United Kingdom. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 66 indexed citations

Bartlett, Sean, Nicole Stoesser, Koen B. Pouwels, et al.. (2022). Mortality risks associated with empirical antibiotic activity in Escherichia coli bacteraemia: an analysis of electronic health records. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 77(9). 2536–2545. 5 indexed citations

Lipworth, Samuel, Karina-Doris Vihta, Kevin Chau, et al.. (2021). Ten Years of Population-Level Genomic Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae Serotype Surveillance Informs Vaccine Development for Invasive Infections. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 73(12). 2276–2282. 16 indexed citations

Lee, Lennard Y. W., André Charlett, Charlotte Anderson, et al.. (2021). Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infectivity by Viral Load, S Gene Variants and Demographic Factors, and the Utility of Lateral Flow Devices to Prevent Transmission. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 74(3). 407–415. 79 indexed citations

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Lipworth, Samuel, Bede Constantinides, Tim Peto, et al.. (2021). Flanker: a tool for comparative genomics of gene flanking regions. Microbial Genomics. 7(9). 13 indexed citations

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AbuOun, Manal, Hannah Jones, Emma Stubberfield, et al.. (2021). A genomic epidemiological study shows that prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in Enterobacterales is associated with the livestock host, as well as antimicrobial usage. Microbial Genomics. 7(10). 32 indexed citations

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Bush, Stephen J., Dona Foster, David W. Eyre, et al.. (2020). Genomic diversity affects the accuracy of bacterial single-nucleotide polymorphism–calling pipelines. GigaScience. 9(2). 80 indexed citations

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Lipworth, Samuel, Hayleah Pickford, Nicholas D. Sanderson, et al.. (2020). Optimized use of Oxford Nanopore flowcells for hybrid assemblies. Microbial Genomics. 6(11). 14 indexed citations

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Lipworth, Samuel, Marcus Morgan, Katie Jeffery, et al.. (2018). Whole-Genome Sequencing for Predicting Clarithromycin Resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 63(1). 37 indexed citations

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Wyllie, David, Esther Robinson, Tim Peto, et al.. (2018). Identifying Mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Laboratory Cross-Contamination during Mycobacterial Sequencing Programs. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 56(11). 14 indexed citations

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Wyllie, David, Nicholas D. Sanderson, Richard Myers, et al.. (2018). Control of Artifactual Variation in Reported Intersample Relatedness during Clinical Use of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Sequencing Pipeline. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 56(8). 10 indexed citations

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Street, Teresa, Nicholas D. Sanderson, Bridget L. Atkins, et al.. (2017). Molecular Diagnosis of Orthopedic-Device-Related Infection Directly from Sonication Fluid by Metagenomic Sequencing. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 55(8). 2334–2347. 128 indexed citations

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Votintseva, Antonina A., Phelim Bradley, Louise Pankhurst, et al.. (2017). Same-Day Diagnostic and Surveillance Data for Tuberculosis via Whole-Genome Sequencing of Direct Respiratory Samples. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 55(5). 1285–1298. 231 indexed citations

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Orlek, Alex, Hang Phan, Anna E. Sheppard, et al.. (2017). Ordering the mob: Insights into replicon and MOB typing schemes from analysis of a curated dataset of publicly available plasmids. Plasmid. 91. 42–52. 59 indexed citations

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Didelot, Xavier, David W. Eyre, Madeleine Cule, et al.. (2012). Microevolutionary analysis of Clostridium difficile genomes to investigate transmission. Genome biology. 13(12). R118–R118. 157 indexed citations

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