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, David Griffiths, Rory Bowden and A Sarah Walker 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

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.

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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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Peto

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tim Peto. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tim Peto 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 Tim Peto. Tim Peto is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Evaluating 12 automated, whole-genome sequencing analysis pipelines for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: a comparative study 2025 ·The Lancet Microbe ·(unknown), Derrick W. Crook, Tim Peto, Philip W. Fowler, Robert D. Turner, Hong Thai, (unknown), A Sarah Walker	1
2	Detecting changes in population trends in infection surveillance using community SARS-CoV-2 prevalence as an exemplar 2024 ·American Journal of Epidemiology ·Emma Pritchard, Karina-Doris Vihta, David W. Eyre, Susan Hopkins, Tim Peto, Philippa C. Matthews, Nicole Stoesser, Ruth Studley, Emma Rourke, Ian Diamond, Koen B. Pouwels, A. Sarah Walker, (unknown)	1
3	The plasmidome associated with Gram-negative bloodstream infections: A large-scale observational study using complete plasmid assemblies 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Samuel Lipworth, (unknown), Liam P. Shaw, Karina-Doris Vihta, Gillian Rodger, Kevin Chau, Leanne Barker, Sophie George, James Kavanagh, T. J. Davies, Alison Vaughan, Monique Andersson, Katie Jeffery, Sarah Oakley, Marcus Morgan, Susan Hopkins, Tim Peto, Derrick W. Crook, A. Sarah Walker, Nicole Stoesser	8
4	Exploring uncatalogued genetic variation in antimicrobial resistance gene families in Escherichia coli: an observational analysis 2024 ·The Lancet Microbe ·Samuel Lipworth, Derrick W. Crook, Andrew Walker, Tim Peto, Nicole Stoesser	2
5	Comparison of R9.4.1/Kit10 and R10/Kit12 Oxford Nanopore flowcells and chemistries in bacterial genome reconstruction 2023 ·Microbial Genomics ·Nicholas D. Sanderson, Natalia Kapel, Gillian Rodger, Hermione J. Webster, Samuel Lipworth, Teresa Street, Tim Peto, Derrick W. Crook, Nicole Stoesser	58
6	Omicron-associated changes in SARS-CoV-2 symptoms in the United Kingdom 2022 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Karina-Doris Vihta, Koen B. Pouwels, Tim Peto, Emma Pritchard, Thomas House, Ruth Studley, Emma Rourke, Duncan Cook, Ian Diamond, Derrick W. Crook, David A. Clifton, Philippa C. Matthews, Nicole Stoesser, David W. Eyre, A. Sarah Walker, (unknown)	66
7	Mortality risks associated with empirical antibiotic activity in Escherichia coli bacteraemia: an analysis of electronic health records 2022 ·Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ·(unknown), Sean Bartlett, Nicole Stoesser, Koen B. Pouwels, (unknown), Derrick W. Crook, Tim Peto, A. Sarah Walker, David W. Eyre	5
8	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 2021 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Lennard Y. W. Lee, (unknown), (unknown), André Charlett, Charlotte Anderson, G. Hughes, Matthew Barnard, Leon Peto, Richard Vipond, Alex Sienkiewicz, Susan Hopkins, John I. Bell, Derrick W. Crook, Nick Gent, A. Sarah Walker, Tim Peto, David W. Eyre	79
9	Flanker: a tool for comparative genomics of gene flanking regions 2021 ·Microbial Genomics ·(unknown), Samuel Lipworth, Bede Constantinides, Tim Peto, A. Sarah Walker, Derrick W. Crook, Susan Hopkins, Liam P. Shaw, Nicole Stoesser	13
10	Ten Years of Population-Level Genomic Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae Serotype Surveillance Informs Vaccine Development for Invasive Infections 2021 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Samuel Lipworth, Karina-Doris Vihta, Kevin Chau, (unknown), T. J. Davies, Sophie George, Leanne Barker, (unknown), Monique Andersson, Katie Jeffery, Sarah Oakley, Marcus Morgan, Tim Peto, Derrick W. Crook, A. Sarah Walker, Nicole Stoesser	16
11	Genomic diversity affects the accuracy of bacterial single-nucleotide polymorphism–calling pipelines 2020 ·GigaScience ·Stephen J. Bush, Dona Foster, David W. Eyre, Emily L. Clark, Nicola De Maio, Liam P. Shaw, Nicole Stoesser, Tim Peto, Derrick W. Crook, A Sarah Walker	80
12	Whole-Genome Sequencing for Predicting Clarithromycin Resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus 2018 ·Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy ·Samuel Lipworth, (unknown), (unknown), Marcus Morgan, Katie Jeffery, Monique Andersson, Esther Robinson, E. Grace Smith, Derrick W. Crook, Tim Peto, A Sarah Walker	37
13	Identifying Mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Laboratory Cross-Contamination during Mycobacterial Sequencing Programs 2018 ·Journal of Clinical Microbiology ·David Wyllie, Esther Robinson, Tim Peto, Derrick W. Crook, (unknown), Priti Rathod, (unknown), Lisa Jarrett, E. Grace Smith, A. Sarah Walker	14
14	Control of Artifactual Variation in Reported Intersample Relatedness during Clinical Use of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Sequencing Pipeline 2018 ·Journal of Clinical Microbiology ·David Wyllie, Nicholas D. Sanderson, Richard Myers, Tim Peto, Esther Robinson, Derrick W. Crook, E. Grace Smith, A Sarah Walker	10
15	Molecular Diagnosis of Orthopedic-Device-Related Infection Directly from Sonication Fluid by Metagenomic Sequencing 2017 ·Journal of Clinical Microbiology ·Teresa Street, Nicholas D. Sanderson, Bridget L. Atkins, Andrew Brent, Kevin Cole, Dona Foster, Martin McNally, Sarah Oakley, Leon Peto, Adrian Taylor, Tim Peto, Derrick W. Crook, David W. Eyre	128
16	Same-Day Diagnostic and Surveillance Data for Tuberculosis via Whole-Genome Sequencing of Direct Respiratory Samples 2017 ·Journal of Clinical Microbiology ·Antonina A. Votintseva, Phelim Bradley, Louise Pankhurst, Carlos del Ojo Elías, Matthew Loose, Kayzad Nilgiriwala, Anirvan Chatterjee, E. Grace Smith, Nicholas D. Sanderson, A Sarah Walker, Marcus Morgan, David Wyllie, Tim Peto, Derrick W. Crook, Zamin Iqbal	231
17	Ordering the mob: Insights into replicon and MOB typing schemes from analysis of a curated dataset of publicly available plasmids 2017 ·Plasmid ·Alex Orlek, Hang Phan, Anna E. Sheppard, Michel Doumith, Matthew J. Ellington, Tim Peto, Derrick W. Crook, A. Sarah Walker, Neil Woodford, Muna F. Anjum, Nicole Stoesser	59
18	Microevolutionary analysis of Clostridium difficile genomes to investigate transmission 2012 ·Genome biology ·Xavier Didelot, David W. Eyre, Madeleine Cule, Camilla L. C. Ip, M. Azim Ansari, David Griffiths, Alison Vaughan, Lily O’Connor, Tanya Golubchik, Elizabeth M. Batty, Paolo Piazza, Daniel J. Wilson, Rory Bowden, Peter Donnelly, Kate E. Dingle, Mark H. Wilcox, A Sarah Walker, Derrick W. Crook, Tim Peto, Rosalind M. Harding	157
19	An efficient record linkage scheme using graphical analysis for identifier error detection 2011 ·BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making ·John Finney, A. Sarah Walker, Tim Peto, David Wyllie	22
20	Case of cryptic malaria. 2004 ·PubMed ·Ed Moran, (unknown), (unknown), Tim Peto, I.C.J.W. Bowler	6

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