Timothy D. Read

19.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
168 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Timothy D. Read is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy D. Read has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Molecular Biology, 56 papers in Microbiology and 45 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Timothy D. Read's work include Reproductive tract infections research (42 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (39 papers) and Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (26 papers). Timothy D. Read is often cited by papers focused on Reproductive tract infections research (42 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (39 papers) and Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (26 papers). Timothy D. Read collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Timothy D. Read's co-authors include Robert A. Petit, Sandeep J. Joseph, Sarah W. Satola, Deborah Dean, Michelle Su, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Chengwei Luo, Despina Tsementzi, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis and Mihai Pop and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Timothy D. Read

158 papers receiving 6.9k citations

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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.

Genome sequences of Chlamydia trachomatis MoPn and Chlamydia pneumoniae AR39

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy D. Read United States	47	3.7k	2.0k	1.6k	1.4k	1.3k	168	7.1k
Hervé Tettelin United States	45	6.2k 1.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	2.4k 1.9×	121	11.7k
Frank Pasmans Belgium	60	2.3k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	732 0.5×	892 0.7×	444	15.0k
Gary M. Dunny United States	60	6.8k 1.9×	1.5k 0.7×	2.1k 1.3×	3.2k 2.2×	1.6k 1.2×	211	11.6k
Xiancai Rao China	35	2.6k 0.7×	725 0.4×	905 0.6×	738 0.5×	412 0.3×	122	5.6k
Elizabeth R. Fischer United States	60	4.2k 1.1×	3.0k 1.5×	672 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	2.5k 2.0×	132	11.4k
Raphael H. Valdivia United States	41	4.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	906 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	97	9.0k
Ivo G. Boneca France	51	5.4k 1.5×	1.4k 0.7×	503 0.3×	1.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	130	14.9k
Matthias Frosch Germany	57	3.0k 0.8×	4.1k 2.0×	817 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	3.6k 2.8×	240	10.2k
Joanne N. Engel United States	51	5.5k 1.5×	1.7k 0.8×	584 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	108	9.7k
Gary Van Domselaar Canada	37	2.6k 0.7×	561 0.3×	772 0.5×	485 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	114	5.7k

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Clark, David L., et al.. (2025). Using wastewater surveillance to investigate community-level differences in antibacterial resistance in a major urban center, USA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(11). e0168425–e0168425.

Hu, Yi‐Juan, et al.. (2025). Azithromycin alters the microbiome composition, function and resistome in women with Chlamydia trachomatis infections. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 11(1). 235–235.

Seth-Smith, Helena M. B., et al.. (2024). Chlamydia suis undergoes interclade recombination promoting Tet-island exchange. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 724–724.

Babiker, Ahmed, Chad Robichaux, Gillian Smith, et al.. (2024). The Burden and Impact of Early Post-transplant Multidrug-Resistant Organism Detection Among Renal Transplant Recipients, 2005–2021. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 11(3). ofae060–ofae060. 2 indexed citations

Clennon, Julie A., et al.. (2024). Metagenome-wide characterization of shared antimicrobial resistance genes in sympatric people and lemurs in rural Madagascar. PeerJ. 12. e17805–e17805.

Petit, Robert A., et al.. (2023). Development of an Amplicon Nanopore Sequencing Strategy for Detection of Mutations Conferring Intermediate Resistance to Vancomycin in Staphylococcus aureus Strains. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(1). e0272822–e0272822. 4 indexed citations

Petit, Robert A., et al.. (2022). Species-Wide Phylogenomics of the Staphylococcus aureus Agr Operon Revealed Convergent Evolution of Frameshift Mutations. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(1). e0133421–e0133421. 19 indexed citations

Petit, Robert A., et al.. (2022). Unsuspected Clonal Spread of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Causing Bloodstream Infections in Hospitalized Adults Detected Using Whole Genome Sequencing. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 75(12). 2104–2112. 12 indexed citations

Babiker, Ahmed, Michael A. Martin, Robert A. Petit, et al.. (2022). Unrecognized introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into the US state of Georgia shaped the early epidemic. Virus Evolution. 8(1). veac011–veac011. 2 indexed citations

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Petit, Robert A., et al.. (2022). Species-Scale Genomic Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus Genes Influencing Phage Host Range and Their Relationships to Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance Genes. mSystems. 7(1). e0108321–e0108321. 9 indexed citations

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Dhulipala, Vijaya, Jacqueline T. Balthazar, Afrin A. Begum, et al.. (2022). A Single Amino Acid Substitution in Elongation Factor G Can Confer Low-Level Gentamicin Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 66(5). e0025122–e0025122. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Junting, et al.. (2021). Genes Influencing Phage Host Range in Staphylococcus aureus on a Species-Wide Scale. mSphere. 6(1). 30 indexed citations

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Bowden, Katherine E., Sandeep J. Joseph, Noa Ziklo, et al.. (2021). Whole-Genome Enrichment and Sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis Directly from Patient Clinical Vaginal and Rectal Swabs. mSphere. 6(2). 17 indexed citations

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Tan, Milton, Anthony K. Redmond, Helen Dooley, et al.. (2021). The whale shark genome reveals patterns of vertebrate gene family evolution. eLife. 10. 24 indexed citations

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Ayala, Julio C., et al.. (2021). Structures of Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrR-operator complexes reveal molecular mechanisms of DNA recognition and antibiotic resistance-conferring clinical mutations. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(7). 4155–4170. 14 indexed citations

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Petit, Robert A. & Timothy D. Read. (2020). Bactopia: a Flexible Pipeline for Complete Analysis of Bacterial Genomes. mSystems. 5(4). 114 indexed citations

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Noguera-Julián, Marc, Yolanda Guillén, David Reznik, et al.. (2017). Oral microbiome in HIV-associated periodontitis. Medicine. 96(12). e5821–e5821. 41 indexed citations

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Alam, Tauqeer, Timothy D. Read, Robert A. Petit, et al.. (2015). Transmission and Microevolution of USA300 MRSA in U.S. Households: Evidence from Whole-Genome Sequencing. mBio. 6(2). e00054–e00054. 79 indexed citations

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Grim, Christopher J., Елена Козлова, Jian Sha, et al.. (2013). Characterization of Aeromonas hydrophila Wound Pathotypes by Comparative Genomic and Functional Analyses of Virulence Genes. mBio. 4(2). e00064–13. 91 indexed citations

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Read, Timothy D., Claire M. Fraser, Ru‐ching Hsia, & Patrik M. Bavoil. (2000). Comparative Analysis of Chlamydia Bacteriophages Reveals Variation Localized to a Putative Receptor Binding Domain. 5(4). 223–231. 13 indexed citations

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