Tommi Vatanen

17.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
54 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Tommi Vatanen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tommi Vatanen has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Infectious Diseases and 8 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Tommi Vatanen's work include Gut microbiota and health (28 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (12 papers) and Infant Nutrition and Health (6 papers). Tommi Vatanen is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (28 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (12 papers) and Infant Nutrition and Health (6 papers). Tommi Vatanen collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Finland. Tommi Vatanen's co-authors include Ramnik J. Xavier, Justin M. O’Sullivan, Hera Vlamakis, Brooke C. Wilson, Wayne S. Cutfield, Dirk Gevers, Mikael Knip, Curtis Huttenhower, Eric A. Franzosa and Taina Härkönen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tommi Vatanen

52 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Natural history of the infant gut microbiome and impact of antibiotic treatment on bacterial strain diversity and stability

2016 714 citations Tommi Vatanen, Heli Siljander et al. profile →
Structure-based protein function prediction using graph convolutional networks

2021 467 citations Vladimir Gligorijević, P. Douglas Renfrew et al. Nature Communications profile →
The Super-Donor Phenomenon in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

2019 270 citations Brooke C. Wilson, Tommi Vatanen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tommi Vatanen United States	25	2.4k	886	501	492	429	54	3.7k
Georg K. Gerber United States	29	3.3k 1.3×	769 0.9×	353 0.7×	739 1.5×	235 0.5×	56	5.3k
Vanni Bucci United States	26	3.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.7×	427 0.9×	506 1.0×	370 0.9×	64	4.4k
Matthias Scholz Italy	27	2.8k 1.1×	482 0.5×	472 0.9×	617 1.3×	345 0.8×	46	5.4k
Christopher M. Taylor United States	43	2.7k 1.1×	535 0.6×	777 1.6×	756 1.5×	197 0.5×	145	5.5k
Jason Lloyd‐Price United States	20	3.0k 1.2×	627 0.7×	332 0.7×	628 1.3×	220 0.5×	43	3.9k
Mohammed Nabil Quraishi United Kingdom	19	2.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	676 1.3×	543 1.1×	534 1.2×	63	3.3k
Manimozhiyan Arumugam Denmark	21	2.6k 1.1×	471 0.5×	388 0.8×	590 1.2×	178 0.4×	41	3.7k
Nora C. Toussaint United States	21	2.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	489 1.0×	259 0.5×	450 1.0×	32	3.7k
Janne Nikkilä Finland	26	3.0k 1.2×	735 0.8×	362 0.7×	1.1k 2.2×	518 1.2×	38	4.6k
Timothy L. Tickle United States	14	3.9k 1.6×	967 1.1×	638 1.3×	850 1.7×	373 0.9×	21	5.3k

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Mohamed, Ahmed M., Chenhao Li, Tommi Vatanen, et al.. (2025). Protein language models uncover carbohydrate-active enzyme function in metagenomics. BMC Bioinformatics. 26(1). 285–285.

Tweedie‐Cullen, Ry Y., Karen S. W. Leong, Brooke C. Wilson, et al.. (2024). Protocol for the Gut Bugs in Autism Trial: a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial of faecal microbiome transfer for the treatment of gastrointestinal symptoms in autistic adolescents and adults. BMJ Open. 14(2). e074625–e074625. 2 indexed citations

Vatanen, Tommi, Carine de Beaufort, M. Loredana Marcovecchio, et al.. (2024). Gut microbiome shifts in people with type 1 diabetes are associated with glycaemic control: an INNODIA study. Diabetologia. 67(9). 1930–1942. 9 indexed citations

Friman, Ville‐Petri, et al.. (2024). Mobile genetic elements: the hidden puppet masters underlying infant gut microbiome assembly?. PubMed. 3(4). 7–7.

Gligorijević, Vladimir, Chris Chandler, Richard Bonneau, et al.. (2023). Comprehensive Functional Annotation of Metagenomes and Microbial Genomes Using a Deep Learning-Based Method. mSystems. 8(2). e0117822–e0117822. 20 indexed citations

Wilson, Brooke C., José G. B. Derraik, Benjamin B. Albert, et al.. (2023). An open-label pilot trial of faecal microbiome transfer to restore the gut microbiome in anorexia nervosa: protocol. BMJ Open. 13(7). e070616–e070616. 7 indexed citations

Johansen, Joachim, Koji Atarashi, Yasumichi Arai, et al.. (2023). Centenarians have a diverse gut virome with the potential to modulate metabolism and promote healthy lifespan. Nature Microbiology. 8(6). 1064–1078. 54 indexed citations

Girdhar, Kiran, Qian Huang, I‐Ting Chow, et al.. (2022). A gut microbial peptide and molecular mimicry in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(31). e2120028119–e2120028119. 63 indexed citations

Masi, A, Gregory R. Young, Tommi Vatanen, et al.. (2022). Strain-specific impacts of probiotics are a significant driver of gut microbiome development in very preterm infants. Nature Microbiology. 7(10). 1525–1535. 96 indexed citations

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Wilson, Brooke C., Celia P. Grigg, José G. B. Derraik, et al.. (2021). Oral administration of maternal vaginal microbes at birth to restore gut microbiome development in infants born by caesarean section: A pilot randomised placebo-controlled trial. EBioMedicine. 69. 103443–103443. 75 indexed citations

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Wilson, Brooke C., Tommi Vatanen, Thilini N. Jayasinghe, et al.. (2021). Strain engraftment competition and functional augmentation in a multi-donor fecal microbiota transplantation trial for obesity. Microbiome. 9(1). 107–107. 64 indexed citations

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Gligorijević, Vladimir, P. Douglas Renfrew, Tomasz Kościółek, et al.. (2021). Structure-based protein function prediction using graph convolutional networks. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3168–3168. 467 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chong, Clara Y.L., David Orr, Lindsay D. Plank, et al.. (2020). Randomised Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial of Inulin with Metronidazole in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). Nutrients. 12(4). 937–937. 53 indexed citations

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Leong, Karen S. W., Thilini N. Jayasinghe, Brooke C. Wilson, et al.. (2020). High prevalence of undiagnosed comorbidities among adolescents with obesity. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 20101–20101. 13 indexed citations

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Chong, Clara Y.L., Tommi Vatanen, Mark H. Oliver, Frank H. Bloomfield, & Justin M. O’Sullivan. (2020). The microbial biogeography of the gastrointestinal tract of preterm and term lambs. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 9113–9113. 8 indexed citations

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Kong, Lingjia, Jason Lloyd‐Price, Tommi Vatanen, et al.. (2020). Linking Strain Engraftment in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation With Maintenance of Remission in Crohn’s Disease. Gastroenterology. 159(6). 2193–2202.e5. 42 indexed citations

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Leong, Karen S. W., Thilini N. Jayasinghe, José G. B. Derraik, et al.. (2019). Protocol for the Gut Bugs Trial: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial of gut microbiome transfer for the treatment of obesity in adolescents. BMJ Open. 9(4). e026174–e026174. 16 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lu, et al.. (2019). An additive Gaussian process regression model for interpretable non-parametric analysis of longitudinal data. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1798–1798. 69 indexed citations

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Zhao, Guoyan, Tommi Vatanen, Lindsay Droit, et al.. (2017). Intestinal virome changes precede autoimmunity in type I diabetes-susceptible children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(30). E6166–E6175. 212 indexed citations

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Vatanen, Tommi, et al.. (2010). Language identification of short text segments with n-gram models. Language Resources and Evaluation. 58 indexed citations

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