Tonya Ward

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Tonya Ward is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tonya Ward has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Infectious Diseases and 5 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Tonya Ward's work include Gut microbiota and health (19 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (8 papers) and Infant Nutrition and Health (5 papers). Tonya Ward is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (19 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (8 papers) and Infant Nutrition and Health (5 papers). Tonya Ward collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Tonya Ward's co-authors include Dan Knights, Pajau Vangay, Gabriel A. Al‐Ghalith, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Benjamin Hillmann, Illimar Altosaar, Cheryl A. Gale, Abigail J. Johnson, Ilya Ioshikhes and Rob Knight and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Tonya Ward

30 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Daily Sampling Reveals Personalized Diet-Microbiome Associations in Humans

2019 474 citations Abigail J. Johnson, Pajau Vangay et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
Antibiotics, Pediatric Dysbiosis, and Disease

2015 376 citations Pajau Vangay, Tonya Ward et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tonya Ward United States	17	1.9k	616	566	359	329	32	2.6k
Alejandro Artacho Spain	30	2.4k 1.3×	836 1.4×	732 1.3×	485 1.4×	420 1.3×	52	4.1k
Gabriel A. Al‐Ghalith United States	17	2.0k 1.1×	643 1.0×	613 1.1×	318 0.9×	283 0.9×	29	2.8k
Charisse Petersen Canada	21	1.7k 0.9×	490 0.8×	466 0.8×	298 0.8×	243 0.7×	40	2.7k
Pajau Vangay United States	14	2.2k 1.2×	611 1.0×	693 1.2×	284 0.8×	481 1.5×	24	3.3k
Catherine Ngom‐Bru Switzerland	11	2.0k 1.1×	499 0.8×	934 1.7×	260 0.7×	492 1.5×	17	3.1k
Kei E. Fujimura United States	21	1.9k 1.0×	477 0.8×	864 1.5×	372 1.0×	390 1.2×	35	3.4k
Ali Rahnavard United States	12	2.5k 1.3×	488 0.8×	618 1.1×	374 1.0×	370 1.1×	32	3.5k
Yancong Zhang United States	12	2.2k 1.1×	447 0.7×	537 0.9×	349 1.0×	350 1.1×	22	3.2k
Timur Liwinski Germany	16	2.3k 1.2×	576 0.9×	552 1.0×	596 1.7×	285 0.9×	34	3.9k
Myriam Girard Switzerland	27	1.6k 0.8×	566 0.9×	694 1.2×	599 1.7×	221 0.7×	56	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Tonya Ward

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tonya Ward

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tonya Ward

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tonya Ward. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tonya Ward 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 Tonya Ward. Tonya Ward 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

Khanna, Sahil, Paul Feuerstadt, Daniel Van Handel, et al.. (2025). S2048 Significant and Durable Microbiome Restoration in a Phase 3 Trial of Fecal Microbiota, Live-JSLM for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection When Administered by Colonoscopy. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 120(10S2). S440–S440.

Myers, Pernille Neve, et al.. (2025). Microbiome compositional changes and clonal engraftment in a phase 3 trial of fecal microbiota, live-jslm for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2520412–2520412. 3 indexed citations

Strom, Noah, et al.. (2023). Shallow shotgun sequencing reduces technical variation in microbiome analysis. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 7668–7668. 23 indexed citations

Priya, Sambhawa, Michael B. Burns, Tonya Ward, et al.. (2022). Identification of shared and disease-specific host gene–microbiome associations across human diseases using multi-omic integration. Nature Microbiology. 7(6). 780–795. 94 indexed citations

Bajaj, Jasmohan S., Marcela Peña‐Rodríguez, Michael Fuchs, et al.. (2022). Longitudinal transkingdom gut microbial approach towards decompensation in outpatients with cirrhosis. Gut. 72(4). 759–771. 14 indexed citations

Mihindukulasuriya, Kathie A., Ruben A. Mars, Abigail J. Johnson, et al.. (2021). Multi-Omics Analyses Show Disease, Diet, and Transcriptome Interactions With the Virome. Gastroenterology. 161(4). 1194–1207.e8. 49 indexed citations

Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios N., Gabriel A. Al‐Ghalith, Robin Shields‐Cutler, et al.. (2020). Wild primate microbiomes prevent weight gain in germ-free mice. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 16–16. 10 indexed citations

Ward, Tonya, Jessica L. Danzeisen, Kevin S. Lang, et al.. (2019). Antibiotics and Host-Tailored Probiotics Similarly Modulate Effects on the Developing Avian Microbiome, Mycobiome, and Host Gene Expression. mBio. 10(5). 29 indexed citations

Johnson, Abigail J., Pajau Vangay, Gabriel A. Al‐Ghalith, et al.. (2019). Daily Sampling Reveals Personalized Diet-Microbiome Associations in Humans. Cell Host & Microbe. 25(6). 789–802.e5. 474 indexed citations breakdown →

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Singer, Randall S., et al.. (2018). Vaccination Against Lawsonia intracellularis Decreases Shedding of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in Co-Infected Pigs and Alters the Gut Microbiome. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2857–2857. 24 indexed citations

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Ward, Tonya, Dan Knights, & Cheryl A. Gale. (2017). Infant fungal communities: current knowledge and research opportunities. BMC Medicine. 15(1). 30–30. 69 indexed citations

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Torres, Sheila M. F., Jonathan B. Clayton, Jessica L. Danzeisen, et al.. (2017). Diverse bacterial communities exist on canine skin and are impacted by cohabitation and time. PeerJ. 5. e3075–e3075. 33 indexed citations

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Montassier, Emmanuel, Gabriel A. Al‐Ghalith, Tonya Ward, et al.. (2016). Pretreatment gut microbiome predicts chemotherapy-related bloodstream infection. Genome Medicine. 8(1). 49–49. 133 indexed citations

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Knights, Dan, Tonya Ward, Hannah Miller, et al.. (2014). Rethinking “Enterotypes”. Cell Host & Microbe. 16(4). 433–437. 261 indexed citations

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Ward, Tonya, et al.. (2014). Ingested soluble CD14 contributes to the functional pool of circulating sCD14 in mice. Immunobiology. 219(7). 537–546. 7 indexed citations

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Ward, Tonya, et al.. (2013). Ingested soluble CD14 from milk is transferred intact into the blood of newborn rats. Pediatric Research. 75(2). 252–258. 5 indexed citations

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Ward, Tonya, et al.. (2013). Human milk metagenome: a functional capacity analysis. BMC Microbiology. 13(1). 116–116. 161 indexed citations

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Wan, Shen, Tonya Ward, & Illimar Altosaar. (2012). Strategy and tactics of disarming GHG at the source: N2O reductase crops. Trends in biotechnology. 30(8). 410–415. 14 indexed citations

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Spencer, W. J., Tonya Ward, David R. Blais, et al.. (2010). Alpha-Lactalbumin in Human Milk Alters the Proteolytic Degradation of Soluble CD14 by Forming a Complex. Pediatric Research. 68(6). 490–493. 14 indexed citations

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Ward, Tonya, et al.. (2010). A novel Escherichia coli‐derived mutation detected with the Big Blue® cII mutant selectable assay. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis. 51(4). 344–348.

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