William H. Gaze

12.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
93 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

William H. Gaze is a scholar working on Pollution, Molecular Medicine and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William H. Gaze has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Pollution, 42 papers in Molecular Medicine and 18 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William H. Gaze's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (57 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (42 papers) and Antibiotic Use and Resistance (16 papers). William H. Gaze is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (57 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (42 papers) and Antibiotic Use and Resistance (16 papers). William H. Gaze collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. William H. Gaze's co-authors include Elizabeth M. H. Wellington, Peter M. Hawkey, Lihong Zhang, Amy Pruden, Yong‐Guan Zhu, Kornelia Smalla, Michael R. Gillings, James M. Tiedje, Aimee K. Murray and Jason Snape and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

William H. Gaze

89 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Using the class 1 integron-integrase gene as a proxy for anthropogenic pollution

2014 1.1k citations William H. Gaze et al. The ISME Journal profile →
The role of the natural environment in the emergence of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

2013 796 citations Elizabeth M. H. Wellington, Edward J. Feil et al. profile →
Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) for Environmental Development and Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance

2013 520 citations William H. Gaze, Jason Snape et al. profile →
The Scourge of Antibiotic Resistance: The Important Role of the Environment

2013 476 citations William H. Gaze et al. profile →
Co-selection for antibiotic resistance by environmental contaminants

2024 98 citations Jason Snape, Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern et al. PubMed profile →

Peers

William H. Gaze

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Thomas P. Van Boeckel United States

Johan Bengtsson‐Palme Sweden

José Luís Balcázar Spain

Christophe Merlin France

Carl‐Fredrik Flach Sweden

Rustam Aminov United Kingdom

Marie-Cécile Ploy France

Thomas Schwartz Germany

Daqing Mao China

Robert D. Stedtfeld United States

Thomas P. Van Boeckel United States

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Citations per year, relative to William H. Gaze William H. Gaze (= 1×) peers Thomas P. Van Boeckel

Countries citing papers authored by William H. Gaze

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by William H. Gaze

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William H. Gaze

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

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Snape, Jason, et al.. (2025). Common non-antibiotic drugs enhance selection for antimicrobial resistance in mixture with ciprofloxacin. ISME Communications. 5(1). ycaf169–ycaf169.

Zhang, Lihong, Edward J. Feil, Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern, et al.. (2025). Antimicrobial effects, and selection for AMR by non-antibiotic drugs in a wastewater bacterial community. Environment International. 199. 109490–109490. 1 indexed citations

Jones, Malia, Anne Frances Clare Leonard, Alison Bethel, et al.. (2025). Recreational exposure to polluted open water and infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. Environment International. 200. 109371–109371.

Leonard, Anne, Sahran Higgins, Mamie Hui, & William H. Gaze. (2025). Investigating landscape-scale variables impacting human exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria using a targeted metagenome approach. Environmental Pollution. 372. 126015–126015.

Murray, Aimee K., Isobel C. Stanton, Wiebke Schmidt, et al.. (2024). A critical meta-analysis of predicted no effect concentrations for antimicrobial resistance selection in the environment. Water Research. 266. 122310–122310. 7 indexed citations

O’Brien, Jake, et al.. (2024). A review of wastewater-based epidemiology for antimicrobial resistance surveillance. 3(1). 12 indexed citations

Wu, Jie, Shumin Guo, Haiyan Lin, et al.. (2023). Uncovering the prevalence and drivers of antibiotic resistance genes in soils across different land-use types. Journal of Environmental Management. 344. 118920–118920. 19 indexed citations

Hesse, Elze, et al.. (2023). The effect of metal remediation on the virulence and antimicrobial resistance of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Evolutionary Applications. 16(7). 1377–1389. 3 indexed citations

Murray, Aimee K., Isobel C. Stanton, William H. Gaze, & Jason Snape. (2021). Dawning of a new ERA: Environmental Risk Assessment of antibiotics and their potential to select for antimicrobial resistance. Water Research. 200. 117233–117233. 101 indexed citations

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Leonard, Anne, Dearbháile Morris, Heike Schmitt, & William H. Gaze. (2021). Natural recreational waters and the risk that exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria poses to human health. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 65. 40–46. 57 indexed citations

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Vos, Michiel, et al.. (2020). Zinc can counteract selection for ciprofloxacin resistance. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 367(3). 23 indexed citations

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Leonard, Anne Frances Clare, Ruth Garside, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, & William H. Gaze. (2020). A cross-sectional study on the prevalence of illness in coastal bathers compared to non-bathers in England and Wales: Findings from the Beach User Health Survey. Water Research. 176. 115700–115700. 10 indexed citations

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Klümper, Uli, Mario Recker, Lihong Zhang, et al.. (2019). Selection for antimicrobial resistance is reduced when embedded in a natural microbial community. The ISME Journal. 13(12). 2927–2937. 129 indexed citations

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Murray, Aimee K., Lihong Zhang, Jason Snape, & William H. Gaze. (2019). Comparing the selective and co-selective effects of different antimicrobials in bacterial communities. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 53(6). 767–773. 41 indexed citations

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Rauseo, Jasmin, Anna Barra Caracciolo, Nicoletta Ademollo, et al.. (2019). Dissipation of the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole in a soil amended with anaerobically digested cattle manure. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 378. 120769–120769. 49 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lihong, et al.. (2018). Carbapenem resistance in bacteria isolated from soil and water environments in Algeria. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 15. 262–267. 16 indexed citations

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Murray, Aimee K., Lihong Zhang, Xiaole Yin, et al.. (2018). Novel Insights into Selection for Antibiotic Resistance in Complex Microbial Communities. mBio. 9(4). 116 indexed citations

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Amos, Gregory C. A., E. Gozzard, Andrew Mead, et al.. (2015). Validated predictive modelling of the environmental resistome. The ISME Journal. 9(6). 1467–1476. 112 indexed citations

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Hunter, J.G., R.G. Madden, Andrea Stone, et al.. (2012). PMO-161 Hepatitis E (HEV) in South West England. Geographical, environmental and social factors: a case control study. Gut. 61(Suppl 2). A139.1–A139.

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Gaze, William H. & Rodney Wootten. (1998). Ectoparasitic species of the genus Trichodina (Ciliophora: Peritrichida) parasitising British freshwater fish.. PubMed. 45(3). 177–90. 25 indexed citations

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