Witold Kot

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
114 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Witold Kot is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Witold Kot has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 62 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Witold Kot's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (56 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (28 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (28 papers). Witold Kot is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (56 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (28 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (28 papers). Witold Kot collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Germany and United States. Witold Kot's co-authors include Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Dennis Sandris Nielsen, Łukasz Krych, Finn K. Vogensen, Axel Kornerup Hansen, Horst Neve, Josué L. Castro‐Mejía, Alexander Byth Carstens, Lene Jespersen and Nadja Larsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Witold Kot

113 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Potential of Pectins to Beneficially Modulate the Gut Microbiota Depends on Their Structural Properties

2019 235 citations Łukasz Krych, Witold Kot et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Witold Kot Denmark	33	1.8k	1.4k	567	558	548	114	3.3k
Ju-Hoon Lee South Korea	27	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	478 0.8×	977 1.8×	407 0.7×	121	3.5k
Huajun Zheng China	42	3.1k 1.7×	730 0.5×	600 1.1×	694 1.2×	900 1.6×	150	6.0k
Hakdong Shin South Korea	27	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	334 0.6×	378 0.7×	246 0.4×	80	2.2k
Lorraine A. Draper Ireland	30	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	950 1.7×	927 1.7×	417 0.8×	66	3.6k
Andrey N. Shkoporov Ireland	28	2.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.4×	991 1.7×	355 0.6×	490 0.9×	71	3.4k
Breck A. Duerkop United States	28	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	758 1.3×	301 0.5×	359 0.7×	46	3.3k
Hyeun Bum Kim South Korea	28	2.6k 1.5×	395 0.3×	1.1k 1.9×	1.2k 2.2×	363 0.7×	150	5.0k
Robert W. Li United States	38	2.0k 1.1×	480 0.4×	393 0.7×	399 0.7×	342 0.6×	120	4.3k
Wilfried Vahjen Germany	43	1.8k 1.0×	531 0.4×	612 1.1×	1.5k 2.7×	764 1.4×	135	5.2k
Steven S Dritz United States	41	904 0.5×	567 0.4×	897 1.6×	943 1.7×	789 1.4×	761	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Witold Kot

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Witold Kot

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

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Yang, Lin, Hui Yan, Per Torp Sangild, et al.. (2025). Gut microbiota development in very preterm infants following fortification of human milk. mSystems. 10(3). e0091624–e0091624. 1 indexed citations

Zhai, Xichuan, Alex Gobbi, Witold Kot, et al.. (2024). A single-stranded based library preparation method for virome characterization. Microbiome. 12(1). 219–219. 2 indexed citations

Rasmussen, Torben Sølbeck, Ling Deng, Geneviève M. Rousseau, et al.. (2023). CRISPR-Cas provides limited phage immunity to a prevalent gut bacterium in gnotobiotic mice. The ISME Journal. 17(3). 432–442. 3 indexed citations

Nielsen, Tue Kjærgaard, et al.. (2023). Widespread and largely unknown prophage activity, diversity, and function in two genera of wheat phyllosphere bacteria. The ISME Journal. 17(12). 2415–2425. 10 indexed citations

Carstens, Alexander Byth, Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen, René Lametsch, et al.. (2023). Three novel Erwinia billingiae phages isolated from organic waste represent three new genera. Archives of Virology. 168(2). 71–71. 1 indexed citations

Lametsch, René, et al.. (2022). Salmonella phage akira, infecting selected Salmonella enterica Enteritidis and Typhimurium strains, represents a new lineage of bacteriophages. Archives of Virology. 167(10). 2049–2056. 6 indexed citations

Yan, Hui, Gisle Vestergaard, Ling Deng, et al.. (2022). Donor-dependent fecal microbiota transplantation efficacy against necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm pigs. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 8(1). 48–48. 17 indexed citations

Sinioja, Tim, Berit Østergaard Christoffersen, Rasmus Riemer Jakobsen, et al.. (2022). Marked gut microbiota dysbiosis and increased imidazole propionate are associated with a NASH Göttingen Minipig model. BMC Microbiology. 22(1). 287–287. 13 indexed citations

Pan, Xiaoyu, Hui Yan, Witold Kot, et al.. (2021). Subclinical necrotizing enterocolitis-induced systemic immune suppression in neonatal preterm pigs. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 321(1). G18–G28. 7 indexed citations

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Zhu, Ling, Laura J. Myhill, Stig Milan Thamsborg, et al.. (2021). The phytonutrient cinnamaldehyde limits intestinal inflammation and enteric parasite infection. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 100. 108887–108887. 17 indexed citations

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Brunse, Anders, Ling Deng, Xiaoyu Pan, et al.. (2021). Fecal filtrate transplantation protects against necrotizing enterocolitis. The ISME Journal. 16(3). 686–694. 98 indexed citations

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Browne, Patrick Denis, Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen, Witold Kot, et al.. (2020). GC bias affects genomic and metagenomic reconstructions, underrepresenting GC-poor organisms. GigaScience. 9(2). 105 indexed citations

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Raun, Steffen H., Carlos Henríquez‐Olguín, Iuliia Karavaeva, et al.. (2020). Housing temperature influences exercise training adaptations in mice. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1560–1560. 57 indexed citations

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Carstens, Alexander Byth, et al.. (2020). Pectobacterium Phage Jarilo Displays Broad Host Range and Represents a Novel Genus of Bacteriophages Within the Family Autographiviridae. PubMed. 1(4). 237–244. 9 indexed citations

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Carstens, Alexander Byth, et al.. (2020). Presentation of Three Novel Tailed Phages Targeting Multiple Strains of Pseudomonas syringae. PubMed. 1(4). 245–250. 13 indexed citations

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Krych, Łukasz, Witold Kot, Hanne Frøkiær, et al.. (2019). Development of the equine gut microbiota. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14427–14427. 41 indexed citations

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Kobæk-Larsen, Morten, Dennis Sandris Nielsen, Witold Kot, et al.. (2018). Effect of the dietary polyacetylenes falcarinol and falcarindiol on the gut microbiota composition in a rat model of colorectal cancer. BMC Research Notes. 11(1). 411–411. 19 indexed citations

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Behrendt, Lars, Jean‐Baptiste Raina, Adrian Lutz, et al.. (2017). In situ metabolomic- and transcriptomic-profiling of the host-associated cyanobacteria Prochloron and Acaryochloris marina. The ISME Journal. 12(2). 556–567. 8 indexed citations

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Casas, Mònica Escolà, Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen, Witold Kot, et al.. (2017). Degradation of mecoprop in polluted landfill leachate and waste water in a moving bed biofilm reactor. Water Research. 121. 213–220. 31 indexed citations

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Kot, Witold, Mogens Kilstrup, Finn K. Vogensen, & Karin Hammer. (2016). Clear Plaque Mutants of Lactococcal Phage TP901-1. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0155233–e0155233. 3 indexed citations

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