Zachary Kurtz

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Zachary Kurtz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Zachary Kurtz has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Infectious Diseases and 2 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Zachary Kurtz's work include Gut microbiota and health (10 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (2 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (2 papers). Zachary Kurtz is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (10 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (2 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (2 papers). Zachary Kurtz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Malaysia and United Kingdom. Zachary Kurtz's co-authors include Richard Bonneau, Martin J. Blaser, Christian L. Müller, Dan R. Littman, Emily R. Miraldi, Mei San Tang, P’ng Loke, Soo Ching Lee, Yvonne Ai Lian Lim and Uma Mahesh Gundra and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Zachary Kurtz

16 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Sparse and Compositionally Robust Inference of Microbial Ecological Networks

2015 1.1k citations Zachary Kurtz, Christian L. Müller et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
Helminth infection promotes colonization resistance via type 2 immunity

2016 300 citations Deepshika Ramanan, Rowann Bowcutt et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zachary Kurtz United States	13	1.4k	476	365	293	286	17	2.5k
Grégory Gimenez France	23	1.4k 1.0×	485 1.0×	449 1.2×	164 0.6×	524 1.8×	61	2.6k
Mathangi Thiagarajan United States	13	2.1k 1.5×	569 1.2×	246 0.7×	148 0.5×	262 0.9×	18	3.4k
Sophie Weiss United States	19	2.0k 1.5×	759 1.6×	525 1.4×	113 0.4×	130 0.5×	32	3.7k
Qiyun Zhu United States	30	2.4k 1.8×	730 1.5×	331 0.9×	140 0.5×	160 0.6×	72	3.9k
Mark P. Dagleish United Kingdom	26	697 0.5×	296 0.6×	276 0.8×	170 0.6×	342 1.2×	141	2.3k
Matthew B. Rogers United States	27	1.3k 0.9×	493 1.0×	435 1.2×	170 0.6×	109 0.4×	48	2.5k
Yuriy Fofanov United States	23	886 0.6×	165 0.3×	377 1.0×	210 0.7×	187 0.7×	69	1.9k
Francesco Beghini Italy	12	2.2k 1.6×	539 1.1×	479 1.3×	115 0.4×	125 0.4×	13	3.0k
A. L. Jensen Denmark	39	865 0.6×	364 0.8×	238 0.7×	212 0.7×	215 0.8×	166	5.4k
Weihong Qi Switzerland	34	942 0.7×	498 1.0×	740 2.0×	154 0.5×	210 0.7×	97	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Zachary Kurtz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zachary Kurtz

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

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17 of 17 papers shown

Islam, Md. Jahirul, et al.. (2022). Glycosuria Alters Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Global Gene Expression and Virulence. mSphere. 7(3). e0000422–e0000422. 13 indexed citations

Lee, Soo Ching, Mei San Tang, Yvonne Ai Lian Lim, et al.. (2021). Correction: Helminth Colonization Is Associated with Increased Diversity of the Gut Microbiota. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(4). e0009325–e0009325. 4 indexed citations

Badri, Michelle, Zachary Kurtz, Richard Bonneau, & Christian L. Müller. (2020). Shrinkage improves estimation of microbial associations under different normalization methods. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2(4). lqaa100–lqaa100. 19 indexed citations

Tipton, Laura, Christian L. Müller, Zachary Kurtz, et al.. (2018). Fungi stabilize connectivity in the lung and skin microbial ecosystems. Microbiome. 6(1). 12–12. 137 indexed citations

Kurtz, Zachary, et al.. (2018). Training Object Detectors with Synthetic Data for Autonomous UAV Sampling Applications. 352–357. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jing, Michelle Badri, Benjamin G. Wu, et al.. (2017). Lung microbiome and host immune tone in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treated with inhaled interferon-γ. ERJ Open Research. 3(3). 8–2017. 24 indexed citations

Ruiz, Victoria, Thomas Battaglia, Zachary Kurtz, et al.. (2017). A single early-in-life macrolide course has lasting effects on murine microbial network topology and immunity. Nature Communications. 8(1). 518–518. 102 indexed citations

Liu, Menghan, Hyunwook Koh, Zachary Kurtz, et al.. (2017). Oxalobacter formigenes-associated host features and microbial community structures examined using the American Gut Project. Microbiome. 5(1). 108–108. 53 indexed citations

Ramanan, Deepshika, Rowann Bowcutt, Soo Ching Lee, et al.. (2016). Helminth infection promotes colonization resistance via type 2 immunity. Science. 352(6285). 608–612. 300 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mahana, Douglas, Chad M. Trent, Zachary Kurtz, et al.. (2016). Antibiotic perturbation of the murine gut microbiome enhances the adiposity, insulin resistance, and liver disease associated with high-fat diet. Genome Medicine. 8(1). 48–48. 146 indexed citations

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Bosch, Marc, et al.. (2016). A multiple view stereo benchmark for satellite imagery. 1–9. 79 indexed citations

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Kurtz, Zachary, Christian L. Müller, Emily R. Miraldi, et al.. (2015). Sparse and Compositionally Robust Inference of Microbial Ecological Networks. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(5). e1004226–e1004226. 1054 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schultz, Steven, et al.. (2015). Low-SWaP coincidence processing for Geiger-mode LIDAR video. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9465. 94650F–94650F.

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Gundra, Uma Mahesh, Natasha Girgis, Dominik Rückerl, et al.. (2014). Alternatively activated macrophages derived from monocytes and tissue macrophages are phenotypically and functionally distinct. Blood. 123(20). e110–e122. 266 indexed citations

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Lee, Soo Ching, Mei San Tang, Yvonne Ai Lian Lim, et al.. (2014). Helminth Colonization Is Associated with Increased Diversity of the Gut Microbiota. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 8(5). e2880–e2880. 271 indexed citations

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Kulkarni, Ritwij, Bijaya K. Dhakal, E. Susan Slechta, et al.. (2009). Roles of Putative Type II Secretion and Type IV Pilus Systems in the Virulence of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. PLoS ONE. 4(3). e4752–e4752. 44 indexed citations

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Kurtz, Zachary, et al.. (2005). Specificity of the fluorescein transport process in Malpighian tubules of the cricketAcheta domesticus. Journal of Experimental Biology. 208(12). 2227–2236. 11 indexed citations

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