Brian Firek
Impact in
- Nutrition and Dietetics top 0.5%
- Infant Nutrition and Health
- Infectious Diseases top 2%
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
Papers in
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- Gut microbiota and health 17
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 4
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 3
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- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research 7
- Co-authors
- Michael J. Morowitz (39 shared papers)Jillian F. Banfield (20 shared papers)Robyn Baker (16 shared papers)Matthew R. Olm (12 shared papers)Brandon Brooks (9 shared papers)Brian C. Thomas (7 shared papers)Matthew B. Rogers (14 shared papers)Kenneth W. Bayles (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- Microbiome (6 papers)PLoS ONE (4 papers)Nature Biotechnology (2 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (2 papers)Clinical Infectious Diseases (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesFranceAustralia
In The Last Decade
Brian Firek
46 papers receiving 3.6k citations
Brian Firek's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 141
- Nutrition and Dietetics 846
- Infectious Diseases 692
- Molecular Biology 1.8k
- Ecology 595
- Microbiology 122
Countries citing papers authored by Brian Firek
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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Firek
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Brian Firek, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 47 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microbes in the neonatal intensive care unit resemble those found in the gut of premature infants Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 446 |
| 2 | inStrain profiles population microdiversity from metagenomic data and sensitively detects shared microbial strains Hit paper breakdown → | 2021 | 299 |
| 3 | 2012 | 261 | |
| 4 | Maternal IgA protects against the development of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants Hit paper breakdown → | 2019 | 225 |
| 5 | 2000 | 204 | |
| 6 | 2017 | 153 | |
| 7 | 2003 | 146 | |
| 8 | 2019 | 140 | |
| 9 | 2014 | 118 | |
| 10 | 2016 | 98 | |
| 11 | 2018 | 98 | |
| 12 | 2015 | 89 | |
| 13 | 2017 | 88 | |
| 14 | 2018 | 77 | |
| 15 | 2014 | 77 | |
| 16 | 2016 | 76 | |
| 17 | 2014 | 75 | |
| 18 | 2006 | 64 | |
| 19 | 2016 | 59 | |
| 20 | 2005 | 57 |
About Brian Firek
Brian Firek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Nutrition and Dietetics, Ecology and Food Science, having authored 47 papers that have together received 3.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (17 papers), Infant Nutrition and Health (11 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (7 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (6 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (4 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nutrition and Dietetics (846 citations), Infectious Diseases (692 citations), Molecular Biology (1.8k citations), Ecology (595 citations) and Microbiology (122 citations). Brian Firek has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Michael J. Morowitz, Jillian F. Banfield, Robyn Baker, Matthew R. Olm, Brandon Brooks, Brian C. Thomas, Matthew B. Rogers, Kenneth W. Bayles, Alexander Crits‐Christoph and Itai Sharon. Their work appears in journals such as Microbiome, PLoS ONE, Nature Biotechnology, Journal of Molecular Biology and Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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