🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Christopher D. Johnston

Infectious Disease Research Institute

ORCID: 0000-0002-6765-2383

Also affiliated with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicineDentistry

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 5%percentile
0.555Author DataRank

Indexed papers

2in pilot corpus
datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology
Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 2 indexed papers attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Top data-sharing exemplar

The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Complete Genome Sequence of Morganella morganii CTX51T, Isolated from a Human Cecal Adenocarcinoma

Microbiology Resource Announcements(2022)10.1128/mra.00066-22
Top 49%
0.361DataRank
Top 49%2 citations

Martha A. Zepeda‐Rivera, Adam S. McGlinchey, Alexander A. Baryiames, Dakota S. Jones, Kaitlyn D. LaCourse +3 more

Papers

Driven by 23 papers — median percentile 43. Top paper: “INVADEseq to identify cell-adherent or invasive bacteria and the associated host transcriptome at single-cell-level resolution”.

INVADEseq to identify cell-adherent or invasive bacteria and the associated host transcriptome at single-cell-level resolution

Nature Protocols(2023)10.1038/s41596-023-00888-7
N/A
0.902DataRank · unranked
27 citations

Hanrui Wu, Kaitlyn D. LaCourse, Harini Srinivasan, Matthew Fitzgibbon, Samuel S. Minot +4 more

Complete Genome Sequence of Morganella morganii CTX51T, Isolated from a Human Cecal Adenocarcinoma

Microbiology Resource Announcements(2022)10.1128/mra.00066-22
Top 49%
0.361DataRank
Top 49%2 citations

Martha A. Zepeda‐Rivera, Adam S. McGlinchey, Alexander A. Baryiames, Dakota S. Jones, Kaitlyn D. LaCourse +3 more

Complete Genome Sequence of Clostridium cadaveris IFB3C5, Isolated from a Human Colonic Adenocarcinoma

Microbiology Resource Announcements(2022)10.1128/mra.01135-21
Top 65%
0.194DataRank
Top 65%2 citations

Martha A. Zepeda‐Rivera, Marija Stepanovica, Alexander A. Baryiames, Dakota S. Jones, Kaitlyn D. LaCourse +3 more

The cancer chemotherapeutic 5-fluorouracil is a potent Fusobacterium nucleatum inhibitor and its activity is modified by intratumoral microbiota

Cell Reports(2022)10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111625
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
167 citations

Martha A. Zepeda‐Rivera, Andrew G. Kempchinsky, Alexander Baryiames, Samuel S. Minot, Christopher D. Johnston +2 more

A bacterial pan-genome makes gene essentiality strain-dependent and evolvable

Nature Microbiology(2022)10.1038/s41564-022-01208-7
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
140 citations

Emily Rudmann, Jien Li, Defne Surujon, Jon Anthony, Matthew W. Frank +6 more

The tumour-associated microbiome

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology(2022)10.1038/s41575-022-00609-7
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
26 citations

Susan Bullman, Christopher D. Johnston

A bacterial pan-genome makes gene essentiality strain-dependent and evolvable

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.02.08.479609
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Emily Rudmann, Jien Li, Defne Surujon, Jon Anthony, Matthew W. Frank +6 more

The cancer chemotherapeutic 5-fluorouracil is a potent inhibitor of Fusobacterium nucleatum and its activity is modified by the intratumoral microbiota

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.03.12.484096
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Alexander A. Baryiames, Andrew G. Kempchinsky, Christopher D. Johnston, Susan Bullman, Kaitlyn D. LaCourse

Expanding the rumen Prevotella collection: The description of Prevotella communis, sp. nov. of ovine origin

Systematic and Applied Microbiology(2023)10.1016/j.syapm.2023.126437
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
23 citations

Eva Stare, Lijana Fanedl, Maša Zorec, Dakota S. Jones, Christopher D. Johnston +3 more

Helicobacter pylori Chronic Infection Selects for Effective Colonizers of Metaplastic Glands

mBio(2023)10.1128/mbio.03116-22
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

L. K. Jackson, Jacob P. Frick, Armando E. Rodriguez Martinez, D. S. Jones, Christopher D. Johnston +2 more

Enhanced transformation efficiency in Treponema denticola enabled by SyngenicDNA‐based plasmids lacking restriction–modification target motifs

Molecular Oral Microbiology(2023)10.1111/omi.12441
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
9 citations

M. Paula Goetting‐Minesky, Kelly Kennedy, Valentina Godovikova, Sara M Zayed, Richard J. Roberts +2 more

Fusobacterium sphaericum sp. nov. , isolated from a human colon tumor, adheres to colonic epithelial cells and induces IL-8 secretion

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.06.16.545380
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Yannick Eisele, Alexander A. Baryiames, Hanrui Wu, Claudia Mengoni, Gianmarco Piccinno +10 more

A distinct Fusobacterium nucleatum clade dominates the colorectal cancer niche

Nature(2024)10.1038/s41586-024-07182-w
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
405 citations

Samuel S. Minot, Heather Bouzek, Hanrui Wu, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez, Paolo Manghi +17 more

Bacteria-derived L-lactate fuels cervical cancer chemoradiotherapy resistance

Trends in cancer(2024)10.1016/j.trecan.2024.01.001
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Susan Bullman, Christopher D. Johnston

Fusobacterium sphaericum sp. nov., isolated from a human colon tumor adheres to colonic epithelial cells and induces IL-8 secretion

Gut Microbes(2024)10.1080/19490976.2024.2442522
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Yannick Eisele, Alexander A. Baryiames, Hanrui Wu, Claudia Mengoni, Gianmarco Piccinno +10 more

Engineering immunity: bacterial delivery of cancer neoantigen vaccines

Trends in Immunology(2024)10.1016/j.it.2024.11.007
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Jennifer A. Wargo, Christopher D. Johnston

Tumor-infiltrating bacteria disrupt cancer epithelial cell interactions and induce cell-cycle arrest

Cancer Cell(2025)10.1016/j.ccell.2025.09.010
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
26 citations

Falk Ponath, Victor A. Ajisafe, Clara R. Becker, Andrew G. Kempchinsky, Martha A. Zepeda‐Rivera +16 more

Microbial signals in primary and metastatic brain tumors

Nature Medicine(2025)10.1038/s41591-025-03957-4
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
17 citations

Ashish Damania, Brenda Melendez, Bharat Singh, Fabiana J. Veguilla, Rebecca Soto +61 more

Addressing controversy in Fusobacterium nomenclature: what exactly does “ F. nucleatum ” refer to?

Gut Microbes(2025)10.1080/19490976.2025.2514797
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
15 citations

Floyd E. Dewhirst, Susan Bullman, Christopher D. Johnston, Martha A. Zepeda‐Rivera

The relationship between gastrointestinal cancers and the microbiota

˜The œLancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology(2021)10.1016/s2468-1253(20)30362-9
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
57 citations

Christopher D. Johnston, Susan Bullman, Kaitlyn D. LaCourse

The type VI secretion system governs strain maintenance in a wild mammalian gut microbiome

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.11.29.690828
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Kyle L. Asfahl, Bentley Lim, Savannah K Bertolli, Samuel S. Minot, Matthew C. Radey +8 more

Genomic Stability and Genetic Defense Systems in Dolosigranulum pigrum , a Candidate Beneficial Bacterium from the Human Microbiome

mSystems(2021)10.1128/msystems.00425-21
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
33 citations

Silvio D. Brugger, Isabel F. Escapa, Chelsey A. Skeete, Sean L. Cotton, Sara M. Eslami +9 more

Effect of the intratumoral microbiota on spatial and cellular heterogeneity in cancer

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-05435-0
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
827 citations

Hanrui Wu, Kaitlyn D. LaCourse, Andrew G. Kempchinsky, Alexander Baryiames, Brittany Barber +9 more