2026 Alan J. Wolfe: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	75	5358	4944	2542	2283	261	18764

Overview

Alan J. Wolfe is affiliated with Loyola University Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Key subfields of study include Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Rheumatology, Clinical Biochemistry, and Urology.

Their research topics cover specific areas related to urinary health and microbiology, including:

Urinary Tract Infections Management
Gut microbiota and health
Pelvic floor disorders treatments
Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research
Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research

Alan J. Wolfe has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including:

Catherine Putonti
Linda Brubaker
Taylor Miller-Ensminger
Adelina Voukadinova
Thomas Halverson

Their frequent publication venues include:

Microbiology Resource Announcements
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
International Urogynecology Journal
The Journal of Urology
Microbiology Spectrum

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Alan J. Wolfe illustrate a focus on microbiota and urinary health:

The EcoCyc Database in 2021, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
Forming Consensus To Advance Urobiome Research, 2021, mSystems
Vaginal estrogen therapy is associated with increased Lactobacillus in the urine of postmenopausal women with overactive bladder symptoms, 2020, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Temporal Dynamics of the Adult Female Lower Urinary Tract Microbiota, 2020, mBio
Genomic Survey of E. coli From the Bladders of Women With and Without Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

The acetate switch.

Alan J. Wolfe

1367
Citations
Urine is not sterile: use of enhanced urine culture techniques to detect resident bacterial flora in the adult female bladder

Evann E. Hilt;Kathleen McKinley;Meghan M. Pearce;Amy B. Rosenfeld

791
Citations
The Female Urinary Microbiome: a Comparison of Women with and without Urgency Urinary Incontinence

Meghan M. Pearce;Evann E. Hilt;Amy B. Rosenfeld;Michael J. Zilliox

637
Citations
Evidence of Uncultivated Bacteria in the Adult Female Bladder

Alan J. Wolfe;Evelyn Toh;Noriko Shibata;Ruichen Rong

597
Citations
Migration of bacteria in semisolid agar

Alan J. Wolfe;Howard C. Berg

475
Citations
The Clinical Urine Culture: Enhanced Techniques Improve Detection of Clinically Relevant Microorganisms

Travis K. Price;Tanaka Dune;Evann E. Hilt;Krystal J. Thomas-White

371
Citations
Get the message out: cyclic-Di-GMP regulates multiple levels of flagellum-based motility

Alan J. Wolfe;Karen L. Visick

292
Citations
Controlling for Contaminants in Low-Biomass 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Experiments.

Lisa Karstens;Mark Asquith;Sean Davin;Damien Fair

284
Citations
Culturing of female bladder bacteria reveals an interconnected urogenital microbiota.

Krystal Thomas-White;Samuel C. Forster;Samuel C. Forster;Samuel C. Forster;Nitin Kumar;Michelle Van Kuiken

278
Citations
The female urinary microbiome in urgency urinary incontinence

Meghan M. Pearce;Michael J. Zilliox;Amy B. Rosenfeld;Krystal J. Thomas-White

277
Citations
Reconstitution of signaling in bacterial chemotaxis.

A J Wolfe;M P Conley;T J Kramer;H C Berg

277
Citations
Cloning, characterization, and functional expression of acs, the gene which encodes acetyl coenzyme A synthetase in Escherichia coli.

S Kumari;R Tishel;M Eisenbach;A J Wolfe

275
Citations
Structural, kinetic and proteomic characterization of acetyl phosphate-dependent bacterial protein acetylation.

Misty L. Kuhn;Bozena Zemaitaitis;Linda I. Hu;Alexandria Sahu

272
Citations
Regulation of acetyl coenzyme A synthetase in Escherichia coli.

Suman Kumari;Christine M. Beatty;Douglas F. Browning;Stephen J. W. Busby

262
Citations
Incontinence medication response relates to the female urinary microbiota

Krystal J. Thomas-White;Evann E. Hilt;Cynthia Fok;Meghan M. Pearce

246
Citations
Regulation at complex bacterial promoters: how bacteria use different promoter organizations to produce different regulatory outcomes.

Anne Barnard;Alan Wolfe;Stephen Busby

228
Citations
A Complex Transcription Network Controls the Early Stages of Biofilm Development by Escherichia coli

Birgit M Prüss;Christopher Besemann;Anne Denton;Alan J Wolfe

217
Citations
The Intracellular Concentration of Acetyl Phosphate in Escherichia coli Is Sufficient for Direct Phosphorylation of Two-Component Response Regulators

Adam H. Klein;Ana Shulla;Sylvia A. Reimann;David H. Keating

209
Citations
Regulation of acetyl phosphate synthesis and degradation, and the control of flagellar expression in Escherichia coli

B M Prüss;A J Wolfe

205
Citations
Human toxocariasis and direct contact with dogs

A. Wolfe;I. P. Wright

204
Citations