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6487
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Gary D. Wu publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gary D. Wu sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 231 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Gary D. Wu D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gary D. Wu sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Gary D. Wu is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these fields, their work extensively covers molecular biology, infectious diseases, physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and nutrition and dietetics.

The scientist has contributed to a wide range of topics related to gut microbiology and gastrointestinal health. Their main topics of study include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
  • Microscopic Colitis

Gary D. Wu has published research in several notable venues. The most frequent journals and publication venues where their work appears are:

  • Gastroenterology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Gut Microbes
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Yamada's Textbook of Gastroenterology

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on the interaction between diet, gut microbiota, and human health. Key publications include:

  • The Role of the Gut Microbiota in the Relationship Between Diet and Human Health, 2022, Annual Review of Physiology
  • The stepwise assembly of the neonatal virome is modulated by breastfeeding, 2020, Nature
  • Role of dietary fiber in the recovery of the human gut microbiome and its metabolome, 2021, Cell Host & Microbe
  • Randomized Controlled-Feeding Study of Dietary Emulsifier Carboxymethylcellulose Reveals Detrimental Impacts on the Gut Microbiota and Metabolome, 2021, Gastroenterology
  • Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Is Highly Effective in Real-World Practice: Initial Results From the FMT National Registry, 2020, Gastroenterology

Collaboration plays a significant role in Gary D. Wu's research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kyle Bittinger
  • Elliot S. Friedman
  • James D. Lewis
  • Ceylan Tanes
  • Lillian Chau

The extent and diversity of their research, spanning various aspects of gastrointestinal health, diet, and microbiology, mark Gary D. Wu as an active contributor to multiple overlapping fields within medical and molecular biology research.

Best Publications

  • Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes

    Gary D. Wu;Jun Chen;Christian Hoffmann;Christian Hoffmann;Kyle Bittinger

  • Intestinal microbiota metabolism of L-carnitine, a nutrient in red meat, promotes atherosclerosis

    Robert A Koeth;Zeneng Wang;Bruce S Levison;Jennifer A Buffa

  • High-fat diet determines the composition of the murine gut microbiome independently of obesity.

    Marie A. Hildebrandt;Christian Hoffmann;Scott A. Sherrill-Mix;Sue A. Keilbaugh

  • KILLER/DR5 is a DNA damage–inducible p53–regulated death receptor gene

    G. S. Wu;T. F. Burns;E. R. McDonald;W. Jiang

  • Gut microbiota and IBD: causation or correlation?

    Josephine Ni;Gary D. Wu;Lindsey Albenberg;Vesselin T. Tomov

  • Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances

    Jun Chen;Kyle Bittinger;Emily S. Charlson;Christian Hoffmann

  • Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition

    Paul I. Costea;Falk Hildebrand;Manimozhiyan Arumugam;Fredrik Bäckhed;Fredrik Bäckhed

  • The human gut virome: Inter-individual variation and dynamic response to diet

    Samuel Minot;Rohini Sinha;Jun Chen;Hongzhe Li

  • A family of tissue-specific resistin-like molecules

    Claire M. Steppan;Elizabeth J. Brown;Christopher M. Wright;Savitha Bhat

  • A novel therapy for colitis utilizing PPAR-gamma ligands to inhibit the epithelial inflammatory response.

    Chinyu G. Su;Xiaoming Wen;Shannon T. Bailey;Wen Jiang

  • Archaea and Fungi of the Human Gut Microbiome: Correlations With Diet and Bacterial Residents

    Christian Hoffmann;Serena Dollive;Stephanie Grunberg;Jun Chen

  • Roles for Intestinal Bacteria, Viruses, and Fungi in Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Therapeutic Approaches.

    R. Balfour Sartor;Gary D. Wu

  • Inflammation, Antibiotics, and Diet as Environmental Stressors of the Gut Microbiome in Pediatric Crohn's Disease.

    James D. Lewis;Eric Z. Chen;Robert N. Baldassano;Anthony R. Otley

  • Correlation between intraluminal oxygen gradient and radial partitioning of intestinal microbiota.

    Lindsey Albenberg;Tatiana V. Esipova;Colleen P. Judge;Kyle Bittinger

  • Diet and the Intestinal Microbiome: Associations, Functions, and Implications for Health and Disease

    Lindsey G. Albenberg;Gary D. Wu

  • Update on Fecal Microbiota Transplantation 2015: Indications, Methodologies, Mechanisms, and Outlook

    Colleen R. Kelly;Stacy Kahn;Purna Kashyap;Loren Laine;Loren Laine

  • Rapid evolution of the human gut virome

    Samuel Minot;Alexandra Bryson;Christel Chehoud;Gary D. Wu

  • Comparative metabolomics in vegans and omnivores reveal constraints on diet-dependent gut microbiota metabolite production

    Gary D Wu;Charlene Compher;Eric Z Chen;Sarah A Smith

  • Sampling and pyrosequencing methods for characterizing bacterial communities in the human gut using 16S sequence tags

    Gary D. Wu;James D. Lewis;Christian Hoffmann;Christian Hoffmann;Ying Yu Chen

  • RELMβ/FIZZ2 is a goblet cell-specific immune-effector molecule in the gastrointestinal tract

    David Artis;Mei Lun Wang;Sue A. Keilbaugh;Weimian He

Frequent Co-Authors

James D. Lewis
James D. Lewis University of Pennsylvania
Frederic D. Bushman
Frederic D. Bushman University of Pennsylvania
Kyle Bittinger
Kyle Bittinger Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Robert N. Baldassano
Robert N. Baldassano Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Loren Laine
Loren Laine Yale University
Mitchell A. Lazar
Mitchell A. Lazar University of Pennsylvania
Mark Goulian
Mark Goulian University of Pennsylvania
Gary R. Lichtenstein
Gary R. Lichtenstein University of Pennsylvania
Sergei A. Vinogradov
Sergei A. Vinogradov University of Pennsylvania

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