2026 Zhemin Zhou: 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	44	19229	17623	1491	1379	110	9738

Overview

Zhemin Zhou is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several key areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a primary focus on molecular biology, food science, infectious diseases, endocrinology, and epidemiology.

Their main topics of work include:

Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Gut microbiota and health
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Vibrio bacteria research studies
Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Zhou's research outputs have been published predominantly in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Wellcome Open Research
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Some recent and notable papers authored or co-authored by Zhou are:

"Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process," 2020, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
"Accurate reconstruction of bacterial pan- and core genomes with PEPPAN," 2020, published in Genome Research
"HierCC: a multi-level clustering scheme for population assignments based on core genome MLST," 2021, published in Bioinformatics
"Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae capsular types, antibiotic resistance and virulence factors in China: a longitudinal, multi-centre study," 2024, published in Nature Microbiology
"A compendium of 32,277 metagenome-assembled genomes and over 80 million genes from the early-life human gut microbiome," 2022, published in Nature Communications

Zhou has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Heng Li
Mark Achtman
Shengkai Li
Guilai Jiang
Shichang Xie

Best Publications

The EnteroBase user's guide, with case studies on Salmonella transmissions, Yersinia pestis phylogeny, and Escherichia core genomic diversity

Zhemin Zhou;Nabil-Fareed Alikhan;Khaled Mohamed;Yulei Fan

1007
Citations
GrapeTree : visualization of core genomic relationships among 100,000 bacterial pathogens

Zhemin Zhou;Nabil-Fareed Alikhan;Martin J. Sergeant;Nina Luhmann

990
Citations
Multilocus Sequence Typing as a Replacement for Serotyping in Salmonella enterica

Mark Achtman;John Wain;John Wain;François Xavier Weill;Satheesh Nair;Satheesh Nair

787
Citations
Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia

Peter F. Dunfield;Anton Yuryev;Pavel Senin;Pavel Senin;Angela V. Smirnova

729
Citations
A genomic overview of the population structure of Salmonella.

Nabil-Fareed Alikhan;Zhemin Zhou;Martin J. Sergeant;Mark Achtman

554
Citations
A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

Matthew T.G. Holden;Li Yang Hsu;Li Yang Hsu;Kevin Kurt;Lucy A. Weinert;Lucy A. Weinert

515
Citations
Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia.

Shaobin Hou;Kira S Makarova;Jimmy H W Saw;Jimmy H W Saw;Pavel Senin;Pavel Senin

257
Citations
Eighteenth-century genomes show that mixed infections were common at time of peak tuberculosis in Europe.

Gemma L. Kay;Martin J. Sergeant;Zhemin Zhou;Jacqueline Z.-M. Chan

202
Citations
A Recalibrated Molecular Clock and Independent Origins for the Cholera Pandemic Clones

Lu Feng;Lu Feng;Peter R. Reeves;Ruiting Lan;Yi Ren

170
Citations
Comparative analysis of core genome MLST and SNP typing within a European Salmonella serovar Enteritidis outbreak.

Madison E. Pearce;Madison E. Pearce;Nabil-Fareed Alikhan;Timothy J. Dallman;Zhemin Zhou

164
Citations
Complete Genome Sequence of Enterobacter cloacae subsp. cloacae Type Strain ATCC 13047

Yan Ren;Yan Ren;Yi Ren;Zhemin Zhou;Zhemin Zhou;Xi Guo

161
Citations
Emergence of a New Multidrug-Resistant Serotype X Variant in an Epidemic Clone of Shigella flexneri

Changyun Ye;Ruiting Lan;Shengli Xia;Jin Zhang

157
Citations
Clinical, experimental, and genomic differences between intermediately pathogenic, highly pathogenic, and epidemic Streptococcus suis.

Changyun Ye;Han Zheng;Ji Zhang;Huaiqi Jing

154
Citations
Rates of mutation and host transmission for an Escherichia coli clone over 3 years.

Peter R. Reeves;Bin Liu;Bin Liu;Zhemin Zhou;Zhemin Zhou;Dan Li;Dan Li

140
Citations
Transcriptome Analysis of the Model Protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila, Using Deep RNA Sequencing

Jie Xiong;Xingyi Lu;Zhemin Zhou;Yue Chang

136
Citations
Genomic sequencing reveals regulatory mutations and recombinational events in the widely used MC4100 lineage of Escherichia coli K-12.

Thomas Ferenci;Zhemin Zhou;Thu Betteridge;Yan Ren

131
Citations
Comparative genomics reveals a deep-sea sediment-adapted life style of Pseudoalteromonas sp. SM9913

Qi-Long Qin;Yang Li;Yan-Jiao Zhang;Zhe-Min Zhou

125
Citations
Divergence involving global regulatory gene mutations in an Escherichia coli population evolving under phosphate limitation.

Lei Wang;Lei Wang;Beny Spira;Beny Spira;Zhemin Zhou;Lu Feng;Lu Feng

122
Citations
Complete Genome Sequence of the Probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum ST-III

Yinyu Wang;Chen Chen;Lianzhong Ai;Fangfang Zhou

117
Citations
Neutral genomic microevolution of a recently emerged pathogen, Salmonella enterica serovar Agona

Zhemin Zhou;Angela McCann;Eva Litrup;Ronan R. Murphy

106
Citations