Table 5.

The top 20 most-cited references published in the last 5  years.

No.	Authors	Year, journal, title	Citations	Topics	Types
1	Defilipp Z	2019, N Engl J Med, Drug-resistant E. coli bacteremia transmitted by fecal microbiota transplant	226	Drug-Resistant bacteremia	Case report
2	Costello SP	2019, JAMA, Effect of fecal microbiota transplantation on 8-Week remission in patients with ulcerative colitis: a randomized clinical trial	214	Ulcerative colitis	Clinical trial
3	Routy B	2018, Science, Gut microbiome influences efficacy of PD-1-based immunotherapy against epithelial tumors	203	Tumor	Clinical trial
4	Gopalakrishnan V	2018, Science, Gut microbiome modulates response to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma patients	171	Tumor	Clinical trial
5	Halkjaer SI	2018, Gut, Faecal microbiota transplantation alters gut microbiota in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: results from a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study	98	Irritable bowel syndrome	Clinical trial
6	Wilson BC	2019, Front Cell Infect Microbiol, The super-donor phenomenon in fecal microbiota transplantation	94	Super-donor	Review
7	Suez J	2018, Cell, Post-antibiotic gut mucosal microbiome reconstitution is impaired by probiotics and improved by autologous FMT	87	Antibiotics-associated dysbiosis	Clinical trial
8	Wang YH	2019, Nat Med, Fecal microbiota transplantation for refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated colitis	87	Inhibitor-associated colitis	Case report
9	Bolyen E	2019, Nat Biotechnol, Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2	85	QIIME	Analysis method
10	allegretti jr	2019, Lancet, The evolution of the use of faecal microbiota transplantation and emerging therapeutic indications	77	Faecal microbiota transplantation	Review
11	Paramsothy S	2019, Gastroenterology, Specific bacteria and metabolites associated with response to fecal microbiota transplantation in patients with ulcerative colitis	76	Ulcerative colitis	Clinical trial
12	Ianiro G	2018b, Aliment Pharmacol Ther, Randomized clinical trial: faecal microbiota transplantation by colonoscopy plus vancomycin for the treatment of severe refractory Clostridium difficile infection-single versus multiple infusions	73	Clostridium difficile infection	Clinical trial
13	Ianiro G	2018a, United European Gastroenterol J, Efficacy of different faecal microbiota transplantation protocols for Clostridium difficile infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	73	Clostridium difficile infection	Meta analysis (Review)
14	Smillie CS	2018, Cell Host Microbe, Strain tracking reveals the determinants of bacterial engraftment in the human gut following fecal microbiota transplantation	73	Bacterial Engraftment and efficacy	Clinical trial
15	Zuo T	2018,Gut, Bacteriophage transfer during faecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection is associated with treatment outcome	73	Bacteriophage transfer and efficacy	Clinical trial
16	Defilipp Z	2018, Blood Adv, Third-party fecal microbiota transplantation following allo-HCT reconstitutes microbiome diversity	70	Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation	Clinical trial
17	Kang DW	2019, Sci Rep, Long-term benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota	70	Autism	Clinical trial
18	Zhang Fm	2018, Protein Cell, Microbiota transplantation: concept, methodology and strategy for its modernization	70	Faecal microbiota transplantation	Review
19	El-salhy M	2020, Gut, Efficacy of faecal microbiota transplantation for patients with irritable bowel syndrome in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study	69	Irritable bowel syndrome	Clinical trial
20	Taur Y	2018, Sci Transl Med, Reconstitution of the gut microbiota of antibiotic-treated patients by autologous fecal microbiota transplant	69	Antibiotics-associated dysbiosis	Clinical trial