| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Selected Core Microbiome Drives the Early Stages of Three Popular Italian Cheese Manufactures | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 1,195 |
| 2 | High-level adherence to a Mediterranean diet beneficially impacts the gut microbiota and associated metabolome | Gut | 2016 | 1,092 |
| 3 | Membrane Toxicity of Antimicrobial Compounds from Essential Oils | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 2007 | 499 |
| 4 | High-Throughput Sequencing and Metagenomics: Moving Forward in the Culture-Independent Analysis of Food Microbial Ecology | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2013 | 412 |
| 5 | Changes in Membrane Fatty Acids Composition of Microbial Cells Induced by Addiction of Thymol, Carvacrol, Limonene, Cinnamaldehyde, and Eugenol in the Growing Media | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 2006 | 367 |
| 6 | Metagenomics insights into food fermentations | Microbial Biotechnology | 2017 | 196 |
| 7 | Microbial Ecology Dynamics during Rye and Wheat Sourdough Preparation | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2013 | 183 |
| 8 | Exploring the Sources of Bacterial Spoilers in Beefsteaks by Culture-Independent High-Throughput Sequencing | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 176 |
| 9 | Probiotication of foods: A focus on microencapsulation tool | Trends in Food Science and Technology | 2016 | 169 |
| 10 | Lactic acid bacteria and their controversial role in fresh meat spoilage | Meat Science | 2015 | 162 |
| 11 | Overlap of Spoilage-Associated Microbiota between Meat and the Meat Processing Environment in Small-Scale and Large-Scale Retail Distributions | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2016 | 141 |
| 12 | Coexistence of Lactic Acid Bacteria and Potential Spoilage Microbiota in a Dairy Processing Environment | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2015 | 132 |
| 13 | Changes in the proteome of Salmonella enterica serovar Thompson as stress adaptation to sublethal concentrations of thymol | Proteomics | 2010 | 131 |
| 14 | Integrated systems for biopolymers and bioenergy production from organic waste and by-products: a review of microbial processes | Biotechnology for Biofuels | 2017 | 119 |
| 15 | The Same Microbiota and a Potentially Discriminant Metabolome in the Saliva of Omnivore, Ovo-Lacto-Vegetarian and Vegan Individuals | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 115 |
| 16 | Gut microbiota signatures in cystic fibrosis: Loss of host CFTR function drives the microbiota enterophenotype | PLoS ONE | 2018 | 107 |
| 17 | Unusual sub-genus associations of faecal Prevotella and Bacteroides with specific dietary patterns | Microbiome | 2016 | 101 |
| 18 | Exploring the microbiota dynamics related to vegetable biomasses degradation and study of lignocellulose-degrading bacteria for industrial biotechnological application | Scientific Reports | 2015 | 95 |
| 19 | Salivary Microbiota and Metabolome Associated with Celiac Disease | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2014 | 93 |
| 20 | Relationships among house, rind and core microbiotas during manufacture of traditional Italian cheeses at the same dairy plant | Food Microbiology | 2016 | 86 |
| 21 | Microbiota of an Italian Grana-Like Cheese during Manufacture and Ripening, Unraveled by 16S rRNA-Based Approaches | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2016 | 83 |
| 22 | Technological properties and bacteriocins production by Lactobacillus curvatus 54M16 and its use as starter culture for fermented sausage manufacture | Food Control | 2016 | 75 |
| 23 | Chestnut green waste composting for sustainable forest management: Microbiota dynamics and impact on plant disease control | Journal of Environmental Management | 2016 | 74 |
| 24 | Zooming into food-associated microbial consortia: a ‘cultural’ evolution | Current Opinion in Food Science | 2015 | 73 |
| 25 | Organic Cultivation of Triticum turgidum subsp. durum Is Reflected in the Flour-Sourdough Fermentation-Bread Axis | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2015 | 68 |
| 26 | FoodMicrobionet: A database for the visualisation and exploration of food bacterial communities based on network analysis | International Journal of Food Microbiology | 2016 | 65 |
| 27 | A volatilomics approach for off-line discrimination of minced beef and pork meat and their admixture using HS-SPME GC/MS in tandem with multivariate data analysis | Meat Science | 2019 | 65 |
| 28 | A Few Pseudomonas Oligotypes Dominate in the Meat and Dairy Processing Environment | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2017 | 64 |
| 29 | Dietary Interventions to Modulate the Gut Microbiome—How Far Away Are We From Precision Medicine | Inflammatory Bowel Diseases | 2018 | 61 |
| 30 | Copper accumulation in agricultural soils: Risks for the food chain and soil microbial populations | Science of the Total Environment | 2020 | 58 |
| 31 | Production of succinic acid from Basfia succiniciproducens up to the pilot scale from Arundo donax hydrolysate | Bioresource Technology | 2016 | 56 |
| 32 | Proteomic analysis of exoproteins expressed by enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus strains | Proteomics | 2008 | 55 |
| 33 | Bio-Based Succinate Production from Arundo donax Hydrolysate with the New Natural Succinic Acid-Producing Strain Basfia succiniciproducens BPP7 | Bioenergy Research | 2017 | 51 |
| 34 | Biotyping of Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus by Enterotoxin Gene Cluster (egc) Polymorphism and spa Typing Analyses | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 50 |
| 35 | Causal Relationship between Microbial Ecology Dynamics and Proteolysis during Manufacture and Ripening of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Cheese Canestrato Pugliese | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2014 | 47 |
| 36 | Impact of Nisin-Activated Packaging on Microbiota of Beef Burgers during Storage | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2016 | 47 |
| 37 | Comparative assessment of autochthonous bacterial and fungal communities and microbial biomarkers of polluted agricultural soils of the Terra dei Fuochi | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 45 |
| 38 | Processing Environment and Ingredients Are Both Sources of Leuconostoc gelidum, Which Emerges as a Major Spoiler in Ready-To-Eat Meals | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2015 | 44 |
| 39 | Impact of Lactobacillus curvatus 54M16 on microbiota composition and growth of Listeria monocytogenes in fermented sausages | Food Microbiology | 2018 | 43 |
| 40 | Pre-treatment and inoculum affect the microbial community structure and enhance the biogas reactor performance in a pilot-scale biodigestion of municipal solid waste | Waste Management | 2018 | 40 |
| 41 | Soil tillage and compost amendment promote bioremediation and biofertility of polluted area | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2019 | 38 |
| 42 | Monitoring the mycobiota during Greco di Tufo and Aglianico wine fermentation by 18S rRNA gene sequencing | Food Microbiology | 2017 | 35 |
| 43 | Dynamics of bacterial communities during manufacture and ripening of traditional Caciocavallo of Castelfranco cheese in relation to cows' feeding | Food Microbiology | 2017 | 33 |
| 44 | Lactic Acid Bacteria Biota and Aroma Profile of Italian Traditional Sourdoughs From the Irpinian Area in Italy | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2019 | 33 |
| 45 | From an imbalance to a new imbalance: Italian-style gluten-free diet alters the salivary microbiota and metabolome of African celiac children | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 31 |
| 46 | Metabolic gene-targeted monitoring of non-starter lactic acid bacteria during cheese ripening | International Journal of Food Microbiology | 2017 | 31 |
| 47 | Salivary and fecal microbiota and metabolome of celiac children under gluten-free diet | International Journal of Food Microbiology | 2016 | 30 |
| 48 | A Metagenomic and in Silico Functional Prediction of Gut Microbiota Profiles May Concur in Discovering New Cystic Fibrosis Patient-Targeted Probiotics | Nutrients | 2017 | 24 |
| 49 | Expression of DnaK, HtpG, GroEL and Tf chaperones and the corresponding encoding genes during growth of Salmonella Thompson in presence of thymol alone or in combination with salt and cold stress | Food Research International | 2013 | 22 |
| 50 | Bacterial biogeographical patterns in a cooking center for hospital foodservice | International Journal of Food Microbiology | 2015 | 22 |
