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Dean Vik

Environmental Science · The Ohio State University

Mid career · publishing since 2013

Publications

42

Citations

4,657

Est. group size

~8

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

14

Publishing since 2013

Research summary
AI-generated

Dean Vik's research focuses on viruses that infect microbes (bacteria and archaea) in environmental settings such as marine basins, using genomic and machine-learning tools to identify and classify these viral populations. This work sits at the intersection of environmental microbiology and computational biology, aiming to better understand microbial community dynamics through their viral predators.

Viral ecology and virus-microbe interactionsBacteriophages and archaeal virusesMicrobial community ecologyGenomics and bioinformatics toolsEnvironmental DNA and biodiversity data

Publication output rose to a peak around 2020-2021 (8 papers/year) before declining to a lower, steadier pace of about 2-5 papers per year in recent years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.0/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 8 publications8202021: 8 publications8212022: 4 publications222023: 5 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 3 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×6
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×4
  • Microbiome×3
  • The ISME Journal×2
  • PeerJ×2
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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