A. Hughes

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
82 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

A. Hughes is a scholar working on Immunology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Hughes has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Immunology, 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 20 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in A. Hughes's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (24 papers), Electric Motor Design and Analysis (21 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (17 papers). A. Hughes is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (24 papers), Electric Motor Design and Analysis (21 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (17 papers). A. Hughes collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. A. Hughes's co-authors include M Nei, David I. Watkins, Tatsuya Ota, T.J.E. Miller, Robert Friedman, Jonathan E. Boyson, Norman L. Letvin, Jack da Silva, K. Crawford and Michael Houghton and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Immunology and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

A. Hughes

81 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The evolution of functionally novel proteins after gene duplication

1994 762 citations A. Hughes profile →
Persistent hepatitis C virus infection in a chimpanzee is associated with emergence of a cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape variant.

1995 286 citations A. Hughes et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Hughes United States	35	1.7k	1.5k	907	632	426	82	4.6k
Luis P. Villarreal United States	35	2.0k 1.2×	722 0.5×	1.3k 1.5×	739 1.2×	599 1.4×	110	4.8k
Ulrich Certa Switzerland	38	2.1k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	399 0.4×	119 0.2×	178 0.4×	98	4.9k
Bertram L. Jacobs United States	44	2.4k 1.4×	2.3k 1.5×	1.3k 1.4×	436 0.7×	1.8k 4.2×	95	6.4k
Yoshiyuki Suzuki Japan	31	1.9k 1.1×	482 0.3×	1.0k 1.1×	362 0.6×	78 0.2×	92	4.5k
Jason Mercer United Kingdom	35	2.2k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	299 0.5×	941 2.2×	68	5.8k
John H. Connor United States	40	2.6k 1.5×	639 0.4×	520 0.6×	203 0.3×	280 0.7×	144	5.7k
Bernhard Ehlers Germany	36	640 0.4×	536 0.4×	525 0.6×	446 0.7×	212 0.5×	94	4.3k
Bernhard Hirt Germany	32	3.9k 2.3×	608 0.4×	2.7k 3.0×	922 1.5×	527 1.2×	120	8.5k
Spencer Shorte France	30	2.4k 1.4×	742 0.5×	327 0.4×	227 0.4×	457 1.1×	86	5.8k
Tatyana V. Pestova United States	64	13.7k 8.0×	608 0.4×	921 1.0×	1.4k 2.2×	181 0.4×	112	15.8k

Countries citing papers authored by A. Hughes

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Hughes

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Putaporntip, Chaturong, et al.. (2015). Natural selection of K13 mutants of Plasmodium falciparum in response to artemisinin combination therapies in Thailand. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22(3). 285.e1–285.e8. 26 indexed citations

Hughes, A. & Bart Buitenhuis. (2010). Reduced variance of gene expression at numerous loci in a population of chickens selected for high feather pecking. Poultry Science. 89(9). 1858–1869. 27 indexed citations

Hughes, A. & Robert Friedman. (2008). Genome Size Reduction in the Chicken Has Involved Massive Loss of Ancestral Protein-Coding Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25(12). 2681–2688. 38 indexed citations

Conley, Alan J., C. Jo Corbin, & A. Hughes. (2008). Adaptive evolution of mammalian aromatases: lessons from Suiformes. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological Genetics and Physiology. 311A(5). 346–357. 20 indexed citations

Corbin, C. Jo, A. Hughes, James R. Heffelfinger, et al.. (2007). Evolution of Suiform Aromatases: Ancestral Duplication with Conservation of Tissue-Specific Expression in the Collared Peccary (Pecari tayassu). Journal of Molecular Evolution. 65(4). 403–412. 21 indexed citations

Hughes, A.. (2007). Looking for Darwin in all the wrong places: the misguided quest for positive selection at the nucleotide sequence level. Heredity. 99(4). 364–373. 190 indexed citations

Slukvin, Igor I., Richard L. Grendell, Dinesh S. Rao, A. Hughes, & Thaddeus G. Golos. (2006). Cloning of rhesus monkey LILRs*. Tissue Antigens. 67(4). 331–337. 12 indexed citations

Eck, Peter, et al.. (2004). Comparison of the genomic structure and variation in the two human sodium-dependent vitamin C transporters, SLC23A1 and SLC23A2. Human Genetics. 115(4). 285–94. 49 indexed citations

Hughes, A.. (2004). Phylogeny of the Picornaviridae and differential evolutionary divergence of picornavirus proteins. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 4(2). 143–152. 29 indexed citations

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Hughes, A., Jack da Silva, & Robert Friedman. (2001). Ancient Genome Duplications Did Not Structure the Human Hox-Bearing Chromosomes. Genome Research. 11(5). 771–780. 85 indexed citations

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Grendell, Richard L., A. Hughes, & Thaddeus G. Golos. (2001). Cloning of rhesus monkey killer‐cell Ig‐like receptors (KIRs) from early pregnancy decidua. Tissue Antigens. 58(5). 329–334. 28 indexed citations

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Yeager, Meredith, Mary Carrington, & A. Hughes. (2000). Class I and class II MHC bind self peptide sets that are strikingly different in their evolutionary characteristics. Immunogenetics. 51(1). 8–15. 9 indexed citations

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Hughes, A.. (1998). Protein phylogenies provide evidence of a radical discontinuity between arthropod and vertebrate immune systems. Immunogenetics. 47(4). 283–296. 57 indexed citations

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Silva, Jack da & A. Hughes. (1998). Conservation of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitopes as a host strategy to constrain parasite adaptation: evidence from the nef gene of human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15(10). 1259–1268. 24 indexed citations

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Evans, David T., Marian S. Piekarczyk, Todd M. Allen, et al.. (1997). Immunodominance of a single CTL epitope in a primate species with limited MHC class I polymorphism. The Journal of Immunology. 159(3). 1374–1382. 20 indexed citations

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Hughes, A.. (1995). Origin and evolution of HLA class I pseudogenes.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 12(2). 247–58. 60 indexed citations

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Hughes, A.. (1994). Evolution of the ATP-binding-cassette transmembrane transporters of vertebrates.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 11(6). 899–910. 35 indexed citations

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Hughes, A., J. Čorda, & D.A. Andrade. (1993). An inside look at cage motors with vector control. 258–264. 2 indexed citations

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Hughes, A. & M Nei. (1990). Evolutionary relationships of class II major-histocompatibility-complex genes in mammals.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 7(6). 491–514. 85 indexed citations

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Watkins, David I., Norman L. Letvin, A. Hughes, & Thomas F. Tedder. (1990). Molecular cloning of cDNA that encode MHC class I molecules from a New World primate ( Saguinus oedipus ). Natural selection acts at positions that may affect peptide presentation to T cells.. The Journal of Immunology. 144(3). 1136–1143. 32 indexed citations

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