A J Bester

1.6k total citations
48 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

A J Bester is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, A J Bester has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Infectious Diseases and 6 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in A J Bester's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (6 papers). A J Bester is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (6 papers). A J Bester collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. A J Bester's co-authors include Stuart M. Heywood, Doris S. Kennedy, Christopher G. Mathew, Anne Grobler, C. D. Boyd, Gill Nelson, Pam Sonnenberg, Jill Murray, Gillian A. Wallis and Stuart Shearer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

A J Bester

48 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
A J Bester South Africa	20	559	266	231	210	138	48	1.4k
Rapin Osathanondh United States	28	676 1.2×	285 1.1×	359 1.6×	170 0.8×	365 2.6×	84	2.9k
David W. Montgomery United States	23	632 1.1×	336 1.3×	156 0.7×	136 0.6×	79 0.6×	54	1.7k
Riad Bayoumi Oman	28	379 0.7×	137 0.5×	418 1.8×	242 1.2×	82 0.6×	129	2.2k
Francisco Leyva‐Cobián Spain	27	409 0.7×	126 0.5×	192 0.8×	346 1.6×	185 1.3×	66	2.0k
Mei Mei Ho United Kingdom	22	516 0.9×	400 1.5×	117 0.5×	298 1.4×	122 0.9×	64	1.5k
William T. Lee United States	28	528 0.9×	318 1.2×	192 0.8×	278 1.3×	63 0.5×	66	2.4k
Reinhold E. Schmidt Germany	30	531 0.9×	176 0.7×	164 0.7×	339 1.6×	65 0.5×	75	2.7k
Alessandra Cervino United Kingdom	16	407 0.7×	139 0.5×	263 1.1×	146 0.7×	106 0.8×	19	891
Dorothy Feldman United States	17	295 0.5×	81 0.3×	297 1.3×	130 0.6×	65 0.5×	43	1.0k
Chunguang Wang China	22	723 1.3×	171 0.6×	273 1.2×	181 0.9×	88 0.6×	80	1.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cornelissen, Katri K., A J Bester, Paul Cairns, Martin J. Tovée, & Piers L. Cornelissen. (2015). The influence of personal BMI on body size estimations and sensitivity to body size change in anorexia spectrum disorders. Body Image. 13. 75–85. 70 indexed citations

Sonnenberg, Pam, Andrew Copas, Judith R. Glynn, et al.. (2010). The effect of HIV infection on time off work in a large cohort of gold miners with known dates of seroconversion. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 68(9). 647–652. 7 indexed citations

Murray, Jill, et al.. (2010). High Rates of Recurrence in HIV‐Infected and HIV‐Uninfected Patients with Tuberculosis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 201(5). 704–711. 56 indexed citations

Glynn, Judith R., Jill Murray, A J Bester, et al.. (2008). Effects of duration of HIV infection and secondary tuberculosis transmission on tuberculosis incidence in the South African gold mines. AIDS. 22(14). 1859–1867. 46 indexed citations

Glynn, Judith R., Pam Sonnenberg, Gill Nelson, et al.. (2007). Survival from HIV-1 seroconversion in Southern Africa: a retrospective cohort study in nearly 2000 gold-miners over 10 years of follow-up. AIDS. 21(5). 625–632. 36 indexed citations

Murray, Jill, Pam Sonnenberg, Gill Nelson, et al.. (2007). Cause of death and presence of respiratory disease at autopsy in an HIV-1 seroconversion cohort of southern African gold miners. AIDS. 21(Suppl 6). S97–S104. 44 indexed citations

Murray, Jill, Pam Sonnenberg, Gill Nelson, et al.. (2005). Effect of HIV on work-related injury rates in South African gold miners. AIDS. 19(17). 2019–2024. 14 indexed citations

Broothaerts, W., et al.. (2002). S-ALLELE CHARACTERIZATION IN SELF-INCOMPATIBLE PEAR (PYRUS COMMUNIS): BIOCHEMICAL, MOLECULAR AND FIELD ANALYSES. Acta Horticulturae. 147–152. 6 indexed citations

Wiid, Ian, Glenda Durrheim, A J Bester, & Paul D. van Helden. (1988). Structural alterations in chromatin during myogenesis in the chicken. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 79(1). 57–62. 3 indexed citations

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Grobler, Anne, et al.. (1988). Location and methylation pattern of a nuclear matrix associated region in the human proα2(I) collagen gene. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 157(2). 500–506. 5 indexed citations

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Higgs, Douglas R., et al.. (1987). Characterization of a new α° thalassaemia defect in the South African population. British Journal of Haematology. 66(4). 539–542. 19 indexed citations

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Beyers, Albertus D., et al.. (1987). Esophageal cancer: Vitamin and lipotrope deficiencies in an at‐risk South African population. Nutrition and Cancer. 10(4). 247–255. 16 indexed citations

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Ricketts, Michael, et al.. (1985). Afrikander cattle congenital goiter: Size heterogeneity in thyroglobulin mRNA. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 126(1). 240–246. 8 indexed citations

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Pohl, Viviane, Guy de Martynoff, C. D. Boyd, et al.. (1985). Defective splicing of thyroglobulin gene transcripts in the congenital goitre of the Afrikander cattle.. The EMBO Journal. 4(3). 731–737. 31 indexed citations

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Wiid, Ian, Charles D. Boyd, A J Bester, & Paul D. van Helden. (1984). Evidence for transcriptional regulation of the myosin heavy chain gene during myogenesis. Nucleic Acids Research. 12(6). 2717–2729. 12 indexed citations

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Walt, Ben J. van der, et al.. (1981). Isolation and characterization of adult bovine heart muscle chalones.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 78(7). 4161–4164. 3 indexed citations

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Heywood, Stuart M., Doris S. Kennedy, & A J Bester. (1975). Stored myosin messenger in embryonic chick muscle. FEBS Letters. 53(1). 69–72. 48 indexed citations

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Heywood, Stuart M., Doris S. Kennedy, & A J Bester. (1975). Studies Concerning the Mechanism by which Translational‐Control RNA Regulates Protein Synthesis in Embryonic Muscle. European Journal of Biochemistry. 58(2). 587–593. 33 indexed citations

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Bester, A J. (1975). The synthesis of myofibrillar and soluble proteins in cell-free systems and in intact cultured muscle cells from newborn polymyopathic hamsters. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 7(5). 325–344. 11 indexed citations

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Heywood, Stuart M., Doris S. Kennedy, & A J Bester. (1974). Separation of Specific Initiation Factors Involved in the Translation of Myosin and Myoglobin Messenger RNAs and the Isolation of a New RNA Involved in Translation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 71(6). 2428–2431. 79 indexed citations

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