Aaron A. Best

17.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Aaron A. Best is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron A. Best has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Aaron A. Best's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (8 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Aaron A. Best is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (8 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Aaron A. Best collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Greece. Aaron A. Best's co-authors include Matthew DeJongh, Christopher S. Henry, Rick Stevens, Gary J. Olsen, Dmitry A. Rodionov, John Gould, Gregory S. Fraley, Matthew Rycenga, Ross Overbeek and Veronika Vonstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Aaron A. Best

29 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

High-throughput generation, optimization and analysis of genome-scale metabolic models

2010 788 citations Christopher S. Henry, Matthew DeJongh et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron A. Best United States	13	1.2k	398	131	118	81	32	1.5k
Martin Dragosits Austria	20	1.8k 1.5×	496 1.2×	91 0.7×	315 2.7×	127 1.6×	25	2.1k
Nor Muhammad Mahadi Malaysia	25	932 0.8×	301 0.8×	305 2.3×	191 1.6×	279 3.4×	117	1.7k
Mahmoud M. Al‐Bassam United States	20	640 0.5×	105 0.3×	187 1.4×	153 1.3×	127 1.6×	25	1.1k
Gabriella Fiorentino Italy	22	549 0.5×	227 0.6×	115 0.9×	112 0.9×	96 1.2×	52	1.1k
Zhongmei Liu China	24	915 0.8×	152 0.4×	147 1.1×	266 2.3×	181 2.2×	73	1.6k
Pep Charusanti United States	19	1.8k 1.5×	365 0.9×	205 1.6×	351 3.0×	137 1.7×	30	2.4k
Xiaojian Gao China	22	656 0.6×	358 0.9×	179 1.4×	34 0.3×	45 0.6×	72	1.5k
Danila Limauro Italy	22	697 0.6×	211 0.5×	140 1.1×	154 1.3×	95 1.2×	51	1.0k
Daniel Machado Portugal	19	1.6k 1.3×	431 1.1×	241 1.8×	153 1.3×	98 1.2×	36	2.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nguyen, Marcus, et al.. (2023). Predicting variable gene content in Escherichia coli using conserved genes. mSystems. 8(4). e0005823–e0005823.

Best, Aaron A., et al.. (2021). Providing a Safe, In-Person, Residential College Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health. 9. 672344–672344. 7 indexed citations

Peterson, Jonathan W., et al.. (2021). A global reconnaissance of particulates and metals/metalloids in untreated drinking water sources. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 193(5). 307–307.

Hametner, Markus, et al.. (2019). Sustainable Development in the European Union. Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context (2019 edition). ePubWU Institutional Repository (Vienna University of Economics and Business). 84 indexed citations

Tintle, Nathan, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the efficacy of point-of-use water filtration units in Fiji. Tropical Medicine and Health. 47(1). 48–48. 5 indexed citations

Faria, José P., James J. Davis, Janaka N. Edirisinghe, et al.. (2016). Computing and Applying Atomic Regulons to Understand Gene Expression and Regulation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1819–1819. 5 indexed citations

Schenk, A. Katrin, et al.. (2016). Increased water contamination and grow-out Pekin duck mortality when raised with water troughs compared to pin-metered water lines using a United States management system. Poultry Science. 95(4). 736–748. 15 indexed citations

Disselkoen, Craig, Kristin A. Koch, Joshua Cape, et al.. (2016). A Bayesian Framework for the Classification of Microbial Gene Activity States. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1191–1191.

Best, Aaron A., et al.. (2015). Cautions about the reliability of pairwise gene correlations based on expression data. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 650–650. 8 indexed citations

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Ravcheev, Dmitry A., Aaron A. Best, Natalia V. Sernova, et al.. (2013). Genomic reconstruction of transcriptional regulatory networks in lactic acid bacteria. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 94–94. 30 indexed citations

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Overbeek, Ross, et al.. (2013). Automated Genome Annotation and Metabolic Model Reconstruction in the SEED and Model SEED. Methods in molecular biology. 985. 17–45. 96 indexed citations

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Rodionova, Irina A., Xiaoqing Li, Vera Thiel, et al.. (2013). Comparative genomics and functional analysis of rhamnose catabolic pathways and regulons in bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 4. 407–407. 51 indexed citations

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Pope, Welkin H., Deborah Jacobs‐Sera, Aaron A. Best, et al.. (2013). Cluster J Mycobacteriophages: Intron Splicing in Capsid and Tail Genes. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e69273–e69273. 18 indexed citations

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Tintle, Nathan, et al.. (2012). Evaluating the consistency of gene sets used in the analysis of bacterial gene expression data. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(1). 193–193. 6 indexed citations

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Henry, Christopher S., et al.. (2010). High-throughput generation, optimization and analysis of genome-scale metabolic models. Nature Biotechnology. 28(9). 977–982. 788 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tintle, Nathan, Aaron A. Best, Matthew DeJongh, et al.. (2008). Gene set analyses for interpreting microarray experiments on prokaryotic organisms. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 469–469. 11 indexed citations

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DeJongh, Matthew, et al.. (2007). Toward the automated generation of genome-scale metabolic networks in the SEED. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(1). 139–139. 104 indexed citations

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Best, Aaron A., et al.. (2007). Models of Interdisciplinary Research and Service Learning at Hope College. Scholarly Commons (Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University). 28(2). 18. 3 indexed citations

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Best, Aaron A., Hilary G. Morrison, Andrew G. McArthur, Mitchell L. Sogin, & Gary J. Olsen. (2004). Evolution of Eukaryotic Transcription: Insights From the Genome of Giardia lamblia. Genome Research. 14(8). 1537–1547. 75 indexed citations

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Best, Aaron A. & Gary J. Olsen. (2001). Similar subunit architecture of archaeal and eukaryal RNA polymerases. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 195(1). 85–90. 12 indexed citations

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