Aaron Wright

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Aaron Wright is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Wright has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Spectroscopy and 11 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Aaron Wright's work include Click Chemistry and Applications (8 papers), Gut microbiota and health (7 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (7 papers). Aaron Wright is often cited by papers focused on Click Chemistry and Applications (8 papers), Gut microbiota and health (7 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (7 papers). Aaron Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Aaron Wright's co-authors include Benjamin F. Cravatt, Eric V. Anslyn, John W. Kozarich, Zhenlin Zhong, Natalie Sadler, Lindsey Anderson, Primavera De Filippi, John T. McDevitt, Richard Smith and Joongyu D. Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Wright

84 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Activity-Based Protein Profiling: From Enzyme Chemistry t... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 250 500 750
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.

  1. Activity-Based Protein Profiling: From Enzyme Chemistry to Proteomic Chemistry
    2008 995 citations Benjamin F. Cravatt, Aaron Wright et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aaron Wright United States 31 2.2k 862 773 519 389 85 3.9k
Sagar D. Khare United States 30 3.3k 1.5× 743 0.9× 491 0.6× 222 0.4× 840 2.2× 70 4.7k
Joseph D. Schrag Canada 40 5.8k 2.6× 600 0.7× 821 1.1× 409 0.8× 760 2.0× 71 7.4k
Ling Peng France 48 5.3k 2.4× 1.6k 1.9× 351 0.5× 751 1.4× 861 2.2× 246 8.3k
Nicola L. B. Pohl United States 35 2.8k 1.3× 1.8k 2.1× 431 0.6× 348 0.7× 214 0.6× 132 4.0k
Jeffrey G. Pelton United States 36 3.1k 1.4× 350 0.4× 249 0.3× 339 0.7× 559 1.4× 72 4.4k
Jianing Li China 32 2.3k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 202 0.3× 299 0.6× 476 1.2× 204 4.8k
Sarah Cianférani France 44 4.9k 2.2× 673 0.8× 1.6k 2.0× 486 0.9× 709 1.8× 240 7.2k
Yan Zhang China 48 4.6k 2.1× 856 1.0× 371 0.5× 350 0.7× 190 0.5× 227 7.9k
James J. La Clair United States 33 2.2k 1.0× 1.0k 1.2× 213 0.3× 172 0.3× 300 0.8× 154 3.7k
Sherry L. Mowbray Sweden 42 3.8k 1.7× 545 0.6× 224 0.3× 285 0.5× 1.1k 2.8× 111 5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Aaron Wright

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Fields of papers citing papers by Aaron Wright

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aaron Wright

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Aaron Wright. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Aaron Wright based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Aaron Wright. Aaron Wright is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Lin, Vivian, et al.. (2023). Enzymatically hydrolyzed fluorescence-based chemical probe enables in situ mapping of chitinase activity in the rhizosphere. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 184. 109122–109122. 2 indexed citations
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Nelson, William, et al.. (2023). Snekmer: a scalable pipeline for protein sequence fingerprinting based on amino acid recoding. Bioinformatics Advances. 3(1). vbad005–vbad005. 3 indexed citations
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Pieper, Lindsey M., Peter Spanogiannopoulos, Regan Volk, et al.. (2023). The global anaerobic metabolism regulator fnr is necessary for the degradation of food dyes and drugs by Escherichia coli. mBio. 14(5). e0157323–e0157323. 3 indexed citations
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Wright, Aaron, et al.. (2023). Activity‐Based Protein Profiling – Enabling Phenotyping of Host‐Associated and Environmental Microbiomes. Israel Journal of Chemistry. 63(3-4). 4 indexed citations
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Miller, Carson J., et al.. (2022). Profiling How the Gut Microbiome Modulates Host Xenobiotic Metabolism in Response to Benzo[a]pyrene and 1-Nitropyrene Exposure. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 35(4). 585–596. 16 indexed citations
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Swift, Candice L., Katherine Louie, Benjamin P. Bowen, et al.. (2021). Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(18). 48 indexed citations
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Plymale, Andrew E., et al.. (2020). Simple Analysis of Primary and Secondary Bile Salt Hydrolysis in Mouse and Human Gut Microbiome Samples by Using Fluorogenic Substrates. ChemBioChem. 21(24). 3539–3543. 9 indexed citations
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Petyuk, Vladislav, et al.. (2020). Detecting differential protein abundance by combining peptide level P -values. Molecular Omics. 16(6). 554–562. 3 indexed citations
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Brislawn, Colin, Sarah Fansler, Kirsten Hofmockel, et al.. (2019). Selection, Succession, and Stabilization of Soil Microbial Consortia. mSystems. 4(4). 62 indexed citations
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Brandvold, Kristoffer, et al.. (2019). A continuous fluorescence assay for simple quantification of bile salt hydrolase activity in the gut microbiome. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1359–1359. 22 indexed citations
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Solomon, Kevin, Charles H. Haitjema, John K. Henske, et al.. (2016). Early-branching gut fungi possess a large, comprehensive array of biomass-degrading enzymes. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Ortega, Corrie, Lindsey Anderson, Andrew Frando, et al.. (2016). Systematic Survey of Serine Hydrolase Activity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Defines Changes Associated with Persistence. Cell chemical biology. 23(2). 290–298. 54 indexed citations
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Bernstein, Hans C., Moiz A. Charania, Ryan McClure, et al.. (2015). Multi-Omic Dynamics Associate Oxygenic Photosynthesis with Nitrogenase-Mediated H2 Production in Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 16004–16004. 10 indexed citations
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Anderson, Lindsey, David Culley, Beth A. Hofstad, et al.. (2013). Activity-based protein profiling of secreted cellulolytic enzyme activity dynamics in Trichoderma reesei QM6a, NG14, and RUT-C30. Molecular BioSystems. 9(12). 2992–3000. 11 indexed citations
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Ansong, Charles, Corrie Ortega, Samuel Payne, et al.. (2013). Identification of Widespread Adenosine Nucleotide Binding in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Chemistry & Biology. 20(1). 123–133. 42 indexed citations
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Burnum-Johnson, Kristin, Lindsey Anderson, Suereta Fortuin, et al.. (2012). Multiplexed Activity-based Protein Profiling of the Human Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus Reveals Large Functional Changes upon Exposure to Human Serum. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(40). 33447–33459. 22 indexed citations
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Wright, Aaron & Benjamin F. Cravatt. (2007). Chemical Proteomic Probes for Profiling Cytochrome P450 Activities and Drug Interactions In Vivo. Chemistry & Biology. 14(9). 1043–1051. 79 indexed citations
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Wright, Aaron, Nicola Edwards, Eric V. Anslyn, & John T. McDevitt. (2007). The Discriminatory Power of Differential Receptor Arrays Is Improved by Prescreening—A Demonstration in the Analysis of Tachykinins and Similar Peptides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 46(43). 8212–8215. 15 indexed citations

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