Áine O’Toole

19.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Áine O’Toole is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Áine O’Toole has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Infectious Diseases and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Áine O’Toole's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (7 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers). Áine O’Toole is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (7 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers). Áine O’Toole collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Áine O’Toole's co-authors include Andrew Rambaut, Oliver G. Pybus, Verity Hill, John T. McCrone, Edward C. Holmes, Louis du Plessis, Christopher Ruis, Rachel Colquhoun, Emily Scher and Ben Jackson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Áine O’Toole

19 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages t... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2021 400 800 1.2k
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. A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology
    2020 1.4k citations Andrew Rambaut, Edward C. Holmes et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
  2. Assignment of epidemiological lineages in an emerging pandemic using the pangolin tool
    2021 551 citations Áine O’Toole, Emily Scher et al. Virus Evolution profile →

Peers

Áine O’Toole
Verity Hill United Kingdom
John T. McCrone United States
Barney Potter United States
Sidney M. Bell United States
Colin Megill United States
Charlton Callender United States
Kenneth S. Plante United States
Thomas P. Peacock United Kingdom
Hanzhong Wang China
Adam D. Nitido United States
Verity Hill United Kingdom
Áine O’Toole
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Countries citing papers authored by Áine O’Toole

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Fields of papers citing papers by Áine O’Toole

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Áine O’Toole

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Áine O’Toole. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Áine O’Toole 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 Áine O’Toole. Áine O’Toole is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Joseph, Susan, et al.. (2024). Epigenetic age estimation of wild mice using faecal samples. Molecular Ecology. 33(8). e17330–e17330. 5 indexed citations
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McBroome, Jakob, Adriano de Bernardi Schneider, Cornelius Roemer, et al.. (2024). A framework for automated scalable designation of viral pathogen lineages from genomic data. Nature Microbiology. 9(2). 550–560. 6 indexed citations
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Schneider, Adriano de Bernardi, Michelle Su, Angie S. Hinrichs, et al.. (2024). SARS-CoV-2 lineage assignments using phylogenetic placement/UShER are superior to pangoLEARN machine-learning method. Virus Evolution. 10(1). vead085–vead085. 8 indexed citations
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O’Toole, Áine, Rachel Colquhoun, Daniel Maloney, et al.. (2024). Automated detection and classification of polioviruses from nanopore sequencing reads using piranha. Virus Evolution. 10(1). veae023–veae023. 2 indexed citations
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O’Toole, Áine, et al.. (2024). Publication-ready single nucleotide polymorphism visualization with snipit. Bioinformatics. 40(8). 3 indexed citations
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Colquhoun, Rachel, Áine O’Toole, Verity Hill, et al.. (2024). A phylogenetics and variant calling pipeline to support SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology in the UK. Virus Evolution. 10(1). veae083–veae083.
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Roemer, Cornelius, Daniel J. Sheward, Kenta Sato, et al.. (2023). SARS-CoV-2 evolution in the Omicron era. Nature Microbiology. 8(11). 1952–1959. 54 indexed citations
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Bujáki, Erika, Alex Shaw, Adnan Khurshid, et al.. (2023). Comparison of Eleven RNA Extraction Methods for Poliovirus Direct Molecular Detection in Stool Samples. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(2). e0425222–e0425222. 6 indexed citations
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O’Toole, Áine, Oliver G. Pybus, Michael E. Abram, Elizabeth J. Kelly, & Andrew Rambaut. (2022). Pango lineage designation and assignment using SARS-CoV-2 spike gene nucleotide sequences. BMC Genomics. 23(1). 121–121. 71 indexed citations
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O’Toole, Áine, Verity Hill, Ben Jackson, et al.. (2022). Genomics-informed outbreak investigations of SARS-CoV-2 using civet. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(12). e0000704–e0000704. 13 indexed citations
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Campbell, Kathryn S., Robert J. Gifford, Joshua B. Singer, et al.. (2022). Making genomic surveillance deliver: A lineage classification and nomenclature system to inform rabies elimination. PLoS Pathogens. 18(5). e1010023–e1010023. 19 indexed citations
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O’Toole, Áine, Emily Scher, Anthony Underwood, et al.. (2021). Assignment of epidemiological lineages in an emerging pandemic using the pangolin tool. Virus Evolution. 7(2). veab064–veab064. 551 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bugembe, Daniel Lule, My V. T. Phan, Isaac Ssewanyana, et al.. (2021). Emergence and spread of a SARS-CoV-2 lineage A variant (A.23.1) with altered spike protein in Uganda. Nature Microbiology. 6(8). 1094–1101. 47 indexed citations
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O’Toole, Áine, Emily Scher, Anthony Underwood, et al.. (2021). Assignment of Epidemiological Lineages in an Emerging Pandemic Using the Pangolin Tool. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 1 indexed citations
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Rambaut, Andrew, Edward C. Holmes, Áine O’Toole, et al.. (2020). A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology. Nature Microbiology. 5(11). 1403–1407. 1402 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lemey, Philippe, Samuel L. Hong, Verity Hill, et al.. (2020). Accommodating individual travel history and unsampled diversity in Bayesian phylogeographic inference of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5110–5110. 85 indexed citations
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Lu, Lu, Dung Nguyen, Alasdair Ivens, et al.. (2018). Genetic diversity and cross-species transmission of kobuviruses in Vietnam. Virus Evolution. 4(1). vey002–vey002. 23 indexed citations
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O’Toole, Áine, et al.. (2018). A68 Bats as a source of zoonotic spillover: Investigating viruses in enteric bat samples from Viet Nam. Virus Evolution. 4(suppl_1). 1 indexed citations
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O’Toole, Áine, Laurence D. Hurst, & Aoife McLysaght. (2017). Faster Evolving Primate Genes Are More Likely to Duplicate. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(1). 107–118. 32 indexed citations

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