Alan R. Davidson

14.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
141 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Alan R. Davidson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan R. Davidson has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Molecular Biology, 59 papers in Ecology and 36 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alan R. Davidson's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (59 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (44 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers). Alan R. Davidson is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (59 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (44 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers). Alan R. Davidson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Alan R. Davidson's co-authors include Karen L. Maxwell, Joseph Bondy‐Denomy, April Pawluk, Ariel A. Di Nardo, Robert T. Sauer, Arash Zarrine‐Afsar, Stefan Larson, Lewis E. Kay, Zhou Yu and Arianna Rath and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan R. Davidson

138 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Bacteriophage genes that inactivate the CRISPR/Cas bacterial immune system

2012 607 citations April Pawluk, Karen L. Maxwell et al. Nature profile →
Prophages mediate defense against phage infection through diverse mechanisms

2016 327 citations Joseph Bondy‐Denomy, Z. Jason Qian et al. The ISME Journal profile →
A Broad-Spectrum Inhibitor of CRISPR-Cas9

2017 191 citations Lucas B. Harrington, Alireza Edraki et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan R. Davidson Canada	57	7.9k	3.4k	1.6k	1.4k	843	141	9.8k
Tilman Schirmer Switzerland	55	6.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.3×	2.9k 1.8×	940 0.7×	701 0.8×	116	9.9k
C. G. Kurland Sweden	65	13.1k 1.7×	2.4k 0.7×	4.0k 2.5×	574 0.4×	1.0k 1.2×	158	15.1k
Gabriel Waksman United Kingdom	75	11.2k 1.4×	2.4k 0.7×	4.6k 2.8×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	221	18.0k
Jonathan M. Grimes United Kingdom	54	3.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	696 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	158	9.4k
Konstantin Severinov United States	61	17.0k 2.2×	5.2k 1.5×	6.6k 4.1×	526 0.4×	1.5k 1.8×	366	19.4k
Christine Jacobs‐Wagner United States	44	4.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	3.4k 2.1×	381 0.3×	521 0.6×	89	7.1k
Teru Ogura Japan	44	6.1k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	3.8k 2.4×	872 0.6×	697 0.8×	135	8.1k
Roger A. Garrett Denmark	54	7.6k 1.0×	3.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	487 0.3×	1.1k 1.4×	177	9.1k
R. John Collier United States	78	13.4k 1.7×	2.5k 0.7×	6.7k 4.1×	331 0.2×	546 0.6×	287	20.4k
David S. Waugh United States	48	5.8k 0.7×	834 0.2×	1.8k 1.1×	571 0.4×	550 0.7×	140	7.7k

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Cook, Jonathan D., Keiko C. Salazar, Justin R. Clark, et al.. (2025). Results of TOR001: An open-label single patient study using targeted bacteriophage therapy for the treatment of chronic urinary tract infection. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 66(6). 107613–107613.

Taylor, Véronique L., et al.. (2025). Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny. Nature. 644(8078). 1049–1057. 2 indexed citations

Mesaki, Kumi, S. Juvet, Jonathan Yeung, et al.. (2024). CRISPR-Cas Genome Editing in Ex Vivo Human Lungs to Rewire the Translational Path of Genome-Targeting Therapeutics. Human Gene Therapy. 35(11-12). 374–387. 2 indexed citations

Garcı́a, Bianca, et al.. (2024). An anti-CRISPR that pulls apart a CRISPR–Cas complex. Nature. 632(8024). 375–382. 8 indexed citations

Mesaki, Kumi, S. Juvet, Jonathan Yeung, et al.. (2023). Immunomodulation of the donor lung with CRISPR-mediated activation of IL-10 expression. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 42(10). 1363–1377. 13 indexed citations

Cheng, Zhi, Bianca Garcı́a, Xue Huang, et al.. (2019). Inhibition of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex assembly by anti-CRISPR AcrIIC2. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2806–2806. 54 indexed citations

Ben‐David, Moshe, Haiming Huang, Mark Sun, et al.. (2018). Allosteric Modulation of Binding Specificity by Alternative Packing of Protein Cores. Journal of Molecular Biology. 431(2). 336–350. 16 indexed citations

Lee, Jooyoung, Aamir Mir, Alireza Edraki, et al.. (2018). Potent Cas9 Inhibition in Bacterial and Human Cells by AcrIIC4 and AcrIIC5 Anti-CRISPR Proteins. mBio. 9(6). 79 indexed citations

Bondy‐Denomy, Joseph, Z. Jason Qian, Edze R. Westra, et al.. (2016). Prophages mediate defense against phage infection through diverse mechanisms. The ISME Journal. 10(12). 2854–2866. 327 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bondy‐Denomy, Joseph & Alan R. Davidson. (2014). To acquire or resist: the complex biological effects of CRISPR–Cas systems. Trends in Microbiology. 22(4). 218–225. 85 indexed citations

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Bondy‐Denomy, Joseph & Alan R. Davidson. (2014). When a virus is not a parasite: the beneficial effects of prophages on bacterial fitness. The Journal of Microbiology. 52(3). 235–242. 137 indexed citations

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Cady, Kyle C., et al.. (2012). The CRISPR/Cas Adaptive Immune System of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Mediates Resistance to Naturally Occurring and Engineered Phages. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(21). 5728–5738. 217 indexed citations

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Cumby, Nichole, A.M. Edwards, Alan R. Davidson, & Karen L. Maxwell. (2012). The Bacteriophage HK97 gp15 Moron Element Encodes a Novel Superinfection Exclusion Protein. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(18). 5012–5019. 91 indexed citations

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Davidson, Alan R., Lia Cardarelli, Lisa G. Pell, Devon Radford, & Karen L. Maxwell. (2011). Long Noncontractile Tail Machines of Bacteriophages. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 726. 115–142. 110 indexed citations

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Zarrine‐Afsar, Arash, Stefan Wallin, A.M. Neculai, et al.. (2008). Theoretical and experimental demonstration of the importance of specific nonnative interactions in protein folding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(29). 9999–10004. 117 indexed citations

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Tahlan, Kapil, Zhou Yu, Ye Xu, Alan R. Davidson, & Justin R. Nodwell. (2008). Ligand Recognition by ActR, a TetR-Like Regulator of Actinorhodin Export. Journal of Molecular Biology. 383(4). 753–761. 42 indexed citations

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Neudecker, Philipp, Arash Zarrine‐Afsar, Alan R. Davidson, & Lewis E. Kay. (2007). Φ-Value analysis of a three-state protein folding pathway by NMR relaxation dispersion spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(40). 15717–15722. 39 indexed citations

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Northey, Julian G. B., Karen L. Maxwell, & Alan R. Davidson. (2002). Protein Folding Kinetics Beyond the Φ Value: Using Multiple Amino Acid Substitutions to Investigate the Structure of the SH3 Domain Folding Transition State. Journal of Molecular Biology. 320(2). 389–402. 67 indexed citations

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Larson, Stefan, et al.. (2000). The identification of conserved interactions within the SH3 domain by alignment of sequences and structures. Protein Science. 9(11). 2170–2180. 135 indexed citations

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Plaxco, Kevin W., Stefan Larson, Ingo Ruczinski, et al.. (2000). Evolutionary conservation in protein folding kinetics. Journal of Molecular Biology. 298(2). 303–312. 74 indexed citations

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