Alison Kraft

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Alison Kraft is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Kraft has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Alison Kraft's work include Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (6 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers) and Biotechnology and Related Fields (5 papers). Alison Kraft is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (6 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers) and Biotechnology and Related Fields (5 papers). Alison Kraft collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Austria. Alison Kraft's co-authors include Nik Brown, Paul Martin, Michael M. Hopkins, Paul Nightingale, Surya Mahdi, Geoffrey Jones, Harry Rothman, Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Beatrix P. Rubin and Catherine Coveney and has published in prestigious journals such as Research Policy, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management and BMC Veterinary Research.

In The Last Decade

Alison Kraft

24 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENERGY AND GNP 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alison Kraft United Kingdom 12 1.7k 1.4k 749 433 148 24 2.4k
Shengling Zhang China 12 893 0.5× 274 0.2× 79 0.1× 180 0.4× 2 0.0× 26 1.3k
Jiafeng Gu China 17 295 0.2× 49 0.0× 57 0.1× 28 0.1× 21 0.1× 63 891
Vilja Varho Finland 15 158 0.1× 106 0.1× 100 0.1× 63 0.1× 6 0.0× 35 1.0k
Ryan Kellogg United States 14 889 0.5× 594 0.4× 25 0.0× 59 0.1× 5 0.0× 34 1.4k
Lihong Zhao China 13 293 0.2× 77 0.1× 45 0.1× 31 0.1× 46 0.3× 46 764
Joëlle Noailly Netherlands 13 861 0.5× 385 0.3× 89 0.1× 230 0.5× 29 1.2k
Stephan B. Bruns Germany 15 280 0.2× 182 0.1× 69 0.1× 57 0.1× 3 0.0× 32 649
Rafaela Hillerbrand Germany 16 75 0.0× 64 0.0× 112 0.1× 73 0.2× 6 0.0× 44 840
Roy Boyd United States 17 850 0.5× 359 0.3× 29 0.0× 120 0.3× 8 0.1× 91 1.2k
Klaus Conrad Germany 21 923 0.5× 285 0.2× 8 0.0× 161 0.4× 11 0.1× 89 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alison Kraft

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alison Kraft

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

All Works

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Kraft, Alison, et al.. (2020). The prevalence of Dichelobacter nodosus in clinically footrot-free sheep flocks: a comparative field study on elimination strategies. BMC Veterinary Research. 16(1). 21–21. 11 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison, et al.. (2019). Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy. Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja. 8 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison, Holger Nehring, & Carola Sachse. (2018). The Pugwash Conferences and the Global Cold War: Scientists, Transnational Networks, and the Complexity of Nuclear Histories. Journal of Cold War Studies. 20(1). 4–30. 5 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison. (2018). Dissenting Scientists in Early Cold War Britain: The “Fallout” Controversy and the Origins of Pugwash, 1954–1957. Journal of Cold War Studies. 20(1). 58–100. 4 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison & Beatrix P. Rubin. (2016). Changing cells: An analysis of the concept of plasticity in the context of cellular differentiation. BioSocieties. 11(4). 497–525. 11 indexed citations
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Nightingale, Paul, et al.. (2009). On a critical path. 1 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison & Harry Rothman. (2008). Genomics-based drug innovation: visions and commercial viability. International Journal of Biotechnology. 10(5). 441–441. 1 indexed citations
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Martin, Paul, Nik Brown, & Alison Kraft. (2008). From Bedside to Bench? Communities of Promise, Translational Research and the Making of Blood Stem Cells. Science as Culture. 17(1). 29–41. 93 indexed citations
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Martin, Paul A., Catherine Coveney, Alison Kraft, Nik Brown, & Philip M. Bath. (2006). Commercial Development of Stem Cell Technology: Lessons from the Past, Strategies for the Future. Regenerative Medicine. 1(6). 801–807. 23 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison. (2006). Between Medicine and Industry: Medical Physics and the Rise of the Radioisotope 1945–65. Contemporary British History. 20(2). 293–293. 2 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison. (2006). Between Medicine and Industry: Medical Physics and the Rise of the Radioisotope 1945–65. Contemporary British History. 20(1). 1–35. 20 indexed citations
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Brown, Nik & Alison Kraft. (2006). Blood Ties: Banking the Stem Cell Promise. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 18(3-4). 313–327. 75 indexed citations
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Brown, Nik, Alison Kraft, & Paul Martin. (2006). The Promissory Pasts of Blood Stem Cells. BioSocieties. 1(3). 329–348. 38 indexed citations
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Rothman, Harry & Alison Kraft. (2006). Downstream and into deep biology: Evolving business models in ‘top tier’ genomics companies. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology. 12(2). 86–98. 21 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison. (2004). Liverpool Veterinary School: the first 100 years.. PubMed. 155(20). 620–4. 2 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison. (2004). Pragmatism, Patronage and Politics in English Biology: The Rise and Fall of Economic Biology 1904–1920. Journal of the History of Biology. 37(2). 213–258. 12 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison. (2004). Breaking with tradition: the reform of British veterinary education 1900–20. History of Education. 33(3). 317–336. 3 indexed citations
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Jones, Geoffrey & Alison Kraft. (2004). Corporate venturing: the origins of Unilever's pregnancy test. Business History. 46(1). 100–122. 25 indexed citations
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Kraft, Alison & Samuel J.M.M. Alberti. (2003). ‘Equal though different’: laboratories, museums and the institutional development of biology in late-Victorian Northern England. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 34(2). 203–236. 19 indexed citations

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