Andrew D. Westwell

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
148 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Andrew D. Westwell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew D. Westwell has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Molecular Biology, 73 papers in Organic Chemistry and 21 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Andrew D. Westwell's work include Synthesis and biological activity (41 papers), Synthesis and Characterization of Heterocyclic Compounds (23 papers) and Synthesis and Biological Evaluation (17 papers). Andrew D. Westwell is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and biological activity (41 papers), Synthesis and Characterization of Heterocyclic Compounds (23 papers) and Synthesis and Biological Evaluation (17 papers). Andrew D. Westwell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Egypt and United States. Andrew D. Westwell's co-authors include Tracey D. Bradshaw, Malcolm F. G. Stevens, Poonam Shah, Ian Hutchinson, Geoffrey Wells, Charles S. Matthews, Erica L. Stone, B. Rao Vishnuvajjala, S. A. Jennings and Mei‐Sze Chua and has published in prestigious journals such as Cancer Research, Oncogene and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

In The Last Decade

Andrew D. Westwell

144 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

The role of fluorine in medicinal chemistry

2007 622 citations Poonam Shah, Andrew D. Westwell Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew D. Westwell United Kingdom	40	3.9k	2.1k	620	468	431	148	6.4k
Tracey D. Bradshaw United Kingdom	46	3.4k 0.9×	2.8k 1.4×	903 1.5×	178 0.4×	509 1.2×	157	7.3k
Malcolm F. G. Stevens United Kingdom	48	4.1k 1.0×	4.1k 2.0×	849 1.4×	222 0.5×	353 0.8×	203	8.7k
Jingya Li China	37	2.0k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	236 0.4×	511 1.1×	443 1.0×	257	5.2k
Carlos Alberto Manssour Fraga Brazil	41	5.2k 1.3×	2.8k 1.3×	643 1.0×	229 0.5×	987 2.3×	243	8.3k
Antonio Rescifina Italy	37	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	256 0.4×	285 0.6×	354 0.8×	249	5.2k
Liangren Zhang China	39	2.4k 0.6×	2.8k 1.3×	456 0.7×	160 0.3×	300 0.7×	236	6.2k
Romeo Romagnoli Italy	47	4.6k 1.2×	3.0k 1.5×	558 0.9×	106 0.2×	527 1.2×	242	7.0k
Нариман Ф. Салахутдинов Russia	37	2.5k 0.6×	2.5k 1.2×	467 0.8×	151 0.3×	843 2.0×	525	6.3k
Gian Cesare Tron Italy	38	4.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.2×	475 0.8×	151 0.3×	347 0.8×	131	5.9k
Jeffrey Aubé United States	51	5.5k 1.4×	4.0k 1.9×	444 0.7×	314 0.7×	372 0.9×	290	9.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew D. Westwell

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Andrew D. Westwell's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Andrew D. Westwell with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Andrew D. Westwell more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew D. Westwell

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Andrew D. Westwell. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Andrew D. Westwell. The network helps show where Andrew D. Westwell may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew D. Westwell

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

French, Rhiannon, et al.. (2025). The discovery of small-molecule inhibitors of cFLIP that sensitise tumour cells to TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 2(2).

Westwell, Andrew D., Michela Figorilli, Elizabeth Murphy, et al.. (2024). Nightshift Rotation Schedule and Fatigue in U.K. and Italian Nurses. La Medicina del lavoro. 115(5). e2024031–e2024031. 1 indexed citations

Almehdi, Ahmed M., Sameh S. M. Soliman, Abdel‐Nasser El‐Shorbagi, Andrew D. Westwell, & Rania Hamdy. (2023). Design, Synthesis, and Potent Anticancer Activity of Novel Indole-Based Bcl-2 Inhibitors. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(19). 14656–14656. 10 indexed citations

Hamdy, Rania, Arwyn T. Jones, Mohamed El‐Sadek, et al.. (2021). New Bioactive Fused Triazolothiadiazoles as Bcl-2-Targeted Anticancer Agents. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(22). 12272–12272. 12 indexed citations

Kandil, Sahar, Benson M. Kariuki, Christopher McGuigan, & Andrew D. Westwell. (2021). Synthesis, biological evaluation and X-ray analysis of bicalutamide sulfoxide analogues for the potential treatment of prostate cancer. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 36. 127817–127817. 3 indexed citations

Pascoe, Michael, Fiona Chapman, Andrew D. Westwell, et al.. (2021). Online survey into developing a model for a legal cannabis market in the United Kingdom. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 7. 1 indexed citations

Kandil, Sahar, Christophe Pannecouque, Fiona Chapman, Andrew D. Westwell, & Christopher McGuigan. (2019). Polyfluoroaromatic stavudine (d4T) ProTides exhibit enhanced anti-HIV activity. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 29(24). 126721–126721. 15 indexed citations

Kourti, Malamati, Andrew D. Westwell, Wen G. Jiang, & Jun Cai. (2019). Repurposing old carbon monoxide-releasing molecules towards the anti-angiogenic therapy of triple-negative breast cancer. Oncotarget. 10(10). 1132–1148. 20 indexed citations

Bassetto, Marcella, Salvatore Ferla, Fabrizio Pertusati, et al.. (2017). Rational design and synthesis of novel phenylsulfonyl-benzamides as anti-prostate cancer agents. MedChemComm. 8(7). 1414–1420. 2 indexed citations

10.

Kandil, Sahar, et al.. (2016). ProTides of BVdU as potential anticancer agents upon efficient intracellular delivery of their activated metabolites. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 26(23). 5618–5623. 11 indexed citations

11.

Edwards, Richard J., et al.. (2015). Solid‐Supported Iodonium Salts for Fluorinations. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2015(31). 6909–6916. 15 indexed citations

12.

Sanders, Matthew A., Pratima Nangia‐Makker, Vitaly Balan, et al.. (2013). Novel Inhibitors of Rad6 Ubiquitin Conjugating Enzyme: Design, Synthesis, Identification, and Functional Characterization. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 12(4). 373–383. 53 indexed citations

13.

Shah, Poonam & Andrew D. Westwell. (2007). The role of fluorine in medicinal chemistry. Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry. 22(5). 527–540. 622 indexed citations breakdown →

14.

Smith, Paul A., Nethia Mohana‐Kumaran, Robert Layfield, et al.. (2007). Vanilloid receptor agonists and antagonists are mitochondrial inhibitors: How vanilloids cause non-vanilloid receptor mediated cell death. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 354(1). 50–55. 80 indexed citations

15.

Mohana‐Kumaran, Nethia, Paul A. Smith, Tracey D. Bradshaw, et al.. (2007). Cannabinoid receptor agonists are mitochondrial inhibitors: A unified hypothesis of how cannabinoids modulate mitochondrial function and induce cell death. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 364(1). 131–137. 123 indexed citations

16.

Henriksen, Gjermund, Andrea Hauser, Andrew D. Westwell, et al.. (2007). Metabolically Stabilized Benzothiazoles for Imaging of Amyloid Plaques. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 50(6). 1087–1089. 74 indexed citations

17.

Shah, Manish A., Paul McEwan, Charles A. Laughton, et al.. (2006). Structure ofMycobacterium tuberculosisthioredoxin C. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 62(12). 1453–1457. 14 indexed citations

18.

O’Brien, Sean, Helen Browne, Tracey D. Bradshaw, et al.. (2003). Antitumor benzothiazoles. Frontier molecular orbital analysis predicts bioactivation of 2-(4-aminophenyl)benzothiazoles to reactive intermediates by cytochrome P4501A1Part 23. For part 22 see Ref. 1.. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 1(3). 493–497. 47 indexed citations

19.

Wells, Geoffrey, Tracey D. Bradshaw, Patrizia Diana, et al.. (2000). ChemInform Abstract: Antitumor Benzothiazoles. Part 10. The Synthesis and Antitumor Activity of Benzothiazole Substituted Quinol Derivatives.. ChemInform. 31(28). 2 indexed citations

20.

Wells, Geoffrey, Tracey D. Bradshaw, Patrizia Diana, et al.. (2000). Antitumour benzothiazoles. Part 10: The synthesis and antitumour activity of benzothiazole substituted quinol derivatives. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 10(5). 513–515. 96 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact