Andrew E. Firth

13.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
137 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Andrew E. Firth is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew E. Firth has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 48 papers in Plant Science and 44 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Andrew E. Firth's work include Plant Virus Research Studies (47 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (45 papers) and Viral Infections and Immunology Research (26 papers). Andrew E. Firth is often cited by papers focused on Plant Virus Research Studies (47 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (45 papers) and Viral Infections and Immunology Research (26 papers). Andrew E. Firth collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Andrew E. Firth's co-authors include John F. Atkins, Betty Chung, Ian Brierley, Wayne M. Patrick, W. Allen Miller, Bradley J. Blitvich, Pavel V. Baranov, Norma M. Wills, Chris M. Brown and Gary Loughran and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Andrew E. Firth

133 papers receiving 8.9k citations

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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.

An overlapping essential gene in the Potyviridae

2008 711 citations Betty Chung, W. Allen Miller et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
An Overlapping Protein-Coding Region in Influenza A Virus Segment 3 Modulates the Host Response

2012 494 citations John F. Atkins, Andrew E. Firth et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew E. Firth United Kingdom	51	3.6k	2.7k	2.5k	1.2k	1.1k	137	9.0k
Ben Murrell United States	32	2.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	2.9k 1.2×	656 0.5×	595 0.5×	85	9.1k
M.H.V. Van Regenmortel France	48	4.7k 1.3×	2.7k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	673 0.5×	487 0.4×	283	10.7k
Paul Ahlquist United States	73	5.1k 1.4×	9.0k 3.4×	1.9k 0.8×	962 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	176	14.7k
Rafael Sanjuán Spain	39	2.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	859 0.7×	298 0.3×	146	7.0k
Raul Andino United States	62	6.5k 1.8×	2.6k 1.0×	4.9k 1.9×	1.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	142	15.0k
Craig E. Cameron United States	59	5.3k 1.5×	1.7k 0.6×	4.3k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	609 0.6×	189	12.6k
Peter D. Nagy United States	61	3.4k 1.0×	7.7k 2.9×	1.1k 0.4×	675 0.5×	1.7k 1.5×	191	9.7k
Jonathan M. Grimes United Kingdom	54	3.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	2.9k 1.1×	748 0.6×	189 0.2×	158	9.4k
Marco Vignuzzi France	42	1.7k 0.5×	932 0.4×	2.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	572 0.5×	97	6.0k
Jens H. Kuhn United States	51	1.8k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	6.8k 2.7×	1.4k 1.1×	280 0.3×	255	10.6k

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Lǐ, Yànhuá, et al.. (2025). An intra-family conserved high-order RNA structure within the M ORF is important for arterivirus subgenomic RNA accumulation and infectious virus production. Journal of Virology. 99(5). e0216724–e0216724.

Anders, Nadine, Stephen D. Holmes, Nina I. Lukhovitskaya, et al.. (2025). Encephalomyocarditis virus protein 2B* interacts with 14-3-3 proteins through a phosphorylated C-terminal binding motif. mBio. 16(9). e0100825–e0100825. 1 indexed citations

Stewart, Hazel, Roberta Palmulli, K. Johansen, et al.. (2023). Tetherin antagonism by SARS‐CoV ‐2 ORF3a and spike protein enhances virus release. EMBO Reports. 24(12). e57224–e57224. 11 indexed citations

Ivanov, Ivaylo P., James A. Saba, Chen‐Ming Fan, et al.. (2022). Evolutionarily conserved inhibitory uORFs sensitize Hox mRNA translation to start codon selection stringency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(9). 30 indexed citations

Busnadiego, Idoia, Sarah Keep, Katherine A. Brown, et al.. (2021). Manipulation of the unfolded protein response: A pharmacological strategy against coronavirus infection. PLoS Pathogens. 17(6). e1009644–e1009644. 54 indexed citations

Hill, Chris H., Sawsan Napthine, Katherine A. Brown, et al.. (2021). Investigating molecular mechanisms of 2A-stimulated ribosomal pausing and frameshifting in Theilovirus. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(20). 11938–11958. 12 indexed citations

Muenzner, Julia, Viv Connor, Yue Han, et al.. (2021). pUL21 is a viral phosphatase adaptor that promotes herpes simplex virus replication and spread. PLoS Pathogens. 17(8). e1009824–e1009824. 16 indexed citations

Guo, Rui, Yànhuá Lǐ, Jin Cui, et al.. (2021). A swine arterivirus deubiquitinase stabilizes two major envelope proteins and promotes production of viral progeny. PLoS Pathogens. 17(3). e1009403–e1009403. 23 indexed citations

Hill, Chris H., Sawsan Napthine, Andrew E. Firth, et al.. (2021). Structural and molecular basis for Cardiovirus 2A protein as a viral gene expression switch. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7166–7166. 24 indexed citations

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Firth, Andrew E.. (2020). A putative new SARS-CoV protein, 3c, encoded in an ORF overlapping ORF3a. Journal of General Virology. 101(10). 1085–1089. 30 indexed citations

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Chung, Betty, Martin Balcerowicz, Marco Di Antonio, et al.. (2020). An RNA thermoswitch regulates daytime growth in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants. 6(5). 522–532. 194 indexed citations

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Ficarelli, Mattia, Rupert Hugh-White, Andrew E. Firth, et al.. (2019). CpG Dinucleotides Inhibit HIV-1 Replication through Zinc Finger Antiviral Protein (ZAP)-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms. Journal of Virology. 94(6). 54 indexed citations

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Lulla, Valeria, Adam M. Dinan, Myra Hosmillo, et al.. (2018). An upstream protein-coding region in enteroviruses modulates virus infection in gut epithelial cells. Nature Microbiology. 4(2). 280–292. 100 indexed citations

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Chavali, Pavithra L., Lovorka Stojic, Luke W. Meredith, et al.. (2017). Neurodevelopmental protein Musashi-1 interacts with the Zika genome and promotes viral replication. Science. 357(6346). 83–88. 117 indexed citations

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Irigoyen, Nerea, Andrew E. Firth, Joshua D. Jones, et al.. (2016). High-Resolution Analysis of Coronavirus Gene Expression by RNA Sequencing and Ribosome Profiling. PLoS Pathogens. 12(2). e1005473–e1005473. 143 indexed citations

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Smirnova, Ekaterina, Andrew E. Firth, W. Allen Miller, et al.. (2015). Discovery of a Small Non-AUG-Initiated ORF in Poleroviruses and Luteoviruses That Is Required for Long-Distance Movement. PLoS Pathogens. 11(5). e1004868–e1004868. 139 indexed citations

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Huhtamo, Eili, Shelley Cook, Grégory Moureau, et al.. (2014). Novel flaviviruses from mosquitoes: Mosquito-specific evolutionary lineages within the phylogenetic group of mosquito-borne flaviviruses. Virology. 464-465. 320–329. 56 indexed citations

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Valles, Steven M., Sanford D. Porter, & Andrew E. Firth. (2014). Solenopsis invicta virus 3: Pathogenesis and stage specificity in red imported fire ants. Virology. 460-461. 66–71. 30 indexed citations

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Firth, Andrew E. & John F. Atkins. (2009). A conserved predicted pseudoknot in the NS2A-encoding sequence of West Nile and Japanese encephalitis flaviviruses suggests NS1' may derive from ribosomal frameshifting. Virology Journal. 6(1). 14–14. 116 indexed citations

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Chung, Betty, W. Allen Miller, John F. Atkins, & Andrew E. Firth. (2008). An overlapping essential gene in the Potyviridae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(15). 5897–5902. 711 indexed citations breakdown →

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