Brandon Malone

1.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Brandon Malone is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brandon Malone has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Infectious Diseases, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Brandon Malone's work include Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (6 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (5 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Brandon Malone is often cited by papers focused on Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (6 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (5 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Brandon Malone collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Netherlands. Brandon Malone's co-authors include Elizabeth A. Campbell, Eric J. Snijder, Nadya Urakova, Seth A. Darst, James Chen, Edward T. Eng, Eliza Llewellyn, Paul Dominic B. Olinares, Brian T. Chait and Kashyap Maruthi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Brandon Malone

13 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Structural Basis for Helicase-Polymerase Coupling in the ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2021 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Structural Basis for Helicase-Polymerase Coupling in the SARS-CoV-2 Replication-Transcription Complex
    2020 320 citations James Chen, Brandon Malone et al. Cell profile →
  2. Structures and functions of coronavirus replication–transcription complexes and their relevance for SARS-CoV-2 drug design
    2021 296 citations Brandon Malone, Nadya Urakova et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brandon Malone United States 10 683 428 142 119 109 13 1.1k
J.A. Wojdyla Switzerland 20 455 0.7× 675 1.6× 216 1.5× 88 0.7× 85 0.8× 38 1.3k
Fei X China 13 405 0.6× 493 1.2× 248 1.7× 41 0.3× 147 1.3× 28 949
Hanna Kratzat Germany 11 414 0.6× 734 1.7× 43 0.3× 90 0.8× 58 0.5× 12 1.1k
Robert N. Kirchdoerfer United States 7 679 1.0× 258 0.6× 168 1.2× 99 0.8× 97 0.9× 13 926
Chloë Roustan United Kingdom 13 1.0k 1.5× 729 1.7× 122 0.9× 39 0.3× 204 1.9× 20 1.6k
Kashyap Maruthi United States 8 285 0.4× 302 0.7× 74 0.5× 64 0.5× 45 0.4× 15 612
Paul Dominic B. Olinares United States 22 400 0.6× 1.4k 3.4× 86 0.6× 85 0.7× 65 0.6× 41 2.0k
Goran Kokić Germany 10 1.1k 1.6× 1.2k 2.9× 250 1.8× 181 1.5× 122 1.1× 10 2.3k
Alison Berezuk Canada 13 643 0.9× 431 1.0× 102 0.7× 23 0.2× 83 0.8× 22 924
Pengqi Xu Netherlands 17 898 1.3× 843 2.0× 96 0.7× 27 0.2× 175 1.6× 22 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Brandon Malone

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brandon Malone

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brandon Malone

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

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Saecker, Ruth M., Mueller AU, Brandon Malone, et al.. (2024). Early intermediates in bacterial RNA polymerase promoter melting visualized by time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(11). 1778–1788. 4 indexed citations
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Malone, Brandon, Jason K. Perry, Paul Dominic B. Olinares, et al.. (2023). Structural basis for substrate selection by the SARS-CoV-2 replicase. Nature. 614(7949). 781–787. 42 indexed citations
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Chen, James, Qi Wang, Brandon Malone, et al.. (2022). Ensemble cryo-EM reveals conformational states of the nsp13 helicase in the SARS-CoV-2 helicase replication–transcription complex. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(3). 250–260. 48 indexed citations
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Saecker, Ruth M., James Chen, Brandon Malone, et al.. (2021). Structural origins of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase open promoter complex stability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(40). 24 indexed citations
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Malone, Brandon, James Chen, Qi Wang, et al.. (2021). Structural basis for backtracking by the SARS-CoV-2 replication–transcription complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(19). 84 indexed citations
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Malone, Brandon, Nadya Urakova, Eric J. Snijder, & Elizabeth A. Campbell. (2021). Structures and functions of coronavirus replication–transcription complexes and their relevance for SARS-CoV-2 drug design. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 23(1). 21–39. 296 indexed citations breakdown →
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Malone, Brandon & Elizabeth A. Campbell. (2021). Molnupiravir: coding for catastrophe. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(9). 706–708. 112 indexed citations
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Malone, Brandon, Elizabeth A. Campbell, & Seth A. Darst. (2021). CoV-er all the bases: Structural perspectives of SARS-CoV-2 RNA synthesis. ˜The œEnzymes. 49. 1–37. 5 indexed citations
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Olinares, Paul Dominic B., Jin Young Kang, Eliza Llewellyn, et al.. (2020). Native Mass Spectrometry-Based Screening for Optimal Sample Preparation in Single-Particle Cryo-EM. Structure. 29(2). 186–195.e6. 21 indexed citations
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Chen, James, Brandon Malone, Eliza Llewellyn, et al.. (2020). Structural Basis for Helicase-Polymerase Coupling in the SARS-CoV-2 Replication-Transcription Complex. Cell. 182(6). 1560–1573.e13. 320 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dandey, Venkata P., William C. Budell, Hui Wei, et al.. (2020). Time-resolved cryo-EM using Spotiton. Nature Methods. 17(9). 897–900. 94 indexed citations
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Olinares, Paul Dominic B., Eliza Llewellyn, James Chen, et al.. (2020). Native Mass Spectrometry-Based Screening for Optimal Sample Preparation in Single Particle Cryo-EM. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Stevenson, C.E.M., Brandon Malone, Lesley A. Mitchenall, et al.. (2020). Structural and mechanistic analysis of ATPase inhibitors targeting mycobacterial DNA gyrase. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 75(10). 2835–2842. 17 indexed citations

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