Brandon Walts

17.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Brandon Walts is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brandon Walts has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Genetics, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Brandon Walts's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (4 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Brandon Walts is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (4 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Brandon Walts collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Singapore. Brandon Walts's co-authors include Claude Bouchard, Marie‐Christine Chagnon, Louis Përusse, Tuomo Rankinen, Aamir Zuberi, S. John Weisnagel, George Argyropoulos, Eric E. Snyder, S. John Weisnagel and Paul Kersey and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The ISME Journal and BMC Genomics.

In The Last Decade

Brandon Walts

9 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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 Human Obesity Gene Map: The 2005 Update

2006 817 citations Tuomo Rankinen, Aamir Zuberi et al. Obesity profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brandon Walts United States	8	538	517	437	279	255	9	1.6k
Agata Chmurzyńska Poland	20	485 0.9×	294 0.6×	734 1.7×	99 0.4×	245 1.0×	105	1.9k
José Antônio Rocha Gontijo Brazil	22	465 0.9×	163 0.3×	527 1.2×	347 1.2×	86 0.3×	104	1.8k
Omar Ramos-López Mexico	23	696 1.3×	334 0.6×	774 1.8×	81 0.3×	278 1.1×	84	1.8k
E. W. Askew United States	26	1.1k 2.0×	408 0.8×	313 0.7×	106 0.4×	207 0.8×	79	2.3k
Jon Florholmen Norway	27	374 0.7×	307 0.6×	397 0.9×	101 0.4×	157 0.6×	87	2.0k
Robert S. Jackson United States	11	287 0.5×	232 0.4×	215 0.5×	397 1.4×	84 0.3×	28	1.2k
Philippe Boutin France	24	492 0.9×	634 1.2×	726 1.7×	261 0.9×	95 0.4×	39	1.8k
Megan Mitchell Australia	22	263 0.5×	241 0.5×	760 1.7×	85 0.3×	859 3.4×	47	2.3k
Elvira Isganaitis United States	23	627 1.2×	328 0.6×	898 2.1×	74 0.3×	372 1.5×	51	2.3k
Chris Maloney Australia	24	594 1.1×	211 0.4×	983 2.2×	59 0.2×	281 1.1×	48	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Brandon Walts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brandon Walts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Brandon Walts. 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 Brandon Walts. The network helps show where Brandon Walts may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brandon Walts

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Bolser, Dan, Arnaud Kerhornou, Brandon Walts, & Paul Kersey. (2014). Triticeae Resources in Ensembl Plants. Plant and Cell Physiology. 56(1). e3–e3. 50 indexed citations

2.

Chamala, Srikar, André S. Chanderbali, Joshua P. Der, et al.. (2013). Assembly and Validation of the Genome of the Nonmodel Basal Angiosperm Amborella. Science. 342(6165). 1516–1517. 66 indexed citations

3.

Yang, Yajie, Rita M Graze, Brandon Walts, et al.. (2011). Partitioning Transcript Variation inDrosophila: Abundance, Isoforms, and Alleles. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 1(6). 427–436. 7 indexed citations

4.

Gulig, Paul A., Valérie de Crécy‐Lagard, Anita C. Wright, et al.. (2010). SOLiD sequencing of four Vibrio vulnificus genomes enables comparative genomic analysis and identification of candidate clade-specific virulence genes. BMC Genomics. 11(1). 512–512. 40 indexed citations

5.

Giongo, Adriana, David B. Crabb, Austin G. Davis‐Richardson, et al.. (2010). PANGEA: pipeline for analysis of next generation amplicons. The ISME Journal. 4(7). 852–861. 93 indexed citations

6.

Aı̈ssani, Brahim, Louis Përusse, Gilles Lapointe, et al.. (2006). A Quantitative Trait Locus for Body Fat on Chromosome 1q43 in French Canadians: Linkage and Association Studies. Obesity. 14(9). 1605–1615. 21 indexed citations

7.

Rankinen, Tuomo, Aamir Zuberi, Marie‐Christine Chagnon, et al.. (2006). The Human Obesity Gene Map: The 2005 Update. Obesity. 14(4). 529–644. 817 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

Përusse, Louis, Tuomo Rankinen, Aamir Zuberi, et al.. (2005). The Human Obesity Gene Map: The 2004 Update. Obesity Research. 13(3). 381–490. 234 indexed citations

9.

Snyder, Eric E., Brandon Walts, Louis Përusse, et al.. (2004). The Human Obesity Gene Map: The 2003 Update. Obesity Research. 12(3). 369–439. 240 indexed citations

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