Brian Bushnell

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Brian Bushnell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Bushnell has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Brian Bushnell's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (3 papers). Brian Bushnell is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (3 papers). Brian Bushnell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Sweden. Brian Bushnell's co-authors include Esther Singer, Susannah G. Tringe, Manuel Kleiner, Lora V. Hooper, Breck A. Duerkop, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke, Asaf Levy, Esther Gies and Philip Hugenholtz and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Brian Bushnell

13 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

BBMerge – Accurate paired shotgun read merging via overlap

2017 892 citations Brian Bushnell, Esther Singer et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Bushnell United States	9	1.1k	755	302	222	167	13	1.9k
Chien‐Chi Lo United States	22	1.4k 1.3×	848 1.1×	236 0.8×	250 1.1×	231 1.4×	61	2.7k
Guillaume Jospin United States	16	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	308 1.0×	151 0.7×	206 1.2×	61	2.5k
Jakub Truszkowski Canada	6	893 0.8×	490 0.6×	230 0.8×	127 0.6×	120 0.7×	15	1.7k
Erik S. Wright United States	14	847 0.8×	657 0.9×	211 0.7×	133 0.6×	108 0.6×	41	1.7k
Anna Górska Poland	15	791 0.7×	655 0.9×	364 1.2×	116 0.5×	164 1.0×	54	2.0k
Elizabeth M. Glass United States	16	1.3k 1.2×	793 1.1×	178 0.6×	273 1.2×	300 1.8×	26	2.0k
Nicholas D. Youngblut Germany	22	1.2k 1.0×	805 1.1×	499 1.7×	137 0.6×	187 1.1×	41	2.1k
Mathieu Groussin United States	16	1.2k 1.1×	520 0.7×	166 0.5×	315 1.4×	228 1.4×	32	2.1k
Yan Wei Lim United States	25	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	318 1.1×	123 0.6×	281 1.7×	33	2.6k
Pascal Hingamp France	23	1.2k 1.1×	988 1.3×	372 1.2×	241 1.1×	117 0.7×	33	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Bushnell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Bushnell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Bushnell

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Villarino, Elsa, Xianding Deng, Carol A. Kemper, et al.. (2021). Introduction, Transmission Dynamics, and Fate of Early Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Lineages in Santa Clara County, California. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 224(2). 207–217. 1 indexed citations

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Clum, Alicia, Marcel Huntemann, Brian Bushnell, et al.. (2021). DOE JGI Metagenome Workflow. mSystems. 6(3). 69 indexed citations

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Martin, Joel, Benjamin B. Minkoff, Mike T. Veling, et al.. (2020). Physiology of Highly Radioresistant Escherichia coli After Experimental Evolution for 100 Cycles of Selection. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 582590–582590. 7 indexed citations

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Kleiner, Manuel, Brian Bushnell, Kenneth E. Sanderson, Lora V. Hooper, & Breck A. Duerkop. (2020). Transductomics: sequencing-based detection and analysis of transduced DNA in pure cultures and microbial communities. Microbiome. 8(1). 158–158. 35 indexed citations

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Gu, Wei, Xianding Deng, Kevin Reyes, et al.. (2020). Associations of Early COVID-19 Cases in San Francisco With Domestic and International Travel. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 71(11). 2976–2980. 6 indexed citations

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Martin, Joel, Brian Bushnell, Wendy Schackwitz, et al.. (2019). Experimental Evolution of Extreme Resistance to Ionizing Radiation in Escherichia coli after 50 Cycles of Selection. Journal of Bacteriology. 201(8). 27 indexed citations

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Duerkop, Breck A., Manuel Kleiner, David Páez-Espino, et al.. (2018). Murine colitis reveals a disease-associated bacteriophage community. Nature Microbiology. 3(9). 1023–1031. 121 indexed citations

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Bushnell, Brian, et al.. (2017). BBMerge – Accurate paired shotgun read merging via overlap. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0185056–e0185056. 892 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bendall, Matthew L., Sarah Stevens, Stephanie Malfatti, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide selective sweeps and gene-specific sweeps in natural bacterial populations. The ISME Journal. 10(7). 1589–1601. 160 indexed citations

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Singer, Esther, Brian Bushnell, Devin Coleman‐Derr, et al.. (2016). High-resolution phylogenetic microbial community profiling. The ISME Journal. 10(8). 2020–2032. 204 indexed citations

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Bushnell, Brian. (2014). BBMap: A Fast, Accurate, Splice-Aware Aligner. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 310 indexed citations

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Ahn, Tae-Hyuk, et al.. (2014). Omega: an Overlap-graphde novoAssembler for Metagenomics. Bioinformatics. 30(19). 2717–2722. 66 indexed citations

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Samak, Taghrid, Rob Egan, Brian Bushnell, et al.. (2013). Automatic Outlier Detection for Genome Assembly Quality Assessment. 45–52. 1 indexed citations

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