Brian Davis

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 531 citations indexed

About

Brian Davis is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Davis has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 531 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Brian Davis's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (5 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (5 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (4 papers). Brian Davis is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (5 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (5 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (4 papers). Brian Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. Brian Davis's co-authors include Jasmine Plummer, Eric Vail, Stephanie S. Chen, Wenjuan Zhang, Karen Hogan, Mark Maddaloni, Paul D. White, Allan H. Marcus, R.W. Elias and Robin Ciardullo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, JAMA and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Brian Davis

22 papers receiving 506 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.

Emergence of a Novel SARS-CoV-2 Variant in Southern California

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Davis United States	11	220	117	68	63	60	23	531
Kentaro Matsuura Japan	22	83 0.4×	175 1.5×	14 0.2×	7 0.1×	3 0.1×	88	1.2k
Ignatius M. Viljoen South Africa	9	213 1.0×	55 0.5×	43 0.6×		15 0.3×	19	390
Flora Graham Australia	8	85 0.4×	58 0.5×	6 0.1×	5 0.1×	4 0.1×	137	403
Chunjie Xu China	17	107 0.5×	131 1.1×	46 0.7×		13 0.2×	27	533
Nello Blaser Norway	14	347 1.6×	37 0.3×	57 0.8×		24 0.4×	32	664
Raymond Zhang United States	11	57 0.3×	26 0.2×	19 0.3×	15 0.2×	4 0.1×	21	338
Camila P. E. de Souza Canada	8	81 0.4×	116 1.0×	5 0.1×	4 0.1×	3 0.1×	28	423
Yaling Shi China	10	608 2.8×	71 0.6×	6 0.1×		23 0.4×	24	850
Xiaoxiao Kong China	13	65 0.3×	98 0.8×	40 0.6×		9 0.1×	28	358
Annemieke W. J. Opstal‐van Winden Netherlands	8	40 0.2×	45 0.4×	70 1.0×		6 0.1×	10	298

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Davis

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Davis

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ciardullo, Robin, Howard E. Bond, Brian Davis, & M. H. Siegel. (2022). Yellow Post-Asymptotic-Giant-Branch Stars as Standard Candles. I. Calibration of the Luminosity Function in Galactic Globular Clusters. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

Davis, Brian, Howard E. Bond, M. H. Siegel, & Robin Ciardullo. (2022). A Census of Above-horizontal-branch Stars in Galactic Globular Clusters*. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(1). 99–99. 6 indexed citations

Roth, Martin M., et al.. (2021). Toward Precision Cosmology with Improved PNLF Distances Using VLT-MUSEI. Methodology and Tests. The Astrophysical Journal. 916(1). 21–21. 14 indexed citations

Bond, Howard E., Brian Davis, M. H. Siegel, & Robin Ciardullo. (2021). Two Luminous Post-AGB Stars in the Galactic Globular Cluster M19. The Astronomical Journal. 161(3). 125–125. 4 indexed citations

Jones, Michelle R., Pei-Chen Peng, Simon G. Coetzee, et al.. (2020). Ovarian Cancer Risk Variants Are Enriched in Histotype-Specific Enhancers and Disrupt Transcription Factor Binding Sites. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 107(4). 622–635. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Wenjuan, Brian Davis, Stephanie S. Chen, et al.. (2020). Analysis of Genomic Characteristics and Transmission Routes of Patients With Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 in Southern California During the Early Stage of the US COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open. 3(10). e2024191–e2024191. 19 indexed citations

Hodge, Jennelle C., Beth A. Pitel, Brian Davis, et al.. (2020). 20. A resource for our clinical genomics community: The Compendium of Cancer Genome Aberrations (CCGA). Cancer Genetics. 244. 8–8. 1 indexed citations

Darnley, M. J., Rebekah Hounsell, T. J. O’Brien, et al.. (2019). A recurrent nova super-remnant in the Andromeda galaxy. Nature. 565(7740). 460–463. 22 indexed citations

Davis, Brian, Howard E. Bond, Robin Ciardullo, & George H. Jacoby. (2019). Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of a Planetary Nebula in an M31 Open Cluster: Hot-bottom Burning at 3.4 M_⊙*. The Astrophysical Journal. 884(2). 115–115. 6 indexed citations

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Silva, Tiago C., Simon G. Coetzee, Jasmine Plummer, et al.. (2019). GENAVi: a shiny web application for gene expression normalization, analysis and visualization. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 745–745. 30 indexed citations

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Hodge, Jennelle C., Linda D. Cooley, Fei Yang, et al.. (2018). 5. Progress and future of the compendium of Cancer Genome Aberrations (CCGA). Cancer Genetics. 226-227. 37–38. 1 indexed citations

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Levine, A. Joan, Won Lee, Jane C. Figueiredo, et al.. (2012). Genetic variation in insulin pathway genes and distal colorectal adenoma risk. International Journal of Colorectal Disease. 27(12). 1587–1595. 5 indexed citations

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Levine, A. Joan, Jane C. Figueiredo, David V. Conti, et al.. (2011). Variation in folate pathway genes and distal colorectal adenoma risk: a sigmoidoscopy-based case–control study. Cancer Causes & Control. 22(4). 541–552. 14 indexed citations

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Gregg, David, Andrew Beatty, Kevin Casey, Brian Davis, & Andy Nisbet. (2005). The case for virtual register machines. Science of Computer Programming. 57(3). 319–338. 6 indexed citations

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Davis, Brian, et al.. (2004). A prospective trial of primary inguinal hernia repair by surgical trainees. Hernia. 8(1). 28–32. 29 indexed citations

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Davis, Brian & John Waldron. (2003). A survey of optimisations for the Java Virtual Machine. 181–183. 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Brian, Andrew Beatty, Kevin Casey, David Gregg, & John Waldron. (2003). The case for virtual register machines. 41–49. 29 indexed citations

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Davis, Brian, et al.. (2003). Testicular Cancer Screening in a Primary Care Setting. International Journal of Men s Health. 2(3). 221–228. 3 indexed citations

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White, Paul D., Brian Davis, Mark Maddaloni, et al.. (1998). The conceptual structure of the integrated exposure uptake biokinetic model for lead in children.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 106(suppl 6). 1513–1530. 78 indexed citations

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Jamall, Ijaz S. & Brian Davis. (1991). Chemicals and Environmentally Caused Diseases in Developing Countries. Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 5(2). 365–375. 13 indexed citations

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