Bruce May

22.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Bruce May is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce May has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Bruce May's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (7 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers). Bruce May is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (7 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers). Bruce May collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Bruce May's co-authors include Zachary B. Lippman, Matthew Vaughn, Rob Martienssen, W. Richard McCombie, Michael A. Black, James C. Carrington, Neilay Dedhia, Vivek Mittal, Vincent Colot and Kristin D. Kasschau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Bruce May

20 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Role of transposable elements in heterochromatin and epig... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2008 250 500 750
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.

  1. Role of transposable elements in heterochromatin and epigenetic control
    2004 901 citations Zachary B. Lippman, Anne-Valérie Gendrel et al. Nature profile →
  2. Reactome knowledgebase of human biological pathways and processes
    2008 664 citations Lisa Matthews, Gopal Gopinath et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bruce May United States 16 1.9k 1.5k 265 115 114 21 2.7k
Rachael P. Huntley United Kingdom 20 2.5k 1.3× 1.1k 0.7× 259 1.0× 168 1.5× 320 2.8× 34 3.4k
Karl Kugler Germany 22 717 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 194 0.7× 67 0.6× 49 0.4× 39 1.7k
Daniel Barrell United Kingdom 12 1.6k 0.8× 255 0.2× 230 0.9× 140 1.2× 108 0.9× 14 2.1k
Tzu‐Ming Chu United States 13 766 0.4× 521 0.3× 169 0.6× 147 1.3× 177 1.6× 21 1.5k
Paula Duek Switzerland 20 2.4k 1.2× 2.2k 1.4× 124 0.5× 45 0.4× 57 0.5× 27 3.2k
Raymond R. Samaha United States 10 2.6k 1.3× 2.0k 1.3× 300 1.1× 18 0.2× 246 2.2× 12 3.5k
Pierre Vincens France 15 1.9k 1.0× 378 0.2× 171 0.6× 53 0.5× 78 0.7× 30 2.4k
S. Réty France 25 1.8k 0.9× 315 0.2× 181 0.7× 55 0.5× 191 1.7× 59 2.2k
Caroline Jolly France 21 2.0k 1.0× 631 0.4× 124 0.5× 52 0.5× 180 1.6× 30 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Bruce May

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce May

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce May

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sidiropoulos, Konstantinos, Guilherme Viteri, Cristoffer Sevilla, et al.. (2017). Reactome enhanced pathway visualization. Bioinformatics. 33(21). 3461–3467. 115 indexed citations
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Rosin, Faye M., Naohide Watanabe, Jean‐Luc Cacas, et al.. (2008). Genome‐wide transposon tagging reveals location‐dependent effects on transcription and chromatin organization in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 55(3). 514–525. 41 indexed citations
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Matthews, Lisa, Gopal Gopinath, Marc Gillespie, et al.. (2008). Reactome knowledgebase of human biological pathways and processes. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(Database). D619–D622. 664 indexed citations breakdown →
4.
May, Bruce, Zachary B. Lippman, Yuda Fang, David L. Spector, & Robert A. Martienssen. (2005). Differential Regulation of Strand-Specific Transcripts from Arabidopsis Centromeric Satellite Repeats. PLoS Genetics. 1(6). e79–e79. 146 indexed citations
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Nakayama, Naomi, et al.. (2005). Gene Trap Lines Define Domains of Gene Regulation inArabidopsisPetals and Stamens. The Plant Cell. 17(9). 2486–2506. 32 indexed citations
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Martienssen, Robert A., Zachary B. Lippman, Bruce May, Michael Ronemus, & Matthew Vaughn. (2004). Transposons, Tandem Repeats, and the Silencing of Imprinted Genes. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 69(0). 371–380. 25 indexed citations
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Lippman, Zachary B., Anne-Valérie Gendrel, Michael A. Black, et al.. (2004). Role of transposable elements in heterochromatin and epigenetic control. Nature. 430(6998). 471–476. 901 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lippman, Zachary B., et al.. (2003). Distinct Mechanisms Determine Transposon Inheritance and Methylation via Small Interfering RNA and Histone Modification. PLoS Biology. 1(3). e67–e67. 316 indexed citations
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May, Bruce & Robert A. Martienssen. (2003). Transposon Mutagenesis in the Study of Plant Development. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences. 22(1). 1–35. 27 indexed citations
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May, Bruce, Hong Liu, Erik Vollbrecht, et al.. (2003). Maize-targeted mutagenesis: A knockout resource for maize. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(20). 11541–11546. 91 indexed citations
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Rabinowicz, Pablo D., Erik Vollbrecht, & Bruce May. (2000). . Genome Biology. 1(2). reports4013.1–reports4013.1.
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May, Bruce. (1998). Southern Hybridization in Shampoo. BioTechniques. 25(4). 582–582. 5 indexed citations
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May, Bruce & Stephen L. Dellaporta. (1998). Transposon sequences drive tissue‐specific expression of the maize regulatory gene R‐s. The Plant Journal. 13(2). 241–247. 13 indexed citations
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Brutnell, Thomas P., Bruce May, & Stephen L. Dellaporta. (1997). The Ac-st2 Element of Maize Exhibits a Positive Dosage Effect and Epigenetic Regulation. Genetics. 147(2). 823–834. 18 indexed citations
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Cheung, Alice Y., Bruce May, Evelynn E. Kawata, Qing Gu, & Hen‐Ming Wu. (1993). Characterization of cDNAs for stylar transmitting tissue‐specific proline‐rich proteins in tobacco. The Plant Journal. 3(1). 151–160. 88 indexed citations
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Wu, Hen‐Ming, Jitao Zou, Bruce May, Qing Gu, & Alice Y. Cheung. (1993). A tobacco gene family for flower cell wall proteins with a proline-rich domain and a cysteine-rich domain.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 90(14). 6829–6833. 49 indexed citations
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May, Bruce & Patrick P. Dennis. (1990). Unusual evolution of a superoxide dismutase-like gene from the extremely halophilic archaebacterium Halobacterium cutirubrum. Journal of Bacteriology. 172(7). 3725–3729. 11 indexed citations
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May, Bruce & P P Dennis. (1989). Evolution and Regulation of the Gene Encoding Superoxide Dismutase from the Archaebacterium Halobacterium cutirubrum. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 264(21). 12253–12258. 33 indexed citations
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May, Bruce, et al.. (1989). The expression of the superoxide dismutase gene in Halobacterium cutirubrum and Halobacterium volcanii. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 35(1). 171–175. 14 indexed citations
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May, Bruce & Patrick P. Dennis. (1987). Superoxide dismutase from the extremely halophilic archaebacterium Halobacterium cutirubrum. Journal of Bacteriology. 169(4). 1417–1422. 28 indexed citations

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