C. Titus Brown

44.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
99 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

C. Titus Brown is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Titus Brown has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in C. Titus Brown's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (34 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (21 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). C. Titus Brown is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (34 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (21 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). C. Titus Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Egypt. C. Titus Brown's co-authors include James M. Tiedje, James R. Cole, Yanni Sun, Jordan Fish, Benli Chai, Qiong Wang, Cheryl R. Kuske, Andrea Porras‐Alfaro, Eric H. Davidson and Luiz Irber and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

C. Titus Brown

97 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Ribosomal Database Project: data and tools for high throughput rRNA analysis

2013 3.3k citations C. Titus Brown, James M. Tiedje et al. profile →
FunGene: the functional gene pipeline and repository

2013 515 citations C. Titus Brown, James M. Tiedje et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →
How open science helps researchers succeed

2016 434 citations C. Titus Brown et al. profile →
Best Practices for Scientific Computing

2014 395 citations C. Titus Brown et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. Titus Brown United States	34	3.7k	2.3k	995	609	593	99	7.9k
Dawn Field United Kingdom	38	3.9k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	703 0.7×	529 0.9×	429 0.7×	102	6.5k
Folker Meyer United States	45	6.0k 1.6×	4.2k 1.8×	1.7k 1.7×	664 1.1×	949 1.6×	115	10.6k
Rick Stevens United States	37	7.1k 1.9×	4.0k 1.7×	1.5k 1.5×	546 0.9×	816 1.4×	160	13.1k
Jiajie Zhang United States	19	2.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	752 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	290 0.5×	55	7.3k
Ruibang Luo Hong Kong	18	4.7k 1.2×	3.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.6×	786 1.3×	1.2k 2.0×	80	9.2k
Alice C. McHardy Germany	41	4.6k 1.2×	2.8k 1.2×	2.7k 2.7×	447 0.7×	811 1.4×	110	8.9k
Tak‐Wah Lam Hong Kong	27	6.7k 1.8×	3.3k 1.4×	2.3k 2.3×	1.3k 2.1×	1.2k 2.1×	185	12.9k
James Taylor United States	39	10.5k 2.8×	2.3k 1.0×	2.2k 2.2×	2.1k 3.5×	577 1.0×	91	16.3k
Christoph W. Sensen Canada	50	3.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	918 0.9×	698 1.1×	672 1.1×	137	6.7k
Beifang Niu China	18	9.4k 2.5×	2.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.8×	1.4k 2.3×	492 0.8×	55	14.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. Titus Brown

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All Works

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Brown, C. Titus, et al.. (2025). A comparative review of short genetic variant databases across humans and animal species. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 26(4).

Harris, H., Sean J. Judge, Marshall Lammers, et al.. (2024). Preclinical evaluation and first-in-dog clinical trials of PBMC-expanded natural killer cells for adoptive immunotherapy in dogs with cancer. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 12(4). e007963–e007963. 4 indexed citations

Mazloom, Reza, N. Tessa Pierce‐Ward, Parul Sharma, et al.. (2024). LINgroups as a Robust Principled Approach to Compare and Integrate Multiple Bacterial Taxonomies. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 21(6). 2304–2314. 1 indexed citations

Sumner, D. Y., Christen L. Grettenberger, Anne D. Jungblut, et al.. (2024). Biogeographic distribution of five Antarctic cyanobacteria using large-scale k-mer searching with sourmash branchwater. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1328083–1328083. 4 indexed citations

Main, Bradley J., Matteo Marcantonio, J. Spencer Johnston, et al.. (2021). Whole-genome assembly of Culex tarsalis. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(2). 11 indexed citations

Reiter, Taylor, Phillip Brooks, Luiz Irber, et al.. (2021). Streamlining data-intensive biology with workflow systems. GigaScience. 10(1). 28 indexed citations

Reiter, Taylor, Rachel Montpetit, Ron C. Runnebaum, C. Titus Brown, & Ben Montpetit. (2021). Charting Shifts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gene Expression across Asynchronous Time Trajectories with Diffusion Maps. mBio. 12(5). e0234521–e0234521. 2 indexed citations

Johnson, Lisa K., Ruta Sahasrabudhe, Jennifer L. Roach, et al.. (2020). Draft genome assemblies using sequencing reads from Oxford Nanopore Technology and Illumina platforms for four species of North American Fundulus killifish. GigaScience. 9(6). 10 indexed citations

Young, Amy, Tamer Mansour, Bret R. McNabb, et al.. (2019). Genomic and phenotypic analyses of six offspring of a genome-edited hornless bull. Nature Biotechnology. 38(2). 225–232. 65 indexed citations

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Johnson, Lisa K., Harriet Alexander, & C. Titus Brown. (2018). Re-assembly, quality evaluation, and annotation of 678 microbial eukaryotic reference transcriptomes. GigaScience. 8(4). 55 indexed citations

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Zhu, Qiang, et al.. (2018). VA-Store: A Virtual Approximate Store Approach to Supporting Repetitive Big Data in Genome Sequence Analyses. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 32(3). 602–616. 3 indexed citations

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Brown, Emily, Peter J. Dickinson, Tamer Mansour, et al.. (2017). FGF4 retrogene on CFA12 is responsible for chondrodystrophy and intervertebral disc disease in dogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(43). 11476–11481. 98 indexed citations

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Maheshwari, Shamoni, Takayoshi Ishii, C. Titus Brown, Andreas Houben, & Luca Comai. (2017). Centromere location in Arabidopsis is unaltered by extreme divergence in CENH3 protein sequence. Genome Research. 27(3). 471–478. 53 indexed citations

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Howe, Adina Chuang, Janet Jansson, Stephanie Malfatti, et al.. (2014). Tackling soil diversity with the assembly of large, complex metagenomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(13). 4904–4909. 217 indexed citations

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Brown, C. Titus, Michael R. Crusoe, Eric McDonald, et al.. (2014). The khmer software package: enabling efficient sequence analysis. Figshare. 15 indexed citations

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Crusoe, Michael R., et al.. (2014). khmer: k-mer counting & filtering FTW. Figshare. 2 indexed citations

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Pernthaler, Annelie, Anne Dekas, C. Titus Brown, et al.. (2008). Diverse syntrophic partnerships from deep-sea methane vents revealed by direct cell capture and metagenomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(19). 7052–7057. 213 indexed citations

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Brown, C. Titus, Alistair G. Rust, Peter Clarke, et al.. (2002). New Computational Approaches for Analysis of cis-Regulatory Networks. Developmental Biology. 246(1). 86–102. 86 indexed citations

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Wilson, Denise, et al.. (1987). Utility of Shared Versus Isolated Work Setting for Dynamic Team Decision-Making. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

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Brown, C. Titus, et al.. (1986). Large Group Displays and Team Performance: An Evaluation and Projection of Guidelines, Research, and Technologies. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations

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