Christopher Alder

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 655 citations indexed

About

Christopher Alder is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Alder has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 655 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Christopher Alder's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (3 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (2 papers). Christopher Alder is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (3 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (2 papers). Christopher Alder collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Japan. Christopher Alder's co-authors include Peter J. Campbell, Michael R. Stratton, Hans Clevers, David A. Egan, Sophie Roerink, Henry Lee-Six, Howard Lightfoot, Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Sebastian Großmann and Marc van de Wetering and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Alder

11 papers receiving 646 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.

Intra-tumour diversification in colorectal cancer at the single-cell level

2018 376 citations Sophie Roerink, Nobuo Sasaki et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Alder United Kingdom	7	316	298	257	94	91	13	655
Chang Xu China	13	327 1.0×	378 1.3×	166 0.6×	75 0.8×	28 0.3×	43	690
Liman Qiu China	13	237 0.8×	311 1.0×	171 0.7×	33 0.4×	59 0.6×	21	633
Ingrid Ljuslinder Sweden	17	123 0.4×	402 1.3×	376 1.5×	60 0.6×	47 0.5×	40	800
Nathalie Jacques France	10	276 0.9×	447 1.5×	406 1.6×	54 0.6×	126 1.4×	11	904
Xiuqing Dong China	16	312 1.0×	379 1.3×	221 0.9×	43 0.5×	29 0.3×	36	779
Kaiyan Yang China	16	315 1.0×	437 1.5×	190 0.7×	58 0.6×	30 0.3×	41	773
Tanja Blumer Switzerland	7	156 0.5×	235 0.8×	267 1.0×	38 0.4×	136 1.5×	7	669
Joris van de Haar Netherlands	8	191 0.6×	239 0.8×	326 1.3×	30 0.3×	74 0.8×	16	602
Colt A. Egelston United States	15	192 0.6×	274 0.9×	489 1.9×	38 0.4×	21 0.2×	39	1.1k
Jessica Roelands Netherlands	14	112 0.4×	311 1.0×	475 1.8×	75 0.8×	38 0.4×	34	882

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Alder

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13 of 13 papers shown

Alcolea-Medina, Adela, Luke B. Snell, Christopher Alder, et al.. (2025). Rapid pan-microbial metagenomics for pathogen detection and personalised therapy in the intensive care unit: a single-centre prospective observational study. The Lancet Microbe. 6(10). 101174–101174.

Snell, Luke B., Adela Alcolea-Medina, Themoula Charalampous, et al.. (2024). The drainome: longitudinal metagenomic characterization of wastewater from hospital ward sinks to characterize the microbiome and resistome and to assess the effects of decontamination interventions. Journal of Hospital Infection. 153. 55–62. 5 indexed citations

Alcolea-Medina, Adela, Christopher Alder, Luke B. Snell, et al.. (2024). Unified metagenomic method for rapid detection of microorganisms in clinical samples. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 135–135. 8 indexed citations

Alcolea-Medina, Adela, Luke B. Snell, Lara Payne, et al.. (2023). Variovorax durovernensis sp. nov., a novel species isolated from an infected prosthetic aortic graft in a human. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 73(12). 6 indexed citations

Payne, Lara, Adela Alcolea-Medina, Luke B. Snell, et al.. (2023). The first reported case of human infection with Variovorax durovernensis; a novel Variovorax sp. Isolated from the prosthetic aortic graft of a shepherd. Clinical Infection in Practice. 21. 100332–100332.

Munro, Rory, Nadine Holmes, Christopher Moore, et al.. (2023). A framework for real-time monitoring, analysis and adaptive sampling of viral amplicon nanopore sequencing. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1138582–1138582. 10 indexed citations

Williams, Tom, Luke B. Snell, Christopher Alder, et al.. (2023). Feasibility and clinical utility of local rapid Nanopore influenza A virus whole genome sequencing for integrated outbreak management, genotypic resistance detection and timely surveillance. Microbial Genomics. 9(8). 5 indexed citations

Snell, Luke B., Adela Alcolea-Medina, Themoula Charalampous, et al.. (2022). Real-Time Whole Genome Sequencing to Guide Patient-Tailored Therapy of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(6). 1125–1128. 9 indexed citations

Alcolea-Medina, Adela, Themoula Charalampous, Luke B. Snell, et al.. (2022). Novel, Rapid Metagenomic Method to Detect Emerging Viral Pathogens Applied to Human Monkeypox Infections. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Deroost, Katrien, Christopher Alder, Caroline Hosking, et al.. (2021). Tissue macrophages and interferon-gamma signalling control blood-stage Plasmodium chabaudi infections derived from mosquito-transmitted parasites. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 104–119. 3 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Deirdre, Carlos Talavera‐López, Christopher Alder, et al.. (2021). Analysis of pir gene expression across the Plasmodium life cycle. Malaria Journal. 20(1). 445–445. 12 indexed citations

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Brunner, Simon, Nicola D. Roberts, Luke A. Wylie, et al.. (2019). Somatic mutations and clonal dynamics in healthy and cirrhotic human liver. Nature. 574(7779). 538–542. 218 indexed citations

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Roerink, Sophie, Nobuo Sasaki, Henry Lee-Six, et al.. (2018). Intra-tumour diversification in colorectal cancer at the single-cell level. Nature. 556(7702). 457–462. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

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