Christopher Cozens

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher Cozens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Cozens has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Ecology and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Christopher Cozens's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers). Christopher Cozens is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers). Christopher Cozens collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belgium. Christopher Cozens's co-authors include Philipp Holliger, Vitor B. Pinheiro, Piet Herdewijn, Alexander I. Taylor, Sew‐Yeu Peak‐Chew, Stephen H. McLaughlin, Marleen Renders, Su Zhang, Mikhail Abramov and John C. Chaput and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Cozens

11 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

2012 546 citations Vitor B. Pinheiro, Alexander I. Taylor et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Cozens United Kingdom	8	1.0k	160	105	85	82	11	1.1k
Myong‐Jung Kim United States	10	648 0.6×	68 0.4×	73 0.7×	35 0.4×	60 0.7×	15	736
Saurja DasGupta United States	9	610 0.6×	62 0.4×	63 0.6×	76 0.9×	63 0.8×	18	681
Nilesh B. Karalkar United States	8	571 0.6×	56 0.3×	61 0.6×	43 0.5×	44 0.5×	13	647
Petra Burgstaller Germany	15	883 0.9×	79 0.5×	90 0.9×	32 0.4×	67 0.8×	18	925
David Garenne United States	15	514 0.5×	90 0.6×	107 1.0×	42 0.5×	78 1.0×	20	656
Katrina F. Tjhung Canada	11	399 0.4×	54 0.3×	102 1.0×	48 0.6×	29 0.4×	13	500
Rie Yamashige Japan	7	722 0.7×	80 0.5×	111 1.1×	20 0.2×	32 0.4×	7	770
Adam D. Silverman United States	11	832 0.8×	91 0.6×	221 2.1×	10 0.1×	99 1.2×	11	944
Sujay P. Sau United States	15	569 0.6×	59 0.4×	107 1.0×	20 0.2×	31 0.4×	19	649
Tatsuo Ohmichi Japan	14	1.3k 1.2×	144 0.9×	105 1.0×	9 0.1×	71 0.9×	20	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Cozens

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Cozens, Christopher, et al.. (2020). Machine learning‐driven protein engineering: a case study in computational drug discovery. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 7–9. 3 indexed citations

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Renders, Marleen, Mikhail Abramov, Eric Largy, et al.. (2019). Kinetic analysis of N-alkylaryl carboxamide hexitol nucleotides as substrates for evolved polymerases. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(5). 2160–2168. 7 indexed citations

3.

Cozens, Christopher & Vitor B. Pinheiro. (2018). XNA Synthesis and Reverse Transcription by Engineered Thermophilic Polymerases. PubMed. 10(3). e47–e47. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Chao, Christopher Cozens, Jef Rozenski, et al.. (2018). Phosphonomethyl Oligonucleotides as Backbone-Modified Artificial Genetic Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(21). 6690–6699. 52 indexed citations

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Cozens, Christopher & Vitor B. Pinheiro. (2018). Darwin Assembly: fast, efficient, multi-site bespoke mutagenesis. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(8). e51–e51. 26 indexed citations

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Cozens, Christopher, Hannes Mutschler, Geoffrey M. Nelson, et al.. (2015). Enzymatische Synthese von Nukleinsäuren mit definierten regioisomeren 2′‐5′‐Verknüpfungen. Angewandte Chemie. 127(51). 15791–15794. 1 indexed citations

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Cozens, Christopher, et al.. (2015). Selection of 2′-deoxy-2′-fluoroarabinonucleotide (FANA) aptamers that bind HIV-1 reverse transcriptase with picomolar affinity. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(20). gkv1057–gkv1057. 111 indexed citations

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Cozens, Christopher, Hannes Mutschler, Geoffrey M. Nelson, et al.. (2015). Enzymatic Synthesis of Nucleic Acids with Defined Regioisomeric 2′‐5′ Linkages. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(51). 15570–15573. 21 indexed citations

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Taylor, Alexander I., Vitor B. Pinheiro, Matthew J. Smola, et al.. (2014). Catalysts from synthetic genetic polymers. Nature. 518(7539). 427–430. 212 indexed citations

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Cozens, Christopher, Vitor B. Pinheiro, Alexandra Vaisman, Roger Woodgate, & Philipp Holliger. (2012). A short adaptive path from DNA to RNA polymerases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(21). 8067–8072. 98 indexed citations

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Pinheiro, Vitor B., Alexander I. Taylor, Christopher Cozens, et al.. (2012). Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution. Science. 336(6079). 341–344. 546 indexed citations breakdown →

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