David A. Mead

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
78 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

David A. Mead is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Mead has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Ecology and 20 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in David A. Mead's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers). David A. Mead is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers). David A. Mead collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. David A. Mead's co-authors include Byron Kemper, Elzbieta Szczesna-Skorupa, Forest Rohwer, Joseph M. Mahaffy, Mya Breitbart, Anca M. Segall, Peter Salamon, Farooq Azam, Bjarne Andresen and Phillip J. Brumm and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

David A. Mead

74 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Single-stranded DNA ‘blue’ T7 promoter plasmids: a versatile tandem promoter system for cloning and protein engineering

1986 776 citations David A. Mead, Elzbieta Szczesna-Skorupa et al. Protein Engineering Design and Selection profile →
Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communities

2002 700 citations David A. Mead et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Mead United States	30	2.4k	1.6k	801	673	635	78	4.4k
Jay M. Short United States	20	3.2k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	340 0.4×	547 0.8×	520 0.8×	46	4.9k
Thomas Schweder Germany	42	3.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	484 0.6×	420 0.6×	806 1.3×	137	5.3k
Alexander Sczyrba Germany	34	2.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	635 0.8×	455 0.7×	252 0.4×	85	4.4k
Konstantinos D. Tsirigos Greece	16	3.4k 1.4×	777 0.5×	349 0.4×	1.4k 2.0×	715 1.1×	26	6.0k
Boyke Bunk Germany	37	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	210 0.3×	621 0.9×	389 0.6×	195	4.0k
Cheryl Heiner United States	18	3.6k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	341 0.4×	1.2k 1.8×	722 1.1×	21	5.7k
Eric J. Mathur United States	20	3.1k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	456 0.6×	424 0.6×	408 0.6×	31	4.5k
Thomas Nordahl Petersen Denmark	20	3.0k 1.3×	733 0.5×	266 0.3×	1.1k 1.6×	490 0.8×	34	5.3k
Jared R. Leadbetter United States	31	2.6k 1.1×	966 0.6×	817 1.0×	532 0.8×	1.4k 2.2×	61	4.9k
José Juan Almagro Armenteros Denmark	12	4.0k 1.7×	866 0.5×	344 0.4×	1.7k 2.6×	549 0.9×	20	6.8k

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Ramsby, Blake D., et al.. (2025). Developing coral seeding devices and rapid deployment methods to scale up reef restoration. Restoration Ecology. 34(1).

Johnson, Don H., et al.. (2023). A Survey of Didemnin Depsipeptide Production in Tistrella. Marine Drugs. 21(2). 56–56. 4 indexed citations

Caesar, Lindsay K., Fatma Ayaloglu Butun, Matthew T. Robey, et al.. (2023). Correlative metabologenomics of 110 fungi reveals metabolite–gene cluster pairs. Nature Chemical Biology. 19(7). 846–854. 29 indexed citations

Sandoval-Powers, Megan, Scott Monsma, Jinglie Zhou, et al.. (2020). Discovery of Novel Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Diversity From a Soil Metagenomic Library. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 585398–585398. 18 indexed citations

Randall, Carly J., Claire Lager, Mary Hagedorn, et al.. (2020). Rapid counting and spectral sorting of live coral larvae using large-particle flow cytometry. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 12919–12919. 5 indexed citations

Davis, Richard W., Jahangir Hossain, Scott Monsma, et al.. (2016). Complete genome of Staphylococcus aureus Tager 104 provides evidence of its relation to modern systemic hospital-acquired strains. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 179–179. 4 indexed citations

Brumm, Phillip J., Miriam Land, & David A. Mead. (2016). Complete genome sequences of Geobacillus sp. WCH70, a thermophilic strain isolated from wood compost. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11(1). 33–33. 7 indexed citations

Auldridge, M.E., Hongnan Cao, Saurabh Sen, et al.. (2015). LucY: A Versatile New Fluorescent Reporter Protein. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0124272–e0124272. 5 indexed citations

Maayer, Pieter De, Phillip J. Brumm, David A. Mead, & Don A. Cowan. (2014). Comparative analysis of the Geobacillus hemicellulose utilization locus reveals a highly variable target for improved hemicellulolysis. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 836–836. 34 indexed citations

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Schoenfeld, Thomas, Senthil K. Murugapiran, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, et al.. (2013). Lateral Gene Transfer of Family A DNA Polymerases between Thermophilic Viruses, Aquificae, and Apicomplexa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(7). 1653–1664. 28 indexed citations

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Mead, David A., et al.. (2013). Genomic and Enzymatic Results Show Bacillus cellulosilyticus Uses a Novel Set of LPXTA Carbohydrases to Hydrolyze Polysaccharides. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61131–e61131. 10 indexed citations

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Suen, Garret, Paul J. Weimer, David M. Stevenson, et al.. (2011). The Complete Genome Sequence of Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 Reveals a Cellulolytic and Metabolic Specialist. PLoS ONE. 6(4). e18814–e18814. 173 indexed citations

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Brumm, Phillip J., et al.. (2010). Mining Dictyoglomus turgidum for Enzymatically Active Carbohydrases. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 163(2). 205–214. 19 indexed citations

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Wild, Jadwiga, Ronald Godiska, David A. Mead, et al.. (2010). Gram negative shuttle BAC vector for heterologous expression of metagenomic libraries. Gene. 475(2). 57–62. 32 indexed citations

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Skowron, Piotr M., et al.. (1998). Thermal Cycle Labeling: Zeptomole Detection Sensitivity and Microgram Probe Amplification UsingCviJI* Restriction-Generated Oligonucleotides. Analytical Biochemistry. 255(1). 133–141. 4 indexed citations

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Skowron, Piotr M., et al.. (1995). Cloning and applications of the two/three-base restriction endonuclease R·CviJI from IL-3A virus-infected chlorella. Gene. 157(1-2). 37–41. 13 indexed citations

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Mead, David A., et al.. (1991). A Universal Method for the Direct Cloning of PCR Amplified Nucleic Acid. Nature Biotechnology. 9(7). 657–663. 183 indexed citations

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Luckey, John A., et al.. (1990). High speed DNA sequencing by capillary electrophoresis. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(15). 4417–4421. 181 indexed citations

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Schoenfeld, Thomas, et al.. (1989). Purification and characterization of an isoschizomer of Asu II fromClostridium sporogenes. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(11). 4417–4417. 2 indexed citations

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Mead, David A., Elzbieta Szczesna-Skorupa, & Byron Kemper. (1986). Single-stranded DNA ‘blue’ T7 promoter plasmids: a versatile tandem promoter system for cloning and protein engineering. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 1(1). 67–74. 776 indexed citations breakdown →

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