David Botstein

11.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

David Botstein is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Botstein has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Epidemiology and 1 paper in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in David Botstein's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers) and Skin and Cellular Biology Research (1 paper). David Botstein is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers) and Skin and Cellular Biology Research (1 paper). David Botstein collaborates with scholars based in United States. David Botstein's co-authors include Peter J. Schatz, Hong Ma, Sam Kunes, David G. Drubin, A.E. Adams, Louis M. Staudt, Michael B. Eisen, Wing C. Chan, Trevor Hastie and Patrick O. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Molecular Biology and Genome biology.

In The Last Decade

David Botstein

8 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Plasmid construction by homologous recombination in yeast 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 100 200 300 400
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. Plasmid construction by homologous recombination in yeast
    1987 493 citations Hong Ma, Sam Kunes et al. Gene profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Botstein United States 7 1.1k 240 190 149 78 8 1.3k
Gabriella Rustici United Kingdom 16 1.5k 1.4× 139 0.6× 143 0.8× 204 1.4× 102 1.3× 26 1.9k
Chris Rawlings United Kingdom 22 971 0.9× 115 0.5× 169 0.9× 379 2.5× 106 1.4× 82 1.5k
Douglas E. Bassett United States 14 2.3k 2.0× 167 0.7× 312 1.6× 166 1.1× 33 0.4× 18 2.7k
Marcin J. Mizianty Canada 26 2.4k 2.1× 231 1.0× 135 0.7× 109 0.7× 42 0.5× 35 2.8k
Kosuke Hashimoto Japan 20 1.3k 1.1× 117 0.5× 121 0.6× 122 0.8× 41 0.5× 59 1.8k
Harald Barsnes Norway 26 1.8k 1.6× 106 0.4× 126 0.7× 85 0.6× 58 0.7× 68 2.4k
Ziying Liu Canada 17 872 0.8× 215 0.9× 88 0.5× 273 1.8× 46 0.6× 42 1.7k
Becky Drees United States 14 1.5k 1.3× 269 1.1× 239 1.3× 71 0.5× 24 0.3× 15 1.7k
Mansoor Saqi United Kingdom 18 897 0.8× 87 0.4× 174 0.9× 353 2.4× 62 0.8× 56 1.3k
Teresa Reguly Canada 7 2.6k 2.3× 261 1.1× 222 1.2× 106 0.7× 106 1.4× 8 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by David Botstein

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Botstein

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Botstein

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

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Hastie, Trevor, Robert Tibshirani, Michael B. Eisen, et al.. (2000). 'Gene shaving' as a method for identifying distinct sets of genes with similar expression patterns. Genome biology. 1(2). RESEARCH0003–RESEARCH0003. 381 indexed citations
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Dolinski, Kara, Catherine A. Ball, Stephen A. Chervitz, et al.. (1998). Expanding yeast knowledge online. Yeast. 14(16). 1453–1469. 8 indexed citations
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Amberg, David C., David Botstein, & Ellen M. Beasley. (1995). Functional analysis reports. Precise gene disruption in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by double fusion polymerase chain reaction. Yeast. 11(13). 1275–1280. 113 indexed citations
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Botstein, David. (1993). Genetics in the post-sequence era. Trends in Genetics. 9(4). 101–101. 1 indexed citations
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Kölling, Ralf, et al.. (1993). A new yeast gene with a myosin-like heptad repeat structure. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 237(3). 359–369. 38 indexed citations
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Adams, A.E., David Botstein, & David G. Drubin. (1991). Requirement of yeast fimbrin for actin organization and morphogenesis in vivo. Nature. 354(6352). 404–408. 189 indexed citations
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Ma, Hong, Sam Kunes, Peter J. Schatz, & David Botstein. (1987). Plasmid construction by homologous recombination in yeast. Gene. 58(2-3). 201–216. 493 indexed citations breakdown →
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Botstein, David, et al.. (1979). Inversions and deletions of the Salmonella chromosome generated by the translocatable tetracycline resistance element Tn10. Journal of Molecular Biology. 127(1). 89–115. 104 indexed citations

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