David Lyons

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

David Lyons is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Law and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Lyons has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 18 papers in Law and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in David Lyons's work include Judicial and Constitutional Studies (9 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (8 papers). David Lyons is often cited by papers focused on Judicial and Constitutional Studies (9 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (8 papers). David Lyons collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Czechia. David Lyons's co-authors include Joseph Raz, Stavros Lomvardas, Daniel Zilberman, Ophir D. Klein, Gail R. Martin, Jonathan D. Moore, Nicholas Rescher, Renata Peterková, Jaemyung Choi and William E. Allen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Molecular Cell and Development.

In The Last Decade

David Lyons

66 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

The Authority of Law: Ess... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality.
    1982 263 citations David Lyons et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
David Lyons 644 516 320 294 291 75 2.1k
John Keane 235 0.4× 635 1.2× 29 0.1× 108 0.4× 864 3.0× 62 2.3k
Michael Jackson 533 0.8× 146 0.3× 25 0.1× 55 0.2× 210 0.7× 123 2.3k
Jonathan D. Casper 939 1.5× 281 0.5× 469 1.5× 7 0.0× 469 1.6× 32 2.2k
Daniel Gros 3.0k 4.7× 569 1.1× 48 0.1× 7 0.0× 223 0.8× 494 7.0k
Ross Harrison 189 0.3× 152 0.3× 35 0.1× 80 0.3× 121 0.4× 42 923
John B.P. Stephenson 820 1.3× 169 0.3× 17 0.1× 17 0.1× 457 1.6× 101 3.3k
Edward J. Walsh 576 0.9× 249 0.5× 5 0.0× 28 0.1× 685 2.4× 137 3.3k
Victoria Lawson 1.7k 2.6× 349 0.7× 25 0.1× 21 0.1× 1.9k 6.6× 139 6.1k
Peter Fritzsche 26 0.0× 1.3k 2.5× 55 0.2× 198 0.7× 1.5k 5.3× 94 3.7k
Ruth Chadwick 482 0.7× 50 0.1× 30 0.1× 62 0.2× 174 0.6× 141 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Lyons

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Lyons

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lyons, David, et al.. (2023). Rapid assessment of marine non-native species in Irish marinas. Management of Biological Invasions. 14(2). 245–267. 2 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Zaigham, et al.. (2023). Millennia-long epigenetic fluctuations generate intragenic DNA methylation variance in Arabidopsis populations. Cell Systems. 14(11). 953–967.e17. 18 indexed citations
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Lyons, David, et al.. (2023). Triphenyl phosphate-induced pericardial edema in zebrafish embryos is dependent on the ionic strength of exposure media. Environment International. 172. 107757–107757. 22 indexed citations
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Lyons, David, Shengbo He, Jaemyung Choi, et al.. (2023). Extensive de novo activity stabilizes epigenetic inheritance of CG methylation in Arabidopsis transposons. Cell Reports. 42(3). 112132–112132. 13 indexed citations
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Choi, Jaemyung, David Lyons, M. Yvonne Kim, Jonathan D. Moore, & Daniel Zilberman. (2019). DNA Methylation and Histone H1 Jointly Repress Transposable Elements and Aberrant Intragenic Transcripts. Molecular Cell. 77(2). 310–323.e7. 101 indexed citations
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Lyons, David & Stavros Lomvardas. (2014). Repressive histone methylation: A case study in deterministic versus stochastic gene regulation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1839(12). 1373–1384. 18 indexed citations
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Lyons, David, Angeliki Magklara, Srihari C. Sampath, et al.. (2014). Heterochromatin-Mediated Gene Silencing Facilitates the Diversification of Olfactory Neurons. Cell Reports. 9(3). 884–892. 54 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (2013). Confronting Injustice: Moral History and Political Theory. British Journal of Cancer. 92(5). 981; author reply 982–981; author reply 982. 3 indexed citations
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Lyons, David, et al.. (2013). Co-Opting the Unfolded Protein Response to Elicit Olfactory Receptor Feedback. Cell. 155(2). 321–332. 112 indexed citations
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Lyons, David, et al.. (2013). An Epigenetic Trap Stabilizes Singular Olfactory Receptor Expression. Cell. 154(2). 325–336. 126 indexed citations
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Labelle‐Dumais, Cassandre, David J. Dilworth, Colleen T. Harrington, et al.. (2011). COL4A1 Mutations Cause Ocular Dysgenesis, Neuronal Localization Defects, and Myopathy in Mice and Walker-Warburg Syndrome in Humans. PLoS Genetics. 7(5). e1002062–e1002062. 101 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (2006). Rights and Recognition. Social Theory and Practice. 32(1). 1–15. 3 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (1997). Mill's Utilitarianism : critical essays. eYLS (Yale Law School). 8 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (1990). Basic Rights and Constitutional Interpretation. Social Theory and Practice. 16(3). 337–357. 2 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (1985). Derivability, Defensibility, and the Justification of Judicial Decisions. The Monist. 68(3). 325–346. 1 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (1982). Moral Aspects of Legal Theory. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 7. 223–254. 16 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (1977). Human rights and the general welfare. Philosophy & Public Affairs. 6(2). 24 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (1977). The New Indian Claims and Original Rights to Land. Social Theory and Practice. 4(3). 249–272. 37 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (1974). Nature of the Contract Argument. Cornell law review/˜The œCornell law quarterly. 59(6). 1064–1076. 1 indexed citations
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Lyons, David. (1972). Logic and Coercion in Bentham’s Theory of Law. Cornell law review/˜The œCornell law quarterly. 57(3). 335–362. 3 indexed citations

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