Don B. Clewell

22.2k citations

179 papers · 17.6k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 66

Impact in

Molecular Medicine top 0.1%
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Infectious Diseases top 0.05%
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus

Papers in

Microbiology 27
- Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities 21
Molecular Medicine 20
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria 20

Co-authors: Donald R. Helinski Florence Y. An C Gawron-Burke Gary M. Dunny Susan E. Flannagan Yasuyoshi Ike Arthur E. Franke Yusuke Yagi
Journals: Journal of Bacteriology (55 papers)Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (17 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (9 papers)Infection and Immunity (8 papers)Journal of Clinical Microbiology (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan Spain

In The Last Decade

Don B. Clewell

178 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Genetic Analysis of a High-Level Vancomycin-Resistant Isolate of Staphylococcus aureus 2003 · 668 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2003 Science
1981 Journal of Bacteriology
1978 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1972 Journal of Bacteriology
1970 Biochemistry
1969 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Tales of conjugation and sex pheromones Mobile Genetic Elements ·Don B. Clewell	2011	23
2	Properties of Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1, a member of a widely disseminated family of pheromone-responding, conjugative, virulence elements encoding cytolysin Plasmid ·Don B. Clewell	2007	66
3	Enterococcus faecalis sex pheromone plasmid pAM373: Plasmid ·Yoshiyuki Ozawa, Erika H. De Boever, Don B. Clewell	2005	9
4	Quantitative real-time PCR detection of oral Enterococcus faecalis in humans Archives of Oral Biology ·Christine Sedgley, Aaron C. Nagel, Charles E. Shelburne, Don B. Clewell, Oliver K. Appelbe, Anders Molander	2004	93
5	Virulence, phenotype and genotype characteristics of endodontic Enterococcus spp. Oral Microbiology and Immunology ·Christine Sedgley, Anders Molander, Susan E. Flannagan, Aaron C. Nagel, Oliver K. Appelbe, Don B. Clewell, Gunnar Dahlén	2004	124
6	Genetic Analysis of a High-Level Vancomycin-Resistant Isolate of Staphylococcus aureus Science ·Linda M. Weigel, Don B. Clewell, Steven R. Gill, Nancye C. Clark, Linda K. McDougal, Susan E. Flannagan, James F. Kolonay, Jyoti Shetty, George Killgore, Fred C. Tenover Hit paper breakdown →	2003	668
7	The enterococci : pathogenesis, molecular biology, and antibiotic resistance Michael S. Gilmore, Don B. Clewell	2002	369
8	The Origin of Transfer (oriT) of the Enterococcal, Pheromone-Responding, Cytolysin Plasmid pAD1 Is Located within therepADeterminant Plasmid ·Florence Y. An, Don B. Clewell	1997	22
9	Regulation of Streptococcus gordonii Glucosyltransferase Advances in experimental medicine and biology ·M. Margaret Vickerman, Don B. Clewell	1997	2
10	Isolation and Structure ofstaph-cAM373 Produced byStaphylococcus aureusThat Induces Conjugal Transfer ofEnterococcus faecalisPlasmid pAM373 Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry ·Jiro Nakayama, Shigeru Igarashi, Hiromichi Nagasawa, Don B. Clewell, Florence Y. An, Akinori Suzuki	1996	10
11	Targeted disruption of the PD78 gene (traF) reduces pheromone-inducible conjugal transfer of the bacteriocin plasmid pPD1 inEnterococcus faecalis FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Jiro Nakayama, Don B. Clewell, Akinori Suzuki	1995	2
12	Nucleotide Sequence of the 18-kb Conjugative Transposon Tn916 from Enterococcus faecalis Plasmid ·Susan E. Flannagan, Xu Yanzhang, Yan Su, Don B. Clewell	1994	151
13	Infectivity of a glucan synthesis-defective mutant ofStreptococcus gordonii(Challis) in a rat endocarditis model FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Leon Fadljević, Cindy L. Munro, Mark C. Sulavik, Don B. Clewell, Francis L. Macrina	1993	25
14	Bacterial sex pheromone-induced plasmid transfer Cell ·Don B. Clewell	1993	173
15	Glucosyltransferase phase variation in Streptococcus gordonii modifies adhesion to saliva‐coated hydroxyapatite surfaces in a sucrose‐independent manner Oral Microbiology and Immunology ·M. Margaret Vickerman, Don B. Clewell, G. W. Jones	1992	11
16	Tn917 transposase. Sequence correction reveals a single open reading frame corresponding to the tnpA determinant of Tn3-family elements Plasmid ·Florence Y. An, Don B. Clewell	1991	14
17	A phase variation event that activates conjugation functions encoded by the Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1 Plasmid ·Amy K. Tolin, Don B. Clewell	1991	21
18	Movable genetic elements and antibiotic resistance in enterococci European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases ·Don B. Clewell	1990	154
19	Sex pheromones and plasmid transfer in Enterococcus faecalis Plasmid ·Don B. Clewell, Keith E. Weaver	1989	94
20	Sex Pheromones and Plasmid Transfer in Streptococcus faecalis Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Don B. Clewell, Bryan A. White, Yasuyoshi Ike, Florence Y. An	1984	10

About Don B. Clewell

Don B. Clewell is a scholar working on Microbiology, Molecular Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology and Periodontics, having authored 179 papers that have together received 17.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (71 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (56 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (43 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (37 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (36 papers), Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management (29 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (21 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Medicine (1.8k citations), Infectious Diseases (6.3k citations), Clinical Biochemistry (1.7k citations), Endocrinology (1.2k citations) and Microbiology (1.4k citations). Don B. Clewell has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Donald R. Helinski, Florence Y. An, C Gawron-Burke, Gary M. Dunny, Susan E. Flannagan, Yasuyoshi Ike, Arthur E. Franke, Yusuke Yagi, Michael S. Gilmore and Keith E. Weaver. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Bacteriology, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Infection and Immunity and Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

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