Ellen Murphy

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Ellen Murphy is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen Murphy has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Infectious Diseases and 12 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ellen Murphy's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (28 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (13 papers). Ellen Murphy is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (28 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (13 papers). Ellen Murphy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Albania and United Kingdom. Ellen Murphy's co-authors include Steven J. Projan, Paul M. Dunman, Fionnuala McAleese, Daphne Macapagal, Richard P. Novick, Anne O’Garra, Kenneth M. Murphy, Patricia A. Bradford, Mark S. Smeltzer and Robert J. Zagursky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ellen Murphy

56 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Transcription Profiling-Based Identification of Staphylococcus aureus Genes Regulated by the agr and/or sarA Loci

2001 511 citations Paul M. Dunman, Ellen Murphy et al. Journal of Bacteriology profile →
Heterogeneity of intracellular cytokine synthesis at the single-cell level in polarized T helper 1 and T helper 2 populations.

1995 509 citations Ellen Murphy, Kenneth M. Murphy et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ellen Murphy United States	38	3.3k	2.8k	1.2k	1.1k	795	56	6.1k
Hitoshi Komatsuzawa Japan	45	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	878 0.7×	758 0.7×	1.4k 1.8×	165	5.9k
Scott D. Kobayashi United States	43	2.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	657 0.6×	1.8k 1.7×	509 0.6×	76	5.4k
Paul M. Dunman United States	50	5.6k 1.7×	4.7k 1.7×	1.6k 1.4×	514 0.5×	933 1.2×	127	8.7k
Christiane Wolz Germany	55	5.3k 1.6×	4.8k 1.7×	1.6k 1.4×	539 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	145	8.3k
Éric Oswald France	58	4.7k 1.4×	3.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.9×	603 0.6×	467 0.6×	199	11.4k
Rodney A. Welch United States	44	3.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	2.2k 1.8×	603 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	89	7.4k
Susanne Engelmann Germany	50	4.6k 1.4×	3.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.6×	491 0.4×	699 0.9×	125	7.0k
Christopher Weidenmaier Germany	33	2.6k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	445 0.4×	550 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	50	4.8k
Taeok Bae United States	34	3.4k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	347 0.3×	687 0.9×	73	4.9k
C. Kendall Stover United States	48	3.4k 1.1×	4.7k 1.7×	894 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	505 0.6×	93	8.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ellen Murphy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ellen Murphy

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Rozemeijer, Wouter, Pamela S. Fink, Eduardo A. Peña Rojas, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of Approaches to Monitor Staphylococcus aureus Virulence Factor Expression during Human Disease. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0116945–e0116945. 42 indexed citations

McNeil, Lisa K., Robert J. Zagursky, Shuo Lin, et al.. (2013). Role of Factor H Binding Protein in Neisseria meningitidis Virulence and Its Potential as a Vaccine Candidate To Broadly Protect against Meningococcal Disease. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 77(2). 234–252. 83 indexed citations

Brennan, Robert, Stephen B. Olmsted, Eduardo A. Peña Rojas, et al.. (2009). The early interferon response of nasal-associated lymphoid tissue toStreptococcus pyogenesinfection. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology. 55(3). 422–431. 17 indexed citations

Mascioni, Alessandro, Franklin J. Moy, Lisa K. McNeil, et al.. (2009). NMR dynamics and antibody recognition of the meningococcal lipidated outer membrane protein LP2086 in micellar solution. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1798(2). 87–93. 17 indexed citations

Mascioni, Alessandro, Deborah A. Dilts, Pamela S. Fink, et al.. (2008). Structural Basis for the Immunogenic Properties of the Meningococcal Vaccine Candidate LP2086. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(13). 8738–8746. 57 indexed citations

Anderson, Kelsi L., Ellen Murphy, Steven J. Projan, et al.. (2006). Characterizing the Effect of theStaphylococcus aureusVirulence Factor Regulator, SarA, on Log-Phase mRNA Half-Lives. Journal of Bacteriology. 188(7). 2593–2603. 87 indexed citations

McAleese, Fionnuala, Ellen Murphy, Timothy Babinchak, et al.. (2005). Use of Ribotyping To Retrospectively Identify Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Phase 3 Clinical Trials for Tigecycline That Are Genotypically Related to Community-Associated Isolates. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 49(11). 4521–4529. 25 indexed citations

Anderson, Elizabeth T., Leah Fletcher, Anatoly Severin, et al.. (2004). Identification of Factor XIIIa-Reactive Glutamine Acceptor and Lysine Donor Sites within Fibronectin-Binding Protein (FnbA) from Staphylococcus aureus. Biochemistry. 43(37). 11842–11852. 5 indexed citations

Bischoff, Markus, Paul M. Dunman, Ján Kormanec, et al.. (2004). Microarray-Based Analysis of theStaphylococcus aureusσ^BRegulon. Journal of Bacteriology. 186(13). 4085–4099. 325 indexed citations

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Visalli, M, Ellen Murphy, Steven J. Projan, & Patricia A. Bradford. (2003). AcrAB Multidrug Efflux Pump Is Associated with Reduced Levels of Susceptibility to Tigecycline (GAR-936) in Proteus mirabilis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 47(2). 665–669. 138 indexed citations

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Dunman, Paul M., Ellen Murphy, Staci L. Haney, et al.. (2001). Transcription Profiling-Based Identification of Staphylococcus aureus Genes Regulated by the agr and/or sarA Loci. Journal of Bacteriology. 183(24). 7341–7353. 511 indexed citations breakdown →

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Murphy, Ellen, Geronimo Terres, S E Macatonia, et al.. (1994). B7 and interleukin 12 cooperate for proliferation and interferon gamma production by mouse T helper clones that are unresponsive to B7 costimulation.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 180(1). 223–231. 325 indexed citations

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Hong, Tao, Ellen Murphy, James M. Groarke, & Karl Drlica. (1993). Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 DNA integration: fine structure target analysis using synthetic oligonucleotides. Journal of Virology. 67(2). 1127–1131. 18 indexed citations

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Patarca, Roberto, Gordon J. Freeman, Joel Schwartz, et al.. (1988). rpt-1, an intracellular protein from helper/inducer T cells that regulates gene expression of interleukin 2 receptor and human immunodeficiency virus type 1.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 85(8). 2733–2737. 139 indexed citations

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Wilson, James G., Ellen Murphy, W. Wei‐Lynn Wong, et al.. (1986). Identification of a restriction fragment length polymorphism by a CR1 cDNA that correlates with the number of CR1 on erythrocytes.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 164(1). 50–59. 143 indexed citations

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Murphy, Ellen & Sven Löfdahl. (1984). Transposition of Tn554 does not generate a target duplication. Nature. 307(5948). 292–294. 78 indexed citations

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Murphy, Ellen. (1983). Inhibition of Tn554 transposition: Deletion analysis. Plasmid. 10(3). 260–269. 29 indexed citations

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Murphy, Ellen & Richard P. Novick. (1980). Site-specific recombination between plasmids of Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Bacteriology. 141(1). 316–326. 22 indexed citations

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Murphy, Ellen, et al.. (1980). Penicillinase plasmids of Staphylococcus aureus: Structural and evolutionary relationships. Plasmid. 3(3). 291–311. 85 indexed citations

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Murphy, Ellen & Richard P. Novick. (1979). Physical mapping of Staphylococcus aureus penicillinase plasmid pI524: Characterization of an invertible region. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 175(1). 19–30. 42 indexed citations

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