Ellis Merlin

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 786 citations indexed

About

Ellis Merlin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellis Merlin has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 786 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 1 paper in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ellis Merlin's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (2 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (1 paper). Ellis Merlin is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (2 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (1 paper). Ellis Merlin collaborates with scholars based in United States and Switzerland. Ellis Merlin's co-authors include Barry Cherney, Lyle Crossland, Martha Wright, Stephen V. Evola, Karen Launis, Nadine B. Carozzi, Sue H. Kadwell, Kelly Lewis, Richard Rhodes and G. L. Beland and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Biotechnology and Current Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Ellis Merlin

8 papers receiving 718 citations

Hit Papers

Field Performance of Elite Transgenic Maize Plants Expres... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 200 400 600
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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. Field Performance of Elite Transgenic Maize Plants Expressing an Insecticidal Protein Derived from Bacillus thuringiensis
    1993 609 citations Michael G. Koziel, G. L. Beland et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ellis Merlin United States 6 701 466 192 178 74 8 786
Richard Walden Germany 14 577 0.8× 685 1.5× 35 0.2× 171 1.0× 26 0.4× 27 813
Claudia Corvalán South Korea 7 985 1.4× 814 1.7× 141 0.7× 92 0.5× 13 0.2× 7 1.1k
Afif Hassairi Tunisia 18 491 0.7× 792 1.7× 57 0.3× 41 0.2× 53 0.7× 29 911
G. L. Beland United States 7 585 0.8× 518 1.1× 260 1.4× 175 1.0× 30 0.4× 12 745
Simon Schiml Germany 9 1.2k 1.8× 947 2.0× 194 1.0× 93 0.5× 19 0.3× 9 1.3k
Sergei Svitashev United States 14 476 0.7× 623 1.3× 26 0.1× 76 0.4× 95 1.3× 20 742
Ryan C. Sartor United States 9 505 0.7× 738 1.6× 147 0.8× 31 0.2× 39 0.5× 10 951
B. Worland United Kingdom 15 750 1.1× 747 1.6× 23 0.1× 311 1.7× 49 0.7× 18 955
Yingchuan Tian China 15 509 0.7× 585 1.3× 86 0.4× 76 0.4× 8 0.1× 48 741
Randal M. Hauptmann United States 13 559 0.8× 434 0.9× 42 0.2× 208 1.2× 34 0.5× 16 642

Countries citing papers authored by Ellis Merlin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ellis Merlin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ellis Merlin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ellis Merlin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ellis Merlin 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 Ellis Merlin. Ellis Merlin 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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Koziel, Michael G., G. L. Beland, Nadine B. Carozzi, et al.. (1993). Field Performance of Elite Transgenic Maize Plants Expressing an Insecticidal Protein Derived from Bacillus thuringiensis. Nature Biotechnology. 11(2). 194–200. 609 indexed citations breakdown →
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Aldrich, Jane V., Barry Cherney, & Ellis Merlin. (1988). The role of insertions/deletions in the evolution of the intergenic region betweenpsbA andtrnH in the chloroplast genome. Current Genetics. 14(2). 137–146. 84 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Jane, et al.. (1987). Sequence of therbcL gene for the large subunit of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase from alfalfa. Nucleic Acids Research. 15(2). 868–868. 4 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Jane, et al.. (1986). Sequence of therbcL gene for the large subunit of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase from petunia. Nucleic Acids Research. 14(23). 9534–9534. 30 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Jane, Barry Cherney, & Ellis Merlin. (1986). Sequence of the chloroplast-encodedpsbA gene for the QBpolypeptide of alfalfa. Nucleic Acids Research. 14(23). 9537–9537. 10 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Jane, et al.. (1986). Sequence of the chloroplast-encodedpsbA gene for the QBpolypeptide of petunia. Nucleic Acids Research. 14(23). 9536–9536. 5 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Jane, et al.. (1986). Sequence of therbcLgene for the large subunit of ribulose bisphosphate carboxytase-oxygenase from alfalfa. Nucleic Acids Research. 14(23). 9535–9535. 15 indexed citations
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