Emma Griffiths

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Emma Griffiths is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Emma Griffiths has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Infectious Diseases and 11 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Emma Griffiths's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Reproductive tract infections research (7 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (6 papers). Emma Griffiths is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Reproductive tract infections research (7 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (6 papers). Emma Griffiths collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Emma Griffiths's co-authors include Radhey S. Gupta, Fiona S. L. Brinkman, Raymond Lo, Geoffrey L. Winsor, Bhavjinder K. Dhillon, Gerard D. Wright, Vanessa M. D’Costa, James W. Kronstad, Matthias Kretschmer and Linda Ejim and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Emma Griffiths

48 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Enhanced annotations and features for comparing thousands ofPseudomonasgenomes in the Pseudomonas genome database

2015 762 citations Geoffrey L. Winsor, Emma Griffiths et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emma Griffiths Canada	24	1.6k	540	539	513	478	53	2.8k
Scott S. Walker United States	21	2.2k 1.4×	283 0.5×	384 0.7×	368 0.7×	655 1.4×	34	4.1k
Barry G. Hall United States	36	2.0k 1.3×	380 0.7×	444 0.8×	343 0.7×	981 2.1×	78	3.7k
Trudy H. Grossman United States	21	1.7k 1.1×	336 0.6×	503 0.9×	500 1.0×	206 0.4×	41	3.0k
Sophie Magnet United States	20	1.7k 1.1×	404 0.7×	373 0.7×	477 0.9×	530 1.1×	34	3.1k
Mario Juhas Switzerland	32	2.4k 1.6×	216 0.4×	588 1.1×	347 0.7×	722 1.5×	53	3.8k
Stephan Fuchs Germany	34	1.6k 1.0×	174 0.3×	453 0.8×	957 1.9×	540 1.1×	87	3.2k
Matthew R. Laird Canada	15	3.3k 2.1×	507 0.9×	1.1k 2.0×	547 1.1×	512 1.1×	17	5.2k
Galina V. Mukamolova United Kingdom	23	1.0k 0.6×	996 1.8×	436 0.8×	1.2k 2.4×	458 1.0×	55	2.6k
Dov J. Stekel United Kingdom	29	1.2k 0.8×	217 0.4×	515 1.0×	267 0.5×	257 0.5×	75	2.8k
Nicholas Waglechner Canada	24	1.3k 0.8×	170 0.3×	407 0.8×	298 0.6×	625 1.3×	35	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emma Griffiths

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20 of 20 papers shown

Griffiths, Emma, et al.. (2026). Region-dependent mechanical parameters in simulating cerebral atrophy. APL Bioengineering. 10(1). 16104–16104.

Anwar, Muhammad Zohaib, Emma Griffiths, Damion Dooley, et al.. (2025). VIRUS-MVP: a framework for comprehensive surveillance of viral mutations and their functional impacts. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 7(4). lqaf132–lqaf132.

Griffiths, Emma, Jayaratnam Jayamohan, & Silvia Budday. (2024). A comparison of brain retraction mechanisms using finite element analysis and the effects of regionally heterogeneous material properties. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. 23(3). 793–808. 2 indexed citations

Gill, Erin E., Fiona S. L. Brinkman, Emma Griffiths, et al.. (2023). Canadians’ opinions towards COVID-19 data-sharing: a national cross-sectional survey. BMJ Open. 13(2). e066418–e066418. 2 indexed citations

Hsiao, William C., Ma’n H. Zawati, Emma Griffiths, et al.. (2023). Opinions matter: public opinions on data-sharing and how they can shape pathogen genomic surveillance in Canada. Population Medicine. 5(Supplement).

Brinkman, Fiona S. L., Erin E. Gill, Emma Griffiths, et al.. (2022). Addressing Privacy Concerns in Sharing Viral Sequences and Minimum Contextual Data in a Public Repository During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 716541–716541. 5 indexed citations

Dooley, Damion, et al.. (2017). The Genomic Epidemiology Ontology and GEEM Ontology Reusability Platform.. 1 indexed citations

Dooley, Damion, et al.. (2017). FoodOn: A Semantic Ontology Approach for Mapping Foodborne Disease Metadata.. 1 indexed citations

Gupta, Radhey S., Sohail Naushad, Chirayu Chokshi, Emma Griffiths, & Mobolaji Adeolu. (2015). A phylogenomic and molecular markers based analysis of the phylum Chlamydiae: proposal to divide the class Chlamydiia into two orders, Chlamydiales and Parachlamydiales ord. nov., and emended description of the class Chlamydiia. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 108(3). 765–781. 23 indexed citations

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Winsor, Geoffrey L., et al.. (2015). Enhanced annotations and features for comparing thousands ofPseudomonasgenomes in the Pseudomonas genome database. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D646–D653. 762 indexed citations breakdown →

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Griffiths, Emma, Matthias Kretschmer, & James W. Kronstad. (2012). Aimless mutants of Cryptococcus neoformans: Failure to disseminate. Fungal Biology Reviews. 26(2-3). 61–72. 12 indexed citations

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Kronstad, James W., Sanjay Saikia, Matthias Kretschmer, et al.. (2011). Adaptation of Cryptococcus neoformans to Mammalian Hosts: Integrated Regulation of Metabolism and Virulence. Eukaryotic Cell. 11(2). 109–118. 88 indexed citations

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Kronstad, James W., Rodgoun Attarian, Brigitte Cadieux, et al.. (2011). Expanding fungal pathogenesis: Cryptococcus breaks out of the opportunistic box. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 9(3). 193–203. 244 indexed citations

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Pascale, Gianfranco De, Emma Griffiths, Tushar Shakya, Ishac Nazi, & Gerard D. Wright. (2011). Identification and Characterization of New Inhibitors of Fungal Homoserine Kinase. ChemBioChem. 12(8). 1179–1182. 7 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Emma & Radhey S. Gupta. (2007). Phylogeny and shared conserved inserts in proteins provide evidence that Verrucomicrobia are the closest known free-living relatives of chlamydiae. Microbiology. 153(8). 2648–2654. 29 indexed citations

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Gupta, Radhey S. & Emma Griffiths. (2006). Chlamydiae-specific proteins and indels: novel tools for studies. Trends in Microbiology. 14(12). 527–535. 37 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Emma. (2006). Molecular signatures in protein sequences that are characteristics of the phylum Aquificae. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 56(1). 99–107. 27 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Emma & Radhey S. Gupta. (2006). Lateral Transfers of Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase (glyA) and UDP-N-Acetylglucosamine Enolpyruvyl Transferase (murA) Genes from Free-living Actinobacteria to the Parasitic Chlamydiae. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 63(2). 283–296. 15 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Emma, et al.. (2006). BLAST screening of chlamydial genomes to identify signature proteins that are unique for the Chlamydiales, Chlamydiaceae, Chlamydophila and Chlamydia groups of species. BMC Genomics. 7(1). 14–14. 37 indexed citations

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Gupta, Radhey S. & Emma Griffiths. (2002). Critical Issues in Bacterial Phylogeny. Theoretical Population Biology. 61(4). 423–434. 112 indexed citations

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