Erik S. Wright

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Erik S. Wright is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik S. Wright has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Erik S. Wright's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Erik S. Wright is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Erik S. Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and France. Erik S. Wright's co-authors include L. Şafak Yılmaz, Daniel R. Noguera, Adithya Murali, Aniruddha Bhargava, Kalin Vetsigian, Sri Ram, Gregory W. Harrington, Hatice Eser Ökten, Michael D. Carrithers and David Baum and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Erik S. Wright

40 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

DECIPHER, a Search-Based Approach to Chimera Identification for 16S rRNA Sequences

2011 560 citations Erik S. Wright et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
IDTAXA: a novel approach for accurate taxonomic classification of microbiome sequences

2018 403 citations Adithya Murali, Aniruddha Bhargava et al. Microbiome profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erik S. Wright United States	14	847	657	211	159	133	41	1.7k
Jakub Truszkowski Canada	6	893 1.1×	490 0.7×	230 1.1×	134 0.8×	127 1.0×	15	1.7k
Andre Masella Canada	5	926 1.1×	611 0.9×	274 1.3×	199 1.3×	107 0.8×	5	1.9k
Nico Weber Germany	7	706 0.8×	566 0.9×	204 1.0×	140 0.9×	77 0.6×	10	1.4k
Karen W. Davenport United States	23	850 1.0×	558 0.8×	315 1.5×	149 0.9×	179 1.3×	102	1.9k
Esther Singer United States	13	819 1.0×	588 0.9×	281 1.3×	96 0.6×	126 0.9×	21	1.7k
Mohamed El-Hadidi Egypt	11	721 0.9×	638 1.0×	257 1.2×	185 1.2×	113 0.8×	40	1.8k
James H. Campbell United States	18	1.0k 1.2×	711 1.1×	158 0.7×	165 1.0×	173 1.3×	34	2.5k
Thomas Weinmaier Austria	20	1.1k 1.3×	562 0.9×	140 0.7×	203 1.3×	91 0.7×	32	1.8k
Kim Lee Ng Denmark	8	739 0.9×	580 0.9×	176 0.8×	230 1.4×	73 0.5×	12	1.6k
Marc Auffret United Kingdom	19	787 0.9×	584 0.9×	201 1.0×	178 1.1×	211 1.6×	29	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik S. Wright

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wright, Erik S.. (2025). Fast and Flexible Search for Homologous Biological Sequences with DECIPHER v3. The R Journal. 16(2). 191–200. 1 indexed citations

Wright, Erik S., et al.. (2025). EvoWeaver: large-scale prediction of gene functional associations from coevolutionary signals. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3878–3878.

Wright, Erik S., et al.. (2024). Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) can overcome the cost of antibiotic resistance and may threaten vancomycin’s clinical durability. PLoS Pathogens. 20(8). e1012422–e1012422. 5 indexed citations

Wright, Erik S., et al.. (2024). Applications of Machine Learning on Electronic Health Record Data to Combat Antibiotic Resistance. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 230(5). 1073–1082. 10 indexed citations

Wright, Erik S.. (2024). Accurately clustering biological sequences in linear time by relatedness sorting. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3047–3047. 8 indexed citations

Wright, Erik S., et al.. (2024). Many purported pseudogenes in bacterial genomes are bona fide genes. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 365–365. 2 indexed citations

Wright, Erik S., et al.. (2023). Evaluating the long-term portrayal of antibiotic resistance in major U.S. newspapers. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 1343–1343. 5 indexed citations

Wolfe, Travis J. De & Erik S. Wright. (2023). Multi-factorial examination of amplicon sequencing workflows from sample preparation to bioinformatic analysis. BMC Microbiology. 23(1). 107–107. 4 indexed citations

Jain, Lalit, et al.. (2022). Sample-efficient identification of high-dimensional antibiotic synergy with a normalized diagonal sampling design. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(7). e1010311–e1010311. 1 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Nithya, et al.. (2022). Balancing Trade-Offs Imposed by Growth Media and Mass Spectrometry for Bacterial Exometabolomics. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(20). e0092222–e0092222. 3 indexed citations

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Wright, Erik S., et al.. (2021). Accurate annotation of protein coding sequences with IDTAXA. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 3(3). lqab080–lqab080. 3 indexed citations

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Jones, Jennifer E., et al.. (2021). Parallel evolution between genomic segments of seasonal human influenza viruses reveals RNA-RNA relationships. eLife. 10. 9 indexed citations

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Wright, Erik S., et al.. (2021). Identification of antibiotic pairs that evade concurrent resistance via a retrospective analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility test results. The Lancet Microbe. 2(10). e545–e554. 26 indexed citations

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Wright, Erik S.. (2020). RNAconTest: comparing tools for noncoding RNA multiple sequence alignment based on structural consistency. RNA. 26(5). 531–540. 36 indexed citations

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Wright, Erik S. & Kalin Vetsigian. (2019). Stochastic exits from dormancy give rise to heavy‐tailed distributions of descendants in bacterial populations. Molecular Ecology. 28(17). 3915–3928. 18 indexed citations

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Murali, Adithya, Aniruddha Bhargava, & Erik S. Wright. (2018). IDTAXA: a novel approach for accurate taxonomic classification of microbiome sequences. Microbiome. 6(1). 140–140. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wright, Erik S. & David Baum. (2018). Exclusivity offers a sound yet practical species criterion for bacteria despite abundant gene flow. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 724–724. 12 indexed citations

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Wright, Erik S. & Kalin Vetsigian. (2016). Quality filtering of Illumina index reads mitigates sample cross-talk. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 876–876. 88 indexed citations

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Wright, Erik S. & Kalin Vetsigian. (2016). Inhibitory interactions promote frequent bistability among competing bacteria. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11274–11274. 61 indexed citations

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Wright, Erik S., et al.. (2013). Epithelial V-Like Antigen Mediates Efficacy of Anti-Alpha4 Integrin Treatment in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e70954–e70954. 9 indexed citations

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