Ewen Callaway

11.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
449 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Ewen Callaway is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Ewen Callaway has authored 449 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Molecular Biology, 74 papers in Genetics and 71 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Ewen Callaway's work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (51 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (38 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (31 papers). Ewen Callaway is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (51 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (38 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (31 papers). Ewen Callaway collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and China. Ewen Callaway's co-authors include Heidi Ledford, Scott A. Martin, Smriti Mallapaty, David Cyranoski, Jeff Tollefson, Emma Stoye, Declan Butler, Richard Van Noorden, Max Kozlov and John Pickrell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine and Journal of Dairy Science.

In The Last Decade

Ewen Callaway

407 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

Heavily mutated Omicron variant puts scientists on alert 2020 2026 2022 2024 2021 2020 2021 100 200 300
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.

  1. Heavily mutated Omicron variant puts scientists on alert
    2021 341 citations Ewen Callaway Nature profile →
  2. ‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures
    2020 301 citations Ewen Callaway Nature profile →
  3. Delta coronavirus variant: scientists brace for impact
    2021 198 citations Ewen Callaway Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ewen Callaway Denmark 40 2.2k 1.8k 529 512 504 449 6.4k
Heidi Ledford United States 42 1.2k 0.5× 2.8k 1.5× 283 0.5× 237 0.5× 557 1.1× 514 7.3k
Siddappa N. Byrareddy United States 28 3.0k 1.3× 1.1k 0.6× 237 0.4× 620 1.2× 202 0.4× 122 6.8k
David Cyranoski Denmark 38 731 0.3× 2.2k 1.2× 160 0.3× 275 0.5× 505 1.0× 548 7.0k
Yǒng-Zhèn Zhāng China 9 6.1k 2.8× 1.8k 1.0× 152 0.3× 728 1.4× 263 0.5× 9 8.8k
Yan Yan China 43 2.7k 1.2× 1.8k 1.0× 95 0.2× 388 0.8× 336 0.7× 290 9.4k
Jon Cohen United States 35 2.1k 1.0× 850 0.5× 362 0.7× 588 1.1× 227 0.5× 472 5.6k
Min Liu China 54 2.6k 1.2× 4.0k 2.2× 945 1.8× 911 1.8× 496 1.0× 841 15.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ewen Callaway

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ewen Callaway

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ewen Callaway

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ewen Callaway. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ewen Callaway 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 Ewen Callaway. Ewen Callaway is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Callaway, Ewen. (2025). Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records. Nature. 1 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2025). Biggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demand. Nature. 638(8052). 868–869. 3 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2024). Scientists tried to give people COVID — and failed. Nature. 629(8011). 269–270.
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Castelvecchi, Davide, Ewen Callaway, & Diana Kwon. (2024). AI comes to the Nobels: double win sparks debate about scientific fields. Nature. 1 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2024). These ‘movies’ of proteins in action are revealing the hidden biology of cells. Nature. 627(8004). 480–482. 1 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2023). Sharp criticism of controversial ancient-human claims tests eLife’s revamped peer-review model. Nature. 620(7972). 13–14. 1 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2023). COVID’s future: mini-waves rather than seasonal surges. Nature. 617(7960). 229–230. 38 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2023). How generative AI is building better antibodies. Nature. 8 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2017). The trickiest family tree in biology. Nature. 547(7661). 20–22. 7 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2016). Tapping genetics for better beer. Nature. 535(7613). 484–486. 1 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2015). nature news クラウドソーシングで掘り当てた未知の初期人類. Nature. 12(12). 13–16. 1 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2014). Global genomic data-sharing effort kicks off. Nature. 4 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2012). 英語でNature(第76回)アイスマンのDNA分析から健康上のリスクや系統関係に関する情報が得られた. Nature. 9(5). 34–36. 1 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen. (2012). Gene mutation defends against Alzheimer’s disease. Nature. 487(7406). 153–153. 5 indexed citations
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Callaway, Ewen & Scott A. Martin. (1997). Effects of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Culture on Ruminal Bacteria that Utilize Lactate and Digest Cellulose. Journal of Dairy Science. 80(9). 2035–2044. 249 indexed citations

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