Gale Brightwell

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Gale Brightwell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gale Brightwell has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Food Science and 35 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Gale Brightwell's work include Probiotics and Fermented Foods (22 papers), Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (22 papers) and Meat and Animal Product Quality (20 papers). Gale Brightwell is often cited by papers focused on Probiotics and Fermented Foods (22 papers), Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (22 papers) and Meat and Animal Product Quality (20 papers). Gale Brightwell collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and China. Gale Brightwell's co-authors include Joshua Hadi, Aswathi Soni, John Mills, J.A. Boerema, Steve Flint, A. Donnison, Shuyan Wu, Marlon M. Reis, Tanushree B. Gupta and Jeremy R. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Biotechnology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gale Brightwell

107 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Safety of Alternative Proteins: Technological, Environmental and Regulatory Aspects of Cultured Meat, Plant-Based Meat, Insect Protein and Single-Cell Protein

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gale Brightwell New Zealand	28	931	909	569	507	363	112	2.3k
Jørgen J. Leisner Denmark	23	701 0.8×	968 1.1×	416 0.7×	340 0.7×	184 0.5×	63	1.8k
Jan De Block Belgium	24	1.5k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	337 0.6×	554 1.1×	201 0.6×	60	3.0k
Pilar Calo‐Mata Spain	35	1.0k 1.1×	2.0k 2.2×	479 0.8×	274 0.5×	383 1.1×	80	3.2k
Mercedes López Spain	31	1.2k 1.3×	887 1.0×	433 0.8×	1.1k 2.2×	198 0.5×	82	2.7k
Elisabeth Borch Sweden	28	1.6k 1.7×	804 0.9×	1.1k 2.0×	929 1.8×	423 1.2×	45	2.8k
Paola Cremonesi Italy	33	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	228 0.4×	371 0.7×	183 0.5×	120	3.1k
Emanuela Zanardi Italy	33	1.4k 1.5×	1.5k 1.6×	1.6k 2.9×	597 1.2×	341 0.9×	112	3.6k
Marisa Manzano Italy	31	1.4k 1.5×	1.7k 1.8×	556 1.0×	548 1.1×	783 2.2×	130	3.4k
Frans J.M. Smulders Austria	32	1.1k 1.2×	445 0.5×	1.8k 3.2×	492 1.0×	290 0.8×	121	3.0k
Marie‐Christine Montel France	31	2.2k 2.4×	1.7k 1.8×	1.1k 2.0×	574 1.1×	164 0.5×	66	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gale Brightwell

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Wu, Shuyan, et al.. (2025). Challenges of Far-UVC222nm radiation for food safety applications. Food Control. 171. 111132–111132. 1 indexed citations

Feng, Ying, Marlon M. Reis, Aswathi Soni, et al.. (2025). High-throughput, rapid, and non-destructive detection of common foodborne pathogens via hyperspectral imaging coupled with deep neural networks and support vector machines. Food Research International. 202. 115598–115598. 6 indexed citations

Soni, Aswathi, Yash Dixit, Gale Brightwell, & Marlon M. Reis. (2024). Hyperspectral imaging and deep learning for detection and quantification of germination in Bacillus cereus spores. International Journal of Food Science & Technology. 59(5). 3505–3513. 3 indexed citations

Biggs, Patrick J., Sara A. Burgess, Anne C. Midwinter, et al.. (2024). Assessing antimicrobial resistance in pasture-based dairy farms: a 15-month surveillance study in New Zealand. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(11). e0139024–e0139024. 1 indexed citations

Cookson, Adrian L., Jonathan C. Marshall, Patrick J. Biggs, et al.. (2024). Impact of land-use and fecal contamination on Escherichia populations in environmental samples. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 32099–32099.

Feng, Ying, Aswathi Soni, Gale Brightwell, et al.. (2024). The potential new microbial hazard monitoring tool in food safety: Integration of metabolomics and artificial intelligence. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 149. 104555–104555. 17 indexed citations

Biggs, Patrick J., et al.. (2024). Impact of systemic antimicrobial therapy on the faecal microbiome in symptomatic dairy cows. PLoS ONE. 19(1). e0296290–e0296290. 2 indexed citations

Rapp, Delphine, Karin E. Schütz, Colleen Ross, et al.. (2023). Fecal excretion ofCampylobacter jejuniby young dairy calves and the relationship with neonatal immunity and personality traits. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 134(5). 1 indexed citations

Flint, Steve, Jon Palmer, Gale Brightwell, et al.. (2023). Non-Targeted Metabolomic Profiling Identifies Metabolites with Potential Antimicrobial Activity from an Anaerobic Bacterium Closely Related to Terrisporobacter Species. Metabolites. 13(2). 252–252. 8 indexed citations

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Soni, Aswathi & Gale Brightwell. (2023). Effect of novel and conventional food processing technologies on Bacillus cereus spores. Advances in food and nutrition research. 108. 265–287.

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Soni, Aswathi, Natalie A. Parlane, José G. B. Derraik, et al.. (2022). Efficacy of Dry Heat Treatment against Clostridioides difficile Spores and Mycobacterium tuberculosis on Filtering Facepiece Respirators. Pathogens. 11(8). 871–871. 2 indexed citations

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Biggs, Patrick J., et al.. (2022). Prevalence and distribution of extended-spectrum β-lactamase and AmpC-producing Escherichia coli in two New Zealand dairy farm environments. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 960748–960748. 10 indexed citations

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Gupta, Tanushree B., et al.. (2021). An investigation of the environmental niches of blown pack spoilage causing Clostridium estertheticum and Clostridium gasigenes on New Zealand beef and sheep farms. Food Microbiology. 98. 103769–103769. 4 indexed citations

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Palevich, Nikola, Paul Maclean, Ruy Jáuregui, et al.. (2020). Draft Genome Sequence of Psychrotolerant Clostridium sp. Strain M14, Isolated from Spoiled Uncooked Venison. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9(16). 3 indexed citations

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Brightwell, Gale, et al.. (2017). Molecular discrimination of New Zealand sourced meat spoilage associated psychrotolerant Clostridium species by ARDRA and its comparison with 16s RNA gene sequencing. Meat Science. 138. 23–27. 13 indexed citations

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Ennis, Sarah, Anna Murray, Gale Brightwell, Newton E. Morton, & P. A. Jacobs. (2007). Closely linkedcis‐acting modifier of expansion of the CGG repeat in high riskFMR1haplotypes. Human Mutation. 28(12). 1216–1224. 18 indexed citations

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Boerema, J.A., et al.. (2007). Influence of Peroxyacetic Acid–Based Carcass Rinse on the Onset of “Blown Pack” Spoilage in Artificially Inoculated Vacuum-Packed Chilled Beef. Journal of Food Protection. 70(6). 1434–1439. 29 indexed citations

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Brightwell, Gale, et al.. (2006). Development of a multiplex and real time PCR assay for the specific detection of Arcobacter butzleri and Arcobacter cryaerophilus. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 68(2). 318–325. 37 indexed citations

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Boerema, J.A., et al.. (2005). Evaluation of molecular methods to determine enterotoxigenic status and molecular genotype of bovine, ovine, human and food isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 107(2). 192–201. 91 indexed citations

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Brightwell, Gale, Martin Pearce, & Dario L. Leslie. (1998). Development of internal controls for PCR detection ofBacillus anthracis. Molecular and Cellular Probes. 12(6). 367–377. 37 indexed citations

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