Gavin Ferguson

400 total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 190 citations indexed

About

Gavin Ferguson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Gavin Ferguson has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 190 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 1 paper in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Gavin Ferguson's work include Glutathione Transferases and Polymorphisms (2 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (2 papers) and Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (1 paper). Gavin Ferguson is often cited by papers focused on Glutathione Transferases and Polymorphisms (2 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (2 papers) and Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (1 paper). Gavin Ferguson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, France and Denmark. Gavin Ferguson's co-authors include Wallace Bridge, José A. Lorente, Helgi B. Schiöth, Alexander S. Hauser, David E. Gloriam, Kutti R. Vinothkumar, Giuseppe Cannone, Aurélien Fouillen, Abhay Kotecha and Guillaume Lebon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery and Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

In The Last Decade

Gavin Ferguson

4 papers receiving 189 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.

GPCR drug discovery: new agents, targets and indications

2025 31 citations José A. Lorente, Gavin Ferguson et al. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gavin Ferguson Australia	3	93	43	35	25	20	4	190
Saima Saeed Pakistan	5	176 1.9×	36 0.8×	30 0.9×	69 2.8×	18 0.9×	13	330
Graciele Almeida de Oliveira Brazil	7	199 2.1×	61 1.4×	60 1.7×	81 3.2×	8 0.4×	8	367
Suzanne Angeli United States	7	132 1.4×	82 1.9×	9 0.3×	51 2.0×	28 1.4×	9	275
Patrick O. Helmer Germany	12	188 2.0×	14 0.3×	32 0.9×	13 0.5×	14 0.7×	14	281
Xutong Tian China	4	87 0.9×	19 0.4×	6 0.2×	59 2.4×	17 0.8×	8	217
Yuji Fuse Japan	8	258 2.8×	13 0.3×	8 0.2×	25 1.0×	14 0.7×	10	348
Liliana Batista-Nascimento Portugal	7	187 2.0×	10 0.2×	9 0.3×	30 1.2×	39 1.9×	8	301
Hiromi Yamazaki Japan	8	219 2.4×	10 0.2×	17 0.5×	55 2.2×	7 0.3×	14	319
Antonio Velázquez-Arellano Mexico	11	94 1.0×	45 1.0×	20 0.6×	51 2.0×	24 1.2×	19	241
Μαριάννα Καπετάνου Greece	8	181 1.9×	67 1.6×	11 0.3×	119 4.8×	13 0.7×	13	374

Countries citing papers authored by Gavin Ferguson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gavin Ferguson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gavin Ferguson

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

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Lorente, José A., et al.. (2025). GPCR drug discovery: new agents, targets and indications. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 24(6). 458–479. 31 indexed citations breakdown →

2.

Cannone, Giuseppe, Fanny Malhaire, Gavin Ferguson, et al.. (2025). Conformational diversity in class C GPCR positive allosteric modulation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 619–619. 1 indexed citations

3.

Ferguson, Gavin & Wallace Bridge. (2019). The glutathione system and the related thiol network in Caenorhabditis elegans. Redox Biology. 24. 101171–101171. 93 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Gavin & Wallace Bridge. (2016). Glutamate cysteine ligase and the age-related decline in cellular glutathione: The therapeutic potential of γ-glutamylcysteine. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 593. 12–23. 65 indexed citations

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