Gerald F. Bills

13.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
214 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Gerald F. Bills is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald F. Bills has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Pharmacology, 83 papers in Cell Biology and 79 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Gerald F. Bills's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (87 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (83 papers) and Fungal Biology and Applications (61 papers). Gerald F. Bills is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (87 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (83 papers) and Fungal Biology and Applications (61 papers). Gerald F. Bills collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Japan. Gerald F. Bills's co-authors include Jon D. Polishook, David F. Farr, Amy Y. Rossman, George P. Chamuris, Gonzalo Platas, James B. Gloer, Íñigo Zabalgogeazcoa, J. D. Mihail, C. M. Rush and Sheo B. Singh and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Gerald F. Bills

210 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Fungi on Plants and Plant Products in the United States

1989 837 citations Gerald F. Bills, Amy Y. Rossman et al. profile →
Methods for Research on Soilborne Phytopathogenic Fungi

1993 515 citations Gerald F. Bills et al. Mycologia profile →
Antimicrobial activity of phenolic acids against commensal, probiotic and pathogenic bacteria

2010 429 citations Gerald F. Bills, Ángela Basilio et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerald F. Bills United States	47	4.3k	3.8k	3.1k	3.0k	1.5k	214	9.4k
Marc Stadler Germany	56	6.0k 1.4×	5.7k 1.5×	5.4k 1.8×	3.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	444	12.0k
Donald T. Wicklow United States	47	4.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	234	7.9k
Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen Denmark	55	3.6k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	3.5k 1.1×	3.9k 1.3×	551 0.4×	229	10.3k
Gary A. Strobel United States	62	6.6k 1.5×	5.5k 1.5×	7.7k 2.5×	4.0k 1.3×	2.2k 1.5×	307	15.9k
Alessio Cimmino Italy	43	3.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	1.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	737 0.5×	250	6.4k
Emilio L. Ghisalberti Australia	48	6.5k 1.5×	1.0k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	3.0k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	216	9.7k
Anna Andolfi Italy	43	2.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	710 0.5×	211	5.6k
Ronald D. Plattner United States	59	7.6k 1.7×	4.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.4×	2.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	224	10.6k
Anne Osbourn United Kingdom	67	6.9k 1.6×	1.2k 0.3×	1.9k 0.6×	9.2k 3.0×	720 0.5×	164	14.4k
Paul Tudzynski Germany	53	6.3k 1.4×	2.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	3.9k 1.3×	3.0k 1.9×	130	9.0k

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Yu, Chao, Jinmei Li, Meihui Zhao, et al.. (2025). Concise Biosynthesis of Antifungal Papulacandins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(11). 9037–9042.

Pérez‐Victoria, Ignacio, Noureddine El Aouad, Víctor González-Menéndez, et al.. (2025). MDN-0057 to MDN-0060, a Family of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics against Gram-Negative Pathogens Produced by Ophiosphaerella korrae. Journal of Natural Products. 88(2). 469–476.

Zhang, Yalong, Bruno Perlatti, Lin Wu, et al.. (2023). Biosynthesis of AS2077715 and Funiculosin: Pathway Reconstitution and Identification of Enzymes that Form the All-cis Cyclopentanetetraol Moiety. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(12). 6643–6647. 5 indexed citations

Perlatti, Bruno, Nan Lan, Meichun Xiang, et al.. (2021). Anti-cryptococcal activity of preussolides A and B, phosphoethanolamine-substituted 24-membered macrolides, and leptosin C from coprophilous isolates of Preussia typharum. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 48(9-10). 8 indexed citations

Becker, Kevin, et al.. (2020). Phylogenetic and Chemotaxonomic Studies Confirm the Affinities of Stromatoneurospora phoenix to the Coprophilous Xylariaceae. Journal of Fungi. 6(3). 144–144. 22 indexed citations

Perlatti, Bruno, Connie B. Nichols, J. Andrew Alspaugh, James B. Gloer, & Gerald F. Bills. (2020). Sphaerostilbellins, New Antimicrobial Aminolipopeptide Peptaibiotics from Sphaerostilbella toxica. Biomolecules. 10(10). 1371–1371. 9 indexed citations

Untereiner, Wendy A., Qun Yue, Li Chen, et al.. (2019). PhialophorasectionCatenulataedisassembled: New genera, species, and combinations and a new family encompassing taxa with cleistothecial ascomata and phialidic asexual states. Mycologia. 111(6). 998–1027. 8 indexed citations

Kuhnert, Eric, Yan Li, Nan Lan, et al.. (2018). Enfumafungin synthase represents a novel lineage of fungal triterpene cyclases. Environmental Microbiology. 20(9). 3325–3342. 30 indexed citations

Igarashi, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2014). Species-level assessment of secondary metabolite diversity amongHamigeraspecies and a taxonomic note on the genus. Mycology: An International Journal on Fungal Biology. 5(3). 102–109. 20 indexed citations

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Overy, David P., Paul Bayman, Russell G. Kerr, & Gerald F. Bills. (2014). An assessment of natural product discovery from marine ( sensu strictu ) and marine-derived fungi. Mycology: An International Journal on Fungal Biology. 5(3). 145–167. 54 indexed citations

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Aldana, Beatriz R. Vázquez de, Gerald F. Bills, & Íñigo Zabalgogeazcoa. (2013). Are endophytes an important link between airborne spores and allergen exposure?. Fungal Diversity. 60(1). 33–42. 35 indexed citations

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Bills, Gerald F., et al.. (2010). Endophytic mycobiota of leaves and roots of the grass Holcus lanatus. Fungal Diversity. 41(1). 115–123. 128 indexed citations

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Jayasuriya, Hiranthi, Deborah L. Zink, Ángela Basilio, et al.. (2009). Discovery and antibacterial activity of glabramycin A–C from Neosartorya glabra by an antisense strategy. The Journal of Antibiotics. 62(5). 265–269. 25 indexed citations

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Bills, Gerald F., et al.. (2008). Diversity and structure of the fungal endophytic assemblages from two sympatric coastal grasses.. Fungal Diversity. 33. 87–100. 126 indexed citations

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Bills, Gerald F., et al.. (2007). The endophytic mycobiota of the grass Dactylis glomerata. Fungal Diversity. 171–195. 148 indexed citations

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Collado, Javier, Gonzalo Platas, Gerald F. Bills, et al.. (2006). Studies on Morinia: Recognition of Morinia longiappendiculata sp. nov. as a new endophytic fungus, and a new circumscription of Morinia pestalozzioides. Mycologia. 98(4). 616–627. 9 indexed citations

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Bills, Gerald F., Javier Collado, Constantino Ruibal, Fernando Peláez, & Gonzalo Platas. (2004). Hormonema carpetanum sp. nov., a new lineage of dothideaceous black yeasts from Spain. Studies in Mycology. 50(1). 149–157. 16 indexed citations

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Bills, Gerald F. & Fernando Peláez. (1996). Endophytic isolates of Creosphaeria sassafras. Mycotaxon. 57. 471–477. 2 indexed citations

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Mandala, Suzanne, Rosemary Thornton, BETH R. FROMMER, et al.. (1995). The Discovery of Australifungin, a Novel Inhibitor of Sphinganine N-Acyltransferase from Sporormiella australis. Producing Organism, Fermentation, Isolation, and Biological Activity.. The Journal of Antibiotics. 48(5). 349–356. 137 indexed citations

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Polishook, Jon D., Gerald F. Bills, & Amy Y. Rossman. (1991). A New Species of Neocosmospora with a Penicillifer Anamorph. Mycologia. 83(6). 797–804. 8 indexed citations

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