Gerard D. Wright

47.6k total citations · 17 hit papers
296 papers, 27.0k citations indexed

About

Gerard D. Wright is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerard D. Wright has authored 296 papers receiving a total of 27.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Molecular Biology, 126 papers in Molecular Medicine and 98 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Gerard D. Wright's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (126 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (81 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (40 papers). Gerard D. Wright is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (126 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (81 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (40 papers). Gerard D. Wright collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Gerard D. Wright's co-authors include Eric D. Brown, Donald W. Hughes, Vanessa M. D’Costa, Kalinka Koteva, Mike Tyers, Nicholas Waglechner, Georgina Cox, Lindsay Kalan, Julie Perry and Maulik Thaker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Gerard D. Wright

291 papers receiving 26.3k citations

Hit Papers

Antibiotic resistance is ancient 1991 2026 2002 2014 2011 2016 2006 2007 2010 500 1000 1.5k
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. Antibiotic resistance is ancient
    2011 1.9k citations Hendrik N. Poinar, Gerard D. Wright et al. Nature profile →
  2. Antibacterial drug discovery in the resistance era
    2016 1.7k citations Gerard D. Wright et al. Nature profile →
  3. Sampling the Antibiotic Resistome
    2006 1.1k citations Gerard D. Wright et al. profile →
  4. The antibiotic resistome: the nexus of chemical and genetic diversity
    2007 985 citations Gerard D. Wright Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
  5. Antibiotic resistance in the environment: a link to the clinic?
    2010 607 citations Gerard D. Wright profile →
  6. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics: Enzymatic degradation and modification
    2005 598 citations Gerard D. Wright profile →
  7. Drug combinations: a strategy to extend the life of antibiotics in the 21st century
    2019 577 citations Mike Tyers, Gerard D. Wright Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
  8. Molecular basis for vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium BM4147: biosynthesis of a depsipeptide peptidoglycan precursor by vancomycin resistance proteins VanH and VanA
    1991 521 citations Timothy D. H. Bugg, Gerard D. Wright et al. Biochemistry profile →
  9. Antibiotic Resistance Is Prevalent in an Isolated Cave Microbiome
    2012 482 citations Nicholas Waglechner, Kalinka Koteva et al. profile →
  10. Intrinsic antibiotic resistance: Mechanisms, origins, challenges and solutions
    2013 449 citations Georgina Cox, Gerard D. Wright profile →
  11. Antibiotic Adjuvants: Rescuing Antibiotics from Resistance
    2016 448 citations Gerard D. Wright profile →
  12. Aspergillomarasmine A overcomes metallo-β-lactamase antibiotic resistance
    2014 429 citations Gianfranco De Pascale, Brian K. Coombes et al. Nature profile →
  13. The past, present, and future of antibiotics
    2022 366 citations Michael A. Cook, Gerard D. Wright profile →
  14. Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture
    2020 326 citations Matthew C. Fisher, Sarah J. Gurr et al. mBio profile →
  15. Opportunities for natural products in 21st century antibiotic discovery
    2017 258 citations Gerard D. Wright profile →
  16. Antibiotic resistance: A key microbial survival mechanism that threatens public health
    2024 70 citations Dirk Hackenberger, Gerard D. Wright et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
  17. A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome
    2025 24 citations Manoj Jangra, Dmitrii Y. Travin et al. 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
Gerard D. Wright Canada 83 12.3k 9.0k 5.1k 5.1k 4.2k 296 27.0k
Laura J. V. Piddock United Kingdom 73 6.6k 0.5× 11.2k 1.2× 3.4k 0.7× 4.1k 0.8× 3.2k 0.8× 262 22.4k
Stuart B. Levy United States 72 8.1k 0.7× 9.4k 1.0× 4.6k 0.9× 3.2k 0.6× 2.9k 0.7× 256 24.1k
Julian Davies Canada 74 12.9k 1.0× 6.2k 0.7× 4.2k 0.8× 3.3k 0.6× 2.5k 0.6× 251 25.5k
Jianzhong Shen China 68 6.8k 0.6× 8.8k 1.0× 5.0k 1.0× 3.1k 0.6× 3.1k 0.7× 535 22.3k
José Luis Martínez Spain 70 8.1k 0.7× 9.5k 1.1× 8.5k 1.7× 2.0k 0.4× 2.0k 0.5× 263 23.4k
Fernando Baquero Spain 87 7.8k 0.6× 12.5k 1.4× 6.4k 1.3× 3.6k 0.7× 5.9k 1.4× 493 29.4k
David C. Hooper United States 78 6.7k 0.5× 12.8k 1.4× 3.0k 0.6× 7.0k 1.4× 5.3k 1.3× 274 24.2k
Louis B. Rice United States 58 6.7k 0.5× 13.3k 1.5× 2.7k 0.5× 4.3k 0.8× 8.0k 1.9× 176 27.3k
Kim Lewis United States 67 10.7k 0.9× 5.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.2× 2.4k 0.5× 2.9k 0.7× 135 20.9k
Patrice Courvalin France 98 12.1k 1.0× 11.8k 1.3× 2.8k 0.6× 3.8k 0.8× 13.4k 3.2× 434 33.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hackenberger, Dirk, Amogelang R. Raphenya, Brian Alcock, et al.. (2025). CARPDM: cost-effective antibiotic resistome profiling of metagenomic samples using targeted enrichment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(3). e0187624–e0187624. 3 indexed citations
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Jangra, Manoj, Dmitrii Y. Travin, Elena V. Aleksandrova, et al.. (2025). A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome. Nature. 640(8060). 1022–1030. 24 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gelin, Muriel, Gilles Labesse, Felix Hausch, et al.. (2025). Fragment-based drug design of a bacterial kinase inhibitor capable of increasing the antibiotic sensitivity of clinical isolates. Communications Chemistry. 8(1). 417–417. 1 indexed citations
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Cauchemez, Simon, Giulio Cossu, Nathalie M. Delzenne, et al.. (2024). Standing the test of COVID-19: charting the new frontiers of medicine. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 6 indexed citations
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Mokomane, Margaret, Kwana Lechiile, David A. Goldfarb, et al.. (2024). Minimal Impact on the Resistome of Children in Botswana After Azithromycin Treatment for Acute Severe Diarrheal Disease. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 230(1). 239–249. 1 indexed citations
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Hackenberger, Dirk, et al.. (2024). Antibiotic resistance: A key microbial survival mechanism that threatens public health. Cell Host & Microbe. 32(6). 837–851. 70 indexed citations breakdown →
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Koteva, Kalinka, Min Xu, Wenliang Wang, et al.. (2023). Synthetic Biology Facilitates Semisynthetic Development of Type V Glycopeptide Antibiotics Targeting Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 66(13). 9006–9022. 3 indexed citations
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Hernández, Sara B., Elizabeth Culp, Gerard D. Wright, et al.. (2023). Staphylococcus aureus susceptibility to complestatin and corbomycin depends on the VraSR two-component system. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(5). e0037023–e0037023. 1 indexed citations
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Cook, Michael A., Linda Ejim, Xiaodong Wang, et al.. (2023). Lessons from assembling a microbial natural product and pre-fractionated extract library in an academic laboratory. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 50(1). 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Jinhua, Christopher T. Walsh, Gerard D. Wright, et al.. (2021). Prospects for Antibacterial Discovery and Development. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(50). 21127–21142. 66 indexed citations
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Sloot, Almer M. van der, Caroline Huard, Jasmin Coulombe‐Huntington, et al.. (2020). Imipridone Anticancer Compounds Ectopically Activate the ClpP Protease and Represent a New Scaffold for Antibiotic Development. Genetics. 214(4). 1103–1120. 42 indexed citations
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Fisher, Matthew C., Sarah J. Gurr, Christina A. Cuomo, et al.. (2020). Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture. mBio. 11(3). 326 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tyers, Mike & Gerard D. Wright. (2019). Drug combinations: a strategy to extend the life of antibiotics in the 21st century. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 17(3). 141–155. 577 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thomy, Dhana, Elizabeth Culp, Martina Adamek, et al.. (2019). The ADEP Biosynthetic Gene Cluster in Streptomyces hawaiiensis NRRL 15010 Reveals an Accessory clpP Gene as a Novel Antibiotic Resistance Factor. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(20). 27 indexed citations
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Cheng, Zishuo, Hao Yang, Mahesh Aitha, et al.. (2017). Probing the Interaction of Aspergillomarasmine A with Metallo-β-lactamases NDM-1, VIM-2, and IMP-7. ACS Infectious Diseases. 4(2). 135–145. 47 indexed citations
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Cox, Georgina, et al.. (2014). Inhibition of the ANT(2″)-Ia resistance enzyme and rescue of aminoglycoside antibiotic activity by synthetic α-hydroxytropolones. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 24(21). 4943–4947. 40 indexed citations
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Taylor, Patricia L., Laura Rossi, Gianfranco De Pascale, & Gerard D. Wright. (2012). A Forward Chemical Screen Identifies Antibiotic Adjuvants in Escherichia coli. ACS Chemical Biology. 7(9). 1547–1555. 60 indexed citations
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Taylor, Patricia L. & Gerard D. Wright. (2008). Novel approaches to discovery of antibacterial agents. Animal Health Research Reviews. 9(2). 237–246. 22 indexed citations
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Neu, John M. & Gerard D. Wright. (2001). Inhibition of sporulation, glycopeptide antibiotic production and resistance in Streptomyces toyocaensis NRRL 15009 by protein kinase inhibitors. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 199(1). 15–20. 15 indexed citations
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Bugg, Timothy D. H., Gerard D. Wright, Sylvie Dutka‐Malen, et al.. (1991). Molecular basis for vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium BM4147: biosynthesis of a depsipeptide peptidoglycan precursor by vancomycin resistance proteins VanH and VanA. Biochemistry. 30(43). 10408–10415. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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