J. Rodney Brister

17.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

J. Rodney Brister is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Rodney Brister has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in J. Rodney Brister's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (4 papers). J. Rodney Brister is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (4 papers). J. Rodney Brister collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. J. Rodney Brister's co-authors include Danso Ako-adjei, Yīmíng Bào, Olga Blinkova, Kenneth Katz, Michael Kimelman, Kenneth N. Kreuzer, Richard T. Lapoint, Christopher D. O’Sullivan, Kim D. Pruitt and William Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Molecular Biology and Genome biology.

In The Last Decade

J. Rodney Brister

18 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

NCBI Viral Genomes Resource 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 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. NCBI Viral Genomes Resource
    2014 399 citations J. Rodney Brister, Danso Ako-adjei et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. The Sequence Read Archive: a decade more of explosive growth
    2021 191 citations Kenneth Katz, Richard T. Lapoint et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
J. Rodney Brister United States 13 678 361 212 211 143 18 1.1k
Cameron N. Gundry United States 5 962 1.4× 222 0.6× 132 0.6× 257 1.2× 257 1.8× 5 1.7k
Matthew T. Hickenbotham United States 7 612 0.9× 185 0.5× 162 0.8× 252 1.2× 248 1.7× 7 1.1k
Joshua G Vandersteen United States 5 923 1.4× 210 0.6× 111 0.5× 251 1.2× 270 1.9× 5 1.6k
Mario Cáccamo United Kingdom 16 748 1.1× 217 0.6× 169 0.8× 423 2.0× 308 2.2× 21 1.4k
Emmanuel Cornillot France 18 921 1.4× 189 0.5× 295 1.4× 338 1.6× 159 1.1× 47 1.8k
Marcus Lechner Germany 15 974 1.4× 406 1.1× 134 0.6× 271 1.3× 278 1.9× 32 1.4k
Basem Al-Shayeb United States 17 1.4k 2.0× 298 0.8× 338 1.6× 355 1.7× 214 1.5× 19 1.8k
Kevin Lamkiewicz Germany 8 612 0.9× 130 0.4× 147 0.7× 149 0.7× 91 0.6× 17 921
Gordon Stephen United Kingdom 10 790 1.2× 243 0.7× 138 0.7× 673 3.2× 357 2.5× 11 1.6k
Samuel O. Oyola Kenya 13 430 0.6× 149 0.4× 149 0.7× 134 0.6× 130 0.9× 29 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by J. Rodney Brister

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. Rodney Brister

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Dutilh, Bas E., Arvind Varsani, Yigang Tong, et al.. (2021). Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses. Current Opinion in Virology. 51. 207–215. 35 indexed citations
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Katz, Kenneth, et al.. (2021). STAT: a fast, scalable, MinHash-based k-mer tool to assess Sequence Read Archive next-generation sequence submissions. Genome biology. 22(1). 270–270. 46 indexed citations
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Katz, Kenneth, et al.. (2021). The Sequence Read Archive: a decade more of explosive growth. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(D1). D387–D390. 191 indexed citations breakdown →
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Katz, Kenneth, et al.. (2021). STAT: A fast, scalable, MinHash-based k-mer tool to assess Sequence Read Archive next generation sequence submissions.. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Schäffer, Alejandro A., Eneida Hatcher, Linda Yankie, et al.. (2020). VADR: validation and annotation of virus sequence submissions to GenBank. BMC Bioinformatics. 21(1). 211–211. 42 indexed citations
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Li, Jianghong, Jay D. Evans, Robyn Rose, et al.. (2019). The Phylogeny and Pathogenesis of Sacbrood Virus (SBV) Infection in European Honey Bees, Apis mellifera. Viruses. 11(1). 61–61. 26 indexed citations
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Tolstoy, Igor, Andrew M. Kropinski, & J. Rodney Brister. (2017). Bacteriophage Taxonomy: An Evolving Discipline. Methods in molecular biology. 1693. 57–71. 34 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney, Danso Ako-adjei, Yīmíng Bào, & Olga Blinkova. (2014). NCBI Viral Genomes Resource. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D571–D577. 399 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ako-adjei, Danso, William Fu, Craig Wallin, et al.. (2014). HIV-1, human interaction database: current status and new features. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D566–D570. 113 indexed citations
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Bào, Yīmíng, J. Rodney Brister, Olga Blinkova, Danso Ako-adjei, & Vyacheslav Chetvernin. (2013). About Viral and Phage Genome Processing and Tools. 1 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney, Yīmíng Bào, Vyacheslav Chetvernin, et al.. (2013). Virus Variation Resource—recent updates and future directions. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D660–D665. 37 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney, Philippe Le Mercier, & James C. Hu. (2012). Microbial virus genome annotation—Mustering the troops to fight the sequence onslaught. Virology. 434(2). 175–180. 8 indexed citations
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Klimke, William, Claire O’Donovan, Owen White, et al.. (2011). Solving the Problem: Genome Annotation Standards before the Data Deluge. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 5(1). 168–193. 45 indexed citations
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Kreuzer, Kenneth N. & J. Rodney Brister. (2010). Initiation of bacteriophage T4 DNA replication and replication fork dynamics: a review in the Virology Journal series on bacteriophage T4 and its relatives. Virology Journal. 7(1). 358–358. 82 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney, Yīmíng Bào, Carla Kuiken, et al.. (2010). Towards Viral Genome Annotation Standards, Report from the 2010 NCBI Annotation Workshop. Viruses. 2(10). 2258–2268. 15 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney. (2008). Origin Activation Requires both Replicative and Accessory Helicases during T4 Infection. Journal of Molecular Biology. 377(5). 1304–1313. 10 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney & Nancy G. Nossal. (2007). Multiple Origins of Replication Contribute to a Discontinuous Pattern of DNA Synthesis Across the T4 Genome During Infection. Journal of Molecular Biology. 368(2). 336–348. 6 indexed citations
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Lalwani, Anil K., et al.. (1994). A new nonsyndromic X-linked sensorineural hearing impairment linked to Xp21.2.. PubMed. 55(4). 685–94. 45 indexed citations

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