J. Rodney Brister

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

J. Rodney Brister is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Rodney Brister has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in J. Rodney Brister's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (5 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (4 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4 papers). J. Rodney Brister is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (5 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (4 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4 papers). J. Rodney Brister collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. J. Rodney Brister's co-authors include Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Nicholas Muzyczka, Dann Turner, Benjamin Bolduc, Andrew M. Kropinski, Ho Bin Jang, Matthew B. Sullivan, Mart Krupovìč, Jens H. Kuhn and Simon Roux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

J. Rodney Brister

13 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks
    2019 572 citations Ho Bin Jang, Benjamin Bolduc et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  2. How to Name and Classify Your Phage: An Informal Guide
    2017 330 citations Evelien M. Adriaenssens, J. Rodney Brister Viruses 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 8 894 711 302 259 226 13 1.4k
Janne Ravantti Finland 23 896 1.0× 656 0.9× 195 0.6× 371 1.4× 196 0.9× 49 1.3k
Adi Stern Israel 20 605 0.7× 999 1.4× 334 1.1× 343 1.3× 376 1.7× 36 1.7k
Sandra Jeudy France 18 972 1.1× 604 0.8× 128 0.4× 587 2.3× 117 0.5× 31 1.5k
Lina Barrassi France 9 844 0.9× 294 0.4× 179 0.6× 547 2.1× 115 0.5× 13 1.1k
Maija K. Pietilä Finland 18 697 0.8× 431 0.6× 332 1.1× 235 0.9× 94 0.4× 24 928
Mickaël Boyer France 14 755 0.8× 339 0.5× 168 0.6× 477 1.8× 82 0.4× 20 1.1k
Tamara V. Feldblyum United States 14 511 0.6× 947 1.3× 196 0.6× 310 1.2× 327 1.4× 18 1.7k
Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues Brazil 20 693 0.8× 335 0.5× 144 0.5× 425 1.6× 75 0.3× 53 1.0k
Lionel Bertaux France 13 890 1.0× 324 0.5× 156 0.5× 556 2.1× 94 0.4× 18 1.3k
Gerry Tonkin‐Hill United Kingdom 15 213 0.2× 576 0.8× 252 0.8× 127 0.5× 177 0.8× 35 1.4k

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

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All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Brister, J. Rodney, et al.. (2022). Novel counterexample to the Nelson-Seiberg theorem. Physical review. D. 106(8). 1 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney, et al.. (2021). A formal notion of genericity and term-by-term vanishing superpotentials at supersymmetric vacua from R-symmetric Wess-Zumino models. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021(12). 2 indexed citations
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Jang, Ho Bin, Benjamin Bolduc, Olivier Zablocki, et al.. (2019). Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks. Nature Biotechnology. 37(6). 632–639. 572 indexed citations breakdown →
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Adriaenssens, Evelien M. & J. Rodney Brister. (2017). How to Name and Classify Your Phage: An Informal Guide. Viruses. 9(4). 70–70. 330 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hatcher, Eneida, Yīmíng Bào, Olga Blinkova, et al.. (2016). Virus Variation Resource – improved response to emergent viral outbreaks. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(D1). D482–D490. 270 indexed citations
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Alexandre, Jean & J. Rodney Brister. (2015). Effective matter dispersion relation in quantum covariant Horava-Lifshitz gravity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 92(2). 3 indexed citations
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Alexandre, Jean & J. Rodney Brister. (2013). Fermion effective dispersion relation forz=2Lifshitz QED. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(6). 7 indexed citations
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Jones, Charles E., et al.. (2012). Mutational Analysis of the T4 Gp59 Helicase Loader Reveals Its Sites for Interaction with Helicase, Single-stranded Binding Protein, and DNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(22). 18596–18607. 3 indexed citations
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Alexandre, Jean, et al.. (2012). Higher-order corrections in a four-fermion Lifshitz model. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(2). 10 indexed citations
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Lou, Hua Jane, J. Rodney Brister, Jianwei Jeffery Li, et al.. (2004). Adeno‐Associated Virus Rep78/Rep68 Promotes Localized Melting of the Rep Binding Element in the Absence of Adenosine Triphosphate. ChemBioChem. 5(3). 324–332. 10 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney, et al.. (2003). Characterization of the adenoassociated virus Rep protein complex formed on the viral origin of DNA replication. Virology. 313(2). 364–376. 22 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney & Nicholas Muzyczka. (2000). Mechanism of Rep-Mediated Adeno-Associated Virus Origin Nicking. Journal of Virology. 74(17). 7762–7771. 65 indexed citations
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Brister, J. Rodney & Nicholas Muzyczka. (1999). Rep-Mediated Nicking of the Adeno-Associated Virus Origin Requires Two Biochemical Activities, DNA Helicase Activity and Transesterification. Journal of Virology. 73(11). 9325–9336. 69 indexed citations

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