James A. Cotton

11.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
122 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

James A. Cotton is a scholar working on Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, James A. Cotton has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Ecology, 41 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 40 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in James A. Cotton's work include Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (39 papers), Parasites and Host Interactions (37 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (34 papers). James A. Cotton is often cited by papers focused on Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (39 papers), Parasites and Host Interactions (37 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (34 papers). James A. Cotton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. James A. Cotton's co-authors include James O. McInerney, Stephen J. Rossiter, Davide Pisani, Victoria Svinti, Matthew Berriman, Mandy Sanders, Roderic Page, Shuyi Zhang, Joe Parker and Elia Stupka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James A. Cotton

116 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

New approaches for unravelling reassortment pathways

2013 414 citations Victoria Svinti, James A. Cotton et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James A. Cotton United Kingdom	42	1.7k	1.4k	1.3k	1.1k	1.0k	122	5.2k
Adalgisa Caccone United States	52	2.4k 1.4×	2.4k 1.8×	2.3k 1.7×	623 0.6×	474 0.5×	252	8.9k
Alex D. Greenwood Germany	33	1.2k 0.7×	235 0.2×	781 0.6×	544 0.5×	305 0.3×	125	3.3k
Xuhua Xia Canada	41	4.6k 2.7×	332 0.2×	2.6k 2.0×	394 0.4×	282 0.3×	164	10.1k
Patrick Forster Germany	7	2.5k 1.5×	302 0.2×	3.0k 2.3×	291 0.3×	409 0.4×	20	9.5k
Peter G. Foster United Kingdom	39	3.3k 2.0×	529 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	131 0.1×	478 0.5×	75	5.5k
Sebastián E. Ramos‐Onsins Spain	24	3.2k 1.9×	352 0.3×	2.0k 1.5×	233 0.2×	395 0.4×	55	8.9k
Michael A. Mares United States	43	857 0.5×	268 0.2×	2.7k 2.1×	133 0.1×	1.0k 1.0×	164	6.0k
Michael J. Stanhope United States	54	3.9k 2.3×	635 0.5×	2.7k 2.1×	504 0.5×	149 0.1×	127	10.1k
David Serre United States	36	1.7k 1.0×	889 0.6×	846 0.7×	180 0.2×	291 0.3×	82	5.1k
DeeAnn M. Reeder United States	29	628 0.4×	314 0.2×	3.4k 2.6×	202 0.2×	380 0.4×	63	7.4k

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Yizengaw, Endalew, Yegnasew Takele, Susanne U. Franssen, et al.. (2024). Investigation of parasite genetic variation and systemic immune responses in patients presenting with different clinical presentations of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania aethiopica. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 13(1). 76–76. 5 indexed citations

Rawlinson, Kate A., Kirsty Ambridge, Geetha Sankaranarayanan, et al.. (2024). A single-cell atlas of the miracidium larva of Schistosoma mansoni reveals cell types, developmental pathways, and tissue architecture. eLife. 13. 4 indexed citations

Adem, Emebet, Endalew Yizengaw, Yegnasew Takele, et al.. (2024). Distinct neutrophil effector functions in response to different isolates of Leishmania aethiopica. Parasites & Vectors. 17(1). 461–461.

Sanders, Mandy, Jeffrey Jon Shaw, Sinval Pinto Brandão-Filho, et al.. (2024). Evolutionary genomics of Leishmania braziliensis across the neotropical realm. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1587–1587. 3 indexed citations

Yizengaw, Endalew, Endalkachew Nibret, Gizachew Yismaw, et al.. (2023). Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Newly Established Treatment Centre in the Lay Gayint District, Northwest Ethiopia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). e229–e229. 6 indexed citations

Maes, Ilse, Mandy Sanders, Lon‐Fye Lye, et al.. (2023). Diversity and dissemination of viruses in pathogenic protozoa. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8343–8343. 10 indexed citations

Ong, Han B., Simon Clare, Cordelia Brandt, et al.. (2022). Systematic identification of genes encoding cell surface and secreted proteins that are essential for in vitro growth and infection in Leishmania donovani. PLoS Pathogens. 18(2). e1010364–e1010364. 4 indexed citations

Ribado, Jessica V., Elizabeth A. Thiele, Hil Lyons, et al.. (2021). Linked surveillance and genetic data uncovers programmatically relevant geographic scale of Guinea worm transmission in Chad. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(7). e0009609–e0009609. 7 indexed citations

Skalický, Tomáš, João M. P. Alves, Anzhelika Butenko, et al.. (2021). Endosymbiont Capture, a Repeated Process of Endosymbiont Transfer with Replacement in Trypanosomatids Angomonas spp.. Pathogens. 10(6). 702–702. 3 indexed citations

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Baptista, Rodrigo P., Yiran Li, Adam Sateriale, et al.. (2021). Long-read assembly and comparative evidence-based reanalysis of Cryptosporidium genome sequences reveal expanded transporter repertoire and duplication of entire chromosome ends including subtelomeric regions. Genome Research. 32(1). 203–213. 36 indexed citations

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Tracey, Alan, Jeremy M. Foster, Michael Paulini, et al.. (2020). Nearly Complete Genome Sequence of Brugia malayi Strain FR3. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9(24). 11 indexed citations

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Sallé, Guillaume, Stephen R. Doyle, Jacques J. Cortet, et al.. (2019). The global diversity of Haemonchus contortus is shaped by human intervention and climate. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4811–4811. 68 indexed citations

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Coughlan, Simone, Alysha Taylor, Mandy Sanders, et al.. (2018). Leishmania naiffi and Leishmania guyanensis reference genomes highlight genome structure and gene evolution in the Viannia subgenus. Royal Society Open Science. 5(4). 172212–172212. 25 indexed citations

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Cotton, James A., Mandy Sanders, Asrat Hailu, et al.. (2018). Genome wide comparison of Ethiopian Leishmania donovani strains reveals differences potentially related to parasite survival. PLoS Genetics. 14(1). e1007133–e1007133. 31 indexed citations

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Cuypers, Bart, Maya Berg, Hideo Imamura, et al.. (2018). Integrated genomic and metabolomic profiling of ISC1, an emerging Leishmania donovani population in the Indian subcontinent. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 62. 170–178. 25 indexed citations

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Valdivia, Hugo O., Bruno Mendes Roatt, João Luís Reis-Cunha, et al.. (2017). Comparative genomics of canine-isolated Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis from an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Governador Valadares, southeastern Brazil. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 40804–40804. 60 indexed citations

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Lamberton, Poppy H. L., Thomas Crellen, James A. Cotton, & Joanne P. Webster. (2015). Modelling the Effects of Mass Drug Administration on the Molecular Epidemiology of Schistosomes. Advances in Parasitology. 87. 293–327. 14 indexed citations

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Svinti, Victoria, James A. Cotton, & James O. McInerney. (2013). New approaches for unravelling reassortment pathways. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13(1). 1–1. 414 indexed citations breakdown →

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Loader, Simon P., Mark Wilkinson, James A. Cotton, et al.. (2011). Molecular phylogenetics of Boulengerula (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) and implications for taxonomy, biogeography and conservation. Herpetological Journal. 21(1). 18 indexed citations

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Cotton, James A. & Mark Wilkinson. (2008). Quantifying the potential utility of phylogenetic characters. Taxon. 57(1). 131–136. 9 indexed citations

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