James E. Bray

11.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

James E. Bray is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, James E. Bray has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Epidemiology and 17 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in James E. Bray's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (16 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers). James E. Bray is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (16 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers). James E. Bray collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. James E. Bray's co-authors include Martin Maiden, Keith A. Jolley, Noel McCarthy, Christine Orengo, Udo Oppermann, Melissa J. Jansen van Rensburg, Suzanne A. Ford, Sarah G. Earle, Brian D. Marsden and Janet M. Thornton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

James E. Bray

62 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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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.

MLST revisited: the gene-by-gene approach to bacterial genomics

2013 487 citations Martin Maiden, Melissa J. Jansen van Rensburg et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James E. Bray United Kingdom	27	1.9k	415	370	348	342	65	3.0k
Begoña Heras Australia	28	1.5k 0.8×	192 0.5×	399 1.1×	169 0.5×	147 0.4×	90	2.5k
Lothar Jänsch Germany	37	3.6k 1.9×	307 0.7×	132 0.4×	236 0.7×	473 1.4×	116	5.2k
Joshua J. Woodward United States	35	2.5k 1.3×	364 0.9×	159 0.4×	283 0.8×	370 1.1×	57	4.9k
Nathaniel I. Martin Netherlands	35	2.0k 1.1×	275 0.7×	99 0.3×	463 1.3×	479 1.4×	135	3.4k
Manish Kumar India	26	2.0k 1.1×	344 0.8×	89 0.2×	133 0.4×	257 0.8×	103	3.2k
Steven R. Blanke United States	36	1.4k 0.7×	321 0.8×	111 0.3×	184 0.5×	163 0.5×	71	3.5k
Konstantinos Beis United Kingdom	31	1.7k 0.9×	142 0.3×	257 0.7×	255 0.7×	182 0.5×	67	3.1k
Lefu Lan China	33	2.4k 1.2×	234 0.6×	164 0.4×	422 1.2×	140 0.4×	101	4.2k
Carlos Contreras‐Martel France	30	1.3k 0.7×	363 0.9×	228 0.6×	206 0.6×	85 0.2×	50	2.5k
Vincent Villeret France	31	1.9k 1.0×	243 0.6×	498 1.3×	202 0.6×	65 0.2×	85	2.9k

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Jolley, Keith A., James E. Bray, Melissa J. Jansen van Rensburg, et al.. (2025). Investigating the population structure of Moraxella catarrhalis using a cgMLST scheme and LIN code system. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9137–9137. 1 indexed citations

Aderoba, Adeniyi Kolade, Rosângela Assis Jacques, Keith A. Jolley, et al.. (2025). In silico and in vitro analyses for the improved diagnosis of bacterial meningitis. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1655490–1655490.

Lin, Gu-Lung, Simon B. Drysdale, Matthew D. Snape, et al.. (2024). Targeted metagenomics reveals association between severity and pathogen co-detection in infants with respiratory syncytial virus. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2379–2379. 20 indexed citations

Mayne, Richard, Amy Trebes, Gu-Lung Lin, et al.. (2024). Castanet: a pipeline for rapid analysis of targeted multi-pathogen genomic data. Bioinformatics. 40(10). 1 indexed citations

O’Connor, Louise, Liam P. Burke, James E. Bray, et al.. (2023). First reported detection of the mobile colistin resistance genes, mcr-8 and mcr-9, in the Irish environment. The Science of The Total Environment. 876. 162649–162649. 7 indexed citations

Bray, James E., et al.. (2023). Phylogenomics of Acinetobacter species and analysis of antimicrobial resistance genes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1264030–1264030. 13 indexed citations

Bray, James E., et al.. (2022). Thiomicrorhabdus heinhorstiae sp. nov. and Thiomicrorhabdus cannonii sp. nov.: novel sulphur-oxidizing chemolithoautotrophs isolated from the chemocline of Hospital Hole, an anchialine sinkhole in Spring Hill, Florida, USA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 72(3). 8 indexed citations

Bray, James E., et al.. (2021). A Point Prevalence Survey of Antibiotic Resistance in the Irish Environment, 2018–2019. Environment International. 152. 106466–106466. 35 indexed citations

Murray, Susan, Ben Pascoe, Guillaume Méric, et al.. (2017). Recombination-Mediated Host Adaptation by Avian Staphylococcus aureus. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(4). 830–842. 40 indexed citations

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Daugla, Doumagoum Moto, Odile B. Harrison, James E. Bray, et al.. (2017). Hierarchical genomic analysis of carried and invasive serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis during the 2011 epidemic in Chad. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 398–398. 13 indexed citations

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Hill, Dorothea M. C., Jay Lucidarme, Stephen J. Gray, et al.. (2015). Genomic epidemiology of age-associated meningococcal lineages in national surveillance: an observational cohort study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 15(12). 1420–1428. 49 indexed citations

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Vaz, Cátia, Alexandre P. Francisco, Keith A. Jolley, et al.. (2014). TypOn: the microbial typing ontology. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 5(1). 43–43. 6 indexed citations

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Bray, James E.. (2012). Target selection for structural genomics based on combining fold recognition and crystallisation prediction methods: application to the human proteome. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 13(1). 37–46. 6 indexed citations

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Hillringhaus, Lars, Wyatt W. Yue, Nathan R. Rose, et al.. (2011). Structural and Evolutionary Basis for the Dual Substrate Selectivity of Human KDM4 Histone Demethylase Family. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(48). 41616–41625. 140 indexed citations

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Savitsky, P., James E. Bray, C.D.O. Cooper, et al.. (2010). High-throughput production of human proteins for crystallization: The SGC experience. Journal of Structural Biology. 172(1). 3–13. 241 indexed citations

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Persson, Bengt, Yvonne Kallberg, James E. Bray, et al.. (2008). The SDR (short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase and related enzymes) nomenclature initiative. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 178(1-3). 94–98. 323 indexed citations

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Bray, James E., Brian D. Marsden, & Udo Oppermann. (2008). The human short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) superfamily: A bioinformatics summary. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 178(1-3). 99–109. 81 indexed citations

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Dobrovetsky, E., G. Khutoreskaya, James E. Bray, et al.. (2005). High-throughput production of prokaryotic membrane proteins. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 6(1). 33–50. 36 indexed citations

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Bray, James E., Annabel E. Todd, Frances M. G. Pearl, Janet M. Thornton, & Christine Orengo. (2000). The CATH Dictionary of Homologous Superfamilies (DHS): a consensus approach for identifying distant structural homologues. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 13(3). 153–165. 49 indexed citations

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Orengo, Christine, et al.. (1999). Analysis and assessment of ab initio three‐dimensional prediction, secondary structure, and contacts prediction. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 37(S3). 149–170. 101 indexed citations

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