James Reed

7.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
15 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

James Reed is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Reed has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Biotechnology and 3 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in James Reed's work include Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (10 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (5 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (4 papers). James Reed is often cited by papers focused on Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (10 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (5 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (4 papers). James Reed collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. James Reed's co-authors include Anne Osbourn, Alain Goossens, Baoyuan Qu, Ancheng C. Huang, Yongxin Liu, Ting Jiang, Hans‐Wilhelm Nützmann, Yuechen Bai, Michael J. Stephenson and Bastiaan Brouwer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

James Reed

14 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota

2019 542 citations Ancheng C. Huang, Ting Jiang et al. Science profile →
Elucidation of the pathway for biosynthesis of saponin adjuvants from the soapbark tree

2023 103 citations James Reed, Anastasia Orme et al. Science profile →
Complete biosynthesis of the potent vaccine adjuvant QS-21

2024 62 citations Laetitia B. B. Martin, Shingo Kikuchi et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Reed United Kingdom	10	784	553	168	133	58	15	1.2k
Baosheng Liao China	19	1.0k 1.3×	485 0.9×	193 1.1×	47 0.4×	139 2.4×	56	1.3k
Lemeng Dong Netherlands	20	792 1.0×	555 1.0×	200 1.2×	107 0.8×	155 2.7×	43	1.2k
Qi-Li Mi China	13	315 0.4×	371 0.7×	126 0.8×	85 0.6×	29 0.5×	66	697
Zheyong Xue China	20	983 1.3×	611 1.1×	135 0.8×	73 0.5×	82 1.4×	46	1.4k
Sarai Belchí-Navarro Spain	15	776 1.0×	881 1.6×	70 0.4×	230 1.7×	16 0.3×	22	1.5k
Hexin Tan China	21	1.5k 1.9×	970 1.8×	113 0.7×	132 1.0×	85 1.5×	38	1.7k
Lina Ding China	18	407 0.5×	1.0k 1.8×	106 0.6×	28 0.2×	18 0.3×	43	1.3k
Jong‐Woong Ahn South Korea	16	289 0.4×	167 0.3×	169 1.0×	144 1.1×	49 0.8×	44	741
Eliane Romanato Santarém Brazil	15	447 0.6×	660 1.2×	42 0.3×	133 1.0×	27 0.5×	39	894
Md. Abdullahil Baque Bangladesh	12	479 0.6×	433 0.8×	58 0.3×	124 0.9×	36 0.6×	24	695

Countries citing papers authored by James Reed

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Reed

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Reed. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Reed based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James Reed. James Reed is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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15 of 15 papers shown

Stephenson, Michael J., Charlotte Owen, James Reed, & Anne Osbourn. (2025). Large-scale mining of plant genomes unlocks the diversity of oxidosqualene cyclases. Nature Chemical Biology. 22(2). 249–259.

Qiao, Xue, James Reed, Burkhard Steuernagel, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive mutant chemotyping reveals embedding of a lineage-specific biosynthetic gene cluster in wider plant metabolism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(12). e2417588122–e2417588122. 1 indexed citations

Winegar, Peter H., Graham A. Hudson, M. Astolfi, et al.. (2024). Verazine biosynthesis from simple sugars in engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metabolic Engineering. 85. 145–158. 10 indexed citations

Martin, Laetitia B. B., Shingo Kikuchi, Martin Rejzek, et al.. (2024). Complete biosynthesis of the potent vaccine adjuvant QS-21. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(4). 493–502. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

Reed, James, et al.. (2024). Harnessing plant biosynthesis for the development of next-generation therapeutics. PLoS Biology. 22(11). e3002886–e3002886. 2 indexed citations

Alagna, Fiammetta, James Reed, Ornella Calderini, et al.. (2023). OeBAS and CYP716C67 catalyze the biosynthesis of health‐beneficial triterpenoids in olive (Olea europaea) fruits. New Phytologist. 238(5). 2047–2063. 9 indexed citations

Reed, James, Anastasia Orme, Amr El‐Demerdash, et al.. (2023). Elucidation of the pathway for biosynthesis of saponin adjuvants from the soapbark tree. Science. 379(6638). 1252–1264. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Yueling, et al.. (2021). Complete chloroplast genome of Prunus fasciculata (Rosaceae), a species native to western North America. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(2). 480–482. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Zhenhua, Jitender Cheema, Marielle Vigouroux, et al.. (2020). Formation and diversification of a paradigm biosynthetic gene cluster in plants. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5354–5354. 70 indexed citations

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Huang, Ancheng C., Ting Jiang, Yongxin Liu, et al.. (2019). A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota. Science. 364(6440). 542 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stephenson, Michael J., James Reed, Bastiaan Brouwer, & Anne Osbourn. (2018). Transient Expression in <em>Nicotiana Benthamiana</em> Leaves for Triterpene Production at a Preparative Scale. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 24 indexed citations

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Reed, James & Anne Osbourn. (2018). Engineering terpenoid production through transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Cell Reports. 37(10). 1431–1441. 105 indexed citations

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Leveau, Aymeric, James Reed, Xue Qiao, et al.. (2018). Towards take‐all control: a C‐21β oxidase required for acylation of triterpene defence compounds in oat. New Phytologist. 221(3). 1544–1555. 22 indexed citations

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Reed, James, Michael J. Stephenson, Karel Miettinen, et al.. (2017). A translational synthetic biology platform for rapid access to gram-scale quantities of novel drug-like molecules. Metabolic Engineering. 42. 185–193. 157 indexed citations

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Moses, Tessa, Jacob Pollier, Qian Shen, et al.. (2015). OSC2 and CYP716A14v2 Catalyze the Biosynthesis of Triterpenoids for the Cuticle of Aerial Organs of Artemisia annua. The Plant Cell. 27(1). 286–301. 88 indexed citations

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