James W. Golden

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

James W. Golden is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, James W. Golden has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Ecology and 23 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in James W. Golden's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (44 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (23 papers). James W. Golden is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (44 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (23 papers). James W. Golden collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. James W. Golden's co-authors include Donald L Riddle, Ho‐Sung Yoon, Robert Haselkorn, T. Ramasubramanian, Rodrigo A. Mella-Herrera, Wei Tian, Ho‐Sung Yoon, K. Praveen Kumar, Claudio D. Carrasco and Steven J. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James W. Golden

78 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

The Caenorhabditis elegans dauer larva: Developmental effects of pheromone, food, and temperature

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James W. Golden United States	41	3.4k	1.6k	1.5k	995	755	81	5.4k
Elizabeth Vierling United States	67	13.8k 4.1×	1.1k 0.7×	341 0.2×	459 0.5×	440 0.6×	138	18.4k
Christoph F. Beck Germany	32	2.6k 0.8×	294 0.2×	999 0.7×	68 0.1×	99 0.1×	65	3.4k
Julian M. Hibberd United Kingdom	45	5.3k 1.6×	328 0.2×	759 0.5×	43 0.0×	1.1k 1.5×	120	7.9k
John C. Gray United Kingdom	58	8.7k 2.6×	315 0.2×	865 0.6×	93 0.1×	625 0.8×	235	10.5k
John G. Oakeshott Australia	57	4.9k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	118 0.1×	96 0.1×	1.3k 1.8×	250	11.2k
Bennett M. Shapiro United States	43	2.9k 0.8×	764 0.5×	154 0.1×	47 0.0×	283 0.4×	97	6.4k
R. Howard Berg United States	33	1.5k 0.5×	227 0.1×	194 0.1×	324 0.3×	126 0.2×	65	3.3k
Michael J. O’Donnell Canada	34	979 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	88 0.1×	124 0.1×	343 0.5×	142	3.7k
Ferenc Nagy Hungary	71	12.8k 3.8×	246 0.2×	604 0.4×	55 0.1×	609 0.8×	235	17.8k
William R. Harvey United States	43	2.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	168 0.1×	47 0.0×	222 0.3×	105	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James W. Golden

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Wheeler, Rebecca, et al.. (2025). A responsive living material prepared by diffusion reveals extracellular enzyme activity of cyanobacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(18). e2424405122–e2424405122.

Wangpraseurt, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Phenotypically complex living materials containing engineered cyanobacteria. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4742–4742. 37 indexed citations

Taton, Arnaud, et al.. (2023). Synechococcus elongatus Argonaute reduces natural transformation efficiency and provides immunity against exogenous plasmids. mBio. 14(5). e0184323–e0184323. 2 indexed citations

Taton, Arnaud, et al.. (2019). Modification of RSF1010-Based Broad-Host-Range Plasmids for Improved Conjugation and Cyanobacterial Bioprospecting. iScience. 20. 216–228. 32 indexed citations

Kumar, Krithika, et al.. (2018). Excision of the 59‐kb fdxN DNA element is required for transcription of the nifD gene in Anabaena PCC 7120 Heterocysts. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 57(2). 76–92. 9 indexed citations

Taton, Arnaud, et al.. (2017). NOT Gate Genetic Circuits to Control Gene Expression in Cyanobacteria. ACS Synthetic Biology. 6(12). 2175–2182. 35 indexed citations

Agarwal, Vinayak, Jessica M. Blanton, Sheila Podell, et al.. (2017). Metagenomic discovery of polybrominated diphenyl ether biosynthesis by marine sponges. Nature Chemical Biology. 13(5). 537–543. 140 indexed citations

Taton, Arnaud, Javier Paz-Yepes, Bianca Brahamsha, et al.. (2014). Broad-host-range vector system for synthetic biology and biotechnology in cyanobacteria. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(17). e136–e136. 131 indexed citations

Johnson, David B., et al.. (2014). Deep sequencing of HetR-bound DNA reveals novel HetR targets in Anabaenasp. strain PCC7120. BMC Microbiology. 14(1). 255–255. 21 indexed citations

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Golden, James W., et al.. (2012). traditional and no roughage diets The relationship of feeding behavior to feed efficiency in crossbred Angus steers fed. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, K. Praveen, Rodrigo A. Mella-Herrera, & James W. Golden. (2010). Cyanobacterial Heterocysts. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 2(4). a000315–a000315. 337 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaoqiang, et al.. (2007). The Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 asr1734 gene encodes a negative regulator of heterocyst development. Molecular Microbiology. 64(3). 782–794. 13 indexed citations

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Kerley, M. S., et al.. (2006). The relationship between mitochondrial function and residual feed intake in Angus steers1. Journal of Animal Science. 84(4). 861–865. 114 indexed citations

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Golden, James W. & Ho‐Sung Yoon. (2003). Heterocyst development in Anabaena. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 6(6). 557–563. 167 indexed citations

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Yoon, Ho‐Sung & James W. Golden. (2000). Developmental Pattern Formation Controlled by patS in a Cyanobacterium. 146–153. 2 indexed citations

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Golden, James W. & Ho‐Sung Yoon. (1998). Heterocyst formation in Anabaena. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 1(6). 623–629. 58 indexed citations

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Carrasco, Claudio D., et al.. (1997). Cell‐type specificity of the Anabaena fdxN‐element rearrangement requires xisH and xisl. Molecular Microbiology. 23(6). 1241–1249. 41 indexed citations

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Ramasubramanian, T., Fei Pu, & James W. Golden. (1995). Isolation of the Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 sigA gene in a transcriptional-interference selection. Journal of Bacteriology. 177(22). 6676–6678. 5 indexed citations

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Golden, James W., Claudio D. Carrasco, Martin E. Mulligan, George J. Schneider, & Robert Haselkorn. (1988). Deletion of a 55-kilobase-pair DNA element from the chromosome during heterocyst differentiation of Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120. Journal of Bacteriology. 170(11). 5034–5041. 95 indexed citations

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Haselkorn, Robert, James W. Golden, Peter J. Lammers, & Martin E. Mulligan. (1987). Rearrangement of nif genes during cyanobacterial heterocyst differentiation. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 317(1184). 173–181. 6 indexed citations

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