Jerome Whitfield

2.0k total citations
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Jerome Whitfield is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jerome Whitfield has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Neurology and 4 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Jerome Whitfield's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (14 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (8 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (4 papers). Jerome Whitfield is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (14 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (8 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (4 papers). Jerome Whitfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Papua New Guinea. Jerome Whitfield's co-authors include Michael P. Alpers, John Collinge, Simon Mead, Mark Poulter, Tracy Campbell, John S. Beck, Edward McKintosh, Dafydd J. Thomas, Jonathan Beck and Elizabeth Fisher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Jerome Whitfield

16 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jerome Whitfield United Kingdom 10 953 569 327 105 66 18 1.1k
Oshrat Schonberger Israel 11 355 0.4× 115 0.2× 104 0.3× 45 0.4× 74 1.1× 18 538
D. Carleton Gajdusek United States 11 184 0.2× 105 0.2× 60 0.2× 19 0.2× 30 0.5× 14 489
Melissa Cooper United States 15 316 0.3× 129 0.2× 10 0.0× 31 0.3× 23 0.3× 26 681
Anne C. Madeo United States 12 232 0.2× 131 0.2× 21 0.1× 12 0.1× 86 1.3× 20 549
Heather White United Kingdom 7 193 0.2× 113 0.2× 79 0.2× 31 0.3× 36 0.5× 9 382
David J. Mellert United States 9 195 0.2× 39 0.1× 10 0.0× 60 0.6× 154 2.3× 9 629
Muzna Bachani United States 6 300 0.3× 63 0.1× 5 0.0× 25 0.2× 51 0.8× 10 571
Tiansheng Chen China 10 170 0.2× 94 0.2× 7 0.0× 13 0.1× 87 1.3× 29 501
Raye Lynn Alford United States 11 318 0.3× 116 0.2× 5 0.0× 10 0.1× 157 2.4× 29 675
Sarah J. Mason United States 11 340 0.4× 24 0.0× 18 0.1× 99 0.9× 47 0.7× 15 814

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Whitfield, Jerome, et al.. (2024). Robert Hertz, Anthropophagic Practices and Traditional South Fore Mortuary Rites in Papua New Guinea. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. 93(1). 420–438.
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Quinn, Liam, Jerome Whitfield, Michael P. Alpers, et al.. (2024). Population structure and migration in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a region impacted by the kuru epidemic. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 111(4). 668–679.
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Whitfield, Jerome, et al.. (2017). Cultural factors that affected the spatial and temporal epidemiology of kuru. Royal Society Open Science. 4(1). 160789–160789. 4 indexed citations
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Whitfield, Jerome, et al.. (2015). Metaphysical personhood and traditional South Fore mortuary rites. Journal de la Société des océanistes. 141(2). 303–321. 2 indexed citations
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Lukić, Ana, James Uphill, Craig Brown, et al.. (2015). Rare structural genetic variation in human prion diseases. Neurobiology of Aging. 36(5). 2004.e1–2004.e8. 6 indexed citations
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Asante, Emmanuel A., Richard Houghton, Andrew Tomlinson, et al.. (2015). A naturally occurring variant of the human prion protein completely prevents prion disease. Nature. 522(7557). 478–481. 129 indexed citations
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Whitfield, Jerome, et al.. (2015). Personnalité métaphysique et rites traditionnels mortuaires Sud Fore. Journal de la Société des océanistes. 141. 303–321. 3 indexed citations
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Whitfield, Jerome, et al.. (2012). Surveys for the Eltham copper butterfly 'Paralucia pyrodiscus lucida' Crosby (Lycaenidae) in Victoria in late 2011. 129(3). 114. 1 indexed citations
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Mead, Simon, Jerome Whitfield, Mark Poulter, et al.. (2009). A Novel Protective Prion Protein Variant that Colocalizes with Kuru Exposure. New England Journal of Medicine. 361(21). 2056–2065. 119 indexed citations
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Lloyd, Sarah E., Hirva Pota, James Uphill, et al.. (2009). HECTD2 Is Associated with Susceptibility to Mouse and Human Prion Disease. PLoS Genetics. 5(2). e1000383–e1000383. 63 indexed citations
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Mead, Simon, Mark Poulter, James Uphill, et al.. (2008). Genetic risk factors for variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: a genome-wide association study. The Lancet Neurology. 8(1). 57–66. 105 indexed citations
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Mead, Simon, Jerome Whitfield, Mark Poulter, et al.. (2008). Genetic susceptibility, evolution and the kuru epidemic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1510). 3741–3746. 29 indexed citations
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Whitfield, Jerome. (2008). Work among the people of the Okapa area from 1996 to the present. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1510). 3671–3672. 3 indexed citations
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Whitfield, Jerome, et al.. (2008). Mortuary rites of the South Fore and kuru. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1510). 3721–3724. 22 indexed citations
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Collinge, John, Jerome Whitfield, Edward McKintosh, et al.. (2008). A clinical study of kuru patients with long incubation periods at the end of the epidemic in Papua New Guinea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1510). 3725–3739. 56 indexed citations
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Brandner, Sebastian, Jerome Whitfield, Catherine O’Malley, et al.. (2008). Central and peripheral pathology of kuru: pathological analysis of a recent case and comparison with other forms of human prion disease. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1510). 3755–3763. 32 indexed citations
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Collinge, John, Jerome Whitfield, Edward McKintosh, et al.. (2006). Kuru in the 21st century—an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods. The Lancet. 367(9528). 2068–2074. 241 indexed citations
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Mead, Simon, Michael P. H. Stumpf, Jerome Whitfield, et al.. (2003). Balancing Selection at the Prion Protein Gene Consistent with Prehistoric Kurulike Epidemics. Science. 300(5619). 640–643. 276 indexed citations

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