John Archer

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

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John Archer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Virology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Archer has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Virology and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in John Archer's work include HIV Research and Treatment (13 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (5 papers). John Archer is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (13 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (5 papers). John Archer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Portugal and United States. John Archer's co-authors include David L. Robertson, Andrew Rambaut, Michael H. Malim, Yoon‐Seok Chung, Steven M. Wolinsky, Sudhir Penugonda, Ramón Lorenzo-Redondo, Eun‐Young Kim, Courtney V. Fletcher and Angela R. McLean and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

John Archer

37 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Persistent HIV-1 replication maintains the tissue reservoir during therapy

2016 458 citations Ramón Lorenzo-Redondo, Helen Fryer et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Archer United Kingdom	19	857	743	415	246	199	37	1.5k
Nancy McKinney United States	10	587 0.7×	879 1.2×	620 1.5×	305 1.2×	216 1.1×	12	2.0k
Brendan B. Larsen United States	11	530 0.6×	552 0.7×	281 0.7×	162 0.7×	217 1.1×	20	1.1k
Masako Nomaguchi Japan	22	711 0.8×	568 0.8×	337 0.8×	213 0.9×	315 1.6×	83	1.3k
Melissa Kane United States	13	530 0.6×	506 0.7×	493 1.2×	311 1.3×	678 3.4×	22	1.5k
Benjamin J. Burwitz United States	20	732 0.9×	246 0.3×	249 0.6×	305 1.2×	723 3.6×	47	1.2k
George Lin United States	15	510 0.6×	296 0.4×	318 0.8×	347 1.4×	601 3.0×	24	1.4k
Francesca Di Giallonardo Australia	20	237 0.3×	543 0.7×	347 0.8×	191 0.8×	133 0.7×	49	1.2k
Xiaoyun Wu China	16	464 0.5×	395 0.5×	330 0.8×	135 0.5×	109 0.5×	25	836
Bangdong L. Wei United States	11	590 0.7×	361 0.5×	697 1.7×	236 1.0×	380 1.9×	13	1.6k
Juan Lama United States	20	587 0.7×	597 0.8×	375 0.9×	317 1.3×	446 2.2×	26	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Archer

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Morales, Hernán E., Cock van Oosterhout, José Vicente López‐Bao, et al.. (2025). Ancient dog introgression into the Iberian wolf genome may have facilitated adaptation to human-dominated landscapes. Genome Research. 35(3). 432–445. 1 indexed citations

Carqueijeiro, Inês, et al.. (2023). The leaf idioblastome of the medicinal plantCatharanthus roseusis associated with stress resistance and alkaloid metabolism. Journal of Experimental Botany. 75(1). 274–299. 8 indexed citations

Linheiro, Raquel, et al.. (2022). CView: A network based tool for enhanced alignment visualization. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0259726–e0259726. 1 indexed citations

Vonk, Freek J., Mátyás A. Bittenbinder, Harald Kerkkamp, et al.. (2021). A non-lethal method for studying scorpion venom gland transcriptomes, with a review of potentially suitable taxa to which it can be applied. PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0258712–e0258712. 4 indexed citations

Linheiro, Raquel & John Archer. (2021). CStone: A de novo transcriptome assembler for short-read data that identifies non-chimeric contigs based on underlying graph structure. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(11). e1009631–e1009631. 3 indexed citations

Kerkkamp, Harald, Sandra Afonso, John Archer, et al.. (2019). Transcriptome annotation and characterization of novel toxins in six scorpion species. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 645–645. 17 indexed citations

Ferreira, Sónia, Nuno A. Fonseca, Bastian Egeter, et al.. (2018). Deliverable 4.2 (D4.2): Protocol for building and organising reference collections of DNA sequences, EnvMetaGen project (Grant Agreement No 668981).. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 8 indexed citations

Nielsen, Jens, John Archer, Magbubah Essack, et al.. (2017). Building a bio-based industry in the Middle East through harnessing the potential of the Red Sea biodiversity. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 101(12). 4837–4851. 10 indexed citations

Lorenzo-Redondo, Ramón, Helen Fryer, Trevor Bedford, et al.. (2017). Lorenzo-Redondo et al. reply. Nature. 551(7681). E10–E10. 6 indexed citations

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Lorenzo-Redondo, Ramón, Helen Fryer, Trevor Bedford, et al.. (2016). Persistent HIV-1 replication maintains the tissue reservoir during therapy. Nature. 530(7588). 51–56. 458 indexed citations breakdown →

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Archer, John, Jan Weber, Kenneth R. Henry, et al.. (2012). Use of Four Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms to Determine HIV-1 Coreceptor Tropism. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49602–e49602. 66 indexed citations

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Archer, John, Gregory J. Baillie, Simon J. Watson, et al.. (2012). Analysis of high-depth sequence data for studying viral diversity: a comparison of next generation sequencing platforms using Segminator II. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(1). 47–47. 50 indexed citations

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Williams, Simon G., et al.. (2011). Using Knowledge of Protein Structural Constraints to Predict the Evolution of HIV-1. Journal of Molecular Biology. 410(5). 1023–1034. 5 indexed citations

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Archer, John, Andrew Rambaut, Bruce E. Taillon, et al.. (2010). The Evolutionary Analysis of Emerging Low Frequency HIV-1 CXCR4 Using Variants through Time—An Ultra-Deep Approach. PLoS Computational Biology. 6(12). e1001022–e1001022. 62 indexed citations

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Huxley‐Jones, Julie, John W. Pinney, John Archer, David L. Robertson, & Ray Boot-Handford. (2009). Back to basics – how the evolution of the extracellular matrix underpinned vertebrate evolution. International Journal of Experimental Pathology. 90(2). 95–100. 22 indexed citations

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Slater, Josh, et al.. (2009). Critical assessment of an in vitro bovine respiratory organ culture system: A model of bovine herpesvirus-1 infection. Journal of Virological Methods. 158(1-2). 123–129. 11 indexed citations

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Archer, John, Michael Braverman, Bruce E. Taillon, et al.. (2009). Detection of low-frequency pretherapy chemokine (CXC motif) receptor 4 (CXCR4)-using HIV-1 with ultra-deep pyrosequencing. AIDS. 23(10). 1209–1218. 98 indexed citations

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Archer, John, John W. Pinney, Jun Fan, et al.. (2008). Identifying the Important HIV-1 Recombination Breakpoints. PLoS Computational Biology. 4(9). e1000178–e1000178. 55 indexed citations

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Archer, John & David L. Robertson. (2007). Understanding the diversification of HIV-1 groups M and O. AIDS. 21(13). 1693–1700. 28 indexed citations

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Taylor, Mark J., et al.. (1999). 16S rDNA Phylogeny and Ultrastructural Characterization ofWolbachiaIntracellular Bacteria of the Filarial NematodesBrugia malayi,B. pahangi, andWuchereria bancrofti. Experimental Parasitology. 91(4). 356–361. 88 indexed citations

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