John Davison

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

John Davison is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Davison has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Ecology and 30 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in John Davison's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). John Davison is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). John Davison collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. John Davison's co-authors include Françoise Brunel, Michel Heusterspreute, Susan Sillaots, Terry Roemer, Bo Jiang, Nathalie Chevalier, Sébastien Lemieux, Klaus Ammann, Sarah Kauffman and Nick Martel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

John Davison

76 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Genetic Exchange between Bacteria in the Environment 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Genetic Exchange between Bacteria in the Environment
    1999 516 citations John Davison Plasmid profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Davison United States 29 2.0k 771 766 744 542 79 3.6k
Skorn Mongkolsuk Thailand 34 1.9k 0.9× 471 0.6× 682 0.9× 868 1.2× 451 0.8× 155 4.1k
Barry G. Hall United States 36 2.0k 1.0× 444 0.6× 981 1.3× 390 0.5× 343 0.6× 78 3.7k
B G Hall United States 26 2.3k 1.1× 394 0.5× 1.3k 1.7× 653 0.9× 190 0.4× 57 3.6k
Michiko Nakano Japan 42 3.6k 1.8× 1.2k 1.5× 2.0k 2.7× 567 0.8× 292 0.5× 136 5.5k
Elie Dassa France 26 1.9k 1.0× 367 0.5× 846 1.1× 822 1.1× 327 0.6× 53 3.8k
Roland Schmid Germany 38 3.3k 1.7× 833 1.1× 1.4k 1.8× 507 0.7× 479 0.9× 81 4.8k
Cheryl Heiner United States 18 3.6k 1.8× 1.3k 1.6× 722 0.9× 1.2k 1.6× 392 0.7× 21 5.7k
G. Bertani United States 23 3.2k 1.6× 2.0k 2.6× 1.7k 2.2× 805 1.1× 268 0.5× 50 5.2k
Larry Reitzer United States 33 3.1k 1.6× 484 0.6× 1.5k 2.0× 390 0.5× 281 0.5× 57 4.5k
Marta Herrero Spain 18 2.5k 1.3× 947 1.2× 1.8k 2.4× 769 1.0× 150 0.3× 25 4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by John Davison

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Davison

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Davison

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Davison. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Davison 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 John Davison. John Davison is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Davison, John. (2009). GM plants: Science, politics and EC regulations. Plant Science. 178(2). 94–98. 97 indexed citations
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Xu, Deming, Bo Jiang, Troy Ketela, et al.. (2007). Genome-Wide Fitness Test and Mechanism-of-Action Studies of Inhibitory Compounds in Candida albicans. PLoS Pathogens. 3(6). e92–e92. 189 indexed citations
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Hu, Wenqi, Susan Sillaots, Sébastien Lemieux, et al.. (2007). Essential Gene Identification and Drug Target Prioritization in Aspergillus fumigatus. PLoS Pathogens. 3(3). e24–e24. 186 indexed citations
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Davison, John, et al.. (2005). Walter Rudolf Hess. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 33(5). 517–517.
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Davison, John. (2005). Risk mitigation of genetically modified bacteria and plants designed for bioremediation. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 32(11-12). 639–650. 54 indexed citations
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Roemer, Terry, Bo Jiang, John Davison, et al.. (2003). Large‐scale essential gene identification in Candida albicans and applications to antifungal drug discovery. Molecular Microbiology. 50(1). 167–181. 385 indexed citations
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Davison, Steven P., T.W.J. Lennard, John Davison, P. Kendall‐Taylor, & Petros Perros. (2001). Management of a pregnant patient with Graves' disease complicated by thionamide‐induced neutropenia in the first trimester. Clinical Endocrinology. 54(4). 559–561. 10 indexed citations
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Davison, John. (1999). Genetic Exchange between Bacteria in the Environment. Plasmid. 42(2). 73–91. 516 indexed citations breakdown →
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Davison, John, et al.. (1992). Cloning and sequencing of Pseudomonas genes determining sodium dodecyl sulfate biodegradation. Gene. 114(1). 19–24. 47 indexed citations
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Kaniga, Koné & John Davison. (1991). Transposon vectors for stable chromosomal integration of cloned genes in rhizosphere bacteria. Gene. 100. 201–205. 11 indexed citations
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Davison, John, Nathalie Chevalier, & Françoise Brunel. (1989). Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase-controlled specific gene expression in Pseudomonas. Gene. 83(2). 371–375. 23 indexed citations
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Prozzi, Deborah, Robert R. Crichton, & John Davison. (1988). Over‐expression of natural and variant human H‐chain ferritins in E. coli. FEBS Letters. 234(1). 61–64. 4 indexed citations
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Heusterspreute, Michel, Vinh Ha Thi, & John Davison. (1984). Expression of Galactokinase As a Fusion Protein in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. DNA. 3(5). 377–386. 9 indexed citations
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Heusterspreute, Michel & John Davison. (1984). Restriction Site Bank Vectors. II. DNA Sequence Analysis of Plasmid pJRD158. DNA. 3(3). 259–268. 21 indexed citations
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Davison, John & Vinh Ha Thi. (1982). The Trypanosoma brucei maxi-circle DNA contains ars elements active in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Current Genetics. 6(1). 19–20. 9 indexed citations
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Brunel, Françoise & John Davison. (1975). Bacterial mutants able to partly suppress the effect of N mutations in bacteriophage λ. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 136(2). 167–180. 31 indexed citations
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Davison, John, et al.. (1974). Control of transcription of the rex-cI region of bacteriophage λ. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 131(3). 223–232. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, A. M., et al.. (1971). Negative Regulation by Lambda: Repression of Lambda RNA Synthesis in Vitro and Host Enzyme Synthesis in Vivo. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 2. 589–598. 8 indexed citations
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Davison, John, Norman Booth, John O. Bishop, et al.. (1960). CAR volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter. The Classical Review. 10(1). f1–f6. 1 indexed citations

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