John F. Y. Brookfield

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

John F. Y. Brookfield is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John F. Y. Brookfield has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Genetics, 57 papers in Molecular Biology and 48 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in John F. Y. Brookfield's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (41 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (34 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (18 papers). John F. Y. Brookfield is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (41 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (34 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (18 papers). John F. Y. Brookfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. John F. Y. Brookfield's co-authors include Robert Semeonoff, Alec J. Jeffreys, Richard M. Badge, Charles H. Langley, Norman Kaplan, Peter R. Holden, Paul M. Sharp, A. Rus Hoelzel, Michael W. Bruford and Olivier Hanotte and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John F. Y. Brookfield

118 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Chimpanzee Reservoirs of Pandemic and Nonpandemic HIV-1 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Chimpanzee Reservoirs of Pandemic and Nonpandemic HIV-1
    2006 555 citations Brandon F. Keele, Fran Van Heuverswyn et al. Science 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 F. Y. Brookfield United Kingdom 29 1.5k 1.4k 1.3k 438 437 124 3.7k
Christina L. Burch United States 25 1.2k 0.8× 1.5k 1.1× 553 0.4× 404 0.9× 656 1.5× 46 3.0k
Konrad Scheffler South Africa 26 2.3k 1.5× 1.5k 1.1× 775 0.6× 573 1.3× 617 1.4× 41 5.8k
Steven Weaver United States 20 1.2k 0.8× 686 0.5× 452 0.4× 248 0.6× 449 1.0× 33 2.9k
Michael Charleston Australia 26 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 503 0.4× 108 0.2× 470 1.1× 95 3.4k
Robert Belshaw United Kingdom 40 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 1.6k 1.3× 243 0.6× 700 1.6× 59 5.1k
Todd A. Castoe United States 39 2.4k 1.6× 2.6k 1.9× 1.1k 0.9× 342 0.8× 963 2.2× 118 6.0k
Tamara S. Haselkorn United States 21 696 0.5× 466 0.3× 560 0.4× 221 0.5× 219 0.5× 30 2.1k
Clément Gilbert France 29 2.0k 1.3× 741 0.5× 1.9k 1.5× 80 0.2× 516 1.2× 73 3.5k
Jan Fredrik Simons United States 17 1.2k 0.8× 617 0.5× 287 0.2× 248 0.6× 267 0.6× 25 2.7k
Pleuni S. Pennings United States 21 520 0.3× 1.7k 1.2× 366 0.3× 263 0.6× 244 0.6× 49 2.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John F. Y. Brookfield

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Snyder, Trevor, et al.. (2013). System-Level Inkjet Performance and Reliability - Customer Needs and Innovations from Xerox. Technical programs and proceedings. 29(1). 538–544. 2 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y., et al.. (2013). Transposable element invasions. Mobile Genetic Elements. 3(1). e23920–e23920. 9 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (2012). Heritability. Current Biology. 22(7). R217–R219. 6 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (2010). Experimental Evolution: The Rate of Adaptive Evolution. Current Biology. 20(1). R23–R25. 3 indexed citations
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Keele, Brandon F., Fran Van Heuverswyn, Yingying Li, et al.. (2006). Chimpanzee Reservoirs of Pandemic and Nonpandemic HIV-1. Science. 313(5786). 523–526. 555 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (2005). The ecology of the genome — mobile DNA elements and their hosts. Nature Reviews Genetics. 6(2). 128–136. 162 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (2003). Gene Duplications: The Gradual Evolution of Functional Divergence. Current Biology. 13(6). R229–R230. 2 indexed citations
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Edwards, Richard J. & John F. Y. Brookfield. (2003). Transiently Beneficial Insertions Could Maintain Mobile DNA Sequences in Variable Environments. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 20(1). 30–37. 27 indexed citations
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Edwards, Richard J., R. Elizabeth Sockett, & John F. Y. Brookfield. (2002). A Simple Method for Genome-Wide Screening for Advantageous Insertions of Mobile DNAs in Escherichia coli. Current Biology. 12(10). 863–867. 18 indexed citations
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Macdonald, Catherine & John F. Y. Brookfield. (2002). Intraspecific molecular variation in the seaweed fly Coelopa frigida consistent with behavioural distinctness of British and Swedish populations. Molecular Ecology. 11(9). 1637–1646. 5 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (2002). The new Heredity. Heredity. 88(1). 1–1. 4 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (2001). Population genetics: The signature of selection. Current Biology. 11(10). R388–R390. 8 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (2001). Population bottlenecks. Current Biology. 11(24). R1000–R1000. 7 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (2001). Evolution: The evolvability enigma. Current Biology. 11(3). R106–R108. 38 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (2000). Genomic sequencing: The complexity conundrum. Current Biology. 10(14). R514–R515.
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Badge, Richard M. & John F. Y. Brookfield. (1998). A novel repressor of P element transposition in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics Research. 71(1). 21–30. 3 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (1998). Quorum Sensing and Group Selection. Evolution. 52(5). 1263–1263. 10 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (1997). Genetic Redundancy. Advances in genetics. 36. 137–155. 40 indexed citations
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Biémont, Christian, Françoise Lemeunier, Maria Pilar García Guerreiro, et al.. (1994). Population dynamics of the copia, mdg1, mdg3, gypsy, and P transposable elements in a natural population ofDrosophila melanogaster. Genetics Research. 63(3). 197–212. 71 indexed citations
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Brookfield, John F. Y.. (1982). Interspersed repetitive DNA sequences are unlikely to be parasitic. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 94(2). 281–299. 28 indexed citations

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