John Laver

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

John Laver is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Laver has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 17 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in John Laver's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (17 papers), Speech Recognition and Synthesis (11 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers). John Laver is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (17 papers), Speech Recognition and Synthesis (11 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers). John Laver collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. John Laver's co-authors include Donald S. Boomer, Craig A. Smibert, Howard D. Lipshitz, Steven Hiller, J. Timothy Westwood, Quaid Morris, Janet Mackenzie Beck, Xiao Li, Sachdev S. Sidhu and Mervyn Jack and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Molecular Cell and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

John Laver

51 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Laver United Kingdom	19	1.2k	724	491	474	429	60	2.3k
Peter Roach United Kingdom	18	881 0.7×	421 0.6×	270 0.5×	353 0.7×	157 0.4×	44	1.8k
Sarah Hawkins United Kingdom	23	1.1k 0.9×	476 0.7×	56 0.1×	491 1.0×	115 0.3×	65	1.6k
Patricia Keating United States	36	3.5k 2.9×	1.9k 2.6×	228 0.5×	2.0k 4.2×	391 0.9×	121	4.8k
Janet Fletcher Australia	20	1.0k 0.9×	444 0.6×	35 0.1×	669 1.4×	99 0.2×	108	1.6k
Keith R. Kluender United States	27	1.6k 1.3×	462 0.6×	52 0.1×	519 1.1×	83 0.2×	97	2.6k
Sven Öhman Sweden	9	1.1k 0.9×	703 1.0×	33 0.1×	421 0.9×	136 0.3×	30	1.5k
Catherine P. Browman United States	13	2.6k 2.2×	1.4k 1.9×	26 0.1×	1.3k 2.8×	88 0.2×	30	3.0k
D. Robert Ladd United Kingdom	33	3.3k 2.7×	1.6k 2.2×	24 0.0×	1.9k 4.1×	47 0.1×	82	4.2k
John J. Ohala United States	30	3.3k 2.7×	1.5k 2.0×	17 0.0×	1.7k 3.7×	451 1.1×	104	4.1k
Dan Dediu Netherlands	21	478 0.4×	205 0.3×	75 0.2×	323 0.7×	18 0.0×	78	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Laver

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All Works

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Laver, John, Jimmy Ly, Jennifer Winn, et al.. (2020). The RNA-Binding Protein Rasputin/G3BP Enhances the Stability and Translation of Its Target mRNAs. Cell Reports. 30(10). 3353–3367.e7. 34 indexed citations

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Rissland, Olivia S., Alexander O. Subtelny, Andrew Lugowski, et al.. (2017). The influence of microRNAs and poly(A) tail length on endogenous mRNA–protein complexes. Genome biology. 18(1). 211–211. 41 indexed citations

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Hong, Na, John Laver, Fateh Singh, et al.. (2016). A high-throughput pipeline for the production of synthetic antibodies for analysis of ribonucleoprotein complexes. RNA. 22(4). 636–655. 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Yung-Chia Ariel, Yicheng Luo, Maria Ninova, et al.. (2016). Cutoff Suppresses RNA Polymerase II Termination to Ensure Expression of piRNA Precursors. Molecular Cell. 63(1). 97–109. 96 indexed citations

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Laver, John, et al.. (2015). Regulation and Function of Maternal Gene Products During the Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition in Drosophila. Current topics in developmental biology. 113. 43–84. 59 indexed citations

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Chen, Li-Nan, Xiao Li, Zhiyong Yang, et al.. (2014). Global regulation of mRNA translation and stability in the early Drosophilaembryo by the Smaug RNA-binding protein. Genome biology. 15(1). R4–R4. 85 indexed citations

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Laver, John, Xiao Li, J. Timothy Westwood, et al.. (2013). Genome-wide analysis of Staufen-associated mRNAs identifies secondary structures that confer target specificity. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(20). 9438–9460. 68 indexed citations

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Laver, John, et al.. (2012). Synthetic antibodies as tools to probe RNA-binding protein function. Molecular BioSystems. 8(6). 1650–1657. 14 indexed citations

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Hardcastle, William J., John Laver, & Fiona Gibbon. (2010). The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, 2nd Edition. Wiley eBooks. 18 indexed citations

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Laver, John. (2001). Some Future Directions of Phonetic Research( Challenges in Phonetics and Phonetic Sciences: Part Two). 5(1). 46–48. 1 indexed citations

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Wrench, Alan, et al.. (1994). Fast formant estimation of children's speech. 1651–1654. 1 indexed citations

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Hiller, Steven, et al.. (1992). Prosodic features for automated pronunciation improvement in the spell system. 413–416. 6 indexed citations

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Laver, John, Steven Hiller, & Janet Mackenzie Beck. (1992). Acoustic waveform perturbations and voice disorders. Journal of Voice. 6(2). 115–126. 56 indexed citations

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Jack, M.A., et al.. (1988). Improved pitch detection algorithm employing temporal structure investigation of the speech waveform. IEE Proceedings F Communications, Radar and Signal Processing. 135(2). 169–174. 1 indexed citations

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Jack, M.A., et al.. (1988). Improved pitch detection algorithm employing temporal structure investigation of the speech waveform. IEE Proceedings F Communications Radar and Signal Processing. 135(2). 169–169. 2 indexed citations

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Jack, Mervyn, et al.. (1987). Experiments with template adaptation in an isolated word recognition system. 2484–2487. 2 indexed citations

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Laver, John, et al.. (1986). An acoustic screening system for the detection of laryngeal pathology. Journal of Phonetics. 14(3-4). 517–524. 18 indexed citations

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Laver, John. (1979). Voice Quality. 3 indexed citations

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Laver, John. (1968). Assimilation in Educated Nigerian English1. ELT Journal. XXII(2). 156–160. 4 indexed citations

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Laver, John. (1965). Variability in Vowel Perception. Language and Speech. 8(2). 95–121. 11 indexed citations

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