John W. Blunt

22.9k citations

235 papers · 18.9k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 58

Impact in

Biotechnology top 0.01%
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
Pharmacology top 0.02%
- Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
- Fungal Biology and Applications

Papers in

Biotechnology 73
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products 72
Aquatic Science 29
- Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds 28

Co-authors: Murray H. G. Munro Brent R. Copp Michèle R. Prinsep Robert A. Keyzers Peter T. Northcote Nigel B. Perry J. B. Stothers Hector F. DeLuca
Journals: Journal of Natural Products (43 papers)Australian Journal of Chemistry (25 papers)Natural Product Reports (19 papers)Tetrahedron Letters (18 papers)The Journal of Organic Chemistry (13 papers)
Partner nations: New Zealand United States India

In The Last Decade

John W. Blunt

232 papers receiving 17.9k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

Marine natural products 2018 · 577 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Natural Product Reports
2017 Natural Product Reports
2016 Natural Product Reports
2015 Natural Product Reports
2014 Natural Product Reports
2012 Natural Product Reports
2011 Natural Product Reports
2010 Natural Product Reports
2009 Natural Product Reports
1990 Natural Product Reports
1977 Organic Magnetic Resonance
1968 Biochemistry

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Co-authors

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All Works

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1	Marine natural products Natural Product Reports ·John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Robert A. Keyzers, Murray H. G. Munro, Michèle R. Prinsep Hit paper breakdown →	2014	423
2	Marine natural products Natural Product Reports ·John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Robert A. Keyzers, Murray H. G. Munro, Michèle R. Prinsep Hit paper breakdown →	2011	403
3	Marine natural products Natural Product Reports ·John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Murray H. G. Munro, Peter T. Northcote, Michèle R. Prinsep Hit paper breakdown →	2010	386
4	Marine natural products Natural Product Reports ·John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Murray H. G. Munro, Peter T. Northcote, Michèle R. Prinsep	2010	319
5	Antitumour polyether macrolides: Four new halichondrins from the New Zealand deep-water marine sponge Lissodendoryx sp. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ·Sarah J. H. Hickford, John W. Blunt, Murray H. G. Munro	2008	36
6	Marine natural products Natural Product Reports ·John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Wan‐Ping Hu, Murray H. G. Munro, Peter T. Northcote, Zhuangchuan Yuan	2007	334
7	Comparison of the Activities of the Truncated Halichondrin B Analog NSC 707389 (E7389) with Those of the Parent Compound and a Proposed Binding Site on Tubulin Molecular Pharmacology ·Donnette Dabydeen, James C. Burnett, Ruoli Bai, Pascal Verdier‐Pinard, Sarah J. H. Hickford, George R. Pettit, John W. Blunt, Murray H. G. Munro, Rick Gussio, Ernest Hamel	2006	90
8	Marine natural products Natural Product Reports ·John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Murray H. G. Munro, Peter T. Northcote, Bruce Barcott	2005	309
9	Effect of enzyme and oxidative treatments on the properties of coarse wool and mohair Pediatria Polska ·Fatmala Balulu, Xaiobing Liu, John W. Blunt, Henry M. Lemon	2005	2
10	Psychrophilin B and C: Cyclic Nitropeptides from the Psychrotolerant Fungus Penicillium rivulum Journal of Natural Products ·Petur Weihe Dalsgaard, John W. Blunt, Murray H. G. Munro, Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen, Carsten Christophersen	2004	25
11	A nuclear-magnetic-resonance-based assay for betaine–homocysteine methyltransferase activity Analytical Biochemistry ·Martin B. Lee, John W. Blunt, Michael Lever, Peter M. George	2004	16
12	Two Novel Cytotoxic Cyclodepsipeptides from a MycoparasiticCladobotryumsp. The Journal of Organic Chemistry ·Yunjiang Feng, John W. Blunt, Anthony L. J. Cole, John F. Cannon, Ward T. Robinson, Murray H. G. Munro	2003	17
13	Marine natural products Natural Product Reports ·John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Murray H. G. Munro, Peter T. Northcote, Michèle R. Prinsep	2002	229
14	Some ways of looking at compensatory kosmotropes and different water environments Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology ·Michael Lever, John W. Blunt, Robert G. A. R. Maclagan	2001	24
15	Biologically active compounds from Ozothamnus leptophyllus New Zealand Journal of Botany ·Jackie E Wood, Murray H. G. Munro, John W. Blunt, Nigel B. Perry, John R. Walker, Josephine M. Ward	1999	5
16	The discovery and development of marine compounds with pharmaceutical potential Journal of Biotechnology ·Murray H. G. Munro, John W. Blunt, Eric J. Dumdei, Sarah J. H. Hickford, Rachel E. Lill, Shangxiao Li, Christopher N. Battershill, Alan Duckworth	1999	272
17	Anti-HIV Michellamines from Ancistrocladus korupensis Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ·Michael R. Boyd, Yali F. Hallock, John H. Cardellina, Kirk P. Manfredi, John W. Blunt, James B. McMahon, Robert W. Buckheit, Gerhard Bringmann, Manuela Schäffer, Gordon M. Cragg, Duncan W. Thomas, Johnson Jato	1994	196
18	4-Hydroxy-2-cyclopentenone: An Anti-Pseudomonas and Cytotoxic Component fromPassiflora tetrandra¹ Planta Medica ·Nigel B. Perry, Iryna V. Bitner, John W. Blunt, Anthony L. J. Cole, Kari A. Lindenberger, John R. Walker	1991	26
19	A Cytotoxic and Antifungal 1,4-Naphthoquinone and Related Compounds from a New Zealand Brown Alga, Landsburgia quercifolia Journal of Natural Products ·Nigel B. Perry, John W. Blunt, Murray H. G. Munro	1991	58
20	Marine natural products Natural Product Reports ·John W. Blunt Hit paper breakdown →	1990	4328

About John W. Blunt

John W. Blunt is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Aquatic Science, Pharmacology, Organic Chemistry and Cancer Research, having authored 235 papers that have together received 18.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine Sponges and Natural Products (72 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (46 papers), Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds (28 papers), Synthesis and Biological Activity (27 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (23 papers), Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (16 papers), Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (13 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biotechnology (8.7k citations), Pharmacology (6.7k citations), Aquatic Science (2.4k citations), Toxicology (865 citations) and Organic Chemistry (5.7k citations). John W. Blunt has collaborated with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and India. Frequent co-authors include Murray H. G. Munro, Brent R. Copp, Michèle R. Prinsep, Robert A. Keyzers, Peter T. Northcote, Nigel B. Perry, J. B. Stothers, Hector F. DeLuca, Peter T. Northcote and Wan‐Ping Hu. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Natural Products, Australian Journal of Chemistry, Natural Product Reports, Tetrahedron Letters and The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

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