John W. Wallis

23.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

John W. Wallis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, John W. Wallis has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in John W. Wallis's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers). John W. Wallis is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers). John W. Wallis collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. John W. Wallis's co-authors include Mark W. Rolfe, Gary Chrebet, Rodney Rothstein, Gary Brodsky, Michael Grunstein, Elaine R. Mardis, Richard K. Wilson, Michael C. Wendl, Michael D. McLellan and Robert S. Fulton and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

John W. Wallis

12 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.

BreakDancer: an algorithm for high-resolution mapping of genomic structural variation

2009 997 citations Ken Chen, John W. Wallis et al. Nature Methods profile →
A hyper-recombination mutation in S. cerevisiae identifies a novel eukaryotic topoisomerase

1989 484 citations John W. Wallis, Gary Chrebet et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John W. Wallis United States	10	1.5k	595	448	346	126	12	2.0k
Bethan Pritchard United Kingdom	4	818 0.5×	586 1.0×	303 0.7×	212 0.6×	92 0.7×	5	1.5k
Wen Wei China	28	1.9k 1.2×	584 1.0×	267 0.6×	337 1.0×	277 2.2×	68	2.6k
San Ming Wang United States	27	1.8k 1.2×	591 1.0×	318 0.7×	541 1.6×	262 2.1×	99	2.6k
Christine Mayer Germany	23	2.6k 1.7×	339 0.6×	183 0.4×	502 1.5×	358 2.8×	44	3.2k
Christopher D. Armour United States	17	2.3k 1.5×	453 0.8×	181 0.4×	443 1.3×	87 0.7×	17	2.8k
Sherif Abou Elela Canada	38	4.0k 2.7×	227 0.4×	358 0.8×	728 2.1×	121 1.0×	96	4.4k
Edmund Tischer United States	8	1.5k 1.0×	542 0.9×	181 0.4×	127 0.4×	145 1.2×	8	2.2k
Raymund J. Wellinger Canada	41	4.8k 3.1×	251 0.4×	766 1.7×	315 0.9×	270 2.1×	98	5.5k
Dario Boffelli United States	29	2.4k 1.6×	647 1.1×	409 0.9×	619 1.8×	321 2.5×	61	3.1k
Mark Dubnick United States	8	1.9k 1.2×	453 0.8×	455 1.0×	142 0.4×	83 0.7×	10	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John W. Wallis

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Chen, Ken, Nicholas E. Navin, Yong Wang, et al.. (2013). BreakTrans: uncovering the genomic architecture of gene fusions. Genome biology. 14(8). R87–R87. 18 indexed citations

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Gutmann, David H., Michael D. McLellan, Ibrahim Hussain, et al.. (2012). Somatic neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) inactivation characterizes NF1-associated pilocytic astrocytoma. Genome Research. 23(3). 431–439. 90 indexed citations

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Ellis, Matthew J., Jingqin Luo, Vera J. Suman, et al.. (2012). Whole genome sequencing to characterize luminal-type breast cancer.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 30(15_suppl). 503–503. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Ken, John W. Wallis, Cyriac Kandoth, et al.. (2012). BreakFusion: targeted assembly-based identification of gene fusions in whole transcriptome paired-end sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 28(14). 1923–1924. 40 indexed citations

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Wendl, Michael C., John W. Wallis, Ling Lin, et al.. (2011). PathScan: a tool for discerning mutational significance in groups of putative cancer genes. Bioinformatics. 27(12). 1595–1602. 59 indexed citations

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Chen, Ken, John W. Wallis, Michael D. McLellan, et al.. (2009). BreakDancer: an algorithm for high-resolution mapping of genomic structural variation. Nature Methods. 6(9). 677–681. 997 indexed citations breakdown →

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Warren, Robin M., Darren Platt, Xiaoqiu Huang, et al.. (2006). Physical map-assisted whole-genome shotgun sequence assemblies. Genome Research. 16(6). 768–775. 20 indexed citations

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Ezekiel, Uthayashanker, Eric M. Towler, John W. Wallis, & Hans Peter Zassenhaus. (1994). Evidence for a nucleotide-dependent topoisomerase activity from yeast mitochondria. Current Genetics. 27(1). 31–37. 7 indexed citations

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Wallis, John W., Gary Chrebet, Gary Brodsky, Mark W. Rolfe, & Rodney Rothstein. (1989). A hyper-recombination mutation in S. cerevisiae identifies a novel eukaryotic topoisomerase. Cell. 58(2). 409–419. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wallis, John W., Mary C. Rykowski, & Michael Grunstein. (1983). Yeast histone H2B containing large amino terminus deletions can function in vivo. Cell. 35(3). 711–719. 64 indexed citations

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Rykowski, Mary C., John W. Wallis, Joonho Choe, & Michael Grunstein. (1981). Histone H2B subtypes are dispensable during the yeast cell cycle. Cell. 25(2). 477–487. 93 indexed citations

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Wallis, John W., Lynna M. Hereford, & Michael Grunstein. (1980). Histone H2B genes of yeast encode two different proteins. Cell. 22(3). 799–805. 114 indexed citations

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