Justin J. Donato

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Justin J. Donato is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pollution and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Justin J. Donato has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Pollution and 5 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Justin J. Donato's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (5 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (5 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (5 papers). Justin J. Donato is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (5 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (5 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (5 papers). Justin J. Donato collaborates with scholars based in United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. Justin J. Donato's co-authors include Jo Handelsman, Heather K. Allen, Karen A. Cloud-Hansen, Julian Davies, Bik K. Tye, Patricia S. McManus, Michael J. Fitch, Brandon J. Converse, Luke A. Moe and T. R. Marsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Justin J. Donato

16 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

Call of the wild: antibiotic resistance genes in natural environments

2010 1.7k citations Heather K. Allen, Justin J. Donato et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Justin J. Donato United States	9	1.2k	883	672	370	145	16	2.1k
Karen A. Cloud-Hansen United States	9	1.1k 1.0×	865 1.0×	566 0.8×	381 1.0×	175 1.2×	10	2.1k
Wenguang Xiong China	21	1.0k 0.8×	624 0.7×	560 0.8×	423 1.1×	154 1.1×	60	1.8k
Wilson W. L. Sung Canada	11	897 0.8×	849 1.0×	752 1.1×	425 1.1×	116 0.8×	15	2.2k
Erik Gullberg Sweden	6	1.0k 0.9×	869 1.0×	410 0.6×	235 0.6×	121 0.8×	8	1.8k
Thibault Stalder United States	17	823 0.7×	748 0.8×	473 0.7×	342 0.9×	101 0.7×	22	1.5k
Christian Munck Denmark	17	657 0.6×	825 0.9×	776 1.2×	375 1.0×	109 0.8×	24	1.9k
Elizabeth M. Selleck United States	12	830 0.7×	716 0.8×	755 1.1×	328 0.9×	147 1.0×	13	2.2k
Mariya Morar United States	11	961 0.8×	978 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	466 1.3×	151 1.0×	16	2.6k
Gabriel G. Perron United States	20	541 0.5×	516 0.6×	781 1.2×	360 1.0×	166 1.1×	40	2.4k
Yongxue Sun China	20	955 0.8×	569 0.6×	350 0.5×	413 1.1×	137 0.9×	39	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Justin J. Donato

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Kim, Taegyu, et al.. (2025). Proximity‐Ligation Metagenomic Sequence Analysis Reveals That the Antibiotic Resistome Makes Significant Transitions During Municipal Wastewater Treatment. Environmental Microbiology. 27(1). e70036–e70036. 1 indexed citations

Donato, Justin J. & T. R. Marsh. (2023). Specifications Grading Is an Effective Approach to Teaching Biochemistry. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 24(2). 14 indexed citations

McGivern, Bridget B., et al.. (2021). Novel class 1 integron harboring antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater-derived bacteria as revealed by functional metagenomics. Plasmid. 114. 102563–102563. 4 indexed citations

Zhao, Shaohua, et al.. (2020). Identification of a Novel Plasmid-Borne Gentamicin Resistance Gene in Nontyphoidal Salmonella Isolated from Retail Turkey. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 64(11). 6 indexed citations

White, Robert J., et al.. (2015). ucFabV Requires Functional Reductase Activity to Confer Reduced Triclosan Susceptibility in <b><i>Escherichia coli</i></b>. Microbial Physiology. 25(6). 394–402. 1 indexed citations

Shade, Ashley, Amy K. Klimowicz, Russell N. Spear, et al.. (2013). Streptomycin Application Has No Detectable Effect on Bacterial Community Structure in Apple Orchard Soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79(21). 6617–6625. 37 indexed citations

Donato, Justin J., et al.. (2012). The Introduction of Metagenomics into an Undergraduate Biochemistry Laboratory Course Yielded a Predicted Reductase That Decreases Triclosan Susceptibility in Escherichia coli. DNA and Cell Biology. 31(6). 968–973. 4 indexed citations

Williamson, Lynn L., Karen A. Cloud-Hansen, Heather K. Allen, et al.. (2011). Summer Workshop in Metagenomics: One Week Plus Eight Students Equals Gigabases of Cloned DNA. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 12(2). 120–126. 4 indexed citations

Allen, Heather K., et al.. (2010). Call of the wild: antibiotic resistance genes in natural environments. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 8(4). 251–259. 1729 indexed citations breakdown →

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Donato, Justin J., et al.. (2010). Metagenomic Analysis of Apple Orchard Soil Reveals Antibiotic Resistance Genes Encoding Predicted Bifunctional Proteins. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76(13). 4396–4401. 114 indexed citations

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Keich, Uri, Hong Gao, Anand Bhaskar, et al.. (2008). Computational detection of significant variation in binding affinity across two sets of sequences with application to the analysis of replication origins in yeast. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 372–372. 6 indexed citations

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Donato, Justin J., et al.. (2006). Genome-Wide Hierarchy of Replication Origin Usage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genetics. 2(9). e141–e141. 29 indexed citations

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Donato, Justin J., et al.. (2005). Dual Roles for Mcm10 in DNA Replication Initiation and Silencing at the Mating-type Loci. Molecular Biology Reports. 32(4). 197–204. 15 indexed citations

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Donato, Justin J., et al.. (2004). Mcm1 Promotes Replication Initiation by Binding Specific Elements at Replication Origins. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 24(14). 6514–6524. 27 indexed citations

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Fitch, Michael J., et al.. (2003). Mcm1 Binds Replication Origins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(8). 6093–6100. 29 indexed citations

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Fitch, Michael J., Justin J. Donato, & Bik K. Tye. (2003). Mcm7, a Subunit of the Presumptive MCM Helicase, Modulates Its Own Expression in Conjunction with Mcm1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(28). 25408–25416. 40 indexed citations

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