Kelly Townsend

22 total papers · 1.6k total citations
12 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Kelly Townsend is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelly Townsend has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Kelly Townsend's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (4 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers) and Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (2 papers). Kelly Townsend is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (4 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers) and Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (2 papers). Kelly Townsend collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Israel. Kelly Townsend's co-authors include Grant S. Stewart, Edward S. Miller, Moray J. Campbell, Kay W. Colston, Martin Hewison, Laurence Pelletier, Nadine K. Kolas, Nadine Taubenheim, Shinichiro Nakada and Andrea Tagliaferro and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Kelly Townsend

12 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

The RIDDLE Syndrome Prote... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The RIDDLE Syndrome Protein Mediates a Ubiquitin-Dependent Signaling Cascade at Sites of DNA Damage
    2009 598 citations Grant S. Stewart, Stephanie Panier et al. Cell profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Kelly Townsend 885 411 273 186 131 12 1.3k
E Abe 577 0.7× 336 0.8× 288 1.1× 197 1.1× 75 0.6× 20 1.2k
Ming Liu 751 0.8× 646 1.6× 296 1.1× 236 1.3× 68 0.5× 16 1.5k
Chad A. Ellis 876 1.0× 462 1.1× 139 0.5× 109 0.6× 221 1.7× 14 1.6k
Alexa S. Green 1.0k 1.2× 276 0.7× 147 0.5× 62 0.3× 43 0.3× 28 1.5k
John Abrahamson 765 0.9× 660 1.6× 253 0.9× 726 3.9× 110 0.8× 13 1.7k
CS Potten 455 0.5× 656 1.6× 164 0.6× 252 1.4× 43 0.3× 15 1.3k
Michel LeHir 606 0.7× 121 0.3× 123 0.5× 193 1.0× 52 0.4× 14 1.5k
Xiangyang Dong 553 0.6× 186 0.5× 326 1.2× 204 1.1× 55 0.4× 23 1.2k
Cissy Geigerman 827 0.9× 268 0.7× 150 0.5× 134 0.7× 31 0.2× 16 1.4k
David Wu 1.1k 1.2× 865 2.1× 153 0.6× 249 1.3× 137 1.0× 11 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Kelly Townsend

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kelly Townsend

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kelly Townsend

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kelly Townsend. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kelly Townsend based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kelly Townsend. Kelly Townsend is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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