Ken Dewar

34.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Ken Dewar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Dewar has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ken Dewar's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (8 papers). Ken Dewar is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (8 papers). Ken Dewar collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Ken Dewar's co-authors include Vivian G. Loo, Mark A. Miller, Matthew Oughton, André Dascal, Thomas J. Hudson, Tuyen Nguyen, Anne–Marie Bourgault, Yury Monczak, Louise Poirier and Paul Brassard and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ken Dewar

83 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

A Predominantly Clonal Multi-Institutional Outbreak ofClostridium difficile–Associated Diarrhea with High Morbidity and Mortality

2005 1.6k citations Vivian G. Loo, Louise Poirier et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ken Dewar Canada	39	2.0k	1.9k	1.5k	917	482	85	5.1k
David Goulding United Kingdom	51	4.2k 2.2×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	285 0.6×	157	9.1k
Casey D. Morrow United States	48	3.5k 1.8×	1.9k 1.0×	868 0.6×	724 0.8×	294 0.6×	245	6.7k
Grégory Jouvion France	35	1.4k 0.7×	766 0.4×	720 0.5×	272 0.3×	147 0.3×	103	3.7k
Ron Sender Israel	9	3.6k 1.9×	981 0.5×	452 0.3×	445 0.5×	111 0.2×	10	5.4k
Anja Kipar United Kingdom	40	942 0.5×	2.1k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.7×	75 0.2×	214	5.8k
Thomas W. Molitor United States	45	905 0.5×	2.6k 1.4×	919 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	176 0.4×	151	7.2k
Éric Ghigo France	35	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	736 0.5×	328 0.4×	251 0.5×	101	5.0k
Terez Shea‐Donohue United States	45	1.7k 0.9×	830 0.4×	799 0.5×	567 0.6×	98 0.2×	138	7.3k
Luis L. Rodrı́guez United States	46	1.2k 0.6×	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	697 0.8×	418 0.9×	246	8.4k
Huachen Zhu China	38	1.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.8×	843 0.9×	913 1.9×	128	7.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ken Dewar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ken Dewar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Dewar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ken Dewar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ken Dewar 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 Ken Dewar. Ken Dewar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Minerbi, Amir, Emmanuel González, Nicholas J. B. Brereton, et al.. (2019). Altered microbiome composition in individuals with fibromyalgia. Pain. 160(11). 2589–2602. 148 indexed citations

Taylor, James A., Jean‐Mathieu Leclerc, John R. Brannon, et al.. (2019). Identification and characterization of OmpT‐like proteases in uropathogenic Escherichia coli clinical isolates. MicrobiologyOpen. 8(11). 27 indexed citations

Zahiri, Reza, Luca Freschi, Sandrine Picq, et al.. (2017). Comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes of geographic variants of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, reveals a previously undescribed genotypic entity. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14245–14245. 35 indexed citations

Vincent, Caroline, Mark A. Miller, Thaddeus J. Edens, et al.. (2016). Bloom and bust: intestinal microbiota dynamics in response to hospital exposures and Clostridium difficile colonization or infection. Microbiome. 4(1). 12–12. 98 indexed citations

Teatero, Sarah, Allison McGeer, Aimin Li, et al.. (2015). Population Structure and Antimicrobial Resistance of Invasive Serotype IV Group B Streptococcus, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

Vincent, Caroline, David A. Stephens, Vivian G. Loo, et al.. (2013). Reductions in intestinal Clostridiales precede the development of nosocomial Clostridium difficile infection. Microbiome. 1(1). 18–18. 90 indexed citations

Lévesque, Sébastien, Charles Morin, Simon‐Pierre Guay, et al.. (2012). A founder mutation in the PEX6 gene is responsible for increased incidence of Zellweger syndrome in a French Canadian population. BMC Medical Genetics. 13(1). 72–72. 31 indexed citations

Dewar, Ken, et al.. (2011). Hoxclusters of the bichir (Actinopterygii,Polypterus senegalus) highlight unique patterns of sequence evolution in gnathostome phylogeny. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 316B(6). 451–464. 11 indexed citations

Matsumoto, Jun, Ken Dewar, Jessica Wasserscheid, et al.. (2010). High-throughput sequence analysis of Ciona intestinalis SL trans-spliced mRNAs: Alternative expression modes and gene function correlates. Genome Research. 20(5). 636–645. 35 indexed citations

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Hoberman, Rose, Joana Dias, Bing Ge, et al.. (2009). A probabilistic approach for SNP discovery in high-throughput human resequencing data. Genome Research. 19(9). 1542–1552. 20 indexed citations

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Feng, Jie, Andréanne Lupien, Hélène Gingras, et al.. (2009). Genome sequencing of linezolid-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae mutants reveals novel mechanisms of resistance. Genome Research. 19(7). 1214–1223. 71 indexed citations

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Satou, Yutaka, Katsuhiko Mineta, Michio Ogasawara, et al.. (2008). Improved genome assembly and evidence-based global gene model set for the chordate Ciona intestinalis: new insight into intron and operon populations. Genome biology. 9(10). R152–R152. 173 indexed citations

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Freimer, Nelson B., Susan K. Service, Roel A. Ophoff, et al.. (2007). A quantitative trait locus for variation in dopamine metabolism mapped in a primate model using reference sequences from related species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(40). 15811–15816. 24 indexed citations

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Loo, Vivian G., Louise Poirier, Mark A. Miller, et al.. (2005). A Predominantly Clonal Multi-Institutional Outbreak ofClostridium difficile–Associated Diarrhea with High Morbidity and Mortality. New England Journal of Medicine. 353(23). 2442–2449. 1563 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watters, James, Ken Dewar, Jessica A. Lehoczky, Victor Boyartchuk, & William F. Dietrich. (2001). Kif1C, a kinesin-like motor protein, mediates mouse macrophage resistance to anthrax lethal factor. Current Biology. 11(19). 1503–1511. 65 indexed citations

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Wiltshire, Tim, Mathew T. Pletcher, Susan E. Cole, et al.. (1999). Perfect Conserved Linkage Across the Entire Mouse Chromosome 10 Region Homologous to Human Chromosome 21. Genome Research. 9(12). 1214–1222. 16 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Dietmar, Ralf Kist, Ken Dewar, et al.. (1999). Campomelic Dysplasia Translocation Breakpoints Are Scattered over 1 Mb Proximal to SOX9: Evidence for an Extended Control Region. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 65(1). 111–124. 153 indexed citations

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Dewar, Ken & Louis Bernier. (1995). Inheritance of chromosome-length polymorphisms in Ophiostoma ulmi (sensu lato). Current Genetics. 27(6). 541–549. 17 indexed citations

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Dewar, Ken & Louis Bernier. (1993). Electrophoretic karyotypes of the elm tree pathogen Ophiostoma ulmi (sensu lato). Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 238-238(1-2). 43–48. 9 indexed citations

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Royer, John C., Ken Dewar, M. Hubbes, & Paul A. Horgen. (1991). Analysis of a high frequency transformation system for Ophiostoma ulmi, the causal agent of Dutch elm disease. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 225(1). 168–176. 40 indexed citations

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