Laura Drought

860 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 513 citations indexed

About

Laura Drought is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Drought has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 513 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 3 papers in Immunology and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Laura Drought's work include Malaria Research and Control (7 papers), Trypanosoma species research and implications (2 papers) and Parasites and Host Interactions (2 papers). Laura Drought is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (7 papers), Trypanosoma species research and implications (2 papers) and Parasites and Host Interactions (2 papers). Laura Drought collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Italy. Laura Drought's co-authors include David A. Baker, Susana Campino, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Taane G. Clark, Manuel Llinás, Núria Rovira‐Graells, Valerie M. Crowley, April E. Williams, Björn F.C. Kafsack and Alfred Cortés and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS Biology.

In The Last Decade

Laura Drought

7 papers receiving 511 citations

Hit Papers

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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 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.

  1. A transcriptional switch underlies commitment to sexual development in malaria parasites
    2014 338 citations Björn F.C. Kafsack, Núria Rovira‐Graells et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Laura Drought
Letusa Albrecht Brazil
Kathrin Witmer United Kingdom
Christine Scheidig‐Benatar France
Catherine Suárez United Kingdom
Xue Yan Yam Singapore
Séverine Chevalley‐Maurel Netherlands
Lindsey Orchard United States
Franziska Mohring United Kingdom
Gavin G. Rutledge United Kingdom
Esmeralda V. S. Meyer United States
Letusa Albrecht Brazil
Laura Drought
Citations per year, relative to Laura Drought Laura Drought (= 1×) peers Letusa Albrecht

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Drought

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Drought

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Laura Drought. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Laura Drought. The network helps show where Laura Drought may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Drought

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

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
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Flueck, Christian, Laura Drought, Andrew W. Jones, et al.. (2019). Phosphodiesterase beta is the master regulator of cAMP signalling during malaria parasite invasion. PLoS Biology. 17(2). e3000154–e3000154. 36 indexed citations
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Campino, Susana, Alejandro Marín-Menéndez, Alison Kemp, et al.. (2018). A forward genetic screen reveals a primary role for Plasmodium falciparum Reticulocyte Binding Protein Homologue 2a and 2b in determining alternative erythrocyte invasion pathways. PLoS Pathogens. 14(11). e1007436–e1007436. 10 indexed citations
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Galaway, Francis, Laura Drought, Nadia Cross, et al.. (2017). P113 is a merozoite surface protein that binds the N terminus of Plasmodium falciparum RH5. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14333–14333. 47 indexed citations
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Baker, David A., Laura Drought, Christian Flueck, et al.. (2017). Cyclic nucleotide signalling in malaria parasites. Open Biology. 7(12). 170213–170213. 48 indexed citations
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Campino, Susana, Ernest Diez Benavente, Samuel Assefa, et al.. (2016). Genomic variation in two gametocyte non-producing Plasmodium falciparum clonal lines. Malaria Journal. 15(1). 229–229. 16 indexed citations
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Kafsack, Björn F.C., Núria Rovira‐Graells, Taane G. Clark, et al.. (2014). A transcriptional switch underlies commitment to sexual development in malaria parasites. Nature. 507(7491). 248–252. 338 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tetteh, Kevin K. A., Faith Osier, Ali Salanti, et al.. (2013). Analysis of Antibodies to Newly Described Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Antigens Supports MSPDBL2 as a Predicted Target of Naturally Acquired Immunity. Infection and Immunity. 81(10). 3835–3842. 18 indexed citations

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