Mark Blaxter

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 207 citations indexed

About

Mark Blaxter is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Blaxter has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 207 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Plant Science and 1 paper in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Mark Blaxter's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (2 papers) and Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows (1 paper). Mark Blaxter is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (2 papers) and Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows (1 paper). Mark Blaxter collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Mark Blaxter's co-authors include Paul Kersey, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Richard Durbin, Owen T. Lewis, Ian Barnes, Paul Flicek, Kevin Howe, Matthew Berriman, Alex D. Twyford and Mara Lawniczak and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bioinformatics and JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

In The Last Decade

Mark Blaxter

4 papers receiving 203 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.

Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project

2022 172 citations Mark Blaxter, Nova Mieszkowska et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Blaxter United Kingdom	4	117	65	59	33	31	4	207
Raman Akinyanju Lawal United States	11	166 1.4×	29 0.4×	135 2.3×	18 0.5×	14 0.5×	20	388
Hengwu Ding China	10	151 1.3×	35 0.5×	81 1.4×	31 0.9×	33 1.1×	19	223
Frank G. Jørgensen Denmark	6	120 1.0×	183 2.8×	94 1.6×	17 0.5×	23 0.7×	9	337
Lawrence Percival‐Alwyn United Kingdom	9	66 0.6×	106 1.6×	83 1.4×	34 1.0×	33 1.1×	16	228
S. Lorena Ament‐Velásquez Sweden	11	159 1.4×	165 2.5×	72 1.2×	40 1.2×	55 1.8×	22	299
Michael Gardner United States	6	124 1.1×	161 2.5×	88 1.5×	40 1.2×	35 1.1×	7	301
Francisco Câmara Ferreira Spain	6	101 0.9×	38 0.6×	105 1.8×	49 1.5×	39 1.3×	12	215
Peter Dolan United States	5	235 2.0×	102 1.6×	222 3.8×	54 1.6×	20 0.6×	6	396
Aram D. Stump United States	9	189 1.6×	117 1.8×	135 2.3×	13 0.4×	43 1.4×	13	396
Anna Williford United States	6	159 1.4×	53 0.8×	172 2.9×	14 0.4×	36 1.2×	8	286

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Blaxter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Blaxter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Blaxter

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

All Works

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Zhou, Chenxi, Max R. Brown, Mark Blaxter, Shane McCarthy, & Richard Durbin. (2025). Oatk: a de novo assembly tool for complex plant organelle genomes. Genome biology. 26(1). 235–235. 5 indexed citations

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Brown, Max R., et al.. (2025). tidk: a toolkit to rapidly identify telomeric repeats from genomic datasets. Bioinformatics. 41(2). 12 indexed citations

3.

Blaxter, Mark, Nova Mieszkowska, Federica Di Palma, et al.. (2022). Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 172 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jarrett, W. F. H., M. Saveria Campo, Mark Blaxter, et al.. (1984). Alimentary Fibropapilloma in Cattle: A Spontaneous Tumor, Nonpermissive for Papillomavirus Replication2. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 73(2). 499–504. 18 indexed citations

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