Mark D. Preston

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Mark D. Preston is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark D. Preston has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Infectious Diseases, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Mark D. Preston's work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (7 papers), Malaria Research and Control (5 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (4 papers). Mark D. Preston is often cited by papers focused on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (7 papers), Malaria Research and Control (5 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (4 papers). Mark D. Preston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Saudi Arabia. Mark D. Preston's co-authors include Taane G. Clark, Francesc Coll, Nigel Martin, Kim Mallard, Arnab Pain, José Afonso Guerra‐Assunção, Mridul Nair, Grant Hill-Cawthorne, João Perdigão and Isabel Portugal and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Mark D. Preston

35 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Rapid determination of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance from whole-genome sequences

2015 282 citations Francesc Coll, Ruth McNerney et al. Genome Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark D. Preston United Kingdom	17	663	514	475	196	174	36	1.2k
Clare M. Smith United States	15	372 0.6×	281 0.5×	350 0.7×	72 0.4×	131 0.8×	28	1.1k
Yue Feng China	21	361 0.5×	449 0.9×	354 0.7×	75 0.4×	122 0.7×	104	1.3k
Siew Woh Choo Malaysia	18	207 0.3×	295 0.6×	591 1.2×	36 0.2×	85 0.5×	69	1.1k
Hartwig P. Huemer Austria	26	347 0.5×	542 1.1×	240 0.5×	110 0.6×	185 1.1×	70	1.5k
Aaron T. Irving Australia	21	781 1.2×	242 0.5×	693 1.5×	82 0.4×	182 1.0×	38	1.9k
Nadia Storm United States	18	502 0.8×	146 0.3×	217 0.5×	42 0.2×	115 0.7×	29	1000
Fang He China	24	530 0.8×	560 1.1×	503 1.1×	76 0.4×	96 0.6×	90	1.8k
Gary L. White United States	24	321 0.5×	387 0.8×	276 0.6×	87 0.4×	282 1.6×	70	1.5k
Fuxun Yu China	19	595 0.9×	114 0.2×	318 0.7×	56 0.3×	281 1.6×	54	1.1k
Antonio Orduña Spain	18	188 0.3×	266 0.5×	280 0.6×	240 1.2×	29 0.2×	56	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark D. Preston

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Neal, Alice, Svanhild Nornes, Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol, et al.. (2021). ETS factors are required but not sufficient for specific patterns of enhancer activity in different endothelial subtypes. Developmental Biology. 473. 1–14. 9 indexed citations

Shaw, Helen Alexandra, Mark D. Preston, Karuna E.W. Vendrik, et al.. (2019). The recent emergence of a highly related virulent Clostridium difficile clade with unique characteristics. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 26(4). 492–498. 42 indexed citations

Shaw, Helen Alexandra, et al.. (2019). Clostridium difficile clade 3 (RT023) have a modified cell surface and contain a large transposable island with novel cargo. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15330–15330. 4 indexed citations

Roberts, Chrissy h., Sander Ouburg, Mark D. Preston, et al.. (2018). Pathway-Wide Genetic Risks in Chlamydial Infections Overlap between Tissue Tropisms: A Genome-Wide Association Scan. Mediators of Inflammation. 2018. 1–9. 1 indexed citations

Letertre, Marine P. M., Mark D. Preston, Irene Bianconi, et al.. (2018). Para-cresol production by Clostridium difficile affects microbial diversity and membrane integrity of Gram-negative bacteria. PLoS Pathogens. 14(9). e1007191–e1007191. 91 indexed citations

Rudd, Timothy R., Mark D. Preston, & Edwin A. Yates. (2017). The nature of the conserved basic amino acid sequences found among 437 heparin binding proteins determined by network analysis. Molecular BioSystems. 13(5). 852–865. 30 indexed citations

Doble, M, Jeremy Wilkinson, Mark D. Preston, et al.. (2017). Robust wavebuoys for the marginal ice zone: Experiences from a large persistent array in the Beaufort Sea. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 5. 4 indexed citations

Cairns, Michelle, Mark D. Preston, Christopher L. Hall, et al.. (2016). Comparative Genome Analysis and Global Phylogeny of the Toxin Variant Clostridium difficile PCR Ribotype 017 Reveals the Evolution of Two Independent Sublineages. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 55(3). 865–876. 44 indexed citations

Preston, Mark D. & Richard A. Stabler. (2016). From FASTQ to Function: In Silico Methods for Processing Next-Generation Sequencing Data. Methods in molecular biology. 1476. 23–33. 1 indexed citations

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Coll, Francesc, Ruth McNerney, Mark D. Preston, et al.. (2015). Rapid determination of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance from whole-genome sequences. Genome Medicine. 7(1). 51–51. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coll, Francesc, et al.. (2015). Imputation-Based Population Genetics Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Parasites. PLoS Genetics. 11(4). e1005131–e1005131. 27 indexed citations

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Afanasyev, Vsevolod, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Michael J. Dünn, et al.. (2015). Increasing Accuracy: A New Design and Algorithm for Automatically Measuring Weights, Travel Direction and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) of Penguins. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0126292–e0126292. 3 indexed citations

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Preston, Mark D., Matthew L. Forister, Jonathan W. Pitchford, & Paul R. Armsworth. (2015). Impact of individual movement and changing resource availability on male–female encounter rates in an herbivorous insect. Ecological Complexity. 24. 1–13. 3 indexed citations

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Coll, Francesc, Mark D. Preston, José Afonso Guerra‐Assunção, et al.. (2014). PolyTB: A genomic variation map for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. 94(3). 346–354. 66 indexed citations

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Horswill, Catharine, Jason Matthiopoulos, Jonathan A. Green, et al.. (2014). Survival in macaroni penguins and the relative importance of different drivers: individual traits, predation pressure and environmental variability. Journal of Animal Ecology. 83(5). 1057–1067. 52 indexed citations

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Preston, Mark D., Samuel Assefa, Harold Ocholla, et al.. (2013). PlasmoView: A Web-based Resource to Visualise Global Plasmodium falciparum Genomic Variation. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 209(11). 1808–1815. 20 indexed citations

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Coll, Francesc, Kim Mallard, Mark D. Preston, et al.. (2012). SpolPred: rapid and accurate prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes from short genomic sequences. Bioinformatics. 28(22). 2991–2993. 75 indexed citations

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Preston, Mark D., Jonathan W. Pitchford, & A. Jamie Wood. (2010). Evolutionary optimality in stochastic search problems. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 7(50). 1301–1310. 16 indexed citations

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Preston, Mark D., P. G. Chamberlain, & Simon N. Chandler‐Wilde. (2010). A Nystrom method for a boundary value problem arising in unsteady water wave problems. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis. 31(3). 1123–1153. 1 indexed citations

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Whitehouse, Martin J. & Mark D. Preston. (1997). A flexible computer-based technique for the analysis of data from a sea-going nutrient autoanalyser. Analytica Chimica Acta. 345(1-3). 197–202. 4 indexed citations

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