Matt W. Wright

15.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
31 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Matt W. Wright is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Matt W. Wright has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Genetics, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Matt W. Wright's work include Genomics and Rare Diseases (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (8 papers). Matt W. Wright is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Rare Diseases (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (8 papers). Matt W. Wright collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Matt W. Wright's co-authors include Elspeth A. Bruford, Michael Lush, Ruth C. Lovering, Hester Wain, Ruth L. Seal, Kristian Gray, Sue Povey, Bethan Yates, Lois J. Maltais and Susan M. Gordon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, The Journal of Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Matt W. Wright

29 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Gene map of the extended humanMHC

2004 820 citations Roger W. Horton, Laurens Wilming et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →
New consensus nomenclature for mammalian keratins

2006 544 citations Lois J. Maltais, Matt W. Wright et al. profile →
Recommendations for application of the functional evidence PS3/BS3 criterion using the ACMG/AMP sequence variant interpretation framework

2019 310 citations Ahmad Abou Tayoun, Matt W. Wright et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matt W. Wright United Kingdom	24	2.3k	992	727	568	523	31	4.4k
Mikhail G. Dozmorov United States	36	2.2k 0.9×	494 0.5×	722 1.0×	708 1.2×	178 0.3×	153	4.0k
Malte Spielmann Germany	27	3.9k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	800 1.1×	678 1.2×	200 0.4×	90	5.7k
Sean Bong Lee United States	36	2.8k 1.2×	475 0.5×	540 0.7×	449 0.8×	424 0.8×	83	4.1k
Guglielmo Roma Switzerland	31	2.3k 1.0×	410 0.4×	479 0.7×	388 0.7×	541 1.0×	60	4.2k
Christopher I. Amos United States	42	2.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.8×	1.0k 1.4×	682 1.2×	371 0.7×	101	6.1k
Robin D. Dowell United States	30	3.2k 1.4×	565 0.6×	198 0.3×	447 0.8×	317 0.6×	101	4.1k
Zhijin Wu United States	29	4.3k 1.9×	1.0k 1.0×	440 0.6×	776 1.4×	102 0.2×	85	6.3k
Zena Werb United States	24	1.9k 0.8×	472 0.5×	460 0.6×	380 0.7×	973 1.9×	34	3.6k
Kate Hardy United Kingdom	50	4.0k 1.7×	1.6k 1.6×	740 1.0×	243 0.4×	214 0.4×	124	9.5k
Cara J. Gottardi United States	43	4.4k 1.9×	509 0.5×	513 0.7×	413 0.7×	1.4k 2.6×	85	6.5k

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Popejoy, Alice B., Deborah Ritter, Danielle R. Azzariti, et al.. (2025). Design and implementation of an action plan for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion within the Clinical Genome Resource. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(2). 215–223.

Dalton, Karen, Heidi L. Rehm, Matt W. Wright, et al.. (2022). Accessing clinical-grade genomic classification data through the ClinGen Data Platform. PubMed. 28. 531–535.

Sarmady, Mahdi, et al.. (2021). Evaluating the impact of in silico predictors on clinical variant classification. Genetics in Medicine. 24(4). 924–930. 23 indexed citations

Popejoy, Alice B., Kristy Crooks, Stephanie M. Fullerton, et al.. (2020). Clinical Genetics Lacks Standard Definitions and Protocols for the Collection and Use of Diversity Measures. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 107(1). 72–82. 50 indexed citations

Gray, Kristian, Ruth L. Seal, Susan Tweedie, Matt W. Wright, & Elspeth A. Bruford. (2016). A review of the new HGNC gene family resource. Human Genomics. 10(1). 6–6. 60 indexed citations

McGarvey, Kelly M., Tamara Goldfarb, Eric Cox, et al.. (2015). Mouse genome annotation by the RefSeq project. Mammalian Genome. 26(9-10). 379–390. 12 indexed citations

Gray, Kristian, Bethan Yates, Ruth L. Seal, Matt W. Wright, & Elspeth A. Bruford. (2014). Genenames.org: the HGNC resources in 2015. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D1079–D1085. 369 indexed citations

Gray, Kristian, Louise C. Daugherty, Susan M. Gordon, et al.. (2012). Genenames.org: the HGNC resources in 2013. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D545–D552. 189 indexed citations

Gong, Hua, Huitong Zhou, Stefan Clerens, et al.. (2012). An Updated Nomenclature for Keratin-Associated Proteins (KAPs). International Journal of Biological Sciences. 8(2). 258–264. 59 indexed citations

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Daugherty, Louise C., Ruth L. Seal, Matt W. Wright, & Elspeth A. Bruford. (2012). Gene family matters: expanding the HGNC resource. Human Genomics. 6(1). 4–4. 8 indexed citations

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Wright, Matt W. & Elspeth A. Bruford. (2011). Naming 'junk': Human non-protein coding RNA (ncRNA) gene nomenclature. Human Genomics. 5(2). 90–90. 138 indexed citations

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Holmes, Roger S., Matt W. Wright, Stanley J. F. Laulederkind, et al.. (2010). Recommended nomenclature for five mammalian carboxylesterase gene families: human, mouse, and rat genes and proteins. Mammalian Genome. 21(9-10). 427–441. 151 indexed citations

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Manjunath, P., et al.. (2008). New Nomenclature for Mammalian BSP Genes1. Biology of Reproduction. 80(3). 394–397. 81 indexed citations

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Bruford, Elspeth A., Michael Lush, Matt W. Wright, et al.. (2007). The HGNC Database in 2008: a resource for the human genome. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(Database). D445–D448. 162 indexed citations

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Eyre, T. A., Matt W. Wright, Michael Lush, & Elspeth A. Bruford. (2006). HCOP: a searchable database of human orthology predictions. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 8(1). 2–5. 57 indexed citations

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Hunt, Mary C., Junji Yamada, Lois J. Maltais, et al.. (2005). A revised nomenclature for mammalian acyl-CoA thioesterases/hydrolases. Journal of Lipid Research. 46(9). 2029–2032. 69 indexed citations

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Wright, Matt W., T. A. Eyre, Michael Lush, Sue Povey, & Elspeth A. Bruford. (2005). HCOP: The HGNC comparison of orthology predictions search tool. Mammalian Genome. 16(11). 827–828. 31 indexed citations

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Horton, Roger W., Laurens Wilming, Vikki Rand, et al.. (2004). Gene map of the extended humanMHC. Nature Reviews Genetics. 5(12). 889–899. 820 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wain, Hester, Elspeth A. Bruford, Ruth C. Lovering, et al.. (2002). Guidelines for Human Gene Nomenclature. Genomics. 79(4). 464–470. 310 indexed citations

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Wright, Matt W. & James K. Bowmaker. (2001). Retinal photoreceptors of paleognathous birds: the ostrich (Struthio camelus) and rhea (Rhea americana). Vision Research. 41(1). 1–12. 43 indexed citations

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