Michael G. Berg

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Michael G. Berg is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael G. Berg has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Infectious Diseases, 17 papers in Epidemiology and 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Michael G. Berg's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (14 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (11 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (11 papers). Michael G. Berg is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (14 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (11 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (11 papers). Michael G. Berg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Cameroon and Colombia. Michael G. Berg's co-authors include Gideon Dreyfuss, Ihab Younis, Lili Wan, Daisuke Kaida, Larry N. Singh, Mumtaz Kasim, Zhenxi Zhang, Anna Maria Pinto, Gavin Cloherty and Sungchan Cho and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael G. Berg

52 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

U1 snRNP protects pre-mRNAs from premature cleavage and polyadenylation

2010 501 citations Daisuke Kaida, Michael G. Berg et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael G. Berg United States	19	1.3k	295	216	207	182	59	2.0k
Anna Kajaste‐Rudnitski Italy	22	768 0.6×	287 1.0×	70 0.3×	292 1.4×	211 1.2×	36	1.6k
Ellen M. Westerhout Netherlands	17	1.4k 1.0×	180 0.6×	40 0.2×	231 1.1×	386 2.1×	23	1.9k
Gualtiero Alvisi Italy	23	618 0.5×	240 0.8×	32 0.1×	432 2.1×	122 0.7×	56	1.3k
Yingpu Yu United States	14	1.1k 0.8×	266 0.9×	45 0.2×	220 1.1×	37 0.2×	18	1.8k
Helen Cumming Australia	10	403 0.3×	187 0.6×	65 0.3×	194 0.9×	116 0.6×	13	1.2k
Christine L. White United States	24	722 0.5×	381 1.3×	30 0.1×	349 1.7×	235 1.3×	46	1.9k
Michael Niepmann Germany	29	1.7k 1.2×	319 1.1×	213 1.0×	359 1.7×	49 0.3×	44	2.7k
Cheryl Goldbeck United States	10	597 0.4×	172 0.6×	84 0.4×	242 1.2×	112 0.6×	12	1.3k
Iván D’Orso United States	27	1.4k 1.0×	287 1.0×	37 0.2×	610 2.9×	623 3.4×	52	2.1k
Takuo Mizukami Japan	18	537 0.4×	235 0.8×	22 0.1×	381 1.8×	207 1.1×	67	1.4k

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Pérez, Lester J., et al.. (2025). Emergence, persistence, and positive selection of yellow fever virus in Colombia. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1548556–1548556. 3 indexed citations

Ferreira, Noely Evangelista, Michael G. Berg, Antônio Charlys da Costa, et al.. (2025). Metagenomic detection of central nervous system infections missedby conventional testing. JCI Insight. 10(13). 1 indexed citations

Yamaguchi, Julie, Gregory S. Orf, Lester J. Pérez, et al.. (2025). First Evidence of Spillover of Rocahepevirus ratti Into Humans in Thailand. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 2025(1). 9954682–9954682.

Pérez, Lester J., Julie Yamaguchi, Todd Meyer, et al.. (2025). Climate, inter-serotype competition and arboviral interactions shape dengue dynamics in Thailand. Communications Biology. 8(1). 601–601. 3 indexed citations

Berg, Michael G., Gregory S. Orf, Geoff A. Beckett, et al.. (2025). Detection of dengue, malaria, and additional causes of acute febrile illness: The need for expanded testing, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 19(10). e0013060–e0013060.

Čiuoderis, Karl, et al.. (2024). Mayaro Virus as the cause of Acute Febrile Illness in the Colombian Amazon Basin. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1419637–1419637. 1 indexed citations

Pérez, Lester J., Kenn Forberg, Gavin Cloherty, & Michael G. Berg. (2023). Temporal and coevolutionary analyses reveal the events driving the emergence and circulation of human mamastroviruses. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 12(1). 2217942–2217942. 6 indexed citations

Orf, Gregory S., Alessandro Olivo, Barbara J. Harris, et al.. (2023). Metagenomic Detection of Divergent Insect- and Bat-Associated Viruses in Plasma from Two African Individuals Enrolled in Blood-Borne Surveillance. Viruses. 15(4). 1022–1022. 10 indexed citations

O’Beirne, Sarah L., et al.. (2021). Misalignment between Clinical Mold Antigen Extracts and Airborne Molds Found in Water-damaged Homes. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 19(5). 746–755. 7 indexed citations

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Berg, Michael G., Alessandro Olivo, Kenn Forberg, et al.. (2020). Advanced molecular surveillance approaches for characterization of blood borne hepatitis viruses. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0236046–e0236046. 9 indexed citations

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Forberg, Kenn, Mary A. Rodgers, George J. Dawson, et al.. (2019). Human pegivirus 2 exhibits minimal geographic and temporal genetic diversity. Virology. 539. 69–79. 10 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Julie, Alessandro Olivo, Oliver Laeyendecker, et al.. (2018). Universal Target Capture of HIV Sequences From NGS Libraries. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 2150–2150. 20 indexed citations

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Rodgers, Mary A., Ana Vallari, Barbara J. Harris, et al.. (2017). Identification of rare HIV-1 Group N, HBV AE, and HTLV-3 strains in rural South Cameroon. Virology. 504. 141–151. 28 indexed citations

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Berg, Michael G., Kelly E. Coller, Matthew Frankel, et al.. (2016). Discovery of a Novel Human Pegivirus in Blood Associated with Hepatitis C Virus Co-Infection. Journal of Hepatology. 64(2). S420–S420.

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Brennan, Catherine A., et al.. (2016). HIV-2 Surveillance with Next-Generation Sequencing Reveals Mutations in a Cytotoxic Lymphocyte-Restricted Epitope Involved in Long-Term Nonprogression. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 33(4). 347–352. 2 indexed citations

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Berg, Michael G., Deanna Lee, Kelly E. Coller, et al.. (2015). Discovery of a Novel Human Pegivirus in Blood Associated with Hepatitis C Virus Co-Infection. PLoS Pathogens. 11(12). e1005325–e1005325. 69 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhenxi, Anna Maria Pinto, Lili Wan, et al.. (2013). Dysregulation of synaptogenesis genes antecedes motor neuron pathology in spinal muscular atrophy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(48). 19348–19353. 148 indexed citations

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Berg, Michael G., Lili Wan, Ihab Younis, et al.. (2012). A Quantitative High-Throughput In Vitro Splicing Assay Identifies Inhibitors of Spliceosome Catalysis. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 32(7). 1271–1283. 32 indexed citations

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Berg, Michael G., Larry N. Singh, Ihab Younis, et al.. (2012). U1 snRNP Determines mRNA Length and Regulates Isoform Expression. Cell. 150(1). 53–64. 357 indexed citations

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Berg, Michael G., Ratish Gambhira, Mark C. Siracusa, et al.. (2006). HPV16 L1 capsid protein expressed from viable adenovirus recombinants elicits neutralizing antibody in mice. Vaccine. 25(17). 3501–3510. 8 indexed citations

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