Michael T. Ferdig

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
92 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Michael T. Ferdig is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael T. Ferdig has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 33 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Michael T. Ferdig's work include Malaria Research and Control (55 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (17 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (16 papers). Michael T. Ferdig is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (55 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (17 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (16 papers). Michael T. Ferdig collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Thailand. Michael T. Ferdig's co-authors include Roland A. Cooper, John C. Wootton, Jianbing Mu, Thomas E. Wellems, Xin‐zhuan Su, David A. Fidock, Paul D. Roepe, Xin Su, Lyann M. B. Ursos and Takashi Nomura and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael T. Ferdig

90 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Mutations in the P. falciparum Digestive Vacuole Transmembrane Protein PfCRT and Evidence for Their Role in Chloroquine Resistance

2000 1.1k citations David A. Fidock, Takashi Nomura et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Genetic diversity and chloroquine selective sweeps in Plasmodium falciparum

2002 551 citations John C. Wootton, Michael T. Ferdig et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael T. Ferdig	3.5k	948	847	845	645	92	4.8k
Jianbing Mu	3.7k 1.1×	867 0.9×	625 0.7×	651 0.8×	448 0.7×	92	4.8k
Roland A. Cooper	3.3k 0.9×	602 0.6×	963 1.1×	756 0.9×	523 0.8×	54	4.0k
Shalini Nair	3.2k 0.9×	499 0.5×	791 0.9×	274 0.3×	462 0.7×	55	4.0k
Virgı́lio E. do Rosário	4.1k 1.2×	868 0.9×	337 0.4×	406 0.5×	601 0.9×	123	5.2k
Akhil B. Vaidya	2.7k 0.8×	2.0k 2.1×	499 0.6×	513 0.6×	647 1.0×	106	5.3k
Kirk Deitsch	4.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.8×	419 0.5×	490 0.6×	506 0.8×	93	5.6k
Bruce Russell	3.6k 1.0×	552 0.6×	342 0.4×	234 0.3×	488 0.8×	112	4.3k
Sarah K. Volkman	2.7k 0.8×	623 0.7×	446 0.5×	291 0.3×	389 0.6×	92	3.3k
Tony Triglia	3.9k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	401 0.5×	448 0.5×	517 0.8×	75	5.8k
Manoj T. Duraisingh	6.8k 1.9×	2.1k 2.2×	835 1.0×	777 0.9×	879 1.4×	159	9.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael T. Ferdig

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Shoue, Douglas A., Lisa A. Checkley, Sudhir Kumar, et al.. (2025). Measuring growth, resistance, and recovery after artemisinin treatment of Plasmodium falciparum in a single semi-high-throughput assay. Malaria Journal. 24(1). 263–263.

Button-Simons, Katrina A., et al.. (2024). Enhancing Gene Co-Expression Network Inference for the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Genes. 15(6). 685–685. 1 indexed citations

Shoue, Douglas A., Lisa A. Checkley, Stephen Orena, et al.. (2024). The extended recovery ring-stage survival assay is a scalable alternative for artemisinin susceptibility phenotyping of fresh Plasmodium falciparum isolates. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 68(12). e0118324–e0118324. 1 indexed citations

Oberstaller, Jenna, Chengqi Wang, Min Zhang, et al.. (2023). Chemogenomic Profiling of a Plasmodium falciparum Transposon Mutant Library Reveals Shared Effects of Dihydroartemisinin and Bortezomib on Lipid Metabolism and Exported Proteins. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(3). e0501422–e0501422. 4 indexed citations

Button-Simons, Katrina A., Sudhir Kumar, Catherine Jett, et al.. (2021). The power and promise of genetic mapping from Plasmodium falciparum crosses utilizing human liver-chimeric mice. Communications Biology. 4(1). 734–734. 8 indexed citations

Li, Xue, Sudhir Kumar, Marina McDew‐White, et al.. (2019). Genetic mapping of fitness determinants across the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum life cycle. PLoS Genetics. 15(10). e1008453–e1008453. 29 indexed citations

Ghouila, Amel, Geoffrey Siwo, Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner, et al.. (2018). Hackathons as a means of accelerating scientific discoveries and knowledge transfer. Genome Research. 28(5). 759–765. 24 indexed citations

Siwo, Geoffrey, Katrina A. Button-Simons, Asako Tan, et al.. (2017). Simultaneous genome-wide gene expression and transcript isoform profiling in the human malaria parasite. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0187595–e0187595. 4 indexed citations

Siwo, Geoffrey, Asako Tan, Katrina A. Button-Simons, et al.. (2015). Predicting functional and regulatory divergence of a drug resistance transporter gene in the human malaria parasite. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 115–115. 10 indexed citations

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Huang, Yang, Geoffrey Siwo, Stefan Wuchty, Michael T. Ferdig, & Teresa M. Przytycka. (2012). Symmetric Epistasis Estimation (SEE) and its application to dissecting interaction map of Plasmodium falciparum. Molecular BioSystems. 8(5). 1544–1552. 1 indexed citations

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Pelleau, Stéphane, Lionel Bertaux, Sébastien Briolant, et al.. (2011). Differential Association of Plasmodium falciparum Na ⁺ /H ⁺ Exchanger Polymorphism and Quinine Responses in Field- and Culture-Adapted Isolates of Plasmodium falciparum. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 55(12). 5834–5841. 14 indexed citations

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Patel, Jigar, Thacker Drew, John C. Tan, et al.. (2010). Chloroquine susceptibility and reversibility in a Plasmodium falciparum genetic cross. Molecular Microbiology. 78(3). 770–787. 40 indexed citations

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Tan, John C., Jigar Patel, Asako Tan, et al.. (2009). Optimizing comparative genomic hybridization probes for genotyping and SNP detection in Plasmodium falciparum. Genomics. 93(6). 543–550. 27 indexed citations

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Cooper, Roland A., Kristin D. Lane, Bingbing Deng, et al.. (2006). Mutations in transmembrane domains 1, 4 and 9 of thePlasmodium falciparumchloroquine resistance transporter alter susceptibility to chloroquine, quinine and quinidine. Molecular Microbiology. 63(1). 270–282. 74 indexed citations

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Wuchty, Stefan, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, & Michael T. Ferdig. (2006). Stable evolutionary signal in a Yeast protein interaction network. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 6(1). 8–8. 48 indexed citations

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Ferdig, Michael T., Roland A. Cooper, Jianbing Mu, et al.. (2004). Dissecting the loci of low‐level quinine resistance in malaria parasites. Molecular Microbiology. 52(4). 985–997. 186 indexed citations

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Fidock, David A., Takashi Nomura, Angela K. Talley, et al.. (2000). Mutations in the P. falciparum Digestive Vacuole Transmembrane Protein PfCRT and Evidence for Their Role in Chloroquine Resistance. Molecular Cell. 6(4). 861–871. 1115 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lowenberger, Carl, Chelsea T. Smartt, Philippe Bulet, et al.. (1999). Insect immunity: molecular cloning, expression, and characterization of cDNAs and genomic DNA encoding three isoforms of insect defensin in Aedes aegypti. Insect Molecular Biology. 8(1). 107–118. 84 indexed citations

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Ferdig, Michael T., Andrew S. Taft, David W. Severson, & Bruce M. Christensen. (1998). Development of a Comparative Genetic Linkage Map for Armigeres subalbatus Using Aedes aegyptiRFLP Markers. Genome Research. 8(1). 41–47. 21 indexed citations

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Lowenberger, Carl, Michael T. Ferdig, Philippe Bulet, et al.. (1996). Aedes aegypti:Induced Antibacterial Proteins Reduce the Establishment and Development ofBrugia malayi. Experimental Parasitology. 83(2). 191–201. 53 indexed citations

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