Mick Watson

13.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
188 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Mick Watson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mick Watson has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Genetics and 24 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Mick Watson's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (32 papers), Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology (20 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (16 papers). Mick Watson is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (32 papers), Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology (20 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (16 papers). Mick Watson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Mick Watson's co-authors include R. Roehe, Laura Glendinning, Marc Auffret, Amanda Warr, Carol-Anne Duthie, R.J. Dewhurst, Alan W. Walker, Christelle Robert, Jolinda Pollock and Robert D. Stewart and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Mick Watson

181 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

The Madness of Microbiome: Attempting To Find Consensus “Best Practice” for 16S Microbiome Studies

2018 354 citations Jolinda Pollock, Laura Glendinning et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
Assembly of 913 microbial genomes from metagenomic sequencing of the cow rumen

2018 352 citations Robert D. Stewart, Marc Auffret et al. Nature Communications profile →
Compendium of 4,941 rumen metagenome-assembled genomes for rumen microbiome biology and enzyme discovery

2019 338 citations Marc Auffret, Amanda Warr et al. profile →
Bovine Host Genetic Variation Influences Rumen Microbial Methane Production with Best Selection Criterion for Low Methane Emitting and Efficiently Feed Converting Hosts Based on Metagenomic Gene Abundance

2016 240 citations R. Roehe, R.J. Dewhurst et al. PLoS Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mick Watson United Kingdom	43	3.0k	1.3k	1000	746	711	188	6.3k
Ian A. Gardner United States	58	889 0.3×	2.6k 2.0×	924 0.9×	865 1.2×	2.2k 3.1×	340	11.5k
Sitao Wu United States	23	6.7k 2.3×	400 0.3×	1.0k 1.0×	2.1k 2.8×	610 0.9×	47	10.4k
Søren Saxmose Nielsen Denmark	44	976 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	507 0.5×	295 0.4×	1.5k 2.1×	296	6.5k
Heebal Kim South Korea	35	2.0k 0.7×	378 0.3×	1.8k 1.8×	302 0.4×	181 0.3×	257	5.0k
Xiaoquan Wang China	47	2.3k 0.8×	709 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	304 0.4×	672 0.9×	216	7.0k
Udo Reichl Germany	52	4.9k 1.7×	245 0.2×	1.6k 1.6×	731 1.0×	1.6k 2.2×	313	8.1k
Zhiqiang Lu China	60	2.7k 0.9×	3.0k 2.3×	1.7k 1.7×	556 0.7×	1.5k 2.1×	231	11.3k
Tung Nguyen United States	32	3.8k 1.3×	248 0.2×	3.0k 3.0×	504 0.7×	630 0.9×	129	11.1k
Derrick E. Wood United States	7	3.8k 1.3×	185 0.1×	577 0.6×	2.0k 2.6×	989 1.4×	10	7.1k
Tak‐Wah Lam Hong Kong	27	6.7k 2.3×	321 0.2×	1.3k 1.3×	3.3k 4.4×	735 1.0×	185	12.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Mick Watson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mick Watson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ghimire, Shristi, Li‐Ting Liu, Jason Villano, et al.. (2025). Safety, Immunogenicity, and Protective Efficacy in Rhesus Macaques of a Novel Recombinant Hemagglutinin Protein Measles Virus Vaccine. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 232(5). 1239–1248.

Steinert, Robert E., et al.. (2024). In vitro validation of colon delivery of vitamin B2 through a food grade multi-unit particle system. Beneficial Microbes. 16(2). 253–269. 1 indexed citations

Martínez-Álvaro, Marina, Marc Auffret, Carol-Anne Duthie, et al.. (2024). Temporal stability of the rumen microbiome and its longitudinal associations with performance traits in beef cattle. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 20772–20772. 4 indexed citations

Martínez-Álvaro, Marina, et al.. (2023). KOunt: a reproducible KEGG orthologue abundance workflow. Bioinformatics. 39(8). 2 indexed citations

Gilroy, Rachel, Anuradha Ravi, María Getino, et al.. (2021). Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture. PeerJ. 9. e10941–e10941. 123 indexed citations

Dietschi, Elisabeth, Ulrich Rytz, Peter Schawalder, et al.. (2019). An ADAMTS3 missense variant is associated with Norwich Terrier upper airway syndrome. PLoS Genetics. 15(5). e1008102–e1008102. 15 indexed citations

Stewart, Robert D., Marc Auffret, Timothy J. Snelling, R. Roehe, & Mick Watson. (2018). MAGpy: a reproducible pipeline for the downstream analysis of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). Bioinformatics. 35(12). 2150–2152. 25 indexed citations

Pollock, Jolinda, et al.. (2018). The Madness of Microbiome: Attempting To Find Consensus “Best Practice” for 16S Microbiome Studies. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(7). 354 indexed citations breakdown →

Joseph, Sunitha, et al.. (2018). Chromosome Level Genome Assembly and Comparative Genomics between Three Falcon Species Reveals an Unusual Pattern of Genome Organisation. Diversity. 10(4). 113–113. 25 indexed citations

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Stewart, Robert D., Marc Auffret, Amanda Warr, et al.. (2018). Assembly of 913 microbial genomes from metagenomic sequencing of the cow rumen. Nature Communications. 9(1). 870–870. 352 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stewart, Robert D. & Mick Watson. (2017). poRe GUIs for parallel and real-time processing of MinION sequence data. Bioinformatics. 33(14). 2207–2208. 4 indexed citations

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Dietrich, Isabelle, Stéphanie Jansen, Gamou Fall, et al.. (2017). RNA Interference Restricts Rift Valley Fever Virus in Multiple Insect Systems. mSphere. 2(3). 49 indexed citations

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Roehe, R., R.J. Dewhurst, Carol-Anne Duthie, et al.. (2016). Bovine Host Genetic Variation Influences Rumen Microbial Methane Production with Best Selection Criterion for Low Methane Emitting and Efficiently Feed Converting Hosts Based on Metagenomic Gene Abundance. PLoS Genetics. 12(2). e1005846–e1005846. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Risse, Judith, Marian Thomson, Sheila Patrick, et al.. (2015). A single chromosome assembly of Bacteroides fragilis strain BE1 from Illumina and MinION nanopore sequencing data. GigaScience. 4(1). 60–60. 43 indexed citations

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Watson, Mick, Marian Thomson, Judith Risse, et al.. (2014). poRe: an R package for the visualization and analysis of nanopore sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 31(1). 114–115. 55 indexed citations

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Watson, Mick, et al.. (2012). The HAL 9000 Space Operating System Real-Time Planning Engine Design and Operations Requirements. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 6(1). 39–44. 2 indexed citations

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Buser, Michael D., et al.. (2010). Predicting Fiber Quality After Commercial Ginning Based on Fiber Obtained With Laboratory-Scale Gin Stands. The journal of cotton science/Journal of cotton science.

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Watson, Mick. (2006). CoXpress: differential co-expression in gene expression data. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 509–509. 117 indexed citations

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Kaiser, Pete, Tuang Yeow Poh, Lisa Rothwell, et al.. (2005). A Genomic Analysis of Chicken Cytokines and Chemokines. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 25(8). 467–484. 179 indexed citations

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Rakoczy, P. Elizabeth, May C. Lai, Mick Watson, Ulrich Seydel, & Ian J. Constable. (1996). Targeted Delivery of an Antisense Oligonucleotide in the Retina: Uptake, Distribution, Stability, and Effect. Antisense and Nucleic Acid Drug Development. 6(3). 207–213. 26 indexed citations

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