Nicholas A. Lyons

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Nicholas A. Lyons is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas A. Lyons has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas A. Lyons's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (3 papers) and Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (2 papers). Nicholas A. Lyons is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (3 papers) and Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (2 papers). Nicholas A. Lyons collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovenia and Netherlands. Nicholas A. Lyons's co-authors include Roberto Kolter, Akhteruzzaman Molla, John M. Leonard, G. Richard Granneman, Ann Hsu, Ping Niu, David O. Morgan, Martin Markowitz, Marina Korneyeva and Charles A. Boucher and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas A. Lyons

9 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.

Ordered accumulation of mutations in HIV protease confers resistance to ritonavir

1996 601 citations Akhteruzzaman Molla, Marina Korneyeva et al. Nature Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas A. Lyons United States	9	650	582	402	179	119	9	1.2k
Chi‐Cheng Luo United States	21	890 1.4×	925 1.6×	517 1.3×	171 1.0×	65 0.5×	26	1.7k
Ladislau C. Kovari United States	17	468 0.7×	500 0.9×	411 1.0×	39 0.2×	104 0.9×	43	961
Ron M. Kagan United States	20	647 1.0×	512 0.9×	554 1.4×	32 0.2×	40 0.3×	44	1.3k
Gabriella Rozera Italy	16	342 0.5×	315 0.5×	249 0.6×	70 0.4×	121 1.0×	55	786
Timothy M. Jenkins United Kingdom	10	1.2k 1.9×	1.1k 1.9×	1.2k 2.9×	125 0.7×	62 0.5×	18	1.9k
María Pernas Spain	18	262 0.4×	339 0.6×	506 1.3×	39 0.2×	97 0.8×	48	1.1k
Gary Ewart Australia	15	702 1.1×	364 0.6×	477 1.2×	57 0.3×	95 0.8×	24	1.4k
Michelle E. Gahan Australia	19	379 0.6×	242 0.4×	340 0.8×	239 1.3×	87 0.7×	55	1.1k
Yudong Quan Canada	24	1.4k 2.1×	1.3k 2.3×	664 1.7×	47 0.3×	35 0.3×	65	2.0k
Ayna Alfadhli United States	17	386 0.6×	542 0.9×	385 1.0×	40 0.2×	97 0.8×	26	835

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Lyons, Nicholas A. & Roberto Kolter. (2018). A single mutation in rapP induces cheating to prevent cheating in Bacillus subtilis by minimizing public good production. Communications Biology. 1(1). 133–133. 12 indexed citations

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Lyons, Nicholas A. & Roberto Kolter. (2017). Bacillus subtilis Protects Public Goods by Extending Kin Discrimination to Closely Related Species. mBio. 8(4). 30 indexed citations

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Lyons, Nicholas A., Barbara Kraigher, Polonca Štefanič, Ines Mandić-Mulec, & Roberto Kolter. (2016). A Combinatorial Kin Discrimination System in Bacillus subtilis. Current Biology. 26(6). 733–742. 78 indexed citations

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Lyons, Nicholas A. & Roberto Kolter. (2015). On the evolution of bacterial multicellularity. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 24. 21–28. 140 indexed citations

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Štefanič, Polonca, Barbara Kraigher, Nicholas A. Lyons, Roberto Kolter, & Ines Mandić-Mulec. (2015). Kin discrimination between sympatric Bacillus subtilis isolates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(45). 14042–14047. 93 indexed citations

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Lyons, Nicholas A., Bryan R. Fonslow, Jolene K. Diedrich, John R. Yates, & David O. Morgan. (2013). Sequential primed kinases create a damage-responsive phosphodegron on Eco1. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 20(2). 194–201. 54 indexed citations

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Lyons, Nicholas A. & David O. Morgan. (2011). Cdk1-Dependent Destruction of Eco1 Prevents Cohesion Establishment after S Phase. Molecular Cell. 42(3). 378–389. 66 indexed citations

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Hsu, Ann, G. Richard Granneman, Galen Witt, et al.. (1997). Multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of ritonavir in human immunodeficiency virus-infected subjects. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 41(5). 898–905. 158 indexed citations

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Molla, Akhteruzzaman, Marina Korneyeva, Qing Gao, et al.. (1996). Ordered accumulation of mutations in HIV protease confers resistance to ritonavir. Nature Medicine. 2(7). 760–766. 601 indexed citations breakdown →

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