Oliver Pennington

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Oliver Pennington is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Genetics and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Pennington has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Infectious Diseases, 2 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Oliver Pennington's work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (3 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (1 paper) and Virus-based gene therapy research (1 paper). Oliver Pennington is often cited by papers focused on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (3 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (1 paper) and Virus-based gene therapy research (1 paper). Oliver Pennington collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and United States. Oliver Pennington's co-authors include Nigel P. Minton, John Heap, Stephen T. Cartman, Glen P. Carter, Philippe Lambin, Ludwig J. Dubois, Peter Dürre, Jozef Anné, Thomas E. Vaughan and Willy Landuyt and has published in prestigious journals such as British Journal of Cancer, Journal of Microbiological Methods and Anaerobe.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Pennington

4 papers receiving 993 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.

The ClosTron: A universal gene knock-out system for the genus Clostridium

2007 521 citations John Heap, Oliver Pennington et al. Journal of Microbiological Methods profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver Pennington United Kingdom	4	540	403	335	188	182	4	1.0k
Muhammad Ehsaan United Kingdom	9	532 1.0×	346 0.9×	278 0.8×	147 0.8×	161 0.9×	11	896
Keith V. Alsaker United States	7	714 1.3×	181 0.4×	381 1.1×	58 0.3×	186 1.0×	7	855
Daniel J. Petersen United States	19	511 0.9×	93 0.2×	235 0.7×	40 0.2×	160 0.9×	36	929
Phuongan Dam United States	12	647 1.2×	35 0.1×	258 0.8×	135 0.7×	153 0.8×	18	873
Daniel P. MacEachran United States	11	626 1.2×	71 0.2×	111 0.3×	35 0.2×	86 0.5×	13	1.1k
Sarah Teter United States	10	640 1.2×	23 0.1×	185 0.6×	60 0.3×	111 0.6×	10	987
Ana L. Carvalho United Kingdom	15	581 1.1×	82 0.2×	135 0.4×	86 0.5×	73 0.4×	16	901
Maoyi Li China	10	327 0.6×	53 0.1×	226 0.7×	97 0.5×	91 0.5×	13	756
Fumiaki Taguchi Japan	18	208 0.4×	150 0.4×	257 0.8×	33 0.2×	45 0.2×	37	1.1k
Arbind Kumar India	15	424 0.8×	198 0.5×	90 0.3×	95 0.5×	92 0.5×	45	799

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver Pennington

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Pennington

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Oliver Pennington. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Oliver Pennington based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Oliver Pennington. Oliver Pennington is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Heap, John, Oliver Pennington, Stephen T. Cartman, & Nigel P. Minton. (2009). A modular system for Clostridium shuttle plasmids. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 78(1). 79–85. 371 indexed citations

2.

Heap, John, Oliver Pennington, Stephen T. Cartman, Glen P. Carter, & Nigel P. Minton. (2007). The ClosTron: A universal gene knock-out system for the genus Clostridium. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 70(3). 452–464. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Theys, Jan, Oliver Pennington, Ludwig J. Dubois, et al.. (2006). Repeated cycles of Clostridium-directed enzyme prodrug therapy result in sustained antitumour effects in vivo. British Journal of Cancer. 95(9). 1212–1219. 98 indexed citations

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Minton, Nigel P., et al.. (2003). The development of Clostridium difficile genetic systems. Anaerobe. 10(2). 75–84. 16 indexed citations

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