Paul Brown

17.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
226 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Paul Brown is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Brown has authored 226 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Molecular Biology, 59 papers in Neurology and 29 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Paul Brown's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (175 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (59 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (23 papers). Paul Brown is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (175 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (59 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (23 papers). Paul Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Poland. Paul Brown's co-authors include D. Carleton Gajdusek, Larisa Červen̆áková, H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia, Dennis Jones, Francisca G. Caballero, K. J. A. Mawella, Françoise Cathala, Clarence J. Gibbs, Paweł P. Liberski and Lev G. Goldfarb and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul Brown

221 papers receiving 10.6k 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.

Classification of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease based on molecular and phenotypic analysis of 300 subjects

1999 1.0k citations Paul Brown, Herbert Budka et al. Annals of Neurology profile →
Very strong low temperature bainite

2002 447 citations Paul Brown et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Brown United States	54	8.2k	3.8k	2.1k	1.1k	1.1k	226	11.1k
Makoto Iwata Japan	45	2.1k 0.3×	588 0.2×	600 0.3×	1.4k 1.2×	2.6k 2.4×	463	11.3k
Hideo Takahashi Japan	47	5.2k 0.6×	932 0.2×	193 0.1×	497 0.4×	317 0.3×	334	10.5k
Hong Yi China	60	6.1k 0.7×	384 0.1×	201 0.1×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	280	12.4k
Gabriel A. Rabinovich Argentina	75	11.5k 1.4×	361 0.1×	373 0.2×	213 0.2×	232 0.2×	321	23.1k
Maria Ericsson United States	44	4.3k 0.5×	443 0.1×	167 0.1×	497 0.4×	165 0.2×	101	8.2k
Kjell Hultenby Sweden	62	7.4k 0.9×	406 0.1×	410 0.2×	353 0.3×	373 0.3×	248	14.8k
Yu Sun China	36	1.6k 0.2×	449 0.1×	142 0.1×	607 0.5×	674 0.6×	294	6.3k
Yoshinori Ito Japan	53	2.6k 0.3×	181 0.0×	538 0.3×	303 0.3×	202 0.2×	435	11.2k
Jiake Xu Australia	69	8.3k 1.0×	168 0.0×	376 0.2×	171 0.1×	352 0.3×	412	17.4k
Richard A. Knight United Kingdom	63	6.6k 0.8×	176 0.0×	163 0.1×	270 0.2×	336 0.3×	201	11.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Brown

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Brown 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 Paul Brown. Paul Brown is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Gessmann, Dennis, et al.. (2025). High Resolution Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Vitamin B₁₂ Opens the Door to Structural Identification of Cobalamin Impurities. Analytical Chemistry. 97(40). 21986–21996.

He, Yan, et al.. (2018). On-line coupling of hydrophobic interaction column with reverse phase column -charged aerosol detector/mass spectrometer to characterize polysorbates in therapeutic protein formulations. Journal of Chromatography A. 1586. 72–81. 11 indexed citations

Balkema‐Buschmann, Anne, Reiner Ulrich, Kerstin Tauscher, et al.. (2017). Detection of PrPBSE and prion infectivity in the ileal Peyer’s patch of young calves as early as 2 months after oral challenge with classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Veterinary Research. 48(1). 88–88. 8 indexed citations

Cardone, Franco, Paul Brown, Richard D. Meyer, & Maurizio Pocchiari. (2006). Inactivation of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents in food products by ultra high pressure–temperature treatment. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1764(3). 558–562. 17 indexed citations

Brown, Paul, et al.. (2006). On the Question of Sporadic or Atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Emerging infectious diseases. 12(12). 1816–1821. 40 indexed citations

Brown, Paul & Larisa Červen̆áková. (2004). The modern landscape of transfusion-related iatrogenic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and blood screening tests. Current Opinion in Hematology. 11(5). 351–356. 8 indexed citations

Fichet, Guillaume, Emmanuel Comoy, Capucine Dehen, et al.. (2004). Novel methods for disinfection of prion-contaminated medical devices. The Lancet. 364(9433). 521–526. 172 indexed citations

Ricketts, Maura & Paul Brown. (2003). Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy update and implications for blood safety. Clinics in Laboratory Medicine. 23(1). 129–137. 4 indexed citations

Bons, N, Sylvain Lehmann, Nadine Mestre‐Francés, Dominique Dormont, & Paul Brown. (2002). Brain and buffy coat transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to the primate Microcebus murinus. Transfusion. 42(5). 513–516. 42 indexed citations

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Dagvadorj, Ayush, Robert B. Petersen, Hee Suk Lee, et al.. (2002). Spontaneous mutations in the prion protein gene causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Annals of Neurology. 52(3). 355–359. 20 indexed citations

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Brown, Paul. (2001). The pathogenesis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy: routes to the brain and the erection of therapeutic barricades. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 58(2). 259–265. 18 indexed citations

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Liberski, Paweł P., et al.. (1998). A case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with a Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker phenotype but no alterations in the PRNP gene. Acta Neuropathologica. 96(4). 425–430. 10 indexed citations

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Budka, Herbert, Adriano Aguzzi, Paul Brown, et al.. (1996). Tissue handling in suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other human spongiform encephalopathies (prion diseases). UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Beekes, Michael, E Baldauf, H. Diringer, et al.. (1995). Western blot mapping of disease-specific amyloid in various animal species and humans with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies using a high-yield purification method. Journal of General Virology. 76(10). 2567–2576. 50 indexed citations

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Červen̆áková, Larisa, Paul Brown, & James W. Nagle. (1994). R3-R4 deletion in the PRNP gene is associated with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The American Journal of Human Genetics. 55. 1 indexed citations

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Brown, Paul. (1994). The “brave new world” of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (infectious cerebral amyloidosis). Molecular Neurobiology. 8(2-3). 79–87. 4 indexed citations

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Barcikowska, Maria, Paweł P. Liberski, J. W. Boellaard, et al.. (1993). Microglia is a component of the prion protein amyloid plaque in the Gerstmann-Str�ussler-Scheinker syndrome. Acta Neuropathologica. 85(6). 623–627. 48 indexed citations

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Brown, Paul, Lev G. Goldfarb, & D. Carleton Gajdusek. (1991). The new biology of spongiform encephalopathy: infectious amyloidoses with a genetic twist. The Lancet. 337(8748). 1019–1022. 93 indexed citations

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Raubertas, Richard F., et al.. (1989). THE QUESTION OF CLUSTERING OF CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE. American Journal of Epidemiology. 129(1). 146–154. 23 indexed citations

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Brown, Paul, Andres Μ. Salazar, Clarence J. Gibbs, & D. Carleton Gajdusek. (1982). Alzheimer's Disease and Transmissible Virus Dementia (Creutzfeldt‐Jakob Disease). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 396(1). 131–143. 32 indexed citations

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