Paul Kersey

23.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
55 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Paul Kersey is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Kersey has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Paul Kersey's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (7 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (7 papers). Paul Kersey is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (7 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (7 papers). Paul Kersey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Paul Kersey's co-authors include D. Staines, Rolf Apweiler, Dan Bolser, Kevin Howe, Ewan Birney, Matthew Berriman, Arnaud Kerhornou, Youla Karavidopoulou, Jorge Duarte and Bruce J. Bolt and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Paul Kersey

54 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Ensembl BioMarts: a hub for data retrieval across taxonomic space

2011 970 citations Andreas Kähäri, Syed Haider et al. Database profile →
The International Protein Index: An integrated database for proteomics experiments

2004 600 citations Paul Kersey, Youla Karavidopoulou et al. profile →
WormBase ParaSite − a comprehensive resource for helminth genomics

2016 451 citations Kevin Howe, Paul Kersey et al. profile →
Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project

2022 172 citations Mark Blaxter, Nova Mieszkowska et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Penny Coggill United Kingdom

Shivashankar H. Nagaraj Australia

Philip Jones United Kingdom

David Binns United Kingdom

Jacob Engelbrecht Denmark

John Chilton United States

Olof Emanuelsson Sweden

Ian Longden United Kingdom

Lisanna Paladin Italy

Darren A. Natale United States

Penny Coggill United Kingdom

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Countries citing papers authored by Paul Kersey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Kersey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Paul Kersey. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Paul Kersey. The network helps show where Paul Kersey may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Kersey

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Percival‐Alwyn, Lawrence, Ian Barnes, Matthew D. Clark, et al.. (2024). UKCropDiversity‐HPC: A collaborative high‐performance computing resource approach for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation. Plants People Planet. 7(4). 969–977. 6 indexed citations

Livermore, Laurence, et al.. (2023). Understanding the users and uses of UK Natural History Collections. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 4 indexed citations

Bolser, Dan, et al.. (2023). Comparative analysis of repeat content in plant genomes, large and small. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1103035–1103035. 5 indexed citations

Kress, W. John, Douglas E. Soltis, Paul Kersey, et al.. (2022). Green plant genomes: What we know in an era of rapidly expanding opportunities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 83 indexed citations

Blaxter, Mark, Nova Mieszkowska, Federica Di Palma, et al.. (2022). Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 172 indexed citations breakdown →

Hollmann, Susanne, Babette Regierer, Teresa K. Attwood, et al.. (2021). Ten Simples Rules on How to Organise a Bioinformatics Hackathon. EMBnet journal. 26. e983–e983. 1 indexed citations

Cowell, Carly, Alan Paton, James S. Borrell, et al.. (2021). Uses and benefits of digital sequence information from plant genetic resources: Lessons learnt from botanical collections. Plants People Planet. 4(1). 33–43. 15 indexed citations

Silva, Manuela da, Gemedo Dalle, Paul Smith, et al.. (2020). Conservation Policy: Helping or hindering science to unlock properties of plants and fungi. Plants People Planet. 2(5). 535–545. 17 indexed citations

Kersey, Paul, Jérôme Collemare, Laura J. Kelly, et al.. (2020). Selecting for useful properties of plants and fungi – Novel approaches, opportunities, and challenges. Plants People Planet. 2(5). 409–420. 16 indexed citations

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Pedro, Helder, Andrew Yates, Paul Kersey, & Nishadi De Silva. (2019). Collaborative Annotation Redefines Gene Sets for Crucial Phytopathogens. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2477–2477. 6 indexed citations

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Brewer, Grace E., James J. Clarkson, Olivier Maurin, et al.. (2019). Factors Affecting Targeted Sequencing of 353 Nuclear Genes From Herbarium Specimens Spanning the Diversity of Angiosperms. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1102–1102. 104 indexed citations

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Kersey, Paul. (2018). Plant genome sequences: past, present, future. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 48. 1–8. 105 indexed citations

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Pedro, Helder, Uma Maheswari, Martin Urban, et al.. (2015). PhytoPath: an integrative resource for plant pathogen genomics. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D688–D693. 31 indexed citations

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Shaw, Felix, Alejandra González-Beltrán, Philippe Rocca‐Serra, et al.. (2015). COPO â" Linked Open Infrastructure for Plant Data.. 181–182. 1 indexed citations

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Krajewski, Paweł, Dijun Chen, Hanna Ćwiek‐Kupczyńska, et al.. (2015). Towards recommendations for metadata and data handling in plant phenotyping. Journal of Experimental Botany. 66(18). 5417–5427. 94 indexed citations

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Kähäri, Andreas, Syed Haider, Jorge Zamora, et al.. (2011). Ensembl BioMarts: a hub for data retrieval across taxonomic space. Database. 2011(0). bar030–bar030. 970 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kersey, Paul & Rolf Apweiler. (2006). Linking publication, gene and protein data. Nature Cell Biology. 8(11). 1183–1189. 28 indexed citations

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Pruess, Manuela, Paul Kersey, & Rolf Apweiler. (2005). The Integr8 project--a resource for genomic and proteomic data.. PubMed. 5(2). 179–85. 27 indexed citations

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Camon, Evelyn, Michele Magrane, Daniel Barrell, et al.. (2003). The Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) Project: Implementation of GO in SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, and InterPro. Genome Research. 13(4). 662–672. 273 indexed citations

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Biswas, Margaret, Rolf Apweiler, Wolfgang Fleischmann, et al.. (2000). Proteome Analysis: Application of InterPro and CluSTr for the Functional Classification of Proteins in Whole Genomes.. 149–158. 1 indexed citations

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