Paul M. Sharp

48.3k total citations · 15 hit papers
199 papers, 32.3k citations indexed

About

Paul M. Sharp is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Virology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul M. Sharp has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 32.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Molecular Biology, 67 papers in Virology and 40 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Paul M. Sharp's work include HIV Research and Treatment (67 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (58 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (53 papers). Paul M. Sharp is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (67 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (58 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (53 papers). Paul M. Sharp collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Paul M. Sharp's co-authors include Wen‐Hsiung Li, Desmond G. Higgins, Beatrice H. Hahn, Kenneth H. Wolfe, George M. Shaw, Elizabeth Bailes, Thérèse M.F. Tuohy, Feng Gao, David L. Robertson and Martine Peeters and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Paul M. Sharp

197 papers receiving 31.1k citations

Hit Papers

CLUSTAL: a package for performing multiple sequence align... 1986 2026 1999 2012 1988 1987 1987 1989 1999 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. CLUSTAL: a package for performing multiple sequence alignment on a microcomputer
    1988 3.0k citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  2. The codon adaptation index-a measure of directional synonymous codon usage bias, and its potential applications
    1987 3.0k citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  3. Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs.
    1987 1.8k citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  4. Fast and sensitive multiple sequence alignments on a microcomputer
    1989 1.2k citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  5. Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes
    1999 1.0k citations Feng Gao, Elizabeth Bailes et al. Nature profile →
  6. Codon usage in yeast: cluster analysis clearly differentiates highly and lowly expressed genes
    1986 969 citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  7. Origins of HIV and the AIDS Pandemic
    2011 796 citations Paul M. Sharp, Beatrice H. Hahn profile →
  8. An evolutionary perspective on synonymous codon usage in unicellular organisms
    1986 768 citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  9. AIDS as a Zoonosis: Scientific and Public Health Implications
    2000 749 citations Beatrice H. Hahn, George M. Shaw et al. Science profile →
  10. Evidence for two independent domestications of cattle.
    1994 585 citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  11. Chimpanzee Reservoirs of Pandemic and Nonpandemic HIV-1
    2006 555 citations Brandon F. Keele, Fran Van Heuverswyn et al. Science profile →
  12. Date of the monocot-dicot divergence estimated from chloroplast DNA sequence data.
    1989 513 citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  13. Codon usage patterns inEscherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Drosophila melanogasterandHomo sapiens; a review of the considerable within-species diversity
    1988 504 citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  14. Codon usage in regulatory genes inEscherichia colidoes not reflect selection for ‘rare’ codons
    1986 489 citations Paul M. Sharp et al. profile →
  15. "Silent" sites in Drosophila genes are not neutral: evidence of selection among synonymous codons.
    1988 470 citations Paul M. Sharp et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul M. Sharp United Kingdom 81 17.0k 7.3k 6.4k 5.8k 4.6k 199 32.3k
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond United States 60 6.9k 0.4× 4.5k 0.6× 4.3k 0.7× 7.3k 1.3× 3.0k 0.6× 200 21.7k
Stephen C. Harrison United States 111 25.2k 1.5× 5.4k 0.7× 5.2k 0.8× 11.8k 2.0× 4.0k 0.9× 350 46.8k
Esteban Domingo Spain 83 8.1k 0.5× 2.2k 0.3× 6.7k 1.0× 5.9k 1.0× 4.6k 1.0× 379 23.3k
Michael D. Miller United States 90 18.4k 1.1× 7.7k 1.1× 2.9k 0.5× 13.2k 2.3× 1.1k 0.2× 421 38.0k
William A. Haseltine United States 82 11.7k 0.7× 11.2k 1.5× 3.6k 0.6× 6.3k 1.1× 1.2k 0.3× 222 26.9k
Geoffrey L. Smith United Kingdom 87 6.6k 0.4× 12.5k 1.7× 7.4k 1.1× 2.6k 0.5× 2.2k 0.5× 361 25.0k
Oliver G. Pybus United Kingdom 79 4.8k 0.3× 3.8k 0.5× 4.0k 0.6× 10.7k 1.9× 2.0k 0.4× 303 27.7k
Simon D. W. Frost United States 54 4.2k 0.2× 3.7k 0.5× 2.8k 0.4× 5.3k 0.9× 2.0k 0.4× 152 15.3k
Philippe Lemey Belgium 72 4.0k 0.2× 3.3k 0.5× 4.4k 0.7× 8.9k 1.5× 3.0k 0.6× 307 22.3k
Kary B. Mullis United States 24 15.8k 0.9× 1.1k 0.1× 6.5k 1.0× 2.6k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 29 31.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sharp, Paul M., Frédéric Bibollet‐Ruche, & Beatrice H. Hahn. (2025). Plasmodium falciparum CyRPA Glycan Binding Does Not Explain Adaptation to Humans. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(2). 2 indexed citations
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MacLean, Oscar A., et al.. (2024). Remarkable Evolutionary Rate Variations Among Lineages and Among Genome Compartments in Malaria Parasites of Mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(12). 1 indexed citations
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Sharp, Paul M., Lindsey J. Plenderleith, Richard Culleton, & Beatrice H. Hahn. (2024). Origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax. Trends in Parasitology. 40(7). 562–572. 1 indexed citations
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Wroblewski, Emily E., Lisbeth A. Guethlein, Weimin Liu, et al.. (2023). Malaria-driven adaptation of MHC class I in wild bonobo populations. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1033–1033. 3 indexed citations
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Snounou, Georges, Paul M. Sharp, & Richard Culleton. (2023). The two parasite species formerly known as Plasmodium ovale. Trends in Parasitology. 40(1). 21–27. 9 indexed citations
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Dalhuisen, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Unusually Divergent Ubiquitin Genes and Proteins in Plasmodium Species. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(8). 4 indexed citations
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Plenderleith, Lindsey J., Wei‐Min Liu, Yingying Li, et al.. (2022). Zoonotic origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium malariae from African apes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1868–1868. 15 indexed citations
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Riddell, Carolyn, Jack Forster, Pete E. Hedley, et al.. (2019). Metabarcoding reveals a high diversity of woody host-associatedPhytophthoraspp. in soils at public gardens and amenity woodlands in Britain. PeerJ. 7. e6931–e6931. 45 indexed citations
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Proto, William R., Selasi Dankwa, Weimin Liu, et al.. (2019). Adaptation of Plasmodium falciparum to humans involved the loss of an ape-specific erythrocyte invasion ligand. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4512–4512. 18 indexed citations
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Barbian, Hannah J., Andrew Connell, Ronnie M. Russell, et al.. (2018). CHIIMP: An automated high‐throughput microsatellite genotyping platform reveals greater allelic diversity in wild chimpanzees. Ecology and Evolution. 8(16). 7946–7963. 20 indexed citations
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Sharp, Paul M., et al.. (2010). Focus on single-parent families : past, present, and future. Praeger eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Keele, Brandon F., Fran Van Heuverswyn, Yingying Li, et al.. (2006). Chimpanzee Reservoirs of Pandemic and Nonpandemic HIV-1. Science. 313(5786). 523–526. 555 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bibollet‐Ruche, Frédéric, Feng Gao, Elizabeth Bailes, et al.. (2004). Complete Genome Analysis of One of the Earliest SIVcpz Ptt Strains from Gabon (SIVcpzGAB2). AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 20(12). 1377–1381. 16 indexed citations
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Santiago, Mario L., Frédéric Bibollet‐Ruche, Nicole Gross‐Camp, et al.. (2003). Noninvasive Detection of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in a Wild-Living L'Hoest's Monkey ( Cercopithecus lhoesti ). AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 19(12). 1163–1166. 13 indexed citations
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Sharp, Paul M., et al.. (1999). Dating the origin of HIV-I subtypes - reply. Nature. 400(6742). 326–326. 3 indexed citations
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Gao, Feng, Ling Yue, Michael S. Saag, et al.. (1994). HIV-1 Sequence Subtype D in the United States. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 10(5). 625–627. 37 indexed citations
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Taveira, Nuno, et al.. (1994). Molecular Characterization of the env Gene from a Non-Syncytium-Inducing HIV-2 Isolate (HIV-2 ALI ). AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 10(2). 223–224. 10 indexed citations
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Gao, Feng, Ling Yue, Francine E. McCutchan, et al.. (1994). Genetic Variation of HIV Type 1 in Four World Health Organization-Sponsored Vaccine Evaluation Sites: Generation of Functional Envelope (Glycoprotein 160) Clones Representative of Sequence Subtypes A, B, C, and E. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 10(11). 1359–1368. 104 indexed citations
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Sharp, Paul M., David L. Robertson, Feng Gao, & Beatrice H. Hahn. (1994). Origins and diversity of human immunodeficiency viruses. AIDS. 8(1). 103 indexed citations
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Gao, Feng, Ling Yue, Paul M. Sharp, & Beatrice H. Hahn. (1993). Genetic Typing of HIV-2 from a Senegalese/German Heterosexual Transmission. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 9(7). 703–704. 8 indexed citations

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