Paul Webster

24.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
376 papers, 15.0k citations indexed

About

Paul Webster is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Webster has authored 376 papers receiving a total of 15.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 71 papers in General Health Professions and 57 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Paul Webster's work include Primary Care and Health Outcomes (32 papers), Trypanosoma species research and implications (29 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (17 papers). Paul Webster is often cited by papers focused on Primary Care and Health Outcomes (32 papers), Trypanosoma species research and implications (29 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (17 papers). Paul Webster collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Paul Webster's co-authors include Mark E. Davis, Ira Mellman, Chung Hang Jonathan Choi, Norma W. Andrews, Ari Helenius, Urs F. Greber, Swaroop Mishra, James R. Drake, Sebastián Amigorena and Christopher A. Alabi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Paul Webster

348 papers receiving 14.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Designing conditions for in vitro formation of amyloid protofilaments and fibrils

1999 891 citations Paul Webster et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Stepwise dismantling of adenovirus 2 during entry into cells

1993 662 citations Urs F. Greber, Paul Webster et al. Cell profile →
PEGylation significantly affects cellular uptake and intracellular trafficking of non-viral gene delivery particles

2004 604 citations Paul Webster et al. profile →
Mechanism of active targeting in solid tumors with transferrin-containing gold nanoparticles

2009 558 citations Paul Webster et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The small GTP-binding protein rab4 controls an early sorting event on the endocytic pathway

1992 556 citations Paul Webster et al. Cell profile →
A Plastid of Probable Green Algal Origin in Apicomplexan Parasites

1997 539 citations Paul Webster et al. profile →
Virtual health care in the era of COVID-19

2020 538 citations Paul Webster The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Webster United States	55	6.0k	2.9k	2.0k	1.8k	1.7k	376	15.0k
A. John Barrett United States	104	17.7k 2.9×	2.7k 0.9×	7.2k 3.5×	2.3k 1.2×	4.9k 2.8×	539	45.9k
Li Liu China	60	5.3k 0.9×	3.7k 1.3×	2.7k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	542 0.3×	586	20.5k
David A. Jans Australia	75	11.3k 1.9×	2.1k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	369	19.5k
Mathias Uhlén Sweden	101	25.7k 4.3×	2.9k 1.0×	3.5k 1.7×	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	705	40.5k
W. Robert Lee United States	80	5.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	881 0.5×	867 0.5×	799	24.9k
David M. Ojcius United States	70	8.8k 1.5×	2.7k 0.9×	4.9k 2.4×	1.4k 0.8×	569 0.3×	299	19.8k
Timothy C. Wang United States	92	16.7k 2.8×	2.9k 1.0×	5.9k 2.9×	556 0.3×	2.1k 1.3×	537	35.3k
Michael W. Parker Australia	78	11.7k 1.9×	1.4k 0.5×	2.6k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	445	20.5k
Masanori Aikawa United States	89	7.5k 1.2×	3.6k 1.3×	7.9k 3.9×	10.1k 5.5×	1.0k 0.6×	529	29.3k
Manuel C. Peitsch Switzerland	56	14.0k 2.3×	1.3k 0.4×	2.7k 1.3×	807 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	291	23.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Webster

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Webster, Paul. (2025). Canada's loss of measles-free status highlights public health gaps. The Lancet. 406(10518). 2407–2408. 1 indexed citations

Webster, Paul. (2024). Canada's family physician shortage. The Lancet. 403(10441). 2278–2278. 4 indexed citations

Webster, Paul. (2024). Calls for the Olympics to end harmful Coca-Cola sponsorship. The Lancet. 404(10452). 509–509. 1 indexed citations

Webster, Paul. (2024). US regulators escalate PFAS controls. The Lancet. 403(10427). 601–601. 1 indexed citations

Webster, Paul, et al.. (2024). Eleven clinical trials that will shape medicine in 2025. Nature Medicine. 30(12). 3384–3388. 1 indexed citations

Webster, Paul, et al.. (2023). Partitioning qubits in hypergraph product codes to implement logical gates. Quantum. 7. 1153–1153. 24 indexed citations

Gunawardana, Manjula, Simon G. Webster, Paul Webster, et al.. (2022). Fundamental aspects of long-acting tenofovir alafenamide delivery from subdermal implants for HIV prophylaxis. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 8224–8224. 11 indexed citations

Webster, Paul. (2020). Canadian digital health data breaches: time for reform. The Lancet Digital Health. 2(3). e113–e114. 2 indexed citations

Aguirre, Vincent, Paul Webster, Christopher Buser, et al.. (2020). Synthesis and Characterization of Mixed-Valent Iron Layered Double Hydroxides (“Green Rust”). ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 5(1). 40–54. 13 indexed citations

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Mehta, Angad P., Ľubica Supeková, Jianhua Chen, et al.. (2018). Engineering yeast endosymbionts as a step toward the evolution of mitochondria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(46). 11796–11801. 36 indexed citations

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Woolsey, Ian David, Paul Webster, Stig Milan Thamsborg, et al.. (2017). Repeated inoculations with the lung and heartworm nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum result in increasing larval excretion and worm burden in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes). International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife. 6(3). 139–145. 14 indexed citations

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Jiang, Chunqi, Martin A. Gundersen, Christoph Schaudinn, et al.. (2011). An atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma needle for endodontic biofilm disinfection. 1–1. 4 indexed citations

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Nnoaham, Kelechi, Lone Hummelshøj, C Jenkinson, et al.. (2010). Global study of women's health: a multi-centre study of the global impact of endometriosis. Human Reproduction. 25. 2 indexed citations

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Webster, Paul, et al.. (2007). Increased Internal and External Bacterial Load during Drosophila Aging without Life-Span Trade-Off. Cell Metabolism. 6(2). 144–152. 270 indexed citations

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Webster, Paul, Siva Wu, Gerardo A. Gómez, et al.. (2006). Distribution of Bacterial Proteins in Biofilms Formed by Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 54(7). 829–842. 50 indexed citations

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Webster, Paul, Peter Lind, Edoardo Pozio, et al.. (1998). Trichinella spiralis , T. britovi , and T. nativa ?: infectivity, larval distribution in muscle, and antibody response after experimental infection of pigs. Parasitology Research. 84(4). 264–271. 85 indexed citations

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Greber, Urs F., et al.. (1993). Stepwise dismantling of adenovirus 2 during entry into cells. Cell. 75(3). 477–486. 662 indexed citations breakdown →

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Webster, Paul, et al.. (1991). Localization of the plasma membrane and mitochondrial H(+)-ATPases in Leishmania donovani promastigotes.. PubMed. 54(1). 95–101. 18 indexed citations

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Webster, Paul, Keith A. Joiner, & Norma W. Andrews. (1991). Why do so many surface proteins of trypanosomatids have GPI-anchors?. Cell Biology International Reports. 15(9). 799–813. 4 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Stuart Z. & Paul Webster. (1989). Coated Vesicles from the Protozoan Parasite Trypanosoma brucei: Purification and Characterization. The Journal of Protozoology. 36(4). 344–349. 34 indexed citations

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