Peter Cox

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Peter Cox is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Parasitology and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Cox has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Parasitology and 6 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Peter Cox's work include Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics (7 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 papers) and Fecal contamination and water quality (5 papers). Peter Cox is often cited by papers focused on Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics (7 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 papers) and Fecal contamination and water quality (5 papers). Peter Cox collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Peter Cox's co-authors include John S. Mattick, R.H. Don, Brandon J. Wainwright, Peter Hawkins, Brett A. Neilan, Andrew Goodman, Daniel Jacobs, Linda L. Blackall, Mark Angles and Daniel Deere and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Peter Cox

31 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

‘Touchdown’ PCR to circumvent spurious priming during gene amplification

1991 2.3k citations R.H. Don, Peter Cox et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Cox Australia	18	1.2k	728	688	499	463	31	3.6k
Gernot Glöckner Germany	36	2.5k 2.0×	1.2k 1.6×	332 0.5×	570 1.1×	343 0.7×	97	4.1k
Peter De Rijk Belgium	32	3.3k 2.6×	1.4k 1.9×	871 1.3×	730 1.5×	171 0.4×	64	5.2k
Harry B. Hines Australia	27	805 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	553 0.8×	299 0.6×	175 0.4×	80	5.8k
Björn Canbäck Sweden	27	2.2k 1.8×	1.6k 2.2×	709 1.0×	972 1.9×	145 0.3×	36	4.5k
Jana Trifinopoulos Austria	5	1.3k 1.0×	896 1.2×	604 0.9×	778 1.6×	108 0.2×	8	3.7k
Kassian Kobert Germany	6	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.9×	664 1.0×	588 1.2×	229 0.5×	10	4.0k
Michael S. Allen United States	32	803 0.6×	667 0.9×	1.4k 2.1×	332 0.7×	287 0.6×	108	4.9k
Sverker Lundin Sweden	12	2.7k 2.2×	854 1.2×	707 1.0×	728 1.5×	133 0.3×	18	5.4k
Ellen Decaestecker Belgium	28	583 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	215 0.4×	455 1.0×	67	2.9k
Katharine G. Field United States	33	2.2k 1.8×	2.1k 2.8×	432 0.6×	205 0.4×	469 1.0×	56	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Cox

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Cox

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cox, Peter, et al.. (2021). Indigenous microbial surrogates in wastewater used to understand public health risk expressed in the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) metric. Microbiology Australia. 42(3). 125–129. 2 indexed citations

Cox, Peter, et al.. (2020). The impact of the Millennium Drought on water filtration plants. 5(1). 1–10. 3 indexed citations

Angles, Mark, et al.. (2020). Implementation of quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) for public drinking water supplies: Systematic review. Water Research. 174. 115614–115614. 60 indexed citations

Akker, Ben van den, et al.. (2011). Estimating the risk from sewage treatment plant effluent in the Sydney catchment area. Water Science & Technology. 63(8). 1707–1715. 6 indexed citations

Ng, Josephine, et al.. (2011). Identification of zoonotic Cryptosporidium and Giardia genotypes infecting animals in Sydney’s water catchments. Experimental Parasitology. 128(2). 138–144. 68 indexed citations

Angles, Mark, et al.. (2007). Implications of biofilm-associated waterborne Cryptosporidium oocysts for the water industry. Trends in Parasitology. 23(8). 352–356. 24 indexed citations

Ryan, Una, Carolyn Read, Peter Hawkins, et al.. (2005). Genotypes of Cryptosporidium from Sydney water catchment areas. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 98(5). 1221–1229. 43 indexed citations

Hijjawi, Nawal, Bruno P. Meloni, Una Ryan, et al.. (2004). Complete development of Cryptosporidium parvum in host cell-free culture. International Journal for Parasitology. 34(7). 769–777. 82 indexed citations

Bitnun, Ari, Andrew Durward, Paul A. Rota, et al.. (1999). Measles Inclusion‐Body Encephalitis Caused by the Vaccine Strain of Measles Virus. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 29(4). 855–861. 91 indexed citations

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Ungria, Maria Corazon A. De, Tassia Kolesnikow, Peter Cox, & Adrian V. Lee. (1999). Molecular Characterization and Interstrain Variability of pHPS1, a Plasmid Isolated from the Sydney Strain (SS1) ofHelicobacter pylori. Plasmid. 41(2). 97–109. 15 indexed citations

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Ungria, Maria Corazon A. De, Daniel Tillett, Brett A. Neilan, Peter Cox, & Adrian V. Lee. (1998). A Novel Method of Extracting Plasmid DNA from Helicobacter Species. Helicobacter. 3(4). 269–277. 14 indexed citations

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Neilan, Brett A., Daniel Jacobs, Linda L. Blackall, et al.. (1997). rRNA Sequences and Evolutionary Relationships among Toxic and Nontoxic Cyanobacteria of the Genus Microcystis. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47(3). 693–697. 434 indexed citations

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Dorsch, M., Nicholas J. Ashbolt, Peter Cox, & Andrew Goodman. (1994). Rapid identification of Aeromonas species using 16S rDNA targeted oligonucleotide primers: a molecular approach based on screening of environmental isolates. Journal of Applied Bacteriology. 77(6). 722–726. 51 indexed citations

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Neilan, Brett A., Peter Cox, Peter Hawkins, & Amanda E. Goodman. (1994). 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequence and Phylogeny of ToxicMicrocystissp. (Cyanobacteria). DNA sequence. 4(5). 333–337. 14 indexed citations

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Curran, Joseph, D. J. Argyle, Peter Cox, David Onions, & L. Nicolson. (1994). Nucleotide sequence of the equine interferon gamma cDNA. DNA sequence. 4(6). 405–407. 14 indexed citations

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Grohmann, G. S., et al.. (1993). Detecton of Viruses in Coastal and River Water Systems in Sydney, Australia. Water Science & Technology. 27(3-4). 457–461. 26 indexed citations

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Mattick, John S., Belinda Anderson, Peter Cox, et al.. (1991). Gene sequences and comparison of the fimbrial subunits representative of Bacteroides nodosus serotypes A to I: class I and class II strains. Molecular Microbiology. 5(3). 561–573. 53 indexed citations

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Hobbs, Matthew, et al.. (1991). Organization of the fimbrial gene region of Bacteroides nodosus: class I and class II strains. Molecular Microbiology. 5(3). 543–560. 45 indexed citations

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Don, R.H., et al.. (1991). ‘Touchdown’ PCR to circumvent spurious priming during gene amplification. Nucleic Acids Research. 19(14). 4008–4008. 2253 indexed citations breakdown →

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Egerton, J. R., et al.. (1987). Protection of sheep against footrot with a recombinant DNA-based fimbrial vaccine. Veterinary Microbiology. 14(4). 393–409. 36 indexed citations

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