Peter Midford

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
30 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Peter Midford is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Midford has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Peter Midford's work include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (9 papers). Peter Midford is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (9 papers). Peter Midford collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Peter Midford's co-authors include Wayne P. Maddison, Theodore Garland, Anthony R. Ives, Sarah P. Otto, Peter D. Karp, Ron Caspi, Wai Kit Ong, Markus Krummenacker, Suzanne Paley and Anamika Kothari and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Peter Midford

29 papers receiving 5.0k citations

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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.

Estimating a Binary Character's Effect on Speciation and Extinction

2007 847 citations Wayne P. Maddison, Peter Midford et al. Systematic Biology profile →
The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes - a 2019 update

2019 795 citations Ron Caspi, Richard Billington et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes

2017 597 citations Ron Caspi, Richard Billington et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The BioCyc collection of microbial genomes and metabolic pathways

2017 594 citations Peter D. Karp, Richard Billington et al. Briefings in Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Midford United States	21	2.5k	1.1k	964	887	798	30	5.1k
Lê Sỹ Vinh Vietnam	15	2.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	1.7k 1.8×	1.7k 1.9×	534 0.7×	53	7.1k
Paul Hoover United States	18	3.2k 1.3×	2.1k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.9×	440 0.6×	41	8.0k
Xuhua Xia Canada	41	4.6k 1.9×	1.6k 1.4×	2.6k 2.7×	2.6k 2.9×	664 0.8×	164	10.1k
Diego Darriba Germany	10	3.2k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.8×	295 0.4×	16	6.6k
Agostinho Antunes Portugal	40	2.2k 0.9×	716 0.6×	2.1k 2.2×	1.6k 1.8×	734 0.9×	206	5.8k
Alexey M. Kozlov Germany	17	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	209 0.3×	24	5.1k
Hong Liu China	48	4.1k 1.7×	2.9k 2.6×	3.5k 3.6×	1.6k 1.8×	374 0.5×	233	12.8k
M. Denise Dearing United States	39	1.7k 0.7×	865 0.8×	403 0.4×	2.1k 2.4×	315 0.4×	130	4.9k
David L. Erickson United States	40	2.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.7×	1.6k 1.7×	1.6k 1.9×	164 0.2×	94	6.6k
Peter J. Lockhart New Zealand	44	3.6k 1.5×	2.4k 2.1×	2.0k 2.1×	1.3k 1.4×	774 1.0×	122	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Midford

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Keseler, Ingrid M., Socorro Gama‐Castro, Amanda Mackie, et al.. (2021). The EcoCyc Database in 2021. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 711077–711077. 146 indexed citations

Karp, Peter D., Peter Midford, Ron Caspi, & Arkady Khodursky. (2021). Pathway size matters: the influence of pathway granularity on over-representation (enrichment analysis) statistics. BMC Genomics. 22(1). 191–191. 40 indexed citations

Karp, Peter D., Natalia Ivanova, Markus Krummenacker, et al.. (2019). A Comparison of Microbial Genome Web Portals. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 208–208. 18 indexed citations

Caspi, Ron, Richard Billington, Carol A. Fulcher, et al.. (2019). BioCyc: A Genomic and Metabolic Web Portal with Multiple Omics Analytical Tools. The FASEB Journal. 33(S1). 8 indexed citations

Caspi, Ron, Richard Billington, Ingrid M. Keseler, et al.. (2019). The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes - a 2019 update. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(D1). D445–D453. 795 indexed citations breakdown →

Karp, Peter D., Peter Midford, Richard Billington, et al.. (2019). Pathway Tools version 23.0 update: software for pathway/genome informatics and systems biology. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22(1). 109–126. 135 indexed citations

Ong, Wai Kit, Peter Midford, & Peter D. Karp. (2019). Taxonomic weighting improves the accuracy of a gap-filling algorithm for metabolic models. Bioinformatics. 36(6). 1823–1830. 3 indexed citations

Caspi, Ron, Richard Billington, Carol A. Fulcher, et al.. (2017). The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(D1). D633–D639. 597 indexed citations breakdown →

Midford, Peter, T. Alexander Dececchi, James P. Balhoff, et al.. (2013). The vertebrate taxonomy ontology: a framework for reasoning across model organism and species phenotypes. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 4(1). 34–34. 27 indexed citations

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Davis, Matthew P., Peter Midford, & Wayne P. Maddison. (2013). Exploring power and parameter estimation of the BiSSE method for analyzing species diversification. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13(1). 38–38. 222 indexed citations

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Vos, Rutger, James P. Balhoff, Jason Caravas, et al.. (2012). NeXML: Rich, Extensible, and Verifiable Representation of Comparative Data and Metadata. Systematic Biology. 61(4). 675–689. 70 indexed citations

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Mabee, Paula, James P. Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, et al.. (2012). 500,000 fish phenotypes: The new informatics landscape for evolutionary and developmental biology of the vertebrate skeleton. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 28(3). 300–305. 38 indexed citations

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Balhoff, James P., Peter Midford, & Hilmar Lapp. (2011). Integrating Anatomy and Phenotype Ontologies with Taxonomic Hierarchies.. 1 indexed citations

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Dahdul, Wasila, James P. Balhoff, Terry Grande, et al.. (2010). Evolutionary Characters, Phenotypes and Ontologies: Curating Data from the Systematic Biology Literature. PLoS ONE. 5(5). e10708–e10708. 65 indexed citations

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Balhoff, James P., Wasila Dahdul, Cartik R. Kothari, et al.. (2010). Phenex: Ontological Annotation of Phenotypic Diversity. PLoS ONE. 5(5). e10500–e10500. 62 indexed citations

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Ives, Anthony R., Peter Midford, & Theodore Garland. (2007). Within-Species Variation and Measurement Error in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods. Systematic Biology. 56(2). 252–270. 369 indexed citations

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Maddison, Wayne P., Peter Midford, & Sarah P. Otto. (2007). Estimating a Binary Character's Effect on Speciation and Extinction. Systematic Biology. 56(5). 701–710. 847 indexed citations breakdown →

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Midford, Peter, Jack P. Hailman, & Glen E. Woolfenden. (2000). Social learning of a novel foraging patch in families of free-living Florida scrub-jays. Animal Behaviour. 59(6). 1199–1207. 53 indexed citations

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Garland, Theodore, Peter Midford, & Anthony R. Ives. (1999). An Introduction to Phylogenetically Based Statistical Methods, with a New Method for Confidence Intervals on Ancestral Values. American Zoologist. 39(2). 374–388. 496 indexed citations

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Midford, Peter. (1998). High-level social learning in apes: Imitation or observation-assisted planning?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 21(5). 698–699. 1 indexed citations

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