R Clay Wright

969 total citations
35 papers, 643 citations indexed

About

R Clay Wright is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, R Clay Wright has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 643 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in R Clay Wright's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (10 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (5 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (5 papers). R Clay Wright is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (10 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (5 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (5 papers). R Clay Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Argentina. R Clay Wright's co-authors include Gary S. Lynn, Jennifer L. Nemhauser, Randolph Y. Hampton, Jasper Rine, A. J. Koning, Pek Yee Lum, Nimish Gera, Marc Ostermeier, Mahmud M. Hussain and Balaji M. Rao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

R Clay Wright

34 papers receiving 610 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R Clay Wright United States 15 411 129 85 69 65 35 643
Xinxin Wang China 11 424 1.0× 52 0.4× 58 0.7× 22 0.3× 8 0.1× 34 665
Xiaotian Zhong United States 17 417 1.0× 19 0.1× 25 0.3× 70 1.0× 148 2.3× 41 813
Michael J. Moore United States 13 471 1.1× 94 0.7× 25 0.3× 20 0.3× 30 0.5× 15 618
Rongzhi Liu China 12 220 0.5× 103 0.8× 20 0.2× 6 0.1× 37 0.6× 32 701
Qiao Zhang China 14 683 1.7× 39 0.3× 155 1.8× 52 0.8× 8 0.1× 22 993
Gregory R. Smith United States 12 474 1.2× 40 0.3× 33 0.4× 87 1.3× 8 0.1× 26 726
Rui Fan China 17 680 1.7× 16 0.1× 55 0.6× 56 0.8× 13 0.2× 60 998
Wenyan Zhong United States 15 400 1.0× 59 0.5× 9 0.1× 61 0.9× 96 1.5× 33 992
Laura DeFrancesco United States 15 472 1.1× 62 0.5× 5 0.1× 19 0.3× 72 1.1× 118 988
Ernesto Arias‐Palomo Spain 20 848 2.1× 87 0.7× 23 0.3× 98 1.4× 35 0.5× 26 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by R Clay Wright

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Fields of papers citing papers by R Clay Wright

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R Clay Wright

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All Works

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Burgess, Steven, et al.. (2025). Editorial: How SynBio can *realistically* impact crop improvement and agriculture. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 198(3).
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Wright, R Clay, Daniel Campbell, & Megan K. Levings. (2025). Pharmacotherapeutic strategies to promote regulatory T cell function in autoimmunity. Current Opinion in Immunology. 94. 102554–102554. 4 indexed citations
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Jiang, Caiyun, et al.. (2025). Engineered Yeasts Displaying PETase and MHETase as Whole-Cell Biocatalysts for the Degradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET). ACS Synthetic Biology. 14(7). 2810–2820. 2 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay, et al.. (2024). Pleiotropy, a feature or a bug? Toward co-ordinating plant growth, development, and environmental responses through engineering plant hormone signaling. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 88. 103151–103151. 2 indexed citations
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Morffy, Nicholas, Lisa Van den Broeck, Ryan J. Emenecker, et al.. (2024). Identification of plant transcriptional activation domains. Nature. 632(8023). 166–173. 29 indexed citations
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Hildreth, Sherry B., et al.. (2024). Genetically Encoded, Noise-Tolerant, Auxin Biosensors in Yeast. ACS Synthetic Biology. 13(9). 2804–2819. 2 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay, et al.. (2023). TidyTron: Reducing lab waste using validated wash-and-reuse protocols for common plasticware in Opentrons OT-2 lab robots. SLAS TECHNOLOGY. 29(2). 100107–100107. 1 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay, et al.. (2023). Protein engineering and plants: the evolution of sustainable agriculture. The Biochemist. 45(1). 12–17. 5 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay, et al.. (2023). State-of-the-art in engineering small molecule biosensors and their applications in metabolic engineering. SLAS TECHNOLOGY. 29(2). 100113–100113. 8 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay, et al.. (2022). AssemblyTron: flexible automation of DNA assembly with Opentrons OT-2 lab robots. PubMed. 8(1). ysac032–ysac032. 18 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay, Britney L. Moss, & Jennifer L. Nemhauser. (2021). The Systems and Synthetic Biology of Auxin. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 14(1). a040071–a040071. 7 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay & Jennifer L. Nemhauser. (2019). Plant Synthetic Biology: Quantifying the “Known Unknowns” and Discovering the “Unknown Unknowns”. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 179(3). 885–893. 17 indexed citations
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Moss, Britney L., Alexander R. Leydon, Hardik Gala, et al.. (2019). Accelerating structure‐function mapping using the ViVa webtool to mine natural variation. Plant Direct. 3(7). e00147–e00147. 7 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay, Arjun Khakhar, James R. Eshleman, & Marc Ostermeier. (2014). Advancements in the Development of HIF-1α-Activated Protein Switches for Use in Enzyme Prodrug Therapy. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e114032–e114032. 9 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay, et al.. (2013). Protein Switch Engineering by Domain Insertion. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 523. 369–388. 30 indexed citations
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Gera, Nimish, Mahmud M. Hussain, R Clay Wright, & Balaji M. Rao. (2011). Highly Stable Binding Proteins Derived from the Hyperthermophilic Sso7d Scaffold. Journal of Molecular Biology. 409(4). 601–616. 70 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay, et al.. (2011). A protein therapeutic modality founded on molecular regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(39). 16206–16211. 37 indexed citations
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Wright, R Clay. (1992). Traumatic folliculitis of the legs: A persistent case associated with use of a home epilating device. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 27(5). 771–772. 12 indexed citations

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