Richard W. Titball

17.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
237 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Richard W. Titball is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard W. Titball has authored 237 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Molecular Biology, 103 papers in Genetics and 80 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Richard W. Titball's work include Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (75 papers), Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (65 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (60 papers). Richard W. Titball is often cited by papers focused on Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (75 papers), Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (65 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (60 papers). Richard W. Titball collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Richard W. Titball's co-authors include Petra C. F. Oyston, E. Diane Williamson, E. Diane Williamson, Ajit K. Basak, Sophie E.C. Leary, Michael Green, Jill Ellis, C.E. Naylor, Anthony E. Gregory and Diane Williamson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Richard W. Titball

237 papers receiving 12.2k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard W. Titball United Kingdom	60	6.1k	4.7k	3.8k	2.2k	1.6k	237	12.5k
Ingo B. Autenrieth Germany	55	3.6k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	2.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	215	10.6k
Michael A. Quail United Kingdom	65	7.4k 1.2×	2.6k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	128	15.2k
John M. Leong United States	59	2.9k 0.5×	2.1k 0.4×	2.8k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	176	10.8k
Jürgen Heesemann Germany	58	3.5k 0.6×	3.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	181	9.7k
Thomas F. Meyer Germany	89	9.2k 1.5×	4.1k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	6.7k 3.1×	3.0k 1.8×	415	25.5k
Joachim Frey Switzerland	62	4.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	3.7k 1.7×	1.7k 1.0×	416	15.0k
Chihiro Sasakawa Japan	78	7.2k 1.2×	4.3k 0.9×	4.2k 1.1×	4.4k 2.0×	6.9k 4.2×	233	18.9k
Huanchun Chen China	61	4.7k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	6.0k 1.6×	4.1k 1.9×	997 0.6×	779	18.4k
Anders Sjöstedt Sweden	56	6.9k 1.1×	4.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.6×	796 0.4×	976 0.6×	187	9.0k
Brendan W. Wren United Kingdom	69	5.8k 1.0×	2.3k 0.5×	5.7k 1.5×	1.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.5×	356	15.9k

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Titball, Richard W.. (2024). The Molecular Architecture and Mode of Action of Clostridium perfringens ε-Toxin. Toxins. 16(4). 180–180. 2 indexed citations

Hemsley, C., et al.. (2023). Identification of essential genes in Coxiella burnetii. Microbial Genomics. 9(2). 7 indexed citations

Lima, Luciana, Marta M. G. Teixeira, C. Hemsley, et al.. (2023). Molecular detection of blood-borne agents in vampire bats from Brazil, with the first molecular evidence of Neorickettsia sp. in Desmodus rotundus and Diphylla ecaudata. Acta Tropica. 244. 106945–106945. 9 indexed citations

Wagley, Sariqa, Helen Morcrette, A. Kovacs-Simon, et al.. (2021). Bacterial dormancy: A subpopulation of viable but non-culturable cells demonstrates better fitness for revival. PLoS Pathogens. 17(1). e1009194–e1009194. 50 indexed citations

Vanaporn, Muthita & Richard W. Titball. (2020). Trehalose and bacterial virulence. Virulence. 11(1). 1192–1202. 87 indexed citations

Burton, Bronwen R., Richard Tennant, J. Christopher Love, et al.. (2018). Variant proteins stimulate more IgM+ GC B-cells revealing a mechanism of cross-reactive recognition by antibody memory. eLife. 7. 13 indexed citations

Scott, Andrew, Mitali Sarkar‐Tyson, Helen L. Bullifent, et al.. (2017). An integrated computational-experimental approach reveals Yersinia pestis genes essential across a narrow or a broad range of environmental conditions. BMC Microbiology. 17(1). 163–163. 14 indexed citations

Bokori‐Brown, Monika, Christos G. Savva, C.E. Naylor, et al.. (2013). Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin H149A mutant as a platform for receptor binding studies. Protein Science. 22(5). 650–659. 39 indexed citations

Winlove, Peter, Julian Moger, Olivia L. Champion, et al.. (2012). A Bayesian Whittaker–Henderson smoother for general‐purpose and sample‐based spectral baseline estimation and peak extraction. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. 43(9). 1299–1305. 10 indexed citations

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Norville, Isobel H., Nicholas J. Harmer, Sarah V. Harding, et al.. (2011). A Burkholderia pseudomallei Macrophage Infectivity Potentiator-Like Protein Has Rapamycin-Inhibitable Peptidylprolyl Isomerase Activity and Pleiotropic Effects on Virulence. Infection and Immunity. 79(11). 4299–4307. 30 indexed citations

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Walker, C.H., C. Phillip Goodyear, David P. Anderson, & Richard W. Titball. (2000). Identification of arsenic-resistant bacteria in the soil of a former munitions factory at Löcknitz, Germany.. Land Contamination & Reclamation. 8(1). 13–18. 18 indexed citations

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Williams, Kerstin J., Petra C. F. Oyston, Nick Dorrell, et al.. (2000). Investigation into the role of the serine protease HtrA in Yersinia pestis pathogenesis. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 186(2). 281–286. 32 indexed citations

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Williams, Kerstin J., Luther Lindler, Katherine A. Brown, et al.. (2000). Sequencing of the Francisella tularensis Strain Schu 4 Genome Reveals the Shikimate and Purine Metabolic Pathways, Targets for the Construction of a Rationally Attenuated Auxotrophic Vaccine. PubMed. 5(1). 25–39. 38 indexed citations

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Bennett, Alice M., et al.. (1999). Recombinant Vaccinia Viruses Protect Against Clostridium perfringens α-Toxin. Viral Immunology. 12(2). 97–105. 21 indexed citations

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Naylor, C.E., Julian T. Eaton, Angela M. Howells, et al.. (1998). Structure of the key toxin in gas gangrene. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 5(8). 738–746. 146 indexed citations

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Williamson, E. Diane, et al.. (1998). The pH 6 Antigen of Yersinia pestis Binds to β1-Linked Galactosyl Residues in Glycosphingolipids. Infection and Immunity. 66(9). 4545–4548. 62 indexed citations

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Bullifent, Helen L., Anne Moir, & Richard W. Titball. (1995). The construction of a reporter system and use for the investigation of Clostridium perfringens gene expression. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 131(1). 99–108. 17 indexed citations

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Tempest, Philip R., Patricia M. White, E. Diane Williamson, et al.. (1994). Efficient generation of a reshaped human mAb specific for the α toxin of Clostridium perfringens. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 7(12). 1501–1507. 3 indexed citations

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Titball, Richard W., et al.. (1992). Comparison of the nucleotide sequence and development of a PCR test for the epsilon toxin gene ofClostridium perfringenstype B and type D. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 97(1-2). 77–81. 36 indexed citations

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Titball, Richard W. & Colin B. Munn. (1981). Evidence for two haemolytic activities fromAeromonas salmonicida. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 12(1). 27–30. 40 indexed citations

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