Robert D. Turner

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
64 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Robert D. Turner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert D. Turner has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Robert D. Turner's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (6 papers). Robert D. Turner is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (6 papers). Robert D. Turner collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Robert D. Turner's co-authors include R Holman, Simon J. Foster, Jamie K. Hobbs, Waldemar Vollmer, E.H. Cooper, Nic Mullin, Raveen K. J. Tank, Per A. Bullough, Sandip Kumar and Stéphane Mesnage and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Robert D. Turner

59 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Tight blood pressure control and risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes: UKPDS 38. UK Prospective Diabetes Study Group.

1998 1.6k citations Robert D. Turner, R Holman profile →
The architecture of the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall

2020 343 citations Laia Pasquina-Lemonche, Robert D. Turner et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert D. Turner United Kingdom	21	921	793	792	412	297	64	3.5k
Peter Kierulf Norway	43	647 0.7×	787 1.0×	1.5k 1.8×	326 0.8×	1.8k 5.9×	234	7.9k
Wen Zhang China	31	257 0.3×	282 0.4×	2.6k 3.3×	608 1.5×	270 0.9×	107	4.0k
Kazuo Yoshida Japan	34	136 0.1×	361 0.5×	1.3k 1.6×	229 0.6×	367 1.2×	341	4.4k
Masaki Fujita Japan	37	131 0.1×	299 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	328 0.8×	621 2.1×	240	5.0k
Takeshi Itoh Japan	27	450 0.5×	235 0.3×	749 0.9×	616 1.5×	109 0.4×	156	3.3k
John R. Barr United States	46	862 0.9×	183 0.2×	2.3k 2.9×	483 1.2×	669 2.3×	223	7.9k
Mary J. Bartholomew United States	26	302 0.3×	166 0.2×	512 0.6×	247 0.6×	183 0.6×	64	2.2k
Sang Ho Lee South Korea	41	428 0.5×	278 0.4×	2.9k 3.6×	402 1.0×	426 1.4×	297	6.7k
Yvon Berland France	43	555 0.6×	496 0.6×	1.7k 2.2×	319 0.8×	582 2.0×	213	6.2k
Mi Yeon Lee South Korea	28	260 0.3×	190 0.2×	657 0.8×	108 0.3×	311 1.0×	208	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert D. Turner

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Crook, Derrick W., Tim Peto, Philip W. Fowler, et al.. (2025). Evaluating 12 automated, whole-genome sequencing analysis pipelines for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: a comparative study. The Lancet Microbe. 6(12). 101210–101210. 1 indexed citations

Ledermann, Raphael, Neil Shephard, Caroline A. Evans, et al.. (2025). A software tool and strategy for peptidoglycomics, the high-resolution analysis of bacterial peptidoglycans via LC-MS/MS. Communications Chemistry. 8(1). 91–91. 1 indexed citations

Constantinides, Bede, Jeff Knaggs, Hong Thai, et al.. (2025). Characterizing the performance of an antibiotic resistance prediction tool, gnomonicus, using a diverse test set of 2,663 Mycobacterium tuberculosis samples. Microbial Genomics. 11(12).

Brown, Matilda J. M., Barnaby E. Walker, Rafaël Govaerts, et al.. (2023). rWCVP: a companion R package for the World Checklist of Vascular Plants. New Phytologist. 240(4). 1355–1365. 48 indexed citations

Salamaga, Bartłomiej, et al.. (2023). A moonlighting role for LysM peptidoglycan binding domains underpins Enterococcus faecalis daughter cell separation. Communications Biology. 6(1). 428–428. 7 indexed citations

Murdoch, Craig, Simon G. Danby, Hirofumi Nakanishi, et al.. (2021). Determination of Chemical Irritation Potential Using a Defined Gene Signature Set on Tissue-Engineered Human Skin Equivalents. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 100011–100011. 4 indexed citations

Turner, Robert D., Aline Rifflet, Andrew Nichols, et al.. (2021). PGFinder, a novel analysis pipeline for the consistent, reproducible, and high-resolution structural analysis of bacterial peptidoglycans. eLife. 10. 17 indexed citations

Pasquina-Lemonche, Laia, Robert D. Turner, Sandip Kumar, et al.. (2020). The architecture of the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall. Nature. 582(7811). 294–297. 343 indexed citations breakdown →

Paterson, Thomas E., Alessandra Bari, Anthony J. Bullock, et al.. (2020). Multifunctional Copper-Containing Mesoporous Glass Nanoparticles as Antibacterial and Proangiogenic Agents for Chronic Wounds. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 8. 246–246. 40 indexed citations

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Turner, Robert D., Stéphane Mesnage, Jamie K. Hobbs, & Simon J. Foster. (2018). Molecular imaging of glycan chains couples cell-wall polysaccharide architecture to bacterial cell morphology. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1263–1263. 72 indexed citations

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Manton, James D., Yao Xiao, Robert D. Turner, Graham Christie, & Eric J. Rees. (2018). ELM: super-resolution analysis of wide-field images of fluorescent shell structures. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence. 6(3). 37001–37001. 4 indexed citations

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Turner, Robert D., Jamie K. Hobbs, & Simon J. Foster. (2016). Atomic Force Microscopy Analysis of Bacterial Cell Wall Peptidoglycan Architecture. Methods in molecular biology. 1440. 3–9. 14 indexed citations

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Bailey, Richard G., et al.. (2014). The Interplay between Cell Wall Mechanical Properties and the Cell Cycle in Staphylococcus aureus. Biophysical Journal. 107(11). 2538–2545. 44 indexed citations

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Turner, Robert D., Emma C. Ratcliffe, Richard Wheeler, et al.. (2010). Peptidoglycan architecture can specify division planes in Staphylococcus aureus. Nature Communications. 1(1). 26–26. 107 indexed citations

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Turner, Robert D., Neil H. Thomson, J. Kirkham, & Deirdre DeVine. (2009). Improvement of the pore trapping method to immobilize vital coccoid bacteria for high‐resolution AFM: a study of Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Microscopy. 238(2). 102–110. 15 indexed citations

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Turner, Robert D.. (2001). The treatment of rhinovirus infections: progress and potential. Antiviral Research. 49(1). 1–14. 75 indexed citations

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Turner, Robert D. & R Holman. (1998). Tight blood pressure control and risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes: UKPDS 38. UK Prospective Diabetes Study Group.. 1604 indexed citations breakdown →

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Turner, Robert D.. (1984). The Limitations of Material History: A Museological Perspective. Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle. 20. 1 indexed citations

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Cooper, E H, Robert D. Turner, Linda Steele, & J C Goligher. (1974). Blood Muramidase Activity in Colorectal Cancer. BMJ. 3(5932). 662–664. 11 indexed citations

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Turner, Robert D.. (1956). The diffraction of a cylindrical pulse by a half-plane. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 14(1). 63–73. 10 indexed citations

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