Robert James

461 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 215 citations indexed

About

Robert James is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert James has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 215 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Ecology and 1 paper in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Robert James's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (1 paper). Robert James is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (1 paper). Robert James collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Australia. Robert James's co-authors include Sébastien Raguideau, Christopher Quince, Rayan Chikhi, Christophe Corre, Stefano Donadio, Kevin K. Newsham, Valentin Waschulin, Elizabeth M. H. Wellington, Chiara Borsetto and Adam M. Phillippy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology and Genome biology.

In The Last Decade

Robert James

4 papers receiving 214 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.

High-quality metagenome assembly from long accurate reads with metaMDBG

2024 47 citations Gaëtan Benoit, Sébastien Raguideau et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert James United Kingdom	4	155	92	32	32	22	5	215
Yong Ju Ahn South Korea	7	158 1.0×	45 0.5×	48 1.5×	76 2.4×	26 1.2×	16	267
Xinghai Zhang China	8	70 0.5×	40 0.4×	22 0.7×	77 2.4×	10 0.5×	19	223
Hans-Peter Klenk Germany	6	144 0.9×	95 1.0×	32 1.0×	41 1.3×	13 0.6×	11	206
Chang Eon Park South Korea	9	135 0.9×	36 0.4×	35 1.1×	133 4.2×	13 0.6×	33	317
Juliane Weller United States	8	257 1.7×	91 1.0×	17 0.5×	27 0.8×	10 0.5×	15	336
Jonathan Mercier France	4	75 0.5×	46 0.5×	9 0.3×	39 1.2×	9 0.4×	7	176
Ben Jia China	8	117 0.8×	50 0.5×	5 0.2×	18 0.6×	36 1.6×	11	170
Neelesh Kumar India	9	101 0.7×	64 0.7×	5 0.2×	39 1.2×	29 1.3×	14	282
Sebastian Piłsyk Poland	8	97 0.6×	15 0.2×	40 1.3×	84 2.6×	14 0.6×	22	205
Roman Zoun Germany	4	197 1.3×	73 0.8×	5 0.2×	16 0.5×	23 1.0×	7	272

Countries citing papers authored by Robert James

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert James

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Robert James. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Robert James. The network helps show where Robert James may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert James

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert James. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert James based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Robert James. Robert James is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Benoit, Gaëtan, et al.. (2026). High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG. Nature Communications.

2.

Benoit, Gaëtan, Sébastien Raguideau, Robert James, et al.. (2024). High-quality metagenome assembly from long accurate reads with metaMDBG. Nature Biotechnology. 42(9). 1378–1383. 47 indexed citations breakdown →

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Charnaud, Sarah C., Jacob E. Munro, Lucie Semenec, et al.. (2022). PacBio long-read amplicon sequencing enables scalable high-resolution population allele typing of the complex CYP2D6 locus. Communications Biology. 5(1). 168–168. 21 indexed citations

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Waschulin, Valentin, Chiara Borsetto, Robert James, et al.. (2021). Biosynthetic potential of uncultured Antarctic soil bacteria revealed through long-read metagenomic sequencing. The ISME Journal. 16(1). 101–111. 81 indexed citations

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Quince, Christopher, Sébastien Raguideau, Robert James, et al.. (2021). STRONG: metagenomics strain resolution on assembly graphs. Genome biology. 22(1). 214–214. 66 indexed citations

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