Robert O. Watson

4.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
39 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Robert O. Watson is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert O. Watson has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Immunology, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Robert O. Watson's work include interferon and immune responses (15 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (6 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (6 papers). Robert O. Watson is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (15 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (6 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (6 papers). Robert O. Watson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Robert O. Watson's co-authors include Jeffery S. Cox, Paolo Manzanillo, Jorge E. Galán, Samantha L. Bell, Kristin L. Patrick, Chi G. Weindel, A. Phillip West, Donna A. MacDuff, Joanna Olivas and Elie J. Diner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert O. Watson

35 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Extracellular M. tuberculosis DNA Targets Bacteria for Autophagy by Activating the Host DNA-Sensing Pathway

2012 597 citations Robert O. Watson, Paolo Manzanillo et al. Cell profile →
The Cytosolic Sensor cGAS Detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA to Induce Type I Interferons and Activate Autophagy

2015 469 citations Robert O. Watson, Samantha L. Bell et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
The ubiquitin ligase parkin mediates resistance to intracellular pathogens

2013 431 citations Paolo Manzanillo, Robert O. Watson et al. Nature profile →
A conserved PLPLRT/SD motif of STING mediates the recruitment and activation of TBK1

2019 322 citations Baoyu Zhao, Fenglei Du et al. Nature profile →
Mitochondrial ROS promotes susceptibility to infection via gasdermin D-mediated necroptosis

2022 250 citations Chi G. Weindel, E. Martínez et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert O. Watson United States	21	1.4k	1.4k	1.3k	1.0k	478	39	3.5k
Peadar Ó Gaora Ireland	34	1.3k 0.9×	898 0.7×	926 0.7×	697 0.7×	398 0.8×	68	4.0k
Lorraine D. Hernandez United States	19	1.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	715 0.5×	890 0.9×	349 0.7×	25	4.0k
Marie‐Anne Nahori France	37	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	602 0.5×	607 0.6×	888 1.9×	60	4.7k
Hitomi Mimuro Japan	36	2.3k 1.6×	2.0k 1.5×	712 0.5×	904 0.9×	344 0.7×	75	5.4k
Mona Bajaj‐Elliott United Kingdom	34	984 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	714 0.5×	477 0.5×	535 1.1×	89	3.6k
Nafisa Ghori United States	19	1.2k 0.9×	805 0.6×	698 0.5×	591 0.6×	428 0.9×	20	3.1k
Hiroshi Ashida Japan	26	1.6k 1.1×	952 0.7×	553 0.4×	535 0.5×	303 0.6×	39	3.1k
Mónica A. Delgado United States	26	1.5k 1.0×	875 0.6×	483 0.4×	1.9k 1.8×	233 0.5×	50	3.7k
David L. Hava United States	22	895 0.6×	689 0.5×	867 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	125 0.3×	41	2.9k
Masahito Hashimoto Japan	23	1.3k 0.9×	2.5k 1.8×	564 0.4×	688 0.7×	206 0.4×	64	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert O. Watson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert O. Watson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert O. Watson 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 O. Watson. Robert O. Watson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Weindel, Chi G., Aja K. Coleman, Sandeep Kumar, et al.. (2025). LRRK2 kinase activity restricts NRF2-dependent mitochondrial protection in microglia. The Journal of Immunology. 215(1).

Weindel, Chi G., Lisa Sudek, Sol Katzman, et al.. (2025). Myeloid-specific HNRNPA2B1 deficiency disrupts macrophage function and in vivo responses. The Journal of Immunology. 214(8). 2041–2054.

Weindel, Chi G., Jonathan R. Davis, Elena Martínez, et al.. (2025). Necrosis drives susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Polg ^D257A mutator mice. Infection and Immunity. 93(3). e0032424–e0032424.

Weindel, Chi G., Shinichi Nakagawa, Tetsuro Hirose, et al.. (2024). The early macrophage response to pathogens requires dynamic regulation of the nuclear paraspeckle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(9). e2312587121–e2312587121. 9 indexed citations

Scott, Haley M., et al.. (2024). Serine/arginine-rich splicing factor 7 promotes the type I interferon response by activating Irf7 transcription. Cell Reports. 43(3). 113816–113816. 7 indexed citations

Craft, J. Carl, Rafael Rivera‐Lugo, Guillaume Golovkine, et al.. (2023). Deficiency in Galectin-3, -8, and -9 impairs immunity to chronic Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection but not acute infection with multiple intracellular pathogens. PLoS Pathogens. 19(6). e1011088–e1011088. 11 indexed citations

Patrick, Kristin L., et al.. (2023). Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species: double agents in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Current Opinion in Immunology. 84. 102366–102366. 7 indexed citations

Weindel, Chi G., et al.. (2023). Gasdermins gone wild: new roles for GSDMs in regulating cellular homeostasis. Trends in Cell Biology. 33(9). 773–787. 24 indexed citations

Bell, Samantha L., et al.. (2021). Galectin-8 Senses Phagosomal Damage and Recruits Selective Autophagy Adapter TAX1BP1 To Control Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Macrophages. mBio. 12(4). e0187120–e0187120. 58 indexed citations

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Vail, Krystal J., Samantha L. Bell, Noah D. Cohen, et al.. (2021). The opportunistic intracellular bacterial pathogen Rhodococcus equi elicits type I interferon by engaging cytosolic DNA sensing in macrophages. PLoS Pathogens. 17(9). e1009888–e1009888. 12 indexed citations

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Ding, Shengli, Jing Yang, Xuehuan Feng, et al.. (2021). Interactions between fungal hyaluronic acid and host CD44 promote internalization by recruiting host autophagy proteins to forming phagosomes. iScience. 24(3). 102192–102192. 4 indexed citations

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Wagner, Allison R., Haley M. Scott, Krystal J. Vail, et al.. (2021). Global Transcriptomics Uncovers Distinct Contributions From Splicing Regulatory Proteins to the Macrophage Innate Immune Response. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 656885–656885. 20 indexed citations

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Bell, Samantha L., Tao Jing, Allison R. Wagner, et al.. (2020). TRIM14 Is a Key Regulator of the Type I IFN Response during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection. The Journal of Immunology. 205(1). 153–167. 39 indexed citations

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Zhao, Baoyu, Fenglei Du, Pengbiao Xu, et al.. (2019). A conserved PLPLRT/SD motif of STING mediates the recruitment and activation of TBK1. Nature. 569(7758). 718–722. 322 indexed citations breakdown →

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Patrick, Kristin L., Samantha L. Bell, Chi G. Weindel, & Robert O. Watson. (2019). Exploring the “Multiple-Hit Hypothesis” of Neurodegenerative Disease: Bacterial Infection Comes Up to Bat. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 9. 138–138. 76 indexed citations

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Watson, Robert O., Samantha L. Bell, Donna A. MacDuff, et al.. (2015). The Cytosolic Sensor cGAS Detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA to Induce Type I Interferons and Activate Autophagy. Cell Host & Microbe. 17(6). 811–819. 469 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watson, Robert O., Paolo Manzanillo, & Jeffery S. Cox. (2012). Extracellular M. tuberculosis DNA Targets Bacteria for Autophagy by Activating the Host DNA-Sensing Pathway. Cell. 150(4). 803–815. 597 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watson, Robert O. & Jorge E. Galán. (2008). Campylobacter jejuni Survives within Epithelial Cells by Avoiding Delivery to Lysosomes. PLoS Pathogens. 4(1). e14–e14. 141 indexed citations

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Strachan, Norval J. C., Robert O. Watson, Veronica Novik, et al.. (2007). Sexual dimorphism in campylobacteriosis. Epidemiology and Infection. 136(11). 1492–1495. 31 indexed citations

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Murli, Sumati, Robert O. Watson, & Jorge E. Galán. (2001). Role of tyrosine kinases and the tyrosine phosphatase SptP in the interaction of Salmonella with host cells. Cellular Microbiology. 3(12). 795–810. 123 indexed citations

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