Robert Will

18.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
129 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Robert Will is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Will has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Neurology and 14 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Robert Will's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (118 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (30 papers) and Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (9 papers). Robert Will is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (118 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (30 papers) and Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (9 papers). Robert Will collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Robert Will's co-authors include James W. Ironside, Simon Cousens, Martin Zeidler, Peter G. Smith, Maurizio Pocchiari, Richard Knight, Annick Alpérovitch, S. Poser, Albert Hofman and Linda McCardle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert Will

127 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

A new variant of Creutzfe... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 1997 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK
    1996 1.8k citations Robert Will, James W. Ironside et al. profile →
  2. Transmissions to mice indicate that ‘new variant’ CJD is caused by the BSE agent
    1997 1.5k citations Robert Will, James W. Ironside et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Robert Will 8.9k 4.1k 1.9k 1.2k 560 129 10.1k
Maurizio Pocchiari 6.8k 0.8× 3.2k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 1.0× 791 1.4× 152 7.8k
Dominique Dormont 4.4k 0.5× 2.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 395 0.3× 616 1.1× 282 8.5k
David M. Asher 3.3k 0.4× 1.4k 0.3× 702 0.4× 581 0.5× 354 0.6× 107 5.1k
Richard Rubenstein 4.2k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 735 0.6× 588 1.1× 136 5.6k
Martin Zeidler 3.6k 0.4× 1.6k 0.4× 648 0.3× 625 0.5× 161 0.3× 39 4.1k
R. Anthony Williamson 3.8k 0.4× 1.7k 0.4× 1.4k 0.7× 456 0.4× 475 0.8× 80 5.8k
Jeanne E. Bell 2.5k 0.3× 1.6k 0.4× 416 0.2× 486 0.4× 508 0.9× 130 6.9k
Thomas E. Lane 2.0k 0.2× 2.4k 0.6× 231 0.1× 717 0.6× 901 1.6× 168 10.6k
Thomas Weber 1.7k 0.2× 629 0.2× 192 0.1× 642 0.5× 325 0.6× 85 4.5k
Adrian Liston 4.2k 0.5× 396 0.1× 193 0.1× 323 0.3× 881 1.6× 190 11.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Will

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Will

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Peletier, R. F., et al.. (2025). Beyond the clouds: advanced data analysis of a dutch sky quality meter network. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(1). 272–292.
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Mackenzie, Jan, et al.. (2016). Is sporadic CJD an acquired disease? A review of the UK CJD cases.. Prion. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Will, Robert & James W. Ironside. (2016). Sporadic and Infectious Human Prion Diseases. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 7(1). a024364–a024364. 42 indexed citations
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Cuesta, Jesús de Pedro, María Ruiz-Tovar, Helen Ward, et al.. (2012). Sensitivity to Biases of Case-Control Studies on Medical Procedures, Particularly Surgery and Blood Transfusion, and Risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Neuroepidemiology. 39(1). 1–18. 20 indexed citations
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Diack, Abigail B., Diane Ritchie, Matthew Bishop, et al.. (2012). Constant Transmission Properties of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in 5 Countries. Emerging infectious diseases. 18(10). 1574–1579. 17 indexed citations
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Heath, Craig A., Sarah Cooper, G. E. Stewart, et al.. (2010). Diagnosing variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a retrospective analysis of the first 150 cases in the UK. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 82(6). 646–651. 24 indexed citations
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Appleford, N. E. J., Fiona Houston, Lesley J. Bruce, et al.. (2008). α‐Hemoglobin stabilizing protein is not a suitable marker for a screening test for variant Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease. Transfusion. 48(8). 1616–1626. 7 indexed citations
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Ward, Helen, Dawn Everington, Simon Cousens, et al.. (2007). Risk factors for sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Annals of Neurology. 63(3). 347–354. 37 indexed citations
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Will, Robert, Michael P. Alpers, Dominique Dormont, & Lawrence B. Schonberger. (2004). 13 Infectious and Sporadic Prion Diseases. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 41. 629–671. 21 indexed citations
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Head, Mark, Tristan Bunn, Matthew Bishop, et al.. (2004). Prion protein heterogeneity in sporadic but not variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: U.K. cases 1991–2002. Annals of Neurology. 55(6). 851–859. 112 indexed citations
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Alpérovitch, Annick & Robert Will. (2002). Predicting the size of the vCJD epidemic in France. Comptes Rendus Biologies. 325(1). 33–36. 16 indexed citations
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McCormack, James E., Herbert Baybutt, Dawn Everington, et al.. (2002). PRNP contains both intronic and upstream regulatory regions that may influence susceptibility to Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease. Gene. 288(1-2). 139–146. 38 indexed citations
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Brown, Paul S., Robert Will, R. Bradley, David M. Asher, & Linda A. Detwiler. (2001). Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Background, Evolution, and Current Concerns. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Barron, Rona, Val Thomson, Elizabeth R. Jamieson, et al.. (2001). Changing a single amino acid in the N-terminus of murine PrP alters TSE incubation time across three species barriers. The EMBO Journal. 20(18). 5070–5078. 94 indexed citations
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Ironside, James W., Mark Head, J. E. Bell, Linda McCardle, & Robert Will. (2000). Laboratory diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Histopathology. 37(1). 1–9. 116 indexed citations
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Will, Robert. (1999). New variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 53(1). 9–13. 12 indexed citations
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Will, Robert, Annick Alpérovitch, S. Poser, et al.. (1998). Descriptive epidemiology of Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease in six european countries, 1993–1995. Annals of Neurology. 43(6). 763–767. 133 indexed citations
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Cousens, Simon, Martin Zeidler, Thomas Esmonde, et al.. (1997). Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom: analysis of epidemiological surveillance data for 1970-96. BMJ. 315(7105). 389–395. 83 indexed citations
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Will, Robert. (1993). Epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. British Medical Bulletin. 49(4). 960–970. 104 indexed citations
20.
Will, Robert, et al.. (1989). Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a cow in the United Kingdom. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 195(12). 1745–1747. 11 indexed citations

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