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

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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.

A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK

1996 1.8k citations Robert Will, James W. Ironside et al. The Lancet profile →
Transmissions to mice indicate that ‘new variant’ CJD is caused by the BSE agent

1997 1.5k citations M. E. Bruce, Robert Will et al. Nature profile →

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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.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Beyond the clouds: advanced data analysis of a dutch sky quality meter network 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), R. F. Peletier, J. Noel-Storr, (unknown), (unknown), Andreas Hänel, (unknown), (unknown), Robert Will, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Björn Poppe	0
2	Is sporadic CJD an acquired disease? A review of the UK CJD cases. 2016 ·Prion ·(unknown), Jan Mackenzie, Richard Knight, Robert Will, Anna Molesworth	1
3	The end of the BSE saga: do we still need surveillance for human prion diseases? 2015 ·Swiss Medical Weekly ·Herbert Budka, Robert Will	8
4	Sensitivity to Biases of Case-Control Studies on Medical Procedures, Particularly Surgery and Blood Transfusion, and Risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 2012 ·Neuroepidemiology ·Jesús de Pedro Cuesta, María Ruiz-Tovar, Helen Ward, Miguel Calero, Andrew Smith, (unknown), Maurizio Pocchiari, Marc L. Turner, Frode Forland, Daniel Palm, Robert Will	20
5	A polymorphism in the regulatory region of PRNPis associated with increased risk of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 2011 ·BMC Medical Genetics ·Pascual Sánchez‐Juan, Matthew Bishop, Esther A. Croes, Richard Knight, Robert Will, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Jean Manson	14
6	Diagnosing variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a retrospective analysis of the first 150 cases in the UK 2010 ·Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry ·Craig A. Heath, Sarah Cooper, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), G. E. Stewart, Martin Zeidler, J. M. McKenzie, Richard Knight, Robert Will	24
7	The role of cerebrospinal fluid proteins as early diagnostic markers for sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease 2009 ·Neuroscience Letters ·Catherine Pennington, (unknown), Jan Mackenzie, Mary Andrews, Robert Will, Richard Knight, Alison Green	33
8	Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in France and the United Kingdom: Evidence for the same agent strain 2009 ·Annals of Neurology ·Jean‐Philippe Brandel, Craig A. Heath, Mark Head, Etienne Levavasseur, Richard Knight, Jean Laplanche, Jan Langeveld, James W. Ironside, Jean‐Jacques Hauw, Jan Mackenzie, Annick Alpérovitch, Robert Will, Stéphane Haı̈k	43
9	No Major Change in vCJD Agent Strain after Secondary Transmission via Blood Transfusion 2008 ·PLoS ONE ·Matthew Bishop, Diane Ritchie, Robert Will, James W. Ironside, Mark Head, Val Thomson, Moira E. Bruce, Jean Manson	12
10	13 Infectious and Sporadic Prion Diseases 2004 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Robert Will, Michael P. Alpers, Dominique Dormont, Lawrence B. Schonberger	21
11	Predicting the size of the vCJD epidemic in France 2002 ·Comptes Rendus Biologies ·Annick Alpérovitch, Robert Will	16
12	PRNP contains both intronic and upstream regulatory regions that may influence susceptibility to Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease 2002 ·Gene ·James E. McCormack, Herbert Baybutt, Dawn Everington, Robert Will, James W. Ironside, Jean Manson	38
13	Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Background, Evolution, and Current Concerns 2001 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Paul S. Brown, Robert Will, R. Bradley, David M. Asher, Linda A. Detwiler	1
14	Changing a single amino acid in the N-terminus of murine PrP alters TSE incubation time across three species barriers 2001 ·The EMBO Journal ·Rona Barron, Val Thomson, Elizabeth R. Jamieson, David W. Melton, James W. Ironside, Robert Will, Jean Manson	94
15	Vaccines and variant CJD 2000 ·Vaccine ·Philip D. Minor, Robert Will, David Salisbury	4
16	The pulvinar sign on magnetic resonance imaging in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 2000 ·The Lancet ·Martin Zeidler, R. J. Sellar, Donald A. Collie, Richard Knight, (unknown), (unknown), James W. Ironside, Simon Cousens, (unknown), Donald M. Hadley, Robert Will	220
17	New variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease 1999 ·Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy ·Robert Will	12
18	FFI Cases from the United Kingdom 1998 ·Brain Pathology ·Robert Will, Malcolm J. Campbell, (unknown), Jeanne E. Bell, James W. Ironside	11
19	Transmissions to mice indicate that ‘new variant’ CJD is caused by the BSE agent breakdown → 1997 ·Nature ·M. E. Bruce, Robert Will, James W. Ironside, I. McConnell, D. Drummond, Annika Suttie, Linda McCardle, A. Chree, Jayne C. Hope, Christopher R. Birkett, Simon Cousens, H. Fraser, Christopher J. Bostock	1485
20	Cerebrospinal fluid studies in normal cows and cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy 1990 ·British Veterinary Journal ·Phil Scott, Brian Aldridge, (unknown), Robert Will	16

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