Ronald S. Flannagan

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Ronald S. Flannagan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald S. Flannagan has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Infectious Diseases and 12 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Ronald S. Flannagan's work include Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (20 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (17 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (12 papers). Ronald S. Flannagan is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (20 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (17 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (12 papers). Ronald S. Flannagan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Ronald S. Flannagan's co-authors include Sergio Grinstein, Valentin Jaumouillé, Gabriela Cosı́o, David E. Heinrichs, Miguel A. Valvano, Bryan Heit, Daniel Aubert, Thomas Linn, Slade A. Loutet and Cora Kooi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ronald S. Flannagan

48 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

The Cell Biology of Phagocytosis

2011 729 citations Ronald S. Flannagan, Valentin Jaumouillé et al. Annual Review of Pathology Mechanisms of Disease profile →
Antimicrobial mechanisms of phagocytes and bacterial evasion strategies

2009 702 citations Ronald S. Flannagan, Gabriela Cosı́o et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronald S. Flannagan Canada	27	1.9k	979	631	564	479	51	4.0k
Emer P. Reeves Ireland	41	1.8k 0.9×	2.1k 2.1×	690 1.1×	137 0.2×	340 0.7×	107	5.6k
Ryan H. Moy United States	14	2.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	391 0.6×	205 0.4×	261 0.5×	33	4.8k
Bo Peng China	39	2.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	281 0.4×	756 1.3×	311 0.6×	142	5.0k
Michel Gilbert Canada	47	3.3k 1.7×	635 0.6×	1000 1.6×	516 0.9×	359 0.7×	138	6.1k
Michael Steinert Germany	45	2.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.4×	398 0.6×	2.7k 4.8×	328 0.7×	152	6.0k
Brian W. Bainbridge United States	34	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	347 0.5×	312 0.6×	712 1.5×	70	4.3k
Shun-ichiro Kawabata Japan	42	2.0k 1.0×	2.9k 3.0×	302 0.5×	215 0.4×	214 0.4×	81	5.0k
Nicole N. van der Wel Netherlands	36	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.6k 2.5×	233 0.4×	200 0.4×	92	5.0k
Darren E. Higgins United States	35	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	719 1.1×	648 1.1×	138 0.3×	59	5.3k
Christine Josenhans Germany	39	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.8×	715 1.1×	665 1.2×	233 0.5×	93	5.4k

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Zheng, Zhiyong, Ronald S. Flannagan, M. Sameer Al‐Abdul‐Wahid, et al.. (2025). The Staphylococcus aureus esterase FmtA is essential for wall teichoic acid D-alanylation. mBio. 16(10). e0233725–e0233725.

Flannagan, Ronald S., et al.. (2024). Streptolysin S is required for Streptococcus pyogenes nasopharyngeal and skin infection in HLA-transgenic mice. PLoS Pathogens. 20(3). e1012072–e1012072. 2 indexed citations

Xiong, Yan Q., Yi Li, Mariya I. Goncheva, et al.. (2024). The Purine Biosynthesis Repressor, PurR, Contributes to Vancomycin Susceptibility of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Experimental Endocarditis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 229(6). 1648–1657. 8 indexed citations

Tuffs, Stephen W., Mariya I. Goncheva, Stacey X. Xu, et al.. (2022). Superantigens promote Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection by eliciting pathogenic interferon-gamma production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(8). 26 indexed citations

Flannagan, Ronald S., et al.. (2021). Heme-Dependent Siderophore Utilization Promotes Iron-Restricted Growth of the Staphylococcus aureus hemB Small-Colony Variant. Journal of Bacteriology. 203(24). e0045821–e0045821. 11 indexed citations

Goncheva, Mariya I., et al.. (2021). Mutations in a Membrane Permease or hpt Lead to 6-Thioguanine Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 65(9). e0076021–e0076021. 3 indexed citations

Goncheva, Mariya I., et al.. (2021). Coagulase-negative staphylococci release a purine analog that inhibits Staphylococcus aureus virulence. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1887–1887. 47 indexed citations

El-Halfawy, Omar M., Tomasz L. Czarny, Ronald S. Flannagan, et al.. (2019). Discovery of an antivirulence compound that reverses β-lactam resistance in MRSA. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(2). 143–149. 63 indexed citations

Flannagan, Ronald S., et al.. (2018). Staphylococcus aureus Uses the GraXRS Regulatory System To Sense and Adapt to the Acidified Phagolysosome in Macrophages. mBio. 9(4). 66 indexed citations

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Flagel, Lex, Raman Bansal, Randall A. Kerstetter, et al.. (2014). Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) transcriptome assembly and genomic analysis of population structure. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 195–195. 25 indexed citations

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Flannagan, Ronald S., Johnathan Canton, Wendy Furuya, Michael Glogauer, & Sergio Grinstein. (2014). The phosphatidylserine receptor TIM4 utilizes integrins as coreceptors to effect phagocytosis. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(9). 1511–1522. 94 indexed citations

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Koči, Juraj, Parthasarathy Ramaseshadri, Renata Bolognesi, et al.. (2014). Ultrastructural Changes Caused by Snf7 RNAi in Larval Enterocytes of Western Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera Le Conte). PLoS ONE. 9(1). e83985–e83985. 23 indexed citations

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Flannagan, Ronald S.. (2012). Burkholderia cenocepaciainfection. Cell Adhesion & Migration. 6(4). 297–301. 2 indexed citations

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Bolognesi, Renata, Parthasarathy Ramaseshadri, Jerry L. Anderson, et al.. (2012). Characterizing the Mechanism of Action of Double-Stranded RNA Activity against Western Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte). PLoS ONE. 7(10). e47534–e47534. 341 indexed citations

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Flannagan, Ronald S., Valentin Jaumouillé, & Sergio Grinstein. (2011). The Cell Biology of Phagocytosis. Annual Review of Pathology Mechanisms of Disease. 7(1). 61–98. 729 indexed citations breakdown →

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Loutet, Slade A., et al.. (2010). A two‐tier model of polymyxin B resistance in Burkholderia cenocepacia. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 3(2). 278–285. 30 indexed citations

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Flannagan, Ronald S., Rene E. Harrison, Christopher M. Yip, Khuloud Jaqaman, & Sergio Grinstein. (2010). Dynamic macrophage “probing” is required for the efficient capture of phagocytic targets. The Journal of Cell Biology. 191(6). 1205–1218. 104 indexed citations

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Flannagan, Ronald S., Gabriela Cosı́o, & Sergio Grinstein. (2009). Antimicrobial mechanisms of phagocytes and bacterial evasion strategies. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 7(5). 355–366. 702 indexed citations breakdown →

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Flannagan, Ronald S., Thomas Linn, & Miguel A. Valvano. (2008). A system for the construction of targeted unmarked gene deletions in the genus Burkholderia. Environmental Microbiology. 10(6). 1652–1660. 125 indexed citations

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Flannagan, Ronald S., et al.. (2004). Identification, cloning and expression of a Cry1Ab cadherin receptor from European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 35(1). 33–40. 87 indexed citations

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