Roy D. Sleator

9.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
178 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Roy D. Sleator is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roy D. Sleator has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Molecular Biology, 53 papers in Food Science and 38 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Roy D. Sleator's work include Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (33 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (27 papers) and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (25 papers). Roy D. Sleator is often cited by papers focused on Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (33 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (27 papers) and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (25 papers). Roy D. Sleator collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and United States. Roy D. Sleator's co-authors include Colin Hill, Cormac G. M. Gahan, Audrey Feeney, Aoife Howard, Eamonn P. Culligan, Aisling O’Driscoll, Gerald F. Fitzgerald, Tjakko Abee, Brigid Lucey and Alan L. Kelly and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Roy D. Sleator

176 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

Bacterial osmoadaptation: the role of osmolytes in bacter... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2012 200 400 600
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. Bacterial osmoadaptation: the role of osmolytes in bacterial stress and virulence
    2002 618 citations Roy D. Sleator, Colin Hill profile →
  2. Acinetobacter baumannii
    2012 605 citations Roy D. Sleator et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roy D. Sleator Ireland 40 2.4k 2.1k 1.6k 842 720 178 6.4k
Torsten Hain Germany 44 2.2k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 2.0k 1.3× 758 0.9× 798 1.1× 133 6.0k
Bjarke Bak Christensen Denmark 37 3.1k 1.3× 1.7k 0.8× 785 0.5× 578 0.7× 478 0.7× 84 5.5k
Georges Daube Belgium 47 2.5k 1.0× 3.2k 1.5× 1.0k 0.6× 1.9k 2.3× 644 0.9× 286 7.4k
Suresh D. Pillai United States 38 1.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 731 0.5× 699 0.8× 703 1.0× 198 5.0k
Stanley Brul Netherlands 49 4.8k 2.0× 2.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 231 0.3× 198 8.6k
Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum Netherlands 47 3.7k 1.5× 1.9k 0.9× 985 0.6× 600 0.7× 217 0.3× 124 6.8k
Arun K. Bhunia United States 55 3.7k 1.5× 3.9k 1.8× 3.0k 1.9× 802 1.0× 711 1.0× 262 9.9k
Jing Han China 36 1.6k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 543 0.3× 542 0.6× 450 0.6× 151 4.7k
Younghoon Kim South Korea 40 3.8k 1.6× 1.7k 0.8× 345 0.2× 578 0.7× 616 0.9× 233 7.1k
Sang‐Do Ha South Korea 40 2.7k 1.1× 2.5k 1.2× 1.9k 1.2× 721 0.9× 1.0k 1.4× 286 6.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roy D. Sleator

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roy D. Sleator

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sleator, Roy D.. (2024). Solving the protein folding problem…. FEBS Letters. 598(23). 2831–2835. 2 indexed citations
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Sleator, Roy D. & N. Smith. (2024). COVID-19: did the masks work?. Future Microbiology. 19(11). 997–1002.
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Jones, Jennifer, Craig P. Murphy, Roy D. Sleator, & Eamonn P. Culligan. (2024). An exploratory in silico analysis of bacteriocin gene clusters in the urobiome. PubMed. 3(2). 24–24. 3 indexed citations
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Sleator, Roy D., et al.. (2024). From Species to Genes: A New Diagnostic Paradigm. Antibiotics. 13(7). 661–661. 2 indexed citations
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Sleator, Roy D., et al.. (2024). Effect on prime animal beef merit from breeding solely for lighter dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science. 107(10). 8150–8156. 2 indexed citations
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Murphy, Craig P., et al.. (2023). The association between calf birth weight and the postcalving performance of its dairy dam in the absence of dystocia. Journal of Dairy Science. 107(6). 3688–3699. 5 indexed citations
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Sleator, Roy D., et al.. (2022). Re-assessing the importance of linear type traits in predicting genetic merit for survival in an aging Holstein-Friesian dairy cow population. Journal of Dairy Science. 105(9). 7550–7563. 10 indexed citations
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Sleator, Roy D., et al.. (2022). Exploiting genetic variability in the trajectory of lactation yield and somatic cell score with each progressing parity. Journal of Dairy Science. 105(4). 3341–3354. 6 indexed citations
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Murphy, Craig P., et al.. (2021). Are subjectively scored linear type traits suitable predictors of the genetic merit for feed intake in grazing Holstein-Friesian dairy cows?. Journal of Dairy Science. 105(2). 1346–1356. 3 indexed citations
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Elwin, Kristin, et al.. (2020). Cryptosporidiumspp surveillance and epidemiology in Ireland: a longitudinal cohort study employing duplex real-time PCR based speciation of clinical cases. Journal of Clinical Pathology. 73(11). 758–761. 6 indexed citations
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Murphy, Craig P., et al.. (2020). Genetic and nongenetic factors associated with lactation length in seasonal-calving, pasture-based dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science. 104(1). 561–574. 1 indexed citations
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Murphy, Craig P., et al.. (2019). Feed efficiency and carcass metrics in growing cattle1. Journal of Animal Science. 97(11). 4405–4417. 33 indexed citations
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O’Driscoll, Aisling, John M. Carroll, Kai A. Kropp, et al.. (2015). HBLAST: Parallelised sequence similarity – A Hadoop MapReducable basic local alignment search tool. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 54. 58–64. 35 indexed citations
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O’Driscoll, Aisling & Roy D. Sleator. (2013). Synthetic DNA. Bioengineered. 4(3). 123–125. 11 indexed citations
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Sleator, Roy D. & Aisling O’Driscoll. (2013). Digitizing humanity. PubMed. 4(2). 37–38. 1 indexed citations
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Sleator, Roy D., et al.. (2009). Carnitine Enhances the Growth of Listeria monocytogenes in Infant Formula at 7°C. Journal of Food Protection. 72(6). 1293–1295. 14 indexed citations
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Sleator, Roy D. & Colin Hill. (2008). Molecular Analysis of the Microbial Food Safety Implications of Food Reformulations for Improved Health. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 5(4). 499–504. 5 indexed citations
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Kelly, Alan L., et al.. (2008). High-pressure processing â effects on microbial food safety and food quality. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 281(1). 1–9. 258 indexed citations
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Sleator, Roy D., Henrike H. Wemekamp‐Kamphuis, Cormac G. M. Gahan, Tjakko Abee, & Colin Hill. (2005). A PrfA‐regulated bile exclusion system (BilE) is a novel virulence factor in Listeria monocytogenes. Molecular Microbiology. 55(4). 1183–1195. 118 indexed citations

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