Royston Goodacre

52.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
464 papers, 30.7k citations indexed

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Royston Goodacre is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Analytical Chemistry and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Royston Goodacre has authored 464 papers receiving a total of 30.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 282 papers in Molecular Biology, 129 papers in Analytical Chemistry and 124 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Royston Goodacre's work include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (177 papers), Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research (124 papers) and Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (123 papers). Royston Goodacre is often cited by papers focused on Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (177 papers), Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research (124 papers) and Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (123 papers). Royston Goodacre collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Czechia and Netherlands. Royston Goodacre's co-authors include Douglas B. Kell, Yun Xu, Warwick B. Dunn, David I. Ellis, Roger M. Jarvis, David Broadhurst, J. William Allwood, Howbeer Muhamadali, George G. Harrigan and Seetharaman Vaidyanathan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Royston Goodacre

457 papers receiving 30.0k 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.

Procedures for large-scale metabolic profiling of serum and plasma using gas chromatography and liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry

2011 2.3k citations Warwick B. Dunn, David Broadhurst et al. Nature Protocols profile →
Metabolomics by numbers: acquiring and understanding global metabolite data

2004 909 citations Royston Goodacre, Warwick B. Dunn et al. profile →
Systems level studies of mammalian metabolomes: the roles of mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

2010 636 citations Warwick B. Dunn, David Broadhurst et al. profile →
Identification of Novel Genes in Arabidopsis Involved in Secondary Cell Wall Formation Using Expression Profiling and Reverse Genetics

2005 632 citations David Brown, Leo Zeef et al. The Plant Cell profile →
A tutorial review: Metabolomics and partial least squares-discriminant analysis – a marriage of convenience or a shotgun wedding

2015 625 citations Howbeer Muhamadali, David I. Ellis et al. profile →
On Splitting Training and Validation Set: A Comparative Study of Cross-Validation, Bootstrap and Systematic Sampling for Estimating the Generalization Performance of Supervised Learning

2018 620 citations Yun Xu, Royston Goodacre profile →
Guidelines and considerations for the use of system suitability and quality control samples in mass spectrometry assays applied in untargeted clinical metabolomic studies

2018 574 citations David Broadhurst, Royston Goodacre et al. Metabolomics profile →
Discrimination of Bacteria Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

2003 516 citations Royston Goodacre et al. Analytical Chemistry profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Royston Goodacre	16.6k	7.4k	5.3k	5.0k	4.0k	464	30.7k
Yukihiro Ozaki	7.9k 0.5×	10.6k 1.4×	9.6k 1.8×	7.7k 1.5×	3.2k 0.8×	1.2k	38.3k
Jürgen Popp	8.3k 0.5×	11.5k 1.6×	8.2k 1.5×	14.4k 2.9×	2.4k 0.6×	1.1k	36.0k
Lingxin Chen	13.3k 0.8×	14.3k 1.9×	10.8k 2.1×	1.1k 0.2×	10.3k 2.5×	677	43.1k
Yi‐Zeng Liang	6.7k 0.4×	3.5k 0.5×	9.3k 1.8×	2.7k 0.5×	3.0k 0.7×	451	19.6k
Douglas B. Kell	22.1k 1.3×	5.6k 0.8×	2.6k 0.5×	1.7k 0.3×	3.5k 0.9×	560	40.6k
Erik Lindahl	40.9k 2.5×	7.5k 1.0×	696 0.1×	729 0.1×	4.7k 1.2×	197	71.6k
Da‐Wen Sun	11.5k 0.7×	18.0k 2.4×	22.0k 4.2×	5.9k 1.2×	928 0.2×	937	64.8k
Quansheng Chen	6.6k 0.4×	10.9k 1.5×	9.2k 1.8×	2.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	706	24.4k
Andrew Dalke	26.7k 1.6×	5.9k 0.8×	597 0.1×	640 0.1×	3.6k 0.9×	13	56.0k
John C. Lindon	26.0k 1.6×	3.7k 0.5×	2.7k 0.5×	871 0.2×	7.4k 1.8×	444	35.5k

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Sham, Tung-Ting, Joanne Blair, Blair H. Smith, et al.. (2025). SERS-based lateral flow immunoassay utilising plasmonic nanoparticle clusters for ultra-sensitive detection of salivary cortisol. Nanoscale. 17(34). 19656–19665.

Xu, Yun & Royston Goodacre. (2024). Mind your Ps and Qs – Caveats in metabolomics data analysis. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 183. 118064–118064. 8 indexed citations

Lima, Cássio, et al.. (2024). Application of infrared spectroscopy to study carbon-deuterium kinetics and isotopic spectral shifts at the single-cell level. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 327. 125374–125374. 1 indexed citations

Lima, Cássio, et al.. (2024). Using surface-enhanced Raman scattering for simultaneous multiplex detection and quantification of thiols associated to axillary malodour. The Analyst. 149(15). 3989–4001.

Sarmad, Sarir, Mark R. Viant, Warwick B. Dunn, et al.. (2023). A proposed framework to evaluate the quality and reliability of targeted metabolomics assays from the UK Consortium on Metabolic Phenotyping (MAP/UK). Nature Protocols. 18(4). 1017–1027. 23 indexed citations

Lima, Cássio, Howbeer Muhamadali, & Royston Goodacre. (2023). Monitoring Phenotype Heterogeneity at the Single-Cell Level within Bacillus Populations Producing Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate by Label-Free Super-resolution Infrared Imaging. Analytical Chemistry. 95(48). 17733–17740. 8 indexed citations

Clarke, Emily J., Cássio Lima, James Anderson, et al.. (2022). Optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy can differentiate equine osteoarthritic plasma extracellular vesicles from healthy controls. Analytical Methods. 14(37). 3661–3670. 10 indexed citations

Williams, Alex, Holly Langridge, Angela L. Straathof, et al.. (2021). Comparing root exudate collection techniques: An improved hybrid method. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 161. 108391–108391. 89 indexed citations

Muhamadali, Howbeer, Kenneth Simoens, Yun Xu, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of Sample Preparation Methods for Inter-Laboratory Metabolomics Investigation of Streptomyces lividans TK24. Metabolites. 10(9). 379–379. 2 indexed citations

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Svetieva, Elena, et al.. (2019). Facing exclusion and smiling through the pain: positive emotion expression during interpersonal ostracism. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Waqar, et al.. (2019). Development of a sensor device with polymer-coated piezoelectric micro-cantilevers for detection of volatile organic compounds. Measurement Science and Technology. 31(3). 35103–35103. 8 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Waqar, Iain R. White, Oluwasola Lawal, et al.. (2018). Development of an adaptable headspace sampling method for metabolic profiling of the fungal volatome. The Analyst. 143(17). 4155–4162. 16 indexed citations

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Chisanga, Malama, Howbeer Muhamadali, David I. Ellis, & Royston Goodacre. (2018). Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) in Microbiology: Illumination and Enhancement of the Microbial World. Applied Spectroscopy. 72(7). 987–1000. 64 indexed citations

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Barley, Mark H., Nicholas J. Turner, & Royston Goodacre. (2017). Recommendations on the Implementation of Genetic Algorithms for the Directed Evolution of Enzymes for Industrial Purposes. ChemBioChem. 18(12). 1087–1097. 8 indexed citations

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Sayqal, Ali, Yun Xu, Drupad K. Trivedi, et al.. (2016). Metabolic analysis of the response of Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E strains to toluene using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Metabolomics. 12(7). 112–112. 7 indexed citations

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Muhamadali, Howbeer, Yun Xu, Rosa Morra, et al.. (2015). Metabolomic analysis of riboswitch containing E. coli recombinant expression system. Molecular BioSystems. 12(2). 350–361. 15 indexed citations

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Hollywood, Katherine A., Catherine Winder, Warwick B. Dunn, et al.. (2015). Exploring the mode of action of dithranol therapy for psoriasis: a metabolomic analysis using HaCaT cells. Molecular BioSystems. 11(8). 2198–2209. 23 indexed citations

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Kim, Dong‐Hyun, J. William Allwood, Warwick B. Dunn, et al.. (2014). A metabolomics investigation into the effects of HIV protease inhibitors on HPV16 E6 expressing cervical carcinoma cells. Molecular BioSystems. 10(3). 398–411. 7 indexed citations

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Ong, Kai Ren, Andrew H. Sims, Michelle Harvie, et al.. (2009). Biomarkers of Dietary Energy Restriction in Women at Increased Risk of Breast Cancer. Cancer Prevention Research. 2(8). 720–731. 39 indexed citations

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Brown, David, Leo Zeef, Joanne Ellis, Royston Goodacre, & Simon R. Turner. (2005). Identification of Novel Genes in Arabidopsis Involved in Secondary Cell Wall Formation Using Expression Profiling and Reverse Genetics. The Plant Cell. 17(8). 2281–2295. 632 indexed citations breakdown →

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