Ruth McNerney

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ruth McNerney is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth McNerney has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Infectious Diseases, 19 papers in Epidemiology and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ruth McNerney's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (20 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (18 papers) and Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (3 papers). Ruth McNerney is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (20 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (18 papers) and Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (3 papers). Ruth McNerney collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. Ruth McNerney's co-authors include Taane G. Clark, Arnab Pain, Francesc Coll, Miguel Viveiros, José Afonso Guerra‐Assunção, Judith R. Glynn, João Perdigão, Isabel Portugal, Nigel Martin and Grant Hill-Cawthorne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ruth McNerney

20 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains

2014 436 citations Francesc Coll, Ruth McNerney et al. Nature Communications profile →
Rapid determination of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance from whole-genome sequences

2015 282 citations Francesc Coll, Ruth McNerney et al. Genome Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth McNerney United Kingdom	13	1.1k	1.0k	451	342	148	21	1.3k
Kim Mallard United Kingdom	17	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	349 0.8×	442 1.3×	124 0.8×	26	1.3k
Mandira Varma‐Basil India	19	965 0.9×	844 0.8×	377 0.8×	356 1.0×	162 1.1×	67	1.3k
Swapna Uplekar Switzerland	14	905 0.8×	740 0.7×	490 1.1×	180 0.5×	171 1.2×	22	1.2k
Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe Italy	19	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	337 0.7×	394 1.2×	175 1.2×	42	1.4k
Silke Feuerriegel Germany	17	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	359 0.8×	363 1.1×	185 1.3×	23	1.2k
Glenn P. Morlock United States	21	1.5k 1.3×	1.4k 1.4×	422 0.9×	548 1.6×	188 1.3×	29	1.7k
S.T. Cole France	9	1.0k 0.9×	931 0.9×	384 0.9×	356 1.0×	240 1.6×	10	1.3k
T. C. Victor South Africa	29	1.9k 1.7×	1.8k 1.8×	349 0.8×	936 2.7×	233 1.6×	42	2.1k
Anzaan Dippenaar South Africa	17	720 0.6×	638 0.6×	233 0.5×	220 0.6×	59 0.4×	53	855
Valeriu Crudu United States	19	867 0.8×	751 0.7×	202 0.4×	308 0.9×	81 0.5×	55	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth McNerney

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Christakoudi, Sofia, Jody Phelan, Ernest Diez Benavente, et al.. (2019). Machine Learning Predicts Accurately Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Resistance From Whole Genome Sequencing Data. Frontiers in Genetics. 10. 922–922. 53 indexed citations

Phelan, Jody, Paola Flórez de Sessions, Leopold D. Tientcheu, et al.. (2018). Methylation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is lineage specific with associated mutations present globally. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 160–160. 31 indexed citations

Kanji, Akbar, Rumina Hasan, Asho Ali, et al.. (2017). Single nucleotide polymorphisms in efflux pumps genes in extensively drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Pakistan. Tuberculosis. 107. 20–30. 27 indexed citations

Sheen, Patricia, David Requena, Robert H. Gilman, et al.. (2017). A multiple genome analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals specific novel genes and mutations associated with pyrazinamide resistance. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 769–769. 23 indexed citations

McNerney, Ruth & Maureen Moyo. (2017). A novel small molecule immunoassay to detect the mycobacterial siderophore carboxymycobactin. Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Journal (BBRJ). 1(1). 37–37. 2 indexed citations

Phelan, Jody, Denise M. O’Sullivan, Diana Machado, et al.. (2016). The variability and reproducibility of whole genome sequencing technology for detecting resistance to anti-tuberculous drugs. Genome Medicine. 8(1). 132–132. 39 indexed citations

Kanji, Akbar, Rumina Hasan, Asho Ali, et al.. (2016). Alternate efflux pump mechanism may contribute to drug resistance in extensively drug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. International Journal of Mycobacteriology. 5. S97–S98. 8 indexed citations

Phelan, Jody, Francesc Coll, Ruth McNerney, et al.. (2016). Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole genome sequencing and protein structure modelling provides insights into anti-tuberculosis drug resistance. BMC Medicine. 14(1). 31–31. 88 indexed citations

Refrégier, Guislaine, Edgar Abadía, Tomoshige Matsumoto, et al.. (2016). Turkish and Japanese Mycobacterium tuberculosis sublineages share a remote common ancestor. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 45. 461–473. 8 indexed citations

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McNerney, Ruth, Taane G. Clark, Susana Campino, et al.. (2016). Removing the bottleneck in whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for rapid drug resistance analysis: a call to action. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 56. 130–135. 44 indexed citations

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Kanji, Akbar, Zahra Hasan, Asho Ali, et al.. (2015). Characterization of genomic variations in SNPs of PE_PGRS genes reveals deletions and insertions in extensively drug resistant (XDR) M. tuberculosis strains from Pakistan. International Journal of Mycobacteriology. 4(1). 73–79. 6 indexed citations

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Coll, Francesc, Ruth McNerney, Mark D. Preston, et al.. (2015). Rapid determination of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance from whole-genome sequences. Genome Medicine. 7(1). 51–51. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benavente, Ernest Diez, Francesc Coll, Nicholas Furnham, et al.. (2015). PhyTB: Phylogenetic tree visualisation and sample positioning for M. tuberculosis. BMC Bioinformatics. 16(1). 155–155. 19 indexed citations

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Abdallah, Abdallah M., Grant Hill-Cawthorne, Thomas D. Otto, et al.. (2015). Genomic expression catalogue of a global collection of BCG vaccine strains show evidence for highly diverged metabolic and cell-wall adaptations. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 15443–15443. 66 indexed citations

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Ali, Asho, Zahra Hasan, Ruth McNerney, et al.. (2015). Whole Genome Sequencing Based Characterization of Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Pakistan. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0117771–e0117771. 88 indexed citations

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Pietersen, Elize, et al.. (2015). Lifestyle, attitudes and needs of uncured XDR‐TB patients living in the communities of South Africa: a qualitative study. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 20(9). 1155–1161. 12 indexed citations

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Bergval, Indra, Francesc Coll, Anja Schuitema, et al.. (2014). A proportion of mutations fixed in the genomes of in vitro selected isogenic drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutants can be detected as minority variants in the parent culture. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 362(2). 1–7. 9 indexed citations

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Coll, Francesc, Mark D. Preston, José Afonso Guerra‐Assunção, et al.. (2014). PolyTB: A genomic variation map for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. 94(3). 346–354. 66 indexed citations

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Coll, Francesc, Ruth McNerney, José Afonso Guerra‐Assunção, et al.. (2014). A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4812–4812. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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McNerney, Ruth. (2002). Workplace protection from tuberculosis. LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). 24(6). 1 indexed citations

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