Sara E. Melville

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Sara E. Melville is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara E. Melville has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Epidemiology, 16 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sara E. Melville's work include Trypanosoma species research and implications (30 papers), Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (16 papers) and Parasites and Host Interactions (9 papers). Sara E. Melville is often cited by papers focused on Trypanosoma species research and implications (30 papers), Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (16 papers) and Parasites and Host Interactions (9 papers). Sara E. Melville collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Sara E. Melville's co-authors include Vanessa Leech, Jürg Utzinger, Xiao‐Nong Zhou, Charles H. King, Tie-Wu Jia, J. David Barry, Andrew Tait, David Lonsdale, Timothy Brears and Tony P. Hodge and has published in prestigious journals such as Molecular and Cellular Biology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Genome Research.

In The Last Decade

Sara E. Melville

36 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Soil-Transmitted Helminth Reinfection after Drug Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2012 309 citations Tie-Wu Jia, Sara E. Melville et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara E. Melville United Kingdom	20	830	566	536	521	250	38	1.6k
S. M. González Cappa Argentina	25	1.1k 1.3×	741 1.3×	255 0.5×	407 0.8×	21 0.1×	66	1.4k
Nancy Holroyd United Kingdom	22	82 0.1×	198 0.3×	262 0.5×	704 1.4×	147 0.6×	43	1.4k
Glenn Frank United States	18	162 0.2×	131 0.2×	277 0.5×	151 0.3×	48 0.2×	40	1.0k
Bernd H. Kalinna Australia	23	68 0.1×	220 0.4×	311 0.6×	981 1.9×	89 0.4×	51	1.4k
W. Rudin Switzerland	19	229 0.3×	430 0.8×	228 0.4×	215 0.4×	106 0.4×	42	1.1k
Paz Marı́a Salazar-Schettino Mexico	24	1.3k 1.6×	545 1.0×	190 0.4×	200 0.4×	254 1.0×	113	1.8k
Maria Tercília Vilela de Azeredo‐Oliveira Brazil	20	849 1.0×	180 0.3×	407 0.8×	108 0.2×	576 2.3×	133	1.4k
N. Van Meirvenne Belgium	27	2.2k 2.7×	1.6k 2.9×	638 1.2×	571 1.1×	114 0.5×	62	2.5k
Hermann Hecker Switzerland	24	831 1.0×	879 1.6×	640 1.2×	214 0.4×	162 0.6×	69	1.7k
Judith N. Nielsen United States	18	636 0.8×	53 0.1×	291 0.5×	355 0.7×	194 0.8×	26	1.5k

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Melville, Sara E., et al.. (2013). Livestock trypanosomosis in Uganda: parasite heterogeneity and anaemia status of naturally infected cattle, goats and pigs. Parasitology Research. 112(4). 1443–1450. 20 indexed citations

Jia, Tie-Wu, Sara E. Melville, Jürg Utzinger, Charles H. King, & Xiao‐Nong Zhou. (2012). Soil-Transmitted Helminth Reinfection after Drug Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 6(5). e1621–e1621. 309 indexed citations breakdown →

Katunguka‐Rwakishaya, E., et al.. (2011). Identification of Trypanosoma vivax subtypes isolated from cattle and goats using microsatellite markers.. Veterinarski arhiv. 81(1). 13–24. 1 indexed citations

Jackson, Andrew P., Mandy Sanders, Andrew Berry, et al.. (2010). The Genome Sequence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, Causative Agent of Chronic Human African Trypanosomiasis. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 4(4). e658–e658. 107 indexed citations

Melville, Sara E., et al.. (2009). Detection of natural <i>Trypanosoma vivax</i> infections in pigs with microhaematocrit centrifugation and amplification of ITS1 rDNA. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research. 76(3). 285–9. 9 indexed citations

Oyola, Samuel O., Frédéric Bringaud, & Sara E. Melville. (2008). A kinetoplastid BRCA2 interacts with DNA replication protein CDC45. International Journal for Parasitology. 39(1). 59–69. 6 indexed citations

Callejas, Sergio, et al.. (2006). Hemizygous subtelomeres of an African trypanosome chromosome may account for over 75% of chromosome length. Genome Research. 16(9). 1109–1118. 41 indexed citations

Melville, Sara E., Clare Wilson, Chun‐Pin Chiang, et al.. (2005). A mutation in canine CLN5 causes neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis in Border collie dogs☆. Genomics. 86(3). 287–294. 78 indexed citations

Leech, Vanessa, Michael A. Quail, & Sara E. Melville. (2004). Separation, Digestion, and Cloning of Intact Parasite Chromosomes Embedded in Agarose. Humana Press eBooks. 270. 335–352.

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Naula, Christina, et al.. (2001). Spontaneous dimerization and leucine-zipper induced activation of the recombinant catalytic domain of a new adenylyl cyclase of Trypanosoma brucei, GRESAG4.4B. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 112(1). 19–28. 33 indexed citations

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Melville, Sara E., Vanessa Leech, Miguel Navarro, & George Cross. (2000). The molecular karyotype of the megabase chromosomes of Trypanosoma brucei stock 427. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 111(2). 261–273. 59 indexed citations

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El-Sayed, Najib M., Priti S. Hegde, John Quackenbush, Sara E. Melville, & J E Donelson. (2000). The African trypanosome genome. International Journal for Parasitology. 30(4). 329–345. 75 indexed citations

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Ersfeld, Klaus, Sara E. Melville, & Keith Gull. (1999). Nuclear and Genome Organization of Trypanosoma brucei. Parasitology Today. 15(2). 58–63. 45 indexed citations

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Ansorge, Iris, Dietmar Steverding, Sara E. Melville, Claudia Hartmann, & Christine Clayton. (1999). Transcription of ‘inactive’ expression sites in African trypanosomes leads to expression of multiple transferrin receptor RNAs in bloodstream forms. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 101(1-2). 81–94. 61 indexed citations

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Johnston, David A., Mark Blaxter, Wim Degrave, et al.. (1999). Genomics and the biology of parasites. BioEssays. 21(2). 131–147. 61 indexed citations

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Blackwell, Jenefer M. & Sara E. Melville. (1999). Status of protozoan genome analysis: trypanosomatids. Parasitology. 118(7). 11–14. 8 indexed citations

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Robinson, Nicholas P., Nils Burman, Sara E. Melville, & J. David Barry. (1999). Predominance of Duplicative VSG Gene Conversion in Antigenic Variation in African Trypanosomes. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 19(9). 5839–5846. 108 indexed citations

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Melville, Sara E., Phelix A.O. Majiwa, & J E Donelson. (1998). Resources Available from the African Trypanosome Genome Project. Parasitology Today. 14(1). 3–4. 5 indexed citations

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Melville, Sara E., et al.. (1998). The molecular karyotype of the megabase chromosomes of Trypanosoma brucei and the assignment of chromosome markers. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 94(2). 155–173. 91 indexed citations

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Lonsdale, David, Timothy Brears, Tony P. Hodge, Sara E. Melville, & William H. Rottmann. (1988). The plant mitochondrial genome: homologous recombination as a mechanism for generating heterogeneity. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 319(1193). 149–163. 139 indexed citations

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