Steven Edgar

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Steven Edgar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Edgar has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Pharmacology and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Steven Edgar's work include Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (6 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (4 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers). Steven Edgar is often cited by papers focused on Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (6 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (4 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers). Steven Edgar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Singapore. Steven Edgar's co-authors include Gregory Stephanopoulos, Kangjian Qiao, Kang Zhou, Benjamin M. Woolston, Valerie C. A. Ward, Jing‐Ke Weng, Fu‐Shuang Li, Jeffrey H. Simpson and Jason R. King and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Biotechnology and Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology.

In The Last Decade

Steven Edgar

6 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Distributing a metabolic pathway among a microbial consortium enhances production of natural products

2015 540 citations Kang Zhou, Kangjian Qiao et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven Edgar United States	6	945	281	228	106	84	7	1.1k
Markus Buchhaupt Germany	20	1.2k 1.3×	201 0.7×	245 1.1×	177 1.7×	29 0.3×	50	1.4k
Congqiang Zhang Singapore	21	972 1.0×	262 0.9×	107 0.5×	148 1.4×	18 0.2×	44	1.3k
Shusei Obata Japan	15	794 0.8×	234 0.8×	127 0.6×	107 1.0×	27 0.3×	27	944
Alyssa M. Redding‐Johanson United States	9	1.2k 1.3×	176 0.6×	220 1.0×	98 0.9×	9 0.1×	9	1.3k
Xixian Chen Singapore	17	871 0.9×	232 0.8×	80 0.4×	132 1.2×	22 0.3×	35	1.0k
Takehiko Sahara Japan	16	562 0.6×	81 0.3×	143 0.6×	86 0.8×	16 0.2×	29	812
Liming Ouyang China	17	523 0.6×	62 0.2×	130 0.6×	145 1.4×	37 0.4×	49	773
J. L. Vinke Netherlands	16	1.3k 1.3×	116 0.4×	269 1.2×	104 1.0×	9 0.1×	18	1.4k
Quentin M. Dudley United States	10	764 0.8×	99 0.4×	177 0.8×	102 1.0×	7 0.1×	13	862

Countries citing papers authored by Steven Edgar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Edgar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Edgar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven Edgar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven Edgar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Steven Edgar. Steven Edgar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

1.

Edgar, Steven. (2023). Microbial engineering for the production of isoprenoids. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

2.

Ward, Valerie C. A., et al.. (2018). Two-step pathway for isoprenoid synthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(2). 506–511. 213 indexed citations

3.

Zhou, Kang, Steven Edgar, & Gregory Stephanopoulos. (2016). Engineering Microbes to Synthesize Plant Isoprenoids. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 575. 225–245. 5 indexed citations

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Edgar, Steven, Fu‐Shuang Li, Kangjian Qiao, Jing‐Ke Weng, & Gregory Stephanopoulos. (2016). Engineering of Taxadiene Synthase for Improved Selectivity and Yield of a Key Taxol Biosynthetic Intermediate. ACS Synthetic Biology. 6(2). 201–205. 62 indexed citations

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Zhou, Kang, Kangjian Qiao, Steven Edgar, & Gregory Stephanopoulos. (2015). Distributing a metabolic pathway among a microbial consortium enhances production of natural products. Nature Biotechnology. 33(4). 377–383. 540 indexed citations breakdown →

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Edgar, Steven, Kang Zhou, Kangjian Qiao, et al.. (2015). Mechanistic Insights into Taxadiene Epoxidation by Taxadiene-5α-Hydroxylase. ACS Chemical Biology. 11(2). 460–469. 45 indexed citations

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Woolston, Benjamin M., Steven Edgar, & Gregory Stephanopoulos. (2013). Metabolic Engineering: Past and Future. Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 4(1). 259–288. 220 indexed citations

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