Sydney Brenner

2.4k total citations
25 papers, 687 citations indexed

About

Sydney Brenner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sydney Brenner has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 687 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Sydney Brenner's work include Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (3 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (2 papers). Sydney Brenner is often cited by papers focused on Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (3 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (2 papers). Sydney Brenner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and United Kingdom. Sydney Brenner's co-authors include Kim D. Janda, John Nielsen, William Broughton, Jeffrey H Miller, Shawn Hoon, Bin Zhou, Steven R. Williams, Shujun Luo, James J. Kirchner and Glenn Albrecht and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sydney Brenner

25 papers receiving 630 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sydney Brenner United States 10 517 91 87 78 58 25 687
Randall L. Dimond United States 16 459 0.9× 59 0.6× 23 0.3× 112 1.4× 64 1.1× 33 806
Dennis M. Mishler United States 10 643 1.2× 48 0.5× 32 0.4× 39 0.5× 45 0.8× 13 759
Shinji Sueda Japan 14 354 0.7× 56 0.6× 62 0.7× 38 0.5× 32 0.6× 33 517
Thakor Patel Norway 8 508 1.0× 85 0.9× 186 2.1× 23 0.3× 30 0.5× 9 636
Tim Herman United States 11 646 1.2× 25 0.3× 59 0.7× 107 1.4× 26 0.4× 33 836
Shouhei Mine Japan 13 350 0.7× 91 1.0× 27 0.3× 43 0.6× 56 1.0× 23 471
Matthew D. Sekedat United States 13 660 1.3× 27 0.3× 56 0.6× 35 0.4× 38 0.7× 15 773
Hideto Mori Japan 13 368 0.7× 32 0.4× 94 1.1× 37 0.5× 15 0.3× 37 568
Roberta Spadaccini Italy 21 666 1.3× 47 0.5× 14 0.2× 58 0.7× 43 0.7× 41 996
Luis Briseño-Roa France 10 279 0.5× 47 0.5× 27 0.3× 85 1.1× 100 1.7× 14 516

Countries citing papers authored by Sydney Brenner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sydney Brenner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sydney Brenner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sydney Brenner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sydney Brenner 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 Sydney Brenner. Sydney Brenner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hoon, Shawn, et al.. (2011). Aptamer Selection by High-Throughput Sequencing and Informatic Analysis. BioTechniques. 51(6). 413–416. 70 indexed citations
2.
Anderson, David & Sydney Brenner. (2008). Seymour Benzer (1921–2007). Nature. 451(7175). 139–139. 6 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney & César Milstein. (2006). Pillars Article: Origin of antibody variation. Nature 1966. 211: 242-243.. PubMed. 177(7). 4237–8. 13 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (2003). A Yankee in King Gustav's Court. Science. 301(5639). 1483–1483. 2 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (2003). Worms and science. EMBO Reports. 4(3). 224–226. 1 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney, Jeffrey H Miller, & William Broughton. (2002). Encyclopedia of genetics. Academic Press eBooks. 98 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (2002). The worm's turn. Current Biology. 12(21). R713–R713. 9 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (2000). False starts. Current Biology. 10(18). R649–R649. 2 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (1999). Sillycon valley fever. Current Biology. 9(18). R671–R671. 16 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (1999). Moron peer review. Current Biology. 9(20). R755–R755. 3 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (1998). The Impact of Society on Science. Science. 282(5393). 1411–1412. 23 indexed citations
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Koh, Cheng-Gee, et al.. (1997). Serine/threonine phosphatases of the pufferfish, Fugu rubripes. Gene. 198(1-2). 223–228. 6 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (1997). How the quest was won. Current Biology. 7(9). R596–R596. 1 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (1995). Loose end: Molecular biology by numbers … one. Current Biology. 5(8). 964–964. 2 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (1995). Loose end: All the world's a lab … then the full professor. Current Biology. 5(2). 220–220. 1 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (1995). Loose end: All the world's a lab … last scene of all. Current Biology. 5(6). 694–694. 1 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sydney. (1995). Loose end: All the world's a lab … into a Director. Current Biology. 5(4). 450–450. 2 indexed citations
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Nielsen, John, Sydney Brenner, & Kim D. Janda. (1993). Synthetic methods for the implementation of encoded combinatorial chemistry. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 115(21). 9812–9813. 186 indexed citations
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Maruyama, Ichiro, David M. Miller, & Sydney Brenner. (1989). Myosin heavy chain gene amplification as a suppressor mutation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 219(1-2). 113–118. 23 indexed citations

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