Thomas Butler

10.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
214 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Butler is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Butler has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Infectious Diseases, 33 papers in Molecular Biology and 32 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Butler's work include Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (25 papers), Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (24 papers) and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (23 papers). Thomas Butler is often cited by papers focused on Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (25 papers), Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (24 papers) and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (23 papers). Thomas Butler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bangladesh and Australia. Thomas Butler's co-authors include William J. Waddell, Nigel Goldenfeld, Golam Rabbani, Paul K. Jones, I Kabir, Keith Arnold, Kenneth H. Dudley, Asma Islam, Joseph A. Knight and Peter Speelman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Butler

208 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

CALCULATION OF INTRACELLULAR pH FROM THE DISTRIBUTION OF 5,5-DIMETHYL-2,4-OXAZOLIDINEDIONE (DMO). APPLICATION TO SKELETAL MUSCLE OF THE DOG*

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Butler United States	44	1.5k	1.4k	919	878	795	214	7.1k
Ian Phillips United Kingdom	57	2.2k 1.4×	3.8k 2.7×	774 0.8×	819 0.9×	907 1.1×	386	13.7k
Arnold L. Smith United States	60	1.1k 0.7×	2.9k 2.0×	696 0.8×	252 0.3×	530 0.7×	306	13.9k
Leonid Zaslavsky United States	13	861 0.6×	6.8k 4.8×	382 0.4×	989 1.1×	592 0.7×	23	12.6k
Volkhard Kaever Germany	48	906 0.6×	4.4k 3.1×	1.7k 1.8×	265 0.3×	670 0.8×	204	7.7k
David Arndt Canada	12	661 0.4×	4.3k 3.0×	442 0.5×	756 0.9×	576 0.7×	19	7.2k
France Mentré France	50	2.3k 1.5×	1.1k 0.8×	274 0.3×	203 0.2×	336 0.4×	291	9.3k
Marie‐Paule Mingeot‐Leclercq Belgium	41	941 0.6×	2.7k 1.9×	343 0.4×	319 0.4×	207 0.3×	114	6.0k
Laurence L. Brunton United States	45	427 0.3×	5.6k 3.9×	433 0.5×	294 0.3×	365 0.5×	95	12.1k
Catherine Fenselau United States	61	508 0.3×	6.2k 4.3×	518 0.6×	303 0.3×	222 0.3×	322	13.5k
Ikuo Kimura Japan	51	560 0.4×	6.0k 4.2×	684 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	210 0.3×	391	11.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Butler

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Zhu, Junjia, et al.. (2024). A Comparative Review of Standardized Incidence Ratios of De Novo Malignancies Post Liver Transplantation in Males Versus Females. Transplantation Proceedings. 56(6). 1365–1373. 1 indexed citations

Butler, Thomas. (2017). Treatment of severe cholera: a review of strategies to reduce stool output and volumes of rehydration fluid. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 111(5). 204–210. 4 indexed citations

Barton, John P., Nilu Goonetilleke, Thomas Butler, et al.. (2016). Relative rate and location of intra-host HIV evolution to evade cellular immunity are predictable. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11660–11660. 73 indexed citations

Butler, Thomas, John P. Barton, Mehran Kardar, & Arup K. Chakraborty. (2016). Identification of drug resistance mutations in HIV from constraints on natural evolution. Physical review. E. 93(2). 22412–22412. 26 indexed citations

Butler, Thomas, et al.. (2014). Obstructive mechanical valve thrombosis: utility of 3D trans-oesophageal echocardiography. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging. 16(2). 230–230. 1 indexed citations

Butler, Thomas. (2014). Plague history: Yersin’s discovery of the causative bacterium in 1894 enabled, in the subsequent century, scientific progress in understanding the disease and the development of treatments and vaccines. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 20(3). 202–209. 45 indexed citations

Butler, Thomas. (2013). Plague Gives Surprises in the First Decade of the 21st Century in the United States and Worldwide. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 89(4). 788–793. 78 indexed citations

Friedman, Nir, Shinya Ito, Braden A. W. Brinkman, et al.. (2012). Universal Critical Dynamics in High Resolution Neuronal Avalanche Data. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations

Appleby, T.C., Thomas Butler, Ruby Cai, et al.. (2012). Discovery of GS-9451: An acid inhibitor of the hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 22(7). 2629–2634. 26 indexed citations

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Butler, Thomas, et al.. (2006). Treatment of Plague with Gentamicin or Doxycycline in a Randomized Clinical Trial in Tanzania. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 42(5). 614–621. 72 indexed citations

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Abraham, Edward, Konrad Reinhart, Petr Svoboda, et al.. (2001). Assessment of the safety of recombinant tissue factor pathway inhibitor in patients with severe sepsis: A multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, single-blind, dose escalation study. Critical Care Medicine. 29(11). 2081–2089. 193 indexed citations

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Azad, Abul Kalam, et al.. (1997). Comparison of Clinical Features and Pathologic Findings in Fatal Cases of Typhoid Fever during the Initial and Later Stages of the Disease. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 56(5). 490–493. 11 indexed citations

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Butler, Thomas, et al.. (1995). Treatment of Typhoid Fever: Randomized Trial of a Three-Day Course of Ceftriaxone Versus a Fourteen-Day Course of Chloramphenicol. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 52(2). 162–165. 43 indexed citations

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Butler, Thomas, et al.. (1993). Comparative efficacies of azithromycin and ciprofloxacin against experimental Salmonella typhimurium infection in mice. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 31(2). 313–319. 23 indexed citations

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Butler, Thomas, Asma Islam, Iqbal Kabir, & Paul K. Jones. (1990). Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality in Typhoid Fever Dependent on Age and Gender: Review of 552 Hopitalized Patients with Diarrhea. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 13(1). 85–90. 93 indexed citations

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Speelman, Peter, et al.. (1987). Differential clinical features and stool findings in shigellosis and amoebic dysentery. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 81(4). 549–551. 27 indexed citations

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Hudson, Bruce W., K Wolff, & Thomas Butler. (1980). The use of solid-phase radioimmunoassay techniques for serodiagnosis of human plague infection.. PubMed. 14(3). 244–50. 4 indexed citations

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Butler, Thomas, et al.. (1976). Effects of medium chain tri glycerides induced ketosis on blood and brain ph. 18(2). 158. 7 indexed citations

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Butler, Thomas. (1964). THE METABOLIC FATE OF CARBROMAL (2-BROMO-2-ETHYLBUTYRYLUREA). Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 143(1). 23–29. 20 indexed citations

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Butler, Thomas. (1956). THE METABOLIC HYDROXYLATION OF PHENOBARBITAL. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 116(3). 326–336. 80 indexed citations

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