Thomas Shafee

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Shafee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Shafee has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Microbiology and 7 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Thomas Shafee's work include Biochemical and Structural Characterization (13 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (11 papers) and Wikis in Education and Collaboration (7 papers). Thomas Shafee is often cited by papers focused on Biochemical and Structural Characterization (13 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (11 papers) and Wikis in Education and Collaboration (7 papers). Thomas Shafee collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and India. Thomas Shafee's co-authors include Mark R. Bleackley, Rohan G. T. Lowe, Marilyn A. Anderson, Stephen K. Dolan, Neil J. Shirley, Mark D. Hulett, Fung T. Lay, Nicole L. van der Weerden, Thanh Kha Phan and Kathy Parisi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Shafee

34 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Transcriptomics technologies 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 200 400 600
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.

  1. Transcriptomics technologies
    2017 656 citations Rohan G. T. Lowe, Neil J. Shirley et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Thomas Shafee 1.1k 528 379 196 163 38 1.8k
Mariana S. Castro 971 0.9× 710 1.3× 187 0.5× 98 0.5× 303 1.9× 83 1.8k
Manoj Kumar 2.0k 1.7× 456 0.9× 197 0.5× 62 0.3× 125 0.8× 102 3.1k
Sascha Jung 733 0.6× 406 0.8× 112 0.3× 106 0.5× 44 0.3× 56 1.7k
Christoph Gelhaus 826 0.7× 329 0.6× 88 0.2× 81 0.4× 60 0.4× 50 1.8k
Lars Kiemer 1.3k 1.1× 97 0.2× 244 0.6× 77 0.4× 169 1.0× 13 1.9k
Paolo Di Tommaso 1.1k 0.9× 133 0.3× 272 0.7× 54 0.3× 204 1.3× 25 1.6k
Jonás Perales 607 0.5× 169 0.3× 166 0.4× 68 0.3× 244 1.5× 68 1.4k
Magnús Halldór Gíslason 853 0.8× 89 0.2× 352 0.9× 179 0.9× 165 1.0× 4 1.6k
Stefan Taudien 1.5k 1.3× 96 0.2× 1.2k 3.1× 240 1.2× 489 3.0× 54 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Shafee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Shafee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Shafee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Shafee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Shafee 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 Thomas Shafee. Thomas Shafee 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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Lampugnani, Edwin R., Yin Ying Ho, Allison van de Meene, et al.. (2024). Glycosyl transferase GT2 genes mediate the biosynthesis of an unusual (1,3;1,4)‐β‐glucan exopolysaccharide in the bacterium Sarcina ventriculi. Molecular Microbiology. 121(6). 1245–1261. 1 indexed citations
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Parisi, Kathy, James A. McKenna, Rohan G. T. Lowe, et al.. (2024). Hyperpolarisation of Mitochondrial Membranes Is a Critical Component of the Antifungal Mechanism of the Plant Defensin, Ppdef1. Journal of Fungi. 10(1). 54–54. 11 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, Julian Ratcliffe, Colleen P. MacMillan, et al.. (2023). Distinct functions of FASCICLIN-LIKE ARABINOGALACTAN PROTEINS relate to domain structure. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 192(1). 119–132. 17 indexed citations
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Liu, Edgar, Colleen P. MacMillan, Thomas Shafee, et al.. (2020). Fasciclin-Like Arabinogalactan-Protein 16 (FLA16) Is Required for Stem Development in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 615392–615392. 36 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, et al.. (2019). Mapping the chemical and sequence space of the ShKT superfamily. Toxicon. 165. 95–102. 11 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, et al.. (2019). Evolution of cnidarian trans‐defensins: Sequence, structure and exploration of chemical space. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 87(7). 551–560. 23 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, et al.. (2019). Wikidata: A large-scale collaborative ontological medical database. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 99. 103292–103292. 21 indexed citations
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Jackson, Mark A., Edward K. Gilding, Thomas Shafee, et al.. (2018). Molecular basis for the production of cyclic peptides by plant asparaginyl endopeptidases. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2411–2411. 98 indexed citations
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Parisi, Kathy, Thomas Shafee, Pedro Quimbar, et al.. (2018). The evolution, function and mechanisms of action for plant defensins. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 88. 107–118. 166 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Evolution of Wikipedia’s medical content: past, present and future. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Lowe, Rohan G. T., Neil J. Shirley, Mark R. Bleackley, Stephen K. Dolan, & Thomas Shafee. (2017). Transcriptomics technologies. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(5). e1005457–e1005457. 656 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shafee, Thomas, et al.. (2017). WikiJournal of Medicine, the first Wikipedia-integrated academic journal. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 1 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas & Rohan G. T. Lowe. (2017). Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Gene Structure. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Evolution of Wikipedia’s medical content: past, present and future. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 71(11). jech–2016. 64 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas & Rohan G. T. Lowe. (2017). Eukaryotic and prokaryotic gene structure. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 13 indexed citations
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Payne, Jennifer A. E., Mark R. Bleackley, Tzong-Hsien Lee, et al.. (2016). The plant defensin NaD1 introduces membrane disorder through a specific interaction with the lipid, phosphatidylinositol 4,5 bisphosphate. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1858(6). 1099–1109. 45 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, Fung T. Lay, Mark D. Hulett, & Marilyn A. Anderson. (2016). The Defensins Consist of Two Independent, Convergent Protein Superfamilies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(9). 2345–2356. 115 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, Fung T. Lay, Thanh Kha Phan, Marilyn A. Anderson, & Mark D. Hulett. (2016). Convergent evolution of defensin sequence, structure and function. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 74(4). 663–682. 159 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, Karen S. Harris, & Marilyn A. Anderson. (2015). Biosynthesis of cyclotides. Figshare. 76. 227–269. 5 indexed citations
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Shafee, Thomas, et al.. (2015). Handicap‐Recover Evolution Leads to a Chemically Versatile, Nucleophile‐Permissive Protease. ChemBioChem. 16(13). 1866–1869. 9 indexed citations

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