Tom Slezak

27.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Tom Slezak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Slezak has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Tom Slezak's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (6 papers). Tom Slezak is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (6 papers). Tom Slezak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and Japan. Tom Slezak's co-authors include Shea N. Gardner, Barry G. Hall, Jonathan Allen, Crystal Jaing, Kevin McLoughlin, Adam Zemła, Elizabeth Vitalis, Matthew D. Dyer, Carol Zhou and Martin Shumway and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Tom Slezak

31 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

kSNP3.0: SNP detection and phylogenetic analysis of genomes without genome alignment or reference genome

2015 464 citations Shea N. Gardner, Tom Slezak et al. Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Slezak United States	21	830	395	304	281	199	31	1.8k
Dhruba J. SenGupta United States	23	1.3k 1.6×	401 1.0×	257 0.8×	372 1.3×	217 1.1×	48	2.3k
Shea N. Gardner United States	26	1.0k 1.3×	544 1.4×	512 1.7×	359 1.3×	334 1.7×	59	2.6k
Pascal Lapierre United States	24	1.1k 1.3×	442 1.1×	502 1.7×	390 1.4×	348 1.7×	51	1.9k
Timothy D. Minogue United States	21	1.1k 1.3×	329 0.8×	229 0.8×	157 0.6×	438 2.2×	60	2.0k
Luca Freschi Canada	25	824 1.0×	392 1.0×	203 0.7×	351 1.2×	201 1.0×	46	1.4k
Guoqiang Zhu China	24	815 1.0×	245 0.6×	186 0.6×	160 0.6×	253 1.3×	111	2.0k
Gregory P. Harhay United States	23	706 0.9×	197 0.5×	238 0.8×	163 0.6×	460 2.3×	60	1.6k
Grégory Gimenez France	23	1.4k 1.7×	449 1.1×	485 1.6×	245 0.9×	174 0.9×	61	2.6k
Lisa A. Morici United States	30	755 0.9×	512 1.3×	220 0.7×	723 2.6×	149 0.7×	60	2.4k
Kirk M. Ririe United States	5	1.1k 1.3×	428 1.1×	234 0.8×	488 1.7×	234 1.2×	5	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Slezak

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Slezak

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Slezak

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

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Sichtig, Heike, Timothy D. Minogue, Yi Yan, et al.. (2019). FDA-ARGOS is a database with public quality-controlled reference genomes for diagnostic use and regulatory science. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3313–3313. 261 indexed citations

Thissen, James B., Nicholas A. Be, Kevin McLoughlin, et al.. (2019). Axiom Microbiome Array, the next generation microarray for high-throughput pathogen and microbiome analysis. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0212045–e0212045. 23 indexed citations

Doggett, Norman A., Harshini Mukundan, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, et al.. (2016). Culture-Independent Diagnostics for Health Security. Health Security. 14(3). 122–142. 14 indexed citations

Ames, Sasha, Shea N. Gardner, Jose Manuel Martí, et al.. (2015). Using populations of human and microbial genomes for organism detection in metagenomes. Genome Research. 25(7). 1056–1067. 25 indexed citations

Gardner, Shea N., Tom Slezak, & Barry G. Hall. (2015). kSNP3.0: SNP detection and phylogenetic analysis of genomes without genome alignment or reference genome. Bioinformatics. 31(17). 2877–2878. 464 indexed citations breakdown →

Gardner, Shea N., Kenneth G. Frey, C. L. Redden, et al.. (2015). Targeted amplification for enhanced detection of biothreat agents by next-generation sequencing. BMC Research Notes. 8(1). 682–682. 20 indexed citations

Thissen, James B., Kevin McLoughlin, Shea N. Gardner, et al.. (2014). Analysis of sensitivity and rapid hybridization of a multiplexed Microbial Detection Microarray. Journal of Virological Methods. 201. 73–78. 24 indexed citations

Gardner, Shea N. & Tom Slezak. (2014). Simulate_PCR for amplicon prediction and annotation from multiplex, degenerate primers and probes. BMC Bioinformatics. 15(1). 237–237. 22 indexed citations

Chen‐Harris, Haiyin, et al.. (2013). Ultra-deep mutant spectrum profiling: improving sequencing accuracy using overlapping read pairs. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 96–96. 37 indexed citations

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Borucki, Monica K., Jonathan Allen, Haiyin Chen‐Harris, et al.. (2013). The Role of Viral Population Diversity in Adaptation of Bovine Coronavirus to New Host Environments. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e52752–e52752. 32 indexed citations

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Zapata, Juan Carlos, Bhawna Poonia, Joseph Bryant, et al.. (2013). An attenuated Lassa vaccine in SIV-infected rhesus macaques does not persist or cause arenavirus disease but does elicit Lassa virus-specific immunity. Virology Journal. 10(1). 52–52. 40 indexed citations

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Gardner, Shea N., Crystal Jaing, Kevin McLoughlin, & Tom Slezak. (2010). A microbial detection array (MDA) for viral and bacterial detection. BMC Genomics. 11(1). 668–668. 89 indexed citations

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Allen, Jonathan, Shea N. Gardner, Elizabeth Vitalis, & Tom Slezak. (2009). Conserved amino acid markers from past influenza pandemic strains. BMC Microbiology. 9(1). 77–77. 40 indexed citations

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Allen, Jonathan, Shea N. Gardner, & Tom Slezak. (2008). DNA signatures for detecting genetic engineering in bacteria. Genome biology. 9(3). R56–R56. 9 indexed citations

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Jaing, Crystal, Shea N. Gardner, Kevin McLoughlin, et al.. (2008). A Functional Gene Array for Detection of Bacterial Virulence Elements. PLoS ONE. 3(5). e2163–e2163. 30 indexed citations

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Lawler, James V., Timothy P. Endy, Lisa E. Hensley, et al.. (2006). Cynomolgus Macaque as an Animal Model for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. PLoS Medicine. 3(5). e149–e149. 86 indexed citations

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Zhou, Carol, et al.. (2006). MvirDB--a microbial database of protein toxins, virulence factors and antibiotic resistance genes for bio-defence applications. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(Database). D391–D394. 181 indexed citations

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Ashworth, Linda K., Mark A. Batzer, Brigitte Brandriff, et al.. (1995). An integrated metric physical map of human chromosome 19. Nature Genetics. 11(4). 422–427. 146 indexed citations

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Soeda, E., Kazutoyo Osoegawa, Tetsushi Yamagata, et al.. (1995). Cosmid assembly and anchoring to human chromosome 21. Genomics. 25(1). 73–84. 43 indexed citations

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Slezak, Tom. (1981). Interfacing for Economical Data Gathering and Processing.. THE journal. 8(5). 59–60. 1 indexed citations

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