W. Ford Doolittle

32.4k citations
289 papers · 22.6k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 76

Impact in

  • Ecology top 0.1%
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
    • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
    • Protist diversity and phylogeny
    • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Papers in

    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 76
    • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 26
    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 137
    • Protist diversity and phylogeny 69
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 62
    • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 32

W. Ford Doolittle

288 papers receiving 21.6k citations

Hit Papers

Prokaryotic Evolution in Light of Gene Transfer 2002 · 714 citations
71419802026199520104008001.2k

Peers

W. Ford Doolittle
Comparison fields: 5 of 190
  • Ecology 6.7k
  • Molecular Biology 17.3k
  • Genetics 4.7k
  • Parasitology 898
  • Endocrinology 684
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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside W. Ford Doolittle, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20242
2 201545
3 2013277
4 2011139
5 201038
6 200810
7 2006112
8 2004101
9 20044
10 200338
11
Evidence for cryptic Golgi in putatively ‘Golgi-lacking’ lineages
20031
12 1999193
13 199922
14 199991
15 199834
16 199851
17 1997219
18 199617
19 199612
20 199441

About W. Ford Doolittle

W. Ford Doolittle is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology, History and Philosophy of Science, Genetics and Endocrinology, having authored 289 papers that have together received 22.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (137 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (76 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (69 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (62 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (32 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (29 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (6.7k citations), Molecular Biology (17.3k citations), Genetics (4.7k citations), Parasitology (898 citations) and Endocrinology (684 citations). W. Ford Doolittle has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Carmen Sapienza, James R. Brown, Sandra L. Baldauf, Yan Boucher, Patrick J. Keeling, Michael W. Gray, Andrew J. Roger, R. Thane Papke, J. Peter Gogarten and Olga Zhaxybayeva. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Bacteriology, Current Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution and Nucleic Acids Research.

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