Wayne Delport

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Wayne Delport is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Wayne Delport has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Genetics, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Wayne Delport's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Wayne Delport is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Wayne Delport collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. Wayne Delport's co-authors include Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Simon D. W. Frost, Art F. Y. Poon, Konrad Scheffler, Ben Murrell, Mathieu Fourment, Cathal Seoighe, Van der Merwe, Paulette Bloomer and J. W. H. Ferguson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wayne Delport

29 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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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.

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Author						Papers	Cites
Wayne Delport	709	579	492	415	312	29	2.3k
Jan Fredrik Simons	1.2k 1.6×	617 1.1×	627 1.3×	303 0.7×	287 0.9×	25	2.7k
Steven Weaver	1.2k 1.7×	686 1.2×	757 1.5×	284 0.7×	452 1.4×	33	2.9k
Thomas Weighill	708 1.0×	542 0.9×	554 1.1×	366 0.9×	349 1.1×	14	2.2k
Alex D. Greenwood	1.2k 1.7×	775 1.3×	390 0.8×	544 1.3×	475 1.5×	125	3.3k
Michael E. Clark	731 1.0×	705 1.2×	531 1.1×	198 0.5×	523 1.7×	34	4.5k
Gholamreza Darai	553 0.8×	588 1.0×	731 1.5×	1.1k 2.8×	464 1.5×	88	2.6k
Tamara S. Haselkorn	696 1.0×	466 0.8×	235 0.5×	227 0.5×	560 1.8×	30	2.1k
Cor J. Vink	910 1.3×	1000 1.7×	596 1.2×	326 0.8×	180 0.6×	122	3.0k
G. Darai	353 0.5×	342 0.6×	566 1.2×	867 2.1×	346 1.1×	84	2.0k
Antoinette C. van der Kuyl	759 1.1×	368 0.6×	406 0.8×	294 0.7×	625 2.0×	67	2.0k

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Mehta, Sanjay R., Joel O. Wertheim, Wayne Delport, et al.. (2011). Using phylogeography to characterize the origins of the HIV-1 subtype F epidemic in Romania. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 11(5). 975–979. 27 indexed citations

Pacold, Mary E., Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Gabriel A. Wagner, et al.. (2011). Clinical, virologic, and immunologic correlates of HIV-1 intraclade B dual infection among men who have sex with men. AIDS. 26(2). 157–165. 28 indexed citations

Pond, Sergei L. Kosakovsky, Ben Murrell, Mathieu Fourment, et al.. (2011). A Random Effects Branch-Site Model for Detecting Episodic Diversifying Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(11). 3033–3043. 339 indexed citations

Mehta, Sanjay R., Wayne Delport, Kimberly C. Brouwer, et al.. (2010). The Relatedness of HIV Epidemics in the United States–Mexico Border Region. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 26(12). 1273–1277. 10 indexed citations

Pond, Sergei L. Kosakovsky, Wayne Delport, Spencer V. Muse, & Konrad Scheffler. (2010). Correcting the Bias of Empirical Frequency Parameter Estimators in Codon Models. PLoS ONE. 5(7). e11230–e11230. 38 indexed citations

Delport, Wayne, Emile R. Chimusa, Ayton Meintjes, et al.. (2010). Genome-wide analysis of the structure of the South African Coloured Population in the Western Cape. Human Genetics. 128(2). 145–153. 152 indexed citations

Delport, Wayne, Konrad Scheffler, Mike B. Gravenor, Spencer V. Muse, & Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond. (2010). Benchmarking Multi-Rate Codon Models. PLoS ONE. 5(7). e11587–e11587. 10 indexed citations

Delport, Wayne, et al.. (2010). CodonTest: Modeling Amino Acid Substitution Preferences in Coding Sequences. PLoS Computational Biology. 6(8). e1000885–e1000885. 56 indexed citations

Smith, Davey M., Wayne Delport, David M. Butler, et al.. (2010). Response to Comment on "The Origins of Sexually Transmitted HIV Among Men Who Have Sex with Men". Science Translational Medicine. 2(50). 501r1–501r1. 7 indexed citations

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Harkins, Gordon W., Wayne Delport, Siobain Duffy, et al.. (2009). Experimental evidence indicating that mastreviruses probably did not co-diverge with their hosts. Virology Journal. 6(1). 104–104. 47 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, Konrad Scheffler, & Cathal Seoighe. (2008). Frequent Toggling between Alternative Amino Acids Is Driven by Selection in HIV-1. PLoS Pathogens. 4(12). e1000242–e1000242. 39 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, Konrad Scheffler, & Cathal Seoighe. (2008). Models of coding sequence evolution. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 10(1). 97–109. 58 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne & Van der Merwe. (2007). The transmission of Helicobacter pylori: The effects of analysis method and study population on inference. Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology. 21(2). 215–236. 33 indexed citations

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Ryan, Peter G., et al.. (2007). Ecological Speciation in South Atlantic Island Finches. Science. 315(5817). 1420–1423. 106 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, Timothy M. Crowe, Penn Lloyd, & Paulette Bloomer. (2006). Population Growth Confounds Phylogeographic Inference in Namaqua Sandgrouse. Journal of Heredity. 98(2). 158–164. 2 indexed citations

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Verbeeck, Jannick, Piet Maes, Philippe Lemey, et al.. (2006). Investigating the Origin and Spread of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 5a. Journal of Virology. 80(9). 4220–4226. 70 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, et al.. (2006). Ten microsatellite loci for evolutionary research on Nesospiza buntings. Molecular Ecology Notes. 6(4). 1180–1183. 5 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, Alan C. Kemp, & J. W. H. Ferguson. (2004). Structure of an African Red-Billed Hornbill (Tockus Erythrorhynchus Rufirostris and T. E. Damarensis) Hybrid Zone as Revealed by Morphology, Behavior, and Breeding Biology. The Auk. 121(2). 565–586. 4 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, Alan C. Kemp, & J. W. H. Ferguson. (2004). STRUCTURE OF AN AFRICAN RED-BILLED HORNBILL (TOCKUS ERYTHRORHYNCHUS RUFIROSTRIS AND T. E. DAMARENSIS) HYBRID ZONE AS REVEALED BY MORPHOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AND BREEDING BIOLOGY. The Auk. 121(2). 565–565. 4 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, J. W. H. Ferguson, & Paulette Bloomer. (2002). Characterization and Evolution of the Mitochondrial DNA Control Region in Hornbills (Bucerotiformes). Journal of Molecular Evolution. 54(6). 794–806. 32 indexed citations

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