Weston R. Whitaker

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Weston R. Whitaker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Weston R. Whitaker has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Weston R. Whitaker's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (3 papers). Weston R. Whitaker is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (3 papers). Weston R. Whitaker collaborates with scholars based in United States. Weston R. Whitaker's co-authors include Justin L. Sonnenburg, William C. DeLoache, Kali M. Pruss, John E. Dueber, Adam P. Arkin, Lei S. Qi, Julius B. Lucks, Yogesh Bhattarai, Eric Battaglioli and Nicholas C. Zachos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Weston R. Whitaker

9 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Gut Microbiota-Produced Tryptamine Activates an Epithelial G-Protein-Coupled Receptor to Increase Colonic Secretion

2018 310 citations Yogesh Bhattarai, Brianna B. Williams et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weston R. Whitaker United States	8	865	172	164	151	130	9	1.0k
Jan Peter van Pijkeren United States	9	567 0.7×	75 0.4×	323 2.0×	149 1.0×	66 0.5×	13	829
Elisa Deriu United States	6	565 0.7×	263 1.5×	296 1.8×	96 0.6×	44 0.3×	7	1.1k
Yiwen Cheng China	13	537 0.6×	122 0.7×	79 0.5×	110 0.7×	80 0.6×	23	809
Antonio Palomba Italy	16	800 0.9×	79 0.5×	148 0.9×	84 0.6×	27 0.2×	26	1.1k
Lan Lin China	8	532 0.6×	116 0.7×	96 0.6×	72 0.5×	46 0.4×	13	812
Swadha Anand India	10	658 0.8×	135 0.8×	83 0.5×	82 0.5×	24 0.2×	16	997
Chise Suzuki Japan	22	870 1.0×	88 0.5×	539 3.3×	139 0.9×	30 0.2×	85	1.5k
Justin L. McCarville Canada	17	730 0.8×	149 0.9×	158 1.0×	195 1.3×	504 3.9×	25	1.5k
Cristina Fraumene Italy	18	692 0.8×	59 0.3×	119 0.7×	180 1.2×	22 0.2×	24	1.1k
Chenchen Ma China	19	664 0.8×	69 0.4×	307 1.9×	89 0.6×	36 0.3×	49	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weston R. Whitaker

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All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Bhattarai, Yogesh, Brianna B. Williams, Eric Battaglioli, et al.. (2018). Gut Microbiota-Produced Tryptamine Activates an Epithelial G-Protein-Coupled Receptor to Increase Colonic Secretion. Cell Host & Microbe. 23(6). 775–785.e5. 310 indexed citations breakdown →

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DeLoache, William C., et al.. (2018). An exclusive metabolic niche enables strain engraftment in the gut microbiota. Nature. 557(7705). 434–438. 272 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Weston R., et al.. (2017). Tunable Expression Tools Enable Single-Cell Strain Distinction in the Gut Microbiome. Cell. 169(3). 538–546.e12. 159 indexed citations

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Hsiao, Victoria, Emmanuel L. C. de los Santos, Weston R. Whitaker, John E. Dueber, & Richard M. Murray. (2014). Design and Implementation of a Biomolecular Concentration Tracker. ACS Synthetic Biology. 4(2). 150–161. 69 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Weston R., Hanson Lee, Adam P. Arkin, & John E. Dueber. (2014). Avoidance of Truncated Proteins from Unintended Ribosome Binding Sites within Heterologous Protein Coding Sequences. ACS Synthetic Biology. 4(3). 249–257. 24 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Weston R.. (2012). Engineering Modular Post-Translational Control Strategies in Prokaryotes. Endoscopy. 29(5). S30–1. 1 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Weston R., et al.. (2012). Engineering robust control of two-component system phosphotransfer using modular scaffolds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(44). 18090–18095. 67 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Weston R. & John E. Dueber. (2011). Metabolic Pathway Flux Enhancement by Synthetic Protein Scaffolding. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 497. 447–468. 32 indexed citations

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Lucks, Julius B., Lei S. Qi, Weston R. Whitaker, & Adam P. Arkin. (2008). Toward scalable parts families for predictable design of biological circuits. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 11(6). 567–573. 94 indexed citations

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