William Colgan

820 total citations
3 papers, 20 citations indexed

About

William Colgan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William Colgan has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 20 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Ecology and 1 paper in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in William Colgan's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (1 paper), Cellular transport and secretion (1 paper) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (1 paper). William Colgan is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (1 paper), Cellular transport and secretion (1 paper) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (1 paper). William Colgan collaborates with scholars based in United States and Israel. William Colgan's co-authors include Joseph F. Ryan, Melissa B. DeBiasse, Matthew S. Dreier, Brad Davidson, Luke W. Koblan, Dian Yang, Jonathan S. Weissman, Dawei Sun, Can Ergen and Reuben A. Saunders and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS Biology and Genome Biology and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

William Colgan

3 papers receiving 20 citations

Peers

William Colgan
Comparison fields: 5 of 21
  • Global and Planetary Change 11
  • Molecular Biology 10
  • Ocean Engineering 6
  • Paleontology 2
  • Biotechnology 2
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Countries citing papers authored by William Colgan

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Colgan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Colgan

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

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