William Connors

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

William Connors is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, William Connors has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Infectious Diseases, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in William Connors's work include Enzyme-mediated dye degradation (5 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (5 papers) and Lignin and Wood Chemistry (5 papers). William Connors is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme-mediated dye degradation (5 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (5 papers) and Lignin and Wood Chemistry (5 papers). William Connors collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. William Connors's co-authors include T. Kent Kirk, J. G. Zeikus, Eric T. Schultz, Linda F. Lorenz, John C. Pew, R.K. Ralph, Joseph L. McCarthy, Simo Sarkanen, Knut Lundquist and H. Gobind Khorana and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

William Connors

29 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Influence of culture parameters on lignin metabolism byPhanerochaete chrysosporium

1978 937 citations T. Kent Kirk, Eric T. Schultz et al. Archives of Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Connors United States	14	1.2k	733	600	354	305	31	2.0k
C. Adinarayana Reddy United States	23	843 0.7×	282 0.4×	474 0.8×	259 0.7×	269 0.9×	44	1.5k
Dirk Wesenberg Germany	16	1.6k 1.3×	258 0.4×	751 1.3×	370 1.0×	338 1.1×	21	2.4k
Manuel Hernández Spain	23	847 0.7×	573 0.8×	633 1.1×	146 0.4×	224 0.7×	54	1.7k
Anne‐Marie Farnet France	22	687 0.6×	222 0.3×	355 0.6×	206 0.6×	164 0.5×	79	1.5k
Valeria Prigione Italy	26	831 0.7×	187 0.3×	288 0.5×	472 1.3×	204 0.7×	68	1.9k
Javad Hamedi Iran	23	346 0.3×	265 0.4×	240 0.4×	151 0.4×	582 1.9×	101	1.5k
Robin Lockington Australia	28	430 0.3×	397 0.5×	143 0.2×	614 1.7×	968 3.2×	40	1.9k
Tushar Kanti Maiti India	26	1.3k 1.0×	253 0.3×	194 0.3×	461 1.3×	431 1.4×	63	2.2k
Bikash Chandra Behera India	17	487 0.4×	369 0.5×	234 0.4×	139 0.4×	387 1.3×	39	1.4k
Hang Min China	22	569 0.5×	192 0.3×	83 0.1×	540 1.5×	667 2.2×	58	1.8k

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Cook, Victoria J., et al.. (2025). Bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, and moxifloxacin treatment for multi-drug resistant extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Canada: a report. Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada. 10(2). 203–208. 1 indexed citations

Zhanel, George G., Michael H. Silverman, Melanie Baxter, et al.. (2024). Real-life experience with IV dalbavancin in Canada; results from the CLEAR (Canadian LEadership on Antimicrobial Real-life usage) registry. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 38. 154–157. 6 indexed citations

Connors, William, et al.. (2023). Tuberculous monoarthritis of the knee joint. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 195(22). E782–E785.

Connors, William, et al.. (2023). Novel six-month all oral treatment of pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Canada: New treatment options present new implementation challenges. Canada Communicable Disease Report. 49(1). 15–20. 2 indexed citations

Dogherty, Elizabeth J., et al.. (2022). Self-injecting non-prescribed substances into vascular access devices: a case study of one health system’s ongoing journey from clinical concern to practice and policy response. Harm Reduction Journal. 19(1). 130–130.

Connors, William, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of Benzothiazinones from Benzoyl Thiocarbamates: Application to Clinical Candidates for Tuberculosis Treatment. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2022(34). 3 indexed citations

Connors, William, et al.. (2022). Chapter 7: Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. Canadian Journal of Respiratory Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. 6(sup1). 87–108. 4 indexed citations

Connors, William, et al.. (2019). Program-wide review and follow-up of erythema Induratum of Bazin and tuberculosis-associated ocular inflammation management in a TB low-incidence setting: need for improved treatment candidate selection, therapy standardization, and care collaboration. BMC Infectious Diseases. 19(1). 97–97. 4 indexed citations

Connors, William, et al.. (2017). Homeless shelter context and tuberculosis illness experiences during a large outbreak in Atlanta, Georgia. Public Health Action. 7(3). 224–230. 7 indexed citations

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Connors, William, et al.. (2017). Acute dental infections managed in an outpatient parenteral antibiotic program setting: prospective analysis and public health implications. BMC Infectious Diseases. 17(1). 202–202. 12 indexed citations

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Connors, William, Hartmut B. Krentz, & M. John Gill. (2017). Healthcare contacts among patients lost to follow-up in HIV care: review of a large regional cohort utilizing electronic health records. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 28(13). 1275–1281. 5 indexed citations

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Connors, William, et al.. (2016). Resident-driven Quality Improvement Pre-post Intervention Targeting Reduction of Emergency Department Decision to Admit Time. 11(2). 14–20. 1 indexed citations

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Connors, William, et al.. (2014). Lymphomatoid granulomatosis associated with azathioprine therapy in Crohn disease. BMC Gastroenterology. 14(1). 127–127. 12 indexed citations

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Maheshwary, Shruti, et al.. (2005). Molecular details of quinolone-DNA interactions: solution structure of an unusually stable DNA duplex with covalently linked nalidixic acid residues and non-covalent complexes derived from it. Nucleic Acids Research. 33(15). 4838–4848. 19 indexed citations

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Kirk, T. Kent, Eric T. Schultz, William Connors, Linda F. Lorenz, & J. G. Zeikus. (1978). Influence of culture parameters on lignin metabolism byPhanerochaete chrysosporium. Archives of Microbiology. 117(3). 277–285. 937 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kirk, T. Kent, William Connors, & J. G. Zeikus. (1976). Requirement for a Growth Substrate During Lignin Decomposition by Two Wood-Rotting Fungi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 32(1). 192–194. 231 indexed citations

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Connors, William, Chen-Loung Chen, & John C. Pew. (1970). Enzymic dehydrogenation of the lignin model coniferaldehyde. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 35(6). 1920–1924. 28 indexed citations

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Connors, William, et al.. (1969). Carbonyl compounds from dehydrogenation of p-cresol. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 34(10). 2966–2971. 14 indexed citations

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Pew, John C. & William Connors. (1967). New Structures from the Dehydrogenation of Model Compounds related to Lignin. Nature. 215(5101). 623–625. 10 indexed citations

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Ralph, R.K., William Connors, Heinz Schaller, & H. G. Khorana. (1963). Studies on Polynucleotides. XVIII.¹ Experiments on the Polymerization of Mononucleotides. The Synthesis and Characterization of Deoxyguanosine Oligonucleotides². Journal of the American Chemical Society. 85(13). 1983–1988. 43 indexed citations

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