William J. Griffiths

15.9k citations

281 papers · 10.8k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 56

Impact in

Spectroscopy top 0.2%
- Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
- Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
- Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
Biochemistry top 0.5%

Papers in

Spectroscopy 100
- Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications 79
- Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography 32
- Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications 27
Oncology 58
- Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms 54

Co-authors: Yuqin Wang Jan Sjövall Suya Liu F.M. Harris Gerhard Liebisch Harald Köfeler Peter J. Crick Thomas Perlmann
Journals: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (36 papers)Journal of Lipid Research (18 papers)Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (8 papers)Analytical Chemistry (8 papers)Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (7 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Sweden United States

In The Last Decade

William J. Griffiths

279 papers receiving 10.5k citations

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LIPID MAPS: update to databases and tools for the lipidomics community 2023 · 103 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nucleic Acids Research
2020 Journal of Lipid Research
2013 Journal of Lipid Research
2000 Science

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1	HSD3B1 is an oxysterol 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in human placenta Open Biology ·Alison L. Dickson, Eylan Yutuc, Catherine A. Thornton, James E. Dunford, Udo Oppermann, Yuqin Wang, William J. Griffiths	2023	4
2	LIPID MAPS: update to databases and tools for the lipidomics community Nucleic Acids Research ·M.J. Conroy, Robert Andrews, Simon Andrews, Lauren Cockayne, Edward A. Dennis, Eoin Fahy, Caroline Gaud, William J. Griffiths, Geoff Jukes, Maxim Kolchin, Karla Mendivelso, Andrea F. Lopez‐Clavijo, Caroline Ready, Shankar Subramaniam, Valerie B. O’Donnell Hit paper breakdown →	2023	103
3	Oxysterols protect bovine endometrial cells against pore‐forming toxins from pathogenic bacteria The FASEB Journal ·Thomas J. R. Ormsby, Siân E. Owens, Anthony D Horlock, Daphne Davies, William J. Griffiths, Yuqin Wang, J. Cronin, John J. Bromfield, I. Martin Sheldon	2021	7
4	Visualizing Cholesterol in the Brain by On-Tissue Derivatization and Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Imaging Analytical Chemistry ·Roberto Angelini, Eylan Yutuc, Mark F. Wyatt, Jillian Newton, Fowzi Adam Yusuf, Lauren Griffiths, Benjamin Cooze, Dana El Assad, Gilles Frache, Wei Rao, Luke B. Allen, Željka Korade, Thu T. A. Nguyen, Rathnayake A. C. Rathnayake, Stephanie M. Cologna, Owain W. Howell, Malcolm R. Clench, Yuqin Wang, William J. Griffiths	2021	46
5	Deep mining of oxysterols and cholestenoic acids in human plasma and cerebrospinal fluid: Quantification using isotope dilution mass spectrometry Analytica Chimica Acta ·Eylan Yutuc, Alison L. Dickson, Manuela Pacciarini, Lauren Griffiths, Paul R.S. Baker, Lisa Connell, Anders Öhman, Lars Forsgren, Miles Trupp, Sílvia Vilarinho, Youssef Khalil, Peter T. Clayton, Sinan Sarı, Buket Dalgıç, Philip Höflinger, Lüdger Schöls, William J. Griffiths, Yuqin Wang	2021	13
6	Metabolic profiling in serum, cerebrospinal fluid, and brain of patients with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis Journal of Lipid Research ·Philip Höflinger, Stefan Hauser, Eylan Yutuc, Holger Hengel, Lauren Griffiths, Florentine Radelfahr, Owain W. Howell, Yuqin Wang, Sonja L. Connor, P. Barton Duell, Andrea E. DeBarber, Peter Martus, Dieter Lütjohann, William J. Griffiths, Lüdger Schöls	2021	11
7	Bile acid biosynthesis in Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome bypassing cholesterol: Potential importance of pathway intermediates The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ·Jonas Abdel‐Khalik, Tom Hearn, Alison L. Dickson, Peter J. Crick, Eylan Yutuc, Karl Austin‐Muttitt, Brian Bigger, Andrew A. M. Morris, Cedric Shackleton, Peter T. Clayton, Takashi Iida, Ria Sircar, Rajat Rohatgi, Hanns–Ulrich Marschall, Jan Sjövall, Ingemar Björkhem, Jonathan G.L. Mullins, William J. Griffiths, Yuqin Wang	2020	12
8	Localization of sterols and oxysterols in mouse brain reveals distinct spatial cholesterol metabolism Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Eylan Yutuc, Roberto Angelini, Mark Baumert, Natalia Mast, Irina A. Pikuleva, Jillian Newton, Malcolm R. Clench, D. O. F. Skibinski, Owain W. Howell, Yuqin Wang, William J. Griffiths	2020	66
9	Update on LIPID MAPS classification, nomenclature, and shorthand notation for MS-derived lipid structures Journal of Lipid Research ·Gerhard Liebisch, Eoin Fahy, Junken Aoki, Edward A. Dennis, Thierry Durand, Christer S. Ejsing, Maria Fedorova, Ivo Feußner, William J. Griffiths, Harald Köfeler, Alfred H. Merrill, Robert C. Murphy, Valerie B. O’Donnell, Olga Oskolkova, Shankar Subramaniam, Michael J.O. Wakelam, Friedrich Spener Hit paper breakdown →	2020	518
10	Identification of 7α,24-dihydroxy-3-oxocholest-4-en-26-oic and 7α,25-dihydroxy-3-oxocholest-4-en-26-oic acids in human cerebrospinal fluid and plasma Biochimie ·Jonas Abdel‐Khalik, Peter J. Crick, Eylan Yutuc, Andrea E. DeBarber, P. Barton Duell, Robert D. Steiner, Ιωάννα Λαϊνά, Yuqin Wang, William J. Griffiths	2018	12
11	Comparison of the composition of bile acids in bile of patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas and benign disease The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ·David Owen Rees, Peter J. Crick, Gareth Jenkins, Yuqin Wang, William J. Griffiths, Tim Brown, Bilal Al‐Sarireh	2017	38
12	Analysis by liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry of sterols and oxysterols in brain of the newborn Dhcr7Δ3-5/T93M mouse: A model of Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome Biochemical Pharmacology ·Anna Meljon, Gordon Watson, Yuqin Wang, Cedric Shackleton, William J. Griffiths	2013	23
13	Targeted lipidomic analysis of oxysterols in the embryonic central nervous system Molecular BioSystems ·Yuqin Wang, Kyle M. Sousa, Karl Bodin, Spyridon Theofilopoulos, Paola Sacchetti, Martin Hornshaw, Gary Woffendin, Kersti Karu, Jan Sjövall, Ernest Arenas, William J. Griffiths	2009	37
14	Eoxins are proinflammatory arachidonic acid metabolites produced via the 15-lipoxygenase-1 pathway in human eosinophils and mast cells Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Stina Feltenmark, Narinder Gautam, Åsa Brunnström, William J. Griffiths, Linda Backman, Charlotte Edenius, Lennart Lindbom, Magnus Björkholm, Hans‐Erik Claesson	2008	137
15	Mass spectrometry for metabolite identification Cronfa (Swansea University) ·William J. Griffiths	2007	6
16	Steroids, sterols and the nervous system Cronfa (Swansea University) ·William J. Griffiths	2007	4
17	Capillary liquid chromatography combined with tandem mass spectrometry for the study of neurosteroids and oxysterols in brain Neurochemistry International ·Yuqin Wang, William J. Griffiths	2007	19
18	Comparative Cytochrome P450 Proteomics in the Livers of Immunodeficient Mice Using 18O Stable Isotope Labeling Molecular & Cellular Proteomics ·Catherine Lane, Yuqin Wang, Richard J. Betts, William J. Griffiths, Laurence H. Patterson	2007	46
19	Identification of variant forms of the neuroendocrine peptide galanin Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·Åke Norberg, William J. Griffiths, Lars Hjelmqvist, Hans Jörnvall, Åke Rökaeus	2004	1
20	Characterisation of alpha-1 giardin: an immunodominant Giardia lamblia annexin with glycosaminoglycan-binding activity International Journal for Parasitology ·Malin Weiland, Joy Palm, William J. Griffiths, J. Michael McCaffery, Staffan G. Svärd	2003	77

About William J. Griffiths

William J. Griffiths is a scholar working on Spectroscopy, Oncology, Surgery, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, having authored 281 papers that have together received 10.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (79 papers), Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (79 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (54 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (37 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (34 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (32 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (27 papers) and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (23 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Spectroscopy (2.5k citations), Biochemistry (816 citations), Molecular Biology (5.7k citations), Surgery (2.3k citations) and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (866 citations). William J. Griffiths has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Frequent co-authors include Yuqin Wang, Jan Sjövall, Suya Liu, F.M. Harris, Gerhard Liebisch, Harald Köfeler, Peter J. Crick, Thomas Perlmann, Alexander Mata de Urquiza and Michael J.O. Wakelam. Their work appears in journals such as Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Lipid Research, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Analytical Chemistry and Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

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