William S. Mason

12.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
104 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

William S. Mason is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Animal Science and Zoology and Hepatology. According to data from OpenAlex, William S. Mason has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Epidemiology, 42 papers in Animal Science and Zoology and 37 papers in Hepatology. Recurrent topics in William S. Mason's work include Hepatitis B Virus Studies (68 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (42 papers) and Hepatitis C virus research (35 papers). William S. Mason is often cited by papers focused on Hepatitis B Virus Studies (68 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (42 papers) and Hepatitis C virus research (35 papers). William S. Mason collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. William S. Mason's co-authors include Jesse Summers, Christoph Seeger, Carol E. Aldrich, John M. Taylor, Allison R. Jilbert, Jeffry Saputelli, Samuel Litwin, Laura C. Coates, Lynn D. Condreay and Peter K. Vogt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William S. Mason

104 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

Replication of the genome of a hepatitis B-like virus by reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate

1982 1.2k citations Jesse Summers, William S. Mason profile →
Hepatitis B Virus Biology

2000 1.2k citations Christoph Seeger, William S. Mason profile →
miR-122, a Mammalian Liver-Specific microRNA, is Processed from hcr mRNA and MayDownregulate the High Affinity Cationic Amino Acid Transporter CAT-1

2004 696 citations William S. Mason, John M. Taylor et al. profile →
Molecular biology of hepatitis B virus infection

2015 633 citations Christoph Seeger, William S. Mason Virology profile →
Virus of Pekin ducks with structural and biological relatedness to human hepatitis B virus

1980 402 citations William S. Mason, Jesse Summers et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William S. Mason United States	47	7.7k	5.3k	2.4k	2.2k	1.4k	104	10.0k
Jesse Summers United States	48	6.9k 0.9×	4.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	75	9.0k
John L. Gerin United States	60	10.6k 1.4×	8.0k 1.5×	3.2k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	209	12.7k
Christoph Seeger United States	38	5.6k 0.7×	4.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	564 0.4×	61	7.1k
Brett D. Lindenbach United States	40	4.7k 0.6×	4.9k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	539 0.4×	71	10.5k
Jens Bukh Denmark	68	11.9k 1.5×	13.9k 2.6×	3.0k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	261	17.6k
Volker Lohmann Germany	62	7.8k 1.0×	10.2k 1.9×	2.2k 0.9×	3.3k 1.5×	989 0.7×	129	13.7k
Ju‐Tao Guo United States	53	5.3k 0.7×	4.1k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	378 0.3×	120	8.3k
Michael M. C. Lai United States	48	2.6k 0.3×	2.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	104	6.5k
Glenn Randall United States	36	2.4k 0.3×	1.5k 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	2.6k 1.2×	411 0.3×	66	6.9k
Shahid Jameel India	52	1.9k 0.2×	5.1k 1.0×	4.3k 1.8×	1.2k 0.6×	306 0.2×	127	7.7k

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Magnius, Lars O., William S. Mason, John M. Taylor, et al.. (2020). ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Hepadnaviridae. Journal of General Virology. 101(6). 571–572. 55 indexed citations

Dolman, Grace, Apostolos Koffas, William S. Mason, & Patrick Kennedy. (2018). Why, who and when to start treatment for chronic hepatitis B infection. Current Opinion in Virology. 30. 39–47. 19 indexed citations

Seeger, Christoph & William S. Mason. (2015). Molecular biology of hepatitis B virus infection. Virology. 479-480. 672–686. 633 indexed citations breakdown →

Mason, William S.. (2015). Animal Models and the Molecular Biology of Hepadnavirus Infection. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 5(4). a021352–a021352. 25 indexed citations

Thorpe, Michael, et al.. (2013). Duck hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA appears to survive hepatocyte mitosis in the growing liver. Virology. 446(1-2). 357–364. 32 indexed citations

Mason, William S., et al.. (2010). The persistence in the liver of residual duck hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA is not dependent upon new viral DNA synthesis. Virology. 406(2). 286–292. 26 indexed citations

Mason, William S., Sam Litwin, & Allison R. Jilbert. (2007). Immune selection during chronic hepadnavirus infection. Hepatology International. 2(1). 3–16. 23 indexed citations

Mason, William S., Samuel Litwin, Chunxiao Xu, & Allison R. Jilbert. (2007). Hepatocyte turnover in transient and chronic hepadnavirus infections. Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 14(s1). 22–28. 42 indexed citations

Guo, Haitao, Carol E. Aldrich, Jeffry Saputelli, Chunxiao Xu, & William S. Mason. (2006). The insertion domain of the duck hepatitis B virus core protein plays a role in nucleocapsid assembly. Virology. 353(2). 443–450. 14 indexed citations

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Mason, William S., Allison R. Jilbert, & Jesse Summers. (2005). Clonal expansion of hepatocytes during chronic woodchuck hepatitis virus infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(4). 1139–1144. 75 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yuao, John M. Cullen, Carol E. Aldrich, et al.. (2004). Adenovirus-based gene therapy during clevudine treatment of woodchucks chronically infected with woodchuck hepatitis virus. Virology. 327(1). 26–40. 17 indexed citations

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Evans, Alison A., Anna P. O’Connell, J C Pugh, et al.. (1998). Geographic variation in viral load among hepatitis B carriers with differing risks of hepatocellular carcinoma.. PubMed. 7(7). 559–65. 61 indexed citations

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Mason, William S., John M. Cullen, Gloria Moraleda, et al.. (1998). Lamivudine Therapy of WHV-Infected Woodchucks. Virology. 245(1). 18–32. 132 indexed citations

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Summers, Jesse, et al.. (1997). Major Differences between WHV and HBV in the Regulation of Transcription. Virology. 229(1). 25–35. 26 indexed citations

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Seeger, Christoph & William S. Mason. (1996). 29 Replication of the Hepatitis Virus Genome. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 31. 815–831. 2 indexed citations

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Mason, William S.. (1993). The problem of antiviral therapy for chronic hepadnavirus infections. Journal of Hepatology. 17. S137–S142. 14 indexed citations

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Condreay, Lynn D., Tsung‐Teh Wu, Carol E. Aldrich, et al.. (1992). Replication of DHBV genomes with mutations at the sites of initiation of minus- and plus-strand DNA synthesis. Virology. 188(1). 208–216. 36 indexed citations

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Mason, William S. & John M. Taylor. (1989). Experimental systems for the study of hepadnavirus and hepatitis delta virus infections. Hepatology. 9(4). 635–645. 44 indexed citations

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Aldrich, Carol E., Laura C. Coates, Tsung‐Teh Wu, et al.. (1989). In Vitro infection of woodchuck hepatocytes with woodchuck hepatitis virus and ground squirrel hepatitis virus. Virology. 172(1). 247–252. 44 indexed citations

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Mason, William S., et al.. (1980). The induction of antibody reactivity to endogenous viral glycoprotein in 15l5 × 72 [chf(+), V(+)] chickens. Virology. 100(2). 488–491. 3 indexed citations

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