William T. Kay

763 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 463 citations indexed

About

William T. Kay is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William T. Kay has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 463 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Plant Science, 6 papers in Cell Biology and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William T. Kay's work include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (6 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (4 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (3 papers). William T. Kay is often cited by papers focused on Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (6 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (4 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (3 papers). William T. Kay collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Netherlands. William T. Kay's co-authors include Helen N. Fones, Sarah J. Gurr, Gero Steinberg, Daniel P. Bebber, Thomas M. Chaloner, C. J. Eyles, Graham H. Thomas, Sreedhar Kilaru, Martin Schuster and Paul O’Neill and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS Pathogens, BMC Biology and Fungal Genetics and Biology.

In The Last Decade

William T. Kay

8 papers receiving 451 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens

2020 359 citations Helen N. Fones, Daniel P. Bebber et al. Nature Food profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William T. Kay United Kingdom	6	372	161	92	39	31	8	463
Muhammad Aamir Sohail China	11	323 0.9×	77 0.5×	118 1.3×	20 0.5×	42 1.4×	29	444
Ömür Baysal Türkiye	15	706 1.9×	277 1.7×	118 1.3×	53 1.4×	37 1.2×	57	795
Binnian Tian China	8	358 1.0×	87 0.5×	52 0.6×	34 0.9×	34 1.1×	21	411
Anita Haegi Italy	11	341 0.9×	184 1.1×	105 1.1×	27 0.7×	17 0.5×	32	426
Maja Ignjatov Serbia	15	627 1.7×	153 1.0×	150 1.6×	23 0.6×	28 0.9×	102	736
Jae-Wook Hyun South Korea	11	272 0.7×	176 1.1×	79 0.9×	38 1.0×	44 1.4×	34	352
Abdul Mubeen Lodhi Pakistan	11	431 1.2×	232 1.4×	110 1.2×	18 0.5×	25 0.8×	53	492
Monika Sood India	5	394 1.1×	160 1.0×	85 0.9×	25 0.6×	37 1.2×	7	465
Faheem Uddin Rajer China	8	310 0.8×	80 0.5×	91 1.0×	14 0.4×	24 0.8×	11	374
Stefania Vitale Italy	11	421 1.1×	95 0.6×	115 1.3×	44 1.1×	71 2.3×	22	527

Countries citing papers authored by William T. Kay

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of William T. Kay's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by William T. Kay with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites William T. Kay more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by William T. Kay

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by William T. Kay. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by William T. Kay. The network helps show where William T. Kay may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of William T. Kay

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

8 of 8 papers shown

1.

Thomas, Graham H., William T. Kay, & Helen N. Fones. (2024). Life on a leaf: the epiphyte to pathogen continuum and interplay in the phyllosphere. BMC Biology. 22(1). 168–168. 16 indexed citations

2.

Kay, William T., Paul O’Neill, Sarah J. Gurr, & Helen N. Fones. (2024). Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment. BMC Biology. 22(1). 265–265. 1 indexed citations

3.

Kay, William T., et al.. (2022). Multi-site fungicides suppress banana Panama disease, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4. PLoS Pathogens. 18(10). e1010860–e1010860. 16 indexed citations

4.

Fones, Helen N., Daniel P. Bebber, Thomas M. Chaloner, et al.. (2020). Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens. Nature Food. 1(6). 332–342. 359 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

Fones, Helen N., Daniel P. Bebber, Thomas M. Chaloner, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens. Nature Food. 1(7). 455–456. 7 indexed citations

6.

Kay, William T., Helen N. Fones, & Sarah J. Gurr. (2019). Rapid loss of virulence during submergence of Z. tritici asexual spores. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 128. 14–19. 2 indexed citations

7.

Kay, William T., Aaron R. Jeffries, Paul O’Neill, et al.. (2019). High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of the Causal Agent of the Current Panama Disease Epidemic. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 8(36). 9 indexed citations

8.

Fones, Helen N., et al.. (2017). A role for random, humidity-dependent epiphytic growth prior to invasion of wheat by Zymoseptoria tritici. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 106. 51–60. 53 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact