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W. Ford Doolittle

Active 1968–2024

117
Papers
25,919
Citations
90
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Citations

Citations per year for W. Ford Doolittle1944: 1 citations1968: 1 citations1969: 4 citations1970: 1 citations1971: 2 citations1972: 1 citations1973: 1 citations1974: 3 citations1975: 3 citations1976: 4 citations1977: 9 citations1978: 3 citations1979: 8 citations1980: 23 citations1981: 29 citations1982: 37 citations1983: 33 citations1984: 30 citations1985: 37 citations1986: 29 citations1987: 48 citations1988: 26 citations1989: 46 citations1990: 33 citations1991: 35 citations1992: 45 citations1993: 24 citations1994: 37 citations1995: 55 citations1996: 60 citations1997: 110 citations1998: 193 citations1999: 262 citations2000: 292 citations2001: 258 citations2002: 320 citations2003: 370 citations2004: 307 citations2005: 383 citations2006: 328 citations2007: 320 citations2008: 283 citations2009: 308 citations2010: 266 citations2011: 269 citations2012: 241 citations2013: 227 citations2014: 262 citations2015: 203 citations2016: 175 citations2017: 131 citations2018: 106 citations2019: 310 citations2020: 346 citations2021: 322 citations2022: 229 citations2023: 123 citations2024: 221 citations2025: 90 citations2026: 3 citations1945–1967: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,416 citing papers, 30.1% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 640 citing papers, 8% of this breakdownCanada: 615 citing papers, 7.7% of this breakdownGermany: 605 citing papers, 7.5% of this breakdownFrance: 491 citing papers, 6.1% of this breakdownChina: 338 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownSpain: 259 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownAustralia: 230 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownJapan: 208 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownItaly: 180 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 168 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownSweden: 162 citing papers, 2% of this breakdown
0%30.1%Other 21.4%

Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology62.9%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
  • Environmental Science10%
  • Medicine3.8%
  • Immunology and Microbiology3.6%
  • Neuroscience1.9%
  • Other7.5%

Topics

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies12.9%
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology5.9%
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms5.2%
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny4.7%
  • Gut microbiota and health3%
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations2.7%
  • Other65.6%

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  1. Differences between Tissue-Associated Intestinal Microfloras of Patients with Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    Authors: Uri Gophna, Katrin Sommerfeld, Sharon Gophna, W. Ford Doolittle, S. J. O. Veldhuyzen van Zanten - Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2006 cited by 555

  2. Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle - Science 1999 cited by 1,910

  3. It’s the song, not the singer: an exploration of holobiosis and evolutionary theory

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle, Austin Booth - Biology & Philosophy 2016 cited by 230

  4. Selfish genes, the phenotype paradigm and genome evolution

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle, Carmen Sapienza - Nature 1980 cited by 1,849

  5. Use of 16S rRNA and rpoB Genes as Molecular Markers for Microbial Ecology Studies

    Authors: Rebecca J. Case, Yan Boucher, Ingela Dahllöf, Carola Holmström, W. Ford Doolittle, Staffan Kjelleberg - Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2006 cited by 604

  6. Irremediable Complexity?

    Authors: Michael W. Gray, Julius Lukeš, John M. Archibald, Patrick J. Keeling, W. Ford Doolittle - Science 2010 cited by 242

  7. Processes and patterns of interaction as units of selection: An introduction to ITSNTS thinking

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle, S. Andrew Inkpen - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018 cited by 184

  8. Prokaryotic Evolution in Light of Gene Transfer

    Authors: J. Peter Gogarten, W. Ford Doolittle, Jeffrey G. Lawrence - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2002 cited by 998

  9. You are what you eat: a gene transfer ratchet could account for bacterial genes in eukaryotic nuclear genomes

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle - Trends in Genetics 1998 cited by 600

  10. Tempo, mode, the progenote, and the universal root.

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle, James R. Brown - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1994 cited by 204

  11. Is junk DNA bunk? A critique of ENCODE

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 cited by 429

  12. Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle, Éric Bapteste - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 cited by 542

  13. Transformation methods for halophilic archaebacteria

    Authors: Steven W. Cline, Wan L. Lam, Robert L. Charlebois, Leonard C. Schalkwyk, W. Ford Doolittle - Canadian Journal of Microbiology 1989 cited by 298

  14. How big is the iceberg of which organellar genes in nuclear genomes are but the tip?

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle, Yan Boucher, Camilla Nesbø, Christophe J. Douady, Jan O. Andersson, Andrew J. Roger - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2003 cited by 213

  15. Distinguishing between "Function" and "Effect" in Genome Biology

    Authors: W. Ford Doolittle, T. D. P. Brunet, Stefan Linquist, T. Ryan Gregory - Genome Biology and Evolution 2014 cited by 100

  16. A Kingdom-Level Phylogeny of Eukaryotes Based on Combined Protein Data

    Authors: Sandra L. Baldauf, Andrew J. Roger, I. Wenk-Siefert, W. Ford Doolittle - Science 2000 cited by 1,175

  17. The genome of Salinibacter ruber : Convergence and gene exchange among hyperhalophilic bacteria and archaea

    Authors: Emmanuel F. Mongodin, William Nelson, S. Daugherty, Robert T. DeBoy, J. Wister, Hoda Khouri, Janice F. Weidman, David A. Walsh, R. Thane Papke, Gabino Sanchez‐Perez, Adrian K. Sharma, Camilla Nesbø, D. P. MacLeod, Éric Bapteste, W. Ford Doolittle, Robert L. Charlebois, Boris Legault, Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2005 cited by 314

  18. Microbial rhodopsins: functional versatility and genetic mobility

    Authors: Adrian K. Sharma, John L. Spudich, W. Ford Doolittle - Trends in Microbiology 2006 cited by 213

  19. How a neutral evolutionary ratchet can build cellular complexity

    Authors: Julius Lukeš, John M. Archibald, Patrick J. Keeling, W. Ford Doolittle, Michael W. Gray - IUBMB Life 2011 cited by 197

  20. Eukaryogenesis, how special really?

    Authors: Austin Booth, W. Ford Doolittle - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015 cited by 121

  21. Root of the universal tree of life based on ancient aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase gene duplications.

    Authors: James R. Brown, W. Ford Doolittle - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1995 cited by 381

  22. Phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacterial genomes: Quantification of horizontal gene transfer events

    Authors: Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Robert L. Charlebois, W. Ford Doolittle, R. Thane Papke - Genome Research 2006 cited by 331

  23. Alpha-tubulin from early-diverging eukaryotic lineages and the evolution of the tubulin family

    Authors: Patrick J. Keeling, W. Ford Doolittle - Molecular Biology and Evolution 1996 cited by 313

  24. The root of the universal tree and the origin of eukaryotes based on elongation factor phylogeny.

    Authors: Sandra L. Baldauf, Jeffrey D. Palmer, W. Ford Doolittle - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1996 cited by 273