Andrew E. Firth

13.5k citations

137 papers · 9.1k · 2 hit papers · h-index 52

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Endocrinology top 0.5%
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
Infectious Diseases top 0.5%
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

Papers in

Molecular Biology 52
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 40
- RNA modifications and cancer 17
Plant Science 46
- Plant Virus Research Studies 45

Co-authors: John F. Atkins (34 shared papers)Betty Chung (10 shared papers)Ian Brierley (17 shared papers)Wayne M. Patrick (5 shared papers)W. Allen Miller (2 shared papers)Bradley J. Blitvich (8 shared papers)Pavel V. Baranov (9 shared papers)Norma M. Wills (7 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of General Virology (15 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (13 papers)Journal of Virology (11 papers)Virology (10 papers)Virology Journal (10 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Ireland

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Andrew E. Firth

134 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Andrew E. Firth's Hit Papers

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An Overlapping Protein-Coding Region in Influenza A Virus Segment 3 Modulates the Host Response 2012 · 497 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.

2012 Science
2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	An overlapping essential gene in the Potyviridae Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Betty Chung, W. Allen Miller, John F. Atkins, Andrew E. Firth Hit paper breakdown →	2008	723
2	An Overlapping Protein-Coding Region in Influenza A Virus Segment 3 Modulates the Host Response Science ·Brett W. Jagger, Helen Wise, John C. Kash, Kathie‐Anne Walters, Norma M. Wills, Yongli Xiao, Rebecca L. Dunfee, Louis M. Schwartzman, Adrian Ozinsky, Gwynneth L. Bell, Rosa M. Dalton, Acy Lo, Stacey Efstathiou, John F. Atkins, Andrew E. Firth, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Paul Digard Hit paper breakdown →	2012	497
3	Non-canonical translation in RNA viruses Journal of General Virology ·Andrew E. Firth, Ian Brierley	2012	366
4	Efficient −2 frameshifting by mammalian ribosomes to synthesize an additional arterivirus protein Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yīng Fāng, Emmely E. Treffers, Yànhuá Lǐ, Ali Taş, Zhi Sun, Yvonne van der Meer, Arnoud H. de Ru, Peter A. van Veelen, John F. Atkins, Eric J. Snijder, Andrew E. Firth	2012	259
5	Discovery of a small arterivirus gene that overlaps the GP5 coding sequence and is important for virus production Journal of General Virology ·Andrew E. Firth, Jessika C. Zevenhoven-Dobbe, Norma M. Wills, Yun Young Go, Udeni B. R. Balasuriya, John F. Atkins, Eric J. Snijder, Clara C. Posthuma	2011	255
6	Insect-Specific Flaviviruses: A Systematic Review of Their Discovery, Host Range, Mode of Transmission, Superinfection Exclusion Potential and Genomic Organization Viruses ·Bradley J. Blitvich, Andrew E. Firth	2015	249
7	Ribosomal frameshifting and transcriptional slippage: From genetic steganography and cryptography to adventitious use Nucleic Acids Research ·John F. Atkins, Gary Loughran, Pramod R. Bhatt, Andrew E. Firth, Pavel V. Baranov	2016	231
8	GLUE-IT and PEDEL-AA: new programmes for analyzing protein diversity in randomized libraries Nucleic Acids Research ·Andrew E. Firth, Wayne M. Patrick	2008	217
9	An RNA thermoswitch regulates daytime growth in Arabidopsis Nature Plants ·Betty Chung, Martin Balcerowicz, Marco Di Antonio, Katja E. Jaeger, Feng Geng, Krzysztof Franaszek, Poppy Marriott, Ian Brierley, Andrew E. Firth, Philip A. Wigge	2020	204
10	Transcriptional slippage in the positive‐sense RNA virus family Potyviridae EMBO Reports ·Allan Olspert, Betty Chung, John F. Atkins, John P. Carr, Andrew E. Firth	2015	183
11	Identification of a Novel Splice Variant Form of the Influenza A Virus M2 Ion Channel with an Antigenically Distinct Ectodomain PLoS Pathogens ·Helen Wise, Edward Hutchinson, Brett W. Jagger, Amanda D. Stuart, Zi Kang, Nicole C. Robb, Louis M. Schwartzman, John C. Kash, Ervin Fodor, Andrew E. Firth, Julia R. Gog, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Paul Digard	2012	183
12	Identification of evolutionarily conserved non-AUG-initiated N-terminal extensions in human coding sequences Nucleic Acids Research ·Ivaylo P. Ivanov, Andrew E. Firth, Audrey M. Michel, John F. Atkins, Pavel V. Baranov	2011	180
13	Detection of a Fourth Orbivirus Non-Structural Protein PLoS ONE ·Mourad Belhouchet, Fauziah Mohd Jaafar, Andrew E. Firth, Jonathan M. Grimes, Peter Mertens, Houssam Attoui	2011	176
14	Effect of 5'UTR introns on gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. PubMed ·(unknown), (unknown), Andrew E. Firth, Chris M. Brown, Roger P. Hellens	2006	172
15	Optical and Radio Observations of the Afterglow from GRB 990510: Evidence for a Jet The Astrophysical Journal ·Fiona A. Harrison, J. S. Bloom, D. A. Frail, Re’em Sari, S. R. Kulkarni, S. G. Djorgovski, T. S. Axelrod, J. R. Mould, B. Schmidt, M. H. Wieringa, R. M. Wark, R. Subrahmanyan, D. McConnell, Patrick J. McCarthy, Bradley E. Schaefer, R. G. McMahon, R. O. Markze, Andrew E. Firth, P. Soffitta, L. Amati	1999	152
16	NS1′ of Flaviviruses in the Japanese Encephalitis Virus Serogroup Is a Product of Ribosomal Frameshifting and Plays a Role in Viral Neuroinvasiveness Journal of Virology ·Ezequiel Balmori Melian, Edward Hinzman, Tomoko Nagasaki, Andrew E. Firth, Norma M. Wills, Amanda Nouwens, Bradley J. Blitvich, Jason Y. Leung, Anneke Funk, John F. Atkins, Roy A. Hall, Alexander A. Khromykh	2009	150
17	High-Resolution Analysis of Coronavirus Gene Expression by RNA Sequencing and Ribosome Profiling PLoS Pathogens ·Nerea Irigoyen, Andrew E. Firth, Joshua D. Jones, Betty Chung, Stuart G. Siddell, Ian Brierley	2016	147
18	Observation of dually decoded regions of the human genome using ribosome profiling data Genome Research ·Audrey M. Michel, Kingshuk Roy Choudhury, Andrew E. Firth, Nicholas T. Ingolia, John F. Atkins, Pavel V. Baranov	2012	146
19	Discovery of a Small Non-AUG-Initiated ORF in Poleroviruses and Luteoviruses That Is Required for Long-Distance Movement PLoS Pathogens ·Ekaterina Smirnova, Andrew E. Firth, W. Allen Miller, Danièle Scheidecker, Véronique Brault, Catherine Reinbold, Aurélie M. Rakotondrafara, Betty Chung, Véronique Ziegler‐Graff	2015	139
20	User-friendly algorithms for estimating completeness and diversity in randomized protein-encoding libraries Protein Engineering Design and Selection ·Wayne M. Patrick, Andrew E. Firth, Jonathan M. Blackburn	2003	135

About Andrew E. Firth

Andrew E. Firth is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Infectious Diseases, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Insect Science, having authored 137 papers that have together received 9.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Virus Research Studies (45 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (40 papers), Viral Infections and Immunology Research (26 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (24 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (20 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (19 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (18 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Endocrinology (882 citations), Infectious Diseases (2.4k citations), Animal Science and Zoology (1.1k citations), Insect Science (1.0k citations) and Plant Science (2.6k citations). Andrew E. Firth has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include John F. Atkins, Betty Chung, Ian Brierley, Wayne M. Patrick, W. Allen Miller, Bradley J. Blitvich, Pavel V. Baranov, Norma M. Wills, Chris M. Brown and Gary Loughran. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of General Virology, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Virology, Virology and Virology Journal.

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