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Gerard D. Wright

Gerard D. Wright

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Microbiology
Canada
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
105
Citations
53337
World Ranking
307
National Ranking
7

Gerard D. Wright publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerard D. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 322 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Gerard D. Wright D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerard D. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Gerard D. Wright is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these broad fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Pharmacology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, notably Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Gerard D. Wright has published in a range of scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • mBio
  • Nature
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Their recent papers include the following:

  • The past, present, and future of antibiotics, 2022, Science Translational Medicine
  • Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture, 2020, mBio
  • Evolution-guided discovery of antibiotics that inhibit peptidoglycan remodelling, 2020, Nature
  • The Antibiotic Resistome: A Guide for the Discovery of Natural Products as Antimicrobial Agents, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Antibiotic Resistance by Enzymatic Modification of Antibiotic Targets, 2020, Trends in Molecular Medicine

Frequent collaborators of Wright include Kalinka Koteva, David Sychantha, Michael A. Cook, Leah E. Cowen, and Elizabeth Culp.

Best Publications

  • Antibiotic resistance—the need for global solutions

    Ramanan Laxminarayan;Ramanan Laxminarayan;Ramanan Laxminarayan;Adriano Duse;Chand Wattal;Anita K. M. Zaidi

  • Antibiotic resistance is ancient

    Vanessa M. D’Costa;Christine E. King;Lindsay Kalan;Mariya Morar

  • CARD 2017: expansion and model-centric curation of the comprehensive antibiotic resistance database

    Baofeng Jia;Amogelang R. Raphenya;Brian P. Alcock;Nicholas Waglechner

  • Antibacterial drug discovery in the resistance era

    Eric D. Brown;Gerard D. Wright

  • The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

    Andrew G. McArthur;Nicholas Waglechner;Fazmin Nizam;Austin Yan

  • Sampling the Antibiotic Resistome

    Vanessa M. D'Costa;Katherine M. McGrann;Donald W. Hughes;Gerard D. Wright

  • The antibiotic resistome: the nexus of chemical and genetic diversity

    Gerard D. Wright

  • Bacterial resistance to antibiotics: enzymatic degradation and modification.

    Gerard D Wright

  • Antibiotic resistance in the environment: a link to the clinic?

    Gerard D Wright

  • Antibiotic Resistance Is Prevalent in an Isolated Cave Microbiome

    Kirandeep Bhullar;Nicholas Waglechner;Andrew Pawlowski;Kalinka Koteva

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Molecular basis for vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium BM4147: biosynthesis of a depsipeptide peptidoglycan precursor by vancomycin resistance proteins VanH and VanA.

    Timothy D. H. Bugg;Gerard D. Wright;Sylvie Dutka-Malen;Michel Arthur

  • Intrinsic antibiotic resistance: Mechanisms, origins, challenges and solutions

    Georgina Cox;Gerard D. Wright

  • Drug combinations: a strategy to extend the life of antibiotics in the 21st century.

    Mike Tyers;Gerard D. Wright

  • Antibiotic Adjuvants: Rescuing Antibiotics from Resistance

    Gerard D. Wright

  • Aspergillomarasmine A overcomes metallo-β-lactamase antibiotic resistance

    Andrew M. King;Sarah A. Reid-Yu;Wenliang Wang;Dustin T. King

  • Combinations of antibiotics and nonantibiotic drugs enhance antimicrobial efficacy

    Linda Ejim;Maya A Farha;Shannon B Falconer;Jan Wildenhain

  • Bacterial resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics

    Julian Davies;Gerard D. Wright

  • The past, present, and future of antibiotics

    Unknown

  • Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture.

    Matthew C. Fisher;Sarah J. Gurr;Christina A. Cuomo;David S. Blehert

  • Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

    Gerard D. Wright

  • Streptogramins, Oxazolidinones, and Other Inhibitors of Bacterial Protein Synthesis

    Tariq A. Mukhtar;Gerard D. Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric D. Brown
Eric D. Brown McMaster University
Alexei Savchenko
Alexei Savchenko University of Calgary
Christopher T. Walsh
Christopher T. Walsh Stanford University
Mike Tyers
Mike Tyers University of Montreal
Andrew G. McArthur
Andrew G. McArthur McMaster University
Hendrik N. Poinar
Hendrik N. Poinar McMaster University
Lori L. Burrows
Lori L. Burrows McMaster University
Miguel A. Valvano
Miguel A. Valvano Queen's University Belfast
Brian K. Coombes
Brian K. Coombes McMaster University
Patrice Courvalin
Patrice Courvalin Institut Pasteur

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