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2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
105
Citations
37360
World Ranking
316
National Ranking
7

Molecular Biology

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Citations
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Jeff Errington 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 Jeff Errington sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 271 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jeff Errington 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 Jeff Errington 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 Australia Leader Award
  • 2021 - Australian Laureate Fellowship
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Jeff Errington is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, contributing extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields, with significant publications in molecular biology, genetics, ecology, pharmacology, and plant science.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including bacterial genetics and biotechnology, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, biochemical and molecular research, and enzyme production and characterization.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Jeff Errington include:

  • Microbe Profile: Bacillus subtilis: model organism for cellular development, and industrial workhorse, 2020, Microbiology
  • Regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis and remodelling, 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Antibiotic tolerance, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • On the mechanisms of lysis triggered by perturbations of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis, 2023, Nature Communications
  • CTP regulates membrane-binding activity of the nucleoid occlusion protein Noc, 2021, Molecular Cell

Frequent co-authors working alongside Jeff Errington include Ling Juan Wu, Yousef Dashti, Bernhard Kepplinger, Nick Allenby, and Yoshikazu Kawai.

Common publication venues where Errington's work appears most frequently are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Microbiology, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and ACS Infectious Diseases.

Among the honors received, Jeff Errington has been awarded the Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2021. They were also named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2003, and have been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom, and as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis

    F. Kunst;N. Ogasawara;I. Moszer;A. M. Albertini

  • Essential Bacillus subtilis genes

    K. Kobayashi;S.D. Ehrlich;A. Albertini;G. Amati

  • Control of Cell Shape in Bacteria: Helical, Actin-like Filaments in Bacillus subtilis

    Laura J.F. Jones;Rut Carballido-López;Jeffery Errington

  • Bacterial cell division: assembly, maintenance and disassembly of the Z ring

    David W. Adams;Jeff Errington

  • Regulation of endospore formation in Bacillus subtilis

    Jeff Errington

  • Bacillus subtilis sporulation: regulation of gene expression and control of morphogenesis.

    J Errington

  • Control of Cell Morphogenesis in Bacteria: Two Distinct Ways to Make a Rod-Shaped Cell

    Richard A. Daniel;Jeff Errington

  • Cytokinesis in Bacteria

    Jeffery Errington;Richard A. Daniel;Dirk-Jan Scheffers

  • Regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis and remodelling.

    Alexander J F Egan;Jeff Errington;Waldemar Vollmer

  • An Inhibitor of Ftsz with Potent and Selective Anti-Staphylococcal Activity.

    David J. Haydon;Neil R. Stokes;Rebecca Ure;Greta Galbraith

  • Coordination of cell division and chromosome segregation by a nucleoid occlusion protein in Bacillus subtilis.

    Ling Juan Wu;Jeff Errington

  • Bacillus subtilis spoIIIE protein required for DNA segregation during asymmetric cell division

    Ling Juan Wu;Jeffery Errington

  • Dynamic, mitotic-like behavior of a bacterial protein required for accurate chromosome partitioning.

    P Glaser;M E Sharpe;B Raether;M Perego

  • Localisation of DivIVA by targeting to negatively curved membranes

    Rok Lenarcic;Sven Halbedel;Loek Visser;Michael W. Shaw

  • The Bacillus subtilis DivIVA protein targets to the division septum and controls the site specificity of cell division

    David H. Edwards;Jeffery Errington

  • Recruitment of condensin to replication origin regions by ParB/SpoOJ promotes chromosome segregation in B. subtilis.

    Stephan Gruber;Jeff Errington

  • Export of active green fluorescent protein to the periplasm by the twin-arginine translocase (Tat) pathway in Escherichia coli.

    Joanna D. Thomas;Richard A. Daniel;Jeff Errington;Colin Robinson

  • Life without a wall or division machine in Bacillus subtilis

    M. Leaver;P. Domínguez-Cuevas;J. M. Coxhead;R. A. Daniel

  • Dispersed mode of Staphylococcus aureus cell wall synthesis in the absence of the division machinery

    Mariana G. Pinho;Jeff Errington

  • Bacterial Membranes: Structure, Domains, and Function

    Henrik Strahl;Jeff Errington

  • σF, the first compartment-specific transcription factor of B. subtilis, is regulated by an anti-σ factor that is also a protein kinase

    Kyung-Tai Min;Corinne M. Hilditch;Bettina Diederich;Jeffery Errington

Frequent Co-Authors

Leendert W. Hamoen
Leendert W. Hamoen University of Amsterdam
Jan-Willem Veening
Jan-Willem Veening University of Lausanne
Naotake Ogasawara
Naotake Ogasawara Nara Institute of Science and Technology
S. Dusko Ehrlich
S. Dusko Ehrlich University College London
Waldemar Vollmer
Waldemar Vollmer Newcastle University
Colin R. Harwood
Colin R. Harwood Newcastle University
Margarita Salas
Margarita Salas Spanish National Research Council
Pascal Hols
Pascal Hols Université Catholique de Louvain
Antoine Danchin
Antoine Danchin Institut Cochin
Eduardo P. C. Rocha
Eduardo P. C. Rocha Institut Pasteur

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