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Mark J. Pallen publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark J. Pallen sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 275 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Mark J. Pallen D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark J. Pallen sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Mark J. Pallen is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the broad area of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Endocrinology, Food Science, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's work addresses various key topics including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Mark J. Pallen has contributed to several recent scientific papers, providing insights into microbial ecology and nomenclature, among other topics. Notable recent publications include:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse" (2021), published in Nature Microbiology
  • "Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture" (2021), published in PeerJ
  • "Assembly of hundreds of novel bacterial genomes from the chicken caecum" (2020), published in Genome Biology
  • "The microbial ecology of Escherichia coli in the vertebrate gut" (2022), published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • "The Next Million Names for Archaea and Bacteria" (2020), published in Trends in Microbiology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field, including:

  • Nabil-Fareed Alikhan
  • Anuradha Ravi
  • Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko
  • Martín Antonio
  • Rachel Gilroy

Mark J. Pallen publishes regularly in specific scientific venues. Among these, the most frequent are:

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PeerJ
  • Microbial Genomics
  • Access Microbiology

Best Publications

  • The genome sequence of the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni reveals hypervariable sequences

    J. Parkhill;B. W. Wren;K. Mungall;J. M. Ketley

  • Performance comparison of benchtop high-throughput sequencing platforms

    Nicholas J Loman;Raju V Misra;Timothy J Dallman;Chrystala Constantinidou

  • Type VI secretion: a beginner's guide.

    Lewis E. H. Bingle;Christopher M. Bailey;Mark J. Pallen

  • A novel EspA-associated surface organelle of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli involved in protein translocation into epithelial cells

    Stuart Knutton;Ilan Rosenshine;Mark J. Pallen;Israel Nisan

  • Open-Source Genomic Analysis of Shiga-Toxin–Producing E. coli O104:H4

    Holger Rohde;Junjie Qin;Yujun Cui;Dongfang Li

  • An extensive repertoire of type III secretion effectors in Escherichia coli O157 and the role of lambdoid phages in their dissemination

    Toru Tobe;Scott A. Beatson;Scott A. Beatson;Hisaaki Taniguchi;Hiroyuki Abe

  • High-throughput bacterial genome sequencing: an embarrassment of choice, a world of opportunity

    Nicholas J. Loman;Chrystala Constantinidou;Jacqueline Z. M. Chan;Mihail Halachev

  • The HtrA family of serine proteases

    Mark J. Pallen;Brendan W. Wren

  • Extensive Microbial and Functional Diversity within the Chicken Cecal Microbiome

    Martin J Sergeant;Chrystala Constantinidou;Tristan A Cogan;Michael R Bedford

  • The ESAT-6/WXG100 superfamily – and a new Gram-positive secretion system?

    Mark J Pallen

  • The complete genome sequence and analysis of Corynebacterium diphtheriae NCTC13129

    A. M. Cerdeño‐Tárraga;A. Efstratiou;L. G. Dover;M. T. G. Holden

  • A culture-independent sequence-based metagenomics approach to the investigation of an outbreak of Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli O104:H4.

    Nicholas J. Loman;Chrystala Constantinidou;Martin Christner;Holger Rohde

  • Twenty years of bacterial genome sequencing

    Nicholas J. Loman;Mark J. Pallen

  • An embarrassment of sortases - a richness of substrates?

    Mark J Pallen;Alex C Lam;Martin Antonio;Kerstin Dunbar

  • Sequencing and analysis of the genome of the Whipple's disease bacterium Tropheryma whipplei

    Stephen D Bentley;Matthias Maiwald;Lee D Murphy;Mark J Pallen

  • Characterization of novel LPXTG-containing proteins of Staphylococcus aureus identified from genome sequences.

    Fiona M. Roche;Ruth Massey;Sharon J. Peacock;Nicholas P. J. Day

  • SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse.

    Frank Konings;Mark D Perkins;Jens H Kuhn;Mark J Pallen

  • From The Origin of Species to the origin of bacterial flagella

    Mark J. Pallen;Nicholas J. Matzke

  • Defining bacterial species in the genomic era: insights from the genus Acinetobacter.

    Jacqueline Z.M. Chan;Mihail R. Halachev;Nicholas J. Loman;Chrystala Constantinidou

  • Genomic analysis of secretion systems

    Mark J Pallen;Roy R Chaudhuri;Ian R Henderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Loman
Nicholas J. Loman University of Birmingham
Martin Antonio
Martin Antonio London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Gad Frankel
Gad Frankel Imperial College London
Charles W. Penn
Charles W. Penn University of Birmingham
Ian R. Henderson
Ian R. Henderson University of Cambridge
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock The Jackson Laboratory
Scott A. Beatson
Scott A. Beatson University of Queensland
Andrew D. Millard
Andrew D. Millard University of Leicester
Gurdyal S. Besra
Gurdyal S. Besra University of Birmingham

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