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D-Index
121
Citations
57615
World Ranking
135
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1984 - WH Pierce Prize, The Society for Applied Microbiology

Overview

Matthew D. Collins is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research intersects primarily with Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing extensively across these disciplines.

Their work has a strong emphasis on the study of climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes. Other notable areas of focus include tropical and extratropical cyclones research, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Frequent publication venues for Matthew D. Collins include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Frontiers in Climate
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthew D. Collins include:

  • Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally, 2022, Science Advances
  • Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects, 2021, Science
  • The most at-risk regions in the world for high-impact heatwaves, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Anthropogenic impacts on twentieth-century ENSO variability changes, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their scholarly activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Robin Chadwick
  • F. Hugo Lambert
  • Wenju Cai
  • Guojian Wang
  • Jun Ying

The prevalent subfields of study encompass global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, geometry and topology, and computational mechanics.

Matthew D. Collins received the WH Pierce Prize from The Society for Applied Microbiology in 1984.

Best Publications

  • Distribution of Menaquinones in Actinomycetes and Corynebacteria

    M. D. Collins;T. Pirouz;M. Goodfellow;D. E. Minnikin

  • Direct Analysis of Genes Encoding 16S rRNA from Complex Communities Reveals Many Novel Molecular Species within the Human Gut

    Antonia Suau;Antonia Suau;Régis Bonnet;Malène Sutren;Jean Jacques Godon

  • The genome sequence of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    V. Wood;R. Gwilliam;M.A. Rajandream;M. Lyne

  • The Phylogeny of the Genus Clostridium: Proposal of Five New Genera and Eleven New Species Combinations

    M. D. Collins;P. A. Lawson;A. Willems;J. J. Cordoba

  • The genome of the kinetoplastid parasite, Leishmania major.

    Alasdair C. Ivens;Christopher S. Peacock;Elizabeth A. Worthey;Lee Murphy

  • Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

    William C. Nierman;William C. Nierman;Arnab Pain;Michael J. Anderson;Jennifer R. Wortman;Jennifer R. Wortman

  • Comparative analysis of the genome sequences of Bordetella pertussis, Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica.

    Julian Parkhill;Mohammed Sebaihia;Andrew Preston;Lee D Murphy

  • Gastrointestinal Microflora Studies in Late-Onset Autism

    Sydney M. Finegold;Sydney M. Finegold;Denise Molitoris;Yuli Song;Chengxu Liu

  • Phylogenetic heterogeneity of the genus Bacillus revealed by comparative analysis of small-subunit-ribosomal RNA sequences

    Carol Ash;J.A.E. Farrow;Sally Wallbanks;M.D. Collins

  • Fatty acid and polar lipid composition in the classification of Cellulomonas, Oerskovia and related taxa

    D. E. Minnikin;M. D. Collins;M. Goodfellow

  • Genetic analysis of the capsular biosynthetic locus from all 90 pneumococcal serotypes.

    Stephen D Bentley;David M Aanensen;Angeliki Mavroidi;David Saunders

  • Transfer of Streptococcus lactis and Related Streptococci to the Genus Lactococcus gen. nov.

    K.H. Schleifer;J. Kraus;C. Dvorak;R. Kilpper-Bälz

  • Comparative analysis of Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, and related species on the basis of reverse transcriptase sequencing of 16S rRNA

    Carol Ash;John A. E. Farrow;Matthias Dorsch;Erko Stackebrandt

  • Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Lactobacillus and related lactic acid bacteria as determined by reverse transcriptase sequencing of 16S rRNA

    M.D. Collins;U. Rodrigues;C. Ash;M. Aguirre

  • Polyphasic Taxonomy of Rhizobia: Emendation of the Genus Sinorhizobium and Description of Sinorhizobium meliloti comb. nov., Sinorhizobium saheli sp. nov., and Sinorhizobium teranga sp. nov.

    Philippe De Lajudie;Anne Willems;Bruno Pot;Dirk Dewettinck

  • Taxonomic studies on some leuconostoc-like organisms from fermented sausages: description of a new genus Weissella for the Leuconostoc paramesenteroides group of species.

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  • Lactic acid bacteria and human clinical infection.

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  • Phenotypic identification of the genus Enterococcus and differentiation of phylogenetically distinct enterococcal species and species groups.

    L.A. Devriese;B. Pot;M.D. Collins

  • Proposal for Reclassification of Bacteroides asaccharolyticus, Bacteroides gingivalis, and Bacteroides endodontalis in a New Genus, Porphyromonas

    H. N. Shah;M. D. Collins

  • Desulfitobacterium sp strain PCE1, an anaerobic bacterium that can grow by reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene or ortho-chlorinated phenols

    J. Gerritse;Veronique Renard;T. M. Pedro Gomes;Paul A. Lawson

  • Proposal To Reclassify Leuconostoc oenos as Oenococcus oeni (corrig.) gen. nov., comb. nov.

    L. M. T. Dicks;F. Dellaglio;M. D. Collins

  • Specific identification of the enteropathogens Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli by using a PCR test based on the ceuE gene encoding a putative virulence determinant

    I Gonzalez;K A Grant;P T Richardson;S F Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Enevold Falsen
Enevold Falsen University of Gothenburg
Paul A. Lawson
Paul A. Lawson University of Oklahoma
Anne Willems
Anne Willems Ghent University
Lesley Hoyles
Lesley Hoyles Nottingham Trent University
Mark J. Webb
Mark J. Webb Met Office
Michael Goodfellow
Michael Goodfellow Newcastle University
David E. Minnikin
David E. Minnikin University of Birmingham
Peter L. Read
Peter L. Read University of Oxford

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