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46
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4145
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470

William Brown publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William Brown sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 79 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

William Brown D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

William Brown is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and has an active research profile primarily within the social sciences. Their work broadly encompasses cinema and media studies, with a focus on cultural analysis, gender and feminism, as well as posthumanist ethics.

Their research covers multiple interdisciplinary subfields, including economics and econometrics, cultural studies, sociology and political science, visual arts and performing arts, and literature and literary theory. This multidisciplinary scope allows for exploration of complex themes in media and culture through various academic lenses.

William Brown has contributed to several publication venues throughout their career. Frequent venues include:

  • Film-Philosophy
  • The Journal of Specialised Translation
  • Studies in European Cinema
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Aniki Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento

Their published papers reflect a concentration on cinematic and media topics, with notable works including:

  • "Celebrity headjobs: or oozing squid sex with a framed-up leaky {Schar-JØ}" (2020, Porn Studies)
  • "A (mush)room of one's own: feminism, posthumanism and race in Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled" (2020, Aniki Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento)

Brown has also authored books published by Edinburgh University Press and Berghahn Books. Titles include:

  • The Squid Cinema From Hell (2020, Edinburgh University Press)
  • Supercinema (2022, Berghahn Books)

Key topics explored in their research include:

  • Cinema and Media Studies
  • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
  • South Asian Cinema and Culture
  • Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies

William Brown has collaborated frequently with other academics. Regular co-authors are:

  • David H. Fleming
  • Francesco Mattiotti
  • N. Piovella
  • Stefano Olivares
  • Erik M. Gauger

Best Publications

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

    Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

  • The low-angle X-ray diagram of vertebrate striated muscle and its behaviour during contraction and rigor

    H.E. Huxley;W. Brown

  • Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts

    Nicholas Rhind;Zehua Chen;Moran Yassour;Moran Yassour;Dawn A. Thompson

  • Structure and polymorphism of human telomere-associated DNA

    William R.A. Brown;Philip J. MacKinnon;Alfredo Villasanté;Nigel Spurr

  • A Comprehensive Collection of Chicken cDNAs

    Paul E Boardman;Juan Sanz-Ezquerro;Ian M Overton;David W Burt

  • Hypervariable telomeric sequences from the human sex chromosomes are pseudoautosomal

    Howard J. Cooke;William R. A. Brown;Gudrun A. Rappold

  • A model for the separation of large DNA molecules by crossed field gel electrophoresis

    E.M. Southern;R. Anand;W.R.A. Brown;D.S. Fletcher

  • A complete set of human telomeric probes and their clinical application

    Yi Ning;Anna Roschke;Ann C.M. Smith;Ann C.M. Smith;Michelle Macha;Michelle Macha

  • Identification of a glycophorin-like molecule at the cell surface of rat thymocytes

    William R. A. Brown;A. Neil Barclay;Christopher A. Sunderland;Christopher A. Sunderland;Alan F. Williams

  • Receptor subtype-specific pronociceptive and analgesic actions of galanin in the spinal cord: Selective actions via GalR1 and GalR2 receptors

    Hong-Xiang Liu;Pablo Brumovsky;Ralf Schmidt;William Brown

  • Long-range restriction site mapping of mammalian genomic DNA.

    William R. A. Brown;Adrian P. Bird

  • CENP-A Is Required for Accurate Chromosome Segregation and Sustained Kinetochore Association of BubR1

    Vinciane Régnier;Paola Vagnarelli;Tatsuo Fukagawa;Tatiana Zerjal

  • Report of the Second International Workshop on Y Chromosome Mapping 1995.

    N. Affara;C. Bishop;W. Brown;H. Cooke

  • Molecular cloning of human telomeres in yeast.

    William R. A. Brown

  • The chicken as a model for large-scale analysis of vertebrate gene function

    William R. A. Brown;Simon J. Hubbard;Cheryll Tickle;Stuart A. Wilson

  • CENP-H, a constitutive centromere component, is required for centromere targeting of CENP-C in vertebrate cells

    Tatsuo Fukagawa;Yoshikazu Mikami;Ai Nishihashi;Vinciane Regnier

  • Stable length polymorphism of up to 260 kb at the tip of the short arm of human chromosome 16.

    Andrew O.M. Wilkie;Douglas R. Higgs;Katrina A. Rack;Veronica J. Buckle

  • Structure of the major block of alphoid satellite DNA on the human Y chromosome.

    Chris Tyler-Smith;William R.A. Brown

  • Mini-chromosomes derived from the human Y chromosome by telomere directed chromosome breakage.

    R. Heller;K. E. Brown;C. Burgtorf;W. R. A. Brown

  • The genomic and phenotypic diversity of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Daniel C. Jeffares;Charalampos Rallis;Adrien Rieux;Doug Speed

Frequent Co-Authors

Tatsuo Fukagawa
Tatsuo Fukagawa Osaka University
Veronica J. Buckle
Veronica J. Buckle University of Oxford
Jian Yang
Jian Yang University of Birmingham
Austin Smith
Austin Smith University of Exeter
Simon J. Hubbard
Simon J. Hubbard Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
Cheryll Tickle
Cheryll Tickle University of Bath
Lyndal Kearney
Lyndal Kearney Institute of Cancer Research
Samantha J.L. Knight
Samantha J.L. Knight University of Oxford
David H. Ledbetter
David H. Ledbetter University of Florida
Gianni Liti
Gianni Liti Grenoble Alpes University

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