 As of January 2016, Brown has published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, with many of his papers appearing in highly selective journals like Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Cell, Nucleic Acids Research, JACS, and PNAS.His papers have been cited over 18,000 times and he has an h-index 68.Brown was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Society of Edinburgh.