Aaron Klug

12.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
62 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Aaron Klug is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Klug has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Aaron Klug's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (31 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (16 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers). Aaron Klug is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (31 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (16 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers). Aaron Klug collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Taiwan. Aaron Klug's co-authors include Wesley I. Sundquist, Yen Choo, Daniela Rhodes, Michel Goedert, J.T. Finch, John W. R. Schwabe, David J. DeRosier, R.A. Crowther, Jill R. Murrell and Maria Grazia Spillantini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Klug

62 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Mutation in the tau gene in familial multiple system tauopathy with presenile dementia

1998 1.2k citations Aaron Klug et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The structure of an oligo(dA)·oligo(dT) tract and its biological implications

1987 875 citations J.T. Finch, Aaron Klug et al. Nature profile →
Telomeric DNA dimerizes by formation of guanine tetrads between hairpin loops

1989 817 citations Aaron Klug et al. Nature profile →
The reconstruction of a three-dimensional structure from projections and its application to electron microscopy

1970 700 citations R.A. Crowther, David J. DeRosier et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences profile →
‘Zinc fingers’: a novel protein motif for nucleic acid recognition

1987 573 citations Aaron Klug et al. Trends in Biochemical Sciences profile →
The Discovery of Zinc Fingers and Their Applications in Gene Regulation and Genome Manipulation

2010 543 citations Aaron Klug Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →
Measurement and compensation of defocusing and aberrations by Fourier processing of electron micrographs

1971 262 citations Aaron Klug et al. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron Klug United Kingdom	39	6.8k	1.3k	869	685	655	62	9.6k
Joseph S. Wall United States	42	4.3k 0.6×	2.5k 2.0×	438 0.5×	536 0.8×	621 0.9×	120	7.3k
Henning Stahlberg Switzerland	56	7.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	458 0.7×	681 1.0×	220	12.3k
José Valpuesta Spain	54	6.1k 0.9×	869 0.7×	862 1.0×	357 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	176	8.6k
Duilio Cascio United States	55	8.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	917 1.1×	432 0.6×	879 1.3×	156	10.8k
Mikako Shirouzu Japan	63	11.2k 1.7×	690 0.5×	1.3k 1.5×	952 1.4×	451 0.7×	390	14.7k
Yuri L. Lyubchenko United States	51	5.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	439 0.5×	166 0.2×	529 0.8×	223	8.5k
James E. Rothman United States	68	12.6k 1.9×	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	559 0.8×	331 0.5×	132	16.6k
Andreas Herrmann Germany	63	8.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	617 0.7×	431 0.6×	425 0.6×	330	12.2k
Roger S. Goody Germany	72	13.1k 1.9×	760 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	376 0.5×	349 0.5×	329	17.8k
Judith Frydman United States	68	12.9k 1.9×	958 0.8×	932 1.1×	487 0.7×	399 0.6×	157	15.8k

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Klug, Aaron. (2010). From Virus Structure to Chromatin: X-ray Diffraction to Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 79(1). 1–35. 32 indexed citations

Santiago, Yolanda, Edmond M. Chan, Peiqi Liu, et al.. (2008). Targeted gene knockout in mammalian cells by using engineered zinc-finger nucleases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(15). 5809–5814. 274 indexed citations

Klug, Aaron. (2003). Address given at the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of George Porter OM FRS. Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 57(2). 261–264. 2 indexed citations

Klug, Aaron. (2001). The Human Genome Project. IUBMB Life. 51(1). 1–4. 6 indexed citations

Choo, Yen & Aaron Klug. (1997). Physical basis of a protein-DNA recognition code. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 7(1). 117–125. 203 indexed citations

Isalan, Mark, Yen Choo, & Aaron Klug. (1997). Synergy between adjacent zinc fingers in sequence-specific DNA recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94(11). 5617–5621. 117 indexed citations

Klug, Aaron. (1997). Introduction to Ageing: science, medicine, and society. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 352(1363). 1763–1763. 2 indexed citations

Scott, W. G. & Aaron Klug. (1996). Ribozymes: structure and mechanism in RNA catalysis. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 21(6). 220–224. 78 indexed citations

Scott, W. G., James B. Murray, John R. P. Arnold, Barry Stoddard, & Aaron Klug. (1996). Capturing the Structure of a Catalytic RNA Intermediate: The Hammerhead Ribozyme. Science. 274(5295). 2065–2069. 331 indexed citations

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Scott, W. G., et al.. (1995). Rapid Crystallization of Chemically Synthesized Hammerhead RNAs using a Double Screening Procedure. Journal of Molecular Biology. 250(3). 327–332. 84 indexed citations

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Choo, Yen & Aaron Klug. (1995). Designing DNA-binding proteins on the surface of filamentous phage. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 6(4). 431–436. 54 indexed citations

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Klug, Aaron. (1994). Macromolecular order in biology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 348(1686). 167–178. 9 indexed citations

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Klug, Aaron, et al.. (1992). Comparison of X-ray structures of the nucleosome core particle in two different hydration states. Journal of Molecular Biology. 224(1). 253–264. 30 indexed citations

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Travers, Andrew & Aaron Klug. (1990). 2 Bending of DNA in Nucleoprotein Complexes. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 20. 57–106. 22 indexed citations

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Travers, Andrew & Aaron Klug. (1987). DNA wrapping and writhing. Nature. 327(6120). 280–281. 46 indexed citations

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O’Halloran, Thomas V., Stephen J. Lippard, Timothy J. Richmond, & Aaron Klug. (1987). Multiple heavy-atom reagents for macromolecular X-ray structure determination. Journal of Molecular Biology. 194(4). 705–712. 39 indexed citations

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Klug, Aaron. (1983). Vom Makromolekül zum biologischen Molekülverband (Nobel‐Vortrag). Angewandte Chemie. 95(8). 579–596. 89 indexed citations

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Klug, Aaron. (1971). III. Applications of image analysis techniques in electron microscopy. Optical diffraction and filtering and three-dimensional reconstructions from electron micrographs. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 261(837). 173–179. 20 indexed citations

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Finch, J.T. & Aaron Klug. (1971). Three-dimensional reconstruction of the stacked-disk aggregate of tobacco mosaic virus protein from electron micrographs. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 261(837). 211–219. 54 indexed citations

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Crowther, R.A., David J. DeRosier, & Aaron Klug. (1970). The reconstruction of a three-dimensional structure from projections and its application to electron microscopy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 317(1530). 319–340. 700 indexed citations breakdown →

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