Abel L. Robertson

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Abel L. Robertson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Abel L. Robertson has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Immunology and 9 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Abel L. Robertson's work include Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases (8 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (6 papers) and Fatty Acid Research and Health (5 papers). Abel L. Robertson is often cited by papers focused on Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases (8 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (6 papers) and Fatty Acid Research and Health (5 papers). Abel L. Robertson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Japan. Abel L. Robertson's co-authors include Philip A. Khairallah, Guy Chisolm, Guðmundur Þorgeirsson, Nicholas P. Ziats, Antanas Butkus, Lena A. Lewis, John C.M. Tsibris, Mahmoud Y. El‐Najjar, Stephen Bottomley and L. Allen Ehrhart and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Abel L. Robertson

52 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

LDL-induced cytotoxicity and its inhibition by HDL in human vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells in culture

1979 426 citations Abel L. Robertson, Guy Chisolm et al. Atherosclerosis profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abel L. Robertson United States	23	594	529	409	332	300	52	2.1k
Colin J. Schwartz United States	27	667 1.1×	716 1.4×	869 2.1×	803 2.4×	208 0.7×	65	2.9k
Michael B. Stemerman United States	25	863 1.5×	493 0.9×	577 1.4×	607 1.8×	183 0.6×	48	2.5k
François M. Booyse United States	29	577 1.0×	376 0.7×	241 0.6×	163 0.5×	175 0.6×	74	2.1k
Göran Bondjers Sweden	22	698 1.2×	385 0.7×	496 1.2×	550 1.7×	318 1.1×	42	2.0k
T B Rajavashisth United States	13	899 1.5×	443 0.8×	591 1.4×	1.1k 3.5×	260 0.9×	18	3.1k
Monique Freund France	32	692 1.2×	1.1k 2.0×	445 1.1×	314 0.9×	147 0.5×	68	3.3k
Thomas C. Detwiler United States	32	917 1.5×	448 0.8×	280 0.7×	141 0.4×	233 0.8×	69	3.0k
Toshiyuki Kita Japan	24	624 1.1×	210 0.4×	575 1.4×	327 1.0×	194 0.6×	127	2.1k
Wee Soo Shin Japan	18	829 1.4×	902 1.7×	471 1.2×	593 1.8×	210 0.7×	37	2.9k
RI Handin United States	23	467 0.8×	427 0.8×	414 1.0×	290 0.9×	67 0.2×	43	2.3k

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Robertson, Abel L. & Stephen Bottomley. (2010). Towards the Treatment of Polyglutamine Diseases: The Modulatory Role of Protein Context. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 17(27). 3058–3068. 34 indexed citations

Robertson, Abel L., et al.. (2010). PolyQ: a database describing the sequence and domain context of polyglutamine repeats in proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(Database). D272–D276. 18 indexed citations

Courtney, Brian K., Abel L. Robertson, Akiko Maehara, et al.. (2002). Effects of transducer position on backscattered intensity in coronary arteries. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. 28(1). 81–91. 17 indexed citations

Day, John, et al.. (1998). The Quilty lesion enigma: Focal apoptosis/necrosis and lymphocyte subsets in human cardiac allografts. Pathology International. 48(3). 191–198. 22 indexed citations

Chow, James M., Abel L. Robertson, & Robert J. Stein. (1990). Vascular Changes in the Nasal Submucosa of Chronic Cocaine Addicts. American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology. 11(2). 136–143. 13 indexed citations

Robertson, Abel L.. (1990). Pathobiology of Vascular Cells In Vitro in Relation to Human Atherogenesis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 598(1). 200–216. 1 indexed citations

Singer, K H, David F. Lobach, Stephen M. Denning, et al.. (1986). Human thymocytes bind to autologous and allogeneic thymic epithelial cells in vitro.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 83(17). 6588–6592. 50 indexed citations

Fosslien, Egil, et al.. (1985). Effect of aging on human aortic protein composition. Experimental and Molecular Pathology. 43(2). 233–241. 3 indexed citations

Machi, Junji, et al.. (1984). Ultrasonic Detection of Platelet Aggregation at Variable Shear Rates. Pathophysiology of Haemostasis and Thrombosis. 14(6). 473–479. 8 indexed citations

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Goldsmith, George H., Nicholas P. Ziats, & Abel L. Robertson. (1981). Studies on plasminogen activator and other proteases in subcultured human vascular cells. Experimental and Molecular Pathology. 35(2). 257–264. 23 indexed citations

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Cowan, Dale H., et al.. (1981). Platelet Adherence to Collagen: Role of Plasma, ADP, and Divalent Cations. British Journal of Haematology. 47(2). 257–267. 29 indexed citations

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Ziats, Nicholas P. & Abel L. Robertson. (1981). Effects of peripheral blood monocytes on human vascular cell proliferation. Atherosclerosis. 38(3-4). 401–410. 43 indexed citations

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Robertson, Abel L., et al.. (1979). LDL-induced cytotoxicity and its inhibition by HDL in human vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells in culture. Atherosclerosis. 32(3). 213–229. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

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Þorgeirsson, Guðmundur & Abel L. Robertson. (1978). Platelet factors and the human vascular wall. Atherosclerosis. 31(2). 231–238. 16 indexed citations

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Þorgeirsson, Guðmundur & Abel L. Robertson. (1978). The vascular endothelium-pathobiologic significance.. PubMed. 93(3). 803–48. 146 indexed citations

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Robertson, Abel L.. (1976). Envelope technique for selective isolation of cells from multilayer organ cultures for metabolic studies. Methods in Cell Science. 1(3). 139–144. 7 indexed citations

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El‐Najjar, Mahmoud Y. & Abel L. Robertson. (1976). Spongy Bones in Prehistoric America. Science. 193(4248). 141–143. 42 indexed citations

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Robertson, Abel L., et al.. (1975). Tissue Processing of Mammalian Vascular Endothelium for Scanning or Scanning-Transmission Electron Microscopy. Proceedings annual meeting Electron Microscopy Society of America. 33. 632–633. 1 indexed citations

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Butkus, Antanas, L. Allen Ehrhart, Raghavan Balachandran, & Abel L. Robertson. (1973). Hepatic lipids of dogs fed an arteriosclerosis-inducing diet. Experimental and Molecular Pathology. 18(3). 331–344. 2 indexed citations

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Robertson, Abel L. & William Insull. (1967). Dissection of Normal and Atherosclerotic Human Artery with Proteolytic Enzymes in vitro. Nature. 214(5090). 821–823. 6 indexed citations

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