Alan J. Dowding

938 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 840 citations indexed

About

Alan J. Dowding is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan J. Dowding has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 840 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Immunology and 3 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Alan J. Dowding's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (3 papers), Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (3 papers) and Skin and Cellular Biology Research (2 papers). Alan J. Dowding is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (3 papers), Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (3 papers) and Skin and Cellular Biology Research (2 papers). Alan J. Dowding collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Alan J. Dowding's co-authors include Brian H. Anderton, Martin Raff, Rhona Mirsky, Rebecca M. Pruss, Robin Thorpe, John Scholes, A Maggs, Zach W. Hall, John N. Wood and D. R. Crapper McLachlan and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alan J. Dowding

10 papers receiving 782 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.

All classes of intermediate filaments share a common antigenic determinant defined by a monoclonal antibody

1981 591 citations Rebecca M. Pruss, Rhona Mirsky et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan J. Dowding United Kingdom	7	464	446	123	91	87	11	840
N. Lieska United States	15	551 1.2×	327 0.7×	79 0.6×	26 0.3×	56 0.6×	31	865
D. Dahl United States	13	279 0.6×	323 0.7×	122 1.0×	56 0.6×	33 0.4×	20	669
Jean‐Pierre Arsanto France	19	1.1k 2.3×	775 1.7×	168 1.4×	27 0.3×	160 1.8×	31	1.5k
Marie‐Madeleine Portier France	21	1.1k 2.3×	816 1.8×	309 2.5×	91 1.0×	66 0.8×	49	1.8k
Lee A. Ligon United States	18	1.1k 2.3×	946 2.1×	348 2.8×	41 0.5×	115 1.3×	24	1.8k
Boris Grin United States	8	472 1.0×	538 1.2×	79 0.6×	83 0.9×	35 0.4×	8	901
Catalina Ruiz‐Cañada United States	13	988 2.1×	298 0.7×	292 2.4×	31 0.3×	132 1.5×	13	1.4k
Kevin Ainger United States	9	983 2.1×	307 0.7×	197 1.6×	51 0.6×	48 0.6×	13	1.3k
Yutaka Matsubayashi United Kingdom	12	375 0.8×	298 0.7×	143 1.2×	38 0.4×	20 0.2×	18	754
Marie-Josée Santoni France	23	1.3k 2.9×	663 1.5×	270 2.2×	23 0.3×	73 0.8×	30	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan J. Dowding

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Valenzuela, C. Fernando, et al.. (1994). Antibody-Induced Conformational Changes in the Torpedo Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: A Fluorescence Study. Biochemistry. 33(21). 6586–6594. 11 indexed citations

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Dowding, Alan J. & John Scholes. (1993). Lymphocytes and macrophages outnumber oligodendroglia in normal fish spinal cord.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 90(21). 10183–10187. 35 indexed citations

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Dowding, Alan J.. (1992). FL.1, an anti-fish leukocyte mAb, reacts with CD45 in Oreochromine fish. Biochemical Society Transactions. 20(4). 350S–350S. 1 indexed citations

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Dowding, Alan J., A Maggs, & John Scholes. (1991). Diversity amongst the microglia in growing and regenerating fish CNS: Immunohistochemical characterization using FL. 1, an anti‐macrophage monoclonal antibody. Glia. 4(4). 345–364. 75 indexed citations

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Preston‐Hurlburt, Paula, Paul T. Wilson, Alan J. Dowding, & Edward Hawrot. (1990). Monoclonal antibodies directed against a synthetic peptide corresponding to the α-bungarotoxin binding region of the acetylcholine receptor. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1033(3). 324–328. 3 indexed citations

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Dowding, Alan J. & Zach W. Hall. (1987). Monoclonal antibodies specific for each of the two toxin binding sites of Torpedo acetylcholine receptor. Biochemistry. 26(20). 6372–6381. 34 indexed citations

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Miller, Christopher C.J., Ian G. Cowell, Andrew Dodson, et al.. (1987). Monoclonal antibodies against plant proteins recognise animal intermediate filaments. Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton. 8(4). 312–323. 20 indexed citations

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Miller, Christopher C.J., Ian G. Cowell, Andrew Dodson, et al.. (1986). Putative intermediate filament proteins in higher plant cells. Biochemical Society Transactions. 14(4). 787–788.

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Miller, Christopher C.J., Jeffrey G. Duckett, M. J. Downes, et al.. (1985). Plant cytoskeletons contain intermediate filament-related proteins. Biochemical Society Transactions. 13(5). 960–961. 4 indexed citations

10.

Wood, John N., N.B. LaThangue, D. R. Crapper McLachlan, et al.. (1985). Chromatin Proteins Share Antigenic Determinants with Neurofilaments. Journal of Neurochemistry. 44(1). 149–154. 66 indexed citations

11.

Pruss, Rebecca M., Rhona Mirsky, Martin Raff, et al.. (1981). All classes of intermediate filaments share a common antigenic determinant defined by a monoclonal antibody. Cell. 27(3). 419–428. 591 indexed citations breakdown →

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