Alan M. Lambowitz

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alan M. Lambowitz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan M. Lambowitz has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alan M. Lambowitz's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Alan M. Lambowitz is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers). Alan M. Lambowitz collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Germany. Alan M. Lambowitz's co-authors include Marlene Belfort, Philip S. Perlman, Steven Zimmerly, Georg Mohr, Jian Yang, Natalia N. Singh, Huatao Guo, Dorie Smith, Eman Ghanem and Sabine Mohr and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alan M. Lambowitz

14 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

INTRONS AS MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. INTRONS AS MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS
    1993 525 citations Alan M. Lambowitz, Marlene Belfort Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan M. Lambowitz United States 14 1.3k 355 295 207 43 14 1.4k
Georg Mohr United States 22 1.7k 1.3× 435 1.2× 373 1.3× 239 1.2× 7 0.2× 39 1.9k
Yunkun Dang China 14 1.1k 0.8× 129 0.4× 176 0.6× 257 1.2× 31 0.7× 25 1.3k
Rob W. van Nues United Kingdom 17 1.2k 0.9× 145 0.4× 195 0.7× 154 0.7× 76 1.8× 26 1.4k
N. Nikolaev Bulgaria 15 838 0.6× 161 0.5× 191 0.6× 130 0.6× 16 0.4× 22 943
Christine Sacerdot France 22 1.0k 0.8× 140 0.4× 506 1.7× 155 0.7× 12 0.3× 24 1.1k
Helena Čelešnik United States 11 977 0.7× 230 0.6× 406 1.4× 617 3.0× 31 0.7× 17 1.4k
Alissa Resch United States 14 906 0.7× 75 0.2× 210 0.7× 149 0.7× 91 2.1× 18 1.0k
R.E. Haurwitz United States 6 1.1k 0.9× 149 0.4× 230 0.8× 101 0.5× 27 0.6× 7 1.1k
Yanan Feng China 14 527 0.4× 151 0.4× 294 1.0× 251 1.2× 24 0.6× 34 804
Nizar Drou United Arab Emirates 17 499 0.4× 157 0.4× 171 0.6× 262 1.3× 37 0.9× 28 972

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan M. Lambowitz

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All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Mohr, Sabine, Eman Ghanem, Dennis A. Sheeter, et al.. (2013). Thermostable group II intron reverse transcriptase fusion proteins and their use in cDNA synthesis and next-generation RNA sequencing. RNA. 19(7). 958–970. 152 indexed citations
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Singh, Natalia N. & Alan M. Lambowitz. (2001). Interaction of a group II intron ribonucleoprotein endonuclease with its DNA target site investigated by DNA footprinting and modification interference. Journal of Molecular Biology. 309(2). 361–386. 78 indexed citations
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Mohr, Georg, Dorie Smith, Marlene Belfort, & Alan M. Lambowitz. (2000). Rules for DNA target-site recognition by a lactococcal group II intron enable retargeting of the intron to specific DNA sequences. Genes & Development. 14(5). 559–573. 104 indexed citations
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Yang, Jian, Georg Mohr, Philip S. Perlman, & Alan M. Lambowitz. (1998). Group II intron mobility in yeast mitochondria: target DNA-primed reverse transcription activity of ai1 and reverse splicing into DNA transposition sites in vitro 1 1Edited by M. Yaniv. Journal of Molecular Biology. 282(3). 505–523. 52 indexed citations
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Zimmerly, Steven, et al.. (1996). Efficient integration of an intron RNA into double-stranded DNA by reverse splicing. Nature. 381(6580). 332–335. 132 indexed citations
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Zimmerly, Steven, et al.. (1995). A group II intron RNA is a catalytic component of a DNA endonuclease involved in intron mobility. Cell. 83(4). 529–538. 171 indexed citations
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Lambowitz, Alan M. & Marlene Belfort. (1993). INTRONS AS MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 62(1). 587–622. 525 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kennell, John C., et al.. (1992). The Mauriceville plasmid of Neurospora crassa: characterization of a novel reverse transcriptase that begins cDNA synthesis at the 3' end of template RNA.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 12(11). 5131–5144. 34 indexed citations
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Kück, Ulrich, et al.. (1992). The mitochondrial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase of Podospora anserina is a bifunctional enzyme active in protein synthesis and RNA splicing.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 12(2). 499–511. 30 indexed citations
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Mohr, Georg & Alan M. Lambowitz. (1991). Integration of a group I intron into a ribosomal RNA sequence promoted by a tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase. Nature. 354(6349). 164–167. 23 indexed citations
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Paietta, John V., Robert A. Akins, Alan M. Lambowitz, & George A. Marzluf. (1987). Molecular cloning and characterization of the cys-3 regulatory gene of Neurospora crassa.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 7(7). 2506–2511. 32 indexed citations
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Garriga, Gian & Alan M. Lambowitz. (1983). RNA splicing in Neurospora mitochondria. The large rRNA intron contains a noncoded, 5'-terminal guanosine residue.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 258(24). 14745–14748. 21 indexed citations

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