Alan M. Myers

18.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
138 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Alan M. Myers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan M. Myers has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Plant Science and 43 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Alan M. Myers's work include Food composition and properties (43 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (23 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (23 papers). Alan M. Myers is often cited by papers focused on Food composition and properties (43 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (23 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (23 papers). Alan M. Myers collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Alan M. Myers's co-authors include Alexander Tzagoloff, Martha G. James, T J Koerner, John E. Hill, Peter L. Keeling, Steven Ball, Carol J. Lusty, D M Kinney, Kay Denyer and Tracie A. Hennen‐Bierwagen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan M. Myers

135 papers receiving 11.6k 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.

An Improved Diphenylamine Method for the Estimation of Deoxyribonucleic Acid

1965 1.8k citations Alan M. Myers et al. profile →
Yeast/E. coli shuttle vectors with multiple unique restriction sites

1986 1.3k citations Alan M. Myers, Alexander Tzagoloff et al. profile →
Yeast shuttle and integrative vectors with multiple cloning sites suitable for construction of lacZ fusions

1986 590 citations Alan M. Myers, Alexander Tzagoloff et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan M. Myers United States	49	6.3k	4.1k	3.2k	1.5k	1.1k	138	12.1k
Johannes F.G. Vliegenthart Netherlands	72	12.0k 1.9×	3.3k 0.8×	4.0k 1.3×	894 0.6×	1.9k 1.6×	522	22.5k
Alan D. Elbein United States	52	7.3k 1.2×	1.9k 0.5×	865 0.3×	614 0.4×	1.8k 1.6×	206	11.5k
Jozef Van Beeumen Belgium	57	6.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.3×	646 0.2×	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	293	11.3k
Annie John United Arab Emirates	26	5.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.4×	687 0.2×	608 0.4×	985 0.9×	61	11.0k
Gebhard von Jagow Germany	40	12.1k 1.9×	1.8k 0.4×	853 0.3×	370 0.3×	686 0.6×	72	16.8k
Nisse Kalkkinen Finland	66	6.5k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	579 0.2×	554 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	226	14.2k
Andrea Scaloni Italy	63	7.4k 1.2×	2.6k 0.6×	709 0.2×	407 0.3×	849 0.7×	403	13.5k
Hermann Schägger Germany	62	21.6k 3.4×	2.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	622 0.4×	897 0.8×	122	28.0k
D. Spackman United States	17	5.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.3×	1.0k 0.3×	348 0.2×	653 0.6×	30	12.1k
Margaret Sunde United States	54	8.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.3×	1.3k 0.4×	328 0.2×	382 0.3×	277	14.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Myers, Alan M., et al.. (2025). Surveying Potential Soilborne Pathogens Causing Sett Rot on Sugarcane in Southern Florida. Plant Disease. 110(2). 292–299.

Boehlein, Susan K., Tracie A. Hennen‐Bierwagen, William F. Tracy, et al.. (2025). Interactions of separately conserved α-(1→6) glucosidases that participate in maize endosperm starch biosynthesis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 199(2). 1 indexed citations

Hennen‐Bierwagen, Tracie A., Martha G. James, Ugo Cenci, et al.. (2025). Noncatalytic functions of ISOAMYLASE 1 and 2 affect the proportion of insoluble and soluble α-polyglucans in maize. The Plant Cell. 37(10). 1 indexed citations

Boehlein, Susan K., Barbara Pfister, Tracie A. Hennen‐Bierwagen, et al.. (2023). Soluble and insoluble α-glucan synthesis in yeast by enzyme suites derived exclusively from maize endosperm. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 193(2). 1456–1478. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Shan, Susan K. Boehlein, Donald R. McCarty, et al.. (2019). Maize defective kernel5 is a bacterial TamB homologue required for chloroplast envelope biogenesis. The Journal of Cell Biology. 218(8). 2638–2658. 20 indexed citations

Huang, Binquan, Peter L. Keeling, Tracie A. Hennen‐Bierwagen, & Alan M. Myers. (2016). Comparative in vitro analyses of recombinant maize starch synthases SSI, SSIIa, and SSIII reveal direct regulatory interactions and thermosensitivity. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 596. 63–72. 21 indexed citations

Grimaud, Florent, Hélène Rogniaux, Martha G. James, Alan M. Myers, & Véronique Planchot. (2008). Proteome and phosphoproteome analysis of starch granule-associated proteins from normal maize and mutants affected in starch biosynthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany. 59(12). 3395–3406. 121 indexed citations

Barros, Mário H., et al.. (2005). COX24 Codes for a Mitochondrial Protein Required for Processing of the COX1 Transcript. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(6). 3743–3751. 21 indexed citations

Scanlon, Michael J. & Alan M. Myers. (1998). Phenotypic analysis and molecular cloning of discolored-1 (dsc1), a maize gene required for early kernel development. Plant Molecular Biology. 37(3). 483–493. 18 indexed citations

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Gur, Ruben C., et al.. (1996). Iodine-123-IPT SPECT imaging of CNS dopamine transporters: nonlinear effects of normal aging on striatal uptake values.. PubMed. 37(12). 1965–70. 52 indexed citations

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Blacketer, Melissa J., Pascal Madaule, & Alan M. Myers. (1994). The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mutation elm4-l Facilitates Pseudohyphal Differentiation and Interacts with a Deficiency in Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate Synthase Activity To Cause Constitutive Pseudohyphal Growth. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 14(7). 4671–4681. 6 indexed citations

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Scanlon, Michael J., P. S. Stinard, Martha G. James, Alan M. Myers, & D. S. Robertson. (1994). Genetic analysis of 63 mutations affecting maize kernel development isolated from Mutator stocks.. Genetics. 136(1). 281–294. 74 indexed citations

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Koehler, Carla M., et al.. (1992). Recovery of mitochondrial DNA from blood leukocytes using detergent lysis. Biochemical Genetics. 30(1-2). 27–33. 12 indexed citations

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Myers, Alan M.. (1991). Characterization of the growth flux during the deposition of hydrogenated amorphous silicon by DC magnetron reactive sputtering. 3 indexed citations

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Madaule, Pascal, Richard Axel, & Alan M. Myers. (1987). Characterization of two members of the rho gene family from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(3). 779–783. 222 indexed citations

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Tzagoloff, Alexander & Alan M. Myers. (1986). GENETICS OF MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 55(1). 249–285. 376 indexed citations

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Myers, Alan M., et al.. (1977). Anomalous behaviour of RFSE signals in tungsten. Journal of Physics F Metal Physics. 7(10). 2135–2139. 4 indexed citations

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Myers, Alan M., et al.. (1971). Measurements of the mean electron free path from the radio frequency size effect. Journal of Physics F Metal Physics. 1(5). L38–L40. 2 indexed citations

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Myers, Alan M., et al.. (1970). The effect of light upon ribonuclease activity of etiolated Lupinus albus hypocotyls. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 204(1). 144–155. 12 indexed citations

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Myers, Alan M., et al.. (1966). The effects of gibberellic acid and light on RNA, DNA and growth of the three basal internodes of dwarf and tall peas. Phytochemistry. 5(1). 193–196. 7 indexed citations

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