Alan R. Battersby

8.9k total citations
374 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Alan R. Battersby is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan R. Battersby has authored 374 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 250 papers in Molecular Biology, 118 papers in Materials Chemistry and 93 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alan R. Battersby's work include Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders (160 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (106 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (65 papers). Alan R. Battersby is often cited by papers focused on Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders (160 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (106 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (65 papers). Alan R. Battersby collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Alan R. Battersby's co-authors include Edward McDonald, Christopher J. R. Fookes, Finian J. Leeper, James Staunton, George W. J. Matcham, Rachel M. Binks, Graham Hart, Lyman C. Craig, Andrew D. Miller and J.C. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Alan R. Battersby

371 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan R. Battersby United Kingdom 35 3.5k 1.6k 1.5k 784 610 374 5.8k
Robert H. Abeles United States 57 6.3k 1.8× 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 1.7k 2.1× 170 0.3× 191 9.4k
David P. Ballou United States 57 6.0k 1.7× 742 0.5× 1.2k 0.8× 486 0.6× 968 1.6× 202 10.3k
Graham Palmer United States 48 4.5k 1.3× 463 0.3× 761 0.5× 153 0.2× 246 0.4× 146 7.4k
Sandro Ghisla Germany 52 5.3k 1.5× 584 0.4× 1.1k 0.8× 164 0.2× 330 0.5× 205 8.2k
D. Arigoni Germany 40 4.6k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 399 0.3× 188 0.2× 345 0.6× 152 6.4k
H. Allen O. Hill United Kingdom 50 3.5k 1.0× 536 0.3× 1.1k 0.7× 84 0.1× 192 0.3× 216 10.0k
Ronald G. Harvey United States 50 4.4k 1.2× 4.3k 2.7× 576 0.4× 34 0.0× 692 1.1× 399 10.4k
Andrew W. Munro United Kingdom 56 5.6k 1.6× 717 0.5× 573 0.4× 177 0.2× 4.2k 6.9× 219 9.3k
Michael F. Dunn United States 46 3.7k 1.1× 367 0.2× 1.9k 1.3× 166 0.2× 122 0.2× 187 6.0k
Ludger Ernst Germany 34 1.4k 0.4× 1.9k 1.2× 458 0.3× 82 0.1× 156 0.3× 254 5.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Battersby, Alan R.. (2003). This time it's personal. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R.. (2001). High life, low life. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R.. (2000). East 43rd street. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Hawker, Craig J., Paul Petersen, Finian J. Leeper, & Alan R. Battersby. (1998). Biosynthesis of porphyrins and related macrocycles. Part 49.1 Exploration of synthetic routes to analogues of the spiro-intermediate for porphyrin biosynthesis. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 1519–1530. 5 indexed citations
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McDonald, Edward, et al.. (1998). Biosynthesis. Part 27.1,2 Colchicine: studies of the phenolic oxidative coupling and ring-expansion processes based on incorporation of multiply labelled 1-phenethylisoquinolines. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 2979–2988. 11 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R.. (1993). How Nature builds the pigments of life. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 65(6). 1113–1122. 16 indexed citations
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Weaver, George W., Finian J. Leeper, Alan R. Battersby, et al.. (1991). Biosynthesis of vitamin B12: the site of reduction of precorrin-6x. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 976–976. 10 indexed citations
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Fookes, Christopher J. R., et al.. (1987). Synthetic studies relevant to biosynthetic research on vitamin B12. Part 4. Development of the photochemical route to isobacteriochlorins. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 1667–1667. 11 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R.. (1985). The Bakerian Lecture, 1984 Biosynthesis of the pigments of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 225(1238). 1–26. 6 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R., et al.. (1979). Biosynthesis of vitamin B12: isolation and proof of structure of 3-episirohydrochlorin. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 960–960. 8 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R., et al.. (1979). Proof by synthesis that unrearranged hydroxymethylbilane is the product from deaminase and the substrate for cosynthetase in the biosynthesis of uro'gen-III. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 1155–1155. 38 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R.. (1978). The discovery of nature's biosynthetic pathways. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 34(1). 1–13. 21 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R., et al.. (1978). The basic glucosides related to the biosynthesis of indole and ipecac alkaloids. Tetrahedron Letters. 19(48). 4849–4852. 8 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R., James Staunton, Hugh Wiltshire, Rawle Francis, & Robert Southgate. (1975). Biosynthesis. Part XXII. The origin of chelidonine and of other alkaloids derived from the tetrahydroprotoberberine skeleton. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 1147–1147. 33 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R., David A. Evans, Keith H. Gibson, Edward McDonald, & Leon N. Nixon. (1973). Biosynthesis of porphyrins and related macrocycles. Part I. Synthesis of 14C-labelled pyrromethanes. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 15. 1546–1546. 14 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R., et al.. (1969). Cyclopentanoid terpene derivatives. M. Dekker eBooks. 104 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R., et al.. (1967). Oxidative coupling of phenols. M. Dekker eBooks. 90 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R., Richard B. Herbert, & F. Šantavý. (1965). Melanthioidine: a second 1-phenethylisoquinoline alkaloid. Chemical Communications (London). 0(17). 415–416. 3 indexed citations
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Manske, Richard H. F., et al.. (1965). THE ALKALOIDS OF PAPAVERACEOUS PLANTS: LIV. THE STRUCTURE OF ESCHSCHOLTZINE. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 43(8). 2183–2189. 16 indexed citations
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Battersby, Alan R. & John J. Reynolds. (1961). 104. Studies on specific chemical fission of peptide links. Part III. Fission of peptides containing one glutamic acid residue. Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed). 524–524. 8 indexed citations

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