Alan Villalobos

1.8k total citations
8 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Alan Villalobos is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Villalobos has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alan Villalobos's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (3 papers). Alan Villalobos is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (3 papers). Alan Villalobos collaborates with scholars based in United States. Alan Villalobos's co-authors include Jeremy Minshull, Claes Gustafsson, Sridhar Govindarajan, Jon E. Ness, Mark Welch, Austin Gurney, Frances H. Arnold, Pete Heinzelman, Christopher D. Snow and Catherine Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alan Villalobos

8 papers receiving 1.1k 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 Villalobos United States 8 957 231 206 163 86 8 1.1k
Kedar G. Patel United States 14 961 1.0× 102 0.4× 186 0.9× 118 0.7× 141 1.6× 19 1.2k
Mark Welch United States 18 1.3k 1.3× 115 0.5× 326 1.6× 154 0.9× 108 1.3× 19 1.4k
Thomas J. Mansell United States 16 687 0.7× 90 0.4× 151 0.7× 104 0.6× 100 1.2× 30 908
Mary Alice Hefford Canada 20 622 0.6× 113 0.5× 97 0.5× 206 1.3× 66 0.8× 49 908
Sara Petersen Bjørn Denmark 13 1.4k 1.4× 189 0.8× 324 1.6× 96 0.6× 150 1.7× 17 1.6k
Melanie Hirz Austria 5 645 0.7× 140 0.6× 73 0.4× 170 1.0× 42 0.5× 5 808
Alexandra B. Graf Austria 20 1.3k 1.4× 361 1.6× 119 0.6× 172 1.1× 33 0.4× 38 1.5k
Yanrui Ye China 17 525 0.5× 195 0.8× 57 0.3× 145 0.9× 44 0.5× 39 759
Sarah W. Harcum United States 19 1.3k 1.3× 180 0.8× 494 2.4× 108 0.7× 151 1.8× 58 1.5k
Thomas H. Segall-Shapiro United States 13 1.1k 1.2× 143 0.6× 352 1.7× 75 0.5× 152 1.8× 17 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Villalobos

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Villalobos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Villalobos

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan Villalobos. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan Villalobos based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alan Villalobos. Alan Villalobos is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Villalobos, Alan, Mark Welch, & Jeremy Minshull. (2012). In Silico Design of Functional DNA Constructs. Methods in molecular biology. 852. 197–213. 10 indexed citations
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Gustafsson, Claes, Jeremy Minshull, Sridhar Govindarajan, et al.. (2012). Engineering genes for predictable protein expression. Protein Expression and Purification. 83(1). 37–46. 119 indexed citations
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Welch, Mark, Alan Villalobos, Claes Gustafsson, & Jeremy Minshull. (2011). Designing Genes for Successful Protein Expression. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 498. 43–66. 47 indexed citations
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Welch, Mark, Alan Villalobos, Claes Gustafsson, & Jeremy Minshull. (2009). You're one in a googol: optimizing genes for protein expression. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 6(suppl_4). S467–S476. 92 indexed citations
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Welch, Mark, Sridhar Govindarajan, Jon E. Ness, et al.. (2009). Design Parameters to Control Synthetic Gene Expression in Escherichia coli. PLoS ONE. 4(9). e7002–e7002. 271 indexed citations
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Heinzelman, Pete, Christopher D. Snow, Matthew A. Smith, et al.. (2009). SCHEMA Recombination of a Fungal Cellulase Uncovers a Single Mutation That Contributes Markedly to Stability. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(39). 26229–26233. 84 indexed citations
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Heinzelman, Pete, Christopher D. Snow, Catherine Nguyen, et al.. (2009). A family of thermostable fungal cellulases created by structure-guided recombination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(14). 5610–5615. 184 indexed citations
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Villalobos, Alan, Jon E. Ness, Claes Gustafsson, Jeremy Minshull, & Sridhar Govindarajan. (2006). Gene Designer: a synthetic biology tool for constructing artificial DNA segments. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 285–285. 285 indexed citations

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