Alan W. Schwartz

4.1k total citations
96 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Alan W. Schwartz is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan W. Schwartz has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 41 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alan W. Schwartz's work include Origins and Evolution of Life (40 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (20 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (20 papers). Alan W. Schwartz is often cited by papers focused on Origins and Evolution of Life (40 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (20 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (20 papers). Alan W. Schwartz collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Alan W. Schwartz's co-authors include Peter G. Stoks, Rob M. de Graaf, Leslie E. Orgel, J. Visscher, Gerald F. Joyce, Stanley L. Miller, G. J. F. CHITTENDEN, Walter J. F. M. van der Velden, Cyril Ponnamperuma and Jason P. Dworkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan W. Schwartz

95 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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André Brack France

Ernesto Di Mauro Italy

Giovanna Costanzo Italy

Henderson James Cleaves United States

Kaoru Harada Japan

Günter Wächtershäuser Germany

James G. Lawless United States

John R. Cronin United States

Michael P. Callahan United States

Takeo Kaneko Japan

André Brack France

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schwartz, Alan W.. (2015). Happy Birthday Albert Eschenmoser. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 46(1). 1–2. 1 indexed citations

Schwartz, Alan W.. (2013). Evaluating the Plausibility of Prebiotic Multistage Syntheses. Astrobiology. 13(8). 784–789. 11 indexed citations

Schwartz, Alan W.. (2007). Intractable Mixtures and the Origin of Life. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 4(4). 656–664. 53 indexed citations

Graaf, Rob M. de & Alan W. Schwartz. (2005). Thermal Synthesis of Nucleoside H-Phosphonates Under Mild Conditions. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 35(1). 1–10. 21 indexed citations

Graaf, Rob M. de, J. Visscher, Yanli Xu, Gustaf Arrhenius, & Alan W. Schwartz. (1998). Mineral Catalysis of a Potentially Prebiotic Aldol Condensation. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 47(5). 501–507. 12 indexed citations

Graaf, Rob M. de, J. Visscher, & Alan W. Schwartz. (1998). Prebiotic Chemistry of Phosphonic Acids: Products Derived From Phosphonoacetaldehyde in the Presence of Formaldehyde. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 28(3). 271–282. 13 indexed citations

Schwartz, Alan W.. (1997). Prebiotic evolution: Selecting for homochirality before RNA. Current Biology. 7(8). R477–R479. 8 indexed citations

Schwartz, Alan W.. (1997). prebiotic phosphorus chemistry reconsidered. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 27(5-6). 505–512. 22 indexed citations

Schwartz, Alan W.. (1997). Speculation on the RNA Precursor Problem. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 187(4). 523–527. 24 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Alan W.. (1996). Did minerals perform prebiotic combinatorial chemistry?. Chemistry & Biology. 3(7). 515–518. 22 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Alan W.. (1995). The RNA World and its origins. Planetary and Space Science. 43(1-2). 161–165. 18 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Alan W.. (1994). Origin of Life: The origin of macromolecular chirality. Current Biology. 4(8). 758–760. 17 indexed citations

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Visscher, J. & Alan W. Schwartz. (1992). Selective cleavage of pyrophosphate linkages. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(21). 5749–5752. 10 indexed citations

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Visscher, J. & Alan W. Schwartz. (1990). Oligomerization of cytosine-containing nucleotide analogs in aqueous solution. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 30(1). 3–6. 5 indexed citations

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Visscher, J., et al.. (1990). Oligomerizations of deoxyadenosine bis-phosphates and of their 3′-5′, 3′-3′, and 5′-5′ dimers: Effects of a pyrophosphate-linked, poly(t) analog. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 20(5). 369–375. 1 indexed citations

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Visscher, J. & Alan W. Schwartz. (1989). Manganese-catalyzed oligomerizations of nucleotide analogs. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 29(4). 284–287. 15 indexed citations

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Visscher, J., et al.. (1989). Oligomerization of deoxynucleoside-bisphosphate dimers: Template and linkage specificity. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 19(1). 3–6. 3 indexed citations

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Visscher, J. & Alan W. Schwartz. (1988). Template-directed synthesis of acyclic oligonucleotide analogues. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 28(1-2). 3–6. 30 indexed citations

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Visscher, J. & Alan W. Schwartz. (1987). Nucleic acid-like structures III. Oligomerization of 3′-deoxyadenosine 2′,5′-diphosphoimidazolide. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 26(4). 291–293. 8 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Alan W.. (1986). Minimal requirements for molecular information transfer. Advances in Space Research. 6(11). 23–27. 2 indexed citations

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