Alfred Heil

714 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 630 citations indexed

About

Alfred Heil is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfred Heil has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 630 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Alfred Heil's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (2 papers). Alfred Heil is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (2 papers). Alfred Heil collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Russia. Alfred Heil's co-authors include Wolfram Zillig, Peter Palm, Kasper Zechel, Dietmar Rabussay, Melitta Schachner, W. Seifert, V.Sagar Sethi, Susan R. Panny, B Mazuś and Bernd Grampp and has published in prestigious journals such as FEBS Letters, European Journal of Biochemistry and Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alfred Heil

5 papers receiving 554 citations

Hit Papers

Reconstitution of bacterial DNA‐dependent RNA‐polymerase ... 1970 2026 1988 2007 1970 100 200 300
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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. Reconstitution of bacterial DNA‐dependent RNA‐polymerase from isolated subunits as a tool for the elucidation of the role of the subunits in transcription
    1970 340 citations Alfred Heil, Wolfram Zillig FEBS Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alfred Heil Germany 5 547 319 148 53 25 5 630
R.Philip Anderson United States 8 469 0.9× 302 0.9× 160 1.1× 40 0.8× 24 1.0× 8 634
Louis P. Visentin Canada 19 600 1.1× 269 0.8× 166 1.1× 64 1.2× 30 1.2× 45 763
Janet Geisselsoder United States 13 563 1.0× 320 1.0× 332 2.2× 45 0.8× 15 0.6× 20 773
Richard E. Musso United States 12 533 1.0× 333 1.0× 115 0.8× 45 0.8× 18 0.7× 16 625
Alain Lévine France 13 479 0.9× 408 1.3× 136 0.9× 47 0.9× 34 1.4× 26 584
Claire Goldthwaite United States 9 404 0.7× 254 0.8× 200 1.4× 61 1.2× 17 0.7× 9 504
Sally E. Jorgensen United States 9 373 0.7× 178 0.6× 130 0.9× 54 1.0× 24 1.0× 12 520
Cynthia Lark United States 15 566 1.0× 313 1.0× 92 0.6× 25 0.5× 20 0.8× 20 736
P. Valentin‐Hansen Denmark 19 697 1.3× 557 1.7× 138 0.9× 68 1.3× 29 1.2× 22 805
S W Artz United States 12 580 1.1× 395 1.2× 155 1.0× 106 2.0× 23 0.9× 17 691

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alfred Heil

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alfred Heil

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alfred Heil. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alfred Heil 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 Alfred Heil. Alfred Heil is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

5 of 5 papers shown
1.
Zillig, Wolfram, Peter Palm, & Alfred Heil. (1976). Function and Reassembly of Subunits of DNA-dependent RNA Polymerase. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 6. 101–125. 37 indexed citations
2.
Palm, Peter, Alfred Heil, Dana Boyd, Bernd Grampp, & Wolfram Zillig. (1975). The Reconstitution of Escherichia coli DNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase from Its Isolated Subunits. European Journal of Biochemistry. 53(1). 283–291. 36 indexed citations
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Panny, Susan R., Alfred Heil, B Mazuś, Peter Palm, & Wolfram Zillig. (1974). A temperature sensitive mutation of the β′‐subunit of DNA‐dependent RNA polymerase from E. coli T16. FEBS Letters. 48(2). 241–245. 42 indexed citations
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Heil, Alfred & Wolfram Zillig. (1970). Reconstitution of bacterial DNA‐dependent RNA‐polymerase from isolated subunits as a tool for the elucidation of the role of the subunits in transcription. FEBS Letters. 11(3). 165–168. 340 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zillig, Wolfram, Kasper Zechel, Dietmar Rabussay, et al.. (1970). On the Rule of Different Subunits of DNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase from E. coli in the Transcription Process. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 35(0). 47–58. 175 indexed citations

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