Bernhard Witkop

16.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
296 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

Bernhard Witkop is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernhard Witkop has authored 296 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Molecular Biology, 127 papers in Organic Chemistry and 32 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Bernhard Witkop's work include Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (39 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (24 papers) and Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (24 papers). Bernhard Witkop is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (39 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (24 papers) and Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (24 papers). Bernhard Witkop collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Belgium. Bernhard Witkop's co-authors include John W. Daly, Erhard Gross, Sidney Udenfriend, Reinhard Sarges, Donald M. Jerina, D. M. JERINA, Siro Senoh, James B. Patrick, Perola Zaltzman-Nirenberg and William Lawson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Bernhard Witkop

291 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Nonenzymatic Cleavage of Peptide Bonds: The Methionine Residues in Bovine Pancreatic Ribonuclease

1962 827 citations Bernhard Witkop et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
Arene oxides and the NIH shift: The metabolism, toxicity and carcinogenicity of aromatic compounds

1972 488 citations Bernhard Witkop et al. profile →
Hydroxylation-Induced Migration: The NIH Shift

1967 384 citations Sidney Udenfriend, Bernhard Witkop et al. profile →
A Rapid Spectrophotometric Assay of Monoamine Oxidase Based on the Rate of Disappearance of Kynuramine

1960 375 citations Herbert Weissbach, Bernhard Witkop et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
1,2-Naphthalene oxide as an intermediate in the microsomal hydroxylation of naphthalene. V

1970 343 citations Bernhard Witkop, Sidney Udenfriend et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernhard Witkop

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Sidney Udenfriend. 2003 ·PubMed ·Herbert Weissbach, Bernhard Witkop	1
2	Paul Ehrlich and his Magic bullets--revisited. 1999 ·PubMed ·Bernhard Witkop	35
3	Theodor Hermann Felix Wieland (5 June 1913-24 November 1995). 1998 ·PubMed ·Bernhard Witkop, Manfred Eigen	1
4	From the "Ordeal Bean" (Physostigma venenosum) to the Ordeal of Alzheimer's Disease ----- Some of the Legacy of Percy Lavon Julian (1899 - 1975) 1998 ·Heterocycles ·Bernhard Witkop	23
5	Peptides in health and disease: Retrospection and outlook 1992 ·Medicinal Research Reviews ·Bernhard Witkop	1
6	Remembering Heinrich Wieland (1877–1957) portrait of an organic chemist and founder of modern biochemistry 1992 ·Medicinal Research Reviews ·Bernhard Witkop	13
7	Interaction of analogs of histrionicotoxin with the acetylcholine receptor ionic channel complex and membrane excitability. 1984 ·Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics ·M A Maleque, A. BROSSI, Bernhard Witkop, (unknown), E X Albuquerque	4
8	Forty Years of Tryptifun 1983 ·Heterocycles ·Bernhard Witkop	7
9	Anatoxin-a: A Novel, Potent Agonist at the Nicotinic Receptor 1980 ·Molecular Pharmacology ·C.E. Spivak, Bernhard Witkop, E X Albuquerque	103
10	Structural features of double-stranded polyribonucleotides required for immunological specificity and interferon induction. 1975 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Margaret I. Johnston, B. David Stollar, Paul F. Torrence, Bernhard Witkop	18
11	Synthesis and reactions of a tetrachlorodioxopiperazine 1972 ·The Journal of Organic Chemistry ·H. C. J. Ottenheym, (unknown), Bernhard Witkop	1
12	Selective N-methylations of heterocycles with dimethyloxosulfonium methylide 1970 ·The Journal of Organic Chemistry ·Takehisa Kunieda, Bernhard Witkop	8
13	Photocyclizations of tyrosines, tyramines, catechol amines, and normescaline 1968 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Osamu Yonemitsu, Takeshi Tokuyama, Michael Chaykovsky, Bernhard Witkop	15
14	Incorporation of tritium into irradiated nucleotides 1968 ·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·(unknown), Lawrence I. Grossman, Bernhard Witkop	1
15	Conversion of Proline-14C to Collagen trans-3-Hydroxyproline-14C in the Chick Embryo 1964 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Arnold Kaplan, Bernhard Witkop, Sidney Udenfriend	10
16	Catecholamines and methyltransferases in the South American toad (Bufo marinus) 1962 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta ·F. Märki, Julius Axelrod, Bernhard Witkop	26
17	Occurrence of cis- and trans-3-hydroxy-L-proline in acid hydrolyzate of Telomycin 1962 ·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·F. Irreverre, (unknown), Shunsuke Ishii, Bernhard Witkop	21
18	Chemistry of Dihydroxyfumaric Acid 1954 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Sidney Goodwin, Bernhard Witkop	15
19	Infrared Diagnosis of the Hydrochlorides of Organic Bases. II.¹ The Structure of Myosmine 1954 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Bernhard Witkop	45
20	Ring Effects in Autoxidation. A New Type of Camps Reaction^1,2 1951 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Bernhard Witkop, James B. Patrick, Myron Rosenblum	88

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