Brian J. Cafferty

2.0k total citations
29 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Brian J. Cafferty is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian J. Cafferty has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 9 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Brian J. Cafferty's work include Origins and Evolution of Life (12 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (9 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (9 papers). Brian J. Cafferty is often cited by papers focused on Origins and Evolution of Life (12 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (9 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (9 papers). Brian J. Cafferty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Belarus. Brian J. Cafferty's co-authors include Nicholas V. Hud, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Gary B. Schuster, Loren Dean Williams, Suneesh C. Karunakaran, Michael C. Chen, George M. Whitesides, Isaac Gállego, Scott M. Grayson and W.T. Godbey and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Brian J. Cafferty

29 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brian J. Cafferty United States 20 839 569 361 271 267 29 1.5k
Elio Mattia Netherlands 10 505 0.6× 226 0.4× 583 1.6× 620 2.3× 360 1.3× 10 1.3k
Andrew J. Bissette United Kingdom 9 273 0.3× 282 0.5× 305 0.8× 179 0.7× 193 0.7× 17 802
Pierre‐Alain Monnard Denmark 25 1.5k 1.8× 1.3k 2.3× 163 0.5× 289 1.1× 163 0.6× 50 2.1k
Marta Tena‐Solsona Germany 18 786 0.9× 176 0.3× 734 2.0× 1.0k 3.7× 457 1.7× 26 1.8k
Nicolas Martin France 20 750 0.9× 121 0.2× 175 0.5× 271 1.0× 387 1.4× 36 1.5k
Alexander F. Mason Netherlands 21 718 0.9× 90 0.2× 306 0.8× 480 1.8× 316 1.2× 35 1.4k
Shogo Koga Japan 13 415 0.5× 112 0.2× 178 0.5× 196 0.7× 237 0.9× 23 999
Jan W. Sadownik United Kingdom 11 387 0.5× 200 0.4× 384 1.1× 395 1.5× 148 0.6× 11 780
Piotr Nowak Poland 14 405 0.5× 128 0.2× 518 1.4× 280 1.0× 275 1.0× 39 1.0k
Roberto J. Brea United States 22 982 1.2× 96 0.2× 548 1.5× 697 2.6× 236 0.9× 53 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian J. Cafferty

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian J. Cafferty

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All Works

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Packer, Michael S., Yvonne Aratyn-Schaus, Dominique Leboeuf, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of cytosine base editing and adenine base editing as a potential treatment for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Molecular Therapy. 30(4). 1396–1406. 29 indexed citations
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Nagarkar, Amit A., Samuel E. Root, M. Fink, et al.. (2021). Storing and Reading Information in Mixtures of Fluorescent Molecules. ACS Central Science. 7(10). 1728–1735. 34 indexed citations
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Schuster, Gary B., Brian J. Cafferty, Suneesh C. Karunakaran, & Nicholas V. Hud. (2021). Water-Soluble Supramolecular Polymers of Paired and Stacked Heterocycles: Assembly, Structure, Properties, and a Possible Path to Pre-RNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(25). 9279–9296. 29 indexed citations
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Cafferty, Brian J., Yuan Li, Mostafa Baghbanzadeh, et al.. (2019). Charge Transport through Self‐Assembled Monolayers of Monoterpenoids. Angewandte Chemie. 131(24). 8181–8186. 2 indexed citations
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Cafferty, Brian J., et al.. (2019). Storage of Information Using Small Organic Molecules. ACS Central Science. 5(5). 911–916. 75 indexed citations
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Cafferty, Brian J., Yuan Li, Mostafa Baghbanzadeh, et al.. (2019). Charge Transport through Self‐Assembled Monolayers of Monoterpenoids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(24). 8097–8102. 11 indexed citations
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Karunakaran, Suneesh C., et al.. (2019). Reversible Transformation of a Supramolecular Hydrogel by Redox Switching of Methylene Blue—A Noncovalent Chain Stopper. ACS Omega. 5(1). 344–349. 24 indexed citations
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Karunakaran, Suneesh C., et al.. (2018). Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Formation of Supramolecular Polymers: Implications for the Origin of Biological Homochirality. Angewandte Chemie. 131(5). 1467–1471. 7 indexed citations
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Cafferty, Brian J., Victoria E. Campbell, Philipp Rothemund, et al.. (2018). Fabricating 3D Structures by Combining 2D Printing and Relaxation of Strain. Advanced Materials Technologies. 4(1). 39 indexed citations
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Karunakaran, Suneesh C., Brian J. Cafferty, Ingeborg Schmidt‐Krey, et al.. (2018). Exquisite regulation of supramolecular equilibrium polymers in water: chain stoppers control length, polydispersity and viscoelasticity. Polymer Chemistry. 9(43). 5268–5277. 17 indexed citations
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Gull, Maheen, Brian J. Cafferty, Nicholas V. Hud, & Matthew A. Pasek. (2017). Silicate-Promoted Phosphorylation of Glycerol in Non-Aqueous Solvents: A Prebiotically Plausible Route to Organophosphates. Life. 7(3). 29–29. 37 indexed citations
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Cafferty, Brian J., et al.. (2016). Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11328–11328. 98 indexed citations
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Cafferty, Brian J., Caterina Musetti, Keun‐Soo Kim, et al.. (2016). Small molecule-mediated duplex formation of nucleic acids with ‘incompatible’ backbones. Chemical Communications. 52(31). 5436–5439. 4 indexed citations
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Cortez, Mallory A., et al.. (2015). The Synthesis of Cyclic Poly(ethylene imine) and Exact Linear Analogues: An Evaluation of Gene Delivery Comparing Polymer Architectures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(20). 6541–6549. 190 indexed citations
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Cafferty, Brian J. & Nicholas V. Hud. (2014). Abiotic synthesis of RNA in water: a common goal of prebiotic chemistry and bottom-up synthetic biology. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 22. 146–157. 62 indexed citations
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Hud, Nicholas V., Brian J. Cafferty, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, & Loren Dean Williams. (2013). The Origin of RNA and “My Grandfather’s Axe”. Chemistry & Biology. 20(4). 466–474. 157 indexed citations
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Chen, Michael C., Brian J. Cafferty, Irena Mamajanov, et al.. (2013). Spontaneous Prebiotic Formation of a β-Ribofuranoside That Self-Assembles with a Complementary Heterocycle. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(15). 5640–5646. 75 indexed citations
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Cafferty, Brian J., Isaac Gállego, Michael C. Chen, et al.. (2013). Efficient Self-Assembly in Water of Long Noncovalent Polymers by Nucleobase Analogues. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(7). 2447–2450. 135 indexed citations
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Gállego, Isaac, Brian J. Cafferty, Michael C. Chen, et al.. (2013). 20 Supramolecular polymerization of nucleobase-like monomers in water. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 31(sup1). 12–12. 1 indexed citations
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Engelhart, Aaron E., Brian J. Cafferty, C. Denise Okafor, et al.. (2012). Nonenzymatic Ligation of DNA with a Reversible Step and a Final Linkage that Can Be Used in PCR. ChemBioChem. 13(8). 1121–1124. 14 indexed citations

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