B.W. Matthews

4.5k citations

39 papers · 3.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 2%
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
- Biochemical and Molecular Research
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Materials Chemistry top 5%
- Enzyme Structure and Function

Papers in

Structural Biology 1
Materials Chemistry 22
- Enzyme Structure and Function 19

Co-authors: W.A. Baase Lynn F. Ten Eyck Dale E. Tronrud B.K. Shoichet Ryota Kuroki Michael Holmes L.H. Weaver A.E. Sauer-Eriksson
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)Biochemistry (4 papers)Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (3 papers)Journal of Applied Crystallography (2 papers)Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

B.W. Matthews

38 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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A relationship between protein stability and protein function. 1995 · 588 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1995 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1987 Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography

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#	Work
1	Computations of Curved Free Surface Water Flow on Spiral Concentrators Journal of Hydraulic Engineering ·Fabián A. Bombardelli, C.W. Hirt, Marcelo H. García, B.W. Matthews, Clive Fletcher, А. ХВОСТОВ А, Sergio A. Vasquez	2001	40
2	Computational simulation of fluid and dilute particulate flows on spiral concentrators Applied Mathematical Modelling ·B.W. Matthews, Clive Fletcher, А. ХВОСТОВ А	1998	52
3	Context‐dependent protein stabilization by methionine‐to‐leucine substitution shown in T4 lysozyme Protein Science ·Leigh Ann Lipscomb, N.C. Gassner, Álvaro Javier Uribe Jiménez, Aimee M. Eldridge, Walter A. Baase, A. W. Schorger, B.W. Matthews	1998	47
4	Computational and Experimental Investigation of Spiral Concentrator Flows Research Online (University of Wollongong) ·B.W. Matthews, P. N. Holtham, 脩一籏野, 洋子高坂, А. ХВОСТОВ А	1998	4
5	A test of the "jigsaw puzzle" model for protein folding by multiple methionine substitutions within the core of T4 lysozyme. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·N.C. Gassner, W.A. Baase, B.W. Matthews	1996	122
6	Enhancement of the method of molecular replacement by incorporation of known structural information Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·進一郎海老原, B.W. Matthews	1994	15
7	STRAT: a program to optimize X-ray data collection on an area detector system Journal of Applied Crystallography ·Nikhil Kizhakayil, B.W. Matthews	1993	13
8	Similar Hydrophobic Replacements of Leu99 and Phe153 within the Core of T4 Lysozyme Have Different Structural and Thermodynamic Consequences Journal of Molecular Biology ·A.E. Sauer-Eriksson, W.A. Baase, B.W. Matthews	1993	181
9	Structural comparison suggests that thermolysin and related neutral proteases undergo hinge-bending motion during catalysis Biochemistry ·Debra R. Holland, Dale E. Tronrud, Yao-Shun Chuang, Kevin Flaherty, Wilhelm Stark, J.N. Jansonius, Bram Veenhuizen, B.W. Matthews	1992	105
10	Protein-DNA conformational changes in the crystal structure of a lambda Cro-operator complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Richard G. Brennan, Steven L. Roderick, Yoshinori Takeda, B.W. Matthews	1990	126
11	Thiorphan and retro-thiorphan display equivalent interactions when bound to crystalline thermolysin Biochemistry ·Steven L. Roderick, M C Fournié-Zaluski, B. P. Roques, B.W. Matthews	1989	65
12	Hydrophobic packing in T4 lysozyme probed by cavity-filling mutants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·M. Karpusas, W.A. Baase, Masaru Matsumura, B.W. Matthews	1989	140
13	Atomic coordinates for the chlorophyll core of a bacteriochlorophyll a-protein from green photosynthetic bacteria Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·R.E. Fenna, Lynn F. Ten Eyck, B.W. Matthews	1977	33
14	The crystal and molecular structure of the "metallic reflector" 1,5-bis(dimethylamino)pentamethinium perchlorate The Journal of Physical Chemistry ·F. Benedettini, B.W. Matthews	1976	13
15	Local scaling: a method to reduce systematic errors in isomorphous replacement and anomalous scattering measurements Acta Crystallographica Section A ·B.W. Matthews, Edmund W. Czerwinski	1975	71
16	Binding of lanthanide ions to thermolysin Biochemistry ·B.W. Matthews, L.H. Weaver	1974	110
17	Crystal and molecular structure of [2.2](2,6)pyridinoparacyclophane-1,9-diene Journal of the American Chemical Society ·L.H. Weaver, B.W. Matthews	1974	15
18	The crystal and molecular structure of the polymethine dye 1,3-bis(dimethylamino)trimethinium perchlorate: a comparison of optical and X-ray crystal structure determination Acta Crystallographica Section B ·B.W. Matthews, Ronald E. Stenkamp, P.M. Colman	1973	9
19	A computer controlled film scanner for X-ray crystallography Journal of Physics E Scientific Instruments ·B.W. Matthews, Claude E. Klopfenstein, P.M. Colman	1972	28
20	Atomic CO-ordinates for tosyl-α-chymotrypsin Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Jens J. Birktoft, B.W. Matthews, D. M. Blow	1969	95

About B.W. Matthews

B.W. Matthews is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Radiation and Biochemistry, having authored 39 papers that have together received 3.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Enzyme Structure and Function (19 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (15 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (4 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (3 papers), Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (3 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (3 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (3.0k citations), Materials Chemistry (1.5k citations), Biotechnology (204 citations), Cell Biology (350 citations) and Biochemistry (122 citations). B.W. Matthews has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include W.A. Baase, Lynn F. Ten Eyck, Dale E. Tronrud, B.K. Shoichet, Ryota Kuroki, Michael Holmes, L.H. Weaver, A.E. Sauer-Eriksson, Sidney A. Bernhard and D. M. Blow. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemistry, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Journal of Applied Crystallography and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

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