Charles R. Cantor

56.1k total citations · 14 hit papers
341 papers, 34.7k citations indexed

About

Charles R. Cantor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles R. Cantor has authored 341 papers receiving a total of 34.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 245 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Genetics and 31 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Charles R. Cantor's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (96 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (65 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (44 papers). Charles R. Cantor is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (96 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (65 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (44 papers). Charles R. Cantor collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Charles R. Cantor's co-authors include James J. Collins, David C. Schwartz, Timothy S. Gardner, Michael L. Shelanski, Cassandra L. Smith, Felicia Gaskin, Paul Schimmel, Takeshi Sano, Mads Kærn and William J. Blake and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Charles R. Cantor

339 papers receiving 32.7k citations

Hit Papers

Construction of a genetic... 1970 2026 1988 2007 2000 1984 1973 2003 1970 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli
    2000 3.0k citations Charles R. Cantor, James J. Collins et al. profile →
  2. Separation of yeast chromosome-sized DNAs by pulsed field gradient gel electrophoresis
    1984 2.3k citations Charles R. Cantor et al. profile →
  3. Microtubule Assembly in the Absence of Added Nucleotides
    1973 1.9k citations Charles R. Cantor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Noise in eukaryotic gene expression
    2003 1.2k citations William J. Blake, Charles R. Cantor et al. profile →
  5. Oligonucleotide interactions. III. Circular dichroism studies of the conformation of deoxyoligonucleolides
    1970 797 citations Charles R. Cantor et al. profile →
  6. Maternal Plasma DNA Sequencing Reveals the Genome-Wide Genetic and Mutational Profile of the Fetus
    2010 766 citations Charles R. Cantor et al. profile →
  7. Turbidimetric studies of the in vitro assembly and disassembly of porcine neurotubules
    1974 754 citations Charles R. Cantor et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
  8. Biophysical Chemistry: Part II: Techniques for the Study of Biological Structure and Function
    1980 722 citations Charles R. Cantor, Paul Schimmel profile →
  9. Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of fetal chromosomal aneuploidy by massively parallel genomic sequencing of DNA in maternal plasma
    2008 666 citations Charles R. Cantor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  10. Immuno-PCR: Very Sensitive Antigen Detection by Means of Specific Antibody-DNA Conjugates
    1992 661 citations Cassandra L. Smith, Charles R. Cantor et al. profile →
  11. Quantitative high-throughput analysis of DNA methylation patterns by base-specific cleavage and mass spectrometry
    2005 656 citations Mathias Ehrich, Matthew R. Nelson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  12. A Common Language for Physical Mapping of the Human Genome
    1989 618 citations Charles R. Cantor et al. profile →
  13. Biophysical chemistry. Part III, The behavior of biologicalmacromolecules
    1980 431 citations Charles R. Cantor, Paul Schimmel profile →
  14. Noninvasive detection of fetal trisomy 21 by sequencing of DNA in maternal blood: a study in a clinical setting
    2011 371 citations Mathias Ehrich, Paul Oeth et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Charles R. Cantor United States 85 24.3k 5.8k 3.1k 2.7k 2.5k 341 34.7k
David C. Ward United States 79 16.7k 0.7× 7.7k 1.3× 1.4k 0.5× 1.4k 0.5× 1.1k 0.4× 302 26.4k
Ira Pastan United States 146 45.5k 1.9× 10.2k 1.8× 7.5k 2.5× 2.1k 0.8× 5.2k 2.1× 1.2k 90.1k
Leroy Hood United States 140 43.1k 1.8× 9.4k 1.6× 2.8k 0.9× 3.1k 1.1× 591 0.2× 730 75.8k
Thomas E. Ferrin United States 43 35.6k 1.5× 4.8k 0.8× 3.9k 1.3× 1.4k 0.5× 894 0.4× 93 55.6k
Conrad C. Huang United States 31 31.3k 1.3× 4.4k 0.8× 3.6k 1.2× 1.2k 0.4× 765 0.3× 48 49.3k
Daniel E. Koshland United States 93 22.3k 0.9× 4.6k 0.8× 4.9k 1.6× 2.1k 0.8× 525 0.2× 454 32.3k
Sergio Grinstein Canada 118 28.9k 1.2× 2.3k 0.4× 10.4k 3.4× 2.0k 0.7× 816 0.3× 578 53.1k
Andrej Săli United States 107 50.4k 2.1× 5.2k 0.9× 4.8k 1.6× 1.6k 0.6× 526 0.2× 381 66.1k
Jeremy C. Smith United States 92 32.0k 1.3× 4.2k 0.7× 3.3k 1.1× 5.5k 2.0× 373 0.1× 848 58.8k
Brian T. Chait United States 112 36.6k 1.5× 3.3k 0.6× 3.7k 1.2× 2.5k 0.9× 322 0.1× 434 55.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Köhler, Christina, Nadine Bonberg, Maike Ahrens, et al.. (2019). Noninvasive diagnosis of urothelial cancer in urine using DNA hypermethylation signatures—Gender matters. International Journal of Cancer. 145(10). 2861–2872. 10 indexed citations
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Putin, Evgeny, Polina Mamoshina, Alexander Aliper, et al.. (2016). Deep biomarkers of human aging: Application of deep neural networks to biomarker development. Aging. 8(5). 1021–1033. 231 indexed citations
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Cantor, Charles R., et al.. (2012). Genetic switchboard for synthetic biology applications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(15). 5850–5855. 133 indexed citations
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Gorlov, Ivan P., Triantafillos Liloglou, Jonathan P. Myles, et al.. (2007). Seizure 6-Like ( SEZ6L ) Gene and Risk for Lung Cancer. Cancer Research. 67(17). 8406–8411. 26 indexed citations
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Demidov, Vadim V., Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Poornima Chalasani, et al.. (2006). Fast complementation of split fluorescent protein triggered by DNA hybridization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(7). 2052–2056. 70 indexed citations
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Ehrich, Mathias, John K. Field, Triantafillos Liloglou, et al.. (2006). Cytosine Methylation Profiles as a Molecular Marker in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer. Cancer Research. 66(22). 10911–10918. 47 indexed citations
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Blake, William J., Gábor Balázsi, Michael A. Kohanski, et al.. (2006). Phenotypic Consequences of Promoter-Mediated Transcriptional Noise. Molecular Cell. 24(6). 853–865. 465 indexed citations
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Boom, Dirk van den, Martin Beaulieu, Paul Oeth, et al.. (2004). MALDI-TOF MS: a platform technology for genetic discovery. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 238(2). 173–188. 14 indexed citations
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Isaacs, Farren J., Daniel J. Dwyer, Chunming Ding, et al.. (2004). Engineered riboregulators enable post-transcriptional control of gene expression. Nature Biotechnology. 22(7). 841–847. 425 indexed citations
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Kammerer, Stefan, Lora Hamuro, Yuliang Ma, et al.. (2003). Amino acid variant in the kinase binding domain of dual-specific A kinase-anchoring protein 2: A disease susceptibility polymorphism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(7). 4066–4071. 80 indexed citations
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Graber, Joel H., Maryanne J. O’Donnell, Cassandra L. Smith, & Charles R. Cantor. (1998). Advances in DNA diagnostics. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 9(1). 14–18. 21 indexed citations
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González, Martı́n, Luís A. Bagatolli, Izaskun Echabe, et al.. (1997). Interaction of Biotin with Streptavidin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(17). 11288–11294. 200 indexed citations
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Saffran, Wilma A. & Charles R. Cantor. (1984). Mutagenic SOS repair of site-specific psoralen damage in plasmid pBR322. Journal of Molecular Biology. 178(3). 595–609. 25 indexed citations
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Wollenzien, Paul & Charles R. Cantor. (1982). Gel electrophoretic technique for separating crosslinked RNAs. Journal of Molecular Biology. 159(1). 151–166. 36 indexed citations
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Cantor, Charles R. & Paul Schimmel. (1980). Techniques for the study of biological structure and function. 139 indexed citations
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Crothers, Donald M., et al.. (1980). Effect of DNA length on the nucleosome low salt transition. Nucleic Acids Research. 8(11). 2475–2488. 17 indexed citations
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Cantor, Charles R.. (1979). tRNA-Ribosome Interactions. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 363–392. 3 indexed citations
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Cantor, Charles R., et al.. (1974). Fluorescence Spectroscopic Approaches to the Study of Three-dimensional Structure of Ribosomes. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 4. 587–599. 2 indexed citations
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Cantor, Charles R., et al.. (1974). Affinity Labeling Techniques for Examining Functional Sites of Ribosomes. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 4. 573–585. 5 indexed citations
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Tao, Terence, James H. Nelson, & Charles R. Cantor. (1970). Conformational studies on transfer ribonucleic acid. Fluorescence lifetime and nanosecond depolarization measurements on bound ethidium bromide. Biochemistry. 9(18). 3514–3524. 98 indexed citations

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