Christopher G. Levins

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Christopher G. Levins is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher G. Levins has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Organic Chemistry and 2 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Christopher G. Levins's work include Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (5 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (2 papers). Christopher G. Levins is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (5 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (2 papers). Christopher G. Levins collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Christopher G. Levins's co-authors include Daniel G. Anderson, Róbert Langer, Kevin T. Love, Zhao‐Kui Wan, Christian E. Schafmeister, Maria Frank-Kamenetsky, Akin Akinc, Timothy Racie, William Querbes and William Cantley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Christopher G. Levins

8 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Lipid-like materials for low-dose, in vivo gene silencing 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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. Lipid-like materials for low-dose, in vivo gene silencing
    2010 792 citations Kevin T. Love, Kerry P. Mahon et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher G. Levins United States 7 909 198 161 152 143 9 1.2k
Kerry P. Mahon United States 10 1.1k 1.2× 81 0.4× 168 1.0× 169 1.1× 168 1.2× 10 1.3k
Chang G. Peng United States 10 1.7k 1.8× 128 0.6× 134 0.8× 168 1.1× 259 1.8× 13 2.0k
Sonali B. Fonseca Canada 8 940 1.0× 145 0.7× 211 1.3× 58 0.4× 171 1.2× 8 1.3k
Michael Keller Switzerland 22 1.3k 1.4× 363 1.8× 155 1.0× 78 0.5× 101 0.7× 43 1.6k
Peizhuo Zhang China 18 1.0k 1.1× 118 0.6× 355 2.2× 209 1.4× 292 2.0× 32 1.4k
Richard Laga Czechia 18 536 0.6× 180 0.9× 317 2.0× 175 1.2× 280 2.0× 45 1.1k
Zhaohua Huang United States 18 692 0.8× 172 0.9× 347 2.2× 42 0.3× 204 1.4× 43 1.1k
Yuebao Zhang United States 16 884 1.0× 322 1.6× 143 0.9× 71 0.5× 179 1.3× 27 1.5k
Narendra K. Vaish Germany 15 1.3k 1.4× 264 1.3× 75 0.5× 306 2.0× 62 0.4× 24 1.6k
Mathieu Mével France 19 763 0.8× 138 0.7× 112 0.7× 37 0.2× 87 0.6× 30 935

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher G. Levins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher G. Levins

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All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Schroeder, Avi, Michael S. Goldberg, Christian J. Kastrup, et al.. (2012). Remotely Activated Protein-Producing Nanoparticles. Nano Letters. 12(6). 2685–2689. 90 indexed citations
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Schroeder, Avi, James E. Dahlman, Gaurav Sahay, et al.. (2011). Alkane-modified short polyethyleneimine for siRNA delivery. Journal of Controlled Release. 160(2). 172–176. 46 indexed citations
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Love, Kevin T., Kerry P. Mahon, Christopher G. Levins, et al.. (2010). Lipid-like materials for low-dose, in vivo gene silencing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(5). 1864–1869. 792 indexed citations breakdown →
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Levins, Christopher G. & Zhao‐Kui Wan. (2008). Efficient Phosphonium-Mediated Synthesis of 2-Amino-1,3,4-oxadiazoles. Organic Letters. 10(9). 1755–1758. 51 indexed citations
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Wan, Zhao‐Kui, Sumrit Wacharasindhu, Christopher G. Levins, et al.. (2007). The Scope and Mechanism of Phosphonium-Mediated SNAr Reactions in Heterocyclic Amides and Ureas. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 72(26). 10194–10210. 97 indexed citations
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Levins, Christopher G. & Christian E. Schafmeister. (2006). The Synthesis of Curved and Linear Structures from a Minimal Set of Monomers.. ChemInform. 37(5).
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Levins, Christopher G., Zachary Z. Brown, & Christian E. Schafmeister. (2006). Maximizing the Stereochemical Diversity of Spiro-Ladder Oligomers. Organic Letters. 8(13). 2807–2810. 6 indexed citations
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Levins, Christopher G. & Christian E. Schafmeister. (2005). The Synthesis of Curved and Linear Structures from a Minimal Set of Monomers. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 70(22). 9002–9008. 23 indexed citations
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Levins, Christopher G. & Christian E. Schafmeister. (2003). The Synthesis of Functionalized Nanoscale Molecular Rods of Defined Length. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125(16). 4702–4703. 54 indexed citations

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