D. W. Sumners

3.8k total citations
74 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

D. W. Sumners is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Molecular Biology and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, D. W. Sumners has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Geometry and Topology, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in D. W. Sumners's work include Geometric and Algebraic Topology (30 papers), semigroups and automata theory (10 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (10 papers). D. W. Sumners is often cited by papers focused on Geometric and Algebraic Topology (30 papers), semigroups and automata theory (10 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (10 papers). D. W. Sumners collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. D. W. Sumners's co-authors include S G Whittington, Mariel Vázquez, Enzo Orlandini, Javier Arsuaga, Claus Ernst, Joaquím Roca, Sònia Trigueros, Davide Marenduzzo, Cristian Micheletti and Maria Carla Tesi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

D. W. Sumners

71 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. W. Sumners United States	29	941	783	467	347	313	74	2.5k
Jeremy Gray United Kingdom	18	257 0.3×	178 0.2×	72 0.2×	141 0.4×	53 0.2×	96	1.4k
W. F. Harris South Africa	25	151 0.2×	71 0.1×	231 0.5×	331 1.0×	48 0.2×	177	2.1k
Stephanos Venakides United States	25	278 0.3×	170 0.2×	517 1.1×	232 0.7×	166 0.5×	58	2.7k
Epifanio G. Virga Italy	28	598 0.6×	147 0.2×	542 1.2×	381 1.1×	89 0.3×	157	2.9k
Martin Krupa United States	26	326 0.3×	326 0.4×	114 0.2×	64 0.2×	25 0.1×	66	2.4k
Cyrill B. Muratov United States	26	458 0.5×	25 0.0×	373 0.8×	181 0.5×	263 0.8×	93	2.0k
Irwin Tobias United States	22	543 0.6×	16 0.0×	289 0.6×	178 0.5×	38 0.1×	44	1.1k
Radek Erban United Kingdom	26	1.3k 1.3×	11 0.0×	115 0.2×	305 0.9×	183 0.6×	71	2.2k
Mark A. Peletier Netherlands	22	150 0.2×	45 0.1×	77 0.2×	314 0.9×	318 1.0×	98	1.9k
Silvina Ponce Dawson Argentina	24	650 0.7×	15 0.0×	131 0.3×	119 0.3×	79 0.3×	96	2.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sumners, D. W., et al.. (2021). Zero helicity of Seifert framed defects. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 54(29). 295203–295203. 3 indexed citations

Marenduzzo, Davide, Cristian Micheletti, Enzo Orlandini, & D. W. Sumners. (2013). Topological friction strongly affects viral DNA ejection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(50). 20081–20086. 89 indexed citations

Fogg, Jonathan M., et al.. (2012). Bullied no more: when and how DNA shoves proteins around. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 45(3). 257–299. 62 indexed citations

Micheletti, Cristian, Davide Marenduzzo, Enzo Orlandini, & D. W. Sumners. (2008). Simulations of Knotting in Confined Circular DNA. Biophysical Journal. 95(8). 3591–3599. 62 indexed citations

Deibler, Richard W., Jennifer Mann, D. W. Sumners, & Lynn Zechiedrich. (2007). Hin-mediated DNA knotting and recombining promote replicon dysfunction and mutation. BMC Molecular Biology. 8(1). 44–44. 48 indexed citations

Arsuaga, Javier, Mariel Vázquez, Paul R. McGuirk, et al.. (2005). DNA knots reveal a chiral organization of DNA in phage capsids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(26). 9165–9169. 191 indexed citations

Vázquez, Mariel, Sean D. Colloms, & D. W. Sumners. (2004). Tangle Analysis of Xer Recombination Reveals only Three Solutions, all Consistent with a Single Three-dimensional Topological Pathway. Journal of Molecular Biology. 346(2). 493–504. 35 indexed citations

Arsuaga, Javier, Robert K.‐Z. Tan, Mariel Vázquez, D. W. Sumners, & Stephen C. Harvey. (2002). Investigation of viral DNA packaging using molecular mechanics models. Biophysical Chemistry. 101-102. 475–484. 103 indexed citations

Dinov, Ivo D., Michael S. Mega, Paul M. Thompson, et al.. (2000). Analyzing Functional Brain Images in a Probabilistic Atlas: A Validation of Subvolume Thresholding. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 24(1). 128–138. 36 indexed citations

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Hurdal, Monica K., et al.. (2000). Coordinate systems for conformal cerebellar flat maps. NeuroImage. 11(5). S467–S467. 31 indexed citations

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Crisona, Nancy J., et al.. (1999). The Topological Mechanism of Phage λ Integrase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 289(4). 747–775. 65 indexed citations

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Ernst, Claus & D. W. Sumners. (1999). Solving tangle equations arising in a DNA recombination model. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 126(1). 23–36. 27 indexed citations

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Rehm, Kelly, Sally A. Frutiger, Kirt Schaper, et al.. (1998). A symbolic environment for visualizing activated foci in functional neuroimaging datasets. Medical Image Analysis. 2(3). 215–226. 18 indexed citations

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Sumners, D. W., Claus Ernst, Sylvia J. Spengler, & Nicholas R. Cozzarelli. (1995). Analysis of the mechanism of DNA recombination using tangles. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 28(3). 253–313. 68 indexed citations

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Sumners, D. W.. (1992). New Scientific Applications of Geometry and Topology. 15 indexed citations

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Sumners, D. W. & S G Whittington. (1990). Detecting knots in self-avoiding walks. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 23(8). 1471–1472. 7 indexed citations

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Ernst, Claus & D. W. Sumners. (1987). The growth of the number of prime knots. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 102(2). 303–315. 48 indexed citations

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Sumners, D. W., et al.. (1982). There exist arbitrarily many different disk knots with the same exterior. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 86(1). 148–150. 2 indexed citations

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Sumners, D. W., et al.. (1974). A short proof of finite monodromy for analytically irreducible plane curves. Compositio Mathematica. 28(2). 213–216. 4 indexed citations

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Sumners, D. W., et al.. (1971). On higher-dimensional fibered knots. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 153(0). 415–426. 13 indexed citations

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