D.L. Worcester

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

D.L. Worcester is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, D.L. Worcester has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in D.L. Worcester's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (8 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (5 papers). D.L. Worcester is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (8 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (5 papers). D.L. Worcester collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. D.L. Worcester's co-authors include Nicholas P. Franks, Huey W. Huang, Steven J. Ludtke, Ke He, John Wooley, J. F. Pardon, B. M. Richards, Kelly Tatchell, K. E. Van Holde and Rosalind I. Cotter and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

D.L. Worcester

26 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Structural analysis of hydrated egg lecithin and cholesterol bilayers I. X-ray diffraction

1976 456 citations D.L. Worcester Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D.L. Worcester United States	14	1.3k	297	212	179	161	26	1.6k
Jeffrey F. Ellena United States	25	1.2k 0.9×	208 0.7×	155 0.7×	193 1.1×	71 0.4×	50	1.7k
Michael F. Brown United States	27	1.8k 1.3×	461 1.6×	199 0.9×	329 1.8×	193 1.2×	54	2.4k
William R. Veatch United States	18	1.6k 1.2×	323 1.1×	144 0.7×	297 1.7×	149 0.9×	23	1.9k
Moisés Eisenberg United States	17	1.4k 1.1×	287 1.0×	166 0.8×	129 0.7×	60 0.4×	20	1.7k
Lena Mäler Sweden	26	1.4k 1.1×	204 0.7×	182 0.9×	150 0.8×	161 1.0×	83	2.0k
Jean‐Michel Neumann France	25	1.9k 1.4×	119 0.4×	166 0.8×	334 1.9×	123 0.8×	89	2.2k
Marcia S. Pottle United States	12	1.7k 1.3×	284 1.0×	351 1.7×	150 0.8×	78 0.5×	12	2.1k
Mihaela Mihailescu United States	19	855 0.7×	246 0.8×	268 1.3×	114 0.6×	172 1.1×	31	1.3k
Jean Louis Rigaud France	25	1.7k 1.3×	228 0.8×	248 1.2×	497 2.8×	35 0.2×	41	2.2k
Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan India	24	1.5k 1.1×	229 0.8×	132 0.6×	212 1.2×	53 0.3×	77	2.0k

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Tronin, Andrey, Sanju Gupta, D.L. Worcester, et al.. (2013). Structural changes in single membranes in response to an applied transmembrane electric potential revealed by time-resolved neutron/X-ray interferometry. Chemical Physics. 422. 283–289. 5 indexed citations

He, Ke, Steven J. Ludtke, D.L. Worcester, & Huey W. Huang. (1996). Neutron scattering in the plane of membranes: structure of alamethicin pores. Biophysical Journal. 70(6). 2659–2666. 198 indexed citations

Worcester, D.L., et al.. (1996). Intercalation of Small Hydrophobic Molecules in Lipid Bilayers Containing Cholesterol. PubMed. 64. 215–226. 3 indexed citations

Worcester, D.L.. (1991). Solutions to the one-dimensional inverse scattering problem with missing phase information. Physica B Condensed Matter. 173(1-2). 139–141. 11 indexed citations

Worcester, D.L., et al.. (1989). Structure, red-shifted absorption and electron transport properties of specific aggregates of chlorophylls. Physica B Condensed Matter. 156-157. 502–504. 8 indexed citations

Worcester, D.L., R. G. Miller, & Patrick Bryant. (1988). Atomic force microscopy of purple membranes. Journal of Microscopy. 152(3). 817–821. 31 indexed citations

Worcester, D.L.. (1988). Contrast variation and the versatility of deuterium in structural studies of biological macromolecules. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 21(6). 669–674. 1 indexed citations

Vuong, T. Minh, Claude Pfister, D.L. Worcester, & Marc Chabre. (1987). The transducin cascade is involved in the light-induced structural changes observed by neutron diffraction on retinal rod outer segments. Biophysical Journal. 52(4). 587–594. 8 indexed citations

Worcester, D.L., et al.. (1984). Retinal location in purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium: a neutron diffraction study of membranes labelled in vivo with deuterated retinal.. The EMBO Journal. 3(7). 1455–1461. 50 indexed citations

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Laggner, P., Gerhard M. Kostner, G. Degovics, & D.L. Worcester. (1984). Structure of the cholesteryl ester core of human plasma low density lipoproteins: selective deuteration and neutron small-angle scattering.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 81(14). 4389–4393. 30 indexed citations

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Reich, Michael, Zvi Kam, H. S. Eisenberg, et al.. (1982). Solution scattering studies of dimeric and tetrameric spectrin. Biophysical Chemistry. 16(4). 307–316. 13 indexed citations

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Sadler, D. M. & D.L. Worcester. (1982). Neutron scattering studies of photosynthetic membranes in aqueous dispersion. Journal of Molecular Biology. 159(3). 485–499. 20 indexed citations

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Chabre, Marc & D.L. Worcester. (1982). [81] X-Ray and neutron diffraction of retinal rod outer segments. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 81. 593–604. 1 indexed citations

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Sadler, D. M. & D.L. Worcester. (1982). Neutron diffraction studies of oriented photosynthetic membranes. Journal of Molecular Biology. 159(3). 467–482. 12 indexed citations

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Richards, B. M., et al.. (1978). Nucleosome sub-structure during transcription and replication. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 283(997). 287–289. 5 indexed citations

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Pardon, J. F., Rosalind I. Cotter, David M.J. Lilley, et al.. (1978). Scattering Studies of Chromatin Subunits. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 42(0). 11–22. 14 indexed citations

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Worcester, D.L.. (1978). Structural origins of diamagnetic anisotropy in proteins.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 75(11). 5475–5477. 154 indexed citations

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Pardon, J. F., D.L. Worcester, John Wooley, et al.. (1977). The structure of the chromatin core particle in solution. Nucleic Acids Research. 4(9). 3199–3214. 91 indexed citations

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Worcester, D.L.. (1976). Structural analysis of hydrated egg lecithin and cholesterol bilayers I. X-ray diffraction. Journal of Molecular Biology. 100(3). 345–358. 456 indexed citations breakdown →

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Worcester, D.L.. (1976). Neutron diffraction studies of biological membranes and membrane components.. PubMed. III37–III57. 18 indexed citations

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