Donald F. Summers

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Donald F. Summers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald F. Summers has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Epidemiology and 42 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Donald F. Summers's work include Viral Infections and Immunology Research (42 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (38 papers) and Virology and Viral Diseases (34 papers). Donald F. Summers is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Immunology Research (42 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (38 papers) and Virology and Viral Diseases (34 papers). Donald F. Summers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and United Kingdom. Donald F. Summers's co-authors include Jacob V. Maizel, Ellie Ehrenfeld, James R. Etchison, John A. Mudd, Paul H. Atkinson, James Darnell, Lee Hunt, Bogusław Szewczyk, Shirley A. Harmon and Sue A. Moyer and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Donald F. Summers

118 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

The biochemistry of glycoproteins and proteoglycans

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donald F. Summers United States	40	2.5k	1.7k	1.3k	1.3k	1.3k	119	5.5k
Marc S. Collett United States	51	3.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	2.5k 1.9×	1.7k 1.3×	112	8.3k
Leevi Kääriäinen Finland	58	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	816 0.6×	3.7k 2.9×	486 0.4×	152	8.3k
J K Rose United States	49	3.0k 1.2×	2.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	466 0.4×	65	6.5k
Ellie Ehrenfeld United States	47	3.5k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	846 0.6×	2.4k 1.8×	4.3k 3.4×	127	6.9k
Amiya K. Banerjee United States	45	1.5k 0.6×	2.8k 1.6×	1.4k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	413 0.3×	119	5.1k
Karla Kirkegaard United States	52	4.3k 1.7×	2.4k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	2.5k 1.9×	3.3k 2.6×	94	9.4k
Norman P. Salzman United States	40	3.3k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	223 0.2×	114	7.7k
Kurt Bienz Switzerland	34	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	394 0.3×	1.5k 1.2×	2.2k 1.7×	70	4.8k
Mark Krystal United States	45	2.7k 1.1×	3.3k 1.9×	962 0.7×	1.9k 1.5×	626 0.5×	134	6.5k
Stephen Oroszlan United States	59	4.5k 1.8×	2.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.7×	3.4k 2.6×	470 0.4×	197	11.2k

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Shi, Licheng, Donald F. Summers, Qinghai Peng, & Jose M. Galarza. (1995). Influenza A Virus RNA Polymerase Subunit PB2 Is the Endonuclease Which Cleaves Host Cell mRNA and Functions Only as the Trimeric Enzyme. Virology. 208(1). 38–47. 61 indexed citations

Ehrenfeld, Ellie, D. Garrett Brown, Xiaoyu Jia, & Donald F. Summers. (1995). Antibodies against Viral Nonstructural Proteins in Response to Infection with Poliovirus. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 171(4). 845–850. 11 indexed citations

Tesar, Michael, et al.. (1994). Expression of Hepatitis A Virus Precursor Protein P3 in Vivo and in Vitro: Polyprotein Processing of the 3CD Cleavage Site. Virology. 198(2). 524–533. 27 indexed citations

Tesar, Michael, et al.. (1993). Analysis of a Potential Myristoylation Site in Hepatitis A Virus Capsid Protein VP4. Virology. 194(2). 616–626. 36 indexed citations

Robertson, Betty H., et al.. (1993). Antibody response to nonstructural proteins of hepatitis A virus following infection. Journal of Medical Virology. 40(1). 76–82. 26 indexed citations

Tesar, Michael, Shirley A. Harmon, Donald F. Summers, & Ellie Ehrenfeld. (1992). Hepatitis A virus polyprotein synthesis initiates from two alternative AUG codons. Virology. 186(2). 609–618. 39 indexed citations

Robertson, Betty H., et al.. (1992). Serological approaches to distinguish immune response to hepatitis A vaccine and natural infection. Vaccine. 10. S106–S109. 18 indexed citations

Hill, Virginia & Donald F. Summers. (1990). A minor microtubule-associated protein is responsible for the stimulation of vesicular stomatitis virus transcription in vitro. Journal of General Virology. 71(2). 289–298. 17 indexed citations

Harmon, Shirley A., et al.. (1989). Detection of hepatitis A virus RNA and capsid antigen in individual cells. Virus Research. 12(4). 361–369. 20 indexed citations

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Szewczyk, Bogusław & Donald F. Summers. (1988). Preparative elution of proteins blotted to Immobilon membranes. Analytical Biochemistry. 168(1). 48–53. 132 indexed citations

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Harmon, Shirley A., et al.. (1985). Ultrastructural localization of L and NS enzyme subunits on vesicular stomatitis virus RNPs using gold sphere-staphylococcal protein A-monospecific IgG conjugates. Virology. 142(2). 406–410. 12 indexed citations

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Hill, Virginia, et al.. (1980). Replication and assembly of VSV nucleocapsids: Protein association with RNPs and the effects of cycloheximide on replication. Virology. 105(1). 123–135. 22 indexed citations

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Summers, Donald F.. (1980). The biochemistry of glycoproteins and proteoglycans. Cell. 22(3). 944–944. 552 indexed citations breakdown →

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Robertson, James S., James R. Etchison, & Donald F. Summers. (1976). Glycosylation sites of vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein. Journal of Virology. 19(3). 871–878. 44 indexed citations

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Hecht, Toby T. & Donald F. Summers. (1974). Newcastle Disease Virus Infection of L Cells. Journal of Virology. 14(1). 162–169. 16 indexed citations

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Moyer, Sue A. & Donald F. Summers. (1974). Vesicular stomatitis virus envelope glycoprotein alterations induced by host cell transformation. Cell. 2(1). 63–70. 37 indexed citations

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Grubman, Marvin J. & Donald F. Summers. (1973). In Vitro Protein-Synthesizing Activity of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-Infected Cell Extracts. Journal of Virology. 12(2). 265–274. 27 indexed citations

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Cohen, Geraldine H., Paul H. Atkinson, & Donald F. Summers. (1971). Interactions of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Structural Proteins with HeLa Plasma Membranes. Nature New Biology. 231(21). 121–123. 40 indexed citations

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Ehrenfeld, Ellie, Jacob V. Maizel, & Donald F. Summers. (1970). Soluble RNA polymerase complex from poliovirus-infected HeLa cells. Virology. 40(4). 840–846. 57 indexed citations

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Goos, R. D. & Donald F. Summers. (1964). Use of Fluorescent Antibody Techniques in Observations on the Morphogenesis of Fungi. Mycologia. 56(5). 701–707. 5 indexed citations

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