Douglas S. English

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Douglas S. English is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas S. English has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Douglas S. English's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (9 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (9 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (8 papers). Douglas S. English is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (9 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (9 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (8 papers). Douglas S. English collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Australia. Douglas S. English's co-authors include Paul F. Barbara, Angela M. Belcher, Sandra R. Whaley, Evelyn L. Hu, Xiang Wang, Jacob W. Petrich, Hedi Mattoussi, Igor L. Medintz, Thomas Pons and Brian A. Korgel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Douglas S. English

49 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Selection of peptides with semiconductor binding specificity for directed nanocrystal assembly

2000 1.0k citations Sandra R. Whaley, Douglas S. English et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas S. English United States	32	1.6k	1.5k	749	742	723	49	3.6k
Mariano Venanzi Italy	30	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	575 0.8×	449 0.6×	485 0.7×	194	3.1k
Andrea Romeo Italy	32	1.2k 0.7×	2.2k 1.5×	361 0.5×	531 0.7×	323 0.4×	114	3.2k
Helmuth Moehwald Germany	30	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	517 0.7×	903 1.2×	859 1.2×	52	3.9k
Stefano Masiero Italy	33	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	833 1.1×	469 0.6×	438 0.6×	91	3.4k
Petr Štěpánek Czechia	34	775 0.5×	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	960 1.3×	274 0.4×	208	4.6k
Ming Da Lee Singapore	34	828 0.5×	2.7k 1.8×	353 0.5×	1.3k 1.7×	1.5k 2.1×	90	4.7k
Yoav Eichen Israel	30	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	225 0.3×	702 0.9×	1.4k 1.9×	118	4.4k
Joachim Venzmer Germany	19	883 0.6×	730 0.5×	644 0.9×	363 0.5×	361 0.5×	41	3.3k
Bruce A. Armitage United States	40	4.0k 2.5×	1.3k 0.9×	328 0.4×	532 0.7×	328 0.5×	114	5.6k
Hans von Berlepsch Germany	33	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	720 1.0×	374 0.5×	354 0.5×	105	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douglas S. English

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Göktürk, Pınar Aydoğan, et al.. (2025). Time-resolved electrical potential pump – X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy probe developments for investigating dynamic processes occurring at electrochemical interfaces. Applied Surface Science. 713. 164185–164185. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xueqiang, et al.. (2025). Challenges and strategies for probing the composite interface of PEM electrolyzers and fuel cells using operando AP-XPS. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(27). 21672–21682. 1 indexed citations

Bai, Xia, Xiang Wang, Douglas S. English, & Sang Bok Lee. (2015). Loading and Release of Doxorubicin with Magnetic Nanotubes^#. Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society. 36(3). 772–776. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Zifan, et al.. (2013). LacI-DNA-IPTG Loops: Equilibria among Conformations by Single-Molecule FRET. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 117(16). 4713–4722. 15 indexed citations

Campos, Luis A., Mourad Sadqi, Jianwei Liu, et al.. (2013). Gradual Disordering of the Native State on a Slow Two-State Folding Protein Monitored by Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy and NMR. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 117(42). 13120–13131. 22 indexed citations

Liu, Jianwei, Luis A. Campos, Michele Cerminara, et al.. (2011). Exploring one-state downhill protein folding in single molecules. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(1). 179–184. 47 indexed citations

Campos, Luis A., Jianwei Liu, Xiang Wang, et al.. (2011). A photoprotection strategy for microsecond-resolution single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. Nature Methods. 8(2). 143–146. 98 indexed citations

Wang, Zifan, Mandy H. M. Leung, Tak W. Kee, & Douglas S. English. (2009). The Role of Charge in the Surfactant-Assisted Stabilization of the Natural Product Curcumin. Langmuir. 26(8). 5520–5526. 112 indexed citations

Wang, Xiang, et al.. (2009). Catanionic surfactant vesicles for electrostatic molecular sequestration and separation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(41). 9315–9315. 52 indexed citations

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Park, Juhee, et al.. (2008). Carbohydrate-functionalized catanionic surfactant vesicles: preparation and lectin-binding studies. Soft Matter. 4(9). 1916–1916. 36 indexed citations

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Dias, Eva A., Amy F. Grimes, Douglas S. English, & Patanjali Kambhampati. (2008). Single Dot Spectroscopy of Two-Color Quantum Dot/Quantum Shell Nanostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 112(37). 14229–14232. 34 indexed citations

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English, Douglas S.. (2007). A Book of Nimble Beasts; Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "those Sort of People,". Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 1 indexed citations

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Danoff, Emily J., et al.. (2007). Surfactant Vesicles for High-Efficiency Capture and Separation of Charged Organic Solutes. Langmuir. 23(17). 8965–8971. 52 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiang, et al.. (2006). Highly Efficient Capture and Long-Term Encapsulation of Dye by Catanionic Surfactant Vesicles. Langmuir. 22(15). 6461–6464. 49 indexed citations

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Okamoto, Kazumasa, et al.. (2005). Polymer nanochannel fabrication and analysis of single protein molecules. 13. 762–765. 1 indexed citations

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Morgan, Michael A., Kenji Okamoto, Jason D. Kahn, & Douglas S. English. (2005). Single-Molecule Spectroscopic Determination of Lac Repressor-DNA Loop Conformation. Biophysical Journal. 89(4). 2588–2596. 50 indexed citations

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Jang, Heeun, Lindsay E. Pell, Brian A. Korgel, & Douglas S. English. (2003). Photoluminescence quenching of silicon nanoparticles in phospholipid vesicle bilayers. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 158(2-3). 111–117. 52 indexed citations

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Whaley, Sandra R., Douglas S. English, Evelyn L. Hu, Paul F. Barbara, & Angela M. Belcher. (2000). Selection of peptides with semiconductor binding specificity for directed nanocrystal assembly. Nature. 405(6787). 665–668. 1021 indexed citations breakdown →

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English, Douglas S., Wenyi Zhang, George A. Kraus, & Jacob W. Petrich. (1997). Excited-State Photophysics of Hypericin and Its Hexamethoxy Analog: Intramolecular Proton Transfer as a Nonradiative Process in Hypericin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(13). 2980–2986. 68 indexed citations

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Das, K., Douglas S. English, & Jacob W. Petrich. (1997). Solvent Dependence on the Intramolecular Excited-State Proton or Hydrogen Atom Transfer in Hypocrellin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(11). 2763–2764. 57 indexed citations

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