E. B. Chain

8.9k total citations
106 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

E. B. Chain is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, E. B. Chain has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Plant Science and 17 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in E. B. Chain's work include Plant and fungal interactions (14 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (10 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (9 papers). E. B. Chain is often cited by papers focused on Plant and fungal interactions (14 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (10 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (9 papers). E. B. Chain collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Netherlands. E. B. Chain's co-authors include G. Mellows, David J. Hearse, F. R. Batchelor, G. N. Rolinson, F. Pocchiari, G. T. Banks, K. W. Buck, Alberto Tonolo, F. Himmelweit and K. D. Barrow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and Annual Review of Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

E. B. Chain

104 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
E. B. Chain United Kingdom 29 1.0k 585 508 329 247 106 2.7k
Darrell E. Anderson United States 18 914 0.9× 93 0.2× 197 0.4× 108 0.3× 86 0.3× 32 2.3k
Gary A. Thompson United States 35 1.4k 1.3× 223 0.4× 2.6k 5.1× 99 0.3× 43 0.2× 114 4.2k
Yoshinori Mikami Japan 28 767 0.7× 261 0.4× 181 0.4× 212 0.6× 32 0.1× 88 3.5k
Peter J. Curtis United States 38 1.9k 1.8× 203 0.3× 347 0.7× 124 0.4× 9 0.0× 108 4.4k
Ricardo N. Farı́as Argentina 35 2.6k 2.5× 944 1.6× 245 0.5× 172 0.5× 55 0.2× 119 4.0k
G. Albers‐Schönberg United States 16 1.4k 1.4× 811 1.4× 224 0.4× 318 1.0× 10 0.0× 21 3.1k
Goro Chihara Japan 23 744 0.7× 1.1k 1.9× 1.2k 2.4× 150 0.5× 16 0.1× 66 2.6k
Chien‐Yun Hsiang Taiwan 35 1.2k 1.1× 413 0.7× 464 0.9× 163 0.5× 25 0.1× 93 3.1k
Charles Gilvarg United States 35 2.2k 2.1× 123 0.2× 302 0.6× 308 0.9× 33 0.1× 80 3.1k
Jatin Sharma India 20 592 0.6× 89 0.2× 448 0.9× 164 0.5× 52 0.2× 78 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by E. B. Chain

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of E. B. Chain's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by E. B. Chain with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites E. B. Chain more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by E. B. Chain

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by E. B. Chain. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by E. B. Chain. The network helps show where E. B. Chain may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of E. B. Chain

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of E. B. Chain. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of E. B. Chain based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with E. B. Chain. E. B. Chain is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Chain, E. B., H. W. Florey, A. D. Gardner, et al.. (2005). THE CLASSIC: Penicillin as a Chemotherapeutic Agent. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 439(&NA;). 23–26. 26 indexed citations
2.
Chain, E. B., H. W. Florey, Maria Adelaide, et al.. (1993). Penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent. 1940.. PubMed. 3–7. 9 indexed citations
3.
Chain, E. B.. (1979). Fleming's contribution to the discovery of penicillin. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 4(6). 143–144. 2 indexed citations
4.
5.
Chain, E. B.. (1972). Thirty Years of Penicillin Therapy. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 6(2). 103–131. 3 indexed citations
6.
Buck, K. W., et al.. (1972). Viruses of Penicillium and Aspergillus species. Biochemical Journal. 127(2). 4P–6P. 18 indexed citations
7.
Fuller, A. T., G. Mellows, Michael K. Woolford, et al.. (1971). Pseudomonic Acid: an Antibiotic produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens. Nature. 234(5329). 416–417. 214 indexed citations
8.
Dodd, Peter R., H. F. Bradford, & E. B. Chain. (1971). The metabolism of glucose 6-phosphate by mammalian cerebral cortex in vitro. Biochemical Journal. 125(4). 1027–1038. 6 indexed citations
9.
Barrow, K. D., D. H. R. BARTON, E. B. Chain, et al.. (1971). Fusicoccin. Part I. The nature of the substituent groups. Journal of the Chemical Society C Organic. 1259–1259. 17 indexed citations
10.
Banks, G. T., K. W. Buck, E. B. Chain, et al.. (1970). Antiviral Activity of Double Stranded RNA from a Virus isolated from Aspergillus foetidus. Nature. 227(5257). 505–507. 43 indexed citations
11.
Chain, E. B., S. P. R. Rose, I. Masi, & F. Pocchiari. (1969). METABOLISM OF HEXOSES IN RAT CEREBRAL CORTEX SLICES. Journal of Neurochemistry. 16(1). 93–100. 28 indexed citations
12.
Chain, E. B.. (1967). The Quest for New Biodynamic Substances. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 10(2). 177–210. 5 indexed citations
13.
Ballio, A., et al.. (1961). Identification of a Compound related to 6-Aminopenicillanic Acid, isolated from Culture Media of Penicillium chrysogenum. Nature. 191(4791). 909–910. 20 indexed citations
14.
Rolinson, G. N., et al.. (1960). BACTERIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON A NEW PENICILLIN—BRL.1241. The Lancet. 276(7150). 564–567. 104 indexed citations
15.
Ballio, A., et al.. (1960). Incorporation of α,ω-Dicarboxylic Acids as Side-chains into the Penicillin Molecule. Nature. 185(4706). 97–99. 9 indexed citations
16.
Rolinson, G. N., et al.. (1960). Formation of 6-Aminopenicillanic Acid from Penicillin by Enzymatic Hydrolysis. Nature. 187(4733). 236–237. 97 indexed citations
17.
Chain, E. B., et al.. (1960). The fate of glucose in different parts of the rabbit brain. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 152(948). 283–289. 20 indexed citations
18.
Beloff-Chain, Anne, Roberto Catanzaro, E. B. Chain, I. Masi, & F. Pocchiari. (1955). Fate of uniformly labelled 14C glucose in brain slices. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 144(914). 22–28. 60 indexed citations
19.
Beloff-Chain, Anne, Roberto Catanzaro, E. B. Chain, et al.. (1955). The influence of insulin on carbohydrate metabolism in the isolated diaphragm muscle of normal and alloxan diabetic rats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 143(913). 481–503. 69 indexed citations
20.
Pirt, S. J. & E. B. Chain. (1952). A micromethod for the serial determination of organically bound halogen. Biochemical Journal. 50(5). 716–719. 1 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Darrell E. Anderson Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Gary A. Thompson Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Yoshinori Mikami Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Peter J. Curtis Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ricardo N. Farı́as Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by G. Albers‐Schönberg Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Goro Chihara Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Chien‐Yun Hsiang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Charles Gilvarg Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jatin Sharma
Rankless by CCL
2026