Frank Salinas

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Frank Salinas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Salinas has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Frank Salinas's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers). Frank Salinas is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers). Frank Salinas collaborates with scholars based in United States. Frank Salinas's co-authors include Stephen J. Benkovic, Michael D. Musick, Michael J. Natan, Lin He, Christine D. Keating, Ann M. Valentine, Thomas Kodadek, Steven M. Firestine, Andrew E. Nixon and Stephen J. Baker and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Frank Salinas

11 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Colloidal Au-Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance for Ultra... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Colloidal Au-Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance for Ultrasensitive Detection of DNA Hybridization
    2000 780 citations Lin He, Michael D. Musick et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers

Frank Salinas
Srujan Kumar Dondapati Germany
Pompi Hazarika Germany
Donna Coleman United States
Meghan B. O’Donoghue United States
Stacey N. Peterson United States
Razvan Nutiu Canada
Phil Holzmeister Germany
Dongbao Yao China
Shirley S. Daube Israel
Mi-Young Hong South Korea
Srujan Kumar Dondapati Germany
Frank Salinas
Citations per year, relative to Frank Salinas Frank Salinas (= 1×) peers Srujan Kumar Dondapati

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Salinas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frank Salinas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Frank Salinas. 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 Frank Salinas. The network helps show where Frank Salinas may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Salinas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Frank Salinas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Frank Salinas 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 Frank Salinas. Frank Salinas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Benkovic, Stephen J., Ann M. Valentine, & Frank Salinas. (2001). Replisome-Mediated DNA Replication. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 70(1). 181–208. 259 indexed citations
2.
Firestine, Steven M., Frank Salinas, Andrew E. Nixon, Stephen J. Baker, & Stephen J. Benkovic. (2000). Using an AraC-based three-hybrid system to detect biocatalysts in vivo. Nature Biotechnology. 18(5). 544–547. 43 indexed citations
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He, Lin, Michael D. Musick, Frank Salinas, et al.. (2000). Colloidal Au-Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance for Ultrasensitive Detection of DNA Hybridization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122(38). 9071–9077. 780 indexed citations breakdown →
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Salinas, Frank & Stephen J. Benkovic. (2000). Characterization of bacteriophage T4-coordinated leading- and lagging-strand synthesis on a minicircle substrate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(13). 7196–7201. 55 indexed citations
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Baker, Stephen J., Steven M. Firestine, David B. Smithrud, Frank Salinas, & Stephen J. Benkovic. (2000). Synthesis of two bi-functional ligands for the QUEST three-hybrid system. Tetrahedron Letters. 41(36). 7009–7012. 1 indexed citations
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Nixon, Andrew E., Steven M. Firestine, Frank Salinas, & Stephen J. Benkovic. (1999). Rational design of a scytalone dehydratase-like enzyme using a structurally homologous protein scaffold. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(7). 3568–3571. 24 indexed citations
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Jiang, Hua, Frank Salinas, & Thomas Kodadek. (1997). The Gene 32 Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein Is Not Bound Stably to the Phage T4 Presynaptic Filament. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 231(3). 600–605. 7 indexed citations
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Salinas, Frank, Hua Jiang, & Thomas Kodadek. (1995). Homology Dependence of UvsX Protein-catalyzed Joint Molecule Formation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(10). 5181–5186. 4 indexed citations
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Salinas, Frank & Thomas Kodadek. (1995). Phage T4 homologous strand exchange: A DNA helicase, not the strand transferase, drives polar branch migration. Cell. 82(1). 111–119. 58 indexed citations
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Salinas, Frank & Thomas Kodadek. (1994). Strand Exchange Through a DNA-Protein Complex Requires a DNA Helicase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 205(2). 1004–1009. 7 indexed citations
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Minguell, José J., et al.. (1969). Nucleic acid metabolism in the embryonic rat liver.. PubMed. 33(3). 217–20. 6 indexed citations

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