Fred W. McLafferty

36.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
424 papers, 30.2k citations indexed

About

Fred W. McLafferty is a scholar working on Spectroscopy, Molecular Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred W. McLafferty has authored 424 papers receiving a total of 30.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 303 papers in Spectroscopy, 103 papers in Molecular Biology and 63 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Fred W. McLafferty's work include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (254 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (180 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (44 papers). Fred W. McLafferty is often cited by papers focused on Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (254 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (180 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (44 papers). Fred W. McLafferty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Japan. Fred W. McLafferty's co-authors include Neil L. Kelleher, Roman A. Zubarev, Einar Stenhagen, David M. Horn, Kathrin Breuker, Sixten Abrahamsson, Michael W. Senko, Douglas B. Stauffer, Chrysostomos Wesdemiotis and Daniel P. Little and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fred W. McLafferty

422 papers receiving 28.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Electron Capture Dissociation of Multiply Charged Protein Cations. A Nonergodic Process

1998 1.6k citations Neil L. Kelleher, Fred W. McLafferty et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Registry of mass spectral data

1974 1.5k citations Einar Stenhagen, Sixten Abrahamsson et al. profile →
The Wiley/NBS registry of mass spectral data

1989 1.3k citations Fred W. McLafferty, Douglas B. Stauffer et al. Wiley eBooks profile →
Electron Capture Dissociation for Structural Characterization of Multiply Charged Protein Cations

2000 832 citations David M. Horn, Neil L. Kelleher et al. Analytical Chemistry profile →
Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation of Large Multiply Charged Ions for Biomolecule Sequencing

1994 635 citations Daniel P. Little, J. Paul Speir et al. Analytical Chemistry profile →
Mass Spectrometry of Organic Ions

1964 495 citations Fred W. McLafferty et al. profile →
Top Down versus Bottom Up Protein Characterization by Tandem High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

1999 481 citations Neil L. Kelleher, Fred W. McLafferty et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Extending Top-Down Mass Spectrometry to Proteins with Masses Greater Than 200 Kilodaltons 2006 ·Science ·Xuemei Han, Mi Sun Jin, Kathrin Breuker, Fred W. McLafferty	263
2	The Thermal Unfolding of Native Cytochrome c in the Transition from Solution to Gas Phase Probed by Native Electron Capture Dissociation 2005 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Kathrin Breuker, Fred W. McLafferty	66
3	The Biosynthesis of the Thiazole Phosphate Moiety of Thiamin (Vitamin B ₁ ): The Early Steps Catalyzed by Thiazole Synthase 2004 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Pieter C. Dorrestein, (unknown), Sean V. Taylor, Fred W. McLafferty, Tadhg P. Begley	42
4	The Biosynthesis of the Thiazole Phosphate Moiety of ThiaminThe Sulfur Transfer Mediated by the Sulfur Carrier Protein ThiS 2004 ·Chemistry & Biology ·Pieter C. Dorrestein, (unknown), Fred W. McLafferty, Tadhg P. Begley	3
5	The Biosynthesis of the Thiazole Phosphate Moiety of Thiamin 2004 ·Chemistry & Biology ·Pieter C. Dorrestein, Huili Zhai, Fred W. McLafferty, Tadhg P. Begley	52
6	Simultaneous Characterization of the Reductive Unfolding Pathways of RNase B Isoforms by Top-Down Mass Spectrometry 2004 ·Chemistry & Biology ·Guoqiang Xu, Huili Zhai, Mahesh Narayan, Fred W. McLafferty, Harold A. Scheraga	10
7	Phosphopantothenoylcysteine Synthetase from Escherichia coli 2001 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Erick Strauss, Cynthia Kinsland, Ying Ge, Fred W. McLafferty, Tadhg P. Begley	83
8	Phosphopeptide/Phosphoprotein Mapping by Electron Capture Dissociation Mass Spectrometry 2000 ·Analytical Chemistry ·Stone D.‐H. Shi, Mark E. Hemling, Steven A. Carr, David M. Horn, (unknown), Fred W. McLafferty	254
9	Identification of Modification Sites in Large Biomolecules by Stable Isotope Labeling and Tandem High Resolution Mass Spectrometry 1997 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Neil L. Kelleher, (unknown), Tadhg P. Begley, Fred W. McLafferty	41
10	Surface-Induced Dissociation of Multiply-Protonated Proteins 1995 ·Analytical Chemistry ·Russell Chorush, Daniel P. Little, Steven C. Beu, Troy D. Wood, Fred W. McLafferty	90
11	Direct Sequence Data from Heterogeneous Creatine Kinase (43 kDa) by High-Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometry 1995 ·Biochemistry ·Troy D. Wood, (unknown), Neil L. Kelleher, Daniel P. Little, George L. Kenyon, Fred W. McLafferty	31
12	Collisional Activation of Large Multiply Charged Ions Using Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry 1994 ·Analytical Chemistry ·Michael W. Senko, J. Paul Speir, Fred W. McLafferty	221
13	Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation of Large Multiply Charged Ions for Biomolecule Sequencing breakdown → 1994 ·Analytical Chemistry ·Daniel P. Little, J. Paul Speir, Michael W. Senko, Peter B. O’Connor, Fred W. McLafferty	635
14	Hadamard transform measurement of tandem Fourier-transform mass spectra 1990 ·Analytical Chemistry ·Evan R. Williams, (unknown), Fred W. McLafferty, Robert B. Cody	55
15	The Wiley/NBS registry of mass spectral data breakdown → 1989 ·Wiley eBooks ·Fred W. McLafferty, Douglas B. Stauffer, Einar Stenhagen, Stephen R. Heller	1316
16	Collisional activation mass spectra 1979 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences ·Fred W. McLafferty	34
17	Atlas of mass spectral data 1969 ·Einar Stenhagen, Sixten Abrahamsson, Fred W. McLafferty	220
18	ATLAS OF MASS SPECTRAL DATA. VOLUMES 1, 2, AND 3. 1969 ·OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Einar Stenhagen, S. Abrahamsson, Fred W. McLafferty	1
19	Subsitituent effects in unimolecular ion decompositions. IX. Specific hydrogen rearrangement in butyrophenones 1967 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Fred W. McLafferty, Timothy Wachs	16
20	Interpretation of mass spectra : an introduction 1966 ·Fred W. McLafferty	30

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