George Hartzell

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
7 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

George Hartzell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, George Hartzell has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Ecology. Recurrent topics in George Hartzell's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (2 papers). George Hartzell is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (2 papers). George Hartzell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. George Hartzell's co-authors include Matthew P. Scott, John W. Tamkun, Gary D. Stormo, Gerald M. Rubin, Liliana Florea, Zheng Zhang, Webb Miller, Gerald Z. Hertz, Uwe Ohler and Suzanna Lewis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Genome Research and PLoS Computational Biology.

In The Last Decade

George Hartzell

7 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

The structure and function of the homeodomain 1989 2026 2001 2013 1989 1998 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. The structure and function of the homeodomain
    1989 896 citations Matthew P. Scott, John W. Tamkun et al. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer profile →
  2. A Computer Program for Aligning a cDNA Sequence with a Genomic DNA Sequence
    1998 589 citations Liliana Florea, George Hartzell et al. Genome Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George Hartzell United States 7 2.0k 504 344 118 111 7 2.3k
NISC Comparative Sequencing Program United States 14 1.2k 0.6× 485 1.0× 478 1.4× 73 0.6× 62 0.6× 22 1.6k
Mark Dubnick United States 8 1.9k 0.9× 453 0.9× 455 1.3× 41 0.3× 155 1.4× 10 2.4k
Charles B. Lawrence United States 16 1.5k 0.7× 852 1.7× 220 0.6× 41 0.3× 98 0.9× 42 2.2k
John Bouck United States 10 1.1k 0.5× 371 0.7× 453 1.3× 51 0.4× 137 1.2× 15 1.5k
Elizabeth Nickerson United States 10 1.3k 0.7× 454 0.9× 338 1.0× 31 0.3× 126 1.1× 13 1.9k
Andrew Wu United Kingdom 5 1.3k 0.7× 331 0.7× 395 1.1× 28 0.2× 102 0.9× 5 1.7k
Jeannine D. Gocayne United States 7 1.4k 0.7× 388 0.8× 366 1.1× 29 0.2× 134 1.2× 9 2.0k
Vsevolod J. Makeev Russia 29 2.4k 1.2× 449 0.9× 379 1.1× 80 0.7× 266 2.4× 93 3.0k
Jenny M. Kelley United States 11 2.2k 1.1× 646 1.3× 478 1.4× 40 0.3× 215 1.9× 14 3.0k
Şerban Nacu United States 9 1.2k 0.6× 401 0.8× 347 1.0× 60 0.5× 198 1.8× 10 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by George Hartzell

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Hartzell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Hartzell

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

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
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Yandell, Mark, Chris Mungall, Chris Smith, et al.. (2006). Large-Scale Trends in the Evolution of Gene Structures within 11 Animal Genomes. PLoS Computational Biology. 2(3). e15–e15. 62 indexed citations
2.
Reese, Martin G., George Hartzell, Nomi L. Harris, et al.. (2000). Genome Annotation Assessment in Drosophila melanogaster. Genome Research. 10(4). 483–501. 139 indexed citations
3.
Florea, Liliana, George Hartzell, Zheng Zhang, Gerald M. Rubin, & Webb Miller. (1998). A Computer Program for Aligning a cDNA Sequence with a Genomic DNA Sequence. Genome Research. 8(9). 967–974. 589 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lipshutz, Robert J., et al.. (1994). DNA Sequence Confidence Estimation. Genomics. 19(3). 417–424. 12 indexed citations
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Hertz, Gerald Z., George Hartzell, & Gary D. Stormo. (1990). Identification of consensus patterns in unaligned DNA sequences known to be functionally related. Computer applications in the biosciences. 6(2). 81–92. 259 indexed citations
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Scott, Matthew P., John W. Tamkun, & George Hartzell. (1989). The structure and function of the homeodomain. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 989(1). 25–48. 896 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stormo, Gary D. & George Hartzell. (1989). Identifying protein-binding sites from unaligned DNA fragments.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 86(4). 1183–1187. 336 indexed citations

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