Herbert A. Sober

7.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
72 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

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Herbert A. Sober is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Herbert A. Sober has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Spectroscopy and 7 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Herbert A. Sober's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (26 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (8 papers). Herbert A. Sober is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (26 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (8 papers). Herbert A. Sober collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Malaysia. Herbert A. Sober's co-authors include Elbert A. Peterson, George W. Rushizky, H. B. Levy, Frederick J. Gutter, Mary M. Wyckoff, Alton Meister, Robert T. Simpson, Samuel A. Latt, Arieh Yaron and Robert W. Hartley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Herbert A. Sober

71 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Chromatography of Proteins. I. Cellulose Ion-exchange Adsorbents

1956 1.1k citations Elbert A. Peterson, Herbert A. Sober Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
A Simple Chromatographic Method for Preparation of Gamma Globulin.

1960 579 citations Herbert A. Sober et al. profile →
Chromatography of Proteins. II. Fractionation of Serum Protein on Anion-exchange Cellulose

1956 565 citations Herbert A. Sober, Frederick J. Gutter et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Herbert A. Sober United States	35	3.6k	583	505	477	383	72	5.7k
Pehr Edman Australia	24	3.1k 0.9×	609 1.0×	241 0.5×	289 0.6×	325 0.8×	45	4.9k
Elbert A. Peterson United States	26	2.3k 0.6×	553 0.9×	335 0.7×	366 0.8×	249 0.7×	82	4.3k
A.F.S.A. Habeeb United States	27	3.1k 0.9×	336 0.6×	240 0.5×	416 0.9×	643 1.7×	80	5.4k
Arthur M. Crestfield United States	18	3.0k 0.8×	360 0.6×	289 0.6×	503 1.1×	126 0.3×	21	4.3k
Ephraim Katchalski Israel	52	4.5k 1.3×	802 1.4×	297 0.6×	491 1.0×	313 0.8×	140	6.9k
A. Neuberger United Kingdom	45	3.9k 1.1×	189 0.3×	344 0.7×	552 1.2×	198 0.5×	145	6.2k
Paul C. Zamecnik United States	47	8.2k 2.3×	345 0.6×	331 0.7×	442 0.9×	253 0.7×	129	10.8k
B S Hartley United Kingdom	20	2.4k 0.7×	477 0.8×	176 0.3×	449 0.9×	151 0.4×	28	3.5k
Lyman C. Craig United States	38	2.1k 0.6×	752 1.3×	164 0.3×	249 0.5×	238 0.6×	131	4.2k
Rolf Axén Sweden	19	3.0k 0.8×	358 0.6×	167 0.3×	238 0.5×	1.0k 2.6×	35	5.0k

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Bonavida, Benjamin, et al.. (1972). Specific Antibodies to Dinucleotides and Trinucleotides. European Journal of Biochemistry. 31(3). 534–540. 13 indexed citations

Yaron, Avraham, Ephraim Katchalski, A. Berger, Gerald D. Fasman, & Herbert A. Sober. (1971). The chain length dependence of the conformation for oligomers of L‐lysine in aqueous solution: Optical rotatory dispersion studies. Biopolymers. 10(7). 1107–1120. 60 indexed citations

Simpson, Robert T. & Herbert A. Sober. (1970). Circular dichrosim of calf liver nucleohistone. Biochemistry. 9(16). 3103–3109. 143 indexed citations

Cummings, Norman A., Edward L. Kuff, & Herbert A. Sober. (1968). Examination of magnesium binding to serum proteins by ultracentrifugal analysis. Analytical Biochemistry. 22(1). 108–116. 7 indexed citations

Latt, Samuel A. & Herbert A. Sober. (1967). Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions. III. Cation Effect on Binding Strength and Specificity^*. Biochemistry. 6(10). 3307–3314. 48 indexed citations

Schlossman, Stuart F., Shlomo Ben‐Efraim, Arieh Yaron, & Herbert A. Sober. (1966). IMMUNOCHEMICAL STUDIES ON THE ANTIGENIC DETERMINANTS REQUIRED TO ELICIT DELAYED AND IMMEDIATE HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 123(6). 1083–1095. 52 indexed citations

Arnon, Ruth, Michael Sela, Arieh Yaron, & Herbert A. Sober. (1965). Polylysine-specific Antibodies and Their Reaction with Oligolysines^*. Biochemistry. 4(5). 948–953. 49 indexed citations

Rushizky, George W., et al.. (1965). Characterization of the Major Compounds Found in Ribonuclease T1 Digests of Ribonucleic Acid. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 240(10). 3984–3987. 16 indexed citations

Pratt, Arnold W., et al.. (1964). Spectral Characterization of Oligonucleotides by Computational Methods. Biochemistry. 3(12). 1831–1837. 26 indexed citations

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Rushizky, George W. & Herbert A. Sober. (1964). Chromatography of tri- and tetranucleotides from pancreatic ribonuclease digests of ribonucleic acid. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 14(3). 276–279. 39 indexed citations

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Rushizky, George W., et al.. (1963). Chromatography of Ribonuclease T₁ Digests of RNA on the DEAE-Cellulose in 7 M Urea. Biochemistry. 2(6). 1179–1184. 33 indexed citations

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Rushizky, George W., C.A. Knight, & Herbert A. Sober. (1961). Studies on the Preferential Specificity of Pancreatic Ribonuclease as Deduced from Partial Digests. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 236(10). 2732–2737. 49 indexed citations

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Peterson, Elbert A. & Herbert A. Sober. (1959). Variable Gradient Device for Chromatography. Analytical Chemistry. 31(5). 857–862. 179 indexed citations

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Gutter, Frederick J., Herbert A. Sober, & Elbert A. Peterson. (1957). Sedimentation behavior of horse carbon monoxide hemoglobin at low pH in the presence of mercaptoethanol and urea. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 71(2). 342–345. 9 indexed citations

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Peterson, Elbert A. & Herbert A. Sober. (1956). Chromatography of Proteins. I. Cellulose Ion-exchange Adsorbents. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 78(4). 751–755. 1082 indexed citations breakdown →

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Weisburger, John H., Elizabeth K. Weisburger, Harold P. Morris, & Herbert A. Sober. (1956). Chromatographic Separation of Some Metabolites of the Carcinogen <italic>N</italic>-2-Fluorenylacetamide. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 17(3). 363–74. 47 indexed citations

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Sober, Herbert A. & Elbert A. Peterson. (1954). CHROMATOGRAPHY OF PROTEINS ON CELLULOSE ION-EXCHANGERS. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 76(6). 1711–1712. 136 indexed citations

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Meister, Alton, Herbert A. Sober, & Elbert A. Peterson. (1952). ACTIVATION OF PURIFIED GLUTAMIC—ASPARTIC APOTRANSAMINASE BY CRYSTALLINE PYRIDOXAMINE PHOSPHATE. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 74(9). 2385–2386. 22 indexed citations

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Baker, Carl, et al.. (1952). Optical Enantiomorphs of Isovaline. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 74(18). 4701–4702. 29 indexed citations

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Meister, Alton, et al.. (1951). DETERMINATION OF ASPARTIC AND GLUTAMIC ACIDS BY ENZYMATIC DECARBOXYLATION. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 189(2). 591–595. 61 indexed citations

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