Hiro Tsuruta

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Hiro Tsuruta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiro Tsuruta has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Hiro Tsuruta's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (22 papers), Biochemical and Molecular Research (15 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers). Hiro Tsuruta is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (22 papers), Biochemical and Molecular Research (15 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers). Hiro Tsuruta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Hiro Tsuruta's co-authors include John E. Johnson, Robert L. Duda, Roger W. Hendrix, William R. Wikoff, Lars Liljas, Thomas Weiß, M. Niebuhr, Evan R. Kantrowitz, Andrej Săli and Anne Martel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Hiro Tsuruta

51 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Topologically Linked Protein Rings in the Bacteriophage HK97 Capsid
    2000 602 citations William R. Wikoff, Robert L. Duda et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hiro Tsuruta United States 25 1.4k 694 627 275 214 52 2.2k
Neil Voss United States 16 1.9k 1.3× 341 0.5× 292 0.5× 252 0.9× 115 0.5× 24 2.7k
Cameron Haase‐Pettingell United States 23 1.3k 0.9× 519 0.7× 342 0.5× 191 0.7× 113 0.5× 35 1.7k
Lu Gan United States 23 1.3k 0.9× 468 0.7× 173 0.3× 273 1.0× 192 0.9× 51 2.0k
Elitza I. Tocheva Canada 24 1.2k 0.8× 401 0.6× 217 0.3× 476 1.7× 132 0.6× 43 2.1k
David T. F. Dryden United Kingdom 38 3.2k 2.3× 1.1k 1.5× 545 0.9× 1.2k 4.2× 316 1.5× 93 4.5k
Gert T. Oostergetel Netherlands 27 1.6k 1.1× 209 0.3× 485 0.8× 112 0.4× 255 1.2× 56 2.7k
Oleg V. Sobolev Germany 21 2.7k 1.9× 304 0.4× 860 1.4× 411 1.5× 178 0.8× 60 4.4k
Min Su United States 29 3.4k 2.4× 652 0.9× 411 0.7× 293 1.1× 70 0.3× 63 4.0k
George J. Thomas United States 39 3.1k 2.2× 947 1.4× 591 0.9× 329 1.2× 207 1.0× 121 4.6k
Roman Tůma United Kingdom 37 2.3k 1.6× 1.2k 1.8× 360 0.6× 520 1.9× 396 1.9× 107 3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Hiro Tsuruta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hiro Tsuruta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiro Tsuruta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hiro Tsuruta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hiro Tsuruta 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 Hiro Tsuruta. Hiro Tsuruta 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
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Kim, Seung Joong, Jeremy Phillips, Anne Martel, et al.. (2010). Determination of the Pseudo-Atomic Structure of Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC) Components by Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) and Computational Modeling. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 461a–461a. 1 indexed citations
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Matsui, Tsutomu, Hiro Tsuruta, & John E. Johnson. (2010). Balanced Electrostatic and Structural Forces Guide the Large Conformational Change Associated with Maturation of T = 4 Virus. Biophysical Journal. 98(7). 1337–1343. 23 indexed citations
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Ho, Meng‐Chiao, Jean‐François Ménétret, Hiro Tsuruta, & Karen N. Allen. (2009). The origin of the electrostatic perturbation in acetoacetate decarboxylase. Nature. 459(7245). 393–397. 81 indexed citations
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Lee, Kelly K., Lu Gan, Hiro Tsuruta, et al.. (2008). Virus Capsid Expansion Driven by the Capture of Mobile Surface Loops. Structure. 16(10). 1491–1502. 30 indexed citations
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Tsuruta, Hiro, et al.. (2008). Experimental approaches for solution X-ray scattering and fiber diffraction. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 18(5). 601–608. 24 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiang‐Lei, Mili Kapoor, Francella J. Otero, et al.. (2007). Gain-of-Function Mutational Activation of Human tRNA Synthetase Procytokine. Chemistry & Biology. 14(12). 1323–1333. 31 indexed citations
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Cardia, James, et al.. (2007). Use of L‐asparagine and N‐phosphonacetyl‐L‐asparagine to investigate the linkage of catalysis and homotropic cooperativity in E. coli aspartate transcarbomoylase. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 71(3). 1088–1096. 3 indexed citations
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Lee, Kelly K., Hiro Tsuruta, Roger W. Hendrix, Robert L. Duda, & John E. Johnson. (2005). Cooperative Reorganization of a 420 Subunit Virus Capsid. Journal of Molecular Biology. 352(3). 723–735. 29 indexed citations
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Stieglitz, Kimberly A., et al.. (2005). A Single Amino Acid Substitution in the Active Site of Escherichia coli Aspartate Transcarbamoylase Prevents the Allosteric Transition. Journal of Molecular Biology. 349(2). 413–423. 8 indexed citations
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Lee, Kelly K., Lu Gan, Hiro Tsuruta, et al.. (2004). Evidence that a Local Refolding Event Triggers Maturation of HK97 Bacteriophage Capsid. Journal of Molecular Biology. 340(3). 419–433. 33 indexed citations
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Trame, Christine B., Alastair A. MacDowell, Richard Celestre, et al.. (2003). SIBYLS - A SAXS and protein crystallography beamline at the ALS. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations
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Macol, Christine P., et al.. (2002). The Role of Intersubunit Interactions for the Stabilization of the T State of Escherichia coli Aspartate Transcarbamoylase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(51). 49755–49760. 10 indexed citations
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Putnam, Christopher D., S. Clancy, Hiro Tsuruta, et al.. (2001). Structure and mechanism of the RuvB holliday junction branch migration motor. Journal of Molecular Biology. 311(2). 297–310. 137 indexed citations
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Saâd, Ali, et al.. (2001). Fourier Amplitude Decay of Electron Cryomicroscopic Images of Single Particles and Effects on Structure Determination. Journal of Structural Biology. 133(1). 32–42. 91 indexed citations
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Canady, Mary A., Hiro Tsuruta, & John E. Johnson. (2001). Analysis of rapid, large-scale protein quaternary structural changes: time-resolved X-ray solution scattering of Nudaurelia capensis ω virus (NωV) maturation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 311(4). 803–814. 59 indexed citations
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Williams, Mark, et al.. (2001). Domain Bridging Interactions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(28). 26441–26447. 1 indexed citations
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Conway, James F., Naiqian Cheng, Robert L. Duda, et al.. (2000). Maturation Dynamics of a Viral Capsid. Cell. 100(2). 253–263. 118 indexed citations
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Tsuruta, Hiro, et al.. (1998). A Wide-Bandpass Multilayer Monochromator for Biological Small-Angle Scattering and Fiber Diffraction Studies. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 31(5). 672–682. 48 indexed citations

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