Hugh B. Nicholas

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Hugh B. Nicholas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugh B. Nicholas has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Hugh B. Nicholas's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (7 papers). Hugh B. Nicholas is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (7 papers). Hugh B. Nicholas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Puerto Rico. Hugh B. Nicholas's co-authors include David W. Deerfield, J Hempel, Ronald Lindahl, John Perozich, William H. McClain, Bi‐Cheng Wang, Grace L. Rosenquist, Alexander J. Ropelewski, F. L. Suddath and John M. Rosenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Hugh B. Nicholas

46 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

GeneDoc : analysis and visualization of genetic variation 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. GeneDoc : analysis and visualization of genetic variation
    1997 2.3k citations Hugh B. Nicholas, David W. Deerfield et al. Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hugh B. Nicholas United States 18 2.0k 876 334 326 269 46 3.5k
Rainer Fuchs Germany 21 2.9k 1.4× 1.1k 1.2× 567 1.7× 390 1.2× 302 1.1× 44 4.4k
Silvano Squizzato United Kingdom 8 2.2k 1.1× 565 0.6× 472 1.4× 381 1.2× 266 1.0× 8 3.6k
Joon Lee South Korea 7 2.4k 1.2× 697 0.8× 411 1.2× 449 1.4× 250 0.9× 14 4.0k
J.A.M. Leunissen Netherlands 17 1.8k 0.9× 756 0.9× 607 1.8× 266 0.8× 324 1.2× 29 3.5k
Christian J A Sigrist Switzerland 12 3.3k 1.7× 977 1.1× 408 1.2× 317 1.0× 280 1.0× 15 4.8k
Edouard de Castro Switzerland 21 3.4k 1.7× 996 1.1× 455 1.4× 504 1.5× 335 1.2× 32 5.3k
Hildburg Beier Germany 25 3.4k 1.7× 1.4k 1.6× 669 2.0× 394 1.2× 318 1.2× 51 5.4k
Sylvain Buffet France 6 2.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 388 1.2× 703 2.2× 306 1.1× 7 4.0k
Laurent Falquet Switzerland 27 2.7k 1.4× 1.2k 1.4× 430 1.3× 330 1.0× 440 1.6× 79 4.6k
F. Corpet France 11 3.3k 1.7× 1.2k 1.4× 771 2.3× 452 1.4× 401 1.5× 12 5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hugh B. Nicholas

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nicholas, Hugh B., et al.. (2016). Assisting Bioinformatics Programs at Minority Institutions. 1–8. 4 indexed citations
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Ropelewski, Alexander J., et al.. (2015). Molecular tools to support metabolic and immune function research in the Guinea Fowl (Numida meleagris). BMC Genomics. 16(1). 358–358. 1 indexed citations
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Wymore, Troy, Brian Y. Chen, Hugh B. Nicholas, Alexander J. Ropelewski, & Charles L. Brooks. (2011). A Mechanism for Evolving Novel Plant Sesquiterpene Synthase Function. Molecular Informatics. 30(10). 896–906. 7 indexed citations
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Ropelewski, Alexander J., et al.. (2010). MPI-PHYLIP: Parallelizing Computationally Intensive Phylogenetic Analysis Routines for the Analysis of Large Protein Families. PLoS ONE. 5(11). e13999–e13999. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Justin, Samuel Louie, Willy Hsu, et al.. (2008). Tyrosine Sulfation Is Prevalent in Human Chemokine Receptors Important in Lung Disease. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 38(6). 738–743. 55 indexed citations
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Wymore, Troy, J Hempel, Samuel S. Cho, et al.. (2004). Molecular recognition of aldehydes by aldehyde dehydrogenase and mechanism of nucleophile activation. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 57(4). 758–771. 23 indexed citations
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Lin, Henry, Kevin Tsai, Justin Liu, et al.. (2003). Prediction of tyrosine sulfation sites in animal viruses. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 312(4). 1154–1158. 13 indexed citations
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Hempel, J, Ingrid Kuo, John Perozich, et al.. (2001). Aldehyde dehydrogenase. European Journal of Biochemistry. 268(3). 722–726. 34 indexed citations
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Nicholas, Hugh B., Herbert N. Arst, & Mark X. Caddick. (2001). Evaluating low level sequence identities. European Journal of Biochemistry. 268(2). 414–419. 1 indexed citations
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Wymore, Troy, Hugh B. Nicholas, & J Hempel. (2001). Molecular dynamics simulation of class 3 aldehyde dehydrogenase. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 130-132(1-3). 201–207. 7 indexed citations
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Ropelewski, Alexander J., Hugh B. Nicholas, & David W. Deerfield. (1999). Selective and sensitive comparison of genetic sequence data. 453–479. 1 indexed citations
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Perozich, John, Hugh B. Nicholas, Ronald Lindahl, & J Hempel. (1999). The Big Book of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Sequences. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 463. 1–7. 40 indexed citations
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Perozich, John, Hugh B. Nicholas, Bi‐Cheng Wang, Ronald Lindahl, & J Hempel. (1999). Relationships within the aldehyde dehydrogenase extended family. Protein Science. 8(1). 137–146. 243 indexed citations
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Nicholas, Hugh B., et al.. (1997). GeneDoc : analysis and visualization of genetic variation. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 4. 1–4. 2256 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Jianzhou, Cecilia Rojas, Jianhua Zhou, et al.. (1992). Sequence and genomic structure of the human adult skeletal muscle sodium channel α subunit gene on 17q. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 182(2). 794–801. 34 indexed citations
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Hempel, J, Hugh B. Nicholas, & Hans Jörnvall. (1991). Thiol proteases and aldehyde dehydrogenases: Evolution from a common thiolesterase precursor?. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 11(3). 176–183. 10 indexed citations
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McClain, William H. & Hugh B. Nicholas. (1987). Differences between transfer RNA molecules. Journal of Molecular Biology. 194(4). 635–642. 64 indexed citations
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Nicholas, Hugh B., et al.. (1987). Comparison of tRNA sequences. Computer applications in the biosciences. 3(1). 53–53. 7 indexed citations
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Nicholas, Hugh B., et al.. (1986). A statistical method for correlating tRNA sequence with amino acid specificity. Nucleic Acids Research. 14(1). 375–380. 25 indexed citations
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Nicholas, Hugh B., Spencer Graves, & Sydney Brenner. (1983). Clustering of transfer RNAs by cell type and amino acid specificity. Journal of Molecular Biology. 171(2). 111–118. 6 indexed citations

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