I Tinoco

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

I Tinoco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, I Tinoco has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 5 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in I Tinoco's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (13 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers). I Tinoco is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (13 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers). I Tinoco collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Germany. I Tinoco's co-authors include Carlos Bustamante, Félix Ritort, Steven B. Smith, Delphine Collin, Christopher Jarzynski, W. Curtis Johnson, Dan Holcomb, R. W. Woody, D. F. Bradley and Marcos F. Maestre and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

I Tinoco

34 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies

2005 725 citations Delphine Collin, Félix Ritort et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
I Tinoco United States	23	2.1k	652	591	258	245	35	3.1k
Guobin Luo United States	16	1.6k 0.8×	685 1.1×	377 0.6×	112 0.4×	190 0.8×	27	2.8k
Ioan Andricioaei United States	28	2.3k 1.1×	470 0.7×	187 0.3×	301 1.2×	107 0.4×	78	3.1k
Anatoly B. Kolomeisky United States	34	2.2k 1.0×	723 1.1×	847 1.4×	101 0.4×	208 0.8×	181	4.2k
Kingshuk Ghosh United States	26	1.4k 0.7×	212 0.3×	320 0.5×	120 0.5×	191 0.8×	67	2.2k
Hongyun Wang United States	30	1.7k 0.8×	354 0.5×	388 0.7×	113 0.4×	77 0.3×	114	3.0k
Garegin A. Papoian United States	33	2.6k 1.2×	705 1.1×	96 0.2×	250 1.0×	238 1.0×	105	4.1k
Gary S. Ayton United States	32	1.9k 0.9×	876 1.3×	237 0.4×	85 0.3×	157 0.6×	45	3.2k
Pierre Sens France	36	3.1k 1.5×	844 1.3×	110 0.2×	71 0.3×	248 1.0×	77	5.0k
Michael T. Woodside Canada	37	2.9k 1.4×	2.1k 3.3×	498 0.8×	67 0.3×	100 0.4×	95	4.7k
M. D. Frank-Kamenet︠s︡kiĭ Russia	40	3.5k 1.7×	480 0.7×	47 0.1×	174 0.7×	397 1.6×	82	4.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by I Tinoco

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of I Tinoco

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tinoco, I, Gang Chen, & Xiaohui Qu. (2010). RNA Reactions One Molecule at a Time. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 2(11). a003624–a003624. 21 indexed citations

Mañosas, Maria, Jin‐Der Wen, Steven B. Smith, et al.. (2007). Force Unfolding Kinetics of RNA using Optical Tweezers. II. Modeling Experiments. Biophysical Journal. 92(9). 3010–3021. 54 indexed citations

Collin, Delphine, Félix Ritort, Christopher Jarzynski, et al.. (2005). Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies. Nature. 437(7056). 231–234. 725 indexed citations breakdown →

Collin, Delphine, et al.. (2004). Direct measurement of RNA folding/unfolding rates under tension. Biophysical Journal. 86(1). 6. 1 indexed citations

Liphardt, Jan, Sophie Dumont, Bibiana Onoa, et al.. (2003). Watching single RNA molecules respond to local application of mechanical force. 1. 595–595.

Tinoco, I, et al.. (2002). Identification Characterization of Metal Ion Binding Sites in RNA. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 338. 421–443. 32 indexed citations

Ritort, Félix, Carlos Bustamante, & I Tinoco. (2002). A two-state kinetic model for the unfolding of single molecules by mechanical force. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(21). 13544–13548. 73 indexed citations

Macosko, Jed C., et al.. (1999). A novel 5′ displacement spin-labeling technique for electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of RNA. RNA. 5(9). 1158–1166. 44 indexed citations

Comolli, Luis R., et al.. (1998). Mapping of a protein-RNA kissing hairpin interface: Rom and Tar-Tar. Nucleic Acids Research. 26(20). 4688–4695. 28 indexed citations

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Jaeger, J. A., John SantaLucia, & I Tinoco. (1993). DETERMINATION OF RNA STRUCTURE AND THERMODYNAMICS. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 62(1). 255–285. 62 indexed citations

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Gauss, Peter, Claude Thermes, Duncan R. Groebe, et al.. (1988). CUUCGG hairpins: extraordinarily stable RNA secondary structures associated with various biochemical processes.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 85(5). 1364–1368. 292 indexed citations

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Tinoco, I, Peter W. Davis, Charles C. Hardin, et al.. (1987). RNA Structure from A to Z. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 135–146. 17 indexed citations

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Maestre, Marcos F., et al.. (1985). Visualization of oriented hemoglobin S in individual erythrocytes by differential extinction of polarized light.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 82(19). 6527–6531. 40 indexed citations

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Perez‐Stable, Carlos, et al.. (1985). End-to-end transcription of an Alu family repeat. Journal of Molecular Biology. 184(1). 7–21. 35 indexed citations

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Tinoco, I, Marcos F. Maestre, Carlos Bustamante, & David Keller. (1984). Use of circularly polarized light to study biological macromolecules. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 56(10). 1423–1428. 4 indexed citations

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Tinoco, I, Carlos Bustamante, & Marcos F. Maestre. (1980). The Optical Activity of Nucleic Acids and their Aggregates. Annual Review of Biophysics and Bioengineering. 9(1). 107–141. 121 indexed citations

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Yoon, Kyung Chul, Douglas H. Turner, I Tinoco, F. von der Haar, & F. Cramer. (1976). The kinetics of binding of U-U-C-A to a dodecanucleotide anticodon fragment from yeast tRNAPhe. Nucleic Acids Research. 3(9). 2233–2242. 22 indexed citations

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Johnson, W. Curtis & I Tinoco. (1969). Circular dichroism of polynucleotides: A simple theory. Biopolymers. 7(5). 727–749. 174 indexed citations

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Bradley, D. F., I Tinoco, & R. W. Woody. (1963). Absorption and rotation of light by helical oligomers: The nearest neighbor approximation. Biopolymers. 1(3). 239–267. 77 indexed citations

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Tinoco, I, et al.. (1961). Optical rotation and polypeptide structure. Tetrahedron. 13(1-3). 134–142. 6 indexed citations

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