Ignacio Tinoco

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Ignacio Tinoco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ignacio Tinoco has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 4 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ignacio Tinoco's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (18 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Blood properties and coagulation (7 papers). Ignacio Tinoco is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (18 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Blood properties and coagulation (7 papers). Ignacio Tinoco collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ignacio Tinoco's co-authors include Carlos Bustamante, Leigh B. Clark, Charles C. Hardin, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Chaejoon Cheong, Werner Hug, Joseph D. Puglisi, Jacqueline R. Wyatt, Stephen R. Holbrook and Sung‐Hou Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ignacio Tinoco

36 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

How RNA folds

1999 742 citations Ignacio Tinoco, Carlos Bustamante Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Telomeric DNA oligonucleotides form novel intramolecular structures containing guanine·guanine base pairs

1987 586 citations Charles C. Hardin, Ignacio Tinoco et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ignacio Tinoco United States	26	3.0k	517	402	315	298	36	3.8k
I Tinoco United States	23	2.1k 0.7×	652 1.3×	245 0.6×	200 0.6×	258 0.9×	35	3.1k
M. D. Frank-Kamenet︠s︡kiĭ Russia	40	3.5k 1.2×	480 0.9×	397 1.0×	238 0.8×	174 0.6×	82	4.3k
G.J. Thomas United States	26	2.1k 0.7×	247 0.5×	266 0.7×	311 1.0×	288 1.0×	37	2.8k
Dietmar Pörschke Germany	33	2.9k 1.0×	539 1.0×	522 1.3×	277 0.9×	248 0.8×	112	3.6k
Akiyoshi Wada Japan	35	3.0k 1.0×	463 0.9×	411 1.0×	970 3.1×	586 2.0×	144	4.2k
E. Taillandier France	32	2.4k 0.8×	304 0.6×	233 0.6×	268 0.9×	369 1.2×	138	3.0k
Randolph L. Rill United States	31	2.0k 0.7×	334 0.6×	308 0.8×	347 1.1×	259 0.9×	83	3.1k
Jacques R. Fresco United States	39	4.5k 1.5×	189 0.4×	280 0.7×	338 1.1×	412 1.4×	99	5.2k
Mary L. Kopka United States	29	4.3k 1.4×	234 0.5×	237 0.6×	431 1.4×	336 1.1×	40	4.8k
Andrew D. McLachlan United Kingdom	16	2.3k 0.8×	476 0.9×	290 0.7×	851 2.7×	380 1.3×	23	3.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tinoco, Ignacio, Chul‐Hyun Kim, & C. Cheng Kao. (2000). RNA motifs that determine specificity between a viral replicase and its promoter.. Nature Structural Biology. 7(5). 415–423. 62 indexed citations

Rüdisser, Simon & Ignacio Tinoco. (2000). Solution structure of Cobalt(III)Hexammine complexed to the GAAA tetraloop, and metal-ion binding to G·A mismatches. Journal of Molecular Biology. 295(5). 1211–1223. 93 indexed citations

Tinoco, Ignacio & Carlos Bustamante. (1999). How RNA folds. Journal of Molecular Biology. 293(2). 271–281. 742 indexed citations breakdown →

Chang, Kung‐Yao & Ignacio Tinoco. (1997). The structure of an RNA “kissing” hairpin complex of the HIV TAR hairpin loop and its complement. Journal of Molecular Biology. 269(1). 52–66. 115 indexed citations

Holbrook, Stephen R., Chaejoon Cheong, Ignacio Tinoco, & Sung‐Hou Kim. (1991). Crystal structure of an RNA double helix incorporating a track of non-Watson–Crick base pairs. Nature. 353(6344). 579–581. 275 indexed citations

Puglisi, Joseph D., Jacqueline R. Wyatt, & Ignacio Tinoco. (1990). Conformation of an RNA pseudoknot. Journal of Molecular Biology. 214(2). 437–453. 111 indexed citations

Varani, Gabriele, Brian T. Wimberly, & Ignacio Tinoco. (1989). Conformation and dynamics of an RNA internal loop. Biochemistry. 28(19). 7760–7772. 59 indexed citations

Varani, Gabriele, et al.. (1988). The TFIIIA recognition fragment d(GGATGGGAG)·d(CTCCCATCC) is B-form in solution. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(8). 3559–3572. 38 indexed citations

Hardin, Charles C., G. Terrance Walker, & Ignacio Tinoco. (1988). Binding of ethidium ion to left-handed Z-RNA induces a cooperative transition to right-handed RNA at the intercalation site. Biochemistry. 27(11). 4178–4184. 15 indexed citations

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Cheong, Chaejoon, Ignacio Tinoco, & André Chollet. (1988). Thermodynamic studies of base pairing involving 2,6-diaminopurine. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(11). 5115–5122. 62 indexed citations

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Hardin, Charles C., et al.. (1987). Telomeric DNA oligonucleotides form novel intramolecular structures containing guanine·guanine base pairs. Cell. 51(6). 899–908. 586 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chu, Yongjun & Ignacio Tinoco. (1983). Temperature‐jump kinetics of the dC‐G‐T‐G‐A‐A‐T‐T‐C‐G‐C‐G double helix containing a G·T base pair and the dC‐G‐C‐A‐G‐A‐A‐T‐T‐C‐G‐C‐G double helix containing an extra adenine. Biopolymers. 22(4). 1235–1246. 20 indexed citations

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Bustamante, Carlos, Ignacio Tinoco, & Marcos F. Maestre. (1983). Circular differential scattering can be an important part of the circular dichroism of macromolecules.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 80(12). 3568–3572. 145 indexed citations

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Turner, Douglas H., Ignacio Tinoco, & Marcos F. Maestre. (1974). ChemInform Abstract: FLUORESCENCE DETECTED CIRCULAR DICHROISM. Chemischer Informationsdienst. 5(37). 19 indexed citations

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Johnson, W. Curtis & Ignacio Tinoco. (1972). Circular dichroism of polypeptide solutions in the vacuum ultraviolet. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 94(12). 4389–4390. 130 indexed citations

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Tinoco, Ignacio & C. Allen Bush. (1964). THE INFLUENCE OF STATIC ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS ON THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS.. PubMed. 13. 235–50. 1 indexed citations

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Tinoco, Ignacio, et al.. (1963). ELECTRICAL BIREFRINGENCE AT HIGH FIELDS¹. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 67(12). 2691–2698. 40 indexed citations

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Tinoco, Ignacio. (1961). Additions and Corrections- Hypochromism in Polynucleotides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 83(24). 5047–5047. 38 indexed citations

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Tinoco, Ignacio. (1957). Dynamic Electrical Birefringence Studies of Poly-γ-benzyl-L-glutamate¹. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 79(16). 4336–4338. 31 indexed citations

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Shulman, Sidney, John D. Ferry, & Ignacio Tinoco. (1953). The conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin. XII. Influence of pH, ionic strength and hexamethylene glycol concentration on the polymerization of fibrinogen. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 42(2). 245–256. 30 indexed citations

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