James G. Nourse

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

James G. Nourse is a scholar working on Spectroscopy, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, James G. Nourse has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Spectroscopy, 14 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in James G. Nourse's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (11 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (10 papers). James G. Nourse is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (11 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (10 papers). James G. Nourse collaborates with scholars based in United States. James G. Nourse's co-authors include Burton A. Leland, Joseph L. Durant, Douglas R. Henry, David L. Grier, W. Douglas Hounshell, John Laufer, Dennis H. Smith, Carl Djerassi, N. A. B. Gray and Raymond E. Carhart and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

James G. Nourse

28 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Reoptimization of MDL Keys for Use in Drug Discovery

2002 1.2k citations Joseph L. Durant, Burton A. Leland et al. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James G. Nourse United States	15	1.4k	1.1k	547	476	236	28	2.1k
John M. Barnard United Kingdom	16	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	322 0.6×	500 1.1×	206 0.9×	33	2.2k
Geoffrey M. Downs United Kingdom	12	1.4k 1.0×	981 0.9×	266 0.5×	398 0.8×	207 0.9×	17	1.8k
Simon K. Kearsley United States	16	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	455 0.8×	321 0.7×	313 1.3×	28	1.9k
Joseph L. Durant United States	13	958 0.7×	758 0.7×	560 1.0×	220 0.5×	243 1.0×	21	1.9k
Burton A. Leland United States	7	1.3k 0.9×	965 0.9×	518 0.9×	264 0.6×	138 0.6×	10	1.7k
Jens Sadowski Germany	19	2.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	481 0.9×	710 1.5×	519 2.2×	28	3.1k
Dušanka Janežič Slovenia	29	776 0.6×	1.6k 1.5×	555 1.0×	272 0.6×	334 1.4×	111	2.9k
Jeffrey M. Blaney United States	22	1.6k 1.2×	2.3k 2.2×	558 1.0×	375 0.8×	798 3.4×	36	3.5k
Martin Vogt Germany	26	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	575 1.1×	276 0.6×	582 2.5×	110	2.7k
John D. Holliday United Kingdom	22	1.0k 0.7×	685 0.6×	214 0.4×	364 0.8×	135 0.6×	61	1.4k

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Leland, Burton A., et al.. (2011). Self-Contained Sequence Representation: Bridging the Gap between Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 51(9). 2186–2208. 12 indexed citations

Durant, Joseph L., Burton A. Leland, & James G. Nourse. (2006). VET: A Tool for Reaction Plausibility Checking. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 46(2). 762–766. 2 indexed citations

Nourse, James G., et al.. (2003). Over 20 Years of Reaction Acces Systems from MDL: A Novel Reaction Substructure Search Algorithm.. ChemInform. 34(4). 4 indexed citations

Durant, Joseph L., Burton A. Leland, Douglas R. Henry, & James G. Nourse. (2003). Reoptimization of MDL Keys for Use in Drug Discovery.. ChemInform. 34(4). 6 indexed citations

Durant, Joseph L., Burton A. Leland, Douglas R. Henry, & James G. Nourse. (2002). Reoptimization of MDL Keys for Use in Drug Discovery. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 42(6). 1273–1280. 1201 indexed citations breakdown →

Nourse, James G., et al.. (2002). Over 20 Years of Reaction Access Systems from MDL: A Novel Reaction Substructure Search Algorithm. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 42(6). 1296–1310. 20 indexed citations

Leland, Burton A., Bradley D. Christie, James G. Nourse, et al.. (1997). Managing the Combinatorial Explosion. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 37(1). 62–70. 20 indexed citations

Christie, Bradley D., Burton A. Leland, & James G. Nourse. (1993). Structure searching in chemical databases by direct lookup methods. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 33(4). 545–547. 20 indexed citations

Nourse, James G., et al.. (1992). Description of several chemical structure file formats used by computer programs developed at Molecular Design Limited. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 32(3). 244–255. 445 indexed citations

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Nourse, James G., et al.. (1991). The substance module: the representation, storage, and searching of complex structures. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 31(4). 447–454. 8 indexed citations

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Grier, David L., et al.. (1988). Similarity searching in the Organic reaction domain. 1(2). 117–128. 19 indexed citations

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Nourse, James G., et al.. (1983). Conformation specification of chemical structures in computer programs. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 23(1). 43–47. 3 indexed citations

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Carhart, Raymond E., Dennis H. Smith, N. A. B. Gray, James G. Nourse, & Carl Djerassi. (1981). Applications of artificial intelligence for chemical inference. 37. GENOA: a computer program for structure elucidation utilizing overlapping and alternative substructures. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 46(8). 1708–1718. 72 indexed citations

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Nourse, James G.. (1980). Self-inverse and nonself-inverse degenerate isomerizations. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102(15). 4883–4889. 26 indexed citations

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Nourse, James G., Raymond E. Carhart, Dennis H. Smith, & Carl Djerassi. (1979). Applications of artificial intelligence for chemical inference. 29. Exhaustive generation of stereoisomers for structure elucidation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 101(5). 1216–1223. 33 indexed citations

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Nourse, James G.. (1979). Applications of artificial intelligence for chemical inference. 28. The configuration symmetry group and its application to stereoisomer generation, specification, and enumeration. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 101(5). 1210–1216. 25 indexed citations

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Nourse, James G.. (1977). Generalized stereoisomerization modes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 99(7). 2063–2069. 11 indexed citations

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Nourse, James G.. (1975). An Algebraic Description of Stereochemical Correspondence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 72(6). 2385–2388. 5 indexed citations

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Nourse, James G.. (1975). Pseudochirality. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 97(16). 4594–4601. 12 indexed citations

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Hutchings, Michael G., James G. Nourse, & Kurt Mislow. (1974). A first approach to the stereochemical analysis of tetraarylmethanes. Tetrahedron. 30(12). 1535–1549. 10 indexed citations

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