Janos Kirz

11.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
174 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Janos Kirz is a scholar working on Radiation, Structural Biology and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Janos Kirz has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Radiation, 46 papers in Structural Biology and 42 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Janos Kirz's work include Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (80 papers), X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (65 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (46 papers). Janos Kirz is often cited by papers focused on Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (80 papers), X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (65 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (46 papers). Janos Kirz collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Janos Kirz's co-authors include D. Sayre, Chris Jacobsen, Jianwei Miao, M. Howells, Harald Ade, Xiaodong Zhang, H. Rarback, Shawn P. Williams, David A. Shapiro and D. P. Kern and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Janos Kirz

170 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Extending the methodology of X-ray crystallography to allow imaging of micrometre-sized non-crystalline specimens

1999 1.4k citations Jianwei Miao, Janos Kirz et al. Nature profile →
Soft X-ray microscopes and their biological applications

1995 482 citations Janos Kirz, Chris Jacobsen et al. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Janos Kirz	4.7k	2.4k	2.1k	1.7k	843	174	8.0k
David Attwood	2.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	771 0.9×	160	5.4k
K. Nugent	6.8k 1.5×	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	4.3k 2.6×	2.2k 2.6×	396	11.5k
Makina Yabashi	6.2k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	531	11.0k
Jianwei Miao	5.9k 1.3×	3.9k 1.7×	730 0.4×	2.6k 1.6×	1.5k 1.8×	137	11.2k
B. L. Henke	3.4k 0.7×	388 0.2×	1.3k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	993 1.2×	54	7.2k
John C. H. Spence	2.9k 0.6×	2.3k 1.0×	292 0.1×	1.6k 1.0×	718 0.9×	178	6.2k
Garth J. Williams	3.4k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	578 0.3×	1.2k 0.7×	493 0.6×	101	5.0k
Haruhiko Ohashi	2.6k 0.6×	680 0.3×	485 0.2×	2.2k 1.3×	528 0.6×	265	6.2k
Stefano Marchesini	3.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	428 0.2×	1.1k 0.7×	556 0.7×	103	5.2k
Eric M. Gullikson	4.2k 0.9×	568 0.2×	1.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.7×	1.5k 1.7×	375	10.9k

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Sun, Yue, Sophie-Charlotte Gleber, Chris Jacobsen, Janos Kirz, & Stefan Vogt. (2015). Optimizing detector geometry for trace element mapping by X-ray fluorescence. Ultramicroscopy. 152. 44–56. 28 indexed citations

Sun, Chengjian, et al.. (2012). Pseudo-Single-Bunch with Adjustable Frequency: A New Operation Mode for Synchrotron Light Sources. Physical Review Letters. 109(26). 264801–264801. 27 indexed citations

Kirz, Janos & Jianwei Miao. (2012). David Sayre (1924–2012). Nature. 484(7392). 38–38. 4 indexed citations

Feser, Michael, Malcolm R. Howells, Janos Kirz, J. Rudati, & W. Yun. (2012). Advantages of a synchrotron bending magnet as the sample illuminator for a wide-field X-ray microscope. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 19(5). 751–758. 6 indexed citations

Huang, Xiaojing, Johanna Nelson Weker, Joshua J. Turner, et al.. (2011). Anti-contamination device for cryogenic soft X-ray diffraction microscopy. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 638(1). 171–175. 3 indexed citations

Weker, Johanna Nelson, et al.. (2010). Incorrect support and missing center tolerances of phasing algorithms. Optics Express. 18(25). 26441–26441. 32 indexed citations

Huang, Xiaojing, Johanna Nelson Weker, Janos Kirz, et al.. (2009). Soft X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy of a Frozen Hydrated Yeast Cell. Physical Review Letters. 103(19). 198101–198101. 101 indexed citations

Howells, Malcolm R., Tobias Beetz, Henry N. Chapman, et al.. (2008). An assessment of the resolution limitation due to radiation-damage in X-ray diffraction microscopy. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 170(1-3). 4–12. 362 indexed citations

Winn, Barry, Harald Ade, C. J. Buckley, et al.. (2000). Illumination for coherent soft X-ray applications: the new X1A beamline at the NSLS. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 7(6). 395–404. 31 indexed citations

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Miao, Jianwei, et al.. (1999). Extending the methodology of X-ray crystallography to allow imaging of micrometre-sized non-crystalline specimens. Nature. 400(6742). 342–344. 1431 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jacobsen, Chris & Janos Kirz. (1998). X-ray microscopy with synchrotron radiation. Nature Structural Biology. 5(8). 650–653. 44 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaodong, Rod Balhorn, J.A. Mazrimas, & Janos Kirz. (1996). Mapping and Measuring DNA to Protein Ratios in Mammalian Sperm Head by XANES Imaging. Journal of Structural Biology. 116(3). 335–344. 93 indexed citations

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Kirz, Janos, Chris Jacobsen, & M. Howells. (1995). Soft X-ray microscopes and their biological applications. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 28(1). 33–130. 482 indexed citations breakdown →

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Howells, Malcolm R., Janos Kirz, & David Sayre. (1991). X-Ray Microscopes. Scientific American. 264(2). 88–94. 27 indexed citations

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Kirz, Janos. (1990). Soft-x-ray microscopy at the National Synchrotron Light Source. Optical Society of America Annual Meeting. TuMM3–TuMM3. 2 indexed citations

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Rothman, Stephen, David Attwood, Yuli Vladimirsky, et al.. (1989). The interior of a whole and unmodified biological object - the zymogen granule - viewed with a high-resolution X-ray microscope. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 991(3). 484–486. 14 indexed citations

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Jacobsen, Chris, M. Howells, Janos Kirz, Kenneth R. McQuaid, & Stephen Rothman. (1988). X-Ray Holographic Microscopy: Improved Images of Zymogen Granules. MH303–MH303. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Bingxin, Janos Kirz, & T. K. Sham. (1987). OxygenK-edge extended x-ray-absorption fine-structure studies of molecules containing oxygen and carbon atoms. Physical review. A, General physics. 36(9). 4298–4310. 17 indexed citations

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Jacobsen, Chris, Janos Kirz, Malcolm R. Howells, R. Feder, & D. Sayre. (1987). Experiments in soft x-ray near-field diffraction imaging with an undulator (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 4(4). 182–8. 1 indexed citations

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Kirz, Janos, David Attwood, B. L. Henke, et al.. (1986). Center for X-ray Optics, X-ray Data Booklet. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 13 indexed citations

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