John A. Schellman

12.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
104 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

John A. Schellman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. Schellman has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Spectroscopy and 26 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in John A. Schellman's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (29 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (25 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (25 papers). John A. Schellman is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (29 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (25 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (25 papers). John A. Schellman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Israel. John A. Schellman's co-authors include Wayne J. Becktel, Vincent Madison, Hans Peter Jensen, Dirk Stigter, Hong Qian, Peter M. Bayley, Dhruba K. Chattoraj, Avijit Chakrabartty, Robert L. Baldwin and Patrick Oriel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

John A. Schellman

103 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

Protein stability curves 1976 2026 1992 2009 1987 1976 250 500 750
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. Protein stability curves
    1987 856 citations John A. Schellman et al. Biopolymers profile →
  2. Compact form of DNA induced by spermidine
    1976 495 citations John A. Schellman et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John A. Schellman United States 52 7.6k 2.7k 2.2k 1.8k 1.3k 104 10.6k
Julian M. Sturtevant United States 64 10.8k 1.4× 2.3k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 1.5k 0.8× 2.1k 1.6× 222 13.4k
Warner L. Peticolas United States 48 4.3k 0.6× 1.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 1.0k 0.8× 179 7.8k
George Némethy United States 56 10.1k 1.3× 3.4k 1.2× 2.9k 1.3× 2.4k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 134 15.1k
John M. Rosenberg United States 30 8.3k 1.1× 2.1k 0.8× 922 0.4× 1.7k 0.9× 581 0.4× 74 11.2k
David C. Spellmeyer United States 26 8.3k 1.1× 3.0k 1.1× 1.7k 0.8× 2.9k 1.6× 1.3k 1.0× 43 14.9k
F.M. Richards United States 31 8.7k 1.1× 3.1k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 783 0.4× 444 0.3× 47 11.4k
U. Chandra Singh United States 28 5.6k 0.7× 2.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 2.8k 1.6× 1.5k 1.2× 65 10.3k
Mitsuo Tasumi Japan 52 9.0k 1.2× 4.8k 1.8× 3.4k 1.5× 4.2k 2.3× 2.1k 1.6× 318 17.8k
David E. Wemmer United States 73 12.4k 1.6× 2.4k 0.9× 3.4k 1.5× 2.0k 1.1× 507 0.4× 281 17.8k
Sture Forsén Sweden 60 6.0k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 3.3k 1.5× 1.3k 0.7× 689 0.5× 260 11.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schellman, John A.. (2005). Destabilization and stabilization of proteins. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 38(4). 351–361. 41 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A.. (2003). Protein Stability in Mixed Solvents: A Balance of Contact Interaction and Excluded Volume. Biophysical Journal. 85(1). 108–125. 276 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A.. (2003). The Kauzmann lab in the late 1940s. Biophysical Chemistry. 105(2-3). 161–165.
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Schellman, John A.. (1997). Temperature, stability, and the hydrophobic interaction. Biophysical Journal. 73(6). 2960–2964. 164 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A., et al.. (1997). Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm‐Lang (1896–1959). Protein Science. 6(5). 1092–1100. 18 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A., et al.. (1996). The enthalpy of transfer of unfolded proteins into solutions of urea and guanidinium chloride. Biophysical Chemistry. 59(3). 259–275. 43 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A. & George N. Somero. (1996). Serge Timasheff: the man with a genius for solutions in biology. Biophysical Journal. 71(4). 1985–1993. 1 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A. & Stephen C. Harvey. (1995). Static contributions to the persistence length of DNA and dynamic contributions to DNA curvature. Biophysical Chemistry. 55(1-2). 95–114. 99 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A.. (1994). The thermodynamics of solvent exchange. Biopolymers. 34(8). 1015–1026. 113 indexed citations
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Baase, Walter A., et al.. (1992). Folding kinetics of T4 lysozyme and nine mutants at 12 .degree.C. Biochemistry. 31(5). 1464–1476. 69 indexed citations
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Chakrabartty, Avijit, John A. Schellman, & Robert L. Baldwin. (1991). Large differences in the helix propensities of alanine and glycine. Nature. 351(6327). 586–588. 273 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A.. (1990). Fluctuation and linkage relations in macromolecular solution. Biopolymers. 29(1). 215–224. 12 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A.. (1990). A simple model for salvation in mixed solvents. Biophysical Chemistry. 37(1-3). 121–140. 163 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A., et al.. (1989). Low-temperature unfolding of a mutant of phage T4 lysozyme. 1. Equilibrium studies. Biochemistry. 28(2). 685–691. 139 indexed citations
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Baase, Walter A., et al.. (1989). Low-temperature unfolding of a mutant of phage T4 lysozyme. 2. Kinetic investigations. Biochemistry. 28(2). 691–699. 151 indexed citations
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Hawkes, Richard, Markus G. Grütter, & John A. Schellman. (1984). Thermodynamic stability and point mutations of bacteriophage T4 lysozyme. Journal of Molecular Biology. 175(2). 195–212. 129 indexed citations
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Jensen, Hans Peter, John A. Schellman, & Terry C. Troxell. (1978). Modulation Techniques in Polarization Spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy. 32(2). 192–200. 124 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A., et al.. (1972). Thermochromic measurement of temperature in a flow system. Analytical Biochemistry. 49(2). 527–533. 2 indexed citations
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Zimmerman, Steven B. & John A. Schellman. (1962). Rotatory Dispersion of Native and Oxidized Pancreatic Ribonuclease in the Far Ultraviolet. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 84(11). 2259–2260. 11 indexed citations
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Schellman, John A.. (1958). The Factors Affecting the Stability of Hydrogen-bonded Polypeptide Structures in Solution. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 62(12). 1485–1494. 181 indexed citations

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