John B. Tobin

962 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 818 citations indexed

About

John B. Tobin is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John B. Tobin has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 818 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Organic Chemistry, 3 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in John B. Tobin's work include Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (4 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (2 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (2 papers). John B. Tobin is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (4 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (2 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (2 papers). John B. Tobin collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. John B. Tobin's co-authors include Perry A. Frey, A. J. Kresge, Constance S. Cassidy, Christopher J. Halkides and Jing Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

John B. Tobin

10 papers receiving 782 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

A Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bond in the Catalytic Triad of Serine Proteases

1994 622 citations Perry A. Frey, John B. Tobin et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John B. Tobin United States	9	377	264	206	202	176	10	818
Peter Gund United States	13	285 0.8×	441 1.7×	158 0.8×	149 0.7×	119 0.7×	27	891
M. Kajtár Hungary	17	507 1.3×	336 1.3×	89 0.4×	267 1.3×	123 0.7×	51	908
Michael J. Minch United States	15	375 1.0×	464 1.8×	213 1.0×	275 1.4×	139 0.8×	28	951
Marek Štrajbl United States	17	919 2.4×	328 1.2×	175 0.8×	155 0.8×	311 1.8×	22	1.4k
Christian Diedrich Germany	14	197 0.5×	368 1.4×	106 0.5×	269 1.3×	148 0.8×	21	955
Henk M. Buck Netherlands	17	597 1.6×	698 2.6×	135 0.7×	215 1.1×	118 0.7×	154	1.4k
W. F. Reynolds Canada	15	255 0.7×	322 1.2×	118 0.6×	366 1.8×	121 0.7×	39	809
D. Quentin McDonald New Zealand	15	440 1.2×	401 1.5×	112 0.5×	216 1.1×	102 0.6×	24	884
Orlando Tapia Sweden	12	513 1.4×	163 0.6×	72 0.3×	77 0.4×	265 1.5×	18	979
Ralph Paulini Switzerland	15	482 1.3×	479 1.8×	259 1.3×	137 0.7×	198 1.1×	16	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by John B. Tobin

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of John B. Tobin's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by John B. Tobin with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites John B. Tobin more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by John B. Tobin

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by John B. Tobin. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by John B. Tobin. The network helps show where John B. Tobin may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of John B. Tobin

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

10 of 10 papers shown

1.

Cassidy, Constance S., Jing Lin, John B. Tobin, & Perry A. Frey. (1998). Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bonding in Aqueous and Aprotic Solutions of Dicarboxylic Acids: Spectroscopic Characterization. Bioorganic Chemistry. 26(4). 213–219. 11 indexed citations

2.

Tobin, John B. & Perry A. Frey. (1996). Electrostatic Acceleration of Enolization in Cationic Ketones. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 118(49). 12253–12260. 29 indexed citations

3.

Tobin, John B., et al.. (1995). Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bonding in Molecular Complexes Analogous to Histidine and Aspartate in the Catalytic Triad of Serine Proteases. Biochemistry. 34(21). 6919–6924. 79 indexed citations

4.

Frey, Perry A., et al.. (1994). A Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bond in the Catalytic Triad of Serine Proteases. Science. 264(5167). 1927–1930. 622 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

Kresge, A. J. & John B. Tobin. (1993). Protonierung von Phenyl(trimethylsilyl)acetylen: eine erstaunlich schwache Stabilisierung von Carbokationen durch eine β‐Trimethylsilylgruppe. Angewandte Chemie. 105(5). 748–749. 5 indexed citations

6.

Kresge, A. J. & John B. Tobin. (1993). Acetyltrimethylsilane keto-enol system. Determination of the keto-enol equilibrium constant and acid dissociation constants of the keto and enol forms in aqueous solution. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 58(10). 2652–2657. 8 indexed citations

7.

Kresge, A. J. & John B. Tobin. (1993). Protonation of Phenyl(trimethylsilyl)acetylene: A Surprisingly Weak Stabilization of a Carbocation by a β‐Trimethylsilyl Group. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 32(5). 721–723. 20 indexed citations

8.

Halkides, Christopher J., Perry A. Frey, & John B. Tobin. (1993). Rapid hydrogen exchange at the acetyl (C2) methyl group of acetylthiamine pyrophosphate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 115(8). 3332–3333. 22 indexed citations

9.

Kresge, A. J. & John B. Tobin. (1991). Vinyl ether hydrolysis. 25. Effect of α‐ and β‐trimethylsilyl substitution. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 4(10). 587–591. 12 indexed citations

10.

Kresge, A. J. & John B. Tobin. (1990). Flash photolytic generation and study of .alpha.-(trimethylsilyl)vinyl alcohol: the effect of .alpha.-silyl substitution on enol chemistry. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 112(7). 2805–2806. 10 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact