John Dawson

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

John Dawson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Dawson has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 17 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in John Dawson's work include Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (23 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (15 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (15 papers). John Dawson is often cited by papers focused on Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (23 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (15 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (15 papers). John Dawson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Switzerland. John Dawson's co-authors include James A. Spudich, L. Stirling Churchman, Zeynep Ökten, Ronald S. Rock, Karen Launis, Martha Wright, Michael G. Koziel, Nalini Desai, Gregory W. Warren and Stephen V. Evola and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

John Dawson

59 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Field Performance of Elite Transgenic Maize Plants Expressing an Insecticidal Protein Derived from Bacillus thuringiensis

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Dawson Canada	22	1.4k	634	436	358	305	62	2.2k
Marleen Van Troys Belgium	25	1.1k 0.8×	131 0.2×	164 0.4×	76 0.2×	946 3.1×	59	2.3k
Leslie D. Burtnick Canada	24	961 0.7×	114 0.2×	375 0.9×	74 0.2×	992 3.3×	60	2.0k
Andrew V. Anzalone United States	15	6.1k 4.5×	1.2k 2.0×	249 0.6×	216 0.6×	74 0.2×	19	6.8k
Maribel Geli Spain	22	1.5k 1.1×	205 0.3×	211 0.5×	130 0.4×	1.2k 4.0×	40	1.9k
John A. Zuris United States	19	5.8k 4.3×	708 1.1×	191 0.4×	154 0.4×	115 0.4×	24	6.4k
Marie La Russa United States	10	2.7k 2.0×	285 0.4×	117 0.3×	75 0.2×	34 0.1×	14	3.0k
Brian K. Haarer United States	22	2.7k 2.0×	407 0.6×	257 0.6×	29 0.1×	1.5k 4.8×	35	3.2k
Srinivasan Chandrasegaran United States	28	4.7k 3.5×	776 1.2×	81 0.2×	143 0.4×	44 0.1×	53	5.0k
Aditya Raguram United States	19	6.6k 4.8×	1.2k 1.8×	350 0.8×	209 0.6×	82 0.3×	23	7.2k
Virginia K. Eckenrode United States	6	1.4k 1.0×	255 0.4×	24 0.1×	189 0.5×	191 0.6×	6	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by John Dawson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Dawson

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Jacobs, Shoshanah, Karl Cottenie, William J. Bettger, et al.. (2023). Evaluating and Improving the Formative Use of Student Evaluation of Teaching. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14(1). 1 indexed citations

Dawson, John, et al.. (2023). Actin's C‐terminus coordinates actin structural changes and functions. Cytoskeleton. 80(9-10). 313–329. 4 indexed citations

Dawson, John, et al.. (2020). The Dark Side of Actin: Cardiac actin variants highlight the role of allostery in disease development. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 695. 108624–108624. 5 indexed citations

Dawson, John, et al.. (2020). Homology-Directed Repair in Zebrafish: Witchcraft and Wizardry?. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 7. 595474–595474. 11 indexed citations

Dawson, John, et al.. (2019). M-class hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cardiac actin mutations increase calcium sensitivity of regulated thin filaments. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 519(1). 148–152. 5 indexed citations

Patel, Vaibhav B., Pavel Zhabyeyev, Xueyi Chen, et al.. (2018). PI3Kα-regulated gelsolin activity is a critical determinant of cardiac cytoskeletal remodeling and heart disease. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5390–5390. 59 indexed citations

Dawson, John, et al.. (2018). Classifying Cardiac Actin Mutations Associated With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Frontiers in Physiology. 9. 405–405. 24 indexed citations

Chow, Melissa, Justin F. Shaffer, Samantha P. Harris, & John Dawson. (2014). Altered interactions between cardiac myosin binding protein-c and α-cardiac actin variants associated with cardiomyopathies. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 550-551. 28–32. 14 indexed citations

Bai, Fan, et al.. (2014). The immediate effect of HCM causing actin mutants E99K and A230V on actin–Tm–myosin interaction in thin-filament reconstituted myocardium. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 79. 123–132. 17 indexed citations

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Chow, Melissa, et al.. (2012). Subdomain Location of Mutations in Cardiac Actin Correlate with Type of Functional Change. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e36821–e36821. 25 indexed citations

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Dawson, John, et al.. (2010). Non-polymerizing long-pitch actin dimers that interact with myosin. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 501(2). 188–194. 2 indexed citations

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Fieldhouse, Robert J., et al.. (2010). Photox, a Novel Actin-targeting Mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase from Photorhabdus luminescens. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(18). 13525–13534. 40 indexed citations

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Saha, Sougata, Fangliang Zhang, Farida Korobova, et al.. (2010). Arginylation Regulates Intracellular Actin Polymer Level by Modulating Actin Properties and Binding of Capping and Severing Proteins. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21(8). 1350–1361. 74 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Mumdooh A.M., Vladimir V. Bamm, Lichi Shi, et al.. (2009). Induced Secondary Structure and Polymorphism in an Intrinsically Disordered Structural Linker of the CNS: Solid-State NMR and FTIR Spectroscopy of Myelin Basic Protein Bound to Actin. Biophysical Journal. 96(1). 180–191. 23 indexed citations

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Yates, Susan P., et al.. (2007). Overexpression of cardiac actin with baculovirus is promoter dependent. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 466(1). 58–65. 17 indexed citations

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Dawson, John, et al.. (2007). A high-throughput assay shows that DNase-I binds actin monomers and polymers with similar affinity. Analytical Biochemistry. 364(2). 159–164. 19 indexed citations

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Dawson, John, et al.. (2004). Probing Dictyostelium severin structure and function by cross linking to actin. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 82(2). 343–350.

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Holmes, Charles F.B., et al.. (2002). Molecular Enzymology Underlying Regulation of Protein Phosphatase-1 by Natural Toxins. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 9(22). 1981–1989. 32 indexed citations

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Dawson, John, et al.. (2000). CONCEPTS FOR INCREASED NATURAL GAS SUPPLY A PIPELINE PERSPECTIVE. 2 indexed citations

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Dawson, John, Hue Anh Luu, John R. Bagu, & Charles F.B. Holmes. (2000). Mutation of the Toxin Binding Site of PP-1c: Comparison with PP-2B. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 270(2). 543–549. 6 indexed citations

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