John F. Atkins

21.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
290 papers, 16.2k citations indexed

About

John F. Atkins is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, John F. Atkins has authored 290 papers receiving a total of 16.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 206 papers in Molecular Biology, 57 papers in Genetics and 49 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in John F. Atkins's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (167 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (73 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (47 papers). John F. Atkins is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (167 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (73 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (47 papers). John F. Atkins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and United Kingdom. John F. Atkins's co-authors include Raymond F. Gesteland, Andrew E. Firth, R.F. Gesteland, Pavel V. Baranov, Norma M. Wills, Robert B. Weiss, Betty Chung, Ivaylo P. Ivanov, Carl W. Anderson and Gary Loughran and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

John F. Atkins

284 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Hit Papers

3 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.

An overlapping essential gene in the Potyviridae

2008 711 citations Betty Chung, W. Allen Miller et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
An Overlapping Protein-Coding Region in Influenza A Virus Segment 3 Modulates the Host Response

2012 494 citations Norma M. Wills, John F. Atkins et al. Science profile →
Structural basis of ribosomal frameshifting during translation of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome

2021 176 citations Pramod R. Bhatt, Alain Scaiola 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 F. Atkins United States	71	11.1k	3.0k	2.3k	2.0k	1.4k	290	16.2k
Hugh R.B. Pelham United Kingdom	80	20.7k 1.9×	2.1k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	710 0.5×	133	26.7k
John J. Dunn United States	43	10.8k 1.0×	4.7k 1.6×	1.3k 0.6×	3.0k 1.5×	1.8k 1.2×	98	15.9k
S Inouye Japan	61	8.8k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	337	13.6k
Walter Fiers Belgium	79	13.5k 1.2×	3.6k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	3.2k 1.6×	1.8k 1.2×	308	27.5k
Henry D. Hunt United States	30	7.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	698 0.3×	763 0.5×	73	12.1k
Charles Weissmann Switzerland	81	22.5k 2.0×	3.6k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	216	28.5k
David F. Smith United States	68	12.9k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	587 0.3×	822 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	215	17.2k
Robert M. Horton United States	22	7.8k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	793 0.4×	770 0.5×	64	12.6k
Aaron J. Shatkin United States	68	11.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	3.6k 2.5×	197	15.4k
John M. Taylor United States	79	8.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	708 0.4×	2.4k 1.7×	286	19.4k

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Vallesi, Adriana, et al.. (2023). Nontriplet feature of genetic code in Euplotes ciliates is a result of neutral evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(22). e2221683120–e2221683120. 12 indexed citations

Vila‐Sanjurjo, Antón, Natalia Mallo, John F. Atkins, Joanna L. Elson, & Paul Smith. (2023). Our current understanding of the toxicity of altered mito-ribosomal fidelity during mitochondrial protein synthesis: What can it tell us about human disease?. Frontiers in Physiology. 14. 1082953–1082953. 4 indexed citations

Fromm, Simon A., Michael D. Purdy, Pramod R. Bhatt, et al.. (2023). The translating bacterial ribosome at 1.55 Å resolution generated by cryo-EM imaging services. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1095–1095. 28 indexed citations

Hudson, Andrew M., et al.. (2021). Tissue-specific dynamic codon redefinition in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(5). 10 indexed citations

Bhatt, Pramod R., Alain Scaiola, Gary Loughran, et al.. (2021). Structural basis of ribosomal frameshifting during translation of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome. Science. 372(6548). 1306–1313. 176 indexed citations breakdown →

Loughran, Gary, Alexander V. Zhdanov, Sergey I. Kovalchuk, et al.. (2020). Unusually efficient CUG initiation of an overlapping reading frame in POLG mRNA yields novel protein POLGARF. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(40). 24936–24946. 26 indexed citations

Antonov, Ivan, et al.. (2013). Identification of the nature of reading frame transitions observed in prokaryotic genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(13). 6514–6530. 24 indexed citations

Atkins, John F., Raymond F. Gesteland, & Thomas R. Cech. (2011). RNA worlds : from life's origins to diversity in gene regulation. 84 indexed citations

Firth, Andrew E. & John F. Atkins. (2009). A conserved predicted pseudoknot in the NS2A-encoding sequence of West Nile and Japanese encephalitis flaviviruses suggests NS1' may derive from ribosomal frameshifting. Virology Journal. 6(1). 14–14. 116 indexed citations

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Lao, Nga T., Alan P. Maloney, John F. Atkins, & Tony A. Kavanagh. (2009). Versatile Dual Reporter Gene Systems for Investigating Stop Codon Readthrough in Plants. PLoS ONE. 4(10). e7354–e7354. 8 indexed citations

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Chung, Betty, W. Allen Miller, John F. Atkins, & Andrew E. Firth. (2008). An overlapping essential gene in the Potyviridae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(15). 5897–5902. 711 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wills, Norma M., et al.. (2008). Translational bypassing without peptidyl‐tRNA anticodon scanning of coding gap mRNA. The EMBO Journal. 27(19). 2533–2544. 22 indexed citations

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Atkins, John F., Raymond F. Gesteland, Richard J. Jackson, & Norma M. Wills. (2006). 16 The Shapely mRNA: Knotting Ventured, Knotting Gained. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 43. 437–467. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yan, Pavel V. Baranov, John F. Atkins, & Vadim N. Gladyshev. (2005). Pyrrolysine and Selenocysteine Use Dissimilar Decoding Strategies. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(21). 20740–20751. 91 indexed citations

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Baranov, Pavel V., Raymond F. Gesteland, & John F. Atkins. (2004). P-site tRNA is a crucial initiator of ribosomal frameshifting. RNA. 10(2). 221–230. 70 indexed citations

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Atkins, John F., August Böck, Senya Matsufuji, & Raymond F. Gesteland. (1999). 24 Dynamics of the Genetic Code. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 37. 637–673. 14 indexed citations

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Choi, Kyoung Moo, John F. Atkins, Raymond F. Gesteland, & Richard Brimacombe. (1998). Flexibility of the nascent polypeptide chain within the ribosome. European Journal of Biochemistry. 255(2). 409–413. 26 indexed citations

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Gesteland, Raymond F. & John F. Atkins. (1993). The RNA world : the nature of modern RNA suggests a prebiotic RNA world. 207 indexed citations

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Condron, Barry, Raymond F. Gesteland, & John F. Atkins. (1991). An analysis of sequences stimulating frameshifting in the decoding of gene 10 of bacteriophage T7. Nucleic Acids Research. 19(20). 5607–5612. 38 indexed citations

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Atkins, John F.. (1980). Nontriplet tRNA–mRNA Interactions. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 439–449. 3 indexed citations

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