John Robert Penswick

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

John Robert Penswick is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Robert Penswick has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in John Robert Penswick's work include Plant Virus Research Studies (5 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). John Robert Penswick is often cited by papers focused on Plant Virus Research Studies (5 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). John Robert Penswick collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. John Robert Penswick's co-authors include Robert W. Holley, George A. Everett, James T. Madison, Jean Apgar, Ada Zamir, Susan H. Merrill, T. Höhn, Crispin J. Woolston, Jeffrey W. Davies and Simon N. Covey and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John Robert Penswick

10 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Structure of a Ribonucleic Acid 1965 2026 1985 2005 1965 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. Structure of a Ribonucleic Acid
    1965 955 citations Robert W. Holley, Jean Apgar et al. Science 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 Robert Penswick Switzerland 9 1.2k 331 142 113 78 10 1.4k
F. Chapeville France 20 1.0k 0.9× 331 1.0× 30 0.2× 243 2.2× 113 1.4× 47 1.3k
George W. Rushizky United States 21 1.0k 0.9× 138 0.4× 46 0.3× 181 1.6× 126 1.6× 50 1.2k
Viktor Stein Germany 22 833 0.7× 261 0.8× 112 0.8× 54 0.5× 74 0.9× 34 1.4k
Kin‐ichiro Miura Japan 20 827 0.7× 147 0.4× 65 0.5× 73 0.6× 81 1.0× 41 1.1k
J.M. Vargason United States 8 626 0.5× 350 1.1× 26 0.2× 88 0.8× 54 0.7× 11 935
Mavis Shure United States 8 1.2k 1.1× 852 2.6× 122 0.9× 197 1.7× 230 2.9× 8 1.8k
G.L. Lokesh United States 19 442 0.4× 181 0.5× 38 0.3× 161 1.4× 29 0.4× 34 804
R.E. Monro United Kingdom 19 1.9k 1.6× 68 0.2× 50 0.4× 145 1.3× 259 3.3× 22 2.1k
L. K. Ramachandran United States 16 412 0.4× 128 0.4× 35 0.2× 73 0.6× 67 0.9× 39 738
V. Bissery France 5 628 0.5× 175 0.5× 160 1.1× 28 0.2× 90 1.2× 5 915

Countries citing papers authored by John Robert Penswick

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Robert Penswick

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by John Robert Penswick. 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 Robert Penswick. The network helps show where John Robert Penswick may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Robert Penswick

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Zoeten, G. A. de, John Robert Penswick, Michel A. Horisberger, et al.. (1989). The expression, localization, and effect of a human interferon in plants. Virology. 172(1). 213–222. 88 indexed citations
2.
Fütterer, Johannes, et al.. (1988). The leading sequence of caulimovirus large RNA can be folded into a large stem-loop structure. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(17). 8377–8390. 44 indexed citations
3.
Penswick, John Robert, Robin Hubler, & T. Höhn. (1988). A viable mutation in cauliflower mosaic virus, a retroviruslike plant virus, separates its capsid protein and polymerase genes. Journal of Virology. 62(4). 1460–1463. 18 indexed citations
4.
Brisson, Normand, Jerzy Paszkowski, John Robert Penswick, et al.. (1984). Expression of a bacterial gene in plants by using a viral vector. Nature. 310(5977). 511–514. 122 indexed citations
5.
Woolston, Crispin J., Simon N. Covey, John Robert Penswick, & Jeffrey W. Davies. (1983). Aphid transmission and a polypeptide are specified by a defined region of the cauliflower mosaic virus genome. Gene. 23(1). 15–23. 85 indexed citations
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Penswick, John Robert, Robert P. Martin, & G. Dirheimer. (1975). Evidence supporting a revised sequence for yeast alanine tRNA. FEBS Letters. 50(1). 28–31. 23 indexed citations
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Penswick, John Robert, et al.. (1971). Chicken liver transfer ribonucleic acid: heterologous interaction of alanine transfer ribonucleic acid with yeast. Biochemical Journal. 121(1). 5P–5P. 2 indexed citations
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Holley, Robert W., Jean Apgar, George A. Everett, et al.. (1965). Structure of a Ribonucleic Acid. Science. 147(3664). 1462–1465. 955 indexed citations breakdown →
9.
Penswick, John Robert & Robert W. Holley. (1965). SPECIFIC CLEAVAGE OF THE YEAST ALANINE RNA INTO TWO LARGE FRAGMENTS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 53(3). 543–546. 33 indexed citations
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McDonald, C. C., William D. Phillips, & John Robert Penswick. (1965). NMR study of the secondary structure of s‐RNA. Biopolymers. 3(6). 609–616. 31 indexed citations

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