John Smit

2.9k total citations
58 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

John Smit is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Smit has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in John Smit's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (23 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (19 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (13 papers). John Smit is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (23 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (19 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (13 papers). John Smit collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. John Smit's co-authors include John F. Nomellini, Wade H. Bingle, Marc Vancanneyt, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, Robert I. Merker, Sabine Lindholst, Holger Meyer, Antoni Bennasar-Figueras, Edward R. B. Moore and Carsten Strömpl and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

John Smit

57 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Smit Canada 27 1.1k 547 409 267 138 58 1.7k
Christina Schäffer Austria 32 1.8k 1.6× 760 1.4× 461 1.1× 273 1.0× 120 0.9× 121 3.0k
J Smit Canada 19 950 0.9× 432 0.8× 558 1.4× 193 0.7× 150 1.1× 27 1.4k
Tomoko Yamamoto Japan 25 790 0.7× 356 0.7× 370 0.9× 184 0.7× 451 3.3× 89 1.9k
Xavier Soberón Mexico 26 1.9k 1.7× 579 1.1× 893 2.2× 258 1.0× 128 0.9× 87 2.8k
Amanda Nouwens Australia 30 1.6k 1.4× 317 0.6× 734 1.8× 151 0.6× 128 0.9× 85 3.1k
Joe Gray United Kingdom 24 800 0.7× 215 0.4× 298 0.7× 126 0.5× 130 0.9× 49 1.7k
James G. Elkins United States 25 1.8k 1.7× 618 1.1× 247 0.6× 302 1.1× 202 1.5× 57 2.6k
Reinhard Wirth Germany 36 2.0k 1.8× 724 1.3× 847 2.1× 306 1.1× 203 1.5× 79 3.6k
Hoda Khouri United States 16 1.3k 1.2× 792 1.4× 279 0.7× 154 0.6× 109 0.8× 18 2.4k
Imrich Barák Slovakia 27 1.5k 1.3× 779 1.4× 1.1k 2.8× 128 0.5× 152 1.1× 89 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by John Smit

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Smit

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Smit

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

All Works

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Herrmann, Jonathan, Anson Chan, Ivan Rajković, et al.. (2019). A bacterial surface layer protein exploits multistep crystallization for rapid self-assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(1). 388–394. 20 indexed citations
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Comerci, Colin J., Jonathan Herrmann, Xiaofeng Zhou, et al.. (2019). Topologically-guided continuous protein crystallization controls bacterial surface layer self-assembly. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2731–2731. 30 indexed citations
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Nomellini, John F., et al.. (2019). A Caulobacter crescentus Microbicide Protects from Vaginal Infection with HIV-1 JR-CSF in Humanized Bone Marrow-Liver-Thymus Mice. Journal of Virology. 93(18). 7 indexed citations
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Nomellini, John F., et al.. (2018). Generation of a Dual-Target, Safe, Inexpensive Microbicide that Protects Against HIV-1 and HSV-2 Disease. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2786–2786. 14 indexed citations
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Overton, K. Wesley, Dan Park, Mimi C. Yung, et al.. (2016). Two Outer Membrane Proteins Contribute to Caulobacter crescentus Cellular Fitness by Preventing Intracellular S-Layer Protein Accumulation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 82(23). 6961–6972. 4 indexed citations
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Anwari, Khatira, Chaille T. Webb, Sebastián Poggio, et al.. (2012). The evolution of new lipoprotein subunits of the bacterial outer membrane BAM complex. Molecular Microbiology. 84(5). 832–844. 60 indexed citations
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Amat, Fernando, Luis R. Comolli, Farshid Moussavi, et al.. (2010). Subtomogram alignment by adaptive Fourier coefficient thresholding. Journal of Structural Biology. 171(3). 332–344. 23 indexed citations
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Smit, John, Igor A. Kaltashov, Robert J. Cotter, et al.. (2008). Structure of a novel lipid A obtained from the lipopolysaccharide of Caulobacter crescentus. Innate Immunity. 14(1). 25–36. 31 indexed citations
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Suresh, Mavanur R., et al.. (2007). Caulobacter in cancer immunotherapy. Clinical Cancer Research. 13. 1 indexed citations
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Awasthi, Amit, et al.. (2006). Anti-tumor effects of the bacterium caulobacter crescentus in murine tumor models. Cancer Biology & Therapy. 5(5). 485–491. 32 indexed citations
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Nomellini, John F., et al.. (2005). Transcriptional regulation of the S-layer protein type I secretion system inCaulobacter crescentus. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 251(1). 29–36. 8 indexed citations
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Nomellini, John F., et al.. (2004). Comparison of S-layer secretion genes in freshwater caulobacters. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 50(9). 751–766. 3 indexed citations
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Abraham, Wolf‐Rainer, Carsten Strömpl, Holger Meyer, et al.. (1999). Phylogeny and polyphasic taxonomy of Caulobacter species. Proposal of Maricaulis gen. nov. with Maricaulis maris (Poindexter) comb. nov. as the type species, and emended description of the genera Brevundimonas and Caulobacter. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 49(3). 1053–1073. 217 indexed citations
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Fisher, James, et al.. (1992). Nucleotide sequence analysis of the gene encoding the Caulobacter crescentus paracrystalline surface layer protein. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 38(3). 193–202. 53 indexed citations
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Merker, Robert I. & John Smit. (1988). Characterization of the Adhesive Holdfast of Marine and Freshwater Caulobacters. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 54(8). 2078–2085. 94 indexed citations
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Smit, John. (1987). Localizing the subunit pool for the temporally regulated polar pili of Caulobacter crescentus.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 105(4). 1821–1828. 13 indexed citations
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Smit, John, Mark A. Hermodson, & Nina Agabian. (1981). Caulobacter crescentus pilin. Purification, chemical characterization, and NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of a structural protein regulated during development.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 256(6). 3092–3097. 26 indexed citations

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