John T. Edsall

11.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
124 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

John T. Edsall is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John T. Edsall has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 11 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in John T. Edsall's work include Enzyme function and inhibition (10 papers), Protein Interaction Studies and Fluorescence Analysis (7 papers) and Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (7 papers). John T. Edsall is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme function and inhibition (10 papers), Protein Interaction Studies and Fluorescence Analysis (7 papers) and Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (7 papers). John T. Edsall collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. John T. Edsall's co-authors include Jacob A. Verpoorte, S. N. Mehta, Barbara Gibbons, Dirck V. Myers, J Armstrong, Egon E. Rickli, R. Bruce Martin, Harold A. Scheraga, David Garfinkel and P F Spahr and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John T. Edsall

117 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Esterase Activities of Human Carbonic Anhydrases B and C

1967 901 citations Jacob A. Verpoorte, S. N. Mehta et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
Purification and Properties of Human Erythrocyte Carbonic Anhydrases

1966 487 citations Jacob A. Verpoorte, John T. Edsall et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John T. Edsall United States	39	3.3k	1.1k	919	692	667	124	5.5k
John H. Richards United States	44	3.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	623 0.7×	154 0.2×	819 1.2×	174	7.4k
David N. Silverman United States	50	5.7k 1.7×	2.3k 2.0×	1.7k 1.8×	873 1.3×	399 0.6×	180	7.4k
Heinz Falk Austria	37	2.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	515 0.6×	251 0.4×	1.0k 1.5×	396	6.5k
Eugene H. Cordes United States	37	2.2k 0.7×	2.2k 2.0×	590 0.6×	153 0.2×	956 1.4×	116	5.0k
F. H. Westheimer United States	44	3.4k 1.0×	3.9k 3.5×	652 0.7×	163 0.2×	907 1.4×	153	8.2k
D.B. Davies United Kingdom	33	2.4k 0.7×	2.1k 1.9×	433 0.5×	390 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	195	5.1k
Bo G. Malmström Sweden	56	5.4k 1.6×	580 0.5×	554 0.6×	205 0.3×	547 0.8×	173	8.9k
B. Thorell Sweden	36	2.1k 0.6×	988 0.9×	295 0.3×	113 0.2×	490 0.7×	363	6.1k
Richard L. Schowen United States	38	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	499 0.5×	181 0.3×	771 1.2×	193	5.1k
Irving M. Klotz United States	55	4.9k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	560 0.6×	215 0.3×	1.7k 2.5×	243	9.9k

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Edsall, John T.. (2002). Some personal history and reflections from the life of a biochemist. Biophysical Chemistry. 100(1-3). 9–28. 7 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1993). Master of metabolic cycles. Nature. 366(6454). 417–418. 3 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1992). Memories of early days in protein science, 1926–1940. Protein Science. 1(11). 1526–1530. 10 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1990). Jeffries Wyman: Scientist, Philosopher and Adventurer. Biophysical Chemistry. 37(1-3). 7–14.

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Schechter, Alan N., James Β. Wyngaarden, John T. Edsall, et al.. (1989). Colloquium on Scientific Authorship: Rights and Responsibilities. The FASEB Journal. 3(2). 209–217. 10 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1986). Albert Szent-Györgi (1893 – 1986). Nature. 324(6096). 409–409. 1 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1981). Edwin J. Cohn and the physical chemistry of proteins. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 6. 335–337. 6 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1978). SOME EARLY HISTORY OF COLD‐INSOLUBLE GLOBULIN*. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 312(1). 1–10. 17 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1974). History of bioenergetics. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 5(1-2). 5–9. 3 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1972). Blood and hemoglobin: The evolution of knowledge of functional adaptation in a biochemical system. Journal of the History of Biology. 5(2). 205–257. 31 indexed citations

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Förster, Robert, John T. Edsall, Arthur B. Otis, & F. J. W. Roughton. (1969). CO 2 : Chemical, Biochemical, and Physiological Aspects. NASA SP-188. NASSP. 188. 3 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1969). Tom Rivers: Reflections on a Life in Medicine and Science an Oral History Memoir, by Saul Benison. Political Science Quarterly. 84(4). 675–676. 2 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1969). Chicago Boycott Defended. Science. 163(3871). 1009–1009.

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Verpoorte, Jacob A., S. N. Mehta, & John T. Edsall. (1967). Esterase Activities of Human Carbonic Anhydrases B and C. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 242(18). 4221–4229. 901 indexed citations breakdown →

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Edsall, John T.. (1966). Forty Years Among the Proteins. JAMA. 197(10). 799–799. 1 indexed citations

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Commoner, Barry, Robert B. Brode, Ansley J. Coale, et al.. (1964). Response : Science and the Race Problem. Science. 143(3609). 915–915. 3 indexed citations

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Gibbons, Barbara & John T. Edsall. (1964). Kinetic Studies of Human Carbonic Anhydrases B and C. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 239(8). 2539–2544. 71 indexed citations

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Martin, R. Bruce & John T. Edsall. (1960). The Association of Divalent Cations with Acylated Histidine Derivatives¹. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 82(5). 1107–1111. 56 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T.. (1954). Configuration of certain protein molecules. An inquiry concerning the present status of our knowledge. Journal of Polymer Science. 12(1). 253–280. 32 indexed citations

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Edsall, John T. & Walter F. Lever. (1951). EFFECTS OF IONS AND NEUTRAL MOLECULES ON FIBRIN CLOTTING. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 191(2). 735–756. 42 indexed citations

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