John Westley

6.8k total citations
179 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

John Westley is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, John Westley has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Organic Chemistry and 32 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in John Westley's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (26 papers), Sulfur Compounds in Biology (24 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (22 papers). John Westley is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (26 papers), Sulfur Compounds in Biology (24 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (22 papers). John Westley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. John Westley's co-authors include B. Halpern, Rebecca Jarabak, Lewis S. Seiden, Ralph H. Evans, Richard J. Miller, George C. Wagner, Charles R. Schuster, George A. Ricaurte, Merna Villarejo and Berthold Halpern and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

John Westley

176 papers receiving 4.9k 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 Westley United States 39 2.2k 1.2k 1.1k 751 736 179 5.3k
Kunio Yagi Japan 35 3.3k 1.5× 1.2k 1.0× 560 0.5× 386 0.5× 1.3k 1.8× 321 8.6k
Shmuel Shaltiel Israel 35 3.8k 1.7× 568 0.5× 534 0.5× 366 0.5× 764 1.0× 109 9.2k
Fritz Lipmann United States 61 8.2k 3.8× 1.0k 0.9× 752 0.7× 654 0.9× 519 0.7× 172 11.0k
David P. Ballou United States 57 6.0k 2.8× 1.6k 1.4× 742 0.7× 371 0.5× 658 0.9× 202 10.3k
E. Hecker Germany 43 4.1k 1.9× 572 0.5× 993 0.9× 363 0.5× 876 1.2× 359 7.5k
Sandro Ghisla Germany 52 5.3k 2.4× 1.9k 1.6× 584 0.5× 293 0.4× 1.1k 1.5× 205 8.2k
William W. Wells United States 42 3.4k 1.5× 739 0.6× 574 0.5× 185 0.2× 777 1.1× 142 7.2k
Charles C. Sweeley United States 49 6.0k 2.7× 848 0.7× 2.2k 2.0× 333 0.4× 962 1.3× 188 10.7k
Francesco Bossa Italy 43 3.5k 1.6× 1.2k 1.0× 249 0.2× 334 0.4× 899 1.2× 187 6.1k
Bruno Mondovı̀ Italy 41 3.4k 1.5× 1.3k 1.1× 576 0.5× 301 0.4× 431 0.6× 217 6.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Westley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Westley

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All Works

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Westley, John. (2023). Polyether Antibiotics.
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Westley, John. (2007). Mammalian Cyanide Detoxification with Sulphane Sulphur. Novartis Foundation symposium. 140. 201–218. 14 indexed citations
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Westley, John, et al.. (1996). Enzyme Inhibition in Open Systems. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(10). 5347–5352. 44 indexed citations
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Breen, Peter H., et al.. (1995). Effect of Oxygen and Sodium Thiosulfate during Combined Carbon Monoxide and Cyanide Poisoning. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 134(2). 229–234. 19 indexed citations
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Lyle, Stephen, et al.. (1995). Sulfate-Activating Enzymes in Normal and Brachymorphic Mice: Evidence for a Channeling Defect. Biochemistry. 34(3). 940–945. 22 indexed citations
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Breen, Peter H., et al.. (1995). Combined Carbon Monoxide and Cyanide Poisoning. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 80(4). 671–677. 28 indexed citations
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Patil, Ashok D., David E. Berry, David P. Brooks, et al.. (1993). A diterpene epoxide from the marine brown alga Dictyota sp.: Possible vasopressin V1 receptor antagonist. Phytochemistry. 33(5). 1061–1064. 9 indexed citations
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Marijuán, Pedro C. & John Westley. (1992). Enzymes as molecular automata: a reflection on some numerical and philosophical aspects of the hypothesis. Biosystems. 27(2). 97–113. 12 indexed citations
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Patil, Ashok D., et al.. (1992). Brominated Polyacetylenic Acids from the Marine Sponge Xestospongia muta: Inhibitors of HIV Protease. Journal of Natural Products. 55(9). 1170–1177. 73 indexed citations
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Westley, John, et al.. (1991). Biological sulfane sulfur. Analytical Biochemistry. 195(1). 63–67. 38 indexed citations
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Jarabak, Rebecca & John Westley. (1991). Localization of the sulfur‐cyanolysis site of serum albumin to subdomain 3‐ab. Journal of Biochemical Toxicology. 6(1). 65–70. 12 indexed citations
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Jarabak, Rebecca & John Westley. (1990). Competitive partial inhibitors of serum albumin‐catalyzed sulfur cyanolysis. Journal of Biochemical Toxicology. 5(1). 1–8. 15 indexed citations
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Mong, Seymour, Bartholomew J. Votta, Henry M. Sarau, et al.. (1990). 15-acetylthioxy-furodysinin lactone, isolated from a marine sponge , SP. is a potent agonist to human leukotriene B4 receptor. Prostaglandins. 39(1). 89–97. 6 indexed citations
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Westley, John, et al.. (1989). Votammetric determination of cyanide and thiocyanate in small biological samples. Analytical Biochemistry. 181(1). 190–194. 20 indexed citations
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Westley, John & Rebecca Jarabak. (1989). Appendix to the sulfur‐cyanolysis sites of serum albumin: Metabolite competition studies. Tight‐binding inhibitions that yield atypical henderson plots. Journal of Biochemical Toxicology. 4(4). 263–265. 2 indexed citations
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Westley, John. (1981). [37] Thiosulfate: Cyanide sulfurtransferase (Rhodanese). Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 77. 285–291. 118 indexed citations
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Westley, John. (1977). Polyether Antibiotics: Versatile Carboxylic Acid Ionophores Produced by Streptomyces. Advances in applied microbiology. 22. 177–223. 125 indexed citations
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Westley, John. (1973). Rhodanese. Advances in enzymology and related areas of molecular biology/Advances in enzymology and related subjects. 39. 327–368. 58 indexed citations
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Westley, John & J. David Lambeth. (1960). Protein determination on the basis of copper-binding capacity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 40. 364–366. 49 indexed citations

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