Joseph D. Puglisi

17.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
173 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Joseph D. Puglisi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph D. Puglisi has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Joseph D. Puglisi's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (147 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (92 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (47 papers). Joseph D. Puglisi is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (147 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (92 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (47 papers). Joseph D. Puglisi collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Japan. Joseph D. Puglisi's co-authors include Scott C. Blanchard, Dominique Fourmy, Colin Echeverría Aitken, Ignacio Tinoco, Michael I. Recht, Ryan Marshall, Alexey Petrov, Peter J. Lukavsky, Jacqueline R. Wyatt and James R. Williamson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Joseph D. Puglisi

170 papers receiving 13.1k 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.

Structure of the A Site of Escherichia coli 16 S Ribosomal RNA Complexed with an Aminoglycoside Antibiotic

1996 670 citations Joseph D. Puglisi et al. Science profile →
An Oxygen Scavenging System for Improvement of Dye Stability in Single-Molecule Fluorescence Experiments

2007 634 citations Joseph D. Puglisi et al. profile →
[22] absorbance melting curves of RNA

1989 578 citations Joseph D. Puglisi, Ignacio Tinoco Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology profile →
Conformation of the TAR RNA-Arginine Complex by NMR Spectroscopy

1992 526 citations Joseph D. Puglisi, James R. Williamson et al. Science profile →
Ligand-specific regulation of the extracellular surface of a G-protein-coupled receptor

2010 380 citations Joseph D. Puglisi et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joseph D. Puglisi United States	61	11.8k	1.7k	1.2k	1.1k	608	173	13.3k
Gabriele Varani United States	60	12.4k 1.0×	722 0.4×	628 0.5×	691 0.6×	491 0.8×	208	14.2k
Douglas H. Turner United States	67	18.6k 1.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.7×	661 1.1×	248	20.8k
Steven J. Ludtke United States	59	9.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	663 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	773 1.3×	138	13.7k
Lucas Pelkmans Switzerland	44	6.5k 0.5×	955 0.6×	359 0.3×	384 0.4×	752 1.2×	75	9.9k
David M.J. Lilley United Kingdom	74	18.1k 1.5×	3.1k 1.8×	304 0.3×	2.0k 1.8×	266 0.4×	350	19.8k
Clinton S. Potter United States	50	5.8k 0.5×	680 0.4×	257 0.2×	1.1k 1.0×	839 1.4×	133	9.7k
Olke C. Uhlenbeck United States	75	20.6k 1.7×	3.4k 2.0×	840 0.7×	3.0k 2.7×	796 1.3×	212	22.4k
Shawn Zheng United States	14	5.2k 0.4×	856 0.5×	466 0.4×	732 0.7×	931 1.5×	19	8.0k
Andrew P. Carter United Kingdom	36	7.8k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	723 0.6×	537 0.5×	648 1.1×	68	10.4k
Charles C. Richardson United States	57	8.7k 0.7×	3.8k 2.2×	413 0.3×	2.7k 2.5×	1.1k 1.8×	187	10.5k

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Grosely, Rosslyn, Carlos Alvarado, Ivaylo P. Ivanov, et al.. (2025). eIF1 and eIF5 dynamically control translation start site fidelity. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(11). 2308–2318. 3 indexed citations

Nouhin, Janin, Philip L. Tzou, Soo‐Yon Rhee, et al.. (2023). Human immunodeficiency virus 1 5′-leader mutations in plasma viruses before and after the development of reverse transcriptase inhibitor-resistance mutations. Journal of General Virology. 104(10).

Harish, Balasubramanian, Scott A. McCallum, Kevin P. Larsen, et al.. (2023). Pressure pushes tRNA ^Lys3 into excited conformational states. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(26). e2215556120–e2215556120. 2 indexed citations

Krahn, Natalie, Jingji Zhang, Sergey Melnikov, et al.. (2023). tRNA shape is an identity element for an archaeal pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase from the human gut. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(2). 513–524. 11 indexed citations

Schubert, Katharina, Evangelos D. Karousis, Christopher P. Lapointe, et al.. (2023). Universal features of Nsp1-mediated translational shutdown by coronaviruses. Molecular Cell. 83(19). 3546–3557.e8. 24 indexed citations

Lapointe, Christopher P., Rosslyn Grosely, Masaaki Sokabe, et al.. (2022). eIF5B and eIF1A reorient initiator tRNA to allow ribosomal subunit joining. Nature. 607(7917). 185–190. 38 indexed citations

Wang, Jinfan, et al.. (2021). Mechanisms that ensure speed and fidelity in eukaryotic translation termination. Science. 373(6557). 876–882. 37 indexed citations

Lapointe, Christopher P., Rosslyn Grosely, Alex G. Johnson, et al.. (2021). Dynamic competition between SARS-CoV-2 NSP1 and mRNA on the human ribosome inhibits translation initiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(6). 119 indexed citations

Johnson, Alex G., Ryan A. Flynn, Christopher P. Lapointe, et al.. (2020). A memory of eS25 loss drives resistance phenotypes. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(13). 7279–7297. 9 indexed citations

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Chandrasekaran, Viswanathan, Szymon Juszkiewicz, Junhong Choi, et al.. (2019). Mechanism of ribosome stalling during translation of a poly(A) tail. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(12). 1132–1140. 113 indexed citations

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Choi, Junhong, James Marks, Jingji Zhang, et al.. (2019). Dynamics of the context-specific translation arrest by chloramphenicol and linezolid. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(3). 310–317. 34 indexed citations

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Johnson, Alex G., Christopher P. Lapointe, Jinfan Wang, et al.. (2019). RACK1 on and off the ribosome. RNA. 25(7). 881–895. 39 indexed citations

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Duss, Olivier, Galina A. Stepanyuk, Annette Grot, et al.. (2018). Real-time assembly of ribonucleoprotein complexes on nascent RNA transcripts. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5087–5087. 39 indexed citations

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Kappel, Kalli, Shiheng Liu, Kevin P. Larsen, et al.. (2018). De novo computational RNA modeling into cryo-EM maps of large ribonucleoprotein complexes. Nature Methods. 15(11). 947–954. 48 indexed citations

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Chen, Jin, et al.. (2016). Amino acid sequence repertoire of the bacterial proteome and the occurrence of untranslatable sequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(26). 7166–7170. 14 indexed citations

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Tinoco, Ignacio, Kenneth Sauer, James C. Wang, & Joseph D. Puglisi. (2002). Physical chemistry : principles and applications in biological sciences : solutions manual. Prentice Hall eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Puglisi, Joseph D. & James R. Williamson. (1999). 16 RNA Interaction with Small Ligands and Peptides. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 37. 403–425. 7 indexed citations

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Puglisi, Elisabetta Viani & Joseph D. Puglisi. (1998). Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of RNA. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 35. 117–146. 1 indexed citations

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Puglisi, Joseph D. & Jacqueline R. Wyatt. (1995). [14] Biochemical and NMR studies of RNA conformation with an emphasis on RNA pseudoknots. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 261. 323–350. 50 indexed citations

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Giegé, Richard, Joseph D. Puglisi, & Catherine Florentz. (1993). tRNA Structure and Aminoacylation Efficiency. Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology. 45. 129–206. 185 indexed citations

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