Joseph Sambrook

146.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
339 papers, 127.1k citations indexed

About

Joseph Sambrook is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Sambrook has authored 339 papers receiving a total of 127.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 215 papers in Molecular Biology, 85 papers in Genetics and 66 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Joseph Sambrook's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (61 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers) and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (52 papers). Joseph Sambrook is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (61 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers) and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (52 papers). Joseph Sambrook collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Joseph Sambrook's co-authors include Tom Maniatis, Mary‐Jane Gething, David W. Russell, Michael R. Green, M J Gething, Kenji Kohno, Karl Normington, Wenzhen Ma, Kazutoshi Mori and E L Madison and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Sambrook

307 papers receiving 122.8k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual

1989 113.5k citations Joseph Sambrook et al. profile →
Protein folding in the cell

1992 3.6k citations Mary‐Jane Gething, Joseph Sambrook Nature profile →
Purification of Nucleic Acids by Extraction with Phenol:Chloroform

2006 727 citations Joseph Sambrook, David W. Russell Cold Spring Harbor Protocols profile →
A transmembrane protein with a cdc2+CDC28-related kinase activity is required for signaling from the ER to the nucleus

1993 670 citations Wenzhen Ma, Mary‐Jane Gething et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joseph Sambrook United States	49	78.4k	25.9k	24.3k	13.2k	10.8k	339	127.1k
Toby J. Gibson Germany	69	65.8k 0.8×	16.2k 0.6×	24.7k 1.0×	16.2k 1.2×	8.7k 0.8×	148	116.5k
Desmond G. Higgins Ireland	56	67.4k 0.9×	17.1k 0.7×	26.7k 1.1×	17.6k 1.3×	8.2k 0.8×	132	120.5k
Julie Thompson France	38	74.2k 0.9×	19.6k 0.8×	34.3k 1.4×	23.6k 1.8×	10.6k 1.0×	124	138.9k
Peer Bork Germany	151	97.1k 1.2×	15.3k 0.6×	18.8k 0.8×	15.9k 1.2×	8.4k 0.8×	524	145.9k
Prescott L. Deininger United States	67	62.5k 0.8×	20.0k 0.8×	22.6k 0.9×	8.7k 0.7×	6.1k 0.6×	197	98.6k
David J. Lipman United States	50	66.4k 0.8×	15.0k 0.6×	22.8k 0.9×	18.0k 1.4×	6.5k 0.6×	80	112.8k
Tom Maniatis United States	137	121.0k 1.5×	35.1k 1.4×	27.6k 1.1×	14.7k 1.1×	11.2k 1.0×	278	190.2k
Mark A. Bradford United States	72	109.9k 1.4×	14.9k 0.6×	57.1k 2.4×	21.1k 1.6×	16.3k 1.5×	229	239.7k
Kenneth J. Livak United States	42	95.0k 1.2×	19.0k 0.7×	44.4k 1.8×	7.8k 0.6×	10.3k 1.0×	95	199.5k
Eugene V. Koonin United States	169	86.6k 1.1×	21.4k 0.8×	23.3k 1.0×	24.0k 1.8×	4.1k 0.4×	903	118.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Joseph Sambrook

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Joseph Sambrook's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Joseph Sambrook with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Joseph Sambrook more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Joseph Sambrook

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Joseph Sambrook. 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 Joseph Sambrook. The network helps show where Joseph Sambrook may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Sambrook

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Green, Michael R. & Joseph Sambrook. (2019). Removing DNA Contamination from RNA Samples by Treatment with RNase-Free DNase I. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2019(10). pdb.prot101725–pdb.prot101725. 13 indexed citations

Green, Michael R. & Joseph Sambrook. (2018). Touchdown Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2018(5). pdb.prot095133–pdb.prot095133. 28 indexed citations

Witkowski, Joseph A., Alexander Gann, & Joseph Sambrook. (2008). Life Illuminated: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Institutional Repository (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 3 indexed citations

Sambrook, Joseph & David W. Russell. (2006). Isolation of DNA Fragments from Polyacrylamide Gels by the Crush and Soak Method. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2006(1). pdb.prot2936–pdb.prot2936. 34 indexed citations

Sambrook, Joseph & David W. Russell. (2006). Removal of Oligonucleotides and Excess dNTPs from Amplified DNA by Ultrafiltration. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2006(1). pdb.prot3826–pdb.prot3826. 1 indexed citations

Sambrook, Joseph & David W. Russell. (2006). Agarose Gel Electrophoresis. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2006(1). pdb.prot4020–pdb.prot4020. 23 indexed citations

Sambrook, Joseph & David W. Russell. (2006). Phosphorylating the 5' Termini of Oligonucleotides. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2006(1). pdb.prot3880–pdb.prot3880. 1 indexed citations

Sambrook, Joseph & David W. Russell. (2006). Purification of Closed Circular DNA by Equilibrium Centrifugation in CsCl-Ethidium Bromide Gradients: Discontinuous Gradients. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2006(1). pdb.prot3913–pdb.prot3913. 18 indexed citations

Alizadeh, Hassan, Ding Ma, M Berman, et al.. (1995). Tissue-type plasminogen activator-induced invasion and metastasis of murine melanomas. Current Eye Research. 14(6). 449–458. 33 indexed citations

10.

Gething, Mary‐Jane, et al.. (1994). 5 Structure, Function, and Regulation of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone, BiP. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 26. 111–135. 19 indexed citations

11.

Ma, Wenzhen, et al.. (1993). A transmembrane protein with a cdc2+CDC28-related kinase activity is required for signaling from the ER to the nucleus. Cell. 74(4). 743–756. 670 indexed citations breakdown →

12.

Gething, Mary‐Jane & Joseph Sambrook. (1992). Protein folding in the cell. Nature. 355(6355). 33–45. 3621 indexed citations breakdown →

13.

Sambrook, Joseph. (1991). Pumping peptides. Current Biology. 1(1). 57–58. 1 indexed citations

14.

Orlean, Peter, et al.. (1990). The Saccharomyces cerevisiae DPM1 Gene Encoding Dolichol-Phosphate-Mannose Synthase Is Able To Complement a Glycosylation-Defective Mammalian Cell Line. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 10(9). 4612–4622. 14 indexed citations

15.

Madison, E L, Elizabeth J. Goldsmith, Robert D. Gerard, et al.. (1990). Amino acid residues that affect interaction of tissue-type plasminogen activator with plasminogen activator inhibitor 1.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 87(9). 3530–3533. 123 indexed citations

16.

Orlean, Peter, et al.. (1990). The Saccharomyces cerevisiae DPM1 gene encoding dolichol-phosphate-mannose synthase is able to complement a glycosylation-defective mammalian cell line.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 10(9). 4612–4622. 60 indexed citations

17.

Doyle, Carolyn A., Joseph Sambrook, & M J Gething. (1986). Analysis of progressive deletions of the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains of influenza hemagglutinin.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 103(4). 1193–1204. 96 indexed citations

18.

Sambrook, Joseph, Michael R. Botchan, Shilin Hu, Timothy J. Mitchison, & James R. Stringer. (1980). Integration of viral DNA sequences in cells transformed by adenovirus 2 or SV40. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 210(1180). 423–435. 6 indexed citations

19.

Dunn, Ashley R. & Joseph Sambrook. (1980). [54] Mapping viral mRNAs by sandwich hybridization. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 65(1). 468–478. 11 indexed citations

20.

Gluzman, Y, Richard J. Frisque, & Joseph Sambrook. (1980). Origin-defective Mutants of SV40. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 44(0). 293–300. 175 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact