Karl A. Johnson

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Karl A. Johnson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Condensed Matter Physics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl A. Johnson has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 9 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Karl A. Johnson's work include Protist diversity and phylogeny (10 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (9 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (7 papers). Karl A. Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Protist diversity and phylogeny (10 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (9 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (7 papers). Karl A. Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Karl A. Johnson's co-authors include Joel L. Rosenbaum, Keith G. Kozminski, Paul Forscher, J. P. Gollub, Jeffrey Guasto, B Vogelstein, Li Su, David E. Hill, K. W. Kinzler and K Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Karl A. Johnson

32 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

A motility in the eukaryotic flagellum unrelated to flagellar beating.

1993 769 citations Keith G. Kozminski, Karl A. Johnson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karl A. Johnson United States	16	1.3k	1.0k	701	437	203	32	2.0k
Junmin Pan China	30	2.0k 1.5×	1.6k 1.6×	917 1.3×	183 0.4×	55 0.3×	58	2.5k
J. L. Salisbury United States	23	1.9k 1.4×	330 0.3×	1.2k 1.8×	127 0.3×	131 0.6×	41	2.7k
T. Manabe Japan	25	474 0.4×	236 0.2×	73 0.1×	420 1.0×	140 0.7×	69	1.9k
Eric Karsenti Germany	24	2.2k 1.7×	118 0.1×	2.2k 3.1×	285 0.7×	119 0.6×	32	3.1k
Kyosuke Shinohara Japan	19	971 0.7×	670 0.7×	361 0.5×	113 0.3×	205 1.0×	40	1.5k
Takahide Kon Japan	27	1.6k 1.3×	318 0.3×	1.8k 2.5×	287 0.7×	173 0.9×	55	2.5k
Andrés E. Leschziner United States	27	2.1k 1.6×	292 0.3×	955 1.4×	73 0.2×	92 0.5×	62	2.7k
Akatsuki Kimura Japan	28	2.0k 1.5×	217 0.2×	935 1.3×	100 0.2×	90 0.4×	60	2.6k
Marie‐Hélène Verlhac France	34	2.5k 1.9×	255 0.3×	2.5k 3.6×	95 0.2×	100 0.5×	67	4.3k
Ursula Euteneuer United States	33	2.8k 2.1×	389 0.4×	3.4k 4.9×	93 0.2×	435 2.1×	53	4.7k

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Peng, Foen, et al.. (2024). Hybrid Mimulus flowers attract a new pollinator. New Phytologist. 242(3). 1324–1332. 4 indexed citations

Kokona, Bashkim, et al.. (2019). Colorimetric Assay Reports on Acyl Carrier Protein Interactions. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15589–15589. 4 indexed citations

Tam, Daniel, et al.. (2013). Flagellar waveform dynamics of freely swimming algal cells. Physical Review Letters. 1 indexed citations

Tam, Daniel, et al.. (2013). Flagellar waveform dynamics of freely swimming algal cells. Physical Review E. 88(1). 13015–13015. 17 indexed citations

Guasto, Jeffrey, et al.. (2011). Enhancement of biomixing by swimming algal cells in two-dimensional films. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(26). 10391–10395. 124 indexed citations

Guasto, Jeffrey, Karl A. Johnson, & J. P. Gollub. (2010). Oscillatory Flows Induced by Microorganisms Swimming in Two Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 105(16). 168102–168102. 180 indexed citations

Rigotti, Daniel J., Bashkim Kokona, Karl A. Johnson, et al.. (2005). Quantitative atomic force microscopy image analysis of unusual filaments formed by the Acanthamoeba castellanii myosin II rod domain. Analytical Biochemistry. 346(2). 189–200. 8 indexed citations

Fossella, John, Sadhana Samant, Lee M. Silver, et al.. (2000). An axonemal dynein at the Hybrid Sterility 6 locus: implications for t haplotype-specific male sterility and the evolution of species barriers. Mammalian Genome. 11(1). 8–15. 36 indexed citations

Johnson, Karl A., et al.. (1995). Identification of a molecular chaperone in the eukaryotic flagellum and its localization to the site of microtubule assembly. Journal of Cell Science. 108(11). 3541–3545. 66 indexed citations

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Johnson, Karl A., et al.. (1994). Localization of a kinesin-related protein to the central pair apparatus of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii flagellum. Journal of Cell Science. 107(6). 1551–1556. 34 indexed citations

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Johnson, Karl A. & Joel L. Rosenbaum. (1993). Flagellar regeneration in Chlamydomonas: A model system for studying organelle assembly. Trends in Cell Biology. 3(5). 156–161. 38 indexed citations

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Kozminski, Keith G., Karl A. Johnson, Paul Forscher, & Joel L. Rosenbaum. (1993). A motility in the eukaryotic flagellum unrelated to flagellar beating.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 90(12). 5519–5523. 769 indexed citations breakdown →

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Johnson, Karl A. & Joel L. Rosenbaum. (1992). Replication of basal bodies and centrioles. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 4(1). 80–85. 13 indexed citations

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Johnson, Karl A. & Joel L. Rosenbaum. (1992). Replication of basal bodies and centrioles. Current Biology. 2(2). 94–94. 2 indexed citations

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Johnson, Karl A. & Joel L. Rosenbaum. (1991). Basal bodies and DNA. Trends in Cell Biology. 1(6). 145–149. 18 indexed citations

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Johnson, Karl A.. (1990). The cytologic and molecular analysis of the developmentally controlled increase in nuclear DNA content in the cotyledon parenchyma of common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris.. 50(11). 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, Karl A. & Joel L. Rosenbaum. (1990). The basal bodies of chlamydomonas reinhardtii do not contain immunologically detectable DNA. Cell. 62(4). 615–619. 59 indexed citations

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Johnson, Karl A. & Ian M. Sussex. (1990). Genomic amplification in the cotyledon parenchyma of common bean. Chromosoma. 99(3). 223–230. 5 indexed citations

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Shimizu, Takashi, Silvio P. Marchese‐Ragona, & Karl A. Johnson. (1989). Activation of the dynein ATPase by crosslinking to microtubules. Biochemistry. 28(17). 7016–7021. 22 indexed citations

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Tyrer, N. M. & Karl A. Johnson. (1977). Does electrophoresis of cockroach muscle proteins detect recognition molecules?. Nature. 268(5622). 759–761. 2 indexed citations

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