Matthew Meselson

18.4k total citations · 9 hit papers
115 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Matthew Meselson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Meselson has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Ecology and 29 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Matthew Meselson's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (19 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (15 papers). Matthew Meselson is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (19 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (15 papers). Matthew Meselson collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Matthew Meselson's co-authors include Franklin W. Stahl, Douglas Hanahan, Robert Yuan, Irina R. Arkhipova, David B. Mark Welch, Sydney Brenner, Jeanne Guillemin, F Jacob, Eugene Gladyshev and Jerome Vinograd and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Meselson

112 papers receiving 12.0k citations

Hit Papers

Plasmid screening at high colony density 1957 2026 1980 2003 1980 1975 1958 1961 1999 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. Plasmid screening at high colony density
    1980 1.0k citations Matthew Meselson et al. Gene profile →
  2. A general model for genetic recombination.
    1975 745 citations Matthew Meselson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. The replication of DNA in Escherichia coli
    1958 740 citations Matthew Meselson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. An Unstable Intermediate Carrying Information from Genes to Ribosomes for Protein Synthesis
    1961 698 citations Matthew Meselson et al. Nature profile →
  5. Anthrax
    1999 673 citations Matthew Meselson et al. profile →
  6. DNA Restriction Enzyme from E. coli
    1968 628 citations Matthew Meselson et al. Nature profile →
  7. The Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979
    1994 602 citations Matthew Meselson et al. Science profile →
  8. EQUILIBRIUM SEDIMENTATION OF MACROMOLECULES IN DENSITY GRADIENTS
    1957 590 citations Matthew Meselson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. EFFECTS OF HIGH LEVELS OF DNA ADENINE METHYLATION ON METHYL-DIRECTED MISMATCH REPAIR IN ESCHERICHIA COLI
    1983 245 citations Matthew Meselson et al. Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matthew Meselson United States 51 10.2k 3.4k 2.6k 1.9k 636 115 13.2k
Michael Zuker United States 43 21.4k 2.1× 3.7k 1.1× 3.2k 1.2× 3.7k 1.9× 815 1.3× 81 27.1k
Roy J. Britten United States 68 14.1k 1.4× 4.3k 1.3× 1.8k 0.7× 4.5k 2.3× 598 0.9× 200 19.3k
Sheldon Penman United States 92 18.7k 1.8× 3.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.4× 1.4k 0.7× 263 0.4× 229 25.1k
Frederick C. Neidhardt United States 62 19.1k 1.9× 9.8k 2.9× 4.3k 1.7× 1.6k 0.8× 184 0.3× 134 25.8k
David C. Schwartz United States 57 6.7k 0.6× 1.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 2.2k 1.2× 218 0.3× 196 13.7k
Douglas H. Turner United States 67 18.6k 1.8× 2.0k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 213 0.3× 248 20.8k
C. G. Kurland Sweden 65 13.1k 1.3× 4.0k 1.2× 2.4k 0.9× 1.0k 0.5× 144 0.2× 158 15.1k
John J. Dunn United States 43 10.8k 1.0× 4.7k 1.4× 3.0k 1.2× 1.3k 0.7× 528 0.8× 98 15.9k
Brian J. McCarthy United States 68 7.7k 0.8× 2.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 165 0.3× 245 13.0k
Carl R. Woese United States 88 22.2k 2.2× 4.1k 1.2× 9.3k 3.6× 2.6k 1.4× 651 1.0× 238 31.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Laine, Veronika N., Timothy B. Sackton, & Matthew Meselson. (2021). Genomic signature of sexual reproduction in the bdelloid rotifer Macrotrachella quadricornifera. Genetics. 220(2). 20 indexed citations
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Gladyshev, Eugene, et al.. (2015). Allele Sharing and Evidence for Sexuality in a Mitochondrial Clade of Bdelloid Rotifers. Genetics. 200(2). 581–590. 36 indexed citations
3.
Gladyshev, Eugene, Matthew Meselson, & Irina R. Arkhipova. (2008). Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers. Science. 320(5880). 1210–1213. 321 indexed citations
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Gladyshev, Eugene, Matthew Meselson, & Irina R. Arkhipova. (2006). A deep-branching clade of retrovirus-like retrotransposons in bdelloid rotifers. Gene. 390(1-2). 136–145. 31 indexed citations
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Meselson, Matthew. (2004). Explorations in the land of DNA and beyond. Nature Medicine. 10(10). 1034–1037. 1 indexed citations
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Arkhipova, Irina R., Konstantin Pyatkov, Matthew Meselson, & М. Б. Евгеньев. (2003). Retroelements containing introns in diverse invertebrate taxa. Nature Genetics. 33(2). 123–124. 96 indexed citations
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Welch, David B. Mark & Matthew Meselson. (1998). Measurements of the genome size of the monogonont rotifer Brachionus plicatilis and of the bdelloid rotifers Philodina roseola and Habrotrocha constricta. Hydrobiologia. 387-388(0). 395–402. 16 indexed citations
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Welch, Jessica L. Mark & Matthew Meselson. (1998). Karyotypes of bdelloid rotifers from three families. Hydrobiologia. 387-388(0). 403–407. 19 indexed citations
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Arkhipova, Irina R., Jinɡjinɡ Li, & Matthew Meselson. (1997). On the Mode of Gene-Dosage Compensation in Drosophila. Genetics. 145(3). 729–736. 15 indexed citations
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Meselson, Matthew, et al.. (1991). Verification of biological and toxin weapons disarmament. Science and Global Security. 2(2-3). 235–252. 2 indexed citations
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Cohen, Robert S. & Matthew Meselson. (1988). Periodic interactions of heat shock transcriptional elements. Nature. 332(6167). 856–858. 73 indexed citations
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Cohen, Robert S. & Matthew Meselson. (1985). Separate regulatory elements for the heat-inducible and ovarian expression of the drosophila hsp26 gene. Cell. 43(3). 737–746. 124 indexed citations
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Freund, Robert & Matthew Meselson. (1984). Long terminal repeat nucleotide sequence and specific insertion of the gypsy transposon.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 81(14). 4462–4464. 69 indexed citations
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Zimmerman, J. Lynn, William H. Petri, & Matthew Meselson. (1983). Accumulation of a specific subset of D. melanogaster heat shock mRNAs in normal development without heat shock. Cell. 32(4). 1161–1170. 327 indexed citations
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O’Keefe, Patrick, Matthew Meselson, & Robert P. Baughman. (1978). Neutral cleanup procedure for 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin residues in bovine fat and milk.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 61(3). 621–6. 5 indexed citations
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Baughman, Robert P. & Matthew Meselson. (1973). An analytical method for detecting TCDD (dioxin): levels of TCDD in samples from Vietnam.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 5. 27–35. 113 indexed citations
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Baughman, Robert P. & Matthew Meselson. (1973). An Analytical Method for Detecting TCDD (Dioxin): Levels of TCDD in Samples from Vietnam. Environmental Health Perspectives. 5. 27–27. 7 indexed citations
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Meselson, Matthew. (1972). Formation of hybrid DNA by rotary diffusion during genetic recombination. Journal of Molecular Biology. 71(3). 795–798. 83 indexed citations
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Meselson, Matthew, et al.. (1963). Unequal photosensitivity of the two strands of DNA in bacteriophage λ. Journal of Molecular Biology. 7(5). 583–589. 24 indexed citations
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Davern, Cedric I. & Matthew Meselson. (1960). The molecular conservation of ribonucleic acid during bacterial growth. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2(3). 153–IN5. 76 indexed citations

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