Michael Wasserman

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Wasserman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, General Health Professions and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Wasserman has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in General Health Professions and 5 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Michael Wasserman's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers) and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (7 papers). Michael Wasserman is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers) and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (7 papers). Michael Wasserman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Tanzania and Italy. Michael Wasserman's co-authors include Marvin E. Wolfgang, Thorsten Sellin, Robert M. Figlio, Scott C. Blanchard, Russ B. Altman, James P. Butler, Xavier Trepat, Jeffrey J. Fredberg, David A. Weitz and Thomas E. Angelini and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Michael Wasserman

45 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Delinquency in a Birth Cohort.

1973 1.3k citations Michael Wasserman, Marvin E. Wolfgang et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →
Physical forces during collective cell migration

2009 886 citations Michael Wasserman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Wasserman United States	20	1.2k	1.1k	836	673	562	48	4.0k
Jennifer C. Lee United States	42	2.0k 1.6×	309 0.3×	793 0.9×	141 0.2×	173 0.3×	147	5.5k
Ping‐Hung Chen Taiwan	26	908 0.7×	557 0.5×	447 0.5×	131 0.2×	209 0.4×	58	2.8k
Stefan W. Schneider Germany	49	2.0k 1.7×	167 0.2×	736 0.9×	734 1.1×	258 0.5×	222	7.8k
Gerald Weeks Canada	38	1.9k 1.6×	252 0.2×	2.0k 2.4×	456 0.7×	600 1.1×	190	4.3k
Thomas Abraham United States	37	1.5k 1.2×	329 0.3×	417 0.5×	231 0.3×	202 0.4×	147	4.7k
David M. Ashley United States	46	3.4k 2.8×	536 0.5×	184 0.2×	599 0.9×	215 0.4×	236	9.1k
Jing Wang China	51	4.1k 3.3×	443 0.4×	490 0.6×	443 0.7×	660 1.2×	367	10.0k
James M. Smith United States	40	1.3k 1.1×	277 0.3×	198 0.2×	270 0.4×	127 0.2×	252	5.5k
Alfred I. Tauber United States	43	2.1k 1.7×	293 0.3×	367 0.4×	238 0.4×	110 0.2×	168	7.0k
Daniel J. O’Connell United States	30	728 0.6×	823 0.8×	290 0.3×	203 0.3×	509 0.9×	99	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Wasserman

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ouslander, Joseph G. & Michael Wasserman. (2025). Strategies to Reduce Iatrogenic Hypoglycemia and Hypotension in Vulnerable Older Adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 74(1). 6–14.

Bartsch, Sarah M., Michael Wasserman, Raveena Singh, et al.. (2024). How the Timing of Annual COVID-19 Vaccination of Nursing Home Residents and Staff Affects Its Value. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 25(4). 639–646.e5. 2 indexed citations

Bartsch, Sarah M., Bruce Leff, Michael Wasserman, et al.. (2024). Modeling Nursing Home Harms From COVID-19 Staff Furlough Policies. JAMA Network Open. 7(8). e2429613–e2429613. 2 indexed citations

Wasserman, Michael, et al.. (2022). Nucleosome-directed replication origin licensing independent of a consensus DNA sequence. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4947–4947. 18 indexed citations

Juette, Manuel F., Jordan D. Carelli, Emily J. Rundlet, et al.. (2022). Didemnin B and ternatin-4 differentially inhibit conformational changes in eEF1A required for aminoacyl-tRNA accommodation into mammalian ribosomes. eLife. 11. 16 indexed citations

Rice, Dylan R., et al.. (2021). Efficacy of Fluoxetine for Post-Ischemic Stroke Depression in Tanzania. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 31(1). 106181–106181. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Ling, Z.L. Johnson, Michael Wasserman, et al.. (2020). Characterization of the kinetic cycle of an ABC transporter by single-molecule and cryo-EM analyses. eLife. 9. 64 indexed citations

Wasserman, Michael, et al.. (2020). Diagnostic Testing for SARS-Coronavirus-2 in the Nursing Facility: Recommendations of a Delphi Panel of Long-Term Care Clinicians. The journal of nutrition health & aging. 24(6). 538–543. 12 indexed citations

Wasserman, Michael, Grant D. Schauer, Mike O’Donnell, & Shixin Liu. (2020). Replication Fork Activation is Enabled by a Single-Stranded DNA Gate in CMG Helicase. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 375a–375a. 2 indexed citations

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Blanchard, Scott C., Chad M. Kurylo, Manuel F. Juette, et al.. (2019). Endogenously Encoded Ribosomal RNA Sequence Variation within the Assemble Ribosome can Regulate Stress Response Gene Expression and Phenotype. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 12a–12a.

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Wasserman, Michael, Grant D. Schauer, Mike O’Donnell, & Shixin Liu. (2019). Replisome Preservation by a Single-Stranded DNA Gate in the CMG Helicase. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 76a–76a. 2 indexed citations

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Juette, Manuel F., Daniel S. Terry, Michael Wasserman, et al.. (2016). Single-molecule imaging of non-equilibrium molecular ensembles on the millisecond timescale. Nature Methods. 13(4). 341–344. 181 indexed citations

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Wasserman, Michael, Arto Pulk, Zhou Zhou, et al.. (2015). Chemically related 4,5-linked aminoglycoside antibiotics drive subunit rotation in opposite directions. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7896–7896. 56 indexed citations

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Juette, Manuel F., Daniel S. Terry, Michael Wasserman, et al.. (2014). The bright future of single-molecule fluorescence imaging. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 20. 103–111. 105 indexed citations

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Zheng, Qinsi, Manuel F. Juette, Steffen Jockusch, et al.. (2013). Ultra-stable organic fluorophores for single-molecule research. Chemical Society Reviews. 43(4). 1044–1056. 322 indexed citations

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Wang, Leyi, Arto Pulk, Michael Wasserman, et al.. (2012). Allosteric control of the ribosome by small-molecule antibiotics. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 19(9). 957–963. 112 indexed citations

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Flaherty, Joseph H., John E. Morley, Donald J. Murphy, & Michael Wasserman. (2002). The Development of Outpatient Clinical Glidepaths ^™. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 50(11). 1886–1901. 40 indexed citations

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Wasserman, Michael, et al.. (1989). Utility of Fever, White Blood Cells, and Differential Count in Predicting Bacterial Infections in the Elderly. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 37(6). 537–543. 64 indexed citations

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Somers, Emily C., et al.. (1977). Report of the meeting of a government expert group on health-related monitoring. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 3 indexed citations

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Wasserman, Michael, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio, & Thorsten Sellin. (1973). Delinquency in a Birth Cohort.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 2(5). 526–526. 1304 indexed citations breakdown →

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