N. Symonds

1.2k total citations
51 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

N. Symonds is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, N. Symonds has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in N. Symonds's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (31 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (8 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers). N. Symonds is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (31 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (8 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers). N. Symonds collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and United States. N. Symonds's co-authors include John M. Boyle, S. W. Glover, K. A. Stacey, David R. F. Leach, J. Schell, Ana Coelho, Charles Colson, Patricia M. White, Susan M. Smith and D.A. Ritchie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Journal.

In The Last Decade

N. Symonds

51 papers receiving 901 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
N. Symonds United Kingdom 18 820 528 517 75 52 51 1.0k
Ethel S. Tessman United States 22 955 1.2× 570 1.1× 570 1.1× 67 0.9× 28 0.5× 39 1.1k
Gerald Selzer Switzerland 16 995 1.2× 449 0.9× 656 1.3× 68 0.9× 48 0.9× 24 1.2k
Naomi C. Franklin United States 19 1.1k 1.4× 768 1.5× 702 1.4× 72 1.0× 82 1.6× 25 1.4k
Teiichi Minagawa Japan 22 919 1.1× 707 1.3× 520 1.0× 113 1.5× 59 1.1× 49 1.1k
D. James McCorquodale United States 21 824 1.0× 730 1.4× 513 1.0× 72 1.0× 60 1.2× 48 1.1k
Andrzej W. Kozinski United States 19 940 1.1× 748 1.4× 595 1.2× 32 0.4× 65 1.3× 49 1.1k
Lawrence M. Gold United States 19 1.1k 1.3× 727 1.4× 602 1.2× 69 0.9× 47 0.9× 22 1.3k
Murielle Hofer Switzerland 6 1.1k 1.3× 213 0.4× 561 1.1× 225 3.0× 30 0.6× 7 1.3k
E. Fuchs Germany 12 905 1.1× 242 0.5× 406 0.8× 38 0.5× 19 0.4× 24 995
Kenneth Abremski United States 15 900 1.1× 224 0.4× 450 0.9× 103 1.4× 42 0.8× 15 1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of N. Symonds

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Symonds, N.. (1994). Directed Mutation: A Current Perspective. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 169(4). 317–322. 6 indexed citations
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Symonds, N.. (1993). Francis Ryan and the origins of directed mutagenesis. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 285(1). 9–12. 4 indexed citations
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Symonds, N.. (1989). Anticipatory mutagenesis?. Nature. 337(6203). 119–120. 20 indexed citations
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Symonds, N.. (1989). Genetic recombination. Trends in Genetics. 5. 197–197. 42 indexed citations
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Symonds, N.. (1987). Schrödinger and What is Life?. Nature. 327(6124). 663–664. 3 indexed citations
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Symonds, N.. (1986). What is Life?: Schrodinger's Influence on Biology. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 61(2). 221–226. 13 indexed citations
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Coelho, Ana, et al.. (1982). Abnormal cointegrate structures mediated by gene B mutants of phage Mu: Their implications with regard to gene function. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 185(2). 356–362. 7 indexed citations
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Symonds, N.. (1982). A novel gene splice in phage Mu. Nature. 297(5864). 288–288. 5 indexed citations
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Coelho, Ana & N. Symonds. (1981). Analysis of proteins synthesized by plasmids containing cloned fragments of bacteriophage Mu. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 11(2-3). 101–106. 3 indexed citations
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Leach, David R. F. & N. Symonds. (1979). The isolation and characterisation of a plaque-forming derivative of bacteriophage Mu carrying a fragment of Tn3 conferring ampicillin resistance. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 172(2). 179–184. 76 indexed citations
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Ritchie, D.A. & N. Symonds. (1970). The Relation Between Radiation Stability and DNA Replication of Phage T4. Journal of General Virology. 8(2). 121–131. 1 indexed citations
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Boyle, John M. & N. Symonds. (1969). Radiation-sensitive mutants of T4D I. T4y: A new radiation-sensitive mutant: Effect of the mutation on radiation survival, growth and recombination. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 8(3). 431–439. 118 indexed citations
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Kellenberger, G., N. Symonds, & Werner Arber. (1966). Host specificity of DNA produced byEscherichia coli. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 98(3). 247–256. 14 indexed citations
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Ritchie, D.A., et al.. (1965). Density-gradient separation of host-modified bacteriophage T2. Journal of Molecular Biology. 14(1). 48–54. 6 indexed citations
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Symonds, N.. (1962). Multiplicity reactivation and radiation stability. Journal of Molecular Biology. 4(4). 319–321. 6 indexed citations
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Symonds, N.. (1962). The kinetics of chromosome transfer in Escherichia coli: a mathematical treatment. Genetics Research. 3(2). 273–281. 2 indexed citations
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Symonds, N. & D.A. Ritchie. (1961). Multiplicity reactivation after the decay of incorporated radioactive phosphorus in phage T4. Journal of Molecular Biology. 3(1). 61–70. 19 indexed citations
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Symonds, N.. (1958). The Properties of a Star Mutant of Phage T2. Journal of General Microbiology. 18(2). 330–345. 8 indexed citations
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