Paul Berg

41.2k total citations · 26 hit papers
217 papers, 35.8k citations indexed

About

Paul Berg is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Berg has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 35.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Molecular Biology, 50 papers in Oncology and 48 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Paul Berg's work include Polyomavirus and related diseases (48 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (47 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (44 papers). Paul Berg is often cited by papers focused on Polyomavirus and related diseases (48 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (47 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (44 papers). Paul Berg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. Paul Berg's co-authors include Peter Rigby, Peter J. Southern, Richard Mulligan, Hiroto Okayama, Michael J. Chamberlin, Douglas L. Brutlag, Serge Saxonov, Richard C. Mulligan, Gilbert Chu and Suresh Subramani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul Berg

212 papers receiving 31.2k citations

Hit Papers

Labeling deoxyribonucleic acid to high specific activity ... 1956 2026 1979 2002 1977 1982 1982 2006 1981 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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. Labeling deoxyribonucleic acid to high specific activity in vitro by nick translation with DNA polymerase I
    1977 11.0k citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  2. Transformation of mammalian cells to antibiotic resistance with a bacterial gene under control of the SV40 early region promoter.
    1982 2.6k citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  3. High-Efficiency Cloning of Full-Length cDNA
    1982 1.2k citations Hiroto Okayama, Paul Berg Molecular and Cellular Biology profile →
  4. A genome-wide analysis of CpG dinucleotides in the human genome distinguishes two distinct classes of promoters
    2006 961 citations Paul Berg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Selection for animal cells that express the Escherichia coli gene coding for xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase.
    1981 920 citations Paul Berg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Electroporation for the efficient transfection of mammalian cells with DNA
    1987 715 citations Gilbert Chu, Paul Berg et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. Expression of a Bacterial Gene in Mammalian Cells
    1980 688 citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  8. DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID-DIRECTED SYNTHESIS OF RIBONUCLEIC ACID BY AN ENZYME FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI
    1962 516 citations Paul Berg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40: Circular SV40 DNA Molecules Containing Lambda Phage Genes and the Galactose Operon of Escherichia coli
    1972 435 citations Paul Berg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  10. A prudent path forward for genomic engineering and germline gene modification
    2015 400 citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  11. Construction and analysis of viable deletion mutants of simian virus 40
    1976 333 citations Paul Berg et al. Journal of Virology profile →
  12. Introduction of liposome-encapsulated SV40 DNA into cells.
    1980 319 citations Paul Berg et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  13. Studies on the binding of RNA polymerase to polynucleotides
    1966 319 citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  14. ACYL ADENYLATES: AN ENZYMATIC MECHANISM OF ACETATE ACTIVATION
    1956 290 citations Paul Berg et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  15. Synthesis of rabbit β-globin in cultured monkey kidney cells following infection with a SV40 β-globin recombinant genome
    1979 283 citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  16. Transfer Ribonucleic Acid-induced Hydrolysis of Valyladenylate Bound to Isoleucyl Ribonucleic Acid Synthetase
    1966 265 citations Anne Norris Baldwin, Paul Berg Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  17. The Enzymic Synthesis of Amino Acyl Derivatives of Ribonucleic Acid
    1961 263 citations Paul Berg et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  18. Biochemical method for mapping mutational alterations in DNA with S1 nuclease: the location of deletions and temperature-sensitive mutations in simian virus 40.
    1975 229 citations Paul Berg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  19. Organization and expression of early genes of simian virus 40
    1978 223 citations Paul Berg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  20. The Enzymic Synthesis of Amino Acyl Derivatives of Ribonucleic Acid
    1961 217 citations Paul Berg et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  21. Purification and Physical Characterization of Tyrosyl Ribonucleic Acid Synthetases from Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis*
    1966 210 citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  22. Potential Biohazards of Recombinant DNA Molecules
    1974 200 citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  23. Recognition of tRNA by aminoacyl tRNA synthetases
    1967 193 citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  24. Defective simian virus 40 genomes: Isolation and growth of individual clones
    1974 188 citations Paul Berg et al. profile →
  25. Cleavage of Circular, Superhelical Simian Virus 40 DNA to a Linear Duplex by S 1 Nuclease
    1973 184 citations Paul Berg et al. Journal of Virology profile →
  26. ACYL ADENYLATES: THE INTERACTION OF ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE AND l-METHIONINE
    1956 139 citations Paul Berg et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Berg United States 85 25.6k 9.1k 4.8k 3.9k 3.4k 217 35.8k
E.M. Southern United Kingdom 23 21.3k 0.8× 7.7k 0.9× 3.0k 0.6× 5.5k 1.4× 3.1k 0.9× 37 32.9k
Walter Gilbert United States 57 27.0k 1.1× 7.6k 0.8× 1.8k 0.4× 4.0k 1.0× 3.4k 1.0× 120 34.7k
Randall K. Saiki United States 29 16.5k 0.6× 6.8k 0.8× 2.3k 0.5× 2.8k 0.7× 2.9k 0.9× 39 32.0k
Kary B. Mullis United States 24 15.8k 0.6× 6.5k 0.7× 1.9k 0.4× 2.8k 0.7× 3.1k 0.9× 29 31.2k
Russell F. Doolittle United States 67 23.3k 0.9× 4.9k 0.5× 2.0k 0.4× 3.2k 0.8× 2.2k 0.7× 221 37.7k
F. William Studier United States 60 26.8k 1.0× 11.7k 1.3× 1.7k 0.4× 3.2k 0.8× 8.2k 2.4× 98 36.5k
Allan M. Maxam United States 20 18.3k 0.7× 6.2k 0.7× 1.7k 0.3× 2.9k 0.7× 3.0k 0.9× 25 24.1k
William J. Rutter United States 101 35.4k 1.4× 9.8k 1.1× 5.4k 1.1× 2.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.4× 311 56.7k
EJ Wood United Kingdom 20 20.2k 0.8× 6.6k 0.7× 1.8k 0.4× 4.9k 1.3× 2.9k 0.8× 112 31.2k
Glenn T. Horn United States 23 14.0k 0.5× 6.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.4× 2.3k 0.6× 2.7k 0.8× 33 28.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Berg

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Berg, Paul. (2014). The Importance of Teaching Followership in Professional Military Education. Military review. 94(5). 65. 1 indexed citations
2.
Berg, Paul. (2006). Origins of the Human Genome Project: Why Sequence the Human Genome When 96% of It Is Junk?. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 79(4). 603–605. 6 indexed citations
3.
Namsaraev, Eugeni & Paul Berg. (2000). Rad51 Uses One Mechanism to Drive DNA Strand Exchange in Both Directions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(6). 3970–3976. 40 indexed citations
4.
Smith, Bradley L., et al.. (1996). The HIV Nef Protein Associates with Protein Kinase C Theta. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(28). 16753–16757. 95 indexed citations
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Zieler, Helge, Mark W. Walberg, & Paul Berg. (1995). Suppression of Mutations in Two Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genes by the Adenovirus E1A Protein. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 15(6). 3227–3237. 35 indexed citations
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Stuhlmann, Heidi & Paul Berg. (1992). Homologous recombination of copackaged retrovirus RNAs during reverse transcription. Journal of Virology. 66(4). 2378–2388. 110 indexed citations
7.
Thelander, Lars & Paul Berg. (1986). Isolation and Characterization of Expressible cDNA Clones Encoding the M1 and M2 Subunits of Mouse Ribonucleotide Reductase. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 6(10). 3433–3442. 38 indexed citations
8.
Peabody, David S. & Paul Berg. (1986). Termination-Reinitiation Occurs in the Translation of Mammalian Cell mRNAs. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 6(7). 2695–2703. 107 indexed citations
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Peabody, David S., Suresh Subramani, & Paul Berg. (1986). Effect of Upstream Reading Frames on Translation Efficiency in Simian Virus 40 Recombinants. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 6(7). 2704–2711. 65 indexed citations
10.
Berg, Paul, et al.. (1986). Effects of the Position of the Simian Virus 40 Enhancer on Expression of Multiple Transcription Units in a Single Plasmid. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 6(7). 2593–2601. 51 indexed citations
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Naumovski, Louie, Gilbert Chu, Paul Berg, & Errol C. Friedberg. (1985). RAD3 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae : Nucleotide Sequence of Wild-Type and Mutant Alleles, Transcript Mapping, and Aspects of Gene Regulation. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 5(1). 17–26. 28 indexed citations
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Okayama, Hiroto & Paul Berg. (1985). Bacteriophage Lambda Vector for Transducing a cDNA Clone Library into Mammalian Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 5(5). 1136–1142. 12 indexed citations
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Dennis, Elizabeth S. & Paul Berg. (1985). Transcription from a plant gene promoter in animal cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 13(22). 7945–7957. 6 indexed citations
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Buchman, Andrew R. & Paul Berg. (1984). Unusual Regulation of Simian Virus 40 Early-Region Transcription in Genomes Containing Two Origins of DNA Replication. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 4(9). 1915–1928. 6 indexed citations
15.
Berg, Paul. (1984). A Procedural Control Language for a Digital Signal Processor.. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1 indexed citations
16.
Okayama, Hiroto & Paul Berg. (1983). A cDNA Cloning Vector That Permits Expression of cDNA Inserts in Mammalian Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 3(2). 280–289. 47 indexed citations
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Fromm, Michael & Paul Berg. (1983). Simian virus 40 early- and late-region promoter functions are enhanced by the 72-base-pair repeat inserted at distant locations and inverted orientations.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 3(6). 991–999. 128 indexed citations
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Berg, Paul. (1973). The Impact of Collective Bargaining Upon the Principal..
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Baldwin, Anne Norris & Paul Berg. (1966). Transfer Ribonucleic Acid-induced Hydrolysis of Valyladenylate Bound to Isoleucyl Ribonucleic Acid Synthetase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 241(4). 839–845. 265 indexed citations breakdown →
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Berg, Paul, et al.. (1964). MECHANISM OF AMINOACYL RNA SYNTHESIS: STUDIES WITH ISOLATED AMINOACYL ADENYLATE COMPLEXES OF ISOLEUCYL RNA SYNTHETASE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 52(2). 330–337. 106 indexed citations

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