Paul Doty

27.8k total citations · 12 hit papers
182 papers, 22.5k citations indexed

About

Paul Doty is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Doty has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 22.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Biomaterials and 18 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Paul Doty's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (54 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (29 papers) and Biopolymer Synthesis and Applications (16 papers). Paul Doty is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (54 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (29 papers) and Biopolymer Synthesis and Applications (16 papers). Paul Doty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and United Kingdom. Paul Doty's co-authors include Julius Marmur, Carl L. Schildkraut, Stuart A. Rice, M.E. Reichmann, Christian A. Thomas, G. Holzwarth, Helga Boedtker, H. Benoît, Jen Tsi Yang and Joseph Eigner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul Doty

175 papers receiving 20.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Determination of the base composition of deoxyribonucleic acid from its thermal denaturation temperature

1962 3.8k citations Julius Marmur, Paul Doty Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
A Further Examination of the Molecular Weight and Size of Desoxypentose Nucleic Acid

1954 2.1k citations Paul Doty et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Determination of the base composition of deoxyribonucleic acid from its buoyant density in CsCl

1962 1.4k citations Julius Marmur, Paul Doty et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
The Ultraviolet Circular Dichroism of Polypeptides¹

1965 916 citations Paul Doty et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Light Scattering from Non-Gaussian Chains

1953 607 citations Paul Doty et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry profile →
The native, denatured and renatured states of deoxyribonucleic acid

1965 492 citations Paul Doty et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Polypeptides. IV. The Molecular Weight, Configuration and Association of Poly-γ-benzyl-L-glutamate in Various Solvents

1956 477 citations Paul Doty et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
The isolation and properties of deoxyribonucleoprotein particles containing single nucleic acid molecules

1959 403 citations Geoffrey Zubay, Paul Doty Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Thermal renaturation of deoxyribonucleic acids

1961 403 citations Julius Marmur, Paul Doty Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Heterogeneity in Deoxyribonucleic Acids: I. Dependence on Composition of the Configurational Stability of Deoxyribonucleic Acids

1959 402 citations Julius Marmur, Paul Doty Nature profile →
Optical Rotation And The Conformation Of Polypeptides And Proteins

1962 380 citations Paul Doty et al. Advances in protein chemistry profile →
The Optical Rotatory Dispersion of Polypeptides and Proteins in Relation to Configuration¹

1957 355 citations Jen Tsi Yang, Paul Doty Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Paul Doty	14.9k	3.2k	3.1k	2.9k	1.9k	182	22.5k
Alexander Rich	36.0k 2.4×	3.7k 1.1×	2.6k 0.8×	3.6k 1.2×	2.1k 1.1×	450	43.6k
Peter H. von Hippel	23.1k 1.5×	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	3.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	250	28.3k
Richard A. Lerner	22.2k 1.5×	6.5k 2.0×	2.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	417	38.4k
Richard E. Dickerson	18.6k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	1.9k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	162	22.4k
Jacques H. van Boom	20.7k 1.4×	8.2k 2.5×	2.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	624	26.1k
Daniel E. Koshland	22.3k 1.5×	2.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	2.7k 1.4×	454	32.3k
Stephen J. Benkovic	20.8k 1.4×	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	457	28.6k
Bengt Nordén	16.0k 1.1×	4.8k 1.5×	5.0k 1.6×	837 0.3×	1.8k 0.9×	464	21.9k
David I. Stuart	15.5k 1.0×	4.7k 1.5×	3.6k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	813 0.4×	459	38.7k
Keith S. Wilson	21.4k 1.4×	2.2k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	880 0.5×	387	30.3k

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All Works

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Doty, Paul. (2003). DNA and RNA Forty Years Ago. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 21(3). 311–316. 2 indexed citations

Doty, Paul. (1999). Stepping Stones or Serving Spoons. Internet Reference Services Quarterly. 4(1). 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Doty, Paul. (1991). Responsibility and Weaver et al.. Nature. 352(6332). 183–184. 5 indexed citations

Finer, Mitchell, Helga Boedtker, & Paul Doty. (1987). Construction and characterization of cDNA clones encoding the 5′ end of the chicken pro α1(I) collagen mRNA. Gene. 56(1). 71–78. 15 indexed citations

Finer, Mitchell, Louis C. Gerstenfeld, Delano V. Young, Paul Doty, & Helga Boedtker. (1985). Collagen Expression in Embryonic Chicken Chondrocytes Treated with Phorbol Myristate Acetate. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 5(6). 1415–1424. 48 indexed citations

Pierre, Andrew J., et al.. (1985). The Nuclear Confrontation in Europe. Foreign Affairs. 64(2). 363–363. 1 indexed citations

Doty, Paul, et al.. (1975). Chemical and physical properties of fractionated chromatin.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 72(9). 3328–3332. 39 indexed citations

Chetsanga, Christopher J., et al.. (1974). The onset of collagen synthesis in sea urchin embryos. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 349(1). 135–141. 40 indexed citations

Doty, Paul, et al.. (1972). Undergraduate Science Education: An Overview. American Scientist. 60(6). 686–695. 5 indexed citations

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Auer, Henry & Paul Doty. (1966). The Conformational Stability of α-Helical Nonpolar Polypeptides in Solution^*. Biochemistry. 5(5). 1716–1725. 44 indexed citations

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Gill, Thomas J., Hannah J. Gould, & Paul Doty. (1963). Role of Optical Isomers in Determining the Antigenicity of Synthetic Polypeptides. Nature. 197(4869). 746–747. 38 indexed citations

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Doty, Paul, et al.. (1962). Optical Rotation And The Conformation Of Polypeptides And Proteins. Advances in protein chemistry. 16. 401–544. 380 indexed citations breakdown →

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Doty, Paul. (1961). Inside nucleic acids.. PubMed. 55. 103–39. 15 indexed citations

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Marmur, Julius, W.F. Anderson, Lynn T. Matthews, et al.. (1961). The effects of ultraviolet light on the biological and physical chemical properties of deoxyribonucleic acids. Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology. 58(S1). 33–55. 95 indexed citations

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Doty, Paul. (1959). William Moffitt, Theoretical Chemist. Science. 129(3361). 1471–1471. 1 indexed citations

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Zubay, Geoffrey & Paul Doty. (1959). The isolation and properties of deoxyribonucleoprotein particles containing single nucleic acid molecules. Journal of Molecular Biology. 1(1). 1–IN1. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zubay, Geoffrey & Paul Doty. (1957). Complex formation between bovine serum albumin and sodium deoxyribonucleate induced by heat. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 23(1). 213–214. 13 indexed citations

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Yang, Jen Tsi & Paul Doty. (1957). The Optical Rotatory Dispersion of Polypeptides and Proteins in Relation to Configuration¹. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 79(4). 761–775. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

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Doty, Paul, Akira Wada, Jen Tsi Yang, & Elkan Blout. (1957). Polypeptides. VIII. Molecular configurations of poly‐L‐glutamic acid in water‐dioxane solution. Journal of Polymer Science. 23(104). 851–861. 246 indexed citations

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Schneider, Nathaniel S. & Paul Doty. (1954). Macro-ions. IV. The Ionic Strength Dependence of the Molecular Properties of Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 58(9). 762–769. 88 indexed citations

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