R L Soffer

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

R L Soffer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, R L Soffer has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Oncology and 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in R L Soffer's work include Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides (15 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers) and Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (11 papers). R L Soffer is often cited by papers focused on Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides (15 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers) and Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (11 papers). R L Soffer collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Norway. R L Soffer's co-authors include Manjusri Das, Richard C. Scarpulla, Charles E. Deutch, Hamza A. El-Dorry, Michael J. Leibowitz, Herbert G. Bull, Jyotirmoy Kusari, Suheeta Roy, Ganes C. Sen and François Gros and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Annual Review of Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

R L Soffer

40 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme and the Regulation of Vasoa... 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme and the Regulation of Vasoactive Peptides
    1976 399 citations R L Soffer profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R L Soffer United States 21 1.4k 413 391 200 180 41 1.7k
Richard L. Soffer United States 21 1.1k 0.8× 280 0.7× 412 1.1× 147 0.7× 127 0.7× 37 1.5k
J. PLUSCEC United States 12 732 0.5× 137 0.3× 129 0.3× 248 1.2× 52 0.3× 19 1.1k
Saori Takahashi Japan 23 1.1k 0.8× 116 0.3× 283 0.7× 42 0.2× 84 0.5× 75 1.7k
Jim Barnett United States 20 722 0.5× 136 0.3× 98 0.3× 101 0.5× 72 0.4× 25 1.9k
Glynn Im United Kingdom 6 1.6k 1.1× 137 0.3× 78 0.2× 117 0.6× 12 0.1× 17 1.9k
Horst Flotow Singapore 17 1.1k 0.8× 282 0.7× 40 0.1× 69 0.3× 39 0.2× 31 1.8k
Nina J. Williams United States 8 531 0.4× 60 0.1× 128 0.3× 141 0.7× 51 0.3× 10 720
Atsuo Nagamatsu Japan 16 548 0.4× 159 0.4× 44 0.1× 87 0.4× 47 0.3× 51 1.1k
Rilei Yu China 25 1.6k 1.2× 159 0.4× 39 0.1× 208 1.0× 30 0.2× 128 2.4k
M. Rovery France 25 1.2k 0.8× 167 0.4× 35 0.1× 80 0.4× 10 0.1× 64 1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R L Soffer

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Soffer, R L, et al.. (1989). Purification and Properties of a Soluble Angiotensin II-binding Protein from Rabbit Liver. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 264(7). 4138–4142. 47 indexed citations
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Roy, Suheeta, Jyotirmoy Kusari, R L Soffer, C.Y. Lai, & Ganes C. Sen. (1988). Isolation of cDNA clones of rabbit angiotensin converting enzyme: Identification of two distinct mRNAs for the pulmonary and the testicular isozymes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 155(2). 678–684. 18 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Elizabeth, et al.. (1988). A soluble angiotensin II-binding protein from rabbit liver. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 151(1). 466–472. 5 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L, et al.. (1987). Pulmonary and Testicular Angiotensin-Converting Isoenzymes. Clinical and Experimental Hypertension Part A Theory and Practice. 9(2-3). 229–234. 13 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L, Sudip K. Bandyopadhyay, Erwin Rosenberg, et al.. (1987). Unexpected binding of an octapeptide to the angiotensin II receptor.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(24). 9219–9222. 13 indexed citations
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Berg, Torill, et al.. (1986). Immunohistochemical localization of two angiotensin I-converting isoenzymes in the reproductive tract of the male rabbit.. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 34(6). 753–760. 46 indexed citations
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El-Dorry, Hamza A., Herbert G. Bull, Kazushi Iwata, et al.. (1982). Molecular and catalytic properties of rabbit testicular dipeptidyl carboxypeptidase.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 257(23). 14128–14133. 120 indexed citations
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Deutch, Charles E. & R L Soffer. (1978). Escherichia coli mutants defective in dipeptidyl carboxypeptidase.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 75(12). 5998–6001. 30 indexed citations
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Scarpulla, Richard C., Charles E. Deutch, & R L Soffer. (1976). Transfer of methionyl residues by leucyl, phenylalanyl-tRNA-protein transferase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 71(2). 584–589. 20 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L & Charles E. Deutch. (1975). Arginyl-tRNA-protein transferase in eucaryotic protists. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 64(3). 926–931. 7 indexed citations
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Das, Manjusri & R L Soffer. (1975). Pulmonary angiotensin-converting enzyme. Structural and catalytic properties.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 250(17). 6762–6768. 222 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L, et al.. (1974). Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme from Rabbit Pulmonary Particles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 71(5). 1720–1724. 62 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L & J. Donald Capra. (1971). Enzymatic Probe for Accessibility of NH2-Terminal Residues in Immunoglobulins. Nature New Biology. 233(36). 44–45. 6 indexed citations
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Leibowitz, Michael J. & R L Soffer. (1969). A soluble enzyme from Escherichiacoli which catalyzes the transfer of leucine and phenylalanine from tRNA to acceptor proteins. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 36(1). 47–53. 40 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L, et al.. (1969). Enzymic modification of proteins. Journal of Molecular Biology. 43(1). 163–175. 57 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L, Hiroo Horinishi, & Michael J. Leibowitz. (1969). The Aminoacyl tRNA-Protein Transferases. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 34(0). 529–533. 19 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L, et al.. (1967). Protein synthesis by extracts from subcellular particles of sheep thyroid. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 121(2). 452–462. 7 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L, et al.. (1966). Enzymatic incorporation of 5-bromo cytidylic acid into the terminal sequence of S-RNA. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 24(3). 376–380. 1 indexed citations
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Soffer, R L & Naomi Mendelsohn. (1966). Incorporation of arginine by a soluble system from sheep thyroid. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 23(3). 252–258. 37 indexed citations
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Woese, Carl R., S Naono, R L Soffer, & François Gros. (1963). Studies on the breakdown of messenger RNA. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 11(6). 435–440. 38 indexed citations

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