R. S. Wolfe

23.6k citations

220 papers · 18.4k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 68

Impact in

Environmental Chemistry top 0.1%
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Building and Construction top 0.05%
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production

Papers in

Building and Construction 47
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production 45
Biochemistry 21
- Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism 17

Co-authors: Carl R. Woese Linda J. Magrum E. A. Wolin M. J. Wolin Robert P. Gunsalus B C McBride William B. Whitman M. P. Bryant
Journals: Journal of Bacteriology (64 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (26 papers)Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (14 papers)Applied and Environmental Microbiology (13 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (13 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Netherlands

In The Last Decade

R. S. Wolfe

216 papers receiving 16.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group 1979 · 2.1k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1979 Microbiological Reviews
1979 Microbiological Reviews
1976 Applied and Environmental Microbiology
1967 Archives of Microbiology
1963 Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside R. S. Wolfe, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Early days with Carl RNA Biology ·R. S. Wolfe	2014	2
2	Techniques for Cultivating Methanogens Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·R. S. Wolfe	2011	68
3	A vacuum-vortex technique for preparation of anoxic solutions or liquid culture media in small volumes for cultivating methanogens or other strict anaerobes Anaerobe ·R. S. Wolfe, William W. Metcalf	2009	16
4	A stable archaeal pyruvate carboxylase from the hyperthermophile Methanococcus jannaschii Archives of Microbiology ·Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, 雷訇 LEI Hong, R. S. Wolfe	2000	25
5	Purification, Regulation, and Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of Pyruvate Carboxylase from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum Strain ΔH Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, P. Schölmerich, R. S. Wolfe	1998	45
6	Using Lightweight MPC Wood Trusses in Bridges Habib J. Dagher, Vincent Caccese, Ega Amalia, Zhitao Ren, R. S. Wolfe, Markus Ritter	1995	0
7	MY KIND OF BIOLOGY Annual Review of Microbiology ·R. S. Wolfe	1991	75
8	UNUSUAL COENZYMES OF METHANOGENESIS Annual Review of Biochemistry ·A A DiMarco, Thomas A. Bobik, R. S. Wolfe	1990	375
9	Novel biochemistry of methanogenesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Pierre E. Rouvière, R. S. Wolfe	1988	167
10	A âcapillary racetrackâ method for isolation of magnetotactic bacteria FEMS Microbiology Letters ·R. S. Wolfe, Rudolf K. Thauer, Norbert Pfennig	1987	115
11	A 'capillary racetrack' method for isolation of magnetotactic bacteria FEMS Microbiology Letters ·R. S. Wolfe	1987	10
12	Biochemical aspects of methane formation in methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ·Kenneth M. Noll, Mark I. Donnelly, R. S. Wolfe	1987	2
13	Evidence that the heterodisulfide of coenzyme M and 7-mercaptoheptanoylthreonine phosphate is a product of the methylreductase reaction in Methanobacterium Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Thomas A. Bobik, Karl D. Olson, Kenneth M. Noll, R. S. Wolfe	1987	63
14	Isolation and pure culture of a freshwater magnetic spirillum in chemically defined medium Journal of Bacteriology ·R. P. Blakemore, D. Maratea, R. S. Wolfe	1979	365
15	Chromophoric factors F₃₄₂and F₄₃₀ofMethanobacterium thermoautotrophicum FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Robert P. Gunsalus, R. S. Wolfe	1978	88
16	Factor 420-dependent tyridine nucleotide-linked hydrogenase system of Methanobacterium ruminantium Journal of Bacteriology ·Sinfu Tzeng, R. S. Wolfe, M. P. Bryant	1975	87
17	Factor 420-dependent pyridine nucleotide-linked formate metabolism of Methanobacterium ruminantium Journal of Bacteriology ·Jecsmael Baez-Herrera, M. P. Bryant, R. S. Wolfe	1975	73
18	Microbial modification of ground water IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) ·Robert P. Gunsalus, J. G. Zeikus, R. S. Wolfe	1972	4
19	The cobalamin product of the conversion of methylcobalamin to CH4 by extracts of Methanobacillusomelianskii Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·M. J. Wolin, E. A. Wolin, R. S. Wolfe	1964	16
20	Composition of an Extracellular Polysaccharide Produced by Sphaerotilus natans Applied Microbiology ·Elizabeth T. Gaudy, R. S. Wolfe	1962	14

About R. S. Wolfe

R. S. Wolfe is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Biochemistry, Clinical Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 220 papers that have together received 18.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (56 papers), Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (45 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (31 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (29 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (19 papers), Polyamine Metabolism and Applications (19 papers), Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (17 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Chemistry (2.8k citations), Building and Construction (3.8k citations), Biochemistry (1.3k citations), Pollution (1.9k citations) and Molecular Biology (11.2k citations). R. S. Wolfe has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Carl R. Woese, Linda J. Magrum, E. A. Wolin, M. J. Wolin, Robert P. Gunsalus, B C McBride, William B. Whitman, M. P. Bryant, Thomas A. Bobik and Jacqueline Leigh. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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