Robert H. Symons

12.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
171 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Robert H. Symons is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert H. Symons has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Plant Science, 70 papers in Molecular Biology and 54 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Robert H. Symons's work include Plant Virus Research Studies (108 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (53 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (27 papers). Robert H. Symons is often cited by papers focused on Plant Virus Research Studies (108 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (53 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (27 papers). Robert H. Symons collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Robert H. Symons's co-authors include Anthony Forster, Shou‐Wei Ding, Jane E. Visvader, Paul Keese, Allan R. Gould, Paul Berg, David A. Jackson, Jim Haseloff, Peter Palukaitis and Cheryl Hutchins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert H. Symons

169 papers receiving 8.6k citations

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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.

Self-cleavage of plus and minus RNAs of a virusoid and a structural model for the active sites

1987 560 citations Anthony Forster, Robert H. Symons profile →
Self-cleavage of plus and minus RNA transcripts of avocado sunblotch viroid

1986 452 citations Cheryl Hutchins, Peter D. Rathjen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
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 Robert H. Symons et al. profile →
Non-radioactive hybridization probes prepared by the chemical labelling of DNA and RNA with a novel reagent, photobiotin

1985 418 citations Anthony Forster, Robert H. Symons et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert H. Symons Australia	50	5.4k	4.6k	2.6k	1.2k	748	171	9.4k
Paul Kaesberg United States	45	3.2k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	2.1k 1.8×	264 0.4×	130	5.5k
Bruno Gronenborn France	42	3.6k 0.7×	2.8k 0.6×	805 0.3×	865 0.7×	670 0.9×	81	5.7k
Anne‐Lise Haenni France	34	2.0k 0.4×	2.3k 0.5×	759 0.3×	585 0.5×	357 0.5×	91	4.4k
Anne E. Simon United States	41	3.7k 0.7×	2.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	484 0.4×	418 0.6×	158	5.7k
George Bruening United States	36	2.2k 0.4×	2.0k 0.4×	591 0.2×	719 0.6×	252 0.3×	88	3.9k
George P. Lomonossoff United Kingdom	60	6.2k 1.1×	5.5k 1.2×	810 0.3×	2.8k 2.4×	331 0.4×	213	10.8k
Steven A. Lommel United States	35	2.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.2×	795 0.3×	835 0.7×	327 0.4×	75	3.6k
Wayne L. Gerlach Australia	39	3.9k 0.7×	4.2k 0.9×	317 0.1×	434 0.4×	152 0.2×	66	6.8k
Roger A. Garrett Denmark	54	1.1k 0.2×	7.6k 1.6×	406 0.2×	3.5k 3.0×	601 0.8×	177	9.1k
Patricia Zambryski United States	69	10.9k 2.0×	9.8k 2.1×	792 0.3×	766 0.7×	181 0.2×	149	14.3k

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Shams‐Bakhsh, Masoud & Robert H. Symons. (2004). CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF THE COAT PROTEIN GENE OF BARLEY YELLOW DWARF VIRUS-PAV IN ESCHERICHIA COLI. Iranian Journal of Biotechnology. 2(2). 84–89. 4 indexed citations

Xin, Hong-Wu, Lianghui Ji, S. W. Scott, Robert H. Symons, & Shou‐Wei Ding. (1998). Ilarviruses Encode a Cucumovirus-Like 2b Gene That Is Absent in Other Genera within the Bromoviridae. Journal of Virology. 72(8). 6956–6959. 39 indexed citations

Warrilow, David & Robert H. Symons. (1996). Sequence analysis of the second largest subunit of tomato RNA polymerase II. Plant Molecular Biology. 30(2). 337–342. 6 indexed citations

Ding, Shou‐Wei, et al.. (1995). Efficient infection from cDNA clones of cucumber mosaic cucumovirus RNAs in a new plasmid vector. Journal of General Virology. 76(2). 459–464. 48 indexed citations

Collins, Graham & Robert H. Symons. (1993). Polymorphisms in grapevine DNA detected by the RAPD PCR technique. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter. 11(2). 105–112. 40 indexed citations

Symons, Robert H.. (1991). Current ReviewThe Intriguing Viroids and Virusoids: What Is Their Information Content and How Did They Evolve?. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 4(2). 111–111. 22 indexed citations

Symons, Robert H.. (1989). Self-cleavage of RNA in the replication of small pathogens of plants and animals. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 14(11). 445–450. 144 indexed citations

Habili, Nuredin, James McInnes, & Robert H. Symons. (1987). Nonradioactive, photobiotin-labelled DNA probes for the routine diagnosis of barley yellow dwarf virus. Journal of Virological Methods. 16(3). 225–237. 35 indexed citations

Symons, Robert H., et al.. (1987). Self-cleavage of rna in the replication of viroids and virusoids. Journal of Cell Science. 1987(Supplement_7). 303–318. 19 indexed citations

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Jaspars, E.M.J., Dalip S. Gill, & Robert H. Symons. (1985). Vira RNA synthesis by a particulate fraction from cucumber seedlings infected with cucumber mosaic virus. Virology. 144(2). 410–425. 26 indexed citations

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Gordon, Karl & Robert H. Symons. (1985). Subgenomic RNAs with nucleotide sequences derived from RNAs 1 and 2 of cucumber mosaic virus can act as messenger RNAsin Vitro. Virology. 142(1). 144–157. 3 indexed citations

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Gordon, Karl & Robert H. Symons. (1983). Satellite RNA of cucumber mosaic virus forms a secondary structure with partial 3'-terminal homology to genomal RNAs. Nucleic Acids Research. 11(4). 947–960. 53 indexed citations

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Molloy, Peter L. & Robert H. Symons. (1980). Cleavage of DNA.RNA hybrids by Type II restriction enzymes. Nucleic Acids Research. 8(13). 2939–2946. 33 indexed citations

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Palukaitis, Peter, et al.. (1979). Characterization of a viroid associated with avocado sunblotch disease. Virology. 99(1). 145–151. 53 indexed citations

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Gonda, Thomas J. & Robert H. Symons. (1978). The use of hybridization analysis with complementary DNA to determine the RNA sequence homology between strains of plant viruses: Its application to several strains of cucumoviruses. Virology. 88(2). 361–370. 63 indexed citations

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Symons, Robert H., et al.. (1978). Sequence at the Site of Attachment of an Affinity‐Label Derivative of Puromycin on 23‐S Ribosomal RNA of Escherichia coli Ribosomes. European Journal of Biochemistry. 82(1). 225–234. 33 indexed citations

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Symons, Robert H.. (1977). The rapid, simple and improved preparation of high specific activity α-[³²P]dATP and α-[³²p]ATP. Nucleic Acids Research. 4(12). 4347–4356. 42 indexed citations

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Symons, Robert H.. (1970). 32P-3′,5′-cyclic AMP: A simple preparative procedure. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 38(4). 807–810. 16 indexed citations

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May, J. T., et al.. (1969). Plant virus-induced RNA polymerase: Properties of the enzyme partly purified from cucumber cotyledons infected with cucumber mosaic virus. Virology. 39(1). 54–65. 21 indexed citations

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Symons, Robert H., et al.. (1967). The DNA component of cytochrome b2. 3. Base sequence studies on preparations of yeast DNA.. PubMed. 145(2). 368–77. 5 indexed citations

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