Robert Shapiro

12.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
191 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Robert Shapiro is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Shapiro has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Organic Chemistry and 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Robert Shapiro's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (53 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers) and Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (17 papers). Robert Shapiro is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (53 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers) and Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (17 papers). Robert Shapiro collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Robert Shapiro's co-authors include Bert L. Vallée, James Riordan, Martín Keller, Assen Jablensky, Norman Sartorius, H. Franklin Bunn, Robert E. Servis, K. Ravi Acharya, Bert L. Vallee and Robert S. Klein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Robert Shapiro

187 papers receiving 8.9k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Shapiro United States	57	5.7k	831	742	726	698	191	9.6k
Weidong Li China	48	4.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	704 0.9×	251 0.3×	959 1.4×	413	10.6k
Doron Lancet Israel	70	10.5k 1.8×	1.6k 2.0×	1.3k 1.8×	255 0.4×	2.6k 3.8×	231	21.3k
James A. Hamilton United States	68	8.1k 1.4×	599 0.7×	202 0.3×	59 0.1×	440 0.6×	265	15.1k
Meir Shinitzky Israel	55	7.8k 1.4×	284 0.3×	95 0.1×	143 0.2×	461 0.7×	171	12.6k
J. P. Phillips United States	45	2.2k 0.4×	76 0.1×	894 1.2×	198 0.3×	509 0.7×	350	7.4k
Sharon M. Kelly United Kingdom	49	6.3k 1.1×	235 0.3×	35 0.0×	107 0.1×	774 1.1×	234	12.5k
Martin H. Johnson United Kingdom	70	7.8k 1.4×	354 0.4×	186 0.3×	168 0.2×	2.6k 3.7×	272	16.0k
Masaaki Yamada Japan	36	1.6k 0.3×	132 0.2×	221 0.3×	95 0.1×	209 0.3×	231	5.9k
Steven S. Gross United States	58	5.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.7×	52 0.1×	183 0.3×	461 0.7×	187	14.3k
Vernon Anderson United States	54	4.6k 0.8×	294 0.4×	25 0.0×	1.5k 2.1×	1.2k 1.7×	253	10.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Shapiro

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Iyer, Shalini, et al.. (2005). Molecular Recognition of Human Eosinophil-derived Neurotoxin (RNase 2) by Placental Ribonuclease Inhibitor. Journal of Molecular Biology. 347(3). 637–655. 16 indexed citations

Jenkins, Jeremy L., Richard Yi Tsun Kao, & Robert Shapiro. (2002). Virtual screening to enrich hit lists from high‐throughput screening: A case study on small‐molecule inhibitors of angiogenin. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 50(1). 81–93. 77 indexed citations

Shapiro, Robert. (2001). Cytoplasmic Ribonuclease Inhibitor. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 341. 611–628. 39 indexed citations

Holloway, Daniel E., Michelle C. Hares, Robert Shapiro, Vasanta Subramanian, & K. Ravi Acharya. (2001). High-Level Expression of Three Members of the Murine Angiogenin Family in Escherichia coli and Purification of the Recombinant Proteins. Protein Expression and Purification. 22(2). 307–317. 35 indexed citations

Shapiro, Robert. (2000). A Replicator Was Not Involved in the Origin of Life. IUBMB Life. 49(3). 173–176. 82 indexed citations

Russo, Aniello & Robert Shapiro. (1999). Potent Inhibition of Mammalian Ribonucleases by 3′,5′-Pyrophosphate-linked Nucleotides. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(21). 14902–14908. 47 indexed citations

Leonidas, D.D., et al.. (1999). Refined Crystal Structures of Native Human Angiogenin and Two Active Site Variants: Implications for the Unique Functional Properties of an Enzyme Involved in Neovascularisation During Tumour Growth. Journal of Molecular Biology. 285(3). 1209–1233. 80 indexed citations

Soncin, Fabrice, Daniël J. Strydom, & Robert Shapiro. (1997). Interaction of Heparin with Human Angiogenin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(15). 9818–9824. 47 indexed citations

Shapiro, Robert. (1995). The prebiotic role of adenine: A critical analysis. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 25(1-3). 83–98. 103 indexed citations

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Brown, Willis E., Valentina Nobile, Vasanta Subramanian, & Robert Shapiro. (1995). The Mouse Angiogenin Gene Family: Structures of an Angiogenin-Related Protein Gene and Two Pseudogenes. Genomics. 29(1). 200–206. 29 indexed citations

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Karlsson, Christina, et al.. (1993). Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Mammalian Alcohol and Sorbitol Dehydrogenases Map Functional Differences within the Enzyme Family. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 328. 439–450. 6 indexed citations

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Curran, Timothy P., Robert Shapiro, & James Riordan. (1993). Alteration of the enzymic specificity of human angiogenin by site-directed mutagenesis. Biochemistry. 32(9). 2307–2313. 48 indexed citations

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Hallahan, Terrence, Robert Shapiro, Daniël J. Strydom, & Bert L. Vallee. (1992). Importance of asparagine-61 and asparagine-109 to the angiogenic activity of human angiogenin. Biochemistry. 31(34). 8022–8029. 56 indexed citations

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Haeggström, Jesper Z., Anders Wetterholm, Robert Shapiro, Bert L. Vallée, & Bengt Samuelsson. (1990). Leukotriene A4 hydrolase: A zinc metalloenzyme. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 172(3). 965–970. 92 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Robert & Bert L. Vallée. (1989). Site-directed mutagenesis of histidine-13 and histidine-114 of human angiogenin. Alanine derivatives inhibit angiogenin-induced angiogenesis. Biochemistry. 28(18). 7401–7408. 173 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Robert, Edward A. Fox, & James Riordan. (1989). Role of lysines in human angiogenin: chemical modification and site-directed mutagenesis. Biochemistry. 28(4). 1726–1732. 112 indexed citations

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Lee, Frank S., Robert Shapiro, & Bert L. Vallée. (1989). Tight-binding inhibition of angiogenin and ribonuclease A by placental ribonuclease inhibitor. Biochemistry. 28(1). 225–230. 144 indexed citations

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Jacobson, Michael D., Robert Shapiro, Graham R. Underwood, et al.. (1988). Synthesis and conformation of a dinucleoside monophosphate modified by aniline. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 1(3). 152–159. 17 indexed citations

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Schulman, LaDonne H., et al.. (1974). A simplified method for study of RNA conformation - reaction of formylmethionine transfer RNA with [¹⁴c]methylamine-bisulfite. Nucleic Acids Research. 1(10). 1305–1316. 12 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Robert. (1968). Chemistry of Guanine and Its Biologically Significant Derivatives. Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology. 8. 73–112. 92 indexed citations

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