Robert W. Holley

8.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
88 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Robert W. Holley is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert W. Holley has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Robert W. Holley's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (25 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (14 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). Robert W. Holley is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (25 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (14 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). Robert W. Holley collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Robert W. Holley's co-authors include Jean Apgar, Susan H. Merrill, James T. Madison, Ada Zamir, George A. Everett, R F Tucker, Harold L. Moses, Gary D. Shipley, John Robert Penswick and J H Baldwin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Holley

86 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Structure of a Ribonucleic Acid

1965 955 citations Robert W. Holley, Jean Apgar et al. profile →
Growth Inhibitor from BSC-1 Cells Closely Related to Platelet Type β Transforming Growth Factor

1984 674 citations Robert W. Holley et al. profile →
Control of growth of mammalian cells in cell culture

1975 458 citations Robert W. Holley Nature profile →
"Contact inhibition" of cell division in 3T3 cells.

1968 453 citations Robert W. Holley et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert W. Holley United States	36	4.7k	720	623	582	445	88	6.3k
Lowell H. Ericsson United States	49	4.9k 1.0×	757 1.1×	721 1.2×	296 0.5×	968 2.2×	77	7.7k
Stuart Rudikoff United States	48	5.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.7×	936 1.5×	803 1.4×	522 1.2×	133	9.3k
John Paul United Kingdom	43	4.3k 0.9×	511 0.7×	831 1.3×	409 0.7×	322 0.7×	160	5.9k
Harris Busch United States	52	8.7k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	696 1.1×	851 1.5×	833 1.9×	335	10.7k
Robert A. Tobey United States	44	4.4k 0.9×	833 1.2×	551 0.9×	755 1.3×	812 1.8×	118	6.2k
John W. Littlefield United States	40	5.3k 1.1×	599 0.8×	1.4k 2.3×	391 0.7×	486 1.1×	119	7.6k
Elliott Shaw United States	39	3.8k 0.8×	1.3k 1.8×	555 0.9×	1.2k 2.1×	731 1.6×	97	6.8k
John M. Buchanan United States	45	3.7k 0.8×	306 0.4×	834 1.3×	335 0.6×	386 0.9×	140	5.4k
Awtar Krishan United States	39	3.2k 0.7×	1.6k 2.2×	498 0.8×	809 1.4×	488 1.1×	169	6.0k
F.J. Bollum United States	51	5.6k 1.2×	697 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	758 1.3×	235 0.5×	121	7.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Grimm, D. R., T. Goldman, Robert W. Holley, & Joan K. Lunney. (1994). Characterization of a porcine chromosome 6 specific library.. Proceedings of the World Congress on Genetics applied to Livestock Production. 2. 34–35.

Messmer, Trudy O., Rosemary Armour, & Robert W. Holley. (1982). Factors influencing the growth of alveolar type II epithelial cells isolated from rat lungs. Experimental Cell Research. 142(2). 417–426. 30 indexed citations

Holley, Robert W., et al.. (1980). Purification of kidney epithelial cell growth inhibitors.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 77(10). 5989–5992. 143 indexed citations

Holley, Robert W.. (1980). Control of animal cell proliferation. Journal of Supramolecular Structure. 13(2). 191–197. 29 indexed citations

Holley, Robert W., et al.. (1976). Control of growth of benzo(a)pyrene-transformed 3T3 cells.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 73(9). 3229–3232. 53 indexed citations

Holley, Robert W.. (1975). Control of growth of mammalian cells in cell culture. Nature. 258(5535). 487–490. 458 indexed citations breakdown →

Holley, Robert W., et al.. (1974). Control of the Initiation of DNA Synthesis in 3T3 Cells: Serum Factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 71(7). 2908–2911. 154 indexed citations

Lipton, Allan, et al.. (1972). Serum requirements for survival of 3T3 and SV3T3 fibroblasts. Experimental Cell Research. 74(2). 466–470. 41 indexed citations

Lipton, Allan, et al.. (1971). Migration of Mouse 3T3 Fibroblasts in Response to a Serum Factor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 68(11). 2799–2801. 92 indexed citations

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Holley, Robert W., et al.. (1969). Alanin‐Transfer‐RNA (Nobel‐Vortrag). Angewandte Chemie. 81(24). 1039–1045.

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Holley, Robert W.. (1968). Experimental Approaches to the Determination of the Nucleotide Sequences of Large Oligonucleotides and Small Nucleic Acids. Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology. 8. 37–47. 18 indexed citations

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Apgar, Jean, George A. Everett, & Robert W. Holley. (1965). ISOLATION OF LARGE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE FRAGMENTS FROM THE ALANINE RNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 53(3). 546–548. 11 indexed citations

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Holley, Robert W., Jean Apgar, George A. Everett, et al.. (1963). Chemistry of Amino Acid-Specific Ribonucleic Acids. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 28(0). 117–121. 39 indexed citations

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Holley, Robert W., Jean Apgar, Bhupendra P. Doctor, et al.. (1961). A Simplified Procedure for the Preparation of Tyrosine- and Valine-Acceptor Fractions of Yeast “Soluble Ribonucleic Acid”. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 236(1). 200–202. 272 indexed citations

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Everett, George A. & Robert W. Holley. (1961). Effect of minerals on amino acid incorporation by a rat-liver preparation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 46(2). 390–391. 7 indexed citations

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Goldstein, Jack & Robert W. Holley. (1960). Inhibition of the alanine-activating enzyme by rat liver “soluble” fraction RNA. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 37(2). 353–355. 20 indexed citations

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Holley, Robert W. & Susan H. Merrill. (1959). COUNTERCURRENT DISTRIBUTION OF AN ACTIVE RIBONUCLEIC ACID. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 81(3). 753–753. 45 indexed citations

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Holley, Robert W. & Jack Goldstein. (1959). An Alanine-dependent, Ribonuclease-inhibited Conversion of Adenosine 5 ′ -Phosphate to Adenosine Triphosphate. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 234(7). 1765–1768. 31 indexed citations

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Holley, Robert W. & Ernest Sondheimer. (1954). The Synthesis of L-Histidyl Peptides¹. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 76(5). 1326–1328. 55 indexed citations

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Sondheimer, Ernest & Robert W. Holley. (1954). Synthesis of L-Amino-succinimide. Nature. 173(4408). 773–773. 2 indexed citations

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