Robert W. Woody

14.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
114 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

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Robert W. Woody is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert W. Woody has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Molecular Biology, 44 papers in Spectroscopy and 24 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Robert W. Woody's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (36 papers), Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (34 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (25 papers). Robert W. Woody is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (36 papers), Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (34 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (25 papers). Robert W. Woody collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Robert W. Woody's co-authors include Narasimha Sreerama, Nina Berova, S.Yu. Venyaminov, Mark C. Manning, 香爾中西, Ignacio Tinoco, Ming‐Chu Hsu, Neville R. Kallenbach, Zhengshuang Shi and Thomas M. Cooper and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Woody

113 papers receiving 11.6k 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.

Estimation of Protein Secondary Structure from Circular Dichroism Spectra: Comparison of CONTIN, SELCON, and CDSSTR Methods with an Expanded Reference Set

2000 2.6k citations Narasimha Sreerama, Robert W. Woody Analytical Biochemistry profile →
Circular Dichroism: Principles and Applications

1994 1.1k citations Robert W. Woody et al. profile →
Estimation of the number of α‐helical and β‐strand segments in proteins using circular dichroism spectroscopy

1999 627 citations Narasimha Sreerama, Robert W. Woody et al. Protein Science profile →
Estimation of Protein Secondary Structure from Circular Dichroism Spectra: Inclusion of Denatured Proteins with Native Proteins in the Analysis

2000 509 citations Narasimha Sreerama, Robert W. Woody et al. Analytical Biochemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert W. Woody United States	46	8.3k	2.4k	2.2k	1.3k	1.0k	114	11.9k
Jen Tsi Yang United States	42	8.9k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	525 0.5×	127	12.4k
B.A. Wallace United Kingdom	61	13.1k 1.6×	2.1k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	899 0.7×	995 1.0×	253	17.8k
F.M. Richards United States	31	8.7k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	3.1k 1.4×	930 0.7×	783 0.8×	47	11.4k
Neville R. Kallenbach United States	53	9.4k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	924 0.7×	811 0.8×	191	11.2k
Norma J. Greenfield United States	41	8.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	827 0.7×	465 0.5×	83	12.2k
J. Martin Scholtz United States	45	8.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	797 0.6×	682 0.7×	91	10.9k
Julian M. Sturtevant United States	64	10.8k 1.3×	1.5k 0.6×	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.5k 1.4×	222	13.4k
Henry H. Mantsch Canada	49	6.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.5×	200	10.8k
W. Curtis Johnson United States	40	6.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	720 0.6×	650 0.6×	123	8.5k
Peter L. Privalov United States	68	15.2k 1.8×	1.8k 0.7×	6.4k 2.9×	1.2k 0.9×	2.4k 2.3×	155	19.6k

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Pescitelli, Gennaro, Hideaki Kato, Jumpei Ito, et al.. (2014). Exciton Circular Dichroism in Channelrhodopsin. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 118(41). 11873–11885. 9 indexed citations

Woody, Robert W.. (2010). A significant role for high‐energy transitions in the ultraviolet circular dichroism spectra of polypeptides and proteins. Chirality. 22(1E). E22–9. 9 indexed citations

Sreerama, Narasimha & Robert W. Woody. (2004). Computation and Analysis of Protein Circular Dichroism Spectra. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 383. 318–351. 428 indexed citations

Sreerama, Narasimha & Robert W. Woody. (2003). Structural composition of β_I‐ and β_II‐proteins. Protein Science. 12(2). 384–388. 157 indexed citations

Mou, Tung‐Chung, Narasimha Sreerama, Thomas C. Terwilliger, Robert W. Woody, & Donald M. Gray. (2002). Independent tyrosyl contributions to the CD of Ff gene 5 protein and the distinctive effects of Y41H and Y41F mutants on protein–protein cooperative interactions. Protein Science. 11(3). 601–613. 3 indexed citations

Woody, Robert W., et al.. (2001). A partially folded intermediate conformation is induced in pectate lyase C by the addition of 8‐anilino‐1‐naphthalenesulfonate (ANS). Protein Science. 10(10). 2123–2130. 34 indexed citations

Bienkiewicz, Ewa A., et al.. (2000). Conformation of the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain: circular dichroism of long and short fragments. Journal of Molecular Biology. 297(1). 119–133. 74 indexed citations

Sreerama, Narasimha & Robert W. Woody. (2000). Estimation of Protein Secondary Structure from Circular Dichroism Spectra: Comparison of CONTIN, SELCON, and CDSSTR Methods with an Expanded Reference Set. Analytical Biochemistry. 287(2). 252–260. 2574 indexed citations breakdown →

Sreerama, Narasimha & Robert W. Woody. (1999). Molecular dynamics simulations of polypeptide conformations in water: A comparison of α, β, and poly(pro)II conformations. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 36(4). 400–406. 3 indexed citations

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Woody, Robert W. & Narasimha Sreerama. (1999). Comment on “Improving protein circular dichroism calculations in the far-ultraviolet through reparametrizing the amide chromophore” [J. Chem. Phys. 109, 782 (1998)]. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 111(6). 2844–2845. 64 indexed citations

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MEYERS, A. I., et al.. (1997). Synthesis and chiroptical properties of a novel C2-symmetric binaphthyl phosphortriamide (?chiral HMPA?). Chirality. 9(5-6). 431–434. 6 indexed citations

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Fleischhauer, Jörg, Joachim Grötzinger, B. Krämer, et al.. (1994). Calculation of the circular dichroism spectrum of cyclo(l-tyr-l-tyr) based on a molecular dynamics simulation. Biophysical Chemistry. 49(2). 141–152. 29 indexed citations

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Woody, Robert W., et al.. (1992). Asp537, Asp812 are essential and Lys631, His811 are catalytically significant in bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase activity. Journal of Molecular Biology. 226(1). 37–45. 67 indexed citations

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Woody, Robert W., et al.. (1987). Salt-dependent binding of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase to DNA and specific transcription by the core enzyme and holoenzyme. Biochemistry. 26(12). 3322–3330. 18 indexed citations

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Edwards, Robert A. & Robert W. Woody. (1979). Spectroscopic studies of Cibacron Blue and Congo Red bound to dehydrogenases and kinases. Evaluation of dyes as probes of the dinucleotide fold. Biochemistry. 18(23). 5197–5204. 100 indexed citations

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Wicken, Jeffrey S. & Robert W. Woody. (1974). Conformational changes in liver alcohol dehydrogenase upon nucleotide binding: Detection by circular dichroism of dye complexes. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 162(1). 12–16. 4 indexed citations

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Smith, J.C. & Robert W. Woody. (1973). Optical and other properties of a hydrocarbon‐soluble polypeptide, poly‐γ‐(n‐dodecyl)‐L‐glutamate. Biopolymers. 12(12). 2657–2665. 16 indexed citations

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Hsu, Ming‐Chu & Robert W. Woody. (1969). Origin of the rotational strength of heme transitions of myoglobin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 91(13). 3679–3681. 48 indexed citations

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Woody, Robert W.. (1968). Improved Calculation of the nπ* Rotational Strength in Polypeptides. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 49(11). 4797–4806. 146 indexed citations

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Tinoco, Ignacio & Robert W. Woody. (1964). Optical Rotation of Oriented Helices. IV. A Free Electron on a Helix. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 40(1). 160–165. 113 indexed citations

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