Rolf Benzinger

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Rolf Benzinger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Benzinger has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Rolf Benzinger's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (13 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (11 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers). Rolf Benzinger is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (13 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (11 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers). Rolf Benzinger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Rolf Benzinger's co-authors include Larry Lawhorne, Keith R. Yamamoto, Bruce Alberts, Ingrid Kleber, James J. McSharry, Philip Hartman, Robert J. Huskey, A M Skalka, Lynn W. Enquist and W. David Henner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Molecular Biology and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Rolf Benzinger

26 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rapid bacteriophage sedimentation in the presence of polyethylene glycol and its application to large-scale virus purification

1970 1.4k citations Rolf Benzinger, Larry Lawhorne et al. Virology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rolf Benzinger United States	13	1.4k	1.0k	636	220	153	26	2.0k
J. Weigle United States	22	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	922 1.4×	205 0.9×	99 0.6×	25	2.6k
E. Boy de la Tour Switzerland	17	1.7k 1.1×	951 0.9×	569 0.9×	284 1.3×	83 0.5×	17	2.1k
Gisela Mosig United States	28	2.1k 1.5×	1.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.8×	321 1.5×	108 0.7×	69	2.6k
Hiroyuki Sugisaki Japan	26	2.2k 1.5×	755 0.7×	1.1k 1.8×	340 1.5×	87 0.6×	40	2.7k
Sumiko Inouye United States	32	2.5k 1.7×	859 0.8×	1.4k 2.2×	185 0.8×	150 1.0×	72	2.9k
Sol H. Goodgal United States	23	1.2k 0.8×	341 0.3×	526 0.8×	141 0.6×	65 0.4×	58	1.7k
Jan van Duin Netherlands	40	3.7k 2.6×	1.4k 1.4×	1.5k 2.4×	349 1.6×	277 1.8×	94	4.3k
Keith McKenney United States	23	2.1k 1.4×	444 0.4×	1.2k 1.9×	139 0.6×	81 0.5×	38	2.6k
John J. Scocca United States	20	951 0.7×	528 0.5×	595 0.9×	94 0.4×	53 0.3×	45	1.4k
Allen W. Nicholson United States	26	1.5k 1.0×	567 0.6×	484 0.8×	203 0.9×	99 0.6×	50	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rolf Benzinger

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Swinton, David, Stanley Hattman, Rolf Benzinger, Vicky Buchanan‐Wollaston, & J. E. Beringer. (1985). Replacement of the deoxycytidine residues in Rhizobium bacteriophage RL38JI DNA. FEBS Letters. 184(2). 294–298. 17 indexed citations

Bullerjahn, George S. & Rolf Benzinger. (1984). Introduction of the mercury transposon Tn501 intoRhizobium japonicumstrains 31 and 110. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 22(3). 183–187. 3 indexed citations

Fox, Jay W., et al.. (1982). Amino terminal sequence of the bacteriophage T5-coded gene A2 protein. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 106(2). 265–269. 5 indexed citations

Chase, Christine D. & Rolf Benzinger. (1982). Transfection of Escherichia coli spheroplasts with a bacteriophage Mu DNA-protein complex. Journal of Virology. 42(1). 176–185. 15 indexed citations

Bullerjahn, George S. & Rolf Benzinger. (1982). Genetic transformation of Rhizobium leguminosarum by plasmid DNA. Journal of Bacteriology. 150(1). 421–424. 7 indexed citations

McCorquodale, D. James, et al.. (1979). Gene D5 product of bacteriophage T5: DNA-binding protein affecting DNA replication and late gene expression. Journal of Virology. 29(1). 322–327. 11 indexed citations

Benzinger, Rolf. (1978). Transfection of Enterobacteriaceae and its applications. Microbiological Reviews. 42(1). 194–236. 32 indexed citations

Benzinger, Rolf, Ingrid Kleber, & Robert J. Huskey. (1978). Transfection of Escherichia coli Spheroplasts: Infectious Lambda Prophage DNA. Journal of General Virology. 39(3). 531–535. 3 indexed citations

Benzinger, Rolf & D. James McCorquodale. (1975). Transfection of Escherichia coli spheroplasts. VI. Transfection of nonpermissive spheroplasts by T5 and BF23 bacteriophage DNA carrying amber mutations in DNA transfer genes. Journal of Virology. 16(1). 1–4. 11 indexed citations

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Benzinger, Rolf, et al.. (1974). Transfection of Escherichia coli Spheroplasts IV. Transfection of rec ⁺ and rec ⁻ Spheroplasts by Native, Denatured, and Renatured T5 Bacteriophage DNA After Repair of Single-Strand Breaks by Polynucleotide Ligase. Journal of Virology. 13(5). 960–966. 10 indexed citations

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Benzinger, Rolf, et al.. (1974). Double-Length, Circular, Single-Stranded DNA from Filamentous Phage. Journal of Virology. 14(3). 620–630. 6 indexed citations

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Lawhorne, Larry, Ingrid Kleber, Charles E. Mitchell, & Rolf Benzinger. (1973). Transfection of Escherichia coli Spheroplasts II. Relative Infectivity of Native, Denatured, and Renatured Lambda, T7, T5, T4, and P22 Bacteriophage DNAs. Journal of Virology. 12(4). 733–740. 14 indexed citations

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Benzinger, Rolf, Ingrid Kleber, & Robert J. Huskey. (1971). Transfection of Escherichia coli Spheroplasts I. General Facilitation of Double-Stranded Deoxyribonucleic Acid Infectivity by Protamine Sulfate. Journal of Virology. 7(5). 646–650. 61 indexed citations

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McSharry, James J. & Rolf Benzinger. (1970). Concentration and purification of vesicular stomatitis virus by polyethylene glycol “precipitation”. Virology. 40(3). 745–746. 90 indexed citations

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Benzinger, Rolf & P. H. Hofschneider. (1969). A Comparison of ΦX 174 Replicative Form DNA Synthesis in the Presence and Absence of Protein Synthesis. Hoppe-Seyler´s Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie. 350(2). 1266–1272. 2 indexed citations

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Benzinger, Rolf. (1968). Restriction of infectious bacteriophage fd DNA's and an assay for in vitro host-controlled restriction and modification.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 59(4). 1294–1299. 12 indexed citations

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Benzinger, Rolf, Rudolf Jaenisch, & P. H. Hofschneider. (1966). Über infektiöse substrukturen aus bakteriophagen. Journal of Molecular Biology. 21(3). 493–499. 9 indexed citations

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Benzinger, Rolf & P. H. Hofschneider. (1963). Biological melting curves for the ?replicative form? of ?X 174 DNA. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 94(3). 316–321. 10 indexed citations

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Benzinger, Rolf & Philip Hartman. (1962). Effects of ultraviolet light on transducing phage P22. Virology. 18(4). 614–626. 50 indexed citations

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Benzinger, Rolf. (1962). Phage released from S. typhimurium lysogenized by P22. Virology. 18(4). 643–645. 5 indexed citations

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