Ruth Hubbard

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ruth Hubbard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Hubbard has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ruth Hubbard's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (16 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (7 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (7 papers). Ruth Hubbard is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (16 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (7 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (7 papers). Ruth Hubbard collaborates with scholars based in United States and Denmark. Ruth Hubbard's co-authors include George Wald, Allen Kropf, Paul K. Brown, Rowena G. Matthews, John E. Dowling, William Oroshnik, Robert I. Gregerman, Donna Haraway, Gilles Paquet and Arthur D. Colman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Hubbard

64 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Tautomeric Forms of Metarhodopsin 1963 2026 1984 2005 1963 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Tautomeric Forms of Metarhodopsin
    1963 521 citations Rowena G. Matthews, Ruth Hubbard et al. The Journal of General Physiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ruth Hubbard United States 26 2.1k 1.8k 295 254 213 71 3.4k
Quentin R. Smith United States 43 1.2k 0.6× 2.1k 1.1× 247 0.8× 103 0.4× 150 0.7× 105 6.9k
Michael L. Woodruff United States 38 2.0k 1.0× 2.0k 1.1× 90 0.3× 988 3.9× 198 0.9× 133 4.4k
Theodore P. Williams United States 28 1.2k 0.6× 1.9k 1.0× 97 0.3× 181 0.7× 364 1.7× 87 2.8k
Otto Dann Germany 19 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 43 0.1× 355 1.4× 251 1.2× 100 2.8k
Richard A. Stein United States 32 579 0.3× 1.7k 0.9× 423 1.4× 111 0.4× 91 0.4× 106 4.2k
Michael F. Brown United States 42 1.6k 0.8× 4.9k 2.6× 257 0.9× 161 0.6× 40 0.2× 175 6.2k
Daniel D. Oprian United States 39 4.4k 2.1× 5.6k 3.0× 289 1.0× 182 0.7× 397 1.9× 76 6.4k
Robert E. Oswald United States 37 2.1k 1.0× 3.4k 1.8× 247 0.8× 139 0.5× 49 0.2× 140 4.4k
Charles Brenner United States 62 643 0.3× 6.7k 3.6× 393 1.3× 194 0.8× 401 1.9× 233 14.4k
John Johnson United States 28 2.6k 1.3× 2.1k 1.1× 26 0.1× 327 1.3× 236 1.1× 133 5.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruth Hubbard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Hubbard

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ruth Hubbard. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ruth Hubbard based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ruth Hubbard. Ruth Hubbard is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Paquet, Gilles & Ruth Hubbard. (2011). The Case for Decentralized Federalism. University of Ottawa Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth & Gilles Paquet. (2010). The Black Hole of Public Administration. University of Ottawa Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations
3.
Roy, Jeffrey, Ruth Hubbard, & Caroline Andrew. (2009). Gilles Paquet: Homo hereticus. University of Ottawa Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth & Gilles Paquet. (2007). Gomery's Blinders and Canadian Federalism. University of Ottawa Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth, et al.. (2004). Betting on Mechanisms: The New Frontier for Federalism. 3 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth. (2001). Societal Leadership and Good Governance: Strengthening Learning, Values and Consent. International Review of Administrative Sciences. 67(2). 229–236. 4 indexed citations
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Billings, Paul R., Ruth Hubbard, & Stuart A. Newman. (1999). Human germline gene modification: a dissent. The Lancet. 353(9167). 1873–1875. 19 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth. (1995). Transparent Women, Visible Genes, and New Conceptions of Disease. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 4(3). 291–295. 7 indexed citations
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Copelon, Rhonda, et al.. (1988). Looking toward the Future: Feminism and Reproductive Technologies. Buffalo law review. 37(1). 203. 1 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth, et al.. (1979). Women look at biology looking at women : a collection of feminist critiques. 31 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth & Linda Sperling. (1973). The colors of the visual pigment chromophores. Experimental Eye Research. 17(6). 581–589. 15 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth. (1966). The Stereoisomerization of 11-cis-Retinal. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 241(8). 1814–1818. 61 indexed citations
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Matthews, Rowena G., Ruth Hubbard, Paul K. Brown, & George Wald. (1963). Tautomeric Forms of Metarhodopsin. The Journal of General Physiology. 47(2). 215–240. 521 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hubbard, Ruth. (1958). THE THERMAL STABILITY OF RHODOPSIN AND OPSIN. The Journal of General Physiology. 42(2). 259–280. 109 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth. (1956). RETINENE ISOMERASE. The Journal of General Physiology. 39(6). 935–962. 116 indexed citations
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Wald, George, Paul K. Brown, Ruth Hubbard, & William Oroshnik. (1955). HINDERED CIS ISOMERS OF VITAMIN A AND RETINENE: THE STRUCTURE OF THE NEO-B ISOMER. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 41(7). 438–451. 57 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth. (1954). THE RESPIRATION OF THE ISOLATED ROD OUTER LIMB OF THE FROG RETINA. The Journal of General Physiology. 37(3). 373–379. 12 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth. (1954). THE MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF RHODOPSIN AND THE NATURE OF THE RHODOPSIN-DIGITONIN COMPLEX. The Journal of General Physiology. 37(3). 381–399. 164 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth, Robert I. Gregerman, & George Wald. (1953). GEOMETRICAL ISOMERS OF RETINENE. The Journal of General Physiology. 36(3). 415–429. 60 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Ruth & George Wald. (1952). CIS-TRANS ISOMERS OF VITAMIN A AND RETINENE IN THE RHODOPSIN SYSTEM. The Journal of General Physiology. 36(2). 269–315. 357 indexed citations

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