Samuel I. A. Cohen

9.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
49 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Samuel I. A. Cohen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel I. A. Cohen has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Physiology and 8 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Samuel I. A. Cohen's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (23 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (17 papers) and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (12 papers). Samuel I. A. Cohen is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (23 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (17 papers) and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (12 papers). Samuel I. A. Cohen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Samuel I. A. Cohen's co-authors include Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Christopher M. Dobson, Michele Vendruscolo, Sara Linse, Erik Hellstrand, Mark E. Welland, Eugene M. Terentjev, Duncan A. White, Georg Meisl and Luke Rajah and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Samuel I. A. Cohen

45 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

  1. Proliferation of amyloid-β42 aggregates occurs through a secondary nucleation mechanism
    2013 1.1k citations Samuel I. A. Cohen, Sara Linse et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. An Analytical Solution to the Kinetics of Breakable Filament Assembly
    2009 899 citations Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Christopher A. Waudby et al. Science profile →
  3. Direct Observation of the Interconversion of Normal and Toxic Forms of α-Synuclein
    2012 709 citations Nunilo Cremades, Samuel I. A. Cohen et al. Cell profile →
  4. Differences in nucleation behavior underlie the contrasting aggregation kinetics of the Aβ40 and Aβ42 peptides
    2014 411 citations Georg Meisl, Xiaoting Yang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Secondary nucleation in amyloid formation
    2018 356 citations Mattias Törnquist, Thomas C. T. Michaels et al. profile →
  6. Dynamics of oligomer populations formed during the aggregation of Alzheimer’s Aβ42 peptide
    2020 263 citations Thomas C. T. Michaels, Anđela Šarić et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samuel I. A. Cohen United Kingdom 29 4.3k 4.2k 1.2k 971 797 49 6.8k
Georg Meisl United Kingdom 38 3.6k 0.8× 3.4k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 552 0.7× 104 5.9k
Saskia Milton United States 21 5.5k 1.3× 4.3k 1.0× 910 0.7× 675 0.7× 919 1.2× 34 7.5k
Wolfgang Hoyer Germany 31 3.4k 0.8× 2.8k 0.7× 753 0.6× 2.1k 2.1× 382 0.5× 73 5.8k
Thomas C. T. Michaels United Kingdom 36 2.7k 0.6× 3.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 696 0.7× 469 0.6× 95 5.1k
Marcus Fändrich Germany 52 6.4k 1.5× 7.2k 1.7× 1.9k 1.6× 546 0.6× 817 1.0× 131 10.5k
Jan Bieschke United States 32 3.1k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 441 0.4× 809 0.8× 511 0.6× 56 6.0k
James D. Harper United States 23 3.2k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 712 0.6× 1.8k 1.9× 453 0.6× 71 6.3k
Aleksey Lomakin United States 41 4.8k 1.1× 5.1k 1.2× 1.3k 1.1× 305 0.3× 1.1k 1.4× 67 8.7k
Per Hammarström Sweden 45 3.2k 0.7× 4.5k 1.1× 697 0.6× 397 0.4× 450 0.6× 145 7.2k
Gal Bitan United States 49 6.3k 1.5× 5.6k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 684 0.7× 1.7k 2.1× 129 9.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Michaels, Thomas C. T., Alexander J. Dear, Samuel I. A. Cohen, Michele Vendruscolo, & Tuomas P. J. Knowles. (2022). Kinetic profiling of therapeutic strategies for inhibiting the formation of amyloid oligomers. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 156(16). 164904–164904. 21 indexed citations
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Camargo, Diana C. Rodriguez, Sean Chia, Benedetta Mannini, et al.. (2021). Surface-Catalyzed Secondary Nucleation Dominates the Generation of Toxic IAPP Aggregates. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 8. 757425–757425. 29 indexed citations
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Linse, Sara, Tom Scheidt, Katja Bernfur, et al.. (2020). Kinetic fingerprints differentiate the mechanisms of action of anti-Aβ antibodies. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(12). 1125–1133. 154 indexed citations
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Scheidt, Tom, Urszula Łapińska, Janet R. Kumita, et al.. (2019). Secondary nucleation and elongation occur at different sites on Alzheimer’s amyloid-β aggregates. Science Advances. 5(4). eaau3112–eaau3112. 126 indexed citations
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Chia, Sean, Johnny Habchi, Ryan Limbocker, et al.. (2018). Systematic Development of Small Molecules to Inhibit Specific Microscopic Steps of Amyloid-Beta42 Aggregation in Alzheimer's Disease. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 225a–225a. 1 indexed citations
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Cohen, Samuel I. A., Risto Cukalevski, Thomas C. T. Michaels, et al.. (2018). Distinct thermodynamic signatures of oligomer generation in the aggregation of the amyloid-β peptide. Nature Chemistry. 10(5). 523–531. 135 indexed citations
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Chia, Sean, Johnny Habchi, Thomas C. T. Michaels, et al.. (2018). SAR by kinetics for drug discovery in protein misfolding diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(41). 10245–10250. 54 indexed citations
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Michaels, Thomas C. T., Samuel I. A. Cohen, Michele Vendruscolo, Christopher M. Dobson, & Tuomas P. J. Knowles. (2016). Hamiltonian Dynamics of Protein Filament Formation. Physical Review Letters. 116(3). 38101–38101. 32 indexed citations
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Müller, Thomas, Paolo Arosio, Luke Rajah, et al.. (2016). Particle-Based Monte-Carlo Simulations of Steady-State Mass Transport at Intermediate Péclet Numbers. International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation. 17(3-4). 175–183. 25 indexed citations
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Habchi, Johnny, Sean Chia, Ryan Limbocker, et al.. (2016). Systematic development of small molecules to inhibit specific microscopic steps of Aβ42 aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(2). E200–E208. 185 indexed citations
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Cohen, Samuel I. A., Paolo Arosio, Jenny Presto, et al.. (2015). A molecular chaperone breaks the catalytic cycle that generates toxic Aβ oligomers. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 22(3). 207–213. 351 indexed citations
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Garcia, Gonzalo, Samuel I. A. Cohen, Christopher M. Dobson, & Tuomas P. J. Knowles. (2014). Nucleation-conversion-polymerization reactions of biological macromolecules with prenucleation clusters. Physical Review E. 89(3). 32712–32712. 40 indexed citations
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Cremades, Nunilo, Samuel I. A. Cohen, Emma Deas, et al.. (2012). Direct Observation of the Interconversion of Normal and Toxic Forms of α-Synuclein. Cell. 149(5). 1048–1059. 709 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lorenzen, Nikolai, Samuel I. A. Cohen, Søren B. Nielsen, et al.. (2012). Role of Elongation and Secondary Pathways in S6 Amyloid Fibril Growth. Biophysical Journal. 102(9). 2167–2175. 33 indexed citations
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Chéreau, David, Samuel I. A. Cohen, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, et al.. (2011). Conserved C-Terminal Charge Exerts a Profound Influence on the Aggregation Rate of α-Synuclein. Journal of Molecular Biology. 411(2). 329–333. 85 indexed citations
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Knowles, Tuomas P. J., Duncan A. White, Adam R. Abate, et al.. (2011). Observation of spatial propagation of amyloid assembly from single nuclei. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(36). 14746–14751. 129 indexed citations
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Knowles, Tuomas P. J., Christopher A. Waudby, Glyn L. Devlin, et al.. (2009). An Analytical Solution to the Kinetics of Breakable Filament Assembly. Science. 326(5959). 1533–1537. 899 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cohen, Samuel I. A.. (1977). The First Year at the New Esrath Nashim Hospital, Jerusalem 1968–69. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 130(6). 544–547. 1 indexed citations
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Cohen, Samuel I. A.. (1971). Psychological factors in asthma: a review of their aetiological and therapeutic significance. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 47(550). 533–540. 7 indexed citations
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Cohen, Samuel I. A.. (1965). I Adult Jewish Education. Religious Education. 60(5). 381–389. 2 indexed citations

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