Samuel Karlin

44.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
421 papers, 30.8k citations indexed

About

Samuel Karlin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel Karlin has authored 421 papers receiving a total of 30.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Molecular Biology, 116 papers in Genetics and 51 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Samuel Karlin's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (69 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (65 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (47 papers). Samuel Karlin is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (69 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (65 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (47 papers). Samuel Karlin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Samuel Karlin's co-authors include Chris Burge, James McGregor, Howard E. Taylor, Jan Mrázek, Stephen F. Altschul, W. J. Studden, Allan Campbell, Luciano Brocchieri, Volker Brendel and Howard M. Taylor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Samuel Karlin

413 papers receiving 27.8k 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.

Prediction of complete gene structures in human genomic DNA

1997 3.1k citations Samuel Karlin et al. profile →
A second course in stochastic processes

1981 1.9k citations Samuel Karlin et al. profile →
Methods for assessing the statistical significance of molecular sequence features by using general scoring schemes.

1990 1.1k citations Samuel Karlin et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Tchebycheff Systems: With Applications in Analysis and Statistics

1967 923 citations Samuel Karlin et al. profile →
An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling

1994 801 citations Samuel Karlin et al. profile →
Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming.

1959 616 citations Samuel Karlin et al. profile →
Tchebycheff Systems: With Applications in Analysis and Statistics.

1967 427 citations Samuel Karlin et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
Studies in the Mathematical Theory of Inventory and Production

1960 395 citations Samuel Karlin et al. profile →
Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences

1964 367 citations Samuel Karlin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samuel Karlin United States	86	12.2k	5.8k	2.8k	2.8k	2.6k	421	30.8k
J. F. C. Kingmán United Kingdom	62	2.1k 0.2×	3.0k 0.5×	5.9k 2.1×	6.5k 2.4×	3.8k 1.5×	183	26.0k
George H. Weiss United States	77	3.3k 0.3×	1.5k 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	5.2k 1.9×	749 0.3×	763	37.0k
Robert M. May United Kingdom	136	4.6k 0.4×	22.3k 3.8×	401 0.1×	1.4k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	476	82.1k
M. E. J. Newman United States	81	12.0k 1.0×	2.0k 0.3×	822 0.3×	2.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	175	82.1k
Christian P. Robert France	63	2.5k 0.2×	2.7k 0.5×	6.5k 2.4×	411 0.1×	1.3k 0.5×	416	23.5k
M. N. Rosenbluth United States	72	4.2k 0.3×	701 0.1×	2.4k 0.9×	880 0.3×	754 0.3×	298	48.4k
Shlomo Havlin Israel	110	9.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.2×	538 0.2×	5.0k 1.8×	992 0.4×	704	57.1k
George Casella United States	59	3.8k 0.3×	3.2k 0.5×	6.9k 2.5×	176 0.1×	1.8k 0.7×	329	25.8k
David R. Cox United States	66	9.3k 0.8×	6.2k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	89 0.0×	1.1k 0.4×	189	30.1k
Charles J. Stone United States	36	1.7k 0.1×	629 0.1×	4.9k 1.8×	767 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	85	27.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pinsky, Mark A. & Samuel Karlin. (2011). An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling Ed. 4. Elsevier eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Karlin, Samuel, et al.. (2007). r-scan statistics of a Poisson process with events transformed by duplications, deletions, and displacements. Advances in Applied Probability. 39(3). 799–825. 1 indexed citations

Karlin, Samuel, Julie A. Theriot, & Jan Mrázek. (2004). Comparative analysis of gene expression among low G+C gram-positive genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(16). 6182–6187. 44 indexed citations

Karlin, Samuel, Aviv Bergman, & Andrew J. Gentles. (2001). Annotation of the Drosophila genome. Nature. 411(6835). 259–260. 25 indexed citations

Karlin, Samuel & Sabin Lessard. (1986). Theoretical Studies on Sex Ratio Evolution. (MPB-22), Volume 22. Princeton University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations

Karlin, Samuel & Carlo Matessi. (1983). The eleventh R. A. Fisher Memorial Lecture - Kin selection and altruism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 219(1216). 327–353. 33 indexed citations

Karlin, Samuel. (1975). Interpolation Properties of Generalized Perfect Splines and the Solutions of Certain Extremal Problems. I. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 206. 25–25.

Karlin, Samuel. (1975). Interpolation properties of generalized perfect splines and the solutions of certain extremal problems. I. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 206. 25–25. 34 indexed citations

Karlin, Samuel, et al.. (1969). Initiation aux processus aléatoires. Dunod eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel & James McGregor. (1968). Embeddability of Discrete Time Simple Branching Processes into Continuous Time Branching Processes. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 132(1). 115–115. 7 indexed citations

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Athreya, Krishna B. & Samuel Karlin. (1967). Limit Theorems for the Split Times of Branching Processes. Indiana University Mathematics Journal. 17(3). 257–277. 38 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel. (1964). The Existence of Eigenvalues for Integral Operators. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 113(1). 1–1. 3 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel. (1964). Total positivity, absorption probabilities and applications. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 111(1). 33–107. 48 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel. (1964). Total Positivity, Absorption Probabilities and Applications. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 111(1). 33–33. 8 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel. (1964). The existence of eigenvalues for integral operators. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 113(1). 1–17. 28 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel & James McGregor. (1962). Total positivity of fundamental solutions of parabolic equations. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 13(1). 136–136. 9 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel & James McGregor. (1962). Total Positivity of Fundamental Solutions of Parabolic Equations. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 13(1). 136–136. 3 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel & Herman Rubin. (1956). Distributions Possessing a Monotone Likelihood Ratio. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 51(276). 637–643. 22 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel. (1953). Extreme Points of Vector Functions. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 4(4). 603–603. 6 indexed citations

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Karlin, Samuel. (1953). Extreme points of vector functions. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 4(4). 603–610. 16 indexed citations

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