Scott T. Laughlin

4.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
35 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Scott T. Laughlin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott T. Laughlin has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Organic Chemistry and 10 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Scott T. Laughlin's work include Click Chemistry and Applications (22 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (12 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (11 papers). Scott T. Laughlin is often cited by papers focused on Click Chemistry and Applications (22 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (12 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (11 papers). Scott T. Laughlin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Russia. Scott T. Laughlin's co-authors include Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Jeremy M. Baskin, Sharon L. Amacher, Nicholas J. Agard, Pamela V. Chang, Jennifer A. Prescher, Julian A. Codelli, Isaac S. Carrico, Pratik Kumar and David Rabuka and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Scott T. Laughlin

34 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Copper-free click chemistry for dynamic in vivo imaging

2007 1.5k citations Jeremy M. Baskin, Jennifer A. Prescher et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
In Vivo Imaging of Membrane-Associated Glycans in Developing Zebrafish

2008 860 citations Scott T. Laughlin, Jeremy M. Baskin et al. profile →
Imaging the glycome

2008 282 citations Scott T. Laughlin, Carolyn R. Bertozzi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Metabolic labeling of glycans with azido sugars and subsequent glycan-profiling and visualization via Staudinger ligation

2007 263 citations Scott T. Laughlin, Carolyn R. Bertozzi Nature Protocols profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott T. Laughlin United States	19	2.9k	2.8k	1.1k	363	362	35	4.0k
Nicholas J. Agard United States	17	4.2k 1.5×	3.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	401 1.1×	505 1.4×	24	5.9k
Eliana Saxon United States	6	2.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	956 0.9×	273 0.8×	200 0.6×	6	3.7k
Christian P. R. Hackenberger Germany	40	4.2k 1.4×	3.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	213 0.6×	285 0.8×	162	5.6k
John C. Jewett United States	17	1.9k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	697 0.6×	109 0.3×	248 0.7×	32	3.1k
Horst Pick Switzerland	26	2.8k 1.0×	850 0.3×	604 0.5×	544 1.5×	583 1.6×	57	4.2k
David Rabuka United States	32	2.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	251 0.7×	337 0.9×	58	3.3k
Vu Hong United States	11	1.6k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	594 0.5×	126 0.3×	210 0.6×	11	2.5k
Qing Lin United States	41	4.0k 1.4×	4.5k 1.6×	1.0k 0.9×	233 0.6×	698 1.9×	94	6.0k
Shinya Tsukiji Japan	29	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	503 0.5×	414 1.1×	224 0.6×	83	2.9k
Melissa L. Blackman United States	13	1.9k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	140 0.4×	217 0.6×	15	2.7k

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Huang, Wei, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of Pyrones in Bioorthogonal Reactions: Correlation between Structure, Reactivity, and Bioorthogonality. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 90(8). 2848–2859. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Wei, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the reactivity of 2 H -(thio)pyran-2-(thi)ones in cycloaddition reactions with strained alkynes through density functional theory studies. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 22(41). 8285–8292. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Wei, et al.. (2024). Redox‐Activated Substrates for Enhancing Activatable Cyclopropene Bioorthogonal Reactions. ChemBioChem. 25(21). e202400304–e202400304.

Huang, Wei, et al.. (2023). Pyranthiones/Pyrones: “Click and Release” Donors for Subcellular Hydrogen Sulfide Delivery and Labeling**. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(7). e202303465–e202303465. 4 indexed citations

Huang, Wei & Scott T. Laughlin. (2023). Cell-selective bioorthogonal labeling. Cell chemical biology. 31(3). 409–427. 14 indexed citations

Shen, Jiachun, et al.. (2022). Self-Patterned Nanoscale Topography of Thin Copolymer Films Prepared by Evaporative Assembly-Resist Early-Stage Bacterial Adhesion. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 5(8). 3870–3882. 3 indexed citations

Jiang, Ting & Scott T. Laughlin. (2020). Enzyme- or light-triggered cyclopropenes for bioorthogonal ligation. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 641. 1–34. 7 indexed citations

Hewitt, David, Luke Heroux, M. Agamalian, et al.. (2019). Hierarchical assembly in PLA-PEO-PLA hydrogels with crystalline domains and effect of block stereochemistry. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 180. 102–109. 6 indexed citations

Kumar, Pratik & Scott T. Laughlin. (2019). Modular activatable bioorthogonal reagents. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 622. 153–182. 13 indexed citations

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Laughlin, Scott T., et al.. (2019). Visualizing the brain's astrocytes. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 622. 129–151. 23 indexed citations

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Ahn, Shin Hye, et al.. (2019). Linear Desferrichrome-Linked Silicon–Rhodamine Antibody Conjugate Enables Targeted Multimodal Imaging of HER2 in Vitro and in Vivo. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 16(3). 1412–1420. 18 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pratik, et al.. (2018). Lipidated cyclopropenes via a stable 3-N spirocyclopropene scaffold. Tetrahedron Letters. 59(37). 3435–3438. 9 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pratik, et al.. (2016). A photocaged, cyclopropene-containing analog of the amino acid neurotransmitter glutamate. Tetrahedron Letters. 57(51). 5750–5752. 13 indexed citations

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Laughlin, Scott T., et al.. (2016). Light-Activated Staudinger–Bertozzi Ligation within Living Animals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(16). 5186–5189. 67 indexed citations

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Baskin, Jeremy M., Scott T. Laughlin, Brendan J. Beahm, et al.. (2012). Imaging the Sialome during Zebrafish Development with Copper‐Free Click Chemistry. ChemBioChem. 13(3). 353–357. 77 indexed citations

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Baskin, Jeremy M., et al.. (2010). Visualizing enveloping layer glycans during zebrafish early embryogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(23). 10360–10365. 137 indexed citations

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Laughlin, Scott T. & Carolyn R. Bertozzi. (2007). Metabolic labeling of glycans with azido sugars and subsequent glycan-profiling and visualization via Staudinger ligation. Nature Protocols. 2(11). 2930–2944. 263 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laughlin, Scott T., Nicholas J. Agard, Jeremy M. Baskin, et al.. (2006). Metabolic Labeling of Glycans with Azido Sugars for Visualization and Glycoproteomics. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 415. 230–250. 121 indexed citations

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Graffenried, Christopher L. de, Scott T. Laughlin, Jennifer J. Kohler, & Carolyn R. Bertozzi. (2004). A small-molecule switch for Golgi sulfotransferases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(48). 16715–16720. 24 indexed citations

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Kohler, Jennifer J., Jennifer L. Czlapinski, Scott T. Laughlin, et al.. (2004). Directing Flux in Glycan Biosynthetic Pathways with a Small Molecule Switch. ChemBioChem. 5(10). 1455–1458. 12 indexed citations

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