Shawn M. Douglas

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
19 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Shawn M. Douglas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shawn M. Douglas has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Shawn M. Douglas's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (8 papers). Shawn M. Douglas is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (8 papers). Shawn M. Douglas collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Germany. Shawn M. Douglas's co-authors include William M. Shih, George M. Church, Hendrik Dietz, Ido Bachelet, Tim Liedl, Franziska Graf, Björn Högberg, Adam Marblestone, Alejandro Vázquez and Surat Teerapittayanon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Shawn M. Douglas

19 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes

2009 2.1k citations Shawn M. Douglas, Hendrik Dietz et al. Nature profile →
A Logic-Gated Nanorobot for Targeted Transport of Molecular Payloads

2012 1.7k citations Shawn M. Douglas, Ido Bachelet et al. Science profile →
Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes

2009 1.1k citations Hendrik Dietz, Shawn M. Douglas et al. Science profile →
Rapid prototyping of 3D DNA-origami shapes with caDNAno

2009 955 citations Shawn M. Douglas, Adam Marblestone et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shawn M. Douglas United States	16	6.4k	2.2k	1.5k	402	401	19	6.9k
Jeanette Nangreave United States	23	4.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	783 0.5×	355 0.9×	478 1.2×	25	4.8k
Björn Högberg Sweden	24	4.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	987 0.7×	302 0.8×	335 0.8×	69	5.3k
Fei Zhang United States	27	4.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	885 0.6×	326 0.8×	443 1.1×	63	4.6k
Thomas H. LaBean United States	38	6.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	541 1.3×	892 2.2×	87	7.5k
Chenxiang Lin United States	35	3.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	768 0.5×	302 0.8×	864 2.2×	95	5.1k
Ruojie Sha United States	32	3.5k 0.5×	820 0.4×	725 0.5×	296 0.7×	515 1.3×	113	4.0k
Paul W. K. Rothemund United States	27	9.0k 1.4×	2.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	711 1.8×	785 2.0×	38	10.3k
Yonggang Ke United States	51	8.6k 1.3×	3.3k 1.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 3.1×	1.1k 2.9×	148	10.0k
Hendrik Dietz Germany	52	11.5k 1.8×	4.3k 2.0×	2.5k 1.7×	614 1.5×	927 2.3×	134	13.5k
Yu He United States	23	3.1k 0.5×	804 0.4×	671 0.4×	287 0.7×	435 1.1×	37	3.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shawn M. Douglas

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All Works

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19 of 19 papers shown

Aksel, Tural, et al.. (2024). Design principles for accurate folding of DNA origami. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(48). e2406769121–e2406769121. 2 indexed citations

Shen, Konlin, et al.. (2024). Engineering an Escherichia coli strain for production of long single-stranded DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(7). 4098–4107. 4 indexed citations

Dong, Rui, Tural Aksel, Waipan Chan, et al.. (2021). DNA origami patterning of synthetic T cell receptors reveals spatial control of the sensitivity and kinetics of signal activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(40). 48 indexed citations

Gläser, Martin, et al.. (2021). The Art of Designing DNA Nanostructures with CAD Software. Molecules. 26(8). 2287–2287. 23 indexed citations

Kern, Nadja, Rui Dong, Shawn M. Douglas, Ronald D. Vale, & Meghan A. Morrissey. (2021). Tight nanoscale clustering of Fcγ receptors using DNA origami promotes phagocytosis. eLife. 10. 42 indexed citations

Aksel, Tural, Zanlin Yu, Yifan Cheng, & Shawn M. Douglas. (2020). Molecular goniometers for single-particle cryo-electron microscopy of DNA-binding proteins. Nature Biotechnology. 39(3). 378–386. 30 indexed citations

Wang, Feng, Zanlin Yu, Miguel Betegon, et al.. (2019). Amino and PEG-amino graphene oxide grids enrich and protect samples for high-resolution single particle cryo-electron microscopy. Journal of Structural Biology. 209(2). 107437–107437. 42 indexed citations

Aksel, Tural, et al.. (2018). Construction of a novel phagemid to produce custom DNA origami scaffolds. PubMed. 3(1). 47 indexed citations

Blumer, Katy, et al.. (2016). Folding complex DNA nanostructures from limited sets of reusable sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(11). e102–e102. 19 indexed citations

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Douglas, Shawn M., Ido Bachelet, & George M. Church. (2012). A Logic-Gated Nanorobot for Targeted Transport of Molecular Payloads. Science. 335(6070). 831–834. 1719 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dietz, Hendrik, Shawn M. Douglas, & William M. Shih. (2009). Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes. Science. 325(5941). 725–730. 1065 indexed citations breakdown →

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Douglas, Shawn M., Adam Marblestone, Surat Teerapittayanon, et al.. (2009). Rapid prototyping of 3D DNA-origami shapes with caDNAno. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(15). 5001–5006. 955 indexed citations breakdown →

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Douglas, Shawn M., Hendrik Dietz, Tim Liedl, et al.. (2009). Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes. Nature. 459(7245). 414–418. 2054 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ke, Yonggang, Shawn M. Douglas, Minghui Liu, et al.. (2009). Multilayer DNA Origami Packed on a Square Lattice. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(43). 15903–15908. 342 indexed citations

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Douglas, Shawn M., James J. Chou, & William M. Shih. (2007). DNA-nanotube-induced alignment of membrane proteins for NMR structure determination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(16). 6644–6648. 370 indexed citations

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Smith, Andrew, et al.. (2005). Network security and data integrity in academia: an assessment and a proposal for large-scale archiving.. Genome Biology. 6(9). 119–119. 20 indexed citations

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Douglas, Shawn M., G.T. Montelione, & Mark Gerstein. (2005). PubNet: a flexible system for visualizing literature derived networks. Genome biology. 6(9). R80–R80. 37 indexed citations

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Cheung, Kei‐Hoi, et al.. (2004). A XML-Based Approach to Integrating Heterogeneous Yeast Genome Data.. 236–242. 1 indexed citations

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Lan, Ning, Shawn M. Douglas, Baolin Wu, et al.. (2003). Mining the Structural Genomics Pipeline: Identification of Protein Properties that Affect High-throughput Experimental Analysis. Journal of Molecular Biology. 336(1). 115–130. 119 indexed citations

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