Sidney Becker

1.1k total citations
16 papers, 637 citations indexed

About

Sidney Becker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Sidney Becker has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 637 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Sidney Becker's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (11 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (9 papers). Sidney Becker is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (11 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (9 papers). Sidney Becker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Czechia. Sidney Becker's co-authors include Thomas Carell, Antony L. Crisp, Hidenori Okamura, Christina Schneider, Tynchtyk Amatov, Ines Thoma, Hendrik Zipse, Péter Mayer, Stefan Wiedemann and Jonas Feldmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Sidney Becker

15 papers receiving 626 citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Sidney Becker 479 426 114 110 46 16 637
A. Ricardo 409 0.9× 391 0.9× 120 1.1× 83 0.8× 29 0.6× 3 641
Hidenori Okamura 317 0.7× 412 1.0× 70 0.6× 73 0.7× 31 0.7× 35 638
Antony L. Crisp 331 0.7× 303 0.7× 69 0.6× 69 0.6× 38 0.8× 18 474
Alonso Ricardo 457 1.0× 611 1.4× 87 0.8× 82 0.7× 56 1.2× 24 985
Rihe Liu 588 1.2× 563 1.3× 143 1.3× 94 0.9× 81 1.8× 7 846
Celia Blanco 315 0.7× 412 1.0× 110 1.0× 41 0.4× 90 2.0× 21 572
Fabiana Ciciriello 615 1.3× 504 1.2× 138 1.2× 94 0.9× 75 1.6× 36 976
Aubrey R. Hill 677 1.4× 615 1.4× 152 1.3× 111 1.0× 95 2.1× 12 901
Colm D. Duffy 667 1.4× 540 1.3× 270 2.4× 78 0.7× 56 1.2× 10 955
Katharina Iwan 160 0.3× 374 0.9× 114 1.0× 128 1.2× 29 0.6× 13 540

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sidney Becker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sidney Becker

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Becker, Sidney, et al.. (2025). An unnatural base pair for the detection of epigenetic cytosine modifications in DNA. Nature Chemistry. 17(11). 1732–1741.
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Becker, Sidney, et al.. (2024). Quantitative detection of pseudouridine in RNA by mass spectrometry. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 27564–27564. 7 indexed citations
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Wiedemann, Stefan, et al.. (2023). An Aminoisoxazole‐Based Proto‐RNA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 1 indexed citations
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Becker, Sidney, et al.. (2023). Purine nucleosides replace cAMP in allosteric regulation of PKA in trypanosomatid pathogens. eLife. 12. 4 indexed citations
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Becker, Sidney, et al.. (2023). A Photoredox Reaction for the Selective Modification of 5-Carboxycytosine in DNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(19). 10505–10511. 9 indexed citations
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Crisp, Antony L., et al.. (2022). Isoxazole Nucleosides as Building Blocks for a Plausible Proto‐RNA. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(45). e202211945–e202211945. 10 indexed citations
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Becker, Sidney, et al.. (2020). Natural, modified DNA bases. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 57. 1–7. 28 indexed citations
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Okamura, Hidenori, et al.. (2019). Proto‐Urea‐RNA (Wöhler RNA) Containing Unusually Stable Urea Nucleosides. Angewandte Chemie. 131(51). 18864–18869. 6 indexed citations
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Okamura, Hidenori, et al.. (2019). Proto‐Urea‐RNA (Wöhler RNA) Containing Unusually Stable Urea Nucleosides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(51). 18691–18696. 16 indexed citations
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Okamura, Hidenori, et al.. (2019). A one-pot, water compatible synthesis of pyrimidine nucleobases under plausible prebiotic conditions. Chemical Communications. 55(13). 1939–1942. 20 indexed citations
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Becker, Sidney, Jonas Feldmann, Stefan Wiedemann, et al.. (2019). Unified prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine and purine RNA ribonucleotides. Science. 366(6461). 76–82. 192 indexed citations
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Schneider, Christina, Sidney Becker, Hidenori Okamura, et al.. (2018). Noncanonical RNA Nucleosides as Molecular Fossils of an Early Earth—Generation by Prebiotic Methylations and Carbamoylations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(20). 5943–5946. 41 indexed citations
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Becker, Sidney, Christina Schneider, Hidenori Okamura, et al.. (2018). Wet-dry cycles enable the parallel origin of canonical and non-canonical nucleosides by continuous synthesis. Nature Communications. 9(1). 163–163. 105 indexed citations
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Becker, Sidney, Christina Schneider, Antony L. Crisp, & Thomas Carell. (2018). Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5174–5174. 24 indexed citations
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Schneider, Christina, Sidney Becker, Hidenori Okamura, et al.. (2018). Nicht‐kanonische RNA‐Nukleoside als molekulare Fossilien einer frühen Erde – Generierung durch präbiotische Methylierungen und Carbamoylierungen. Angewandte Chemie. 130(20). 6050–6054. 10 indexed citations
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Becker, Sidney, et al.. (2016). A high-yielding, strictly regioselective prebiotic purine nucleoside formation pathway. Science. 352(6287). 833–836. 164 indexed citations

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