Spencer Gordon

884 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 718 citations indexed

About

Spencer Gordon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Spencer Gordon has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 718 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Signal Processing and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Spencer Gordon's work include Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency (1 paper), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (1 paper) and Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (1 paper). Spencer Gordon is often cited by papers focused on Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency (1 paper), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (1 paper) and Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (1 paper). Spencer Gordon collaborates with scholars based in United States. Spencer Gordon's co-authors include Mary A. Grillo, Sanford L. Palay, S. M. McGEE-RUSSELL, Ellsworth C. Alvord, Marian W. Kies, Robert H. Laatsch, Ken Fujioka, Andreas Madlung and Leonard J. Schulman and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Experimental Medicine, The Journal of Cell Biology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Spencer Gordon

6 papers receiving 662 citations

Hit Papers

FIXATION OF NEURAL TISSUES FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPY BY PER... 1962 2026 1983 2004 1962 100 200 300 400
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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. FIXATION OF NEURAL TISSUES FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPY BY PERFUSION WITH SOLUTIONS OF OSMIUM TETROXIDE
    1962 461 citations Sanford L. Palay, S. M. McGEE-RUSSELL et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Spencer Gordon United States 4 289 188 169 106 94 6 718
Yoshikazu Nakano Japan 12 250 0.9× 163 0.9× 93 0.6× 147 1.4× 95 1.0× 29 799
Johanna Knöferle Germany 12 299 1.0× 284 1.5× 135 0.8× 191 1.8× 57 0.6× 12 731
Shiro Mori Japan 17 407 1.4× 324 1.7× 240 1.4× 103 1.0× 76 0.8× 39 1.0k
A. Roger Little United States 11 452 1.6× 242 1.3× 105 0.6× 61 0.6× 120 1.3× 20 772
Erik Boddeke Netherlands 14 352 1.2× 244 1.3× 289 1.7× 198 1.9× 43 0.5× 15 752
Ying Dou China 16 396 1.4× 204 1.1× 165 1.0× 105 1.0× 119 1.3× 29 958
Carla X. Bittner Chile 8 361 1.2× 278 1.5× 93 0.6× 131 1.2× 39 0.4× 8 684
Elias Pavlopoulos United States 14 588 2.0× 274 1.5× 94 0.6× 151 1.4× 167 1.8× 15 943
John W. Gysbers Canada 13 493 1.7× 438 2.3× 163 1.0× 146 1.4× 48 0.5× 14 1.2k
Sarah L. Roche Ireland 16 548 1.9× 159 0.8× 137 0.8× 108 1.0× 80 0.9× 23 859

Countries citing papers authored by Spencer Gordon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Spencer Gordon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Spencer Gordon

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All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Gordon, Spencer & Leonard J. Schulman. (2022). Hadamard Extensions and the Identification of Mixtures of Product Distributions. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 68(6). 4085–4089. 2 indexed citations
2.
Fujioka, Ken & Spencer Gordon. (2018). Effects of “Essential AD2” Supplement on Blood Acetaldehyde Levels in Individuals Who Have Aldehyde Dehydrogenase (ALDH2) Deficiency. American Journal of Therapeutics. 26(5). e583–e588. 8 indexed citations
3.
Gordon, Spencer. (2017). The complexity of continuous local search. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). 1 indexed citations
4.
Gordon, Spencer, et al.. (2015). Floral Reversion in Arabidopsis suecica Is Correlated with the Onset of Flowering and Meristem Transitioning. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0127897–e0127897. 8 indexed citations
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Laatsch, Robert H., Marian W. Kies, Spencer Gordon, & Ellsworth C. Alvord. (1962). THE ENCEPHALOMYELITIC ACTIVITY OF MYELIN ISOLATED BY ULTRACENTRIFUGATION. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 115(4). 777–788. 238 indexed citations
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Palay, Sanford L., S. M. McGEE-RUSSELL, Spencer Gordon, & Mary A. Grillo. (1962). FIXATION OF NEURAL TISSUES FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPY BY PERFUSION WITH SOLUTIONS OF OSMIUM TETROXIDE. The Journal of Cell Biology. 12(2). 385–410. 461 indexed citations breakdown →

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