Stephen E. Stein

19.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
158 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Stephen E. Stein is a scholar working on Spectroscopy, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen E. Stein has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Spectroscopy, 57 papers in Molecular Biology and 37 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Stephen E. Stein's work include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (51 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (38 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (34 papers). Stephen E. Stein is often cited by papers focused on Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (51 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (38 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (34 papers). Stephen E. Stein collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. Stephen E. Stein's co-authors include B. S. Rabinovitch, Donald R. Scott, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Askar Fahr, W. C. Gardiner, Michael Frenklach, Stephen R. Heller, Alan D. Mcnaught, И. В. Плетнев and Robert L. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Stephen E. Stein

153 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

An integrated method for spectrum extractio... 1973 2026 1990 2008 1999 1973 1994 1985 2015 200 400 600
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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. An integrated method for spectrum extraction and compound identification from gas chromatography/mass spectrometry data
    1999 644 citations Stephen E. Stein Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry profile →
  2. Accurate evaluation of internal energy level sums and densities including anharmonic oscillators and hindered rotors
    1973 627 citations Stephen E. Stein et al. profile →
  3. Optimization and testing of mass spectral library search algorithms for compound identification
    1994 624 citations Stephen E. Stein et al. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry profile →
  4. Detailed kinetic modeling of soot formation in shock-tube pyrolysis of acetylene
    1985 533 citations Stephen E. Stein et al. profile →
  5. InChI, the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier
    2015 530 citations Stephen E. Stein, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephen E. Stein United States 47 3.9k 3.7k 1.6k 1.3k 1.3k 158 9.8k
J. Raúl Grigera Argentina 21 3.2k 0.8× 1.3k 0.3× 3.2k 1.9× 3.3k 2.6× 5.1k 4.0× 83 12.8k
Tjerk P. Straatsma United States 31 4.8k 1.2× 1.8k 0.5× 3.4k 2.1× 4.8k 3.7× 7.0k 5.5× 61 18.2k
J. G. E. M. Fraaije Netherlands 26 9.0k 2.3× 1.1k 0.3× 1.7k 1.1× 4.3k 3.3× 2.0k 1.6× 84 17.4k
George B. Benedek United States 72 8.5k 2.2× 1.5k 0.4× 1.7k 1.1× 3.9k 3.0× 2.4k 1.9× 188 18.6k
Carsten Kutzner Germany 17 8.4k 2.1× 1.2k 0.3× 2.1k 1.3× 3.1k 2.4× 2.4k 1.9× 37 15.6k
Leandro Martı́nez Brazil 24 2.5k 0.6× 781 0.2× 1.7k 1.1× 2.3k 1.8× 1.3k 1.0× 90 10.3k
Hsing Lee United States 7 10.3k 2.6× 1.6k 0.4× 2.3k 1.4× 3.5k 2.7× 3.6k 2.8× 8 19.2k
Ulrich Essmann United States 15 10.4k 2.7× 1.6k 0.4× 3.2k 2.0× 5.2k 4.0× 4.4k 3.5× 17 21.2k
L. Perera United States 43 12.5k 3.2× 2.0k 0.5× 2.5k 1.5× 3.8k 2.9× 5.2k 4.1× 141 24.3k
Henk Bekker Netherlands 11 9.0k 2.3× 1.1k 0.3× 1.5k 0.9× 2.5k 1.9× 1.9k 1.5× 20 15.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Simón‐Manso, Yamil, Tytus D. Mak, Meghan C. Burke, et al.. (2025). NIST Mass Spectral Libraries in the Context of the Circular Economy of Plastics. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 36(2). 439–445. 2 indexed citations
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Liang, Yuxue, et al.. (2024). Molecular Oxygen (O2) Artifacts in Tandem Mass Spectra. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 36(1). 85–90. 1 indexed citations
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Liang, Yuxue, Yamil Simón‐Manso, P. Neta, & Stephen E. Stein. (2022). Unexpected Gas-Phase Nitrogen–Oxygen Smiles Rearrangement: Collision-Induced Dissociation of Deprotonated 2-(N-Methylanilino)ethanol and Morpholinylbenzoic Acid Derivatives. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 33(11). 2120–2128. 2 indexed citations
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Liang, Yuxue, Yamil Simón‐Manso, P. Neta, Xiaoyu Yang, & Stephen E. Stein. (2021). CID Fragmentation of Deprotonated N-Acyl Aromatic Sulfonamides. Smiles-Type and Nitrogen–Oxygen Rearrangements. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 32(3). 806–814. 9 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiaoyu, P. Neta, Yuri A. Mirokhin, et al.. (2021). MS_Piano: A Software Tool for Annotating Peaks in CID Tandem Mass Spectra of Peptides and N-Glycopeptides. Journal of Proteome Research. 20(9). 4603–4609. 6 indexed citations
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Yan, Xinjian, Sanford P. Markey, Qian Dong, et al.. (2020). Mass Spectral Library of Acylcarnitines Derived from Human Urine. Analytical Chemistry. 92(9). 6521–6528. 20 indexed citations
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Simón‐Manso, Yamil, Xinjian Yan, Yuxue Liang, et al.. (2019). Mass Spectrometry Fingerprints of Small-Molecule Metabolites in Biofluids: Building a Spectral Library of Recurrent Spectra for Urine Analysis. Analytical Chemistry. 91(18). 12021–12029. 23 indexed citations
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Dong, Qian, Xinjian Yan, Lisa E. Kilpatrick, et al.. (2014). Tandem Mass Spectral Libraries of Peptides in Digests of Individual Proteins: Human Serum Albumin (HSA). Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 13(9). 2435–2449. 20 indexed citations
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Rudnick, Paul A., Xia Wang, Xinjian Yan, Nell Sedransk, & Stephen E. Stein. (2014). Improved Normalization of Systematic Biases Affecting Ion Current Measurements in Label-free Proteomics Data. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 13(5). 1341–1351. 19 indexed citations
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Yan, Xinjian, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Yuri A. Mirokhin, Stephen E. Stein, & Lisa E. Kilpatrick. (2012). Optimization of Tryptic Digestion Methods for LC-MS/MS Analysis of Chimeric Immunoglobulin G. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT. 23. 15–23. 2 indexed citations
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Lowenthal, Mark S., Melissa Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, et al.. (2012). Developing qualitative LC-MS methods for characterization of Vaccinium berry Standard Reference Materials. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 405(13). 4451–4465. 7 indexed citations
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Neta, P., et al.. (2010). Electrospray tandem quadrupole fragmentation of quinolone drugs and related ions. On the reversibility of water loss from protonated molecules. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 24(22). 3271–3278. 28 indexed citations
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Brunner, Erich, Nichole L. King, Eric W. Deutsch, et al.. (2009). The Drosophila melanogaster PeptideAtlas facilitates the use of peptide data for improved fly proteomics and genome annotation. BMC Bioinformatics. 10(1). 59–59. 39 indexed citations
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Зенкевич, И. Г., Valeri I. Babushok, Peter J. Linstrom, Edward White, & Stephen E. Stein. (2009). Application of histograms in evaluation of large collections of gas chromatographic retention indices. Journal of Chromatography A. 1216(38). 6651–6661. 27 indexed citations
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Babushok, Valeri I., Peter J. Linstrom, И. Г. Зенкевич, et al.. (2007). Development of a database of gas chromatographic retention properties of organic compounds. Journal of Chromatography A. 1157(1-2). 414–421. 181 indexed citations
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Frenkel, Michael, Vladimir Diky, Qian Dong, et al.. (2006). XML-Based IUPAC Standard for Experimental, Predicted, and Critically Evaluated Thermodynamic Property Data Storage and Capture (ThermoML) (IUPAC Recommendations 2006). Chemistry International. 28(3). 2 indexed citations
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Barker, Peter E., Paul D. Wagner, Stephen E. Stein, et al.. (2006). Standards for Plasma and Serum Protoemics in Early Cancer Detection: A Needs Assessment Report From the NIST-NCI SMART Workshop, August 18-19, 2005 | NIST. Clinical Chemistry. 52(9). 1 indexed citations
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Stein, Stephen E.. (1999). An Integrated Method for Spectrum Extraction and Compound Identification from GC/MS Data. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 10. 44 indexed citations
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Halket, John M., et al.. (1999). Deconvolution GC/MS of Urinary Organic Acids {?} Potential for Pattern Recognition and Automated Identification of Metabolic Disorders. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 2 indexed citations
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Stein, Stephen E., et al.. (1984). Disproportionation-recombination rate ratios for hydroaromatic radicals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 88(24). 5914–5919. 21 indexed citations

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