Temple F. Smith

25.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
152 papers, 16.6k citations indexed

About

Temple F. Smith is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Temple F. Smith has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 16.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Genetics and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Temple F. Smith's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (36 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers). Temple F. Smith is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (36 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers). Temple F. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and China. Temple F. Smith's co-authors include Michael S. Waterman, Eva J. Neer, Carl J. Schmidt, Chrysanthe Gaitatzes, Raman Nambudripad, Kumkum Saxena, Randall F. Smith, W. A. Beyer, Roderic Guigó and Hyman Hartman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Temple F. Smith

149 papers receiving 15.8k citations

Hit Papers

Identification of common molecular subsequences 1981 2026 1996 2011 1981 1994 1999 1981 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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.

  1. Identification of common molecular subsequences
    1981 6.4k citations Temple F. Smith, Michael S. Waterman Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
  2. The ancient regulatory-protein family of WD-repeat proteins
    1994 1.3k citations Eva J. Neer, Temple F. Smith et al. profile →
  3. The WD repeat: a common architecture for diverse functions
    1999 1.0k citations Temple F. Smith, Eva J. Neer et al. profile →
  4. Comparison of biosequences
    1981 519 citations Temple F. Smith, Michael S. Waterman Advances in Applied Mathematics profile →

Peers

Temple F. Smith
Bonnie Berger United States
William R. Pearson United States
Alfonso Valencia Spain
Ole Winther Denmark
Wing Hung Wong United States
Xiaohui Xie United States
Uri Alon Israel
Michael S. Waterman United States
Cédric Notredame Spain
Gavin E. Crooks United States
Bonnie Berger United States
Temple F. Smith
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Countries citing papers authored by Temple F. Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Temple F. Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Temple F. Smith

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Temple F. Smith. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Temple F. Smith based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Temple F. Smith. Temple F. Smith is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smith, Temple F. & Hyman Hartman. (2015). The evolution of Class II Aminoacyl‐tRNA synthetases and the first code. FEBS Letters. 589(23). 3499–3507. 54 indexed citations
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Smith, Temple F., Jungchul Lee, Robin R. Gutell, & Hyman Hartman. (2008). The origin and evolution of the ribosome. Biology Direct. 3(1). 16–16. 63 indexed citations
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Bhutkar, Arjun, Susan Russo, Temple F. Smith, & William M. Gelbart. (2007). Genome-scale analysis of positionally relocated genes. Genome Research. 17(12). 1880–1887. 39 indexed citations
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Wang, Kevin, Gabriel S. Eichler, Maisa O. Al‐Sebaei, et al.. (2006). Analysis of fracture healing by large-scale transcriptional profile identified temporal relationships between metalloproteinase and ADAMTS mRNA expression. Matrix Biology. 25(5). 271–281. 45 indexed citations
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Berg, Eric A., et al.. (2005). Identification of surface‐exposed components of MOMP of Chlamydia trachomatis serovar F. Protein Science. 15(1). 122–134. 40 indexed citations
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Cline, Melissa, et al.. (2002). Information‐theoretic dissection of pairwise contact potentials. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 49(1). 7–14. 44 indexed citations
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Smith, Temple F., et al.. (2000). Identifying nature's protein lego set. Advances in protein chemistry. 54. 159–183. 24 indexed citations
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Biénkowska, Jadwiga, et al.. (1999). Filtered neighbors threading. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 37(3). 346–359. 5 indexed citations
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Graber, Joel H., C R Cantor, Scott C. Mohr, & Temple F. Smith. (1999). Genomic detection of new yeast pre-mRNA 3'-end-processing signals. Nucleic Acids Research. 27(3). 888–894. 111 indexed citations
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Smith, Temple F. & Xiaolin Zhang. (1997). The challenges of genome sequence annotation or “The devil is in the details”. Nature Biotechnology. 15(12). 1222–1223. 41 indexed citations
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Neer, Eva J. & Temple F. Smith. (1996). G Protein Heterodimers: New Structures Propel New Questions. Cell. 84(2). 175–178. 183 indexed citations
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Adams, Rhys, et al.. (1996). Multiple domain protein diagnostic patterns. Protein Science. 5(7). 1240–1249. 15 indexed citations
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Mirkin, Boris, Ilya Muchnik, & Temple F. Smith. (1995). A Biologically Meaningful Model for Comparing Molecular Phylogenies. Nanotechnology. 21(34). 345702–345702. 4 indexed citations
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Lathrop, Richard H. & Temple F. Smith. (1994). A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Optimal Protein Threading with Pairwise (Contact Potential) Amino Acid Interactions. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 365–374. 8 indexed citations
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Lathrop, Richard H., Teresa Webster, Randall F. Smith, Patrick Henry Winston, & Temple F. Smith. (1993). Integrating AI with sequence analysis. 210–258. 6 indexed citations
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Guigó, Roderic, et al.. (1991). Automatic evaluation of protein sequence functional patterns. Computer applications in the biosciences. 7(3). 309–315. 8 indexed citations
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Gonzalez, Iris L., James E. Sylvester, Temple F. Smith, Dwight Stambolian, & Roy D. Schmickel. (1990). Ribosomal RNA gene sequences and hominoid phylogeny.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 7(3). 203–19. 110 indexed citations
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Waterman, Michael S. & Temple F. Smith. (1986). Rapid dynamic programming algorithms for RNA secondary structure. Advances in Applied Mathematics. 7(4). 455–464. 63 indexed citations
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Smith, Temple F. & Michael S. Waterman. (1981). Identification of common molecular subsequences. Journal of Molecular Biology. 147(1). 195–197. 6401 indexed citations breakdown →
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Waterman, Michael S., Temple F. Smith, & W. A. Beyer. (1976). Some biological sequence metrics. Advances in Mathematics. 20(3). 367–387. 253 indexed citations

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