Tikvah Alper

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
95 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Tikvah Alper is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Tikvah Alper has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 31 papers in Molecular Biology and 31 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Tikvah Alper's work include Effects of Radiation Exposure (30 papers), Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (29 papers) and Radiation Effects and Dosimetry (19 papers). Tikvah Alper is often cited by papers focused on Effects of Radiation Exposure (30 papers), Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (29 papers) and Radiation Effects and Dosimetry (19 papers). Tikvah Alper collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Tikvah Alper's co-authors include D.A. Haig, Martin Clarke, Paul Howard-Flanders, N. E. Gillies, W.A. Cramp, Colin Seymour, Carmel Mothersill, Shirley Hornsey, M. C. Pike and M. M. Elkind and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tikvah Alper

93 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Does the Agent of Scrapie Replicate without Nucleic Acid ? 1956 2026 1979 2002 1967 1956 100 200 300 400
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. Does the Agent of Scrapie Replicate without Nucleic Acid ?
    1967 460 citations Tikvah Alper, W.A. Cramp et al. Nature profile →
  2. Role of Oxygen in Modifying the Radiosensitivity of E. Coli B.
    1956 313 citations Tikvah Alper et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Tikvah Alper
Alan D. Conger United States
Walter L. Hughes United States
Ross B. Mikkelsen United States
C.F. Arlett United Kingdom
O. Sapora Italy
Matthews O. Bradley United States
James E. Cleaver United States
V. Marchesi France
Gloria C. Li United States
Shin‐ichi Ishii Japan
Alan D. Conger United States
Tikvah Alper
Citations per year, relative to Tikvah Alper Tikvah Alper (= 1×) peers Alan D. Conger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tikvah Alper

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tikvah Alper

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tikvah Alper. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tikvah Alper 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 Tikvah Alper. Tikvah Alper 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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Alper, Tikvah. (1992). The infectivity of spongiform encephalopathies: does a modified membrane hypothesis account for lack of immune response?. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 89(5). 235–242. 3 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah. (1992). New insight into the nature of scrapie from old radiation results.. PubMed. 24. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah & W.A. Cramp. (1989). The role of repair in radiobiology. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 45(1). 21–33. 17 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah, Carmel Mothersill, & Colin Seymour. (1988). Lethal Mutations Attributable to Misrepair of Q-lesions. International Journal of Radiation Biology. 54(4). 525–530. 27 indexed citations
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Seymour, Colin, Carmel Mothersill, & Tikvah Alper. (1986). High Yields of Lethal Mutations in Somatic Mammalian Cells that Survive Ionizing Radiation. International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics Chemistry and Medicine. 50(1). 167–179. 241 indexed citations
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Gillies, N. E., et al.. (1984). Constants of the Alper and Howard-Flanders Oxygen Equation for Damage to Bacterial Membrane, Deduced from Observations on the Radiation-induced Penicillin-sensitive Lesion. International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics Chemistry and Medicine. 45(5). 427–437. 12 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah. (1984). Adding Two Components of Radiosensitization by Oxygen. International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics Chemistry and Medicine. 46(5). 569–585. 10 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah. (1984). Implications of repair models for LET effects and other radiobiological phenomena.. PubMed. 6. 137–43. 9 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah & Mark Friedman. (1974). Radiosensitivity in submicroscopic organisms. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah. (1973). THE RELEVANCE OF EXPERIMENTAL RADIOBIOLOGY TO RADIOTHERAPY: Present Limitations and Future Possibilities. British Medical Bulletin. 29(1). 3–6. 13 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah, et al.. (1972). Protection of Normal, Lysogenic, and Pyocinogenic Strains Against Ultraviolet Radiation by Bound Acriflavine. Journal of Bacteriology. 110(3). 823–830. 12 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah. (1972). The nature of the scrapie agent. Journal of Clinical Pathology. s3-6(1). 154–155. 1 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah, et al.. (1969). “Excision repair” and dose-modification: Questions raised by radiobiological experiments with acriflavine. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 8(1). 15–23. 26 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah & D.A. Haig. (1968). Protection by Anoxia of the Scrapie Agent and some DNA and RNA Viruses Irradiated as Dry Preparations. Journal of General Virology. 3(2). 157–166. 19 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah. (1967). A characteristics of the lethal effect of ionizing radiation on “Hcr−” bacterial strains. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 4(1). 15–20. 22 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah & N. E. Gillies. (1958). Dependence of the Observed Oxygen Effect on the Post-Irradiation Treatment of Micro-Organisms. Nature. 181(4614). 961–963. 17 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah. (1955). Bacteriophage as Indicator in Radiation Chemistry. Radiation Research. 2(2). 119–119. 33 indexed citations
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Alper, Tikvah. (1953). Effects of Commercial and Radiation-produced Hydrogen Peroxide. Nature. 172(4386). 957–958. 6 indexed citations
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Stein, Lina, Tikvah Alper, & Endre Anderssen. (1952). The movement of a radio‐phosphorus‐labelled insecticide in groundnut plants. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 3(1). 31–37. 1 indexed citations
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Th, Bothwell & Tikvah Alper. (1951). The cardiac complications of haemochromatosis; report of a case with a review of the literature.. PubMed. 2(3). 226–38. 4 indexed citations

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