W. Curtis Johnson

244 total papers · 11.1k total citations
123 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

W. Curtis Johnson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Curtis Johnson has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Spectroscopy and 23 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in W. Curtis Johnson's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (36 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (30 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (26 papers). W. Curtis Johnson is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (36 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (30 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (26 papers). W. Curtis Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and Germany. W. Curtis Johnson's co-authors include Parthasarathy Manavalan, John P. Hennessey, Walter A. Baase, P Shing Ho, Cindy A. Sprecher, K. E. Van Holde, I Tinoco, Zhong Li, Arazdordi Toumadje and Richard G. Nelson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

W. Curtis Johnson

123 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Protein secondary structure and circular dichroism: A practical guide
    1990 804 citations W. Curtis Johnson Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics profile →
  2. Variable selection method improves the prediction of protein secondary structure from circular dichroism spectra
    1987 623 citations Parthasarathy Manavalan, W. Curtis Johnson Analytical Biochemistry profile →
  3. Analyzing protein circular dichroism spectra for accurate secondary structures
    1999 566 citations W. Curtis Johnson Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics profile →
  4. Information content in the circular dichroism of proteins
    1981 528 citations John P. Hennessey, W. Curtis Johnson Biochemistry profile →
  5. Analysis of protein circular dichroism spectra for secondary structure using a simple matrix multiplication
    1986 492 citations W. Curtis Johnson et al. Analytical Biochemistry profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
W. Curtis Johnson 6.3k 1.3k 1.3k 719 649 123 8.5k
Chun Wu 5.6k 0.9× 1.4k 1.1× 871 0.7× 555 0.8× 742 1.1× 114 7.9k
Xavier Daura 7.1k 1.1× 1.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.8× 949 1.3× 1.2k 1.9× 138 9.3k
Jing Huang 7.1k 1.1× 1.7k 1.3× 967 0.7× 752 1.0× 1.4k 2.1× 132 10.8k
Neville R. Kallenbach 9.4k 1.5× 1.9k 1.5× 1.7k 1.3× 924 1.3× 810 1.2× 191 11.2k
V. Sasisekharan 6.9k 1.1× 2.0k 1.5× 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.5× 407 0.6× 119 9.4k
J. Martin Scholtz 8.5k 1.4× 3.0k 2.3× 1.2k 0.9× 797 1.1× 677 1.0× 91 10.9k
James D. Lear 6.1k 1.0× 845 0.6× 686 0.5× 620 0.9× 328 0.5× 87 7.8k
Witold K. Surewicz 11.3k 1.8× 1.5k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 416 0.6× 505 0.8× 174 13.8k
Torbjörn Drakenberg 3.1k 0.5× 947 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 834 1.2× 480 0.7× 182 6.6k
Jen Tsi Yang 8.9k 1.4× 1.7k 1.3× 2.0k 1.5× 1.3k 1.8× 525 0.8× 127 12.4k

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