W Gilbert

17.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
55 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

W Gilbert is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, W Gilbert has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in W Gilbert's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (7 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers). W Gilbert is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (7 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers). W Gilbert collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Switzerland. W Gilbert's co-authors include George M. Church, Ulrich Siebenlist, Benno Müller‐Hill, David Dressler, Allan M. Maxam, Karen Talmadge, Mark Ptashne, Keith Backman, Richard Tizard and Manyuan Long and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

W Gilbert

54 papers receiving 14.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Genomic sequencing.

1984 7.8k citations W Gilbert et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The RNA world

1986 1.6k citations W Gilbert Nature profile →
Contacts between Escherichia coli RNA polymerase and an early promoter of phage T7.

1980 488 citations Ulrich Siebenlist, W Gilbert Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
A bacterial clone synthesizing proinsulin.

1978 410 citations Lydia Villa‐Komaroff, Argiris Efstratiadis et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Sequence of a mouse germ-line gene for a variable region of an immunoglobulin light chain.

1978 332 citations Allan M. Maxam, Richard Tizard et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W Gilbert United States	36	11.3k	3.3k	2.6k	1.4k	1.1k	55	15.3k
Howard M. Goodman United States	70	13.4k 1.2×	3.7k 1.1×	4.9k 1.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	155	19.8k
Rodger Staden United Kingdom	37	13.4k 1.2×	4.4k 1.4×	2.2k 0.9×	2.2k 1.6×	811 0.7×	59	18.9k
Roy J. Britten United States	68	14.1k 1.2×	4.3k 1.3×	4.5k 1.7×	1.8k 1.3×	853 0.8×	200	19.3k
Carl R. Merril United States	44	7.3k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	2.4k 1.8×	903 0.8×	153	12.7k
Francis Galibert France	57	8.1k 0.7×	3.9k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	966 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	259	14.1k
Jack Kyte United States	19	15.6k 1.4×	2.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	34	21.8k
John W.B. Hershey United States	72	16.3k 1.4×	2.2k 0.7×	949 0.4×	867 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	215	18.6k
Carl O. Pabo United States	61	19.4k 1.7×	5.1k 1.6×	1.7k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	89	22.1k
B.A. Roe United States	32	11.4k 1.0×	3.7k 1.1×	948 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	723 0.6×	72	15.3k
John J. Dunn United States	43	10.8k 1.0×	4.7k 1.4×	1.3k 0.5×	3.0k 2.2×	959 0.8×	98	15.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W Gilbert

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All Works

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Gilbert, W. (2024). Recent developments, opportunities, and challenges in the study of mRNA pseudouridylation. RNA. 30(5). 530–536. 7 indexed citations

Lam, Wan L., et al.. (1996). Active transposition in zebrafish.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 93(20). 10870–10875. 45 indexed citations

Landweber, Laura F., et al.. (1993). The boundaries of partially edited transcripts are not conserved in kinetoplastids: implications for the guide RNA model of editing.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 90(20). 9242–9246. 9 indexed citations

Villa‐Komaroff, Lydia, Argiris Efstratiadis, S Broome, et al.. (1992). A bacterial clone synthesizing proinsulin. 1978.. PubMed. 24. 316–20.

Bursztajn, Sherry, Stephen Berman, & W Gilbert. (1990). Factors released by ciliary neurons and spinal cord explants induce acetylcholine receptor mRNA expression in cultured muscle cells. Journal of Neurobiology. 21(3). 387–399. 7 indexed citations

Ohara, Osamu, Robert L. Dorit, & W Gilbert. (1989). Direct genomic sequencing of bacterial DNA: the pyruvate kinase I gene of Escherichia coli.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 86(18). 6883–6887. 29 indexed citations

Gilbert, W. (1987). The Exon Theory of Genes. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 901–905. 325 indexed citations

Raines, Ronald T., et al.. (1986). The kinetic consequences of altering the catalytic residues of triosephosphate isomerase. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 317(1540). 371–380. 2 indexed citations

Gilbert, W. (1986). The RNA world. Nature. 319. 618–618. 1591 indexed citations breakdown →

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Straus, Daniel A., Ronald T. Raines, Eric Kawashima, Jeremy R. Knowles, & W Gilbert. (1985). Active site of triosephosphate isomerase: in vitro mutagenesis and characterization of an altered enzyme.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 82(8). 2272–2276. 80 indexed citations

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Gilbert, W, et al.. (1984). Antibodies of the secondary response can be expressed without switch recombination in normal mouse B cells.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 81(22). 7189–7193. 76 indexed citations

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Herr, Winship & W Gilbert. (1984). Free and integrated recombinant murine leukemia virus DNAs appear in preleukemic thymuses of AKR/J mice. Journal of Virology. 50(1). 155–162. 27 indexed citations

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Herr, Winship & W Gilbert. (1983). Somatically acquired recombinant murine leukemia proviruses in thymic leukemias of AKR/J mice. Journal of Virology. 46(1). 70–82. 99 indexed citations

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Herr, Winship, et al.. (1983). Monoclonal AKR/J thymic leukemias contain multiple JH immunoglobulin gene rearrangements.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 80(24). 7433–7436. 30 indexed citations

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Siebenlist, Ulrich & W Gilbert. (1980). Contacts between Escherichia coli RNA polymerase and an early promoter of phage T7.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 77(1). 122–126. 488 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gilbert, W, Nancy Maizels, & Allan M. Maxam. (1974). Sequences of Controlling Regions of the Lactose Operon. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 38(0). 845–855. 60 indexed citations

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Gilbert, W & David Dressler. (1968). DNA Replication: The Rolling Circle Model. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 33(0). 473–484. 335 indexed citations

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Müller‐Hill, Benno, et al.. (1968). Mutants that make more lac repressor.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 59(4). 1259–1264. 306 indexed citations

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Gilbert, W & Benno Müller‐Hill. (1967). The lac operator is DNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 58(6). 2415–2421. 223 indexed citations

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Salam, Abdus & W Gilbert. (1956). On generalised dispersion relations II. Il Nuovo Cimento. 3(3). 607–611. 7 indexed citations

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