W. W. Webb

18.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
128 papers, 14.5k citations indexed

About

W. W. Webb is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, W. W. Webb has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 14.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in W. W. Webb's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (26 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (18 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (17 papers). W. W. Webb is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (26 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (18 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (17 papers). W. W. Webb collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Belgium. W. W. Webb's co-authors include Elliot Elson, Joseph Schlessinger, D E Koppel, Daniel Axelrod, Douglas Magde, W. A. Fietz, E L Elson, Warren R. Zipfel, M. R. Beasley and Rebecca M. Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

W. W. Webb

126 papers receiving 13.5k 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.

Mobility measurement by analysis of fluorescence photobleaching recovery kinetics

1976 2.2k citations W. W. Webb et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
Thermodynamic Fluctuations in a Reacting System—Measurement by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

1972 1.3k citations W. W. Webb et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Zero-Mode Waveguides for Single-Molecule Analysis at High Concentrations

2003 978 citations H. G. Craighead, W. W. Webb et al. profile →
Multiphoton fluorescence excitation: new spectral windows for biological nonlinear microscopy.

1996 929 citations Chris Xu, Warren R. Zipfel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Flux Creep in Type-II Superconductors

1969 592 citations W. W. Webb et al. profile →
Hysteresis in Superconducting Alloys—Temperature and Field Dependence of Dislocation Pinning in Niobium Alloys

1969 438 citations W. W. Webb et al. profile →
Dynamics of fluorescence marker concentration as a probe of mobility

1976 401 citations W. W. Webb et al. Biophysical Journal profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. W. Webb

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W. W. Webb. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W. W. Webb 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 W. W. Webb. W. W. Webb is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Interplay between desolvation and secondary structure in mediating cosolvent and temperature induced alpha-synuclein aggregation 2012 ·Physical Biology ·(unknown), W. W. Webb, David Eliezer	14
2	Multi-photon microscopy of deep tissue with gradient index lenses 2003 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·(unknown), Daniel A. Dombeck, Raymond Molloy, Karl A. Kasischke, W. W. Webb	2
3	Creating Biological Membranes on the Micron Scale: Forming Patterned Lipid Bilayers Using a Polymer Lift-Off Technique 2003 ·Biophysical Journal ·Reid N. Orth, Jun Kameoka, Warren R. Zipfel, B. Ilic, W. W. Webb, Theodore G. Clark, H. G. Craighead	73
4	Conductivity noise in transmembrane ion channels due to ion concentration fluctuations via diffusion 1997 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown), W. W. Webb	9
5	Multiphoton fluorescence excitation: new spectral windows for biological nonlinear microscopy. breakdown → 1996 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Chris Xu, Warren R. Zipfel, Jason B. Shear, Rebecca M. Williams, W. W. Webb	929
6	Molecular dynamics of alamethicin transmembrane channels from open-channel current noise analysis 1995 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown), W. W. Webb	9
7	Three‐dimensionally resolved NAD(P)H cellular metabolic redox imaging of the in situ cornea with two‐photon excitation laser scanning microscopy 1995 ·Journal of Microscopy ·David W. Piston, Barry R. Masters, W. W. Webb	205
8	Transduction of membrane tension by the ion channel alamethicin 1994 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown), W. W. Webb	79
9	Automated detection and tracking of individual and clustered cell surface low density lipoprotein receptor molecules 1994 ·Biophysical Journal ·Rahul Ghosh, W. W. Webb	245
10	Lipid-glass adhesion in giga-sealed patch-clamped membranes 1994 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown), W. W. Webb	70
11	Effects of protein concentration on IgE receptor mobility in rat basophilic leukemia cell plasma membranes 1992 ·Biophysical Journal ·James L. Thomas, (unknown), W. W. Webb	24
12	Imaging [Ca2+]i dynamics during signal transduction 1990 ·Cell Calcium ·Timothy A. Ryan, Paul J. Millard, W. W. Webb	25
13	Synthesis, photochemistry, and biological activity of a caged photolabile acetylcholine receptor ligand 1989 ·Biochemistry ·Thomas W. Milburn, Naoko Matsubara, Andrew P. Billington, Jayant B. Udgaonkar, Jeffery W. Walker, Barry K. Carpenter, W. W. Webb, J. Marque, Winfried Denk	138
14	Mechanical properties of sensory hair bundles are reflected in their Brownian motion measured with a laser differential interferometer. 1989 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Winfried Denk, W. W. Webb, A. J. Hudspeth	72
15	Coupling of ATP synthesis to reversal of rat liver microsomal calcium-ATPase 1985 ·Biochemistry ·W. W. Webb, M. W. Anders	9
16	Lateral diffusion of gramicidin C in phospholipid multibilayers containing 0-50 mole% cholesterol 1981 ·Biophysical Journal ·David W. Tank, E. S. Wu, Paul Meers, W. W. Webb	1
17	Enhanced mobility of acetylcholine receptor and membrane probes in muscle membrane blebs 1981 ·Biophysical Journal ·David W. Tank, E. S. Wu, W. W. Webb	4
18	Fluorescence staining of the actin cytoskeleton in living cells with 7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazole-phallacidin. 1980 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lawrence S Barak, R. Rogers Yocum, Eugene A. Nothnagel, W. W. Webb	406
19	Mechanisms Determining the Critical Current in Hard Superconductors 1971 ·Journal of Applied Physics ·W. W. Webb	22
20	Intrinsic Quantum Fluctuations in Uniform Filamentary Superconductors 1968 ·Physical Review Letters ·W. W. Webb, Richard J. Warburton	105

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