Waldo E. Cohn

8.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Waldo E. Cohn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Waldo E. Cohn has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Organic Chemistry and 7 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Waldo E. Cohn's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (8 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (7 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (6 papers). Waldo E. Cohn is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (8 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (7 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (6 papers). Waldo E. Cohn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Switzerland. Waldo E. Cohn's co-authors include Elliot Volkin, Joseph X. Khym, Kivie Moldave, Mayo Uziel, David G. Doherty, Ram P. Singhal, F.J. Bollum, A.M. Michelson, S. Y. Wang and Nelson J. Leonard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Waldo E. Cohn

45 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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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.

Procedures in Nucleic Acid Research.

1967 1.9k citations Waldo E. Cohn Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Estimation of Nucleic Acids

1954 387 citations Elliot Volkin, Waldo E. Cohn profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Waldo E. Cohn United States	24	3.6k	488	464	400	319	46	4.7k
Herbert A. Sober United States	35	3.6k 1.0×	335 0.7×	224 0.5×	382 1.0×	289 0.9×	72	5.7k
Donald T. Dubin United States	32	3.8k 1.0×	497 1.0×	370 0.8×	269 0.7×	288 0.9×	81	5.5k
F.K. Winkler Switzerland	18	2.5k 0.7×	385 0.8×	459 1.0×	453 1.1×	360 1.1×	32	4.1k
C.H.W. Hirs United States	31	4.1k 1.1×	408 0.8×	236 0.5×	398 1.0×	382 1.2×	65	6.5k
Pehr Edman Australia	24	3.1k 0.8×	627 1.3×	157 0.3×	325 0.8×	246 0.8×	45	4.9k
Arthur Weissbach United States	41	4.5k 1.2×	954 2.0×	561 1.2×	401 1.0×	1.1k 3.4×	121	6.3k
Ernest Borek United States	35	3.4k 0.9×	406 0.8×	217 0.5×	136 0.3×	111 0.3×	130	4.2k
Arthur M. Crestfield United States	18	3.0k 0.8×	356 0.7×	134 0.3×	284 0.7×	284 0.9×	21	4.3k
D. M. Brown United Kingdom	35	2.8k 0.8×	245 0.5×	242 0.5×	841 2.1×	198 0.6×	178	4.0k
David M. Bonner United States	19	3.6k 1.0×	1.2k 2.4×	477 1.0×	221 0.6×	333 1.0×	57	4.7k

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Cohn, Waldo E.. (1984). [1] Nomenclature and symbolism of α-amino acids. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 106. 3–17. 7 indexed citations

Cohn, Waldo E., Joseph S. Fruton, B.L. Horecker, et al.. (1975). Nomenclature of carotenoids (rules approved 1974). Pure and Applied Chemistry. 41(3). 405–431. 18 indexed citations

Braunstein, A, B.L. Horecker, B. Keil, et al.. (1973). IUPAC-IUB commission on biochemical nomenclature (CBN): nomenclature of iron-sulfur proteins, 1973 recommendations. Biochemical Journal. 135(1). 5–7. 7 indexed citations

Singhal, Ram P. & Waldo E. Cohn. (1972). Analytical separation of nucleosides by anion-exchange chromatography: Influence of pH, solvents, temperature, concentration, and flow rate. Analytical Biochemistry. 45(2). 585–599. 57 indexed citations

Cohn, Waldo E.. (1972). Abbreviations for Enzyme Names. Clinical Chemistry. 18(7). 740–740. 1 indexed citations

Uziel, Mayo, et al.. (1969). Isolation and characterization of a pyrimidine sulfenic acid via scission of the sulfur-sulfur bond in the methyl analog of bis(4-thiouridine) disulfide. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 91(13). 3634–3638. 39 indexed citations

Cohn, Waldo E.. (1968). Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. Vol. 31, The Genetic Code. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., 1966. xxii + 762 pp., illus. $15. Science. 160(3824). 178–178. 1 indexed citations

Fruton, Joseph S., W. Klyne, Vincent du Vigneaud, et al.. (1967). IUPAC-IUB Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature. Rules for naming synthetic modifications of natural peptides. Tentative rules. Biochemical Journal. 104(1). 17–19. 15 indexed citations

Cohn, Waldo E.. (1967). Procedures in Nucleic Acid Research.. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 89(9). 2242–2242. 1870 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cohn, Waldo E.. (1967). The Organization and Functioning of Biochemical Nomenclature. Journal of Chemical Documentation. 7(2). 72–73.

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Michelson, A.M. & Waldo E. Cohn. (1962). Cyclo-pseudouridine and the Configuration of Pseudouridine. Biochemistry. 1(3). 490–495. 36 indexed citations

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Cohn, Waldo E.. (1960). Pseudouridine, a Carbon-Carbon Linked Ribonucleoside in Ribonucleic Acids: Isolation, Structure, and Chemical Characteristics. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 235(5). 1488–1498. 317 indexed citations

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Cohn, Waldo E. & Elliot Volkin. (1957). Acid degradation products of deoxyribonucleic acid. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 24(2). 359–364. 25 indexed citations

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Cohn, Waldo E. & David G. Doherty. (1956). The Catalytic Hydrogenation of Pyrimidine Nucleosides and Nucleotides and the Isolation of their Ribose and Respective Ribose Phosphates^1,2. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 78(12). 2863–2866. 95 indexed citations

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Khym, Joseph X. & Waldo E. Cohn. (1954). The ion-exchange separation of the 5′ ribonucleotides and deoxyribonucleotides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 15(1). 139–139. 15 indexed citations

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Volkin, Elliot & Waldo E. Cohn. (1953). ON THE STRUCTURE OF RIBONUCLEIC ACIDS. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 205(2). 767–782. 131 indexed citations

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Cohn, Waldo E.. (1953). THE SEPARATION OF BIOCHEMICALLY IMPORTANT SUBSTANCES BY ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 57(3). 204–224. 12 indexed citations

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Cohn, Waldo E. & Elliot Volkin. (1952). Mononucleotides from ribonucleic acid by phosphodiesterase action; the isolation of pyrimidine diphosphates. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 35(2). 465–467. 12 indexed citations

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Cohn, Waldo E.. (1951). Some results of the applications of ion-exchange chromatography to nucleic acid chemistry. Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology. 38(S1). 21–40. 81 indexed citations

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Cohn, Waldo E.. (1951). The Isolation and Identification of Desoxy-5-methylcytidylic Acid from Thymus Nucleic Acid¹. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 73(4). 1539–1541. 19 indexed citations

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