Walter Harm

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Walter Harm is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Harm has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Walter Harm's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (19 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (13 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (13 papers). Walter Harm is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (19 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (13 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (13 papers). Walter Harm collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Austria. Walter Harm's co-authors include Claud S. Rupert, Monika Ritsch‐Marte, Stefan Bernet, Hanns‐Christoph Nägerl, Martin Berninger, Rudolf Grimm, Francesca Ferlaino, Helga Harm, Alexander Jesacher and Bo Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Virology and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

In The Last Decade

Walter Harm

67 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Biological effects of ultraviolet radiation

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter Harm United States	26	1.1k	579	508	336	286	69	2.4k
E.F.J. Van Bruggen Netherlands	37	2.5k 2.2×	131 0.2×	658 1.3×	322 1.0×	305 1.1×	111	3.8k
Clarence E. Schutt United States	32	1.7k 1.5×	299 0.5×	549 1.1×	359 1.1×	419 1.5×	72	3.4k
A.A. Katsanos Greece	15	777 0.7×	157 0.3×	164 0.3×	329 1.0×	209 0.7×	41	2.0k
Andrew J. Fisher United States	32	2.5k 2.2×	193 0.3×	338 0.7×	177 0.5×	544 1.9×	120	4.8k
Shigeki Mitaku Japan	26	2.5k 2.2×	274 0.5×	220 0.4×	311 0.9×	350 1.2×	110	3.8k
R. Leberman France	30	3.0k 2.6×	259 0.4×	451 0.9×	669 2.0×	436 1.5×	89	4.2k
Steven B. Zimmerman United States	39	5.5k 4.9×	273 0.5×	977 1.9×	1.1k 3.2×	209 0.7×	81	6.8k
Alfonso Mondragón United States	37	3.4k 3.0×	331 0.6×	336 0.7×	566 1.7×	238 0.8×	92	4.8k
W. Hoppe Germany	31	1.1k 1.0×	347 0.6×	135 0.3×	141 0.4×	124 0.4×	151	3.2k
Torsten Herrmann Switzerland	35	3.1k 2.7×	319 0.6×	301 0.6×	505 1.5×	146 0.5×	89	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Harm

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Bernet, Stefan, Walter Harm, & Monika Ritsch‐Marte. (2013). Demonstration of focus-tunable diffractive Moiré-lenses. Optics Express. 21(6). 6955–6955. 78 indexed citations

Harm, Walter. (1979). Analysis of photoenzymatic repair of UV lesions in DNA by single light flashes XII. Evidence for enhanced photolysis of enzyme—substrate complexes by a 2-photon reaction. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 60(2). 121–133. 6 indexed citations

Harm, Walter. (1979). Relative effectiveness of the 300–320 nm spectral region of sunlight for the production of primary lethal damage in E. coli cells. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 60(3). 263–270. 8 indexed citations

Harm, Walter. (1978). Evidence for photoenzymatically repairable, lethal “non-dimer” photoproducts, formed in E. coli cells by 365-nm radiation or by sunlight > 360 nm. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 51(3). 301–310. 10 indexed citations

Harm, Walter, et al.. (1976). On the lack of host-cell reactivation of UV-irradiated phage T5. I. Interference of T5 infection with the host-cell reactivation of phage T1. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 36(2). 121–134. 7 indexed citations

Harm, Walter. (1976). Analysis of photoenzymatic repair of UV lesions in DNA by single light flashes. X. Stability of the photoreactivating enzyme in resting Escherichia coli cells. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 34(1). 69–74. 6 indexed citations

Harm, Walter, et al.. (1976). On the lack of host-cell reactivation of UV-irradiated phage T5 II. Further characterization of the repair inhibition exerted by T5 infection. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 36(2). 135–146. 2 indexed citations

Harm, Walter. (1974). Recovery of phage T4 from nitrous acid damage. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 24(2). 205–209. 7 indexed citations

Harm, Walter. (1974). Dark recovery of UV-irradiated phage T1 III. Evidence for two modes of host cell repair from liquid- holding experiments. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 25(1). 15–24. 2 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter. (1974). Dark recovery of UV-irradiated phage Tr II. Interpretation of the survival kinetics obtained under conditions of host-cell reactivation. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 25(1). 3–14. 7 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter. (1973). Dark recovery of UV-irradiated phage T1 I. A minor recovery effect whose exclusion permits the study of survival kinetics under presumably repairless conditions. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 20(3). 301–311. 3 indexed citations

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Nishioka, H. & Walter Harm. (1972). Analysis of photoenzymatic repair of UV lesions in DNA by single light flashes IX. Excess production of photoreactivating enzyme inE. Coli Bs-1-160 under different growth conditions, and its suppression by adenine. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 16(2). 121–131. 25 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter. (1970). Analysis of photoenzymatic repair of UV lesions in DNA by single light flashes VIII. Inhibition of photoenzymatic repair of UV lesions in E. coli DNA by caffeine. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 10(4). 319–333. 40 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter. (1970). Analysis of photoenzymatic repair of UV lesions in DNA by single light flashes V. Determination of the reaction-rate constants in E. coli cells. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 10(4). 277–290. 44 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter. (1969). Analysis of photoenzymatic repair of UV lesions in DNA by single flashes IV. Mutations affecting the number of photoreactivating enzyme molecules in E. coli cells. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 8(2). 411–415. 23 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter. (1968). Dark repair of photorepairable uv lesions in escherichia coli. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 6(1). 25–35. 45 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter, Helga Harm, & Claud S. Rupert. (1968). Analysis of photoenzymatic repair of UV lesions in DNA by single light flashes. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 6(3). 371–385. 86 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter. (1968). Recovery of UV-inactivated E. coli cells by the v-gene action of phage T4. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 6(1). 175–179. 27 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter. (1967). Differential effects of acriflavine and caffeine on various ultraviolet-irradiated Escherichia coli strains and T1 phage. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 4(2). 93–110. 83 indexed citations

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Harm, Walter. (1964). On the control of UV-sensitivity of phage T4 by the gene x. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 1(4). 344–354. 47 indexed citations

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