Watt W. Webb

51.8k citations

176 papers · 40.5k indexed · 19 hit papers · h-index 77

Impact in

Biophysics top 0.01%
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Structural Biology top 0.1%

Papers in

Biophysics 86
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques 86
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 38
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research 22

Co-authors: James H. Strickler Winfried Denk Warren R. Zipfel Rebecca M. Williams Chris Xu Daniel R. Larson Samuel T. Hess Ahmed A. Heikal
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (18 papers)Biophysical Journal (13 papers)Physical Review Letters (7 papers)Science (6 papers)Optics Letters (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Poland

In The Last Decade

Watt W. Webb

176 papers receiving 39.5k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Large-scale fluid/fluid phase separation of proteins and lipids in giant plasma membrane vesicles 2007 · 650 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2007 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2004 Science
2004 Biophysical Journal
2004 Nano Letters
2003 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2003 Science
2003 Nature
2003 Nature Biotechnology
2002 Biophysical Journal
2002 Biophysical Journal
2001 Biochemistry
1999 Biophysical Journal
1999 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1998 Science
1998 Applied Optics
1996 Journal of the Optical Society of America B
1991 Optics Letters
1990 Science
1974 Biopolymers

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Watt W. Webb, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Ionic strength-dependent persistence lengths of single-stranded RNA and DNA Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Huimin Chen, Steve P. Meisburger, Suzette A. Pabit, Julie L. Sutton, Watt W. Webb, Lois Pollack	2011	309
2	Multiphoton microscopy for structure identification in human prostate and periprostatic tissue: implications in prostate cancer surgery British Journal of Urology ·Ashutosh Tewari, Maria M. Shevchuk, Joshua Sterling, Sonal Grover, Michael V. Herman, Rajiv Yadav, Kumaran Mudalair, Abhishek Srivastava, Mark A. Rubin, Warren R. Zipfel, Frederick R. Maxfield, Chris Xu, Watt W. Webb, Sushmita Mukherjee	2011	49
3	Transmission electron microscopy characterization of fluorescently labelled amyloid β 1-40 and α-synuclein aggregates BMC Biotechnology ·Valerie Lynn Anderson, Watt W. Webb	2011	50
4	Quenching of Alexa Dyes by Amino Acids Biophysical Journal ·Syed Saad Ahsan, Huimin Chen, M. Santiago-Berrios, Héctor D. Abruña, Watt W. Webb	2010	1
5	GUV preparation and imaging: Minimizing artifacts Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes ·Nelson F. Morales-Penningston, Jing Wu, Elaine R. Farkas, Shih Lin Goh, Tatyana M. Konyakhina, Judy Y. Zheng, Watt W. Webb, Gerald W. Feigenson	2010	161
6	Electrophysiological Characterization of V2a Interneurons and Their Locomotor-Related Activity in the Neonatal Mouse Spinal Cord Journal of Neuroscience ·Guisheng Zhong, Steven Droho, Steven A. Crone, Shelby B. Dietz, Alex C. Kwan, Watt W. Webb, Kamal Sharma, Ronald M. Harris‐Warrick	2010	113
7	Multiphoton Microscopy of Prostate and Periprostatic Neural Tissue: A Promising Imaging Technique for Improving Nerve-Sparing Prostatectomy Journal of Endourology ·Rajiv Yadav, Sushmita Mukherjee, Michael Hermen, Gerald Tan, Frederick R. Maxfield, Watt W. Webb, Ashutosh Tewari	2009	43
8	Large-scale fluid/fluid phase separation of proteins and lipids in giant plasma membrane vesicles Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Tobias Baumgart, Adam T. Hammond, Prabuddha Sengupta, Samuel T. Hess, David A. Holowka, Barbara Baird, Watt W. Webb Hit paper breakdown →	2007	650
9	P-TEFb Is Critical for the Maturation of RNA Polymerase II into Productive Elongation In Vivo Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Zhuoyu Ni, Abbie Saunders, Nicholas J. Fuda, Jie Yao, José-Ramón Suárez, Watt W. Webb, John T. Lis	2007	124
10	Serotonin Modulates Dendritic Calcium Influx in Commissural Interneurons in the Mouse Spinal Locomotor Network Journal of Neurophysiology ·Manuel Díaz‐Ríos, Daniel A. Dombeck, Watt W. Webb, Ronald M. Harris‐Warrick	2007	32
11	Intranuclear Distribution and Local Dynamics of RNA Polymerase II during Transcription Activation Molecular Cell ·Jie Yao, M. Behfar Ardehali, Christopher J. Fecko, Watt W. Webb, John T. Lis	2007	88
12	Heterogeneous Effects of Dopamine on Highly Localized, Voltage-Induced Ca²⁺ Accumulation in Identified Motoneurons Journal of Neurophysiology ·Peter Kloppenburg, Warren R. Zipfel, Watt W. Webb, Ronald M. Harris‐Warrick	2007	15
13	Visualization of retrovirus budding with correlated light and electron microscopy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Daniel R. Larson, Marc C. Johnson, Watt W. Webb, Volker M. Vogt	2005	102
14	Detection of motional heterogeneities in lipid bilayer membranes by dual probe fluorescence correlation spectroscopy Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes ·Jonas Korlach, Tobias Baumgart, Watt W. Webb, Gerald W. Feigenson	2005	35
15	Nonlinear magic: multiphoton microscopy in the biosciences Nature Biotechnology ·Warren R. Zipfel, Rebecca M. Williams, Watt W. Webb Hit paper breakdown →	2003	2968
16	Two-Photon Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy of NAD(P)H and Flavoprotein Biophysical Journal ·Shao Hui Huang, Ahmed A. Heikal, Watt W. Webb Hit paper breakdown →	2002	595
17	Molecular Dynamics in Living Cells Observed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy with One- and Two-Photon Excitation Biophysical Journal ·Petra Schwille, Ulrich Haupts, Sudipta Maiti, Watt W. Webb Hit paper breakdown →	1999	539
18	Redistribution of plasma membrane proteins by electroosmosis elicits cytosolic calcium response in tumor mast cells Journal of Cellular Physiology ·Toni J. Feder, Watt W. Webb	1994	3
19	Two-photon lithography for microelectronic application Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·En-Shinn Wu, James H. Strickler, William R. Harrell, Watt W. Webb	1992	107
20	Studies on the increase in cytosolic free calcium induced by epidermal growth factor, serum, and nucleotides in individual A431 cells Journal of Cellular Physiology ·Fernando A. González, David J. Gross, Leon Heppel, Watt W. Webb	1988	61

About Watt W. Webb

Watt W. Webb is a scholar working on Biophysics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Molecular Biology, having authored 176 papers that have together received 40.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (86 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (27 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (25 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (22 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (16 papers), Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (14 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (12 papers) and Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biophysics (14.8k citations), Structural Biology (1.1k citations), Biomedical Engineering (16.1k citations), Molecular Biology (14.7k citations) and Acoustics and Ultrasonics (190 citations). Watt W. Webb has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Poland. Frequent co-authors include James H. Strickler, Winfried Denk, Warren R. Zipfel, Rebecca M. Williams, Chris Xu, Daniel R. Larson, Samuel T. Hess, Ahmed A. Heikal, Petra Schwille and Tobias Baumgart. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biophysical Journal, Physical Review Letters, Science and Optics Letters.

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