Wayne Wray

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Wayne Wray is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wayne Wray has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Wayne Wray's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (16 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (7 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers). Wayne Wray is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (16 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (7 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers). Wayne Wray collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Wayne Wray's co-authors include Virginia P. Wray, Ronald Lee Hancock, Teni Boulikas, Elton Stubblefield, Stanley Bram, C Jasmin, Myles L. Mace, Yerach Daskal, Marcelle Guichard and Patrick Froussard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Wayne Wray

35 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Silver staining of proteins in polyacrylamide gels 1981 2026 1996 2011 1981 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. Silver staining of proteins in polyacrylamide gels
    1981 3.3k citations Wayne Wray, Virginia P. Wray et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wayne Wray United States 15 2.7k 530 521 484 297 35 4.2k
Virginia P. Wray United States 6 2.2k 0.8× 445 0.8× 416 0.8× 329 0.7× 304 1.0× 9 3.4k
Kenneth R. Woods United States 17 3.4k 1.3× 433 0.8× 569 1.1× 331 0.7× 672 2.3× 41 6.0k
Pehr Edman Australia 24 3.1k 1.2× 543 1.0× 627 1.2× 246 0.5× 305 1.0× 45 4.9k
Ronald Lee Hancock United States 2 2.1k 0.8× 435 0.8× 405 0.8× 322 0.7× 285 1.0× 3 3.4k
S A Sedman United States 8 2.0k 0.7× 429 0.8× 389 0.7× 326 0.7× 295 1.0× 9 3.3k
Patricia Z. O’Farrell United States 10 2.8k 1.0× 651 1.2× 789 1.5× 321 0.7× 452 1.5× 10 4.2k
Richard A. Zakour United States 10 4.0k 1.5× 500 0.9× 1.1k 2.1× 572 1.2× 391 1.3× 11 5.4k
Daniël J. Strydom United States 33 3.4k 1.3× 325 0.6× 752 1.4× 745 1.5× 622 2.1× 56 5.0k
U.I. Flügge Germany 16 3.0k 1.1× 566 1.1× 252 0.5× 844 1.7× 272 0.9× 17 4.3k
Arnold L. Shapiro United States 7 2.4k 0.9× 419 0.8× 391 0.8× 306 0.6× 254 0.9× 8 3.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wayne Wray

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wayne Wray

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gollin, Susanne M. & Wayne Wray. (1984). Isopycnic centrifugation of mammalian metaphase chromosomes in nycodenz. Experimental Cell Research. 152(1). 204–211. 1 indexed citations
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Gollin, Susanne M., Wayne Wray, Steven K. Hanks, Walter N. Hittelman, & Potu N. Rao. (1984). The ultrastructural organization of prematurely condensed chromosomes. Journal of Cell Science. 1984(Supplement_1). 203–221. 19 indexed citations
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Wray, Virginia P., Sarah C. R. Elgin, & Wayne Wray. (1980). Proteins of metaphase chromosomes and interphase chromatin. Nucleic Acids Research. 8(18). 4155–4164. 11 indexed citations
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Bram, Stanley, et al.. (1980). Vitamin C preferential toxicity for malignant melanoma cells. Nature. 284(5757). 629–631. 165 indexed citations
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Bram, Stanley, et al.. (1980). ChemInform Abstract: VITAMIN C PREFERENTIAL TOXICITY FOR MALIGNANT MELONOMA CELLS. Chemischer Informationsdienst. 11(30). 1 indexed citations
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Lepault, Jean, Stanley Bram, J. Escaig, & Wayne Wray. (1980). Chromatin freeze fracture electron microscopy: a comparative study of core particles, chromatin, metaphase chromosomes, and nuclei. Nucleic Acids Research. 8(2). 265–278. 24 indexed citations
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Wray, Wayne, et al.. (1979). Mitotic cell populations obtained from a micro-carrier culturing system. Experimental Cell Research. 123(2). 452–455. 7 indexed citations
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Wray, Wayne & Virginia P. Wray. (1979). Isolated metaphase chromosomes. II. Proteins of Chinese hamster chromosomes.. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 27(1). 454–457. 1 indexed citations
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Mace, Myles L., Yerach Daskal, & Wayne Wray. (1978). Scanning-electron microscopy of chromosome aberrations. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 52(2). 199–206. 73 indexed citations
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Stubblefield, Elton & Wayne Wray. (1978). Isolation of specific human metaphase chromosomes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 83(4). 1404–1414. 14 indexed citations
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Kit, Saul, et al.. (1978). Binding to chromosomes of herpes simplex-related antigens in biochemically transformed cells.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 75(7). 3288–3291. 4 indexed citations
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Skalka, A M, et al.. (1978). Simultaneous observation of quinacrine bands and silver grains on radiolabeled metaphase chromosomes. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 59(1). 1–8. 9 indexed citations
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Daskal, Yaakov, et al.. (1977). Isolated metaphase chromosomes: scanning electron microscopic appearance of salt-extracted chromosomes.. PubMed. 19(73). 27–40. 8 indexed citations
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Wray, Wayne. (1977). Chapter 7 Use of Metrizamide for Separation of Chromosomes. Methods in cell biology. 15. 111–125. 2 indexed citations
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Wray, Wayne, et al.. (1977). Banding isolated metaphase chromosomes by a sequential fluorescent G/Q technique. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 51(2-3). 103–111. 3 indexed citations
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Wray, Wayne, et al.. (1976). Quinacrine Bands in Isolated Chromosomes. CYTOLOGIA. 41(3-4). 729–732. 2 indexed citations
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Wray, Wayne. (1976). Isopycnic centrifugation of mammalian metaphase chromosomes in metrizamide. FEBS Letters. 62(2). 202–207. 7 indexed citations
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Wray, Wayne. (1975). [6] Parallel isolation procedures for metaphase chromosomes, mitotic apparatus, and nuclei. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 40. 75–89. 9 indexed citations
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Wray, Wayne. (1973). Chapter 8: Isolation of Metaphase Chromosomes, Mitotic Apparatus, and Nuclei. Methods in cell biology. 6. 283–306. 17 indexed citations
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LeStourgeon, Wallace M., Wayne Wray, & H. P. Rusch. (1973). Functional homologies of acidic chromatin proteins in higher and lower eukaryotes. Experimental Cell Research. 79(2). 487–492. 10 indexed citations

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