William Bains

4.3k total citations
148 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

William Bains is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Bains has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in William Bains's work include Astro and Planetary Science (24 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers) and Planetary Science and Exploration (15 papers). William Bains is often cited by papers focused on Astro and Planetary Science (24 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers) and Planetary Science and Exploration (15 papers). William Bains collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. William Bains's co-authors include Sara Seager, Janusz J. Petkowski, Renyu Hu, Geoff C. Smith, Larry Kedes, Phyllis Ponte, Helen M. Blau, Reinhold Tacke, Clara Sousa‐Silva and Dirk Schulze‐Makuch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

William Bains

142 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Bains United Kingdom 28 1.2k 915 346 269 255 148 2.9k
Robert D. Stephens United States 24 1.3k 1.1× 447 0.5× 210 0.6× 480 1.8× 151 0.6× 155 3.7k
Arto Annila Finland 36 1.3k 1.1× 445 0.5× 113 0.3× 60 0.2× 52 0.2× 115 3.3k
Susanne Ullrich Germany 31 1.4k 1.2× 102 0.1× 309 0.9× 223 0.8× 107 0.4× 92 3.5k
James M. Johnson United States 31 1.1k 0.9× 767 0.8× 164 0.5× 116 0.4× 35 0.1× 115 4.2k
J. R. Ashworth United Kingdom 34 1.2k 0.9× 499 0.5× 151 0.4× 55 0.2× 249 1.0× 88 3.4k
P. Hubert France 34 1.3k 1.0× 413 0.5× 289 0.8× 62 0.2× 180 0.7× 142 3.8k
Ernesto Di Mauro Italy 35 2.7k 2.2× 2.1k 2.3× 77 0.2× 238 0.9× 285 1.1× 144 4.4k
Masahiko Sato Japan 38 1.9k 1.6× 136 0.1× 92 0.3× 254 0.9× 70 0.3× 135 5.1k
Takeo Kaneko Japan 22 603 0.5× 721 0.8× 90 0.3× 316 1.2× 174 0.7× 190 2.0k
Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy United States 44 3.8k 3.1× 3.1k 3.4× 148 0.4× 578 2.1× 551 2.2× 171 5.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Bains

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Bains

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All Works

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Seager, Sara, et al.. (2025). Warm, water-depleted rocky exoplanets with surface ionic liquids: A proposed class for planetary habitability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(33). e2425520122–e2425520122. 2 indexed citations
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Petkowski, Janusz J., et al.. (2025). Mechanism for Peptide Bond Solvolysis in 98% w/w Concentrated Sulfuric Acid. ACS Omega. 10(9). 9623–9629. 5 indexed citations
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Duzdevich, Daniel, et al.. (2025). Simple Lipids Form Stable Higher-Order Structures in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid. Astrobiology. 25(4). 270–283. 6 indexed citations
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Petkowski, Janusz J., Sara Seager, & William Bains. (2024). Reasons why life on Earth rarely makes fluorine-containing compounds and their implications for the search for life beyond Earth. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 15575–15575. 6 indexed citations
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Seager, Sara, Janusz J. Petkowski, Heidi R. Vollmer-Snarr, et al.. (2024). Year-Long Stability of Nucleic Acid Bases in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid: Implications for the Persistence of Organic Chemistry in Venus’ Clouds. Life. 14(5). 538–538. 8 indexed citations
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Bains, William, Sara Seager, D. L. Clements, et al.. (2024). Source of phosphine on Venus—An unsolved problem. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 11. 2 indexed citations
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Bains, William, Janusz J. Petkowski, & Sara Seager. (2023). Venus' Atmospheric Chemistry and Cloud Characteristics Are Compatible with Venusian Life. Astrobiology. 24(4). 371–385. 16 indexed citations
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Bains, William, Oliver Shorttle, Sukrit Ranjan, et al.. (2022). Constraints on the Production of Phosphine by Venusian Volcanoes. Universe. 8(1). 54–54. 10 indexed citations
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Greaves, J. S., Paul B. Rimmer, A. M. S. Richards, et al.. (2022). Low levels of sulphur dioxide contamination of Venusian phosphine spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(2). 2994–3001. 12 indexed citations
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Greaves, J. S., A. M. S. Richards, William Bains, et al.. (2021). Reply to: No evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus from independent analyses. Nature Astronomy. 5(7). 636–639. 22 indexed citations
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Bains, William, Janusz J. Petkowski, Paul B. Rimmer, & Sara Seager. (2021). Production of ammonia makes Venusian clouds habitable and explains observed cloud-level chemical anomalies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(52). 35 indexed citations
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Bains, William, Janusz J. Petkowski, Sara Seager, et al.. (2021). Venusian phosphine: a ‘wow!’ signal in chemistry?. Phosphorus, sulfur, and silicon and the related elements. 197(5-6). 438–443. 11 indexed citations
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Greaves, J. S., A. M. S. Richards, William Bains, et al.. (2021). Addendum: Phosphine gas in the cloud deck of Venus. Nature Astronomy. 5(7). 726–728. 24 indexed citations
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Bains, William, Janusz J. Petkowski, & Sara Seager. (2021). A Data Resource for Sulfuric Acid Reactivity of Organic Chemicals. Data. 6(3). 24–24. 9 indexed citations
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Sousa‐Silva, Clara, Sara Seager, Sukrit Ranjan, et al.. (2019). Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 30 indexed citations
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Bains, William, et al.. (2018). Review of Scientific Self-Experimentation: Ethics History, Regulation, Scenarios, and Views Among Ethics Committees and Prominent Scientists. Rejuvenation Research. 22(1). 31–42. 20 indexed citations
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Bains, William. (2009). Venture Capital and the European Biotechnology Industry. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Bains, William. (2004). Paradoxes of Non-Trivial Gene Networks: How Cancer-Causing Mutations Can Appear to Be Cancer-Protective. Rejuvenation Research. 7(3). 199–210. 4 indexed citations
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Bains, William. (1989). MULTAN (2), A multiple string alignment program for nucleic acids and proteins. Computer applications in the biosciences. 5(1). 51–52. 12 indexed citations
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Gunning, Peter W., Edna C. Hardeman, Robert Wade, et al.. (1987). Differential Patterns of Transcript Accumulation during Human Myogenesis. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 7(11). 4100–4114. 34 indexed citations

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