William Close

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 902 citations indexed

About

William Close is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, William Close has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 902 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Physiology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in William Close's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (4 papers), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (3 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers). William Close is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (4 papers), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (3 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers). William Close collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Australia. William Close's co-authors include Matthias Schmidt, Marcus Fändrich, Angelika Schierhorn, Mathias Jucker, Jay Rasmussen, Christina J. Sigurdson, Eugen Tausch, Daniel Mertens, Hartmut Döhner and Johannes Bloehdorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William Close

10 papers receiving 898 citations

Hit Papers

Cryo-EM structure and polymorphism of Aβ amyloid fibrils ... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300 400
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. Cryo-EM structure and polymorphism of Aβ amyloid fibrils purified from Alzheimer’s brain tissue
    2019 445 citations William Close, Jay Rasmussen et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Close Germany 8 592 454 120 112 75 10 902
Alberto Boffi Italy 17 510 0.9× 97 0.2× 195 1.6× 73 0.7× 52 0.7× 28 912
Shugui Chen United States 14 628 1.1× 298 0.7× 26 0.2× 62 0.6× 36 0.5× 20 805
Amanda Penco Italy 17 471 0.8× 269 0.6× 51 0.4× 20 0.2× 71 0.9× 23 772
Jesper Søndergaard Pedersen Denmark 15 830 1.4× 467 1.0× 133 1.1× 25 0.2× 167 2.2× 17 1.3k
A.B. Soriaga United States 8 1.2k 2.0× 891 2.0× 363 3.0× 32 0.3× 195 2.6× 10 1.6k
Line Groth‐Pedersen Denmark 11 716 1.2× 136 0.3× 45 0.4× 37 0.3× 49 0.7× 12 1.2k
Matthew F. Calabrese United States 14 1.6k 2.7× 294 0.6× 76 0.6× 16 0.1× 70 0.9× 20 1.9k
Andrew L. Hellewell United Kingdom 10 599 1.0× 534 1.2× 159 1.3× 7 0.1× 58 0.8× 13 861
Mayumi Shindo Japan 16 722 1.2× 348 0.8× 52 0.4× 11 0.1× 37 0.5× 25 979
Sandrine Georgeon Switzerland 15 505 0.9× 65 0.1× 20 0.2× 89 0.8× 66 0.9× 27 829

Countries citing papers authored by William Close

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Close

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by William Close. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by William Close. The network helps show where William Close may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Close

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Luu, Minh Tri, Jonathan F. Berengut, Jiahe Li, et al.. (2024). Reconfigurable nanomaterials folded from multicomponent chains of DNA origami voxels. Science Robotics. 9(96). eadp2309–eadp2309. 9 indexed citations
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Andreas, Michael P., William Close, Reginald Young, et al.. (2022). Pore structure controls stability and molecular flux in engineered protein cages. Science Advances. 8(5). eabl7346–eabl7346. 40 indexed citations
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Close, William, Jay Rasmussen, Angelika Schierhorn, et al.. (2019). Cryo-EM structure and polymorphism of Aβ amyloid fibrils purified from Alzheimer’s brain tissue. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4760–4760. 445 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tausch, Eugen, William Close, Anna Dolnik, et al.. (2019). Venetoclax resistance and acquired BCL2 mutations in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Haematologica. 104(9). e434–e437. 138 indexed citations
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Close, William, Sabrina J. Kugler, Michaela Reichenzeller, et al.. (2018). FBXW7 mutations reduce binding of NOTCH1, leading to cleaved NOTCH1 accumulation and target gene activation in CLL. Blood. 133(8). 830–839. 58 indexed citations
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Close, William, Matthias Neumann, Andreas Schmidt, et al.. (2018). Physical basis of amyloid fibril polymorphism. Nature Communications. 9(1). 699–699. 140 indexed citations
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Close, William, Sabrina J. Kugler, Michaela Reichenzeller, et al.. (2018). NOTCH1 Signaling Is Activated in CLL By Mutations of FBXW7 and Low Expression of USP28 at 11q23. Blood. 132(Supplement 1). 946–946. 2 indexed citations
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Annamalai, Karthikeyan, Falk Liberta, William Close, et al.. (2017). Common Fibril Structures Imply Systemically Conserved Protein Misfolding Pathways In Vivo. Angewandte Chemie. 129(26). 7618–7622. 11 indexed citations
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Annamalai, Karthikeyan, Falk Liberta, William Close, et al.. (2017). Common Fibril Structures Imply Systemically Conserved Protein Misfolding Pathways In Vivo. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(26). 7510–7514. 58 indexed citations
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Close, William. (1953). Molecular Compound Formation between Substituted Biurets and Isocyanurates. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 75(15). 3619–3620. 1 indexed citations

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