William J. Betz

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
78 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

William J. Betz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Betz has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Molecular Biology, 57 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 45 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in William J. Betz's work include Cellular transport and secretion (44 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (42 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (22 papers). William J. Betz is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (44 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (42 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (22 papers). William J. Betz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. William J. Betz's co-authors include Silvio O. Rizzoli, Guy S. Bewick, Joseph K. Angleson, Michael A. Gaffield, John H. Caldwell, David A. Richards, Richard R. Ribchester, Cristina Guatimosim, Fei Mao and Bert Sakmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William J. Betz

78 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

Synaptic vesicle pools

2004 674 citations Silvio O. Rizzoli, William J. Betz profile →
Optical Analysis of Synaptic Vesicle Recycling at the Frog Neuromuscular Junction

1992 655 citations William J. Betz, Guy S. Bewick profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William J. Betz United States	43	4.8k	4.3k	3.1k	532	500	78	6.9k
Oleg Shupliakov Sweden	46	5.1k 1.1×	3.9k 0.9×	3.7k 1.2×	844 1.6×	362 0.7×	114	8.6k
Matthew M. LaVail United States	62	11.3k 2.4×	5.6k 1.3×	2.6k 0.8×	668 1.3×	505 1.0×	153	14.7k
Kang Shen United States	54	4.8k 1.0×	4.3k 1.0×	2.8k 0.9×	831 1.6×	484 1.0×	158	9.3k
Mary E. Hatten United States	54	7.4k 1.5×	5.3k 1.2×	1.9k 0.6×	634 1.2×	753 1.5×	92	12.7k
W. Almers United States	46	6.7k 1.4×	4.0k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	734 1.4×	247 0.5×	70	8.2k
Eliot L. Berson United States	64	13.8k 2.9×	4.6k 1.1×	2.0k 0.6×	479 0.9×	464 0.9×	222	16.0k
Yukiko Goda Japan	43	5.0k 1.0×	5.3k 1.2×	3.5k 1.1×	940 1.8×	1.4k 2.8×	98	9.0k
Naoyuki Inagaki Japan	41	3.7k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	471 0.9×	430 0.9×	104	7.2k
Alexander Dityatev Germany	57	4.8k 1.0×	5.6k 1.3×	2.4k 0.8×	807 1.5×	1.3k 2.5×	170	10.2k
Mathias W. Seeliger Germany	55	7.5k 1.5×	2.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	435 0.8×	392 0.8×	170	9.8k

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Kumar, Sudhir, William J. Betz, Nelly Camargo, et al.. (2022). A Plasmodium falciparum ATP-binding cassette transporter is essential for liver stage entry into schizogony. iScience. 25(5). 104224–104224. 3 indexed citations

Pearson, Jennifer, et al.. (2019). Intracerebral tuberculomas: A rare cause of seizure in an immunocompetent young male. IDCases. 18. e00599–e00599. 6 indexed citations

Ruiz, Rocío, Raquel Cano, Juan José Casañas, et al.. (2011). Active Zones and the Readily Releasable Pool of Synaptic Vesicles at the Neuromuscular Junction of the Mouse. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(6). 2000–2008. 97 indexed citations

Gaffield, Michael A. & William J. Betz. (2007). Synaptic Vesicle Mobility in Mouse Motor Nerve Terminals with and without Synapsin. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(50). 13691–13700. 73 indexed citations

Johnson, Joseph M. & William J. Betz. (2007). The Color of Lactotroph Secretory Granules Stained with FM1-43 Depends on Dye Concentration. Biophysical Journal. 94(8). 3167–3177. 6 indexed citations

Gaffield, Michael A., Silvio O. Rizzoli, & William J. Betz. (2006). Mobility of Synaptic Vesicles in Different Pools in Resting and Stimulated Frog Motor Nerve Terminals. Neuron. 51(3). 317–325. 82 indexed citations

Gaffield, Michael A. & William J. Betz. (2006). Imaging synaptic vesicle exocytosis and endocytosis with FM dyes. Nature Protocols. 1(6). 2916–2921. 204 indexed citations

Richards, David A., Cristina Guatimosim, Silvio O. Rizzoli, & William J. Betz. (2003). Synaptic Vesicle Pools at the Frog Neuromuscular Junction. Neuron. 39(3). 529–541. 153 indexed citations

Richards, David A., Cristina Guatimosim, & William J. Betz. (2000). Two Endocytic Recycling Routes Selectively Fill Two Vesicle Pools in Frog Motor Nerve Terminals. Neuron. 27(3). 551–559. 284 indexed citations

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Betz, William J. & Joseph K. Angleson. (1998). THE SYNAPTIC VESICLE CYCLE. Annual Review of Physiology. 60(1). 347–363. 85 indexed citations

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Angleson, Joseph K. & William J. Betz. (1997). Monitoring secretion in real time: capacitance, amperometry and fluorescence compared. Trends in Neurosciences. 20(7). 281–287. 88 indexed citations

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Betz, William J., et al.. (1996). Nerve Activity but Not Intracellular Calcium Determines the Time Course of Endocytosis at the Frog Neuromuscular Junction. Neuron. 17(4). 769–779. 152 indexed citations

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Smith, Ciearra B. & William J. Betz. (1996). Simultaneous independent measurement of endocytosis and exocytosis. Nature. 380(6574). 531–534. 201 indexed citations

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Betz, William J., et al.. (1995). Monitoring of Black Widow Spider Venom (BWSV) induced exo- and endocytosis in living frog motor nerve terminals with FM1-43. Neuropharmacology. 34(11). 1397–1406. 47 indexed citations

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Bewick, Guy S. & William J. Betz. (1994). Illumination partly reverses the postsynaptic blockade of the frog neuromuscular junction by the styryl pyridinium dye RH414. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 258(1352). 201–207. 7 indexed citations

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Ribchester, Richard R., Fei Mao, & William J. Betz. (1994). Optical measurements of activity-dependent membrane recycling in motor nerve terminals of mammalian skeletal muscle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 255(1342). 61–66. 57 indexed citations

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Betz, William J., et al.. (1987). Evidence for active chloride accumulation in normal and denervated rat lumbrical muscle.. The Journal of General Physiology. 90(1). 127–144. 23 indexed citations

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Betz, William J., John H. Caldwell, & Sue C. Kinnamon. (1984). Physiological basis of a steady endogenous current in rat lumbrical muscle.. The Journal of General Physiology. 83(2). 175–192. 22 indexed citations

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Betz, William J., John H. Caldwell, & Sue C. Kinnamon. (1984). Increased sodium conductance in the synaptic region of rat skeletal muscle fibres.. The Journal of Physiology. 352(1). 189–202. 53 indexed citations

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Betz, William J. & Bert Sakmann. (1973). Effects of proteolytic enzymes on function and structure of frog neuromuscular junctions. The Journal of Physiology. 230(3). 673–688. 178 indexed citations

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