William M. Jacobs

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

William M. Jacobs is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, William M. Jacobs has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in William M. Jacobs's work include RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). William M. Jacobs is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). William M. Jacobs collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. William M. Jacobs's co-authors include Daan Frenkel, Eugene I. Shakhnovich, Jorine M. Eeftens, Amy R. Strom, Clifford P. Brangwynne, Dan Bracha, Allana G. Iwanicki, Nancy Kedersha, Gena Whitney and David W. Sanders and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

William M. Jacobs

37 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Competing Protein-RNA Interaction Networks Control Multiphase Intracellular Organization
    2020 538 citations David W. Sanders, Nancy Kedersha et al. Cell 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 M. Jacobs United States 19 1.1k 293 107 96 93 41 1.5k
Andrzej J. Rzepiela Switzerland 12 939 0.8× 307 1.0× 130 1.2× 241 2.5× 46 0.5× 18 1.4k
K. Tsumoto Japan 21 1.4k 1.2× 140 0.5× 163 1.5× 322 3.4× 35 0.4× 66 1.8k
Jan Steinkühler Germany 20 980 0.9× 120 0.4× 178 1.7× 354 3.7× 61 0.7× 37 1.3k
Siddharth Deshpande Netherlands 22 1.0k 0.9× 183 0.6× 238 2.2× 683 7.1× 158 1.7× 52 1.8k
Lorenzo Di Michele United Kingdom 25 944 0.8× 252 0.9× 139 1.3× 330 3.4× 73 0.8× 62 1.5k
Yutetsu Kuruma Japan 20 1.3k 1.2× 79 0.3× 162 1.5× 352 3.7× 48 0.5× 40 1.6k
Jaime Agudo‐Canalejo Germany 19 761 0.7× 223 0.8× 129 1.2× 359 3.7× 402 4.3× 46 1.4k
David S. Courson United States 9 2.1k 1.9× 181 0.6× 98 0.9× 153 1.6× 72 0.8× 12 2.7k
Davide Michieletto United Kingdom 21 851 0.8× 199 0.7× 33 0.3× 142 1.5× 103 1.1× 62 1.3k
Zoher Gueroui France 20 689 0.6× 250 0.9× 71 0.7× 348 3.6× 130 1.4× 31 1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William M. Jacobs

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jacobs, William M., et al.. (2025). The underappreciated role of nonspecific interactions in the crystallization of DNA-coated colloids. Soft Matter. 21(14). 2654–2663.
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Jacobs, William M., et al.. (2025). Multiobjective Optimization for Targeted Self-Assembly among Competing Polymorphs. Physical Review X. 15(1). 5 indexed citations
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An, Yaxin, Michael A. Webb, & William M. Jacobs. (2024). Active learning of the thermodynamics-dynamics trade-off in protein condensates. Science Advances. 10(1). eadj2448–eadj2448. 25 indexed citations
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Strom, Amy R., Jorine M. Eeftens, Dan Bracha, et al.. (2024). Interplay of condensation and chromatin binding underlies BRD4 targeting. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 35(6). ar88–ar88. 15 indexed citations
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Sharma, A., et al.. (2024). Competition between Self-Assembly and Phase Separation Governs High-Temperature Condensation of a DNA Liquid. Physical Review Letters. 132(20). 208401–208401. 1 indexed citations
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Jacobs, William M., et al.. (2024). Emergence of Multiphase Condensates from a Limited Set of Chemical Building Blocks. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(15). 6881–6889. 11 indexed citations
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Jacobs, William M., et al.. (2023). The critical role of co-translational folding: An evolutionary and biophysical perspective. Current Opinion in Systems Biology. 37. 100485–100485. 2 indexed citations
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Jacobs, William M., et al.. (2023). Programmable phase behavior in fluids with designable interactions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(21). 5 indexed citations
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Rogers, W. Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Interplay between self-assembly and phase separation in a polymer-complex model. Physical review. E. 108(6). 3 indexed citations
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Hensley, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Macroscopic photonic single crystals via seeded growth of DNA-coated colloids. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4237–4237. 26 indexed citations
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Jacobs, William M., et al.. (2023). Tuning Nucleation Kinetics via Nonequilibrium Chemical Reactions. Physical Review Letters. 130(12). 128203–128203. 13 indexed citations
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Jacobs, William M.. (2021). Self-Assembly of Biomolecular Condensates with Shared Components. Physical Review Letters. 126(25). 258101–258101. 49 indexed citations
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Jacobs, William M., et al.. (2020). Effect of Protein Structure on Evolution of Cotranslational Folding. Biophysical Journal. 119(6). 1123–1134. 16 indexed citations
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Sanders, David W., Nancy Kedersha, Daniel S.W. Lee, et al.. (2020). Competing Protein-RNA Interaction Networks Control Multiphase Intracellular Organization. Cell. 181(2). 306–324.e28. 538 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jacobs, William M., et al.. (2018). Direct observation and rational design of nucleation behavior in addressable self-assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(26). E5877–E5886. 25 indexed citations
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Bhattacharyya, Sanchari, William M. Jacobs, Bharat V. Adkar, et al.. (2018). Accessibility of the Shine-Dalgarno Sequence Dictates N-Terminal Codon Bias in E. coli. Molecular Cell. 70(5). 894–905.e5. 48 indexed citations
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Jacobs, William M. & Daan Frenkel. (2017). Phase Transitions in Biological Systems with Many Components. Biophysical Journal. 112(4). 683–691. 120 indexed citations
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Jacobs, William M., Tuomas P. J. Knowles, & Daan Frenkel. (2016). Oligomers of Heat-Shock Proteins: Structures That Don’t Imply Function. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(2). e1004756–e1004756. 7 indexed citations
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Jacobs, William M. & Eugene I. Shakhnovich. (2016). Structure-Based Prediction of Protein-Folding Transition Paths. Biophysical Journal. 111(5). 925–936. 18 indexed citations

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