William Shepard

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

William Shepard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William Shepard has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Materials Chemistry and 27 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William Shepard's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (20 papers) and Islamic Studies and History (17 papers). William Shepard is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (20 papers) and Islamic Studies and History (17 papers). William Shepard collaborates with scholars based in France, New Zealand and United Kingdom. William Shepard's co-authors include Jérôme Marrot, Pedro M. Alzari, Antoine Tissot, Sujing Wang, Christian Serre, Charlotte Martineau, Guillaume Maurin, Mohammad Wahiduzzaman, Ahmed Haouz and Alejandro Buschiazzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

William Shepard

105 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Fluorinated BODIPY-Based Zirconium Metal–Organic Framework for In Vivo Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy

2024 78 citations Xu Chen, Bárbara B. Mendes et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Shepard France	32	1.2k	1.2k	967	353	322	112	3.6k
Neil G. Berry United Kingdom	38	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.7×	1.4k 3.8×	335 1.0×	117	4.8k
Helder M. Marques South Africa	36	2.1k 1.7×	1.8k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	835 2.4×	137 0.4×	176	5.1k
Dan Su China	33	1.4k 1.2×	791 0.7×	613 0.6×	891 2.5×	287 0.9×	100	4.0k
P.J. Rizkallah United Kingdom	36	1.7k 1.4×	812 0.7×	733 0.8×	625 1.8×	213 0.7×	125	4.7k
Dewey G. McCafferty United States	37	2.9k 2.4×	833 0.7×	597 0.6×	1.2k 3.3×	222 0.7×	68	5.6k
Bim Graham Australia	37	1.9k 1.5×	2.1k 1.7×	531 0.5×	789 2.2×	124 0.4×	130	5.3k
Andrew L. Feig United States	29	1.6k 1.3×	449 0.4×	704 0.7×	235 0.7×	133 0.4×	54	2.9k
Isabel Usón Germany	43	2.6k 2.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.8k 5.1×	151 0.5×	204	5.7k
Nathan Cowieson Australia	29	1.8k 1.4×	712 0.6×	236 0.2×	410 1.2×	105 0.3×	80	3.6k
Xiaohui Liu China	29	1.3k 1.0×	600 0.5×	713 0.7×	151 0.4×	297 0.9×	80	2.6k

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All Works

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Shepard, William, Héctor A. García, Gotzone Barandika, et al.. (2025). Metal-organic chelator frameworks for arsenic-based cancer treatment. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 691. 137335–137335. 1 indexed citations

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Delsuc, Nicolas, Jérôme Marrot, William Shepard, et al.. (2025). Angle-dependent spin crossover properties in polymorphic iron(ii) complexes based on pyridine–triazole derivatives. Dalton Transactions. 54(15). 6274–6280.

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Chen, Xu, Dhruv Menon, Xiaoliang Wang, et al.. (2025). Flexibility-frustrated porosity for enhanced selective CO2 adsorption in an ultramicroporous metal-organic framework. Chem. 11(7). 102382–102382. 16 indexed citations

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Henoumont, Céline, Yoann Rousselin, Ahmed Haouz, et al.. (2024). Bifunctional Hexadentate Pyclen–Based Chelating Agent for Mild Radiofluorination in Aqueous Solution at Room Temperature with a Ga‐¹⁸F Ternary Complex. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(68). e202403358–e202403358. 4 indexed citations

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Tsangarakis, Constantinos, Xu Chen, William Shepard, et al.. (2024). Expanding the Reticular Chemistry Building Block Library toward Highly Connected Nets: Ultraporous MOFs Based on 18-Connected Ternary, Trigonal Prismatic Superpolyhedra. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(13). 8961–8970. 12 indexed citations

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Falaise, Clément, Pierre Bauduin, Jéril Degrouard, et al.. (2024). Cooperative Self-Assembly Process Involving Giant Toroidal Polyoxometalate as a Membrane Building Block in Nanoscale Vesicles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(2). 1501–1511. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Xu, Bárbara B. Mendes, João Conniot, et al.. (2024). A Fluorinated BODIPY-Based Zirconium Metal–Organic Framework for In Vivo Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(2). 1644–1656. 78 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pinto, Rosana V., Chen‐Chen Cao, Pengbo Lyu, et al.. (2024). Ultra‐Microporous Fe‐MOF with Prolonged NO Delivery in Biological Media for Therapeutic Application. Small. 20(48). e2405649–e2405649. 8 indexed citations

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Henry, Natacha, Sylvain Duval, Christophe Volkringer, et al.. (2023). Isolation of a Dodecanuclear Polyoxo Cluster {Nb₁₂O₂₁} Showing a Rare Case of Five‐fold Coordinated Niobium(V) Centers with a Square Pyramidal Geometry. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 26(30).

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Marrot, Jérôme, et al.. (2022). Chaotropic Effect as an Assembly Motif to Construct Supramolecular Cyclodextrin–Polyoxometalate-Based Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(10). 4469–4477. 65 indexed citations

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Falaise, Clément, Pierre Bauduin, William Shepard, et al.. (2021). “Host in Host” Supramolecular Core–Shell Type Systems Based on Giant Ring‐Shaped Polyoxometalates. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(25). 14146–14153. 64 indexed citations

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Falaise, Clément, Jérôme Marrot, Gildas K. Gbassi, et al.. (2021). Host‐Guest Complexation Between Cyclodextrins and Hybrid Hexavanadates: What are the Driving Forces?. Chemistry - A European Journal. 27(62). 15516–15527. 20 indexed citations

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Falaise, Clément, Pierre Bauduin, William Shepard, et al.. (2021). “Host in Host” Supramolecular Core–Shell Type Systems Based on Giant Ring‐Shaped Polyoxometalates. Angewandte Chemie. 133(25). 14265–14272. 4 indexed citations

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Rinaldi, Jimena, I. Fernández, William Shepard, et al.. (2018). Crystallization and initial X-ray diffraction analysis of the multi-domain Brucella blue light-activated histidine kinase LOV-HK in its illuminated state. Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports. 16. 39–43. 5 indexed citations

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Bellinzoni, Marco, Anne Marie Wehenkel, William Shepard, & Pedro M. Alzari. (2007). Insights into the Catalytic Mechanism of PPM Ser/Thr Phosphatases from the Atomic Resolution Structures of a Mycobacterial Enzyme. Structure. 15(7). 863–872. 43 indexed citations

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Coste, F, William Shepard, & C. Zelwer. (2002). Description of ordered solvent molecules in a platinated decanucleotide duplex refined at 1.6 Å resolution against experimental MAD phases. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58(3). 431–440. 6 indexed citations

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Shepard, William, V. Favre‐Nicolin, L. Chantalat, et al.. (2000). Investigations into the use of Dispersive-Mode Anomalous Scattering in Macromolecular Crystallography. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 56(s1). s232–s232. 1 indexed citations

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Shepard, William, et al.. (1999). Multiwavelength anomalous solvent contrast (MASC): derivation of envelope structure-factor amplitudes and comparison with model values. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 55(1). 157–167. 7 indexed citations

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Fourme, R., William Shepard, & Richard Kahn. (1995). Application of the anomalous dispersion of X-rays to macromolecular crystallography. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 64(2-3). 167–199. 13 indexed citations

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Guerlesquin, Françoise, et al.. (1994). Active Site Geometry in the High Oxido-reduction Potential Rusticyanin from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 203(3). 1655–1662. 15 indexed citations

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