William Wan

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

William Wan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Structural Biology and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, William Wan has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Structural Biology and 7 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in William Wan's work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (12 papers), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (8 papers) and Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (7 papers). William Wan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (12 papers), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (8 papers) and Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (7 papers). William Wan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. William Wan's co-authors include John A. G. Briggs, Wim J. H. Hagen, Gerald Stubbs, F.K.M. Schur, Amy Kendall, Dustin J. Covell, Marcus D. Tuttle, Joseph M. Courtney, Julia M. George and Kathryn D. Kloepper and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

William Wan

37 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Solid-state NMR structure of a pathogenic fibril of full-length human α-synuclein

2016 777 citations Amy Kendall, William Wan et al. profile →
Implementation of a cryo-electron tomography tilt-scheme optimized for high resolution subtomogram averaging

2016 477 citations Wim J. H. Hagen, William Wan et al. Journal of Structural Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Wan United States	23	1.7k	762	530	421	350	38	3.2k
John Berriman United Kingdom	24	1.5k 0.9×	409 0.5×	919 1.7×	589 1.4×	216 0.6×	43	3.4k
Jasenko Zivanov United Kingdom	10	4.3k 2.5×	772 1.0×	594 1.1×	229 0.5×	273 0.8×	13	6.4k
Carsten Sachse Germany	36	3.0k 1.7×	586 0.8×	909 1.7×	95 0.2×	257 0.7×	79	4.5k
Alexis Rohou United States	18	3.8k 2.2×	743 1.0×	426 0.8×	91 0.2×	265 0.8×	27	5.4k
Abhay Kotecha United Kingdom	32	1.8k 1.0×	253 0.3×	513 1.0×	276 0.7×	81 0.2×	60	3.3k
Michael F. Schmid United States	40	3.3k 1.9×	1.1k 1.5×	190 0.4×	109 0.3×	468 1.3×	129	5.3k
Neil A. Ranson United Kingdom	42	3.8k 2.2×	378 0.5×	871 1.6×	139 0.3×	166 0.5×	109	5.7k
Dari Kimanius United Kingdom	14	4.1k 2.4×	904 1.2×	273 0.5×	64 0.2×	358 1.0×	22	5.8k
Eugene Palovcak United States	10	4.1k 2.4×	718 0.9×	267 0.5×	59 0.1×	249 0.7×	13	5.9k
Keren Lasker United States	24	2.5k 1.4×	432 0.6×	219 0.4×	98 0.2×	116 0.3×	37	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by William Wan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Wan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wan, William. (2025). A practical look at cryo-electron tomography image processing: Key considerations for new biological discoveries. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 93. 103116–103116. 1 indexed citations

Wan, William. (2025). A case for community metadata standards in cryo-electron tomography. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. 8(4). 145–149. 1 indexed citations

Khavnekar, Sagar, Philipp S. Erdmann, & William Wan. (2024). TOMOMAN : a software package for large-scale cryo-electron tomography data preprocessing, community data sharing and collaborative computing. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 57(6). 2010–2016. 11 indexed citations

Bracher, Andreas, Florian Beck, William Wan, et al.. (2024). Visualizing chaperonin function in situ by cryo-electron tomography. Nature. 633(8029). 459–464. 10 indexed citations

Watanabe, Reika, Dawid Zyla, Diptiben Parekh, et al.. (2024). Intracellular Ebola virus nucleocapsid assembly revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography. Cell. 187(20). 5587–5603.e19. 12 indexed citations

Shah, Pranav N. M., James B. Gilchrist, Björn Forsberg, et al.. (2023). Characterization of the rotavirus assembly pathway in situ using cryoelectron tomography. Cell Host & Microbe. 31(4). 604–615.e4. 22 indexed citations

Hoek, Hugo van den, Nikolai Klena, Mareike A. Jordan, et al.. (2022). In situ architecture of the ciliary base reveals the stepwise assembly of intraflagellar transport trains. Science. 377(6605). 543–548. 84 indexed citations

Kendall, Amy, et al.. (2022). Improved mammalian retromer cryo-EM structures reveal a new assembly interface. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(11). 102523–102523. 6 indexed citations

Fäßler, Florian, Georgi Dimchev, Victor-Valentin Hodirnau, William Wan, & F.K.M. Schur. (2020). Cryo-electron tomography structure of Arp2/3 complex in cells reveals new insights into the branch junction. Nature Communications. 11(1). 56 indexed citations

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Peukes, Julia, Xiaoli Xiong, Simon Erlendsson, et al.. (2020). The native structure of the assembled matrix protein 1 of influenza A virus. Nature. 587(7834). 495–498. 62 indexed citations

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Rast, Anna, Miroslava Schaffer, Sahradha Albert, et al.. (2019). Biogenic regions of cyanobacterial thylakoids form contact sites with the plasma membrane. Nature Plants. 5(4). 436–446. 100 indexed citations

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Turoňová, Beata, F.K.M. Schur, William Wan, & John A. G. Briggs. (2017). Efficient 3D-CTF correction for cryo-electron tomography using NovaCTF improves subtomogram averaging resolution to 3.4 Å. Journal of Structural Biology. 199(3). 187–195. 175 indexed citations

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Wan, William, Larissa Kolesnikova, Mairi Clarke, et al.. (2017). Structure and assembly of the Ebola virus nucleocapsid. Nature. 551(7680). 394–397. 146 indexed citations

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Kosiński, Jan, Shyamal Mosalaganti, Alexander von Appen, et al.. (2016). Molecular architecture of the inner ring scaffold of the human nuclear pore complex. Science. 352(6283). 363–365. 233 indexed citations

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Schur, F.K.M., Martin Obr, Wim J. H. Hagen, et al.. (2016). An atomic model of HIV-1 capsid-SP1 reveals structures regulating assembly and maturation. Science. 353(6298). 506–508. 311 indexed citations

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Wan, William & John A. G. Briggs. (2016). Cryo-Electron Tomography and Subtomogram Averaging. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 579. 329–367. 182 indexed citations

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Wan, William, et al.. (2013). Heterogeneous Seeding of a Prion Structure by a Generic Amyloid Form of the Fungal Prion-forming Domain HET-s(218–289). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(41). 29604–29612. 14 indexed citations

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Wan, William, Holger Wille, Jan Stöhr, et al.. (2012). Degradation of Fungal Prion HET-s(218-289) Induces Formation of a Generic Amyloid Fold. Biophysical Journal. 102(10). 2339–2344. 23 indexed citations

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Liu, Xueying, Zhaohua Peng, Yinan Wan, et al.. (2010). AHD2.0: an update version of Arabidopsis Hormone Database for plant systematic studies. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(Database). D1123–D1129. 47 indexed citations

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Li, Ming, William Wan, Olga Petrova, et al.. (2008). Applicability of multigene family-specific antibodies toward studies of the subtilases in Arabidopsis thaliana. Analytical Biochemistry. 384(1). 114–122. 2 indexed citations

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