W.L. Salo

820 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 602 citations indexed

About

W.L. Salo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, W.L. Salo has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 602 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Cell Biology and 1 paper in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in W.L. Salo's work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers), Skin and Cellular Biology Research (2 papers) and Enzyme function and inhibition (2 papers). W.L. Salo is often cited by papers focused on Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers), Skin and Cellular Biology Research (2 papers) and Enzyme function and inhibition (2 papers). W.L. Salo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Italy. W.L. Salo's co-authors include Arthur C. Aufderheide, Jane E. Buikstra, Lester R. Drewes, Nancy D. Borson, Elizabeth A. Koch, Stephen W. Downing, S. Kirkwood, John H. Nordin, Leo J. Saidel and Dennis R. Peterson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Cell Biology and Analytical Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

W.L. Salo

12 papers receiving 576 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.

Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in a pre-Columbian Peruvian mummy.

1994 284 citations W.L. Salo, Arthur C. Aufderheide et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W.L. Salo United States	9	180	130	128	102	100	12	602
Atsuo Sato Japan	12	308 1.7×	119 0.9×	98 0.8×	8 0.1×	65 0.7×	50	671
Michael B. Whalen United States	15	375 2.1×	78 0.6×	296 2.3×	18 0.2×	94 0.9×	32	790
Javier R. Ambrosio Mexico	17	131 0.7×	65 0.5×	29 0.2×	6 0.1×	97 1.0×	52	776
Yerlan Ramankulov Kazakhstan	12	237 1.3×	60 0.5×	79 0.6×	5 0.0×	68 0.7×	75	554
David H. Hollander United States	15	147 0.8×	56 0.4×	64 0.5×	3 0.0×	126 1.3×	28	816
H. Hofmann Germany	12	184 1.0×	13 0.1×	61 0.5×	6 0.1×	47 0.5×	24	528
Joseph Donfack United States	12	286 1.6×	16 0.1×	270 2.1×	5 0.0×	97 1.0×	29	719
Susan K. Wells United States	11	189 1.1×	106 0.8×	61 0.5×	4 0.0×	79 0.8×	15	454
J L Adams United States	10	77 0.4×	38 0.3×	14 0.1×	14 0.1×	108 1.1×	13	421
S Hayashi Japan	6	111 0.6×	77 0.6×	179 1.4×	52 0.5×	26 0.3×	11	409

Countries citing papers authored by W.L. Salo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W.L. Salo

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Streitz, John M., et al.. (2005). Analysis of protein expression patterns in Barrett’s esophagus using Maldi mass spectrometry, in search of malignancy biomarkers. Diseases of the Esophagus. 18(3). 170–176. 8 indexed citations

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Madden, Michael, W.L. Salo, John M. Streitz, et al.. (2001). Hybridization Screening of Very Short PCR Products for Paleoepidemiological Studies of Chagas’ Disease. BioTechniques. 30(1). 102–109. 20 indexed citations

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Cabrera, Vicente M., et al.. (1996). Human Enzyme Polymorphism in the Canary Islands. Human Heredity. 46(4). 197–200. 7 indexed citations

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Salo, W.L., et al.. (1994). Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in a pre-Columbian Peruvian mummy.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91(6). 2091–2094. 284 indexed citations breakdown →

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Borson, Nancy D., W.L. Salo, & Lester R. Drewes. (1992). A lock-docking oligo(dT) primer for 5' and 3' RACE PCR.. Genome Research. 2(2). 144–148. 119 indexed citations

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Salo, W.L., et al.. (1988). The Preparation of Poly(A)±mRNA from the Hagfish Slime Gland. Preparative Biochemistry. 18(1). 67–76. 2 indexed citations

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Downing, Stephen W., et al.. (1984). Hagfish slime gland thread cells. II. Isolation and characterization of intermediate filament components associated with the thread.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 98(2). 670–677. 40 indexed citations

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Downing, Stephen W., et al.. (1984). The hagfish slime gland thread cell. I. A unique cellular system for the study of intermediate filaments and intermediate filament-microtubule interactions.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 98(2). 653–669. 46 indexed citations

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Salo, W.L., et al.. (1983). Fractionation of Hagfish Slime Gland Secretions: Partial Characterization of the Mucous Vesicle Fraction. Preparative Biochemistry. 13(2). 103–135. 25 indexed citations

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Salo, W.L., et al.. (1968). The specificity of UDP-glucose 4-epimerase from the yeast Saccharomyces fragilis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Enzymology. 151(2). 484–492. 24 indexed citations

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Simonart, Paul, W.L. Salo, & S. Kirkwood. (1966). The mechanism of action of UDPG-dehydrogenase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 24(1). 120–126. 12 indexed citations

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Nordin, John H., et al.. (1965). A vacuum system for the synthesis of nucleotide sugars on a micro scale. Analytical Biochemistry. 13(3). 405–411. 15 indexed citations

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