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Carlos Bustamante

Active 1980–2025

169
Papers
48,131
Citations
112
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Citations

Citations per year for Carlos Bustamante1981: 1 citations1982: 2 citations1983: 4 citations1984: 2 citations1985: 5 citations1986: 3 citations1988: 8 citations1990: 2 citations1991: 6 citations1992: 19 citations1993: 28 citations1994: 53 citations1995: 52 citations1996: 54 citations1997: 140 citations1998: 126 citations1999: 189 citations2000: 228 citations2001: 244 citations2002: 263 citations2003: 319 citations2004: 288 citations2005: 362 citations2006: 449 citations2007: 502 citations2008: 481 citations2009: 377 citations2010: 411 citations2011: 465 citations2012: 425 citations2013: 428 citations2014: 429 citations2015: 328 citations2016: 340 citations2017: 265 citations2018: 236 citations2019: 811 citations2020: 759 citations2021: 821 citations2022: 543 citations2023: 388 citations2024: 640 citations2025: 304 citations2026: 12 citations1987: no citations, so this year is not shown1989: no citations, so this year is not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 3,762 citing papers, 36.3% of this breakdownGermany: 955 citing papers, 9.2% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 779 citing papers, 7.5% of this breakdownChina: 690 citing papers, 6.7% of this breakdownFrance: 487 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownNetherlands: 327 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownJapan: 301 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSpain: 288 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownCanada: 277 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownItaly: 260 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 240 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSweden: 162 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology61.5%
  • Physics and Astronomy15.6%
  • Medicine5.9%
  • Engineering4.4%
  • Environmental Science3.5%
  • Materials Science3.1%
  • Other6%

Topics

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms7.3%
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry5.5%
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications4.8%
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques4.3%
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics3.4%
  • RNA Research and Splicing3.2%
  • Other71.5%

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  1. Optical tweezers in single-molecule biophysics

    Authors: Carlos Bustamante, Yann R. Chemla, Shixin Liu, Michelle D. Wang - Nature Reviews Methods Primers 2021 cited by 596

  2. Structure of cytoplasmic ring of nuclear pore complex by integrative cryo-EM and AlphaFold

    Authors: Pietro Fontana, Ying Dong, Xiong Pi, Alex Tong, Corey W. Hecksel, Longfei Wang, Tian‐Min Fu, Carlos Bustamante, Hao Wu - Science 2022 cited by 195

  3. Cell protrusions and contractions generate long-range membrane tension propagation

    Authors: Henry De Belly, Shannon Yan, Hudson Borja da Rocha, Sacha Ichbiah, Jason P. Town, Patrick J. Zager, Dorothy C. Estrada, Kirstin Meyer, Hervé Turlier, Carlos Bustamante, Orion D. Weiner - Cell 2023 cited by 143

  4. Entropic Elasticity of λ-Phage DNA

    Authors: Carlos Bustamante, John F. Marko, Eric D. Siggia, Steven B. Smith - Science 1994 cited by 2,181

  5. How RNA folds

    Authors: Ignacio Tinoco, Carlos Bustamante - Journal of Molecular Biology 1999 cited by 1,026

  6. Overstretching B-DNA: The Elastic Response of Individual Double-Stranded and Single-Stranded DNA Molecules

    Authors: Steven B. Smith, Yujia Cui, Carlos Bustamante - Science 1996 cited by 2,786

  7. Ionic effects on the elasticity of single DNA molecules

    Authors: Christoph G. Baumann, Steven B. Smith, Victor A. Bloomfield, Carlos Bustamante - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1997 cited by 1,019

  8. Ten years of tension: single-molecule DNA mechanics

    Authors: Carlos Bustamante, Zev Bryant, Steven B. Smith - Nature 2003 cited by 1,318

  9. Molecular organization of the early stages of nucleosome phase separation visualized by cryo-electron tomography

    Authors: Meng Zhang, César Díaz-Celis, Bibiana Onoa, Cristhian Cañari-Chumpitaz, Katherinne I. Requejo, Jianfang Liu, Michael Vien, Eva Nogales, Gang Ren, Carlos Bustamante - Molecular Cell 2022 cited by 52

  10. The Ribosome Modulates Nascent Protein Folding

    Authors: Christian Kaiser, Daniel Goldman, John D. Chodera, Ignacio Tinoco, Carlos Bustamante - Science 2011 cited by 320

  11. Single-Molecule Studies of Protein Folding with Optical Tweezers

    Authors: Carlos Bustamante, Lisa Alexander, Kevin Maciuba, Christian Kaiser - Annual Review of Biochemistry 2020 cited by 209

  12. ATP-dependent force generation and membrane scission by ESCRT-III and Vps4

    Authors: Johannes Schöneberg, Mark Remec Pavlin, Shannon Yan, Maurizio Righini, Il‐Hyung Lee, Lars A. Carlson, Amir Houshang Bahrami, Daniel Goldman, Xuefeng Ren, Gerhard Hummer, Carlos Bustamante, James H. Hurley - Science 2018 cited by 199

  13. Chemically tunable mucin chimeras assembled on living cells

    Authors: Jessica R. Kramer, Bibiana Onoa, Carlos Bustamante, Carolyn R. Bertozzi - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015 cited by 118

  14. Population-based heteropolymer design to mimic protein mixtures

    Authors: Zhiyuan Ruan, Shu-Ni Li, Alexandra Grigoropoulos, Hossein Amiri, Shayna L. Hilburg, Haotian Chen, Ivan Jayapurna, Tao Jiang, Zhaoyi Gu, Alfredo Alexander‐Katz, Carlos Bustamante, Haiyan Huang, Ting Xu - Nature 2023 cited by 64

  15. A trailing ribosome speeds up RNA polymerase at the expense of transcript fidelity via force and allostery

    Authors: Liang Meng Wee, Alex Tong, Alfredo Jose Florez Ariza, Cristhian Cañari-Chumpitaz, Patricia Grob, Eva Nogales, Carlos Bustamante - Cell 2023 cited by 47

  16. Rapid spontaneous accessibility of nucleosomal DNA

    Authors: Gu Li, Marcia Levitus, Carlos Bustamante, Jonathan Widom - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2004 cited by 655

  17. Pulling a single chromatin fiber reveals the forces that maintain its higher-order structure

    Authors: Yujia Cui, Carlos Bustamante - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2000 cited by 480

  18. Mechanical force releases nascent chain–mediated ribosome arrest in vitro and in vivo

    Authors: Daniel Goldman, Christian Kaiser, Anthony N. Milin, Maurizio Righini, Ignacio Tinoco, Carlos Bustamante - Science 2015 cited by 254

  19. Direct Observation of the Three-State Folding of a Single Protein Molecule

    Authors: Ciro Cecconi, Elizabeth A. Shank, Carlos Bustamante, Susan Marqusee - Science 2005 cited by 648

  20. Nucleosomal Fluctuations Govern the Transcription Dynamics of RNA Polymerase II

    Authors: H. Courtney Hodges, Lacramioara Bintu, Lucyna Lubkowska, Mikhail Kashlev, Carlos Bustamante - Science 2009 cited by 372

  21. The ribosome uses two active mechanisms to unwind messenger RNA during translation

    Authors: Xiaohui Qu, Jin‐Der Wen, Laura Lancaster, Harry F. Noller, Carlos Bustamante, Ignacio Tinoco - Nature 2011 cited by 331

  22. Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of the Plasma Proteome in Black Adults Provides Novel Insights Into Cardiovascular Disease

    Authors: Daniel H. Katz, Usman A. Tahir, Alexander G. Bick, Akhil Pampana, Debby Ngo, Mark D. Benson, Zhi Yu, Jeremy M. Robbins, Zsu-Zsu Chen, Daniel E. Cruz, Shuliang Deng, Laurie Farrell, Sumita Sinha, Alec A. Schmaier, Dongxiao Shen, Yan Gao, Michael E. Hall, Adolfo Correa, Russell P. Tracy, Peter Durda, Kent D. Taylor, Yongmei Liu, W. Craig Johnson, Xiuqing Guo, Jie Yao, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Ani W. Manichaikul, Deepti Jain, Claude Bouchard, Mark A. Sarzynski, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Thomas J. Wang, James G. Wilson, Pradeep Natarajan, Robert E. Gerszten, Namiko Abe, Gonçalo Abecasis, Francois Aguet, Christine Albert, Laura Almasy, Alvaro Alonso, Seth Ament, Peter Anderson, Pramod Anugu, Deborah Applebaum-Bowden, Kristin Ardlie, Dan Arking, Donna K. Arnett, Allison Ashley-Koch, Stella Aslibekyan, Tim Assimes, Paul Auer, Dimitrios Avramopoulos, Najib Ayas, Adithya Balasubramanian, John Barnard, Kathleen Barnes, R. Graham Barr, Emily Barron-Casella, Lucas Barwick, Terri Beaty, Gerald Beck, Diane Becker, Lewis Becker, Rebecca Beer, Amber Beitelshees, Emelia Benjamin, Takis Benos, Marcos Bezerra, Larry Bielak, Joshua Bis, Thomas Blackwell, John Blangero, Eric Boerwinkle, Donald W. Bowden, Russell Bowler, Jennifer Brody, Ulrich Broeckel, Jai Broome, Deborah Brown, Karen Bunting, Esteban Burchard, Carlos Bustamante, Erin Buth, Brian Cade, Jonathan Cardwell, Vincent Carey, Julie Carrier, April Carson, Cara Carty, Richard Casaburi, Juan P. Casas Romero, James Casella, Peter Castaldi, Mark Chaffin, Christy Chang, Yi-Cheng Chang, Daniel Chasman, Sameer Chavan and 344 more - Circulation 2021 cited by 91

  23. Direct Mechanical Measurements of the Elasticity of Single DNA Molecules by Using Magnetic Beads

    Authors: Steven B. Smith, Laura Finzi, Carlos Bustamante - Science 1992 cited by 1,822

  24. Mechanical Processes in Biochemistry

    Authors: Carlos Bustamante, Yann R. Chemla, Nancy R. Forde, David Izhaky - Annual Review of Biochemistry 2003 cited by 809