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D-Index
68
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13310
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1535
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777

Ira G. Wool publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ira G. Wool sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 224 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Ira G. Wool D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ira G. Wool sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1961 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ira G. Wool was affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their career included research within academic and scientific contexts, though specific details about their main fields and subfields of study or publication topics are not available.

Their scholarly output did not include recently identified papers or a record of frequent co-authors. Likewise, no information is provided regarding the venues where they published or the number of publications in particular journals or conferences.

There are no records of book publications associated with Ira G. Wool, nor data concerning the publishers they may have worked with. Similarly, no comprehensive list details the research topics or specific fields they focused on during their career.

Among honors received, Ira G. Wool was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1961. This distinction marked a formal acknowledgment by a major scientific organization.

The scientist is deceased, and this profile reflects their career and contributions in past tense.

Best Publications

  • Extraribosomal functions of ribosomal proteins

    Ira G. Wool

  • Structure and evolution of mammalian ribosomal proteins

    Ira G. Wool;Yuen-Ling Chan;Anton Glück

  • The Phosphorylation of Liver Ribosomal Proteins in Vivo EVIDENCE THAT ONLY A SINGLE SMALL SUBUNIT PROTEIN (S6) IS PHOSPHORYLATED

    Axel M. Gressner;Ira G. Wool

  • Determination of the number of proteins in liver ribosomes and ribosomal subunits by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

    Corinne C. Sherton;Ira G. Wool

  • CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE RIBOSOMAL RNA DOMAIN ESSENTIAL FOR BINDING ELONGATION FACTORS

    Carl C. Correll;Alexander Munishkin;Yuen-Ling Chan;Zhong Ren

  • Ribotoxin recognition of ribosomal RNA and a proposal for the mechanism of translocation

    Ira G. Wool;Anton Glück;Yaeta Endo

  • Proposed uniform nomenclature for mammalian ribosomal proteins.

    E H McConkey;H Bielka;J Gordon;S M Lastick

  • The primary structure of rat ribosomal protein L19. A determination from the sequence of nucleotides in a cDNA and from the sequence of amino acids in the protein.

    Yuen-Ling Chan;A. Lin;J. Mcnally;D. Peleg

  • Active hybrid 80 s particles formed from subunits of rat, rabbit and protozoan (Tetrahymena pyriformis) ribosomes

    T.E. Martin;Ira G. Wool

  • Dissociation and reassociation of skeletal muscle ribosomes.

    T.E. Martin;F.S. Rolleston;R.B. Low;Ira G. Wool

  • Ribosomal RNA identity elements for ricin A-chain recognition and catalysis

    Yaeta Endo;Anton Glück;Ira G. Wool

  • The ribonuclease activity of the cytotoxin alpha-sarcin. The characteristics of the enzymatic activity of alpha-sarcin with ribosomes and ribonucleic acids as substrates.

    Y Endo;P W Huber;I G Wool

  • The two faces of the Escherichia coli 23 S rRNA sarcin/ricin domain: the structure at 1.11 A resolution.

    Carl C Correll;Ira G Wool;Alexander Munishkin

  • The structure of rat 28S ribosomal ribonucleic add inferred from the sequence of nuclotides in a gene

    Yuen-Ling Chan;Jose Olvera;Ira G. Wool

  • Ribosomal RNA identity elements for ricin A-chain recognition and catalysis. Analysis with tetraloop mutants.

    Anton Glück;Yaeta Endo;Ira G. Wool

  • International symposium on protein synthesis Summary of Fogarty Center-NIH Workshop held in Bethesda, Maryland on 18–20 October, 1976

    W. F. Anderson;L. Bosch;W. E. Cohn;H. Lodish

  • Isolation of eukaryotic ribosomal proteins. Purification and characterization of the 60 S ribosomal subunit proteins La, Lb, Lf, P1, P2, L13', L14, L18', L20, and L38.

    K Tsurugi;E Collatz;K Todokoro;N Ulbrich

  • Phosphorylation of rat liver ribosomal subunits: partial purification of two cyclic AMP activated protein kinases.

    Charles Eil;Ira G. Wool

  • The primary structure of the acidic phosphoprotein P2 from rat liver 60 S ribosomal subunits. Comparison with ribosomal 'A' proteins from other species.

    A Lin;B Wittmann-Liebold;J McNally;I G Wool

  • Mode of action of insulin in the regulation of protein biosynthesis in muscle.

    Ira G. Wool;William S. Stirewalt;Kenzo Kurihara;Robert B. Low

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Stöffler
Georg Stöffler Innsbruck Medical University
Yaeta Endo
Yaeta Endo Ehime University
Oded Meyuhas
Oded Meyuhas Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Murray Rabinowitz
Murray Rabinowitz University of Chicago
Robert R. Traut
Robert R. Traut University of California, Davis
James G. McNally
James G. McNally National Institutes of Health
William C. Merrick
William C. Merrick Case Western Reserve University
Herbert Weissbach
Herbert Weissbach Florida Atlantic University
Wayne F. Anderson
Wayne F. Anderson Northwestern University
Jonathan R. Warner
Jonathan R. Warner Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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