Ahmet Saçan

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Ahmet Saçan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Ahmet Saçan has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Cancer Research and 6 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Ahmet Saçan's work include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (10 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (9 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (8 papers). Ahmet Saçan is often cited by papers focused on Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (10 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (9 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (8 papers). Ahmet Saçan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Italy. Ahmet Saçan's co-authors include Gustavo Alonso, Juliana Freire, Nesime Tatbul, Rehman Qureshi, Seena K. Ajit, Guillermo M. Alexander, Hakan Ferhatosmanoğlu, Yuzhen Tian, Marguerite K. McDonald and Ruby Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Neuroscience and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Ahmet Saçan

50 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ahmet Saçan United States	20	687	317	262	211	194	57	1.7k
Francisco Tirado Spain	19	825 1.2×	201 0.6×	188 0.7×	197 0.9×	77 0.4×	97	2.0k
Juan A. Botía Spain	22	397 0.6×	83 0.3×	222 0.8×	207 1.0×	162 0.8×	94	1.5k
Mehmet Koyutürk United States	30	1.7k 2.4×	180 0.6×	307 1.2×	125 0.6×	56 0.3×	122	2.7k
Juntao Li China	22	848 1.2×	253 0.8×	199 0.8×	119 0.6×	38 0.2×	152	1.7k
Mao Yang China	26	1.3k 1.8×	294 0.9×	295 1.1×	499 2.4×	271 1.4×	90	3.3k
Rosalba Giugno Italy	31	1.5k 2.2×	639 2.0×	508 1.9×	230 1.1×	67 0.3×	108	2.8k
Faraz Faghri United States	15	810 1.2×	120 0.4×	284 1.1×	163 0.8×	164 0.8×	27	1.8k
Waibhav Tembe United States	17	1.1k 1.6×	611 1.9×	590 2.3×	53 0.3×	148 0.8×	31	2.5k
Kun Zhang United States	22	559 0.8×	198 0.6×	647 2.5×	75 0.4×	36 0.2×	114	1.9k
Amir Ben‐Dor United States	24	2.9k 4.2×	508 1.6×	796 3.0×	93 0.4×	113 0.6×	53	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Saçan, Ahmet, et al.. (2025). CXCL12 Engages Cortical Inhibitory Neurons to Enhance Dendritic Spine Plasticity and Structured Network Activity. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(24). e2213242025–e2213242025. 1 indexed citations

Hayer, Katharina E., et al.. (2024). Locus folding mechanisms determine modes of antigen receptor gene assembly. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 221(2). 3 indexed citations

Luo, Xuan, Yuzhen Tian, Jingyun Lee, et al.. (2024). Inflammatory pain resolution by mouse serum-derived small extracellular vesicles. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 123. 422–441. 2 indexed citations

Luo, Xuan, et al.. (2021). Differential RNA packaging into small extracellular vesicles by neurons and astrocytes. Cell Communication and Signaling. 19(1). 75–75. 24 indexed citations

Luo, Xuan, Wen‐Wu Li, Peyman Sahbaie, et al.. (2021). Circulating microRNAs from the mouse tibia fracture model reflect the signature from patients with complex regional pain syndrome. PAIN Reports. 6(3). e950–e950. 6 indexed citations

Tian, Yuzhen, et al.. (2019). Proteome characterization of small extracellular vesicles from spared nerve injury model of neuropathic pain. Journal of Proteomics. 211. 103540–103540. 26 indexed citations

Alexander, Guillermo M., et al.. (2019). Exosome microRNA signatures in patients with complex regional pain syndrome undergoing plasma exchange. Journal of Translational Medicine. 17(1). 81–81. 36 indexed citations

Zhao, Chunyu, et al.. (2017). HIV1-human protein-protein interaction prediction based on interface architecture similarity. 97–100. 4 indexed citations

Hernandez‐Meza, Gabriela, Meltem İzzetoğlu, Ahmet Saçan, Michael Green, & Kurtuluş İzzetoğlu. (2017). Investigation of data-driven optical neuromonitoring approach during general anesthesia with sevoflurane. Neurophotonics. 4(4). 1–1. 10 indexed citations

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Qureshi, Rehman, Yuzhen Tian, Marguerite K. McDonald, et al.. (2015). Circulating microRNA Signatures in Rodent Models of Pain. Molecular Neurobiology. 53(5). 3416–3427. 25 indexed citations

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Saçan, Ahmet, et al.. (2015). Content-based search of gene expression databases using binary fingerprints of differential expression profiles. Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics. 4(1). 3 indexed citations

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Manners, Melissa T., Yuzhen Tian, Ruby Gao, et al.. (2014). Effect of Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor JNJ-26481585 in Pain. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience. 55(3). 570–578. 21 indexed citations

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McDonald, Marguerite K., Yuzhen Tian, Rehman Qureshi, et al.. (2014). Functional significance of macrophage-derived exosomes in inflammation and pain. Pain. 155(8). 1527–1539. 272 indexed citations

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Qureshi, Rehman & Ahmet Saçan. (2013). Weighted set enrichment of gene expression data. BMC Systems Biology. 7(Suppl 4). S10–S10. 21 indexed citations

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Sun, Hong, Ahmet Saçan, Hakan Ferhatosmanoğlu, & Yusu Wang. (2012). Smolign: A Spatial Motifs-Based Protein Multiple Structural Alignment Method. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 9(1). 249–261. 29 indexed citations

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Gerhart, James, et al.. (2011). Reconstruction of gene regulatory networks by stepwise multiple linear regression from time-series microarray data. 8. 1017–1019. 2 indexed citations

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Gelenbe, Erol, Ricardo Lent, Georgia Sakellari, et al.. (2010). Computer and Information Sciences: Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 423–423. 1 indexed citations

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Evans, Perry, Ahmet Saçan, Lyle Ungar, & Aydın Tözeren. (2010). Sequence Alignment Reveals Possible MAPK Docking Motifs on HIV Proteins. PLoS ONE. 5(1). e8942–e8942. 7 indexed citations

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Srinivasan, Visish M., Andres Kriete, Ahmet Saçan, & S. Michal Jazwinski. (2010). Comparing the yeast retrograde response and NF‐κB stress responses: implications for aging. Aging Cell. 9(6). 933–941. 56 indexed citations

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Saçan, Ahmet, et al.. (2010). Comparison of Multidimensional Data Access Methods for Feature-Based Image Retrieval. OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University). 18. 3260–3263. 2 indexed citations

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