Alan Derr

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Alan Derr is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Derr has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Surgery, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alan Derr's work include Diabetes and associated disorders (5 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (5 papers) and Diabetes Management and Education (2 papers). Alan Derr is often cited by papers focused on Diabetes and associated disorders (5 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (5 papers) and Diabetes Management and Education (2 papers). Alan Derr collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Singapore. Alan Derr's co-authors include Manuel Garber, Alper Küçükural, Upasna Sharma, Lina Song, Xinyang Bing, Colin C. Conine, Lucas Fauquier, Jeremy M. Shea, Clémence Belleannée and Ana Bošković and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Methods and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Alan Derr

12 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Biogenesis and function of tRNA fragments during sperm maturation and fertilization in mammals

2015 877 citations Upasna Sharma, Colin C. Conine et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Derr United States	7	851	272	199	157	155	15	1.2k
Jingjing Qian China	10	926 1.1×	335 1.2×	163 0.8×	301 1.9×	163 1.1×	24	1.4k
Shintaro Yagi Japan	18	879 1.0×	70 0.3×	256 1.3×	125 0.8×	82 0.5×	36	1.3k
Maren Godmann Germany	16	751 0.9×	70 0.3×	259 1.3×	149 0.9×	265 1.7×	29	1.1k
Isabelle Gillot France	10	645 0.8×	115 0.4×	283 1.4×	169 1.1×	132 0.9×	15	990
Ilona Zvetkova United Kingdom	10	961 1.1×	115 0.4×	478 2.4×	68 0.4×	37 0.2×	13	1.3k
Winifred Mak United States	16	1.3k 1.6×	226 0.8×	803 4.0×	361 2.3×	159 1.0×	32	1.8k
Zongliang Jiang United States	20	802 0.9×	117 0.4×	287 1.4×	224 1.4×	143 0.9×	59	1.3k
Ruizhi Feng China	14	407 0.5×	187 0.7×	111 0.6×	162 1.0×	307 2.0×	43	1.0k
Xiuxia Wang China	21	521 0.6×	117 0.4×	280 1.4×	75 0.5×	504 3.3×	36	1.1k
Lingbo Cai China	13	792 0.9×	164 0.6×	190 1.0×	189 1.2×	270 1.7×	46	1.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Derr

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

Guo, Zhiru, et al.. (2025). Janus kinase inhibition prevents autoimmune diabetes in LEW.1WR1 rats. Journal of Autoimmunity. 151. 103358–103358. 1 indexed citations

Derr, Alan, Sambra D. Redick, Natasha Qaisar, et al.. (2022). An Early Islet Transcriptional Signature Is Associated With Local Inflammation in Autoimmune Diabetes. Diabetes. 72(2). 261–274. 2 indexed citations

Derr, Alan, Zhiru Guo, Kerstin Nündel, et al.. (2021). Human nasal wash RNA-Seq reveals distinct cell-specific innate immune responses in influenza versus SARS-CoV-2. JCI Insight. 6(22). 18 indexed citations

Reis, Monica, Gareth R. Willis, Angeles Fernandez‐Gonzalez, et al.. (2021). Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Restore Thymic Architecture and T Cell Function Disrupted by Neonatal Hyperoxia. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 640595–640595. 21 indexed citations

MacGregor, Kristin L., et al.. (2021). The Impact of Integrated Behavioral Healthcare on Glycemic Control. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. 29(3). 636–644. 2 indexed citations

Qaisar, Natasha, Alan Derr, Alper Küçükural, et al.. (2021). Type I IFN–Driven Immune Cell Dysregulation in Rat Autoimmune Diabetes. ImmunoHorizons. 5(10). 855–869. 6 indexed citations

MacGregor, Kristin L., et al.. (2019). 871-P: The Impact of Integrated Behavioral Health in a Diabetes Center. Diabetes. 68(Supplement_1).

Russell, Mark A., Sambra D. Redick, David M. Blodgett, et al.. (2019). HLA Class II Antigen Processing and Presentation Pathway Components Demonstrated by Transcriptome and Protein Analyses of Islet β-Cells From Donors With Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes. 68(5). 988–1001. 98 indexed citations

Redick, Sambra D., Ann R. Rittenhouse, David M. Blodgett, et al.. (2019). Recovery of viable endocrine‐specific cells and transcriptomes from human pancreatic islet‐engrafted mice. The FASEB Journal. 34(1). 1901–1911. 6 indexed citations

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Derr, Alan, Chaoxing Yang, Rapolas Žilionis, et al.. (2016). End Sequence Analysis Toolkit (ESAT) expands the extractable information from single-cell RNA-seq data. Genome Research. 26(10). 1397–1410. 33 indexed citations

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Sharma, Upasna, Colin C. Conine, Jeremy M. Shea, et al.. (2015). Biogenesis and function of tRNA fragments during sperm maturation and fertilization in mammals. Science. 351(6271). 391–396. 877 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bolukbasi, Mehmet Fatih, Ankit Gupta, Sarah Oikemus, et al.. (2015). DNA-binding-domain fusions enhance the targeting range and precision of Cas9. Nature Methods. 12(12). 1150–1156. 96 indexed citations

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Fournier, Marcia V., Alan Derr, Kevin Reid, et al.. (2015). Abstract P3-06-19: Gene expression profiles accompanying phenotypic changes during non-malignant breast epithelial cells acini formation to explain MRI phenotypes. Cancer Research. 75(9_Supplement). P3–6. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Yiting, Hui Hoon Chua, Chi Ho Lin, et al.. (2006). Genomic patterns of pathogen evolution revealed by comparison of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, to avirulent Burkholderia thailandensis. BMC Microbiology. 6(1). 46–46.

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Schwartz, Richard, Chris Barry, Yen-Lu Chow, et al.. (1989). Improved HMM models for high performance speech recognition. 249–249. 8 indexed citations

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