Alan Herbert

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Alan Herbert is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Herbert has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Alan Herbert's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (37 papers), RNA regulation and disease (34 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (29 papers). Alan Herbert is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (37 papers), RNA regulation and disease (34 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (29 papers). Alan Herbert collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Australia. Alan Herbert's co-authors include Alexander Rich, Ky Lowenhaupt, L. Adrienne Cupples, Thomas Schwartz, Yang‐Gyun Kim, James B. Meigs, Mark A. Rould, Michael F. Christman, Norman P. Gerry and Hanxia Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan Herbert

91 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

  1. ADAR1 masks the cancer immunotherapeutic promise of ZBP1-driven necroptosis
    2022 262 citations Ting Zhang, Chaoran Yin et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Herbert United States 36 3.2k 788 529 521 441 97 4.7k
Souichi Adachi Japan 42 2.5k 0.8× 749 1.0× 437 0.8× 931 1.8× 214 0.5× 306 6.1k
Akio Yamashita Japan 39 4.2k 1.3× 326 0.4× 204 0.4× 328 0.6× 590 1.3× 165 6.0k
Srinivasa R. Nagalla United States 30 1.5k 0.5× 304 0.4× 342 0.6× 256 0.5× 152 0.3× 60 3.2k
Rosanna Asselta Italy 38 1.4k 0.4× 379 0.5× 552 1.0× 356 0.7× 153 0.3× 173 4.4k
Balraj Mittal India 36 1.7k 0.5× 357 0.5× 253 0.5× 239 0.5× 922 2.1× 143 3.6k
Gloria Gallo United States 32 1.9k 0.6× 313 0.4× 702 1.3× 221 0.4× 174 0.4× 85 3.6k
Risto Lapatto Finland 31 1.6k 0.5× 384 0.5× 386 0.7× 174 0.3× 190 0.4× 73 3.7k
Akiko Eguchi Japan 36 3.3k 1.0× 430 0.5× 350 0.7× 606 1.2× 365 0.8× 108 5.2k
Gerald V. Denis United States 33 2.9k 0.9× 276 0.4× 550 1.0× 563 1.1× 165 0.4× 86 4.3k
Benoît Vanhollebeke Belgium 24 1.1k 0.4× 393 0.5× 389 0.7× 350 0.7× 125 0.3× 47 3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Herbert

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Herbert

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Herbert

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Herbert, Alan, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking DNA large language models on quadruplexes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 27. 992–1000.
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Herbert, Alan, et al.. (2025). Zα and Zβ Localize ADAR1 to Flipons That Modulate Innate Immunity, Alternative Splicing, and Nonsynonymous RNA Editing. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(6). 2422–2422. 1 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan. (2024). The ancient Z-DNA and Z-RNA specific Zα fold has evolved modern roles in immunity and transcription through the natural selection of flipons. Royal Society Open Science. 11(6). 240080–240080. 13 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan. (2024). Flipons: The discovery of Z-DNA and soft-wired genomes. 43(1). 75–77. 2 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan. (2024). Osteogenesis imperfecta type 10 and the cellular scaffolds underlying common immunological diseases. Genes and Immunity. 25(4). 265–276. 2 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan, et al.. (2023). Conserved microRNAs and Flipons Shape Gene Expression during Development by Altering Promoter Conformations. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(5). 4884–4884. 10 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan, et al.. (2023). Unsupervised domain adaptation methods for cross-species transfer of regulatory code signals. Frontiers in Big Data. 6. 1140663–1140663. 1 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan. (2023). The Intransitive Logic of Directed Cycles and Flipons Enhances the Evolution of Molecular Computers by Augmenting the Kolmogorov Complexity of Genomes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(22). 16482–16482. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ting, Chaoran Yin, А. И. Федоров, et al.. (2022). ADAR1 masks the cancer immunotherapeutic promise of ZBP1-driven necroptosis. Nature. 606(7914). 594–602. 262 indexed citations breakdown →
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Herbert, Alan. (2019). Mendelian disease caused by variants affecting recognition of Z-DNA and Z-RNA by the Zα domain of the double-stranded RNA editing enzyme ADAR. European Journal of Human Genetics. 28(1). 114–117. 55 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan. (2018). Z-DNA and Z-RNA in human disease. Communications Biology. 2(1). 7–7. 145 indexed citations
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Wilk, Jemma B., Alan Herbert, Christina M. Shoemaker, Daniel J. Gottlieb, & Samer Karamohamed. (2007). Secreted Modular Calcium-binding Protein 2 Haplotypes are Associated with Pulmonary Function. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 175(6). 554–560. 16 indexed citations
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Djoussé, Luc, Samer Karamohamed, Alan Herbert, et al.. (2007). Fucosyltransferase 3 polymorphism and atherothrombotic disease in the Framingham Offspring Study. American Heart Journal. 153(4). 636–639. 9 indexed citations
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Meigs, James B., Josée Dupuis, Chunyu Liu, et al.. (2006). PAI‐1 Gene 4G/5G Polymorphism and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in a Population‐based Sample. Obesity. 14(5). 753–758. 19 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan. (2003). The four Rs of RNA-directed evolution. Nature Genetics. 36(1). 19–25. 55 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan, Stefan Wagner, & Jeffrey A. Nickerson. (2002). Induction of Protein Translation by ADAR1 within Living Cell Nuclei Is Not Dependent on RNA Editing. Molecular Cell. 10(5). 1235–1246. 30 indexed citations
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Schwartz, Thomas, Ky Lowenhaupt, Yang‐Gyun Kim, et al.. (1999). Proteolytic Dissection of Zab, the Z-DNA-binding Domain of Human ADAR1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(5). 2899–2906. 58 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan. (1998). The Zalpha domain from human ADAR1 binds to the Z-DNA conformer of many different sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 26(15). 3486–3493. 96 indexed citations
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Herbert, Alan & James D. Watson. (1986). T-cell ontogeny: the role of a stimulator — suppressor cell. Immunology Today. 7(3). 72–76. 2 indexed citations

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