Alec B. Wilkens

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
4 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Alec B. Wilkens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alec B. Wilkens has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Oncology and 2 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Alec B. Wilkens's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers), CAR-T cell therapy research (2 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (1 paper). Alec B. Wilkens is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers), CAR-T cell therapy research (2 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (1 paper). Alec B. Wilkens collaborates with scholars based in United States. Alec B. Wilkens's co-authors include Rasmus O. Bak, Ayal Hendel, Matthew H. Porteus, Israel Steinfeld, Subhadeep Roy, Andrew Kennedy, Robert Kaiser, Anya Tsalenko, Joseph T. Clark and Daniel E. Ryan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Blood and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Alec B. Wilkens

4 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Chemically modified guide RNAs enhance CRISPR-Cas genome editing in human primary cells

2015 813 citations Ayal Hendel, Rasmus O. Bak et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
CRISPR/Cas9 β-globin gene targeting in human haematopoietic stem cells

2016 641 citations Daniel P. Dever, Rasmus O. Bak et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alec B. Wilkens United States	3	1.3k	446	218	146	142	4	1.5k
Sruthi Mantri United States	6	1.4k 1.0×	593 1.3×	262 1.2×	153 1.0×	167 1.2×	9	1.6k
Mara Pavel-Dinu United States	9	1.9k 1.4×	766 1.7×	362 1.7×	214 1.5×	166 1.2×	16	2.1k
M. Kyle Cromer United States	11	992 0.7×	443 1.0×	255 1.2×	91 0.6×	46 0.3×	17	1.2k
Carmencita E. Nicolas United States	2	684 0.5×	314 0.7×	133 0.6×	82 0.6×	123 0.9×	2	776
Timothy Davis United States	12	768 0.6×	320 0.7×	367 1.7×	85 0.6×	69 0.5×	17	1.1k
Fabrizia Urbinati United States	17	1.1k 0.8×	785 1.8×	299 1.4×	73 0.5×	330 2.3×	28	1.4k
Carsten T. Charlesworth United States	7	854 0.6×	357 0.8×	157 0.7×	84 0.6×	44 0.3×	10	938
Giulia Schiroli United States	7	786 0.6×	501 1.1×	252 1.2×	46 0.3×	119 0.8×	14	955
Seok‐Jin Heo United States	13	942 0.7×	193 0.4×	121 0.6×	47 0.3×	113 0.8×	19	1.1k
Jiazhi Hu China	21	1.9k 1.5×	349 0.8×	255 1.2×	178 1.2×	35 0.2×	40	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alec B. Wilkens

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Wilkens, Alec B., Margot J. Pont, Gabriel O. Cole, et al.. (2022). NOTCH1 signaling during CD4+ T-cell activation alters transcription factor networks and enhances antigen responsiveness. Blood. 140(21). 2261–2275. 15 indexed citations

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Dever, Daniel P., Rasmus O. Bak, Andreas Reinisch, et al.. (2016). CRISPR/Cas9 β-globin gene targeting in human haematopoietic stem cells. Nature. 539(7629). 384–389. 641 indexed citations breakdown →

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Greenberg, Philip D., Kristin G. Anderson, Sunil R. Hingorani, et al.. (2016). Abstract IA01: Engineering T cell responses to tumors: Taking the immune system where no responses have gone before. Cancer Immunology Research. 4(11_Supplement). IA01–IA01. 1 indexed citations

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Hendel, Ayal, Rasmus O. Bak, Joseph T. Clark, et al.. (2015). Chemically modified guide RNAs enhance CRISPR-Cas genome editing in human primary cells. Nature Biotechnology. 33(9). 985–989. 813 indexed citations breakdown →

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