Alex A. Pollen

14.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
38 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Alex A. Pollen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Developmental Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex A. Pollen has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Developmental Neuroscience and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alex A. Pollen's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (11 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (10 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (8 papers). Alex A. Pollen is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (11 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (10 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (8 papers). Alex A. Pollen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Alex A. Pollen's co-authors include Tomasz J. Nowakowski, Arnold R. Kriegstein, Carmen Sandoval-Espinosa, Elizabeth Di Lullo, Marina Bershteyn, Daniel A. Lim, Siyuan Liu, Jay West, Anne Leyrat and Aarón Díaz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Alex A. Pollen

37 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Molecular Identity of Human Outer Radial Glia during Cortical Development

2015 556 citations Alex A. Pollen, Tomasz J. Nowakowski et al. Cell profile →
Spatiotemporal gene expression trajectories reveal developmental hierarchies of the human cortex

2017 519 citations Tomasz J. Nowakowski, Aparna Bhaduri et al. Science profile →
Expression Analysis Highlights AXL as a Candidate Zika Virus Entry Receptor in Neural Stem Cells

2016 411 citations Tomasz J. Nowakowski, Alex A. Pollen et al. Cell stem cell profile →
Human iPSC-Derived Cerebral Organoids Model Cellular Features of Lissencephaly and Reveal Prolonged Mitosis of Outer Radial Glia

2017 404 citations Marina Bershteyn, Tomasz J. Nowakowski et al. Cell stem cell profile →
Zika virus cell tropism in the developing human brain and inhibition by azithromycin

2016 365 citations Elizabeth Di Lullo, Carmen Sandoval-Espinosa et al. profile →
Cell stress in cortical organoids impairs molecular subtype specification

2020 357 citations Aparna Bhaduri, Madeline G. Andrews 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
Alex A. Pollen United States	24	2.9k	877	742	622	530	38	4.6k
Tomasz J. Nowakowski United States	34	4.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	629 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	549 1.0×	69	6.1k
Jaehoon Shin United States	17	1.7k 0.6×	343 0.4×	533 0.7×	222 0.4×	748 1.4×	27	3.2k
Maximilian Haeussler United States	26	5.1k 1.7×	439 0.5×	1.2k 1.6×	569 0.9×	127 0.2×	45	6.3k
Sha Mi United States	35	3.1k 1.1×	1.8k 2.0×	673 0.9×	358 0.6×	211 0.4×	61	6.3k
Åsa K. Björklund Sweden	30	5.5k 1.9×	284 0.3×	552 0.7×	1.2k 2.0×	248 0.5×	42	8.1k
Cecilia B. Moens United States	54	6.9k 2.4×	628 0.7×	1.7k 2.3×	707 1.1×	162 0.3×	118	9.2k
Carmen Sandoval-Espinosa United States	6	1.2k 0.4×	519 0.6×	241 0.3×	209 0.3×	510 1.0×	6	2.2k
Susan M. Sunkin United States	28	5.3k 1.8×	781 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	1.8k 2.9×	376 0.7×	44	10.0k
Ronald Naumann Germany	33	2.1k 0.7×	338 0.4×	445 0.6×	270 0.4×	124 0.2×	76	4.4k
Joseph G. Gleeson United States	48	5.2k 1.8×	2.4k 2.7×	2.8k 3.8×	673 1.1×	521 1.0×	127	9.5k

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Poddar, Aunoy, Miguel Turrero Garcίa, Sean de la O, et al.. (2025). Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons. Nature. 647(8088). 187–193.

Cui, Xiekui, Han Yang, Charles Q. Cai, et al.. (2025). Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons. Nature. 640(8060). 991–999. 5 indexed citations

Pollen, Alex A., Umut Kilik, Craig B. Lowe, & J. Gray Camp. (2023). Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics. 24(10). 687–711. 49 indexed citations

She, Richard, Tyler Fair, Nathan K. Schaefer, et al.. (2023). Comparative landscape of genetic dependencies in human and chimpanzee stem cells. Cell. 186(14). 2977–2994.e23. 13 indexed citations

Wallace, Jenelle L. & Alex A. Pollen. (2023). Human neuronal maturation comes of age: cellular mechanisms and species differences. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 25(1). 7–29. 27 indexed citations

Schmitz, Matthew T., Kadellyn Sandoval, Mohammed A. Mostajo-Radji, et al.. (2022). The development and evolution of inhibitory neurons in primate cerebrum. Nature. 603(7903). 871–877. 56 indexed citations

Speir, Matthew L, Aparna Bhaduri, Nikolay S. Markov, et al.. (2021). UCSC Cell Browser: visualize your single-cell data. Bioinformatics. 37(23). 4578–4580. 144 indexed citations

Pansodtee, Pattawong, Helen Rankin Willsey, Gary L. Mantalas, et al.. (2021). Picroscope: low-cost system for simultaneous longitudinal biological imaging. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1261–1261. 11 indexed citations

Delgado, Ryan N., Eugene Gil, Mitchel A. Cole, et al.. (2021). Distinct nuclear compartment-associated genome architecture in the developing mammalian brain. Nature Neuroscience. 24(9). 1235–1242. 29 indexed citations

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Bhaduri, Aparna, Madeline G. Andrews, Walter Mancia, et al.. (2020). Cell stress in cortical organoids impairs molecular subtype specification. Nature. 578(7793). 142–148. 357 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dai, Hai‐Qiang, Zhuoyi Liang, Amelia Chang, et al.. (2020). Direct analysis of brain phenotypes via neural blastocyst complementation. Nature Protocols. 15(10). 3154–3181. 4 indexed citations

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Fiddes, Ian T., Alex A. Pollen, Jonathan M. Davis, & James M. Sikela. (2019). Paired involvement of human-specific Olduvai domains and NOTCH2NL genes in human brain evolution. Human Genetics. 138(7). 715–721. 28 indexed citations

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Nowakowski, Tomasz J., Neha Rani, Mahdi Golkaram, et al.. (2018). Regulation of cell-type-specific transcriptomes by microRNA networks during human brain development. Nature Neuroscience. 21(12). 1784–1792. 119 indexed citations

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Dougherty, Max L., Jason G. Underwood, Bradley J. Nelson, et al.. (2018). Transcriptional fates of human-specific segmental duplications in brain. Genome Research. 28(10). 1566–1576. 41 indexed citations

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Mostajo-Radji, Mohammed A. & Alex A. Pollen. (2018). Physiological Models of Human Neuronal Development and Disease. Neuron. 100(5). 1025–1027. 1 indexed citations

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Bhaduri, Aparna, Tomasz J. Nowakowski, Alex A. Pollen, & Arnold R. Kriegstein. (2018). Identification of cell types in a mouse brain single-cell atlas using low sampling coverage. BMC Biology. 16(1). 113–113. 11 indexed citations

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Nowakowski, Tomasz J., Aparna Bhaduri, Alex A. Pollen, et al.. (2017). Spatiotemporal gene expression trajectories reveal developmental hierarchies of the human cortex. Science. 358(6368). 1318–1323. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pollen, Alex A. & Arnold R. Kriegstein. (2016). Primate Neurons Flex Their Musclin. Neuron. 92(4). 681–683. 3 indexed citations

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Nowakowski, Tomasz J., Alex A. Pollen, Elizabeth Di Lullo, et al.. (2016). Expression Analysis Highlights AXL as a Candidate Zika Virus Entry Receptor in Neural Stem Cells. Cell stem cell. 18(5). 591–596. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

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Miller, Craig T., Sandra Beleza, Alex A. Pollen, et al.. (2007). cis-Regulatory Changes in Kit Ligand Expression and Parallel Evolution of Pigmentation in Sticklebacks and Humans. Cell. 131(6). 1179–1189. 293 indexed citations

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