Alex Cagan

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Alex Cagan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Cagan has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Alex Cagan's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (2 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (2 papers). Alex Cagan is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (2 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (2 papers). Alex Cagan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Alex Cagan's co-authors include Iñigo Martincorena, Peter J. Campbell, Andrew Lawson, Kasumi Murai, Kourosh Saeb‐Parsy, Michael Hall, Philip H. Jones, Rebecca C. Fitzgerald, Michael R. Stratton and Federico Abascal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Alex Cagan

15 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age

2018 651 citations Iñigo Martincorena, Joanna C. Fowler et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Cagan United Kingdom	11	625	514	405	228	115	15	1.3k
Stuart McLaren United Kingdom	6	828 1.3×	529 1.0×	261 0.6×	361 1.6×	144 1.3×	9	1.6k
Lucy Stebbings United Kingdom	10	1.3k 2.0×	777 1.5×	314 0.8×	468 2.1×	211 1.8×	13	2.0k
Sean Thomas United States	19	2.4k 3.8×	309 0.6×	497 1.2×	160 0.7×	70 0.6×	23	2.8k
Hideyuki Tanabe Japan	24	1.8k 2.9×	322 0.6×	507 1.3×	241 1.1×	51 0.4×	63	2.4k
Seth Frietze United States	26	1.2k 2.0×	205 0.4×	343 0.8×	246 1.1×	46 0.4×	76	1.9k
Tyson V. Sharp United Kingdom	24	958 1.5×	335 0.7×	171 0.4×	347 1.5×	78 0.7×	48	1.6k
Cordelia Langford United Kingdom	20	1.7k 2.7×	420 0.8×	591 1.5×	171 0.8×	89 0.8×	26	2.5k
Jaswinder Khattra Canada	13	867 1.4×	979 1.9×	394 1.0×	200 0.9×	198 1.7×	16	2.1k
Amnon Koren United States	22	1.7k 2.7×	673 1.3×	607 1.5×	193 0.8×	216 1.9×	67	2.6k
Nicola J. Royle United Kingdom	26	1.6k 2.6×	235 0.5×	811 2.0×	243 1.1×	157 1.4×	54	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Cagan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Cagan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Cagan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Cagan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Cagan 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 Alex Cagan. Alex Cagan 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

Vincze, Orsolya, David Bilder, Alex Cagan, et al.. (2025). Advancing cancer research via comparative oncology. Nature reviews. Cancer. 25(9). 740–748. 3 indexed citations

Vijg, Jan, Björn Schumacher, Abdulkadir Abakir, et al.. (2023). Mitigating age-related somatic mutation burden. Trends in Molecular Medicine. 29(7). 530–540. 14 indexed citations

Cagan, Alex, et al.. (2023). Radioactive contamination in feral dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone: Population body-burden survey and implications for human radiation exposure. PLoS ONE. 18(7). e0283206–e0283206. 1 indexed citations

Coorens, Tim, Luiza Moore, Philip S. Robinson, et al.. (2021). Extensive phylogenies of human development inferred from somatic mutations. Nature. 597(7876). 387–392. 75 indexed citations

Ellis, Peter, Luiza Moore, Mathijs A. Sanders, et al.. (2020). Reliable detection of somatic mutations in solid tissues by laser-capture microdissection and low-input DNA sequencing. Nature Protocols. 16(2). 841–871. 67 indexed citations

Georgakopoulos, Nikitas, Nicole Prior, Brigitte Angres, et al.. (2020). Long-term expansion, genomic stability and in vivo safety of adult human pancreas organoids. BMC Developmental Biology. 20(1). 4–4. 79 indexed citations

Svardal, Hannes, Bosco Rusuwa, Anmol Kiran, et al.. (2020). Evolutionary Genomics at the Human–Environment Interface in Africa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(10). 3076–3080. 2 indexed citations

Wiedenhoeft, John, Alex Cagan, R. V. Kozhemyakina, Р. Г. Гулевич, & Alexander Schliep. (2019). Bayesian localization of CNV candidates in WGS data within minutes. Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 14(1). 1 indexed citations

Martincorena, Iñigo, Joanna C. Fowler, Agnieszka Wabik, et al.. (2018). Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age. Science. 362(6417). 911–917. 651 indexed citations breakdown →

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Murai, Kasumi, Gabriel Piedrafita, Michael Hall, et al.. (2018). Epidermal Tissue Adapts to Restrain Progenitors Carrying Clonal p53 Mutations. Cell stem cell. 23(5). 687–699.e8. 60 indexed citations

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Kupczik, Kornelius, Alex Cagan, Silke Brauer, & Martin Fischer. (2017). The dental phenotype of hairless dogs with FOXI3 haploinsufficiency. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 5459–5459. 22 indexed citations

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Cagan, Alex & Torsten Blass. (2016). Identification of genomic variants putatively targeted by selection during dog domestication. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 10–10. 44 indexed citations

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Cagan, Alex, Christoph Theunert, Hafid Laayouni, et al.. (2016). Natural Selection in the Great Apes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(12). 3268–3283. 50 indexed citations

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Frantz, Laurent, Joshua G. Schraiber, Ole Madsen, et al.. (2015). Evidence of long-term gene flow and selection during domestication from analyses of Eurasian wild and domestic pig genomes. Nature Genetics. 47(10). 1141–1148. 185 indexed citations

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Heyne, Henrike, Ronald M. Nelson, François Besnier, et al.. (2014). Genetic Influences on Brain Gene Expression in Rats Selected for Tameness and Aggression. Genetics. 198(3). 1277–1290. 43 indexed citations

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