Alexander Stark

33.3k total citations · 13 hit papers
122 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

Alexander Stark is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Stark has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Plant Science and 18 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Alexander Stark's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (41 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (37 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers). Alexander Stark is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (41 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (37 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers). Alexander Stark collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Alexander Stark's co-authors include Julius Brennecke, Stephen M. Cohen, Robert B. Russell, Robert B. Russell, Manolis Kellis, Gregory J. Hannon, Ravi Sachidanandam, Gerald Stampfel, Monica Dus and Alexei A. Aravin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Stark

115 papers receiving 20.1k citations

Hit Papers

Discrete Small RNA-Generating Loci as Master Regulators o... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2007 2005 2003 2014 2005 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Discrete Small RNA-Generating Loci as Master Regulators of Transposon Activity in Drosophila
    2007 1.9k citations Julius Brennecke, Alexei A. Aravin et al. Cell profile →
  2. Principles of MicroRNA–Target Recognition
    2005 1.8k citations Julius Brennecke, Alexander Stark et al. profile →
  3. bantam Encodes a Developmentally Regulated microRNA that Controls Cell Proliferation and Regulates the Proapoptotic Gene hid in Drosophila
    2003 1.7k citations Julius Brennecke, Alexander Stark et al. Cell profile →
  4. Transcriptional enhancers: from properties to genome-wide predictions
    2014 936 citations Daria Shlyueva, Alexander Stark et al. profile →
  5. Animal MicroRNAs Confer Robustness to Gene Expression and Have a Significant Impact on 3′UTR Evolution
    2005 845 citations Alexander Stark, Julius Brennecke et al. Cell profile →
  6. mRNA degradation by miRNAs and GW182 requires both CCR4:NOT deadenylase and DCP1:DCP2 decapping complexes
    2006 751 citations Alexander Stark et al. profile →
  7. Genome-Wide Quantitative Enhancer Activity Maps Identified by STARR-seq
    2013 725 citations Cosmas D. Arnold, Daniel Gerlach et al. Science profile →
  8. Specialized piRNA Pathways Act in Germline and Somatic Tissues of the Drosophila Ovary
    2009 671 citations Colin D. Malone, Julius Brennecke et al. Cell profile →
  9. Identification of Drosophila MicroRNA Targets
    2003 622 citations Alexander Stark, Julius Brennecke et al. profile →
  10. RNA polymerase stalling at developmental control genes in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo
    2007 592 citations Julia Zeitlinger, Alexander Stark et al. profile →
  11. An Epigenetic Role for Maternally Inherited piRNAs in Transposon Silencing
    2008 567 citations Julius Brennecke, Colin D. Malone et al. Science profile →
  12. An endogenous small interfering RNA pathway in Drosophila
    2008 546 citations Colin D. Malone, Alexander Stark et al. Nature profile →
  13. Eukaryotic core promoters and the functional basis of transcription initiation
    2018 455 citations Alexander Stark et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Stark Austria 61 17.4k 6.1k 4.8k 2.1k 1.1k 122 20.4k
Eric C. Lai United States 71 17.2k 1.0× 10.0k 1.6× 3.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 1.5k 1.4× 198 21.3k
Ravi Sachidanandam United States 64 15.5k 0.9× 4.0k 0.7× 7.3k 1.5× 2.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 124 18.8k
Piero Carninci Japan 73 17.1k 1.0× 4.6k 0.8× 5.5k 1.1× 2.4k 1.1× 1.9k 1.7× 307 22.8k
Phillip D. Zamore United States 86 32.6k 1.9× 12.7k 2.1× 9.6k 2.0× 3.1k 1.5× 2.1k 2.0× 165 38.1k
Elisa Izaurralde Germany 89 22.9k 1.3× 5.8k 1.0× 1.8k 0.4× 1.4k 0.6× 1.4k 1.3× 163 25.6k
Richard W. Carthew United States 52 13.1k 0.8× 4.8k 0.8× 2.5k 0.5× 1.8k 0.9× 1.7k 1.6× 105 17.0k
W. Richard McCombie United States 71 18.5k 1.1× 3.8k 0.6× 6.5k 1.4× 4.5k 2.1× 1.1k 1.0× 164 25.6k
Yoshihide Hayashizaki Japan 69 13.9k 0.8× 3.9k 0.6× 4.1k 0.8× 2.6k 1.2× 1.6k 1.5× 319 19.2k
Timothy R. Hughes Canada 74 20.8k 1.2× 2.2k 0.4× 3.2k 0.7× 2.4k 1.1× 1.0k 0.9× 175 23.9k
Julius Brennecke Austria 37 12.4k 0.7× 5.2k 0.9× 5.9k 1.2× 1.2k 0.6× 775 0.7× 60 14.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stark, Alexander, Jakob Hartvig Thomsen, Søren Lund Kristensen, et al.. (2024). Pleural Effusion and Invasive Hemodynamic Measurements in Advanced Heart Failure. Circulation Heart Failure. 17(9). e011253–e011253. 2 indexed citations
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Loubière, Vincent, Ramesh Yelagandula, Michaela Pagani, et al.. (2024). Proteome-scale tagging and functional screening in mammalian cells by ORFtag. Nature Methods. 21(9). 1668–1673. 4 indexed citations
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Loubière, Vincent, Bernardo P. de Almeida, Michaela Pagani, & Alexander Stark. (2024). Developmental and housekeeping transcriptional programs display distinct modes of enhancer-enhancer cooperativity in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8584–8584. 8 indexed citations
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Jacobs, Jelle, et al.. (2023). Widespread regulatory specificities between transcriptional co-repressors and enhancers in Drosophila. Science. 381(6654). 198–204. 11 indexed citations
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Stark, Alexander, et al.. (2023). The Manifoldness of Traditional Knowledge: The Example of the Minangkabau Society in West Sumatra, Indonesia. 30(2). 39–55. 1 indexed citations
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Almeida, Bernardo P. de, Christoph Schaub, Michaela Pagani, et al.. (2023). Targeted design of synthetic enhancers for selected tissues in the Drosophila embryo. Nature. 626(7997). 207–211. 41 indexed citations
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Fricke‐Begemann, Cord, et al.. (2015). Innovative separation technologies for refractory waste. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 2 indexed citations
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Stark, Alexander. (2015). Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method. American Journal of Business and Management. 3(4). 83–89. 2 indexed citations
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Fricke‐Begemann, Cord, et al.. (2015). Sensor-Based Identification Of Spent Refractory Bricks. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Shlyueva, Daria, Christoph Stelzer, Daniel Gerlach, et al.. (2014). Hormone-Responsive Enhancer-Activity Maps Reveal Predictive Motifs, Indirect Repression, and Targeting of Closed Chromatin. Molecular Cell. 54(1). 180–192. 97 indexed citations
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Arnold, Cosmas D., Daniel Gerlach, Christoph Stelzer, et al.. (2013). Genome-Wide Quantitative Enhancer Activity Maps Identified by STARR-seq. Science. 339(6123). 1074–1077. 725 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hilgers, Valérie, Michael Perry, David A. Hendrix, et al.. (2011). Neural-specific elongation of 3′ UTRs during Drosophila development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(38). 15864–15869. 120 indexed citations
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Elling, Ulrich, Jasmin Taubenschmid, Gerald Wirnsberger, et al.. (2011). Forward and Reverse Genetics through Derivation of Haploid Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell stem cell. 9(6). 563–574. 187 indexed citations
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Zeitlinger, Julia & Alexander Stark. (2010). Developmental gene regulation in the era of genomics. Developmental Biology. 339(2). 230–239. 38 indexed citations
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Murchison, Elizabeth P., Cesar Tovar, Arthur Hsu, et al.. (2009). The Tasmanian Devil Transcriptome Reveals Schwann Cell Origins of a Clonally Transmissible Cancer. Science. 327(5961). 84–87. 4 indexed citations
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Brennecke, Julius, Colin D. Malone, Alexei A. Aravin, et al.. (2008). An Epigenetic Role for Maternally Inherited piRNAs in Transposon Silencing. Science. 322(5906). 1387–1392. 567 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brennecke, Julius, Alexei A. Aravin, Alexander Stark, et al.. (2007). Discrete Small RNA-Generating Loci as Master Regulators of Transposon Activity in Drosophila. Cell. 128(6). 1089–1103. 1881 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kheradpour, Pouya, Alexander Stark, Sushmita Roy, & Manolis Kellis. (2007). Reliable prediction of regulator targets using 12 Drosophila genomes. Genome Research. 17(12). 1919–1931. 121 indexed citations
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Stark, Alexander. (2003). Annotation in three dimensions. PINTS: Patterns in Non-homologous Tertiary Structures. Nucleic Acids Research. 31(13). 3341–3344. 130 indexed citations
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Hatano, Etsuro, Cynthia A. Bradham, Alexander Stark, et al.. (2000). The Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Augments Fas-induced Apoptosis in Mouse Hepatocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(16). 11814–11823. 124 indexed citations

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