Alexander William Phillips

843 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 599 citations indexed

About

Alexander William Phillips is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander William Phillips has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 599 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Cell Biology and 1 paper in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alexander William Phillips's work include RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (2 papers). Alexander William Phillips is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (2 papers). Alexander William Phillips collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United Kingdom. Alexander William Phillips's co-authors include Thomas R. Burkard, Madeline A. Lancaster, Frederick J. Livesey, Juergen A. Knoblich, Tomoki Otani, Nina S. Corsini, E. Hilary Gustafson, Lyubov Ushakova, Thomas D. Cushion and David A. Keays and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Biotechnology and Development.

In The Last Decade

Alexander William Phillips

6 papers receiving 593 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.

Guided self-organization and cortical plate formation in human brain organoids

2017 574 citations Madeline A. Lancaster, Nina S. Corsini et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers

Alexander William Phillips

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George M. Gibbons United Kingdom

Julie Lévi‐Strauss France

Daniel Reumann Austria

Magdalena Sutcliffe United Kingdom

Alessandro Fiorenzano Sweden

Tomoki Otani United Kingdom

Mohammad Zeeshan Ozair United States

Naomi Roselaar United States

Neal D. Amin United States

Sarah Nickels Luxembourg

George M. Gibbons United Kingdom

Alexander William Phillips

403 ×0.9

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189 ×0.7

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188 ×1.4

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133 ×1.1

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40 ×0.7

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Countries citing papers authored by Alexander William Phillips

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander William Phillips

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander William Phillips

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Phillips, Alexander William, et al.. (2026). Loss of EB2 delays mitotic progression in murine and human neural progenitors. Development. 153(5).

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Hohmann, Ulrich, László Tirián, Dominik Handler, et al.. (2025). An ATP-gated molecular switch orchestrates human mRNA export. Nature. 649(8098). 1042–1050. 1 indexed citations

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Vorländer, Matthias K., et al.. (2024). Mechanism for the initiation of spliceosome disassembly. Nature. 632(8024). 443–450. 7 indexed citations

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Vorländer, Matthias K., et al.. (2024). Structural basis of human U5 snRNP late biogenesis and recycling. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(5). 747–751. 5 indexed citations

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Phillips, Alexander William, et al.. (2023). Codon modification of Tuba1a alters mRNA levels and causes a severe neurodevelopmental phenotype in mice. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 1215–1215. 5 indexed citations

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Phillips, Alexander William, Lukas Landler, Lyubov Ushakova, et al.. (2020). A proteomic survey of microtubule-associated proteins in a R402H TUBA1A mutant mouse. PLoS Genetics. 16(11). e1009104–e1009104. 7 indexed citations

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Lancaster, Madeline A., Nina S. Corsini, E. Hilary Gustafson, et al.. (2017). Guided self-organization and cortical plate formation in human brain organoids. Nature Biotechnology. 35(7). 659–666. 574 indexed citations breakdown →

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