Alice Barkan

13.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Alice Barkan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Alice Barkan has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Plant Science and 10 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Alice Barkan's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (87 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (54 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (38 papers). Alice Barkan is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (87 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (54 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (38 papers). Alice Barkan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Alice Barkan's co-authors include Ian Small, Rosalind Williams‐Carrier, Kenneth P. Watkins, Christian Schmitz‐Linneweber, Margarita Rojas, Yukari Asakura, Prakitchai Chotewutmontri, Macie B. Walker, Rodger B. Voelker and Reimo Zoschke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alice Barkan

121 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins in Plants

2014 771 citations Alice Barkan, Ian Small profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alice Barkan United States	58	8.6k	3.6k	765	405	352	123	9.4k
Pál Maliga United States	61	11.6k 1.3×	6.9k 1.9×	920 1.2×	432 1.1×	298 0.8×	166	12.5k
Danny J. Schnell United States	45	5.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	782 1.0×	149 0.4×	211 0.6×	81	5.5k
Carolyn D. Silflow United States	39	3.4k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	574 0.8×	619 1.5×	179 0.5×	65	4.2k
Pierre Thuriaux France	39	4.7k 0.6×	675 0.2×	145 0.2×	415 1.0×	257 0.7×	89	5.1k
Hachiro Inokuchi Japan	35	4.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	240 0.3×	1.4k 3.4×	896 2.5×	104	5.3k
Pamela Dunsmuir United States	38	3.9k 0.5×	3.7k 1.0×	162 0.2×	302 0.7×	123 0.3×	66	5.2k
Karen L. Kindle United States	34	3.5k 0.4×	766 0.2×	1.4k 1.9×	344 0.8×	357 1.0×	58	4.2k
Ralf Bernd Klösgen Germany	30	2.3k 0.3×	1.0k 0.3×	280 0.4×	453 1.1×	376 1.1×	69	2.7k
Axel Brennicke Germany	54	8.2k 1.0×	2.5k 0.7×	135 0.2×	557 1.4×	322 0.9×	193	9.1k
John Bedbrook United States	32	4.1k 0.5×	4.0k 1.1×	200 0.3×	477 1.2×	204 0.6×	52	5.7k

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Williams‐Carrier, Rosalind, et al.. (2025). The psbA open reading frame acts in cis to toggle HCF173 from an activator to a repressor for light-regulated psbA translation in plants. The Plant Cell. 37(4). 3 indexed citations

Chotewutmontri, Prakitchai & Alice Barkan. (2024). Localization of proteins involved in the biogenesis and repair of the photosynthetic apparatus to thylakoid subdomains in Arabidopsis. Plant Direct. 8(11). e70008–e70008. 2 indexed citations

Chotewutmontri, Prakitchai, et al.. (2024). Translational activation by a synthetic PPR protein elucidates control of psbA translation in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. The Plant Cell. 36(10). 4168–4178. 7 indexed citations

Barkan, Alice, et al.. (2024). Posttranscriptional tuning of gene expression over a large dynamic range in synthetic tobacco chloroplast operons. The Plant Journal. 119(5). 2437–2449.

Chotewutmontri, Prakitchai, et al.. (2022). Correlated retrograde and developmental regulons implicate multiple retrograde signals as coordinators of chloroplast development in maize. The Plant Cell. 34(12). 4897–4919. 7 indexed citations

Manavski, Nikolay, Margarita Rojas, Louis‐Valentin Méteignier, et al.. (2021). In vivo stabilization of endogenous chloroplast RNAs by customized artificial pentatricopeptide repeat proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(10). 5985–5997. 19 indexed citations

Chotewutmontri, Prakitchai & Alice Barkan. (2021). Ribosome profiling elucidates differential gene expression in bundle sheath and mesophyll cells in maize. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 187(1). 59–72. 9 indexed citations

Chotewutmontri, Prakitchai & Alice Barkan. (2020). Light-induced psbA translation in plants is triggered by photosystem II damage via an assembly-linked autoregulatory circuit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(35). 21775–21784. 59 indexed citations

Jiang, Jingjing, Xin Chai, Nikolay Manavski, et al.. (2019). An RNA Chaperone–Like Protein Plays Critical Roles in Chloroplast mRNA Stability and Translation in Arabidopsis and Maize. The Plant Cell. 31(6). 1308–1327. 26 indexed citations

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Rojas, Margarita, et al.. (2017). RNA-binding specificity landscape of the pentatricopeptide repeat protein PPR10. RNA. 23(4). 586–599. 33 indexed citations

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Chotewutmontri, Prakitchai, Nicholas Stiffler, Kenneth P. Watkins, & Alice Barkan. (2017). Ribosome Profiling in Maize. Methods in molecular biology. 1676. 165–183. 20 indexed citations

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Zoschke, Reimo & Alice Barkan. (2015). Genome-wide analysis of thylakoid-bound ribosomes in maize reveals principles of cotranslational targeting to the thylakoid membrane. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(13). E1678–87. 64 indexed citations

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Gully, Benjamin S., Nathan Cowieson, Will A. Stanley, et al.. (2015). The solution structure of the pentatricopeptide repeat protein PPR10 upon binding atpH RNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(3). 1918–1926. 55 indexed citations

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Sosso, Davide, Ghislaine Gendrot, Annick Berne-Dedieu, et al.. (2012). PPR8522 encodes a chloroplast-targeted pentatricopeptide repeat protein necessary for maize embryogenesis and vegetative development. Journal of Experimental Botany. 63(16). 5843–5857. 51 indexed citations

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Majeran, Wojciech, Giulia Friso, Yukari Asakura, et al.. (2011). Nucleoid-Enriched Proteomes in Developing Plastids and Chloroplasts from Maize Leaves: A New Conceptual Framework for Nucleoid Functions . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 158(1). 156–189. 195 indexed citations

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Barkan, Alice. (2011). Studying the Structure and Processing of Chloroplast Transcripts. Methods in molecular biology. 774. 183–197. 23 indexed citations

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Williams‐Carrier, Rosalind, Nicholas Stiffler, Susan Belcher, et al.. (2010). Use of Illumina sequencing to identify transposon insertions underlying mutant phenotypes in high-copy Mutator lines of maize. The Plant Journal. 63(1). no–no. 110 indexed citations

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Asakura, Yukari, Omer Ali Bayraktar, & Alice Barkan. (2008). Two CRM protein subfamilies cooperate in the splicing of group IIB introns in chloroplasts. RNA. 14(11). 2319–2332. 57 indexed citations

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Schmitz‐Linneweber, Christian, Rosalind Williams‐Carrier, & Alice Barkan. (2005). RNA Immunoprecipitation and Microarray Analysis Show a Chloroplast Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein to Be Associated with the 5′ Region of mRNAs Whose Translation It Activates. The Plant Cell. 17(10). 2791–2804. 214 indexed citations

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Voelker, Rodger B., Janet Mendel‐Hartvig, & Alice Barkan. (1997). Transposon-Disruption of a Maize Nuclear Gene, tha1, Encoding a Chloroplast SecA Homologue: In Vivo Role of cp-SecA in Thylakoid Protein Targeting. Genetics. 145(2). 467–478. 65 indexed citations

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