Alison E. Twelvetrees

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Alison E. Twelvetrees is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison E. Twelvetrees has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cell Biology and 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alison E. Twelvetrees's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (8 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (4 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers). Alison E. Twelvetrees is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (8 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (4 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers). Alison E. Twelvetrees collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Alison E. Twelvetrees's co-authors include Erika L.F. Holzbaur, Armen J. Moughamian, Sandra Maday, Josef T. Kittler, Andrew F. MacAskill, I. Lorena Arancibia‐Cárcamo, James Muir, Johanne Egge Rinholm, David Attwell and Åsa Fransson and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alison E. Twelvetrees

13 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Miro1 Is a Calcium Sensor for Glutamate Receptor-Dependen... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2014 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Miro1 Is a Calcium Sensor for Glutamate Receptor-Dependent Localization of Mitochondria at Synapses
    2009 521 citations Andrew F. MacAskill, Johanne Egge Rinholm et al. Neuron profile →
  2. Axonal Transport: Cargo-Specific Mechanisms of Motility and Regulation
    2014 483 citations Sandra Maday, Alison E. Twelvetrees et al. Neuron profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alison E. Twelvetrees United Kingdom 12 958 616 519 195 178 15 1.5k
Cindy V. Ly United States 13 1.1k 1.1× 757 1.2× 374 0.7× 254 1.3× 254 1.4× 22 1.6k
Yi‐Shuian Huang Taiwan 25 1.7k 1.8× 463 0.8× 249 0.5× 177 0.9× 83 0.5× 69 2.3k
Shermali Gunawardena United States 18 1.2k 1.2× 897 1.5× 704 1.4× 548 2.8× 284 1.6× 40 2.0k
Tetsuya Takano Japan 18 788 0.8× 544 0.9× 391 0.8× 146 0.7× 61 0.3× 31 1.6k
Michel J. Roux France 26 1.5k 1.6× 1.1k 1.7× 213 0.4× 190 1.0× 135 0.8× 73 2.3k
Jim Dompierre France 12 1.7k 1.8× 952 1.5× 741 1.4× 136 0.7× 292 1.6× 19 2.3k
Phebe S. Wulf Netherlands 20 1.6k 1.7× 778 1.3× 1.8k 3.4× 234 1.2× 97 0.5× 24 2.8k
Henrik Martens Germany 19 655 0.7× 423 0.7× 339 0.7× 261 1.3× 288 1.6× 29 1.5k
Nanda Keijzer Netherlands 16 1.2k 1.3× 357 0.6× 1.1k 2.1× 132 0.7× 47 0.3× 26 1.9k
Christophe Bosc France 27 1.4k 1.4× 435 0.7× 1.2k 2.2× 170 0.9× 64 0.4× 44 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Alison E. Twelvetrees

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Alison E. Twelvetrees's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Alison E. Twelvetrees with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Alison E. Twelvetrees more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Alison E. Twelvetrees

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Alison E. Twelvetrees. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Alison E. Twelvetrees. The network helps show where Alison E. Twelvetrees may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alison E. Twelvetrees

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alison E. Twelvetrees. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alison E. Twelvetrees 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 Alison E. Twelvetrees. Alison E. Twelvetrees is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
1.
Craggs, Timothy D., et al.. (2026). Kinesin-1 is highly flexible and adopts an open conformation in the absence of cargo. iScience. 29(3). 114875–114875.
2.
Twelvetrees, Alison E., et al.. (2026). CBP-IDRs regulate acetylation and gene expression. Cell Reports. 45(3). 117109–117109.
3.
Twelvetrees, Alison E.. (2020). The lifecycle of the neuronal microtubule transport machinery. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 107. 74–81. 11 indexed citations
4.
Acton, Sophie E., Andrew Bell, Christopher P. Toseland, & Alison E. Twelvetrees. (2019). A survey of new PIs in the UK. eLife. 8. 17 indexed citations
5.
Twelvetrees, Alison E., Flavie Lesept, Erika L.F. Holzbaur, & Josef T. Kittler. (2019). The adaptor proteins HAP1a and GRIP1 collaborate to activate the kinesin-1 isoform KIF5C. Journal of Cell Science. 132(24). 34 indexed citations
6.
Twelvetrees, Alison E., S. Pernigo, Anneri Sanger, et al.. (2016). The Dynamic Localization of Cytoplasmic Dynein in Neurons Is Driven by Kinesin-1. Neuron. 90(5). 1000–1015. 81 indexed citations
7.
Awabdh, Sana Al, Swati Gupta, David F. Sheehan, et al.. (2016). Neuronal activity mediated regulation of glutamate transporter GLT‐1 surface diffusion in rat astrocytes in dissociated and slice cultures. Glia. 64(7). 1252–1264. 54 indexed citations
8.
Maday, Sandra, Alison E. Twelvetrees, Armen J. Moughamian, & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2014). Axonal Transport: Cargo-Specific Mechanisms of Motility and Regulation. Neuron. 84(2). 292–309. 483 indexed citations breakdown →
9.
Mantegazza, Adriana R., Allison L. Zajac, Alison E. Twelvetrees, et al.. (2014). TLR-dependent phagosome tubulation in dendritic cells promotes phagosome cross-talk to optimize MHC-II antigen presentation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(43). 15508–15513. 58 indexed citations
10.
Zhang, Jun, Alison E. Twelvetrees, Jacob E. Lazarus, et al.. (2013). Establishing a novel knock‐in mouse line for studying neuronal cytoplasmic dynein under normal and pathologic conditions. Cytoskeleton. 70(4). 215–227. 12 indexed citations
11.
Hendricks, Adam G., Alison E. Twelvetrees, & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2012). Intracellular Transport: New Tools Provide Insights into Multi-motor Transport. Current Biology. 22(24). R1053–R1055. 4 indexed citations
12.
Twelvetrees, Alison E., Adam G. Hendricks, & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2012). SnapShot: Axonal Transport. Cell. 149(4). 950–950.e1. 14 indexed citations
13.
Jing, Wei, Ping Zhong, Jia Cheng, et al.. (2011). Impaired α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) Receptor Trafficking and Function by Mutant Huntingtin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(39). 33719–33728. 47 indexed citations
14.
Twelvetrees, Alison E., Eunice Y. Yuen, I. Lorena Arancibia‐Cárcamo, et al.. (2010). Delivery of GABAARs to Synapses Is Mediated by HAP1-KIF5 and Disrupted by Mutant Huntingtin. Neuron. 65(1). 53–65. 204 indexed citations
15.
MacAskill, Andrew F., Johanne Egge Rinholm, Alison E. Twelvetrees, et al.. (2009). Miro1 Is a Calcium Sensor for Glutamate Receptor-Dependent Localization of Mitochondria at Synapses. Neuron. 61(4). 541–555. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Cindy V. Ly Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Yi‐Shuian Huang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Shermali Gunawardena Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tetsuya Takano Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michel J. Roux Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jim Dompierre Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Phebe S. Wulf Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Henrik Martens Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nanda Keijzer Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Christophe Bosc
Rankless by CCL
2026