Alison J. North

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Alison J. North is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison J. North has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cell Biology and 6 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Alison J. North's work include Skin and Cellular Biology Research (6 papers), Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases (5 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (5 papers). Alison J. North is often cited by papers focused on Skin and Cellular Biology Research (6 papers), Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases (5 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (5 papers). Alison J. North collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Austria. Alison J. North's co-authors include David R. Garrod, Martyn Chidgey, J. Victor Small, Mario Gimona, James Jonkman, Graham Wright, Claire M. Brown, Kurt I. Anderson, Chris Tselepis and William G. Bardsley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Cell Biology and Journal of Cell Science.

In The Last Decade

Alison J. North

23 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Tutorial: guidance for quantitative confocal microscopy

2020 252 citations James Jonkman, Claire M. Brown et al. Nature Protocols profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison J. North United States	19	1.3k	726	421	259	236	25	2.4k
Maryse Bailly United Kingdom	33	1.5k 1.2×	1.6k 2.2×	230 0.5×	158 0.6×	162 0.7×	66	3.3k
Kiyoko Fukami Japan	12	2.2k 1.8×	1.1k 1.4×	325 0.8×	273 1.1×	272 1.2×	14	3.3k
Ankur Saxena United States	15	942 0.7×	399 0.5×	174 0.4×	167 0.6×	184 0.8×	39	1.8k
Aki Hanyu Japan	22	3.1k 2.5×	438 0.6×	308 0.7×	312 1.2×	125 0.5×	26	4.2k
Kyoko Okada Japan	24	872 0.7×	728 1.0×	165 0.4×	112 0.4×	209 0.9×	89	2.1k
Xi Zhan United States	31	2.0k 1.6×	1.7k 2.3×	127 0.3×	283 1.1×	165 0.7×	58	3.6k
Mark Holt United Kingdom	29	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.9×	174 0.4×	140 0.5×	327 1.4×	44	3.0k
Matthias Macháček Switzerland	14	819 0.6×	1.4k 1.9×	316 0.8×	61 0.2×	160 0.7×	30	2.5k
Joseph Loureiro United States	22	2.5k 2.0×	1.8k 2.4×	148 0.4×	252 1.0×	505 2.1×	36	4.1k
Katsuya Kominami Japan	20	2.0k 1.6×	357 0.5×	143 0.3×	776 3.0×	387 1.6×	31	3.7k

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Banerjee, Priyam, et al.. (2022). Piezo1 as a force-through-membrane sensor in red blood cells. eLife. 11. 49 indexed citations

Chambers, James J., Nathalie Gaudreault, Alison J. North, et al.. (2021). WU-BIMAC/NBOMicroscopyMetadataSpecs: 4DN-BINA-OME (NBO) Microscopy Metadata Specifications. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg).

Chambers, James J., Nathalie Gaudreault, Alison J. North, et al.. (2021). 4DN-BINA-OME (NBO) Tiered Microscopy Metadata Specifications - v2.01 - XLS Spreadsheet and Entity Relationship schemas. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Jonkman, James, Claire M. Brown, Graham Wright, Kurt I. Anderson, & Alison J. North. (2020). Tutorial: guidance for quantitative confocal microscopy. Nature Protocols. 15(5). 1585–1611. 252 indexed citations breakdown →

Jonkman, James, Claire M. Brown, Graham Wright, Kurt I. Anderson, & Alison J. North. (2020). Guidance for quantitative confocal microscopy. Nature Protocols. 15 indexed citations

Demmerle, Justin, Cassandravictoria Innocent, Alison J. North, et al.. (2017). Strategic and practical guidelines for successful structured illumination microscopy. Nature Protocols. 12(5). 988–1010. 225 indexed citations

Itano, Michelle S., Daniel S. Johnson, V. Kaye Thomas, et al.. (2014). Temporal and spatial organization of ESCRT protein recruitment during HIV-1 budding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(33). 12211–12216. 79 indexed citations

North, Alison J., et al.. (2011). Live Cell Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques. Methods in molecular biology. 769. 205–222. 14 indexed citations

Yu, Weiming, Zu‐Lin Chen, Alison J. North, & Sidney Strickland. (2009). Laminin is required for Schwann cell morphogenesis. Journal of Cell Science. 122(7). 929–936. 56 indexed citations

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North, Alison J.. (2006). Seeing is believing? A beginners' guide to practical pitfalls in image acquisition. The Journal of Cell Biology. 172(1). 9–18. 184 indexed citations

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North, Alison J., et al.. (2005). Polarized Gene Expression Determines Woronin Body Formation at the Leading Edge of the Fungal Colony. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 16(6). 2651–2659. 59 indexed citations

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Ibáñez-Tallon, Inés, Axel Pagenstecher, Manfred Fliegauf, et al.. (2004). Dysfunction of axonemal dynein heavy chain Mdnah5 inhibits ependymal flow and reveals a novel mechanism for hydrocephalus formation. Human Molecular Genetics. 13(18). 2133–2141. 264 indexed citations

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Levine, Ariel J., Ignacio Muñoz-Sanjuán, Esther Bell, Alison J. North, & Ali H. Brivanlou. (2003). Fluorescent labeling of endothelial cells allows in vivo, continuous characterization of the vascular development of Xenopus laevis. Developmental Biology. 254(1). 50–67. 40 indexed citations

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North, Alison J., William G. Bardsley, Elayne A. Bornslaeger, et al.. (1999). Molecular map of the desmosomal plaque. Journal of Cell Science. 112(23). 4325–4336. 177 indexed citations

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Tselepis, Chris, Martyn Chidgey, Alison J. North, & David R. Garrod. (1998). Desmosomal adhesion inhibits invasive behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95(14). 8064–8069. 155 indexed citations

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Garrod, David R., Martyn Chidgey, & Alison J. North. (1996). Desmosomes: differentiation, development, dynamics and disease. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 8(5). 670–678. 125 indexed citations

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Hashimoto, Takashi, et al.. (1995). 057 A simple epithelial cell line (MDCK) shows heterogeneity of deshoglein isoforms, one resembling pemphigus vulgaris antigen. Journal of Dermatological Science. 10(1). 72–72. 1 indexed citations

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North, Alison J., Mario Gimona, Robert A. Cross, & J. Victor Small. (1994). Calponin is localised in both the contractile apparatus and the cytoskeleton of smooth muscle cells. Journal of Cell Science. 107(3). 437–444. 107 indexed citations

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Draeger, Annette, et al.. (1993). Smooth muscle differentiation in human myometrium and uterine leiomyoma. Virchows Archiv B Cell Pathology Including Molecular Pathology. 64(1). 21–27. 13 indexed citations

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North, Alison J., Barbara Gała̧zkiewicz, T J Byers, John R. Glenney, & J. Victor Small. (1993). Complementary distributions of vinculin and dystrophin define two distinct sarcolemma domains in smooth muscle.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 120(5). 1159–1167. 134 indexed citations

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