Alun M. Davies

18.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
190 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

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Alun M. Davies is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alun M. Davies has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 79 papers in Molecular Biology and 76 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alun M. Davies's work include Nerve injury and regeneration (108 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (76 papers) and Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (47 papers). Alun M. Davies is often cited by papers focused on Nerve injury and regeneration (108 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (76 papers) and Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (47 papers). Alun M. Davies collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Alun M. Davies's co-authors include Séan Wyatt, Vladimir L. Buchman, Arnon Rosenthal, A.G.S. Lumsden, Humberto Gutiérrez, H. Thoenen, Gayle Middleton, Anna Buj‐Bello, Rudolf Jaenisch and Heidi Phillips and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Alun M. Davies

190 papers receiving 15.1k citations

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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.

GDNF: a Potent Survival Factor for Motoneurons Present in Peripheral Nerve and Muscle

1994 1.1k citations Alun M. Davies et al. profile →
Characterization of a multicomponent receptor for GDNF

1996 893 citations Alun M. Davies et al. profile →
The proto-oncogene bcl-2 can selectively rescue neurotrophic factor-dependent neurons from apoptosis

1993 509 citations Séan Wyatt, Alun M. Davies et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alun M. Davies United Kingdom	69	9.7k	6.5k	4.9k	1.6k	1.3k	190	15.5k
Dan Lindholm Finland	66	9.4k 1.0×	6.5k 1.0×	4.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	201	16.6k
William D. Snider United States	67	9.4k 1.0×	7.6k 1.2×	4.3k 0.9×	2.7k 1.7×	1.9k 1.5×	132	18.0k
Rhona Mirsky United Kingdom	69	11.3k 1.2×	6.8k 1.0×	5.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	2.2k 1.7×	169	18.0k
Carlos F. Ibáñez Sweden	62	8.8k 0.9×	7.4k 1.1×	4.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	778 0.6×	144	14.5k
Kristján R. Jessen United Kingdom	64	9.9k 1.0×	5.0k 0.8×	4.4k 0.9×	983 0.6×	1.9k 1.5×	139	14.4k
Klaus Unsicker Germany	66	7.7k 0.8×	7.6k 1.2×	3.3k 0.7×	2.7k 1.7×	1.5k 1.1×	337	17.1k
Ernest Arenas Sweden	69	7.8k 0.8×	8.8k 1.4×	3.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	176	15.1k
Ronald W. Oppenheim United States	65	8.3k 0.8×	7.5k 1.2×	4.7k 1.0×	983 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	196	15.8k
Freda D. Miller Canada	78	7.9k 0.8×	10.3k 1.6×	5.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	927 0.7×	186	19.5k
Joost Verhaagen Netherlands	71	8.8k 0.9×	5.4k 0.8×	3.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	934 0.7×	260	14.0k

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Howard, Laura, Séan Wyatt, & Alun M. Davies. (2020). Neuregulin‐4 contributes to the establishment of cutaneous sensory innervation. Developmental Neurobiology. 81(2). 139–148. 5 indexed citations

Osório, Catarina, Lilian Kisiswa, Matthew A. White, et al.. (2013). Growth differentiation factor 5 is a key physiological regulator of dendrite growth during development. Development. 140(23). 4751–4762. 19 indexed citations

Moubarak, Rana S., Carme Solé, Marta Pascual, et al.. (2010). The Death Receptor Antagonist FLIP-L Interacts with Trk and Is Necessary for Neurite Outgrowth Induced by Neurotrophins. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(17). 6094–6105. 13 indexed citations

Gately, Kathy, Duncan J. Stewart, Daniel D. Waller, Alun M. Davies, & Kenneth J. O’Byrne. (2008). Phosphorylation and nuclear localisation of Akt is induced by hypoxia and associated with a poor prognosis in malignant pleural mesothelioma. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 26(15_suppl). 22034–22034. 2 indexed citations

Doxakis, Epaminondas, et al.. (2008). A function for the calponin family member NP25 in neurite outgrowth. Developmental Biology. 321(2). 434–443. 20 indexed citations

Barker, Victoria, Gayle Middleton, Fleur Davey, & Alun M. Davies. (2001). TNFα contributes to the death of NGF-dependent neurons during development. Nature Neuroscience. 4(12). 1194–1198. 96 indexed citations

Davies, Alun M.. (2000). Neurotrophins: Neurotrophic modulation of neurite growth. Current Biology. 10(5). R198–R200. 77 indexed citations

Middleton, Gayle, et al.. (2000). Neurotrophin-independent survival and cell death in adult sympathetic neurons: the role of PI 3-kinase. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

Wyatt, Séan, Rosa Andrés, Hermann Rohrer, & Alun M. Davies. (1999). Regulation of Neurotrophin Receptor Expression by Retinoic Acid in Mouse Sympathetic Neuroblasts. Journal of Neuroscience. 19(3). 1062–1071. 31 indexed citations

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Ninkina, Natalia, Stefan Imreh, Н. В. Гнучев, et al.. (1999). Genomic Structure and Chromosomal Localization of the Mouse Persyn Gene. Genomics. 56(2). 224–227. 4 indexed citations

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Ninkina, Natalia, et al.. (1997). TrkB Variants with Deletions in the Leucine-rich Motifs of the Extracellular Domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(20). 13019–13025. 50 indexed citations

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Hilton, Mark, Gayle Middleton, & Alun M. Davies. (1997). Bcl-2 influences axonal growth rate in embryonic sensory neurons. Current Biology. 7(10). 798–800. 69 indexed citations

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Ninkina, Natalia, et al.. (1996). Intracellular Compartmentalization of Two Differentially Spliceds-rex/NSPmRNAs in Neurons. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 7(4). 289–303. 27 indexed citations

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Davies, Alun M.. (1996). The neurotrophic hypothesis: where does it stand?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 351(1338). 389–394. 115 indexed citations

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Robinson, Michelle, Jimi Adu, & Alun M. Davies. (1996). Timing and Regulation of trkB and BDNF mRNA Expression in Placode‐derived Sensory Neurons and their Targets. European Journal of Neuroscience. 8(11). 2399–2406. 24 indexed citations

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English, Kathleen B., et al.. (1994). Localization of nerve growth factor (NGF) and low‐affinity NGF receptors in touch domes and quantification of NGF mRNA in keratinocytes of adult rats. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 344(3). 470–480. 44 indexed citations

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Davies, Alun M.. (1993). Promoting motor neuron survival. Current Biology. 3(12). 879–881. 5 indexed citations

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Larmet, Yves, Annette Dolphin, & Alun M. Davies. (1992). Intracellular calcium regulates the survival of early sensory neurons before they become dependent on neurotrophic factors. Neuron. 9(3). 563–574. 68 indexed citations

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Davies, Alun M. & Kristine S. Vogel. (1991). Developmental programmes of growth and survival in early sensory neurons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 331(1261). 259–262. 1 indexed citations

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Scott, Sheryl A. & Alun M. Davies. (1990). Inhibition of protein synthesis prevents cell death in sensory and parasympathetic neurons deprived of neurotrophic factor in vitro. Journal of Neurobiology. 21(4). 630–638. 91 indexed citations

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