Amir Foroushani

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Amir Foroushani is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amir Foroushani has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Amir Foroushani's work include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (3 papers). Amir Foroushani is often cited by papers focused on Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (3 papers). Amir Foroushani collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Ireland and United States. Amir Foroushani's co-authors include David J. Lynn, Fiona S. L. Brinkman, Geoffrey L. Winsor, Robert E. W. Hancock, Raymond Lo, Karin Breuer, Matthew R. Laird, Carol Chen, Matthew S. McCabe and Cliona O’Farrelly and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Amir Foroushani

10 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond—recent updates and continuing curation

2012 858 citations Karin Breuer, Amir Foroushani et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amir Foroushani Canada	9	717	291	269	134	126	10	1.2k
Karin Breuer Canada	6	638 0.9×	245 0.8×	148 0.6×	114 0.9×	108 0.9×	6	1.0k
Claudia Rangel‐Escareño Mexico	20	642 0.9×	208 0.7×	143 0.5×	119 0.9×	115 0.9×	68	1.4k
Wolfgang M. Schmidt Austria	27	1.1k 1.5×	182 0.6×	209 0.8×	178 1.3×	86 0.7×	67	1.9k
Joseph C. Devlin United States	15	807 1.1×	448 1.5×	211 0.8×	135 1.0×	125 1.0×	29	1.4k
Christopher Szeto Australia	15	836 1.2×	388 1.3×	209 0.8×	61 0.5×	108 0.9×	34	1.3k
Bryony Braschi United Kingdom	18	939 1.3×	125 0.4×	207 0.8×	81 0.6×	72 0.6×	24	2.1k
Boris Hartmann United States	18	817 1.1×	407 1.4×	144 0.5×	257 1.9×	78 0.6×	34	1.5k
Anja Persson Sweden	18	1.2k 1.6×	250 0.9×	116 0.4×	164 1.2×	95 0.8×	26	1.9k
Yu‐Chao Wang Taiwan	24	731 1.0×	166 0.6×	156 0.6×	166 1.2×	264 2.1×	120	1.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amir Foroushani

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Foroushani, Amir, Madeline Wong, Andre Rastegar, et al.. (2020). Posttranscriptional regulation of human endogenous retroviruses by RNA-binding motif protein 4, RBM4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(42). 26520–26530. 12 indexed citations

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Su, Yijun, Pavel P. Khil, Madeline Wong, et al.. (2019). Enhancement of LIN28B-induced hematopoietic reprogramming by IGF2BP3. Genes & Development. 33(15-16). 1048–1068. 54 indexed citations

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Foroushani, Amir, Roderick Docking, Linda Chang, et al.. (2018). Applications of Bayesian network models in predicting types of hematological malignancies. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 6951–6951. 48 indexed citations

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Herzig, Maryanne C., Amir Foroushani, William Boswell, et al.. (2018). C3HeB/FeJ Mice mimic many aspects of gene expression and pathobiological features of human hepatocellular carcinoma. Molecular Carcinogenesis. 58(3). 309–320. 2 indexed citations

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Foroushani, Amir, Roderick Docking, Linda Chang, et al.. (2017). Large-scale gene network analysis reveals the significance of extracellular matrix pathway and homeobox genes in acute myeloid leukemia: an introduction to the Pigengene package and its applications. BMC Medical Genomics. 10(1). 16–16. 31 indexed citations

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Lawless, Nathan, Amir Foroushani, Matthew S. McCabe, Cliona O’Farrelly, & David J. Lynn. (2013). Next Generation Sequencing Reveals the Expression of a Unique miRNA Profile in Response to a Gram-Positive Bacterial Infection. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e57543–e57543. 94 indexed citations

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Végh, Péter, Amir Foroushani, David A. Magee, et al.. (2013). Profiling microRNA expression in bovine alveolar macrophages using RNA-seq. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 155(4). 238–244. 30 indexed citations

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Foroushani, Amir, Fiona S. L. Brinkman, & David J. Lynn. (2013). Pathway-GPS and SIGORA: identifying relevant pathways based on the over-representation of their gene-pair signatures. PeerJ. 1. e229–e229. 38 indexed citations

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Breuer, Karin, Amir Foroushani, Matthew R. Laird, et al.. (2012). InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond—recent updates and continuing curation. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D1228–D1233. 858 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lynn, David J., Calvin C. Chan, Raymond Lo, et al.. (2010). Curating the innate immunity interactome. BMC Systems Biology. 4(1). 117–117. 62 indexed citations

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