Amy E. Shyer

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Amy E. Shyer is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy E. Shyer has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Cell Biology, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Amy E. Shyer's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (7 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (3 papers) and Skin and Cellular Biology Research (2 papers). Amy E. Shyer is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (7 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (3 papers) and Skin and Cellular Biology Research (2 papers). Amy E. Shyer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Amy E. Shyer's co-authors include L. Mahadevan, Clifford J. Tabin, Jeremy F. Reiter, Kevin C. Corbit, William E. Dowdle, Veena Singla, Thierry Savin, Haiyi Liang, Natasza A. Kurpios and Zhiyan Wei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Amy E. Shyer

14 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Villification: How the Gut Gets Its Villi

2013 404 citations Amy E. Shyer, T. Tallinen et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy E. Shyer United States	10	893	699	512	358	266	15	1.8k
Natasza A. Kurpios United States	14	957 1.1×	395 0.6×	291 0.6×	179 0.5×	122 0.5×	28	1.8k
Boris Guirao France	14	773 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	226 0.4×	347 1.0×	67 0.3×	19	1.8k
Christine K. Schmidt United Kingdom	22	1.5k 1.7×	303 0.4×	170 0.3×	508 1.4×	226 0.8×	41	2.5k
Michael Delannoy United States	22	1.4k 1.5×	605 0.9×	234 0.5×	411 1.1×	53 0.2×	40	2.4k
Nandan L. Nerurkar United States	24	581 0.7×	595 0.9×	217 0.4×	999 2.8×	196 0.7×	39	3.0k
Alessandro Mongera United States	14	750 0.8×	849 1.2×	113 0.2×	356 1.0×	39 0.1×	17	1.5k
Jessica H. Wen United States	9	507 0.6×	690 1.0×	67 0.1×	930 2.6×	78 0.3×	11	1.7k
Victor D. Varner United States	19	458 0.5×	525 0.8×	64 0.1×	430 1.2×	73 0.3×	46	1.3k
Albert J. Keung United States	20	1.2k 1.3×	551 0.8×	154 0.3×	891 2.5×	120 0.5×	50	2.3k
Qingzong Tseng France	12	427 0.5×	775 1.1×	134 0.3×	510 1.4×	39 0.1×	16	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amy E. Shyer

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Shyer, Amy E. & Alan R. Rodrigues. (2025). Transcending the hegemony of the molecular machine through an organic renewal of biology and biomedicine. PubMed. 184. 204018–204018.

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Shyer, Amy E., et al.. (2025). Epigenetics Beyond the Cell: Supracellular Organization of Fate and Form in Morphogenesis. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 18(2). a041497–a041497. 1 indexed citations

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Shyer, Amy E., et al.. (2024). Biological Theories of Morphogenesis Based on Holistic Biophysical Thinking. Biological Theory. 20(2). 105–118. 5 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Charlotte R., Amy E. Shyer, & Alan R. Rodrigues. (2024). Creative processes during vertebrate organ morphogenesis: Biophysical self-organization at the supracellular scale. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 86. 102305–102305. 15 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Charlotte R., Karen H. Hales, Dale B. Hales, Amy E. Shyer, & Alan R. Rodrigues. (2024). Collective fibroblast mechanics in ovarian cancer metastasis. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). 405a–405a. 1 indexed citations

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Nelson, Celeste M., Bailong Xiao, Sara A. Wickström, et al.. (2024). Mechanobiology: Shaping the future of cellular form and function. Cell. 187(11). 2652–2656. 14 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Charlotte R., Anurag Sharma, Lance C. Kam, et al.. (2023). Morphogens enable interacting supracellular phases that generate organ architecture. Science. 382(6673). eadg5579–eadg5579. 26 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Charlotte R., et al.. (2022). Reciprocal cell-ECM dynamics generate supracellular fluidity underlying spontaneous follicle patterning. Cell. 185(11). 1960–1973.e11. 61 indexed citations

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Shyer, Amy E., et al.. (2017). Emergent cellular self-organization and mechanosensation initiate follicle pattern in the avian skin. Science. 357(6353). 811–815. 186 indexed citations

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Shyer, Amy E., Tyler R. Huycke, ChangHee Lee, L. Mahadevan, & Clifford J. Tabin. (2015). Bending Gradients: How the Intestinal Stem Cell Gets Its Home. Cell. 161(3). 569–580. 213 indexed citations

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Shyer, Amy E., T. Tallinen, Nandan L. Nerurkar, et al.. (2013). Villification: How the Gut Gets Its Villi. Science. 342(6155). 212–218. 404 indexed citations breakdown →

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Savin, Thierry, Amy E. Shyer, & L. Mahadevan. (2012). A method for tensile tests of biological tissues at the mesoscale. Journal of Applied Physics. 111(7). 7 indexed citations

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Savin, Thierry, Natasza A. Kurpios, Amy E. Shyer, et al.. (2011). On the growth and form of the gut. Nature. 476(7358). 57–62. 387 indexed citations

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Romero‐Calderón, Rafael, J Borycz, Anne F. Simon, et al.. (2008). A Glial Variant of the Vesicular Monoamine Transporter Is Required To Store Histamine in the Drosophila Visual System. PLoS Genetics. 4(11). e1000245–e1000245. 45 indexed citations

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Corbit, Kevin C., et al.. (2007). Kif3a constrains β-catenin-dependent Wnt signalling through dual ciliary and non-ciliary mechanisms. Nature Cell Biology. 10(1). 70–76. 425 indexed citations

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