Ana Babić

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ana Babić is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Babić has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Oncology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Ana Babić's work include Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (11 papers), Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism (4 papers) and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis (4 papers). Ana Babić is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (11 papers), Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism (4 papers) and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis (4 papers). Ana Babić collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Sweden. Ana Babić's co-authors include Güney Akbalık, Caspar Glock, Xintian You, Wei Sun, Jingyi Hou, Mantian Wang, Erin M. Schuman, Irena Vlatkovic, Tao Chen and Wei Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Ana Babić

29 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Neural circular RNAs are derived from synaptic genes and regulated by development and plasticity

2015 916 citations Xintian You, Irena Vlatkovic et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ana Babić United States	18	1.3k	904	349	206	172	30	2.0k
Hong Fan China	27	2.0k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	275 0.8×	118 0.6×	191 1.1×	97	2.5k
Linda M. Kalikin United States	26	1.7k 1.3×	203 0.2×	379 1.1×	478 2.3×	128 0.7×	52	2.7k
Yuqing Chen China	21	717 0.6×	218 0.2×	216 0.6×	618 3.0×	95 0.6×	65	1.6k
Deborah Nejman Israel	7	1.1k 0.9×	272 0.3×	286 0.8×	141 0.7×	94 0.5×	7	1.5k
Jérôme Ambroise Belgium	23	551 0.4×	143 0.2×	116 0.3×	83 0.4×	285 1.7×	107	1.6k
Ji Hyun Kim South Korea	18	784 0.6×	140 0.2×	96 0.3×	72 0.3×	174 1.0×	67	1.6k
Maurizio Bocchetta United States	24	946 0.7×	290 0.3×	612 1.8×	244 1.2×	77 0.4×	55	2.2k
Xiaofeng Zheng China	20	661 0.5×	225 0.2×	138 0.4×	196 1.0×	208 1.2×	72	1.4k
Ming‐Ko Chiang Taiwan	19	718 0.6×	101 0.1×	157 0.4×	160 0.8×	160 0.9×	25	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ana Babić

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ana Babić

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ana Babić

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

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Townsend, Mary K., Allison F. Vitonis, Holly R. Harris, et al.. (2025). Associations between Parity, History of Breastfeeding, and T-cell Profile of Ovarian Tumors. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 34(4). 550–559.

Zhang, Yin, Qiao-Li Wang, Chen Yuan, et al.. (2023). Pancreatic cancer is associated with medication changes prior to clinical diagnosis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2437–2437. 6 indexed citations

Yuan, Chen, Qiao-Li Wang, Hanseul Kim, et al.. (2023). Being Breastfed in Infancy and Risk of Colorectal Cancer and Precursor Lesions. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 22(7). 1508–1517.e11. 5 indexed citations

Babić, Ana, Qiao-Li Wang, Alice A. Lee, et al.. (2023). Sex-Specific Associations between Adiponectin and Leptin Signaling and Pancreatic Cancer Survival. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 32(10). 1458–1469. 2 indexed citations

Magudia, Kirti, Christopher P. Bridge, Camden Bay, et al.. (2020). Population-Scale CT-based Body Composition Analysis of a Large Outpatient Population Using Deep Learning to Derive Age-, Sex-, and Race-specific Reference Curves. Radiology. 298(2). 319–329. 98 indexed citations

Kim, Jihye, Chen Yuan, Ana Babić, et al.. (2020). Genetic and Circulating Biomarker Data Improve Risk Prediction for Pancreatic Cancer in the General Population. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 29(5). 999–1008. 17 indexed citations

Babić, Ana, Xuehong Zhang, Vicente Morales‐Oyarvide, et al.. (2020). Acid-suppressive medications and risk of colorectal cancer: results from three large prospective cohort studies. British Journal of Cancer. 123(5). 844–851. 18 indexed citations

Hamada, Tsuyoshi, Chen Yuan, Matthew B. Yurgelun, et al.. (2019). Family history of cancer, Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, and pancreatic cancer risk. British Journal of Cancer. 120(8). 848–854. 15 indexed citations

Hamada, Tsuyoshi, Natalia Khalaf, Chen Yuan, et al.. (2018). Statin use and pancreatic cancer risk in two prospective cohort studies. Journal of Gastroenterology. 53(8). 959–966. 32 indexed citations

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Hamada, Tsuyoshi, Natalia Khalaf, Chen Yuan, et al.. (2018). Prediagnosis Use of Statins Associates With Increased Survival Times of Patients With Pancreatic Cancer. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 16(8). 1300–1306.e3. 20 indexed citations

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Babić, Ana, Nader Rifai, Marisa W. Welch, et al.. (2018). Plasma inflammatory cytokines and survival of pancreatic cancer patients. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. 9(4). e145–e145. 36 indexed citations

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Khalaf, Natalia, Chen Yuan, Tsuyoshi Hamada, et al.. (2017). Regular Use of Aspirin or Non-Aspirin Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Is Not Associated With Risk of Incident Pancreatic Cancer in Two Large Cohort Studies. Gastroenterology. 154(5). 1380–1390.e5. 37 indexed citations

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Babić, Ana, S Shah, Mingyang Song, et al.. (2016). Soluble tumour necrosis factor receptor type II and survival in colorectal cancer. British Journal of Cancer. 114(9). 995–1002. 28 indexed citations

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Yuan, Chen, Zhi Rong Qian, Ana Babić, et al.. (2016). Prediagnostic Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Pancreatic Cancer Survival. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 34(24). 2899–2905. 37 indexed citations

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Momen‐Heravi, Fatemeh, Ana Babić, Shelley S. Tworoger, et al.. (2016). Periodontal disease, tooth loss and colorectal cancer risk: Results from the Nurses' Health Study. International Journal of Cancer. 140(3). 646–652. 106 indexed citations

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You, Xintian, Irena Vlatkovic, Ana Babić, et al.. (2015). Neural circular RNAs are derived from synaptic genes and regulated by development and plasticity. Nature Neuroscience. 18(4). 603–610. 916 indexed citations breakdown →

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Babić, Ana, Melanie B. Berkmen, Catherine A. Lee, & Alan D. Grossman. (2011). Efficient Gene Transfer in Bacterial Cell Chains. mBio. 2(2). 61 indexed citations

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Lee, Catherine A., Ana Babić, & Alan D. Grossman. (2009). Autonomous plasmid‐like replication of a conjugative transposon. Molecular Microbiology. 75(2). 268–279. 95 indexed citations

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Babić, Ana, Ariel B. Lindner, Marin Vulić, Eric J. Stewart, & Miroslav Radman. (2008). Direct Visualization of Horizontal Gene Transfer. Science. 319(5869). 1533–1536. 162 indexed citations

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Babić, Ana, Anne-Marie Guérout, & Didier Mazel. (2008). Construction of an improved RP4 (RK2)-based conjugative system. Research in Microbiology. 159(7-8). 545–549. 35 indexed citations

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