Andrew D. Stephens

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Andrew D. Stephens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew D. Stephens has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Cell Biology and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Andrew D. Stephens's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (24 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (17 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers). Andrew D. Stephens is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (24 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (17 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers). Andrew D. Stephens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Malaysia and Belgium. Andrew D. Stephens's co-authors include John F. Marko, Edward J. Banigan, Stephen A. Adam, Robert D. Goldman, Kerry Bloom, Jan Lammerding, Sylvain Gabriele, Yohalie Kalukula, Julian Haase and Patrick Z. Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Andrew D. Stephens

38 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Mechanics and functional consequences of nuclear deformations

2022 246 citations Yohalie Kalukula, Andrew D. Stephens et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew D. Stephens United States	23	1.7k	976	296	132	97	38	2.1k
Amy Shaub Maddox United States	22	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	203 0.7×	116 0.9×	101 1.0×	46	2.0k
Monika Zwerger United States	19	1.8k 1.0×	540 0.6×	101 0.3×	121 0.9×	101 1.0×	28	2.1k
U. Serdar Tulu United States	12	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	141 0.5×	159 1.2×	270 2.8×	16	1.6k
Jérémie Gaillard France	18	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	305 1.0×	54 0.4×	73 0.8×	29	1.8k
Melissa K. Gardner United States	28	1.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.9×	465 1.6×	55 0.4×	106 1.1×	53	2.4k
James J. Hartman United States	17	1.1k 0.6×	879 0.9×	95 0.3×	75 0.6×	54 0.6×	28	1.8k
Ivo A. Telley Germany	17	976 0.6×	997 1.0×	154 0.5×	233 1.8×	46 0.5×	31	1.5k
Wei‐Lih Lee United States	20	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	127 0.4×	46 0.3×	71 0.7×	28	1.5k
Ekaterina L. Grishchuk United States	28	2.3k 1.4×	2.5k 2.6×	600 2.0×	54 0.4×	41 0.4×	60	2.9k

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Almassalha, Luay M., et al.. (2025). Nuclear blebs are associated with destabilized chromatin-packing domains. Journal of Cell Science. 138(3). 3 indexed citations

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Manning, Gerard, et al.. (2024). DNA damage causes ATM-dependent heterochromatin loss leading to nuclear softening, blebbing, and rupture. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 36(3). br6–br6. 4 indexed citations

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Chiu, Katherine, et al.. (2023). Actin contraction controls nuclear blebbing and rupture independent of actin confinement. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 35(2). ar19–ar19. 14 indexed citations

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Kalukula, Yohalie, Andrew D. Stephens, Jan Lammerding, & Sylvain Gabriele. (2022). Mechanics and functional consequences of nuclear deformations. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 23(9). 583–602. 246 indexed citations breakdown →

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Belaghzal, Houda, Tyler Borrman, Andrew D. Stephens, et al.. (2021). Liquid chromatin Hi-C characterizes compartment-dependent chromatin interaction dynamics. Nature Genetics. 53(3). 367–378. 76 indexed citations

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Strom, Amy R., Ronald Biggs, Edward J. Banigan, et al.. (2021). HP1α is a chromatin crosslinker that controls nuclear and mitotic chromosome mechanics. eLife. 10. 86 indexed citations

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Amitai, Assaf, Jason D. Buenrostro, Aditi Chakrabarti, et al.. (2020). Advances in Chromatin and Chromosome Research: Perspectives from Multiple Fields. Molecular Cell. 79(6). 881–901. 38 indexed citations

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Matthews, James, Qiao Zhang, Kalina R. Atanasova, et al.. (2020). High-throughput gene screen reveals modulators of nuclear shape. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 31(13). 1392–1402. 28 indexed citations

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Stephens, Andrew D., Patrick Z. Liu, Viswajit Kandula, et al.. (2019). Physicochemical mechanotransduction alters nuclear shape and mechanics via heterochromatin formation. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 30(17). 2320–2330. 80 indexed citations

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Gladstein, Scott, Luay M. Almassalha, Lusik Cherkezyan, et al.. (2019). Multimodal interference-based imaging of nanoscale structure and macromolecular motion uncovers UV induced cellular paroxysm. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1652–1652. 12 indexed citations

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Hobson, Chad M., et al.. (2019). Nuclear Deformation with Combined AFM and 3D Multi-Color Live-Cell Line Bessel Sheet Imaging. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 24a–24a. 1 indexed citations

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Stephens, Andrew D., Patrick Z. Liu, Viswajit Kandula, et al.. (2019). Physicochemical mechanotransduction alters nuclear shape and mechanics via heterochromatin formation. Molecular Biology of the Cell. mbc.E19–5. 12 indexed citations

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Stephens, Andrew D., Edward J. Banigan, Stephen A. Adam, Robert D. Goldman, & John F. Marko. (2017). Chromatin and lamin A determine two different mechanical response regimes of the cell nucleus. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 28(14). 1984–1996. 321 indexed citations

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Stephens, Andrew D., Patrick Z. Liu, Edward J. Banigan, et al.. (2017). Chromatin histone modifications and rigidity affect nuclear morphology independent of lamins. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 29(2). 220–233. 239 indexed citations

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Banigan, Edward J., Andrew D. Stephens, & John F. Marko. (2017). Mechanics and Buckling of Biopolymeric Shells and Cell Nuclei. Biophysical Journal. 113(8). 1654–1663. 40 indexed citations

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Verdaasdonk, Jolien S., Andrew D. Stephens, Julian Haase, & Kerry Bloom. (2013). Bending the Rules: Widefield Microscopy and the Abbe Limit of Resolution. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 229(2). 132–138. 31 indexed citations

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Haase, Julian, Prashant Mishra, Andrew D. Stephens, et al.. (2013). A 3D Map of the Yeast Kinetochore Reveals the Presence of Core and Accessory Centromere-Specific Histone. Current Biology. 23(19). 1939–1944. 49 indexed citations

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Stephens, Andrew D., et al.. (2013). The spatial segregation of pericentric cohesin and condensin in the mitotic spindle. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 24(24). 3909–3919. 30 indexed citations

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Stephens, Andrew D., Julian Haase, Leandra Vicci, Russell M. Taylor, & Kerry Bloom. (2011). Cohesin, condensin, and the intramolecular centromere loop together generate the mitotic chromatin spring. The Journal of Cell Biology. 193(7). 1167–1180. 112 indexed citations

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Bekker, Janine M., Andrew D. Stephens, William T. Clarke, et al.. (2007). Direct interaction of Gas11 with microtubules: Implications for the dynein regulatory complex. Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton. 64(6). 461–473. 18 indexed citations

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