Anna Chao

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Anna Chao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Chao has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cell Biology and 3 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Anna Chao's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (5 papers), Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (3 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (3 papers). Anna Chao is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (5 papers), Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (3 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (3 papers). Anna Chao collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Anna Chao's co-authors include Daniel N. Cox, Haifan Lin, Lisa Chang, Dan Qiao, Gregory M. Guild, Amy Bejsovec, Luke Hayden, Stefano Di Talia, Ben D. Cox and Jianhong Ou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Anna Chao

12 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A novel class of evolutionarily conserved genes defined by piwi are essential for stem cell self-renewal

1998 793 citations Daniel N. Cox, Anna Chao et al. Genes & Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anna Chao United States	11	1.3k	736	255	153	113	14	1.5k
Andrew R. Gehrke United States	16	2.2k 1.7×	477 0.6×	394 1.5×	148 1.0×	131 1.2×	20	2.8k
Martine Simonelig France	29	2.4k 1.9×	844 1.1×	296 1.2×	238 1.6×	115 1.0×	53	2.8k
Gerald Stampfel Austria	6	1.4k 1.1×	282 0.4×	311 1.2×	137 0.9×	40 0.4×	6	1.9k
Matthew Ronshaugen United Kingdom	23	1.4k 1.1×	297 0.4×	345 1.4×	489 3.2×	130 1.2×	36	1.8k
Girish Deshpande United States	19	943 0.7×	219 0.3×	282 1.1×	58 0.4×	63 0.6×	50	1.1k
Marco Blanchette United States	27	2.0k 1.6×	348 0.5×	268 1.1×	155 1.0×	53 0.5×	37	2.3k
Christopher Seidel United States	23	1.4k 1.1×	151 0.2×	169 0.7×	142 0.9×	193 1.7×	36	1.8k
Laura Fanti Italy	26	2.9k 2.3×	1.4k 2.0×	528 2.1×	103 0.7×	105 0.9×	53	3.2k
Matthew Kofron United States	11	1.9k 1.5×	323 0.4×	266 1.0×	84 0.5×	235 2.1×	11	2.0k
Zohar Mukamel Israel	15	1.2k 1.0×	180 0.2×	338 1.3×	145 0.9×	82 0.7×	20	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Anna Chao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anna Chao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anna Chao

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

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Hayden, Luke, Anna Chao, Noah Mitchell, et al.. (2025). Topological interactions drive the first fate decision in the Drosophila embryo. Nature Physics. 21(4). 632–643. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Yitong, et al.. (2025). The cell cycle oscillator and spindle length set the speed of chromosome separation in Drosophila embryos. Current Biology. 35(3). 655–664.e3.

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Ramkumar, Nitya, Christian Richardson, Jieun Park, et al.. (2025). Phased ERK responsiveness and developmental robustness regulate teleost skin morphogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(10). e2410430122–e2410430122.

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Hayden, Luke, Anna Chao, Victoria E. Deneke, et al.. (2022). Cullin-5 mutants reveal collective sensing of the nucleocytoplasmic ratio in Drosophila embryogenesis. Current Biology. 32(9). 2084–2092.e4. 11 indexed citations

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Simone, Alessandro De, Luke Hayden, Ben D. Cox, et al.. (2021). Control of osteoblast regeneration by a train of Erk activity waves. Nature. 590(7844). 129–133. 107 indexed citations

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Chao, Anna, et al.. (2013). Pebble/ECT2 RhoGEF negatively regulates the Wingless/Wnt signaling pathway. Development. 140(24). 4937–4946. 10 indexed citations

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Bejsovec, Amy & Anna Chao. (2012). crinkled reveals a new role for Wingless signaling in Drosophila denticle formation. Development. 139(4). 690–698. 10 indexed citations

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Chao, Anna, et al.. (2010). Cytokinesis proteins Tum and Pav have a nuclear role in Wnt regulation. Journal of Cell Science. 123(13). 2179–2189. 21 indexed citations

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Chao, Anna, et al.. (2007). The HMG-box transcription factor SoxNeuro acts with Tcf to control Wg/Wnt signaling activity. Development. 134(5). 989–997. 24 indexed citations

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Chao, Anna, et al.. (2003). Mutations in Eukaryotic Release Factors 1 and 3 Act as General Nonsense Suppressors in Drosophila. Genetics. 165(2). 601–612. 23 indexed citations

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Cox, Daniel N., Anna Chao, & Haifan Lin. (2000). piwi encodes a nucleoplasmic factor whose activity modulates the number and division rate of germline stem cells. Development. 127(3). 503–514. 447 indexed citations

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Cox, Daniel N., et al.. (1998). A novel class of evolutionarily conserved genes defined by piwi are essential for stem cell self-renewal. Genes & Development. 12(23). 3715–3727. 793 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dwyer, Kathleen G., Anna Chao, Betty H. C. Cheng, Che‐Hong Chen, & June B. Nasrallah. (1989). The Brassica self-incompatibility multigene family. Genome. 31(2). 969–972. 32 indexed citations

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Chao, Anna & Gregory M. Guild. (1986). Molecular analysis of the ecdysterone-inducible 2B5 ‘early’ puff in Drosophila melanogaster.. The EMBO Journal. 5(1). 143–150. 66 indexed citations

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