Anthony Brown

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Anthony Brown is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Anthony Brown has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Cell Biology, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Anthony Brown's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (42 papers), Skin and Cellular Biology Research (41 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (32 papers). Anthony Brown is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (42 papers), Skin and Cellular Biology Research (41 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (32 papers). Anthony Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Anthony Brown's co-authors include Lei Wang, Peter Jung, Theresa Slaughter, Mark M. Black, Peter W. Baas, Atsuko Uchida, Peter G. Pentchev, Jessie Gu, Jane Ellison and Stacie K. Loftus and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Anthony Brown

62 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Murine Model of Niemann-Pick C Disease: Mutation in a Cho... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Murine Model of Niemann-Pick C Disease: Mutation in a Cholesterol Homeostasis Gene
    1997 670 citations Anthony Brown, Peter G. Pentchev et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anthony Brown United States 31 2.1k 1.3k 833 661 300 63 3.5k
Harald Hirling Switzerland 30 1.3k 0.6× 2.3k 1.7× 1.3k 1.5× 536 0.8× 272 0.9× 47 4.4k
Sunghoe Chang South Korea 32 1.5k 0.7× 1.7k 1.3× 1.0k 1.2× 464 0.7× 122 0.4× 97 3.3k
Kimberley F. Tolias United States 30 1.4k 0.7× 2.9k 2.2× 1.1k 1.4× 367 0.6× 319 1.1× 44 4.5k
Robby M. Weimer United States 37 1.3k 0.6× 2.3k 1.7× 1.4k 1.7× 681 1.0× 239 0.8× 61 4.7k
Annie Andrieux France 39 2.2k 1.1× 2.7k 2.1× 1.0k 1.2× 425 0.6× 310 1.0× 108 4.9k
Lorene M. Lanier United States 23 1.3k 0.6× 1.8k 1.4× 1.3k 1.6× 1.1k 1.7× 400 1.3× 37 3.7k
Uri Ashery Israel 35 2.0k 1.0× 2.8k 2.1× 1.4k 1.7× 475 0.7× 104 0.3× 80 4.3k
Leif Dehmelt Germany 25 1.1k 0.5× 1.4k 1.1× 633 0.8× 298 0.5× 185 0.6× 46 2.8k
Junlin Teng China 25 1.2k 0.6× 1.5k 1.1× 550 0.7× 310 0.5× 254 0.8× 66 2.9k
Bettina Winckler United States 28 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 949 1.1× 347 0.5× 271 0.9× 56 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anthony Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anthony Brown

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Johnson, Christopher M., et al.. (2020). Dynamic catch-bonding generates the large stall forces of cytoplasmic dynein. Physical Biology. 17(4). 46004–46004. 2 indexed citations
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Uchida, Atsuko, Niraj Trivedi, Roxanne Larivière, et al.. (2018). Local Acceleration of Neurofilament Transport at Nodes of Ranvier. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(4). 663–677. 17 indexed citations
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Jung, Peter, et al.. (2014). Local Regulation of Neurofilament Transport by Myelinating Cells. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(8). 2979–2988. 34 indexed citations
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Brown, Anthony, et al.. (2014). Deciphering the axonal transport kinetics of neurofilaments using the fluorescence photoactivation pulse-escape method. Physical Biology. 11(2). 26001–26001. 17 indexed citations
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Taylor, Nicholas J., Lina Wang, & Anthony Brown. (2012). Neurofilaments are flexible polymers that often fold and unfold, but they move in a fully extended configuration. Cytoskeleton. 69(7). 535–544. 8 indexed citations
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Brown, Anthony, et al.. (2012). FluoroMyelin™ Red is a bright, photostable and non-toxic fluorescent stain for live imaging of myelin. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 209(2). 344–350. 36 indexed citations
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Jung, Peter, et al.. (2012). Axonal Transport of Neurofilaments: A Single Population of Intermittently Moving Polymers. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(2). 746–758. 48 indexed citations
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Brown, Anthony & Peter Jung. (2012). A critical reevaluation of the stationary axonal cytoskeleton hypothesis. Cytoskeleton. 70(1). 1–11. 18 indexed citations
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Wang, Lina & Anthony Brown. (2010). A hereditary spastic paraplegia mutation in kinesin-1A/KIF5A disrupts neurofilament transport. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 5(1). 52–52. 60 indexed citations
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Brown, Anthony, et al.. (2009). Intermediate filaments exchange subunits along their length and elongate by end-to-end annealing. The Journal of Cell Biology. 185(5). 769–777. 77 indexed citations
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Trivedi, Niraj, Peter Jung, & Anthony Brown. (2007). Neurofilaments Switch between Distinct Mobile and Stationary States during Their Transport along Axons. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(3). 507–516. 75 indexed citations
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Crăciun, Gheorghe, Anthony Brown, & Avner Friedman. (2005). A dynamical system model of neurofilament transport in axons. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 237(3). 316–322. 65 indexed citations
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Brown, Anthony, et al.. (2005). Neurofilament Polymer Transport in Axons. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(30). 7014–7021. 42 indexed citations
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Uchida, Atsuko & Anthony Brown. (2004). Arrival, Reversal, and Departure of Neurofilaments at the Tips of Growing Axons. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15(9). 4215–4225. 30 indexed citations
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Brown, Anthony. (2000). Slow axonal transport: stop and go traffic in the axon. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 1(2). 153–156. 135 indexed citations
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Brown, Anthony & Raymond J. Lasek. (1993). Neurofilaments move apart freely when released from the circumferential constraint of the axonal plasma membrane. Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton. 26(4). 313–324. 26 indexed citations
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Sahenk, Zarife & Anthony Brown. (1991). Weak-base amines inhibit the anterograde-to-retrograde conversion of axonally transported vesicles in nerve terminals. Journal of Neurocytology. 20(5). 365–375. 10 indexed citations
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Baas, Peter W., Theresa Slaughter, Anthony Brown, & Mark M. Black. (1991). Microtubule dynamics in axons and dendrites. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 30(1). 134–153. 124 indexed citations
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Roff, Calvin F., Ehud Goldin, Marcella Comly, et al.. (1991). Type C Niemann-Pick Disease: Use of Hydrophobic Amines to Study Defective Cholesterol Transport. Developmental Neuroscience. 13(4-5). 315–319. 90 indexed citations
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Argoff, Charles E., Christine R. Kaneski, E. Joan Blanchette‐Mackie, et al.. (1990). Type C Niemann-Pick disease: Documentation of abnormal LDL processing in lymphocytes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 171(1). 38–45. 15 indexed citations

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