Ben Ewen‐Campen

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Ben Ewen‐Campen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Ewen‐Campen has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ben Ewen‐Campen's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (7 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers). Ben Ewen‐Campen is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (7 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers). Ben Ewen‐Campen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Ben Ewen‐Campen's co-authors include Cassandra G. Extavour, Norbert Perrimon, Benjamin E. Housden, Evelyn E. Schwager, Laura Corley Lavine, Douglas J. Emlen, Ryan J. Cecchi, Raj Chari, Emma J. K. Kowal and Marcelle Tuttle and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Development.

In The Last Decade

Ben Ewen‐Campen

24 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Comparison of Cas9 activators in multiple species 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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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. Comparison of Cas9 activators in multiple species
    2016 381 citations Alejandro Chavez, Marcelle Tuttle et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers

Ben Ewen‐Campen
Urs Schmidt‐Ott United States
Cassandra Falckenhayn Germany
Reinhard Schröder Germany
Matthew Ronshaugen United Kingdom
Nathan L Clark United States
Gregory K. Davis United States
Michael Schoppmeier Germany
Wael Tadros Canada
André Pires‐daSilva United States
Rolando Rivera‐Pomar Argentina
Urs Schmidt‐Ott United States
Ben Ewen‐Campen
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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Ewen‐Campen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Ewen‐Campen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zirin, Jonathan, Barbara Jusiak, Ben Ewen‐Campen, et al.. (2024). Expanding the Drosophila toolkit for dual control of gene expression. eLife. 12.
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben & Norbert Perrimon. (2024). Wnt signaling modulates the response to DNA damage in the Drosophila wing imaginal disc by regulating the EGFR pathway. PLoS Biology. 22(7). e3002547–e3002547. 1 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, Haojiang Luan, Jun Xu, et al.. (2023). split-intein Gal4 provides intersectional genetic labeling that is repressible by Gal80. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(24). e2304730120–e2304730120. 11 indexed citations
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Zirin, Jonathan, Barbara Jusiak, Ben Ewen‐Campen, et al.. (2023). Expanding the Drosophila toolkit for dual control of gene expression. eLife. 12. 10 indexed citations
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Hu, Yanhui, Ben Ewen‐Campen, Aram Comjean, et al.. (2022). Paralog Explorer: A resource for mining information about paralogs in common research organisms. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 20. 6570–6577. 10 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, et al.. (2020). No Evidence that Wnt Ligands Are Required for Planar Cell Polarity in Drosophila. Cell Reports. 32(10). 108121–108121. 42 indexed citations
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Jia, Yu, Rong‐Gang Xu, Xingjie Ren, et al.. (2018). Next-generation CRISPR/Cas9 transcriptional activation in Drosophila using flySAM. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(18). 4719–4724. 44 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben & Norbert Perrimon. (2018). ovoD Co-selection: A Method for Enriching CRISPR/Cas9-Edited Alleles in Drosophila. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(8). 2749–2756. 18 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, Stephanie E. Mohr, Yanhui Hu, & Norbert Perrimon. (2017). Accessing the Phenotype Gap: Enabling Systematic Investigation of Paralog Functional Complexity with CRISPR. Developmental Cell. 43(1). 6–9. 30 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, Donghui Yang‐Zhou, Luping Liu, et al.. (2017). Optimized strategy for in vivo Cas9-activation in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(35). 9409–9414. 56 indexed citations
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Chavez, Alejandro, Marcelle Tuttle, Benjamin W. Pruitt, et al.. (2016). Comparison of Cas9 activators in multiple species. Nature Methods. 13(7). 563–567. 381 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, et al.. (2015). In Vivo Transcriptional Activation Using CRISPR/Cas9 in Drosophila. Genetics. 201(2). 433–442. 91 indexed citations
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Donoughe, Seth, Taro Nakamura, Ben Ewen‐Campen, et al.. (2014). BMP signaling is required for the generation of primordial germ cells in an insect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(11). 4133–4138. 47 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, Seth Donoughe, D. Nathaniel Clarke, & Cassandra G. Extavour. (2013). Germ Cell Specification Requires Zygotic Mechanisms Rather Than Germ Plasm in a Basally Branching Insect. Current Biology. 23(10). 835–842. 62 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, Tamsin E. M. Jones, & Cassandra G. Extavour. (2013). Evidence against a germ plasm in the milkweed bugOncopeltus fasciatus, a hemimetabolous insect. Biology Open. 2(6). 556–568. 26 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, et al.. (2012). oskar Predates the Evolution of Germ Plasm in Insects. Current Biology. 22(23). 2278–2283. 42 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, Nathan C. Shaner, Kristen A. Panfilio, et al.. (2011). The maternal and early embryonic transcriptome of the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. BMC Genomics. 12(1). 61–61. 105 indexed citations
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Ewen‐Campen, Ben, Evelyn E. Schwager, & Cassandra G. Extavour. (2009). The molecular machinery of germ line specification. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 77(1). 3–18. 129 indexed citations

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