Ben S. Wittner

20.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
43 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Ben S. Wittner is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben S. Wittner has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Oncology, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Ben S. Wittner's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (18 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (13 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers). Ben S. Wittner is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (18 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (13 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers). Ben S. Wittner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Switzerland. Ben S. Wittner's co-authors include Sridhar Ramaswamy, Shyamala Maheswaran, Daniel A. Haber, David T. Ting, Mehmet Toner, Shannon L. Stott, Min Yu, Aditya Bardia, Maria Donaldson Collier and Brian W. Brannigan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ben S. Wittner

42 papers receiving 8.0k citations

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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.

Circulating Breast Tumor Cells Exhibit Dynamic Changes in Epithelial and Mesenchymal Composition

2013 1.9k citations Min Yu, Aditya Bardia et al. Science profile →
A Chromatin-Mediated Reversible Drug-Tolerant State in Cancer Cell Subpopulations

2010 1.8k citations Sreenath V. Sharma, Diana Lee et al. Cell profile →
Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters Are Oligoclonal Precursors of Breast Cancer Metastasis

2014 1.8k citations Nicola Aceto, Aditya Bardia et al. Cell profile →
RankProd: a bioconductor package for detecting differentially expressed genes in meta-analysis

2006 568 citations Ben S. Wittner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben S. Wittner United States	26	4.3k	4.1k	3.0k	1.2k	1.0k	43	8.1k
Christine L. Chaffer United States	20	4.8k 1.1×	5.9k 1.4×	3.1k 1.0×	891 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	33	9.9k
Gaorav P. Gupta United States	28	4.4k 1.0×	5.5k 1.4×	2.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	721 0.7×	76	9.5k
Charlotte Kuperwasser United States	45	6.8k 1.6×	6.4k 1.6×	3.0k 1.0×	951 0.8×	857 0.8×	91	11.1k
Alexander D. Borowsky United States	51	2.6k 0.6×	4.7k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	988 0.9×	197	8.7k
Frank Winkler Germany	43	2.3k 0.5×	3.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	163	8.2k
Mary Helen Barcellos‐Hoff United States	57	5.7k 1.3×	5.4k 1.3×	2.1k 0.7×	2.1k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	176	12.6k
Matija Snuderl United States	40	2.2k 0.5×	3.2k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	188	9.2k
Howard Colman United States	46	2.9k 0.7×	5.8k 1.4×	3.8k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	448 0.4×	151	11.8k
Xiang H.-F. Zhang United States	44	6.1k 1.4×	6.4k 1.6×	3.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.8×	850 0.8×	105	12.7k
Christian Pilarsky Germany	55	5.2k 1.2×	8.0k 2.0×	4.4k 1.5×	1.6k 1.3×	774 0.7×	188	12.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben S. Wittner

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Fox, Douglas B., Richard Y. Ebright, Xin Hong, et al.. (2023). Downregulation of KEAP1 in melanoma promotes resistance to immune checkpoint blockade. npj Precision Oncology. 7(1). 25–25. 7 indexed citations

Ebright, Richard Y., Marcus Zachariah, Douglas S. Micalizzi, et al.. (2020). HIF1A signaling selectively supports proliferation of breast cancer in the brain. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6311–6311. 65 indexed citations

Kwan, Tanya T., Aditya Bardia, Laura M. Spring, et al.. (2018). A Digital RNA Signature of Circulating Tumor Cells Predicting Early Therapeutic Response in Localized and Metastatic Breast Cancer. Cancer Discovery. 8(10). 1286–1299. 78 indexed citations

Gallenne, Tristan, Kenneth N. Ross, Nils L. Visser, et al.. (2017). Systematic functional perturbations uncover a prognostic genetic network driving human breast cancer. Oncotarget. 8(13). 20572–20587. 30 indexed citations

Javaid, Sarah, Jianmin Zhang, Gromoslaw A. Smolen, et al.. (2015). MAPK7 Regulates EMT Features and Modulates the Generation of CTCs. Molecular Cancer Research. 13(5). 934–943. 35 indexed citations

Tajima, Ken, Toshifumi Yae, Sarah Javaid, et al.. (2015). SETD1A modulates cell cycle progression through a miRNA network that regulates p53 target genes. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8257–8257. 40 indexed citations

Aceto, Nicola, Aditya Bardia, David T. Miyamoto, et al.. (2014). Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters Are Oligoclonal Precursors of Breast Cancer Metastasis. Cell. 158(5). 1110–1122. 1786 indexed citations breakdown →

McMullin, Ryan P., Ben S. Wittner, Chuanwei Yang, et al.. (2014). A BRCA1deficient-like signature is enriched in breast cancer brain metastases and predicts DNA damage-induced poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor sensitivity. Breast Cancer Research. 16(2). R25–R25. 43 indexed citations

Luo, Xi, Devarati Mitra, Ryan J. Sullivan, et al.. (2014). Abstract 4832: Isolation and molecular characterization of circulating melanoma cells. Cancer Research. 74(19_Supplement). 4832–4832. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Min, Aditya Bardia, Ben S. Wittner, et al.. (2013). Circulating Breast Tumor Cells Exhibit Dynamic Changes in Epithelial and Mesenchymal Composition. Science. 339(6119). 580–584. 1928 indexed citations breakdown →

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Javaid, Sarah, Jianmin Zhang, Endre Anderssen, et al.. (2013). Dynamic Chromatin Modification Sustains Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition following Inducible Expression of Snail-1. Cell Reports. 5(6). 1679–1689. 78 indexed citations

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Miyamoto, David T., Richard J. Lee, Shannon L. Stott, et al.. (2012). Androgen Receptor Signaling in Circulating Tumor Cells as a Marker of Hormonally Responsive Prostate Cancer. Cancer Discovery. 2(11). 995–1003. 217 indexed citations

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Dey‐Guha, Ipsita, Anita Wolfer, Albert C. Yeh, et al.. (2011). Asymmetric cancer cell division regulated by AKT. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(31). 12845–12850. 101 indexed citations

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Lee, J., Ben S. Wittner, Morgan L. Maeder, et al.. (2011). Induction of Stable Drug Resistance in Human Breast Cancer Cells Using a Combinatorial Zinc Finger Transcription Factor Library. PLoS ONE. 6(7). e21112–e21112. 11 indexed citations

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Kim, So Young, Ian F. Dunn, Ron Firestein, et al.. (2010). CK1ε Is Required for Breast Cancers Dependent on β-Catenin Activity. PLoS ONE. 5(2). e8979–e8979. 66 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sreenath V., Diana Lee, Bihua Li, et al.. (2010). A Chromatin-Mediated Reversible Drug-Tolerant State in Cancer Cell Subpopulations. Cell. 141(1). 69–80. 1828 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wittner, Ben S., Dennis C. Sgroi, Paula D. Ryan, et al.. (2008). Analysis of the MammaPrint Breast Cancer Assay in a Predominantly Postmenopausal Cohort. Clinical Cancer Research. 14(10). 2988–2993. 115 indexed citations

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Denker, John S., Daniel Schwartz, Ben S. Wittner, et al.. (1987). Large Automatic Learning, Rule Extraction, and Generalization.. Complex Systems. 1. 166 indexed citations

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Denker, John S. & Ben S. Wittner. (1987). Network Generality, Training Required, and Precision Required. Neural Information Processing Systems. 219–222. 18 indexed citations

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Wittner, Ben S. & John S. Denker. (1987). Strategies for Teaching Layered Networks Classification Tasks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 850–859. 28 indexed citations

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