Bethany Westlund

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Bethany Westlund is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Aging and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bethany Westlund has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Aging and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Bethany Westlund's work include Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (5 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers). Bethany Westlund is often cited by papers focused on Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (5 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers). Bethany Westlund collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Switzerland. Bethany Westlund's co-authors include Tim Schedl, Ralph Clover, Ann E. Sluder, Michael Basson, Carl D. Johnson, Nancy Dahms, Stuart Kornfeld, Olivier Froelich, Pascal Mäser and Ronald Kaminsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Bethany Westlund

11 papers receiving 992 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A new class of anthelmintics effective against drug-resistant nematodes

2008 392 citations Ronald Kaminsky, Pierre Ducray et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Bethany Westlund

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AGING

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Thomas Boulin France

Thomas M. Barnes Canada

Iain L. Johnstone United Kingdom

Pauline Cottee Australia

April E. Williams United States

Aric N. Rogers United States

D. Dixon Canada

Colin Thacker Canada

Mark L. Edgley Canada

William E. Trout United States

Thomas Boulin France

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546 ×1.2

MB

539 ×1.6

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100 ×0.3

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48 ×0.3

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109 ×0.6

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bethany Westlund

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bethany Westlund

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Sleigh, James N., Steven D. Buckingham, Behrooz Esmaeili, et al.. (2010). A novel Caenorhabditis elegans allele, smn-1(cb131), mimicking a mild form of spinal muscular atrophy, provides a convenient drug screening platform highlighting new and pre-approved compounds. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(2). 245–260. 44 indexed citations

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Sleigh, James N., Steven D. Buckingham, Edwin Cuppen, et al.. (2010). P66 A novel point mutation in the Caenorhabditis elegans smn-1 gene provides a useful model for investigating Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Neuromuscular Disorders. 20. S22–S23. 1 indexed citations

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Dorsett, Maia, Bethany Westlund, & Tim Schedl. (2009). METT-10, A Putative Methyltransferase, Inhibits Germ Cell Proliferative Fate in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 183(1). 233–247. 33 indexed citations

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Westlund, Bethany, et al.. (2008). Invertebrate and fungal model organisms: emerging platforms for drug discovery. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery. 3(12). 1383–1395. 1 indexed citations

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Kaminsky, Ronald, Pierre Ducray, Martin Jung, et al.. (2008). A new class of anthelmintics effective against drug-resistant nematodes. Nature. 452(7184). 176–180. 392 indexed citations breakdown →

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Westlund, Bethany, et al.. (2004). Invertebrate disease models in neurotherapeutic discovery.. PubMed. 7(2). 169–78. 9 indexed citations

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Andersen, Brian Nauheimer, Bethany Westlund, & Christian Krarup. (2003). Failure of activation of spinal motoneurones after muscle fatigue in healthy subjects studied by transcranial magnetic stimulation. The Journal of Physiology. 551(1). 345–356. 39 indexed citations

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Liu, Leo X., Jill M. Spoerke, Jing Chen, et al.. (1999). High-Throughput Isolation of Caenorhabditis elegans Deletion Mutants. Genome Research. 9(9). 859–867. 148 indexed citations

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Westlund, Bethany, et al.. (1999). Reverse genetic analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans presenilins reveals redundant but unequal roles for sel- 12 and hop- 1 in Notch-pathway signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(5). 2497–2502. 68 indexed citations

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Westlund, Bethany, et al.. (1997). Germ-line tumor formation caused by activation of glp-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans member of the Notch family of receptors. Development. 124(4). 925–936. 213 indexed citations

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Westlund, Bethany, Nancy Dahms, & Stuart Kornfeld. (1991). The bovine mannose 6-phosphate/insulin-like growth factor II receptor. Localization of mannose 6-phosphate binding sites to domains 1-3 and 7-11 of the extracytoplasmic region.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 266(34). 23233–23239. 69 indexed citations

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