Boris Lenhard

41.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
132 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Boris Lenhard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris Lenhard has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Genetics and 25 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Boris Lenhard's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (67 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (32 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (31 papers). Boris Lenhard is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (67 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (32 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (31 papers). Boris Lenhard collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Norway and United States. Boris Lenhard's co-authors include Albin Sandelin, Wyeth W. Wasserman, Ge Tan, Piero Carninci, Anthony Mathelier, François Parcy, David J. Arenillas, Oriol Fornés, Pär G. Engström and Damir Baranas̆ić and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Boris Lenhard

129 papers receiving 12.6k citations

Hit Papers

JASPAR 2020: update of the open... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2019 2017 2013 2015 2007 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. JASPAR 2020: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles
    2019 1.3k citations Oriol Fornés, Jaime A. Castro-Mondragón et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. JASPAR 2018: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles and its web framework
    2017 1.1k citations Aziz Khan, Oriol Fornés et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. JASPAR 2014: an extensively expanded and updated open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles
    2013 801 citations Anthony Mathelier, François Parcy et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. JASPAR 2016: a major expansion and update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles
    2015 725 citations Anthony Mathelier, Oriol Fornés et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. JASPAR, the open access database of transcription factor-binding profiles: new content and tools in the 2008 update
    2007 559 citations Jan Christian Bryne, Boris Lenhard et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  6. JASPAR 2024: 20th anniversary of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles
    2023 334 citations Ieva Rauluševičiūtė, Rafael Riudavets Puig et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Boris Lenhard United Kingdom 52 10.4k 2.2k 1.7k 1.6k 969 132 12.7k
Simon Andrews United Kingdom 54 12.4k 1.2× 3.2k 1.5× 1.4k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 109 15.1k
Gregory E. Crawford United States 56 13.8k 1.3× 3.4k 1.6× 1.5k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 120 16.2k
Albin Sandelin Denmark 48 11.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.9× 2.7k 1.6× 1.6k 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 108 14.5k
Krishna M. Roskin United States 22 7.4k 0.7× 2.7k 1.2× 1.4k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 1.4k 1.4× 48 10.5k
Huaiyu Mi United States 23 8.5k 0.8× 2.1k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 1.3k 1.3× 41 13.6k
David I. K. Martin United States 52 9.1k 0.9× 2.8k 1.3× 1.6k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 987 1.0× 94 11.5k
Alan M. Zahler United States 25 9.7k 0.9× 2.1k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 678 0.7× 41 11.6k
Martha L. Bulyk United States 51 10.2k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 1.0k 1.1× 114 12.3k
Laurie A. Boyer United States 32 12.6k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 2.2k 1.3× 831 0.5× 774 0.8× 48 14.1k
Kevin P. White United States 61 7.9k 0.8× 2.5k 1.2× 1.6k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 860 0.9× 159 12.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Boris Lenhard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boris Lenhard

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zehnder, Tobias, Andreas Magg, Damir Baranas̆ić, et al.. (2025). Conservation of regulatory elements with highly diverged sequences across large evolutionary distances. Nature Genetics. 57(6). 1524–1534. 4 indexed citations
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Rauluševičiūtė, Ieva, Guido Barzaghi, Boris Lenhard, et al.. (2024). Identification of transcription factor co-binding patterns with non-negative matrix factorization. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(18). e85–e85. 1 indexed citations
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Rauluševičiūtė, Ieva, Rafael Riudavets Puig, Romain Blanc‐Mathieu, et al.. (2023). JASPAR 2024: 20th anniversary of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(D1). D174–D182. 334 indexed citations breakdown →
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Beltran, Toni, et al.. (2020). Integrator is recruited to promoter‐proximally paused RNA Pol II to generate Caenorhabditis elegans piRNA precursors. The EMBO Journal. 40(5). e105564–e105564. 27 indexed citations
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Cvetešić, Nevena, Kapil Gupta, Tao Ye, et al.. (2020). TBPL2/TFIIA complex establishes the maternal transcriptome through oocyte-specific promoter usage. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6439–6439. 23 indexed citations
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Nepal, Chirag, Yavor Hadzhiev, Piotr J. Balwierz, et al.. (2020). Dual-initiation promoters with intertwined canonical and TCT/TOP transcription start sites diversify transcript processing. Nature Communications. 11(1). 168–168. 29 indexed citations
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Lewis, Samuel H., Laura Ross, Eleni Pahita, et al.. (2020). Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods. PLoS Genetics. 16(6). e1008864–e1008864. 59 indexed citations
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Cvetešić, Nevena, et al.. (2018). Saccharomyces cerevisiae displays a stable transcription start site landscape in multiple conditions. FEMS Yeast Research. 19(2). 8 indexed citations
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Hill, Peter W. S., Harry G. Leitch, Cristina E. Requena, et al.. (2018). Epigenetic reprogramming enables the transition from primordial germ cell to gonocyte. Nature. 555(7696). 392–396. 181 indexed citations
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Zeisig, Bernd B., Magdalena Zarowiecki, Tsz Kan Fung, et al.. (2017). Transcriptional memory of cells of origin overrides β‐catenin requirement of MLL cancer stem cells. The EMBO Journal. 36(21). 3139–3155. 20 indexed citations
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Stadhouders, Ralph, Süleyman Aktuna, Supat Thongjuea, et al.. (2014). HBS1L-MYB intergenic variants modulate fetal hemoglobin via long-range MYB enhancers. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 124(4). 1699–1710. 142 indexed citations
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Thongjuea, Supat, Ralph Stadhouders, Frank Grosveld, Éric Soler, & Boris Lenhard. (2013). r3Cseq: an R/Bioconductor package for the discovery of long-range genomic interactions from chromosome conformation capture and next-generation sequencing data. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(13). e132–e132. 73 indexed citations
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Harmston, Nathan & Boris Lenhard. (2013). Chromatin and epigenetic features of long-range gene regulation. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(15). 7185–7199. 81 indexed citations
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Danks, Gemma, Coen Campsteijn, Mrutyunjaya Parida, et al.. (2012). OikoBase: a genomics and developmental transcriptomics resource for the urochordate Oikopleura dioica. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D845–D853. 49 indexed citations
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Soler, Éric, Charlotte Andrieu‐Soler, Elke de Boer, et al.. (2010). The genome-wide dynamics of the binding of Ldb1 complexes during erythroid differentiation (Genes & Development (2010) 24, (277-289)). Genes & Development. 24. 623. 25 indexed citations
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Akalin, Altuna, David Fredman, Erik Arner, et al.. (2009). Transcriptional features of genomic regulatory blocks. Genome biology. 10(4). R38–R38. 75 indexed citations
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Sandelin, Albin, Piero Carninci, Boris Lenhard, et al.. (2007). Mammalian RNA polymerase II core promoters: insights from genome-wide studies. Nature Reviews Genetics. 8(6). 424–436. 388 indexed citations
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Pang, Ken C., Selvaraj Stephen, Marcel E. Dinger, et al.. (2006). RNAdb 2.0--an expanded database of mammalian non-coding RNAs. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(Database). D178–D182. 127 indexed citations
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Katzov, Hagit, Anna M. Bennet, Patrick G. Kehoe, et al.. (2004). A cladistic model of ACE sequence variation with implications for myocardial infarction, Alzheimer disease and obesity. Human Molecular Genetics. 13(21). 2647–2657. 42 indexed citations

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