Byron Lee

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Byron Lee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Byron Lee has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Physiology and 1 paper in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Byron Lee's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Byron Lee is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Byron Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Byron Lee's co-authors include Howard Y. Chang, Ryan A. Flynn, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang, Eric T. Kool, Robert C. Spitale, Hannes Y. Kuchelmeister, Pedro J. Batista, Pete Crisalli, Jong‐Wha Jung and Eduardo A. Torre and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Protocols.

In The Last Decade

Byron Lee

11 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Structural imprints in vivo decode RNA regulatory mechanisms

2015 571 citations Robert C. Spitale, Ryan A. Flynn et al. Nature profile →
RNA Duplex Map in Living Cells Reveals Higher-Order Transcriptome Structure

2016 460 citations Zhipeng Lu, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Byron Lee United States	9	1.5k	410	59	42	39	11	1.6k
P. Kasaragod Finland	5	849 0.6×	552 1.3×	48 0.8×	62 1.5×	40 1.0×	5	1.0k
William E. Salomon United States	8	800 0.5×	414 1.0×	50 0.8×	10 0.2×	60 1.5×	10	906
Jessica Sheu‐Gruttadauria United States	10	1.2k 0.8×	630 1.5×	47 0.8×	8 0.2×	69 1.8×	12	1.3k
Jan Medenbach Germany	14	824 0.5×	192 0.5×	51 0.9×	8 0.2×	56 1.4×	23	921
Jeffrey M. Goodenbour United States	6	961 0.6×	100 0.2×	58 1.0×	13 0.3×	49 1.3×	7	1.0k
Mayuko Yoda Japan	8	792 0.5×	482 1.2×	26 0.4×	12 0.3×	56 1.4×	8	915
Tracy Nissan Sweden	17	1.2k 0.8×	93 0.2×	79 1.3×	11 0.3×	27 0.7×	25	1.3k
Susanne Kammler Denmark	8	888 0.6×	232 0.6×	37 0.6×	6 0.1×	54 1.4×	9	959
Megumi Shigematsu United States	13	982 0.7×	470 1.1×	28 0.5×	6 0.1×	49 1.3×	27	1.1k
Meghan Zubradt United States	5	1.1k 0.7×	146 0.4×	39 0.7×	6 0.1×	14 0.4×	7	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Byron Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Byron Lee

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Byron Lee

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Lee, Byron, et al.. (2023). An evolutionarily nascent architecture underlying the formation and emergence of biomolecular condensates. Cell Reports. 42(8). 112955–112955. 14 indexed citations

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Lee, Byron, et al.. (2022). A unified view of low complexity regions (LCRs) across species. eLife. 11. 21 indexed citations

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Lee, Byron, et al.. (2022). An evolutionarily nascent architecture underlying the formation and emergence of biomolecular condensates. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Byron, et al.. (2021). A unified view of LCRs across species. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Lei, Furqan M. Fazal, Pan Li, et al.. (2019). RNA structure maps across mammalian cellular compartments. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(4). 322–330. 173 indexed citations

6.

Chen, Lü, Caitlin M. Roake, Adam Freund, et al.. (2018). An Activity Switch in Human Telomerase Based on RNA Conformation and Shaped by TCAB1. Cell. 174(1). 218–230.e13. 62 indexed citations

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Lee, Byron, Ryan A. Flynn, Anastasia P. Kadina, et al.. (2016). Comparison of SHAPE reagents for mapping RNA structures inside living cells. RNA. 23(2). 169–174. 66 indexed citations

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Flynn, Ryan A., T. Brian, Adam J. Rubin, et al.. (2016). 7SK-BAF axis controls pervasive transcription at enhancers. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 23(3). 231–238. 86 indexed citations

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Flynn, Ryan A., Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang, Robert C. Spitale, et al.. (2016). Transcriptome-wide interrogation of RNA secondary structure in living cells with icSHAPE. Nature Protocols. 11(2). 273–290. 123 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhipeng, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang, Byron Lee, et al.. (2016). RNA Duplex Map in Living Cells Reveals Higher-Order Transcriptome Structure. Cell. 165(5). 1267–1279. 460 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spitale, Robert C., Ryan A. Flynn, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang, et al.. (2015). Structural imprints in vivo decode RNA regulatory mechanisms. Nature. 519(7544). 486–490. 571 indexed citations breakdown →

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