Catherine McCusker

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Catherine McCusker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine McCusker has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Biomaterials and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Catherine McCusker's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (18 papers), Silk-based biomaterials and applications (8 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (7 papers). Catherine McCusker is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (18 papers), Silk-based biomaterials and applications (8 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (7 papers). Catherine McCusker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. Catherine McCusker's co-authors include Vincent M. Rotello, Catherine Goodman, David M. Gardiner, Susan V. Bryant, Hélène Cousin, Warren A. Vieira, Dominique Alfandari, Carlos Díaz-Castillo, Julian Sosnik and Michael J. Coyne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Development.

In The Last Decade

Catherine McCusker

34 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Toxicity of Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized with Cationic and Anionic Side Chains

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Catherine McCusker United States	19	997	698	533	469	322	37	2.1k
Miao Huang China	23	810 0.8×	557 0.8×	371 0.7×	851 1.8×	429 1.3×	64	2.7k
Kwon Seok Chae South Korea	29	901 0.9×	1.4k 2.0×	672 1.3×	765 1.6×	186 0.6×	105	3.1k
Gervaise Mosser France	30	881 0.9×	342 0.5×	976 1.8×	723 1.5×	137 0.4×	61	2.5k
Kohsuke Gonda Japan	23	898 0.9×	481 0.7×	345 0.6×	481 1.0×	186 0.6×	89	1.8k
Joachim P. Spatz Germany	29	722 0.7×	507 0.7×	318 0.6×	855 1.8×	233 0.7×	56	2.4k
Erin B. Dickerson United States	26	1.0k 1.0×	330 0.5×	541 1.0×	918 2.0×	539 1.7×	52	2.8k
Joachim H. Clement Germany	32	1.5k 1.5×	330 0.5×	704 1.3×	904 1.9×	167 0.5×	103	3.2k
Stefan Kaufmann Germany	25	517 0.5×	630 0.9×	357 0.7×	509 1.1×	352 1.1×	65	2.0k
Hyewon Youn South Korea	30	1.6k 1.6×	298 0.4×	466 0.9×	1.0k 2.2×	153 0.5×	108	3.6k
Hongjian Liu China	23	1.7k 1.7×	1.6k 2.3×	249 0.5×	759 1.6×	229 0.7×	103	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Catherine McCusker

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Vieira, Warren A., et al.. (2025). Neural regulation of H3K27me3 during the induction of patterning competency in regenerating Axolotl limb cells. Communications Biology. 8(1). 659–659. 1 indexed citations

McCusker, Catherine, et al.. (2023). Making a new limb out of old cells: exploring endogenous cell reprogramming and its role during limb regeneration. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 326(2). C505–C512. 4 indexed citations

Gray, Matthew J., Edward Davis Carter, Jonah Piovia‐Scott, et al.. (2023). Broad host susceptibility of North American amphibian species to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans suggests high invasion potential and biodiversity risk. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3270–3270. 19 indexed citations

Vieira, Warren A., et al.. (2023). Integration failure of regenerated limb tissue is associated with incongruencies in positional information in the Mexican axolotl. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 11. 1152510–1152510. 4 indexed citations

Villanueva, A. R., et al.. (2022). A constitutively expressed fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell-cycle indicator (FUCCI) in axolotls for studying tissue regeneration. Development. 149(6). 7 indexed citations

McCusker, Catherine, et al.. (2022). The Accessory Limb Model Regenerative Assay and Its Derivatives. Methods in molecular biology. 2562. 217–233. 3 indexed citations

McCusker, Catherine & Alberto Roselló‐Díez. (2022). In preprints: new insights into proximodistal limb patterning and differentiation. Development. 149(19). 1 indexed citations

McCusker, Catherine, et al.. (2022). The Regulation of Growth in Developing, Homeostatic, and Regenerating Tetrapod Limbs: A Minireview. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 768505–768505. 3 indexed citations

Vieira, Warren A., et al.. (2019). Advancements to the Axolotl Model for Regeneration and Aging. Gerontology. 66(3). 212–222. 52 indexed citations

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Vieira, Warren A. & Catherine McCusker. (2019). Hierarchical pattern formation during amphibian limb regeneration. Biosystems. 183. 103989–103989. 21 indexed citations

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Vieira, Warren A., et al.. (2019). FGF, BMP, and RA signaling are sufficient for the induction of complete limb regeneration from non-regenerating wounds on Ambystoma mexicanum limbs. Developmental Biology. 451(2). 146–157. 38 indexed citations

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Vieira, Warren A. & Catherine McCusker. (2018). Regenerative Models for the Integration and Regeneration of Head Skeletal Tissues. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19(12). 3752–3752. 7 indexed citations

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Sosnik, Julian, Warren A. Vieira, Kaitlyn A. Webster, Kellee R. Siegfried, & Catherine McCusker. (2017). A new and improved algorithm for the quantification of chromatin condensation from microscopic data shows decreased chromatin condensation in regenerating axolotl limb cells. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0185292–e0185292. 12 indexed citations

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Vieira, Warren A., et al.. (2017). Trimethylation of Histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3) ChIP-PCR and transcriptional expression data of Ef1-alpha, cyp26A, HoxC10, HoxD10 and HoxD11 in the Xenopus XTC cell line. Data in Brief. 15. 970–974.

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McCusker, Catherine, et al.. (2016). Cartilage and bone cells do not participate in skeletal regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum limbs. Developmental Biology. 416(1). 26–33. 45 indexed citations

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McCusker, Catherine, et al.. (2016). Histological image data of limb skeletal tissue from larval and adult Ambystoma mexicanum. Data in Brief. 8. 1206–1208. 2 indexed citations

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McCusker, Catherine, et al.. (2015). Positional plasticity in regenerating Amybstoma mexicanum limbs is associated with cell proliferation and pathways of cellular differentiation. BMC Developmental Biology. 15(1). 45–45. 27 indexed citations

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McCusker, Catherine & David M. Gardiner. (2014). Understanding positional cues in salamander limb regeneration: implications for optimizing cell-based regenerative therapies. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 7(6). 593–599. 34 indexed citations

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Cousin, Hélène, Genevieve Abbruzzese, Catherine McCusker, & Dominique Alfandari. (2012). ADAM13 function is required in the 3 dimensional context of the embryo during cranial neural crest cell migration in Xenopus laevis. Developmental Biology. 368(2). 335–344. 23 indexed citations

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Alfandari, Dominique, Catherine McCusker, & Hélène Cousin. (2008). ADAM function in embryogenesis. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 20(2). 153–163. 33 indexed citations

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