Christine Murphy

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Christine Murphy is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine Murphy has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Immunology and 4 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christine Murphy's work include Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (10 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Christine Murphy is often cited by papers focused on Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (10 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Christine Murphy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Christine Murphy's co-authors include Joseph G. Gall, Gerald M. Rubin, Barret D. Pfeiffer, Arnim Jenett, Zheng’an Wu, James W. Truman, Karen L Hibbard, John Westwick, Michel Bellini and Robert Levis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Christine Murphy

35 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Refinement of Tools for Targeted Gene Expression in Droso... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2010 2008 200 400 600
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. Refinement of Tools for Targeted Gene Expression in Drosophila
    2010 748 citations Christine Murphy, Gerald M. Rubin et al. profile →
  2. Tools for neuroanatomy and neurogenetics in Drosophila
    2008 699 citations Christine Murphy, Gerald M. Rubin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christine Murphy United Kingdom 20 1.8k 1.2k 597 425 346 36 3.0k
Guillermo Marqués United States 26 2.2k 1.2× 1.9k 1.6× 684 1.1× 162 0.4× 292 0.8× 39 3.8k
Alberto Ferrús Spain 35 2.4k 1.3× 2.2k 1.8× 639 1.1× 367 0.9× 236 0.7× 83 3.8k
Lucy Cherbas United States 27 2.1k 1.2× 1.9k 1.6× 868 1.5× 332 0.8× 499 1.4× 41 3.8k
Todd Laverty United States 16 3.1k 1.7× 1.5k 1.3× 733 1.2× 678 1.6× 233 0.7× 19 4.1k
Michael J. Pankratz Germany 32 1.6k 0.9× 1.5k 1.2× 791 1.3× 268 0.6× 322 0.9× 59 3.3k
Michael Caudy United States 20 4.8k 2.7× 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 1.7× 608 1.4× 117 0.3× 32 5.9k
Irene Miguel‐Aliaga United Kingdom 27 1.1k 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 438 0.7× 130 0.3× 223 0.6× 44 2.8k
Gabrielle L. Boulianne Canada 32 2.4k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 373 0.6× 183 0.4× 117 0.3× 78 4.0k
Michaela Fellner Austria 10 1.9k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 401 0.7× 246 0.6× 162 0.5× 16 2.8k
Koen J. T. Venken United States 30 3.2k 1.8× 1.8k 1.5× 904 1.5× 492 1.2× 183 0.5× 50 4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Christine Murphy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christine Murphy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christine Murphy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christine Murphy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christine Murphy 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 Christine Murphy. Christine Murphy 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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Liu, Ji‐Long, et al.. (2006). The Drosophila melanogaster Cajal body. The Journal of Cell Biology. 172(6). 875–884. 176 indexed citations
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Murphy, Christine, Zhengxin Wang, Robert G. Roeder, & Joseph G. Gall. (2002). RNA Polymerase III in Cajal Bodies and Lampbrush Chromosomes of theXenopusOocyte Nucleus. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 13(10). 3466–3476. 29 indexed citations
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Morgan, Garry T., et al.. (2000). RNA Polymerase II in Cajal Bodies of Amphibian Oocytes. Journal of Structural Biology. 129(2-3). 258–268. 43 indexed citations
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Gall, Joseph G., Michel Bellini, Zheng’an Wu, & Christine Murphy. (1999). Assembly of the Nuclear Transcription and Processing Machinery: Cajal Bodies (Coiled Bodies) and Transcriptosomes. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 10(12). 4385–4402. 251 indexed citations
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Gall, Joseph G. & Christine Murphy. (1998). Pictures in cell biology. Trends in Cell Biology. 8(5). 207–207. 2 indexed citations
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Gall, Joseph G. & Christine Murphy. (1998). Assembly of Lampbrush Chromosomes from Sperm Chromatin. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 9(4). 733–747. 40 indexed citations
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Riley, Andrew M., et al.. (1996). 6-Deoxy-6-hydroxymethyl scyllo-inositol 1,2,4-trisphosphate: A potent agonist at the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 6(18). 2197–2200. 17 indexed citations
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Murphy, Christine, et al.. (1995). Nicotine increases intracellular calcium in rat hippocampal neurons via voltage-gated calcium channels. Neuroscience Letters. 196(1-2). 101–104. 51 indexed citations
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Gall, Joseph G., et al.. (1995). Is the sphere organelle/coiled body a universal nuclear component?. Developmental Genetics. 16(1). 25–35. 139 indexed citations
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Murphy, Christine, Chris Poll, & John Westwick. (1995). The whoosh and trickle of calcium signalling. Cell Calcium. 18(3). 245–251. 11 indexed citations
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Murphy, Christine, Susan H. Peers, Robert A. Forder, et al.. (1992). Evidence for the presence and location of annexins in human platelets. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 189(3). 1739–1746. 19 indexed citations
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Pino, Eugenia M. del, Christine Murphy, Patrick Masson, & Joseph G. Gall. (1992). 5S rRNA-encoding genes of the marsupial frog Gastrotheca riobambae. Gene. 111(2). 235–238. 13 indexed citations
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Murphy, Christine, et al.. (1991). Comparison of the role of protein kinase C in platelet functional responses induced by three different mechanisms, PAF, ionomycin and arachidonic acid. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1133(1). 46–54. 8 indexed citations
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Callan, H. G., Joseph G. Gall, & Christine Murphy. (1991). Histone genes are located at the sphere loci of Xenopus lampbrush chromosomes. Chromosoma. 101(4). 245–251. 58 indexed citations
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Wu, Zheng’an, Weixin Liu, Christine Murphy, & Joseph G. Gall. (1990). Satellite 1 DNA sequence from genomic DNA of the giant pandaAiluropoda melanoleuca. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(4). 1054–1054. 15 indexed citations
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O’Hare, Kevin, Christine Murphy, Robert Levis, & Gerald M. Rubin. (1984). DNA sequence of the white locus of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Biology. 180(3). 437–455. 231 indexed citations

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