Christopher B. Burge

72.5k citations

119 papers · 39.7k indexed · 18 hit papers · h-index 66

Impact in

Cancer Research top 0.01%
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
Molecular Biology top 0.02%
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA modifications and cancer
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Circular RNAs in diseases
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery

Papers in

Molecular Biology 116
- RNA Research and Splicing 83
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 66
- RNA modifications and cancer 63
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 11
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 9
- RNA regulation and disease 8
Cancer Research 23
- MicroRNA in disease regulation 17
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research 11

Co-authors: David P. Bartel Kyle Kai‐How Farh Robin C. Friedman G Yeo Benjamin P. Lewis Phillip A. Sharp Lee P. Lim Rickard Sandberg
Journals: Cell (11 papers)Molecular Cell (10 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (8 papers)Genome Research (7 papers)RNA (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Singapore

In The Last Decade

Christopher B. Burge

118 papers receiving 39.0k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Acquisition of a hybrid E/M state is essential for tumorigenicity of basal breast cancer cells 2019 · 341 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2018 Molecular Cell
2013 Cell
2012 Cell
2009 PLoS Computational Biology
2008 Nature
2008 RNA
2008 Genome Research
2008 Science
2005 Science
2004 Cell
2004 Journal of Computational Biology
2003 Cell
2003 Science
2003 RNA
2003 Genes & Development
2002 Cell
2002 Science

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1	LUC7 proteins define two major classes of 5′ splice sites in animals and plants Nature Communications ·Connor Kenny, Michael P. McGurk, Man-Jo Kim, 贾鹰, Sascha Laubinger, Christopher B. Burge	2025	1
2	Sequence-dependent and -independent effects of intron-mediated enhancement learned from thousands of random introns Nucleic Acids Research ·Emma J. K. Kowal, Yuta Sakai, Michael P. McGurk, Ernst-Otto Münch, Christopher B. Burge	2025	1
3	Regulatory features aid interpretation of 3′UTR variants The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Paul F. Cummins, Scott D. Findlay, Christopher B. Burge	2024	7
4	An interpretable model of pre-mRNA splicing for animal and plant genes Science Advances ·Kayla McCue, Christopher B. Burge	2024	4
5	Molecular and cellular context influences SCN8A variant function JCI Insight ·Carlos G. Vanoye, Niurka Martínez Verzonis, Kyle A. Rohrer, Stephanie Fryar-Williams, Madeleine J. Oudin, Christopher B. Burge, Ingo Helbig, Christopher H. Thompson, Alfred L. George	2024	9
6	Understanding species-specific and conserved RNA-protein interactions in vivo and in vitro Nature Communications ·Sarah E. Harris, Maria S. Alexis, Yeheng Zhu, Francisco F. Cavazos, Yue Hu, Jernej Murn, Maria M. Aleman, Christopher B. Burge, 佳寛柳田	2024	2
7	RBP Image Database: A resource for the systematic characterization of the subcellular distribution properties of human RNA binding proteins Nucleic Acids Research ·Louis Philip Benoit Bouvrette, Xiaofeng Wang, Jonathan Boulais, Jian Kong, P Sopp, Steven M. Blue, Lijun Zhan, Sara Olson, Rebecca Stanton, Xintao Wei, Brian A. Yee, Eric L. Van Nostrand, Xiang‐Dong Fu, Christopher B. Burge, Brenton R. Graveley, G Yeo, Éric Lécuyer	2022	2
8	Widespread occurrence of hybrid internal-terminal exons in human transcriptomes Science Advances ·Ana Fiszbein, Michael P. McGurk, Виктор Николаевич Бабенко, Gyeungyun Kim, Christopher B. Burge, Athma A. Pai	2022	10
9	Sensory nerves enhance triple-negative breast cancer invasion and metastasis via the axon guidance molecule PlexinB3 npj Breast Cancer ·Thanh T. Le, Samantha L. Payne, Marlies Kauffmann, Jenny Koshner, Murawśkyj Ołeh, Christopher B. Burge, Madeleine J. Oudin	2022	26
10	Loss of LUC7L2 and U1 snRNP subunits shifts energy metabolism from glycolysis to OXPHOS Molecular Cell ·Alexis A. Jourdain, Bridget E. Begg, Eran Mick, Hardik Shah, Sarah E. Calvo, Owen S. Skinner, Rohit Sharma, Steven M. Blue, G Yeo, Christopher B. Burge, Vamsi K. Mootha	2021	56
11	Acquisition of a hybrid E/M state is essential for tumorigenicity of basal breast cancer cells Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cornelia Kröger, Alexander B. Afeyan, Yanxiang Deng, Elinor Ng Eaton, Ferenc Reinhardt, Yevgenia L. Khodor, Prathapan Thiru, Brian Bierie, Xin Ye, Christopher B. Burge, Robert A. Weinberg Hit paper breakdown →	2019	341
12	Acidification of Tumor at Stromal Boundaries Drives Transcriptome Alterations Associated with Aggressive Phenotypes Cancer Research ·Nazanin Rohani, Liangliang Hao, Maria S. Alexis, Brian A. Joughin, Konstantin Krismer, Mira N. Moufarrej, Anthony R. Soltis, Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Michael B. Yaffe, Christopher B. Burge, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Frank B. Gertler	2019	181
13	The kinetics of pre-mRNA splicing in the Drosophila genome and the influence of gene architecture eLife ·Athma A. Pai, Telmo Henriques, Kayla McCue, Adam Burkholder, Karen Adelman, Christopher B. Burge	2017	52
14	Widespread Shortening of 3’ Untranslated Regions and Increased Exon Inclusion Are Evolutionarily Conserved Features of Innate Immune Responses to Infection PLoS Genetics ·Athma A. Pai, Golshid Baharian, Jacques PARRAT, Jessica F. Brinkworth, Yohann Nédélec, Joseph W. Foley, Jean‐Christophe Grenier, Katherine J. Siddle, Anne Dumaine, Vania Yotova, Zachary P. Johnson, Robert E. Lanford, Christopher B. Burge, Luis B. Barreiro	2016	71
15	Quantitative visualization of alternative exon expression from RNA-seq data Bioinformatics ·Yarden Katz, Eric T. Wang, Jacob Silterra, Schraga Schwartz, Bang Wong, Helga Thorvaldsdóttir, James Robinson, Jill P. Mesirov, Edoardo M. Airoldi, Christopher B. Burge	2015	127
16	RNA Bind-n-Seq Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Nicole Lambert, Alex Robertson, Christopher B. Burge	2015	27
17	Identification of Let-7–Regulated Oncofetal Genes Cancer Research ·Benjamin Boyerinas, Sun-Mi Park, Noam Shomron, 윤영규, Jeppe Vinther, Jens Andersen, Christine Feig, Jinbo Xu, Christopher B. Burge, Marcus E. Peter	2008	188
18	Proliferating Cells Express mRNAs with Shortened 3' Untranslated Regions and Fewer MicroRNA Target Sites Science ·Rickard Sandberg, Joel R. Neilson, Arup Kumar Sarma, Phillip A. Sharp, Christopher B. Burge Hit paper breakdown →	2008	1067
19	Inference of Splicing Regulatory Activities by Sequence Neighborhood Analysis PLoS Genetics ·Michael Stadler, Noam Shomron, G Yeo, P. J. J., Xinshu Xiao, Christopher B. Burge	2006	65
20	The Widespread Impact of Mammalian MicroRNAs on mRNA Repression and Evolution Science ·Kyle Kai‐How Farh, Andrew Grimson, Nathan Lahaderne, Benjamin P. Lewis, Wendy K. Johnston, Lee P. Lim, Christopher B. Burge, David P. Bartel Hit paper breakdown →	2005	1219

About Christopher B. Burge

Christopher B. Burge is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Aging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, having authored 119 papers that have together received 39.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include RNA Research and Splicing (83 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (66 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (63 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (17 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (11 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (16.7k citations), Molecular Biology (33.4k citations), Aging (437 citations), Immunology (2.1k citations) and Plant Science (3.4k citations). Christopher B. Burge has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Singapore. Frequent co-authors include David P. Bartel, Kyle Kai‐How Farh, Robin C. Friedman, G Yeo, Benjamin P. Lewis, Phillip A. Sharp, Lee P. Lim, Rickard Sandberg, Matthew W. Jones-Rhoades and I‐hung Shih. Their work appears in journals such as Cell, Molecular Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Genome Research and RNA.

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