Christopher Church

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher Church is a scholar working on Physiology, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Church has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Physiology, 9 papers in Epidemiology and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Church's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (14 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (9 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (3 papers). Christopher Church is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (14 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (9 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (3 papers). Christopher Church collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Christopher Church's co-authors include Matthew S. Rodeheffer, Elise Jeffery, Ryan Berry, Laura Colman, Brandon Holtrup, Zachary L. Sebo, Allison Wing, Jennifer L. Kaplan, Brett A. Shook and Songtao Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Church

21 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Rapid depot-specific activation of adipocyte precursor cells at the onset of obesity

2015 317 citations Elise Jeffery, Christopher Church et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Church

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Christopher Church's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Christopher Church with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Christopher Church more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Church

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Christopher Church. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Christopher Church. The network helps show where Christopher Church may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Church

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Dietary oleic acid drives obesogenic adipogenesis via modulation of LXRα signaling 2025 ·Cell Reports ·Allison Wing, Elise Jeffery, Christopher Church, J. Goodell, (unknown), Moumita Saha, Brandon Holtrup, Maud Voisin, Nahid Alavi, (unknown), Zenan Wang, (unknown), Michael J. Garabedian, Rohan Varshney, Michael C. Rudolph, Matthew S. Rodeheffer	0
2	Brown and beige adipose tissue regulate systemic metabolism through a metabolite interorgan signaling axis 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Anna Whitehead, (unknown), Amy L. Moran, Amanda D. V. MacCannell, Jason L. Scragg, Ben D. McNally, Edward Amoah Boateng, Steven A. Murfitt, Sam Virtue, John Wright, (unknown), Graeme Davies, James Dodgson, Jürgen E. Schneider, Andrew J. Murray, Christopher Church, Antonio Vidal‐Puig, Klaus K. Witte, Julian L. Griffin, Lee D. Roberts	113
3	Adult mice are unresponsive to AAV8-Gremlin1 gene therapy targeting the liver 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Jenny Hoffmann, Shahram Hedjazifar, L Bonnet, Ritesh K. Baboota, (unknown), Christopher Church, Ivet Elias, Fátima Bosch, Jérémie Boucher, Ann Hammarstedt, Ulf Smith	1
4	Induction of UCP1 and thermogenesis by a small molecule via AKAP1/PKA modulation 2020 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Laurent Vergnes, (unknown), Graeme Davies, Christopher Church, Karen Reue	14
5	The Novel Adipokine Gremlin 1 Antagonizes Insulin Action and Is Increased in Type 2 Diabetes and NAFLD/NASH 2019 ·Diabetes ·Shahram Hedjazifar, (unknown), Ann Hammarstedt, L Bonnet, Christopher Church, Jérémie Boucher, Matthias Blüher, Ulf Smith	41
6	PEPCK1 Antisense Oligonucleotide Prevents Adiposity and Impairs Hepatic Glycogen Synthesis in High-Fat Male Fed Rats 2018 ·Endocrinology ·Sara A. Beddow, Arijeet K. Gattu, Daniel F. Vatner, (unknown), Abdulelah A. Alqarzaee, (unknown), Violeta Popov, Christopher Church, Matthew S. Rodeheffer, Gary W. Cline, John G. Geisler, Sanjay Bhanot, Varman T. Samuel	8
7	Evaluating the Sub-chronic Effects of MEDI0382, a GLP-1/Glucagon Receptor Dual Agonist, on Weight Loss in Male ob/ob Mice 2018 ·Diabetes ·Stephanie Oldham, Christopher Church, Sarah Will, Anish Konkar, James L. Trevaskis, Graeme Davies	1
8	BMP4 Gene Therapy in Mature Mice Reduces BAT Activation but Protects from Obesity by Browning Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue 2017 ·Cell Reports ·Jenny Hoffmann, John Grünberg, Christopher Church, Ivet Elias, Vilborg Pálsdóttir, John‐Olov Jansson, Fátima Bosch, Ann Hammarstedt, Shahram Hedjazifar, Ulf Smith	61
9	Puberty is an important developmental period for the establishment of adipose tissue mass and metabolic homeostasis 2017 ·Adipocyte ·Brandon Holtrup, Christopher Church, Ryan Berry, Laura Colman, Elise Jeffery, Jeremy Bober, Matthew S. Rodeheffer	43
10	The Adipose Tissue Microenvironment Regulates Depot-Specific Adipogenesis in Obesity 2016 ·Cell Metabolism ·Elise Jeffery, Allison Wing, Brandon Holtrup, Zachary L. Sebo, Jennifer L. Kaplan, (unknown), Christopher Church, Laura Colman, Ryan Berry, Matthew S. Rodeheffer	245
11	Conditional immortalization of primary adipocyte precursor cells 2015 ·Adipocyte ·Christopher Church, (unknown), Matthew S. Rodeheffer	7
12	Rapid depot-specific activation of adipocyte precursor cells at the onset of obesity breakdown → 2015 ·Nature Cell Biology ·Elise Jeffery, Christopher Church, Brandon Holtrup, Laura Colman, Matthew S. Rodeheffer	317
13	Imaging of Adipose Tissue 2014 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Ryan Berry, Christopher Church, Martin Gericke, Elise Jeffery, Laura Colman, Matthew S. Rodeheffer	101
14	Characterization of Cre recombinase models for the study of adipose tissue 2014 ·Adipocyte ·Elise Jeffery, Ryan Berry, Christopher Church, Songtao Yu, Brett A. Shook, Valerie Horsley, Evan D. Rosen, Matthew S. Rodeheffer	174
15	Use of Osmium Tetroxide Staining with Microcomputerized Tomography to Visualize and Quantify Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue In Vivo 2014 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Erica L. Scheller, Nancy Troiano, (unknown), (unknown), Jackie A. Fretz, Yougen Xi, Tracy Nelson, (unknown), Ryan Berry, Christopher Church, Casey R. Doucette, Matthew S. Rodeheffer, Ormond A. MacDougald, Clifford J. Rosen, Mark C. Horowitz	141
16	The First International Mini-Symposium on Methionine Restriction and Lifespan 2014 ·Frontiers in Genetics ·Gene P. Ables, Holly M. Brown‐Borg, Rochelle Buffenstein, Christopher Church, Amany Elshorbagy, Vadim N. Gladyshev, (unknown), Richard A. Miller, James R. Mitchell, John P. Richie, Blanka Rogina, Martha H. Stipanuk, David S. Orentreich, Norman Orentreich∥	16
17	Isolation and Study of Adipocyte Precursors 2014 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Christopher Church, Ryan Berry, Matthew S. Rodeheffer	81
18	Mutations in Mll2, an H3K4 Methyltransferase, Result in Insulin Resistance and Impaired Glucose Tolerance in Mice 2013 ·PLoS ONE ·Michelle Goldsworthy, Nathan L. Absalom, David Schröter, (unknown), Debora Bogani, Lee Moir, Anna E. Long, Christopher Church, Alison Hugill, Quentin M. Anstee, Robert Goldin, Mark Thursz, Florian Hollfelder, Roger Cox	37
19	WAT is a functional adipocyte? 2012 ·Adipocyte ·Christopher Church, Mark C. Horowitz, Matthew S. Rodeheffer	31
20	Mouse models and the interpretation of human GWAS in type 2 diabetes and obesity 2011 ·Disease Models & Mechanisms ·Roger Cox, Christopher Church	33

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact