Christopher M. Saunders

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher M. Saunders is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology and Reproductive Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher M. Saunders has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Reproductive Medicine. Recurrent topics in Christopher M. Saunders's work include Reproductive Biology and Fertility (6 papers), Sperm and Testicular Function (5 papers) and Ovarian function and disorders (4 papers). Christopher M. Saunders is often cited by papers focused on Reproductive Biology and Fertility (6 papers), Sperm and Testicular Function (5 papers) and Ovarian function and disorders (4 papers). Christopher M. Saunders collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and Australia. Christopher M. Saunders's co-authors include Karl Swann, F. Anthony Lai, Mark G. Larman, Lynda Blayney, John Parrington, Keiko Hashimoto, John Carroll, Michail Nomikos, Andreas Rossbach and Karen Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Development and Journal of Cell Science.

In The Last Decade

Christopher M. Saunders

10 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

PLCζ: a sperm-specific trigger of Ca2+ oscillations in eggs and embryo development

2002 804 citations Christopher M. Saunders, Mark G. Larman et al. Development profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher M. Saunders United Kingdom	8	1.3k	988	536	280	108	10	1.5k
Jean‐Pierre Ozil France	10	1.0k 0.8×	637 0.6×	508 0.9×	178 0.6×	99 0.9×	11	1.2k
Rafael A. Fissore United States	18	1.1k 0.9×	987 1.0×	408 0.8×	224 0.8×	78 0.7×	30	1.4k
Sook‐Young Yoon United States	15	886 0.7×	758 0.8×	286 0.5×	162 0.6×	56 0.5×	21	1.1k
Masashi Miyake Japan	20	739 0.6×	377 0.4×	717 1.3×	234 0.8×	177 1.6×	39	1.2k
Mary Jo Carabatsos United States	9	1.2k 1.0×	589 0.6×	786 1.5×	177 0.6×	288 2.7×	10	1.5k
Jiří Moos Czechia	12	752 0.6×	646 0.7×	264 0.5×	151 0.5×	83 0.8×	18	949
Takuya Wakai Japan	19	657 0.5×	352 0.4×	694 1.3×	262 0.9×	42 0.4×	51	1.2k
Chang Li He United States	10	677 0.5×	505 0.5×	283 0.5×	113 0.4×	78 0.7×	10	788
Yuansong Yu China	13	651 0.5×	446 0.5×	288 0.5×	89 0.3×	53 0.5×	23	818
Ruby Chen United States	6	525 0.4×	262 0.3×	354 0.7×	98 0.3×	148 1.4×	10	723

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Yu, Yang, Christopher M. Saunders, F. Anthony Lai, & Karl Swann. (2007). Preimplantation development of mouse oocytes activated by different levels of human phospholipase C zeta. Human Reproduction. 23(2). 365–373. 51 indexed citations

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Swann, Karl, Christopher M. Saunders, & F. Anthony Lai. (2007). PLCζ, a sperm-specific PLC and its potential role in fertilization. Biochemical Society Symposia. 74(1). 23–23. 57 indexed citations

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Saunders, Christopher M., Karl Swann, & F. Anthony Lai. (2007). PLCζ, a sperm-specific PLC and its potential role in fertilization. Biochemical Society Symposia. 74. 23–36. 36 indexed citations

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Nomikos, Michail, Lynda Blayney, Mark G. Larman, et al.. (2005). Role of Phospholipase C-ζ Domains in Ca2+-dependent Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Bisphosphate Hydrolysis and Cytoplasmic Ca2+ Oscillations. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(35). 31011–31018. 120 indexed citations

5.

Swann, Karl, Mark G. Larman, Christopher M. Saunders, & F. Anthony Lai. (2004). The cytosolic sperm factor that triggers Ca2+ oscillations and egg activation in mammals is a novel phospholipase C: PLCζ. Reproduction. 127(4). 431–439. 125 indexed citations

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Larman, Mark G., Christopher M. Saunders, John Carroll, F. Anthony Lai, & Karl Swann. (2004). Cell cycle-dependent Ca2+ oscillations in mouse embryos are regulated by nuclear targeting of PLCζ. Journal of Cell Science. 117(12). 2513–2521. 115 indexed citations

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Larman, Mark G., et al.. (2002). Sperm phospholipase Czeta from humans and cynomolgus monkeys triggers Ca2+ oscillations, activation and development of mouse oocytes. Reproduction. 124(5). 611–623. 231 indexed citations

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Saunders, Christopher M., Mark G. Larman, John Parrington, et al.. (2002). PLCζ: a sperm-specific trigger of Ca2+ oscillations in eggs and embryo development. Development. 129(15). 3533–3544. 804 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kille, Peter, et al.. (2002). Study of wheat transformed with sense and anti-sense lipase genes. Biochemical Society Transactions. 30(5). A120–A120. 1 indexed citations

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Saunders, Christopher M., et al.. (1998). Characteristics of wheat seed lipase. Biochemical Society Transactions. 26(2). S152–S152. 2 indexed citations

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