Christopher Watkins

546 total citations
12 papers, 271 citations indexed

About

Christopher Watkins is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Watkins has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 271 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Immunology and 2 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Christopher Watkins's work include RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (2 papers). Christopher Watkins is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (2 papers). Christopher Watkins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Christopher Watkins's co-authors include Tao Pan, Christopher D. Katanski, Wen Zhang, Ryan Hili, Eileen J. Kennedy, Maribeth H. Johnson, William Hill, Monte Hunter, Carlos M. Isales and Wendy B. Bollag and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Watkins

11 papers receiving 271 citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Watkins United States	9	222	37	33	12	11	12	271
Deqin Wu China	8	164 0.7×	125 3.4×	24 0.7×	5 0.4×	27 2.5×	10	287
Ying Feng China	10	189 0.9×	88 2.4×	40 1.2×	18 1.5×	10 0.9×	20	291
Tingting Xie China	5	83 0.4×	97 2.6×	22 0.7×	13 1.1×	6 0.5×	6	149
Benedikt Agerer Austria	7	167 0.8×	16 0.4×	41 1.2×	8 0.7×	11 1.0×	10	248
Juanjuan Yu China	9	125 0.6×	65 1.8×	22 0.7×	5 0.4×	13 1.2×	21	214
Mingjun Yu China	10	167 0.8×	147 4.0×	10 0.3×	2 0.2×	14 1.3×	23	278
Mohammad Malekan Iran	7	80 0.4×	53 1.4×	44 1.3×	3 0.3×	9 0.8×	15	188
Éléa Héberlé France	5	172 0.8×	32 0.9×	19 0.6×	3 0.3×	15 1.4×	5	238
Giulia De Riso Italy	7	125 0.6×	25 0.7×	18 0.5×	5 0.4×	24 2.2×	13	164
Shuang Liao China	5	248 1.1×	12 0.3×	14 0.4×	3 0.3×	35 3.2×	11	316

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Chai, Peiyuan, Sina Kheiri, Andrew Kuo, et al.. (2026). GlycoRNA complexed with heparan sulfate regulates VEGF-A signalling. Nature. 651(8106). 808–818.

Watkins, Christopher, et al.. (2025). In vivo structure profiling reveals human cytosolic and mitochondrial tRNA structurome and interactome in response to stress. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5041–5041. 2 indexed citations

Xie, Yixuan, Peiyuan Chai, Nicholas A. Till, et al.. (2024). The modified RNA base acp3U is an attachment site for N-glycans in glycoRNA. Cell. 187(19). 5228–5237.e12. 46 indexed citations

Watkins, Christopher, et al.. (2022). A multiplex platform for small RNA sequencing elucidates multifaceted tRNA stress response and translational regulation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2491–2491. 44 indexed citations

Katanski, Christopher D., Wen Zhang, Christopher Watkins, et al.. (2022). Single-read tRNA-seq analysis reveals coordination of tRNA modification and aminoacylation and fragmentation. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(3). e17–e17. 24 indexed citations

Katanski, Christopher D., Hala Alshammary, Christopher Watkins, et al.. (2022). tRNA abundance, modification and fragmentation in nasopharyngeal swabs as biomarkers for COVID-19 severity. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 999351–999351. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Wen, Christopher Watkins, Hala Alshammary, et al.. (2022). Profiling Selective Packaging of Host RNA and Viral RNA Modification in SARS-CoV-2 Viral Preparations. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 768356–768356. 6 indexed citations

Katanski, Christopher D., Christopher Watkins, Wen Zhang, et al.. (2022). Analysis of queuosine and 2-thio tRNA modifications by high throughput sequencing. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(17). e99–e99. 22 indexed citations

Wang, Yuru, Christopher D. Katanski, Christopher Watkins, et al.. (2020). A high-throughput screening method for evolving a demethylase enzyme with improved and new functionalities. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(5). e30–e30. 13 indexed citations

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Refaey, Mona El, Christopher Watkins, Eileen J. Kennedy, et al.. (2015). Oxidation of the aromatic amino acids tryptophan and tyrosine disrupts their anabolic effects on bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 410. 87–96. 67 indexed citations

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Watkins, Christopher, et al.. (2015). Design of a selenylsulfide-bridged EGFR dimerization arm mimic. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 23(12). 2761–2766. 9 indexed citations

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Watkins, Christopher, et al.. (2015). Sequence-Defined Scaffolding of Peptides on Nucleic Acid Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(34). 11191–11196. 30 indexed citations

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