Ci Ji Lim

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 853 citations indexed

About

Ci Ji Lim is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ci Ji Lim has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 853 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Ci Ji Lim's work include Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (8 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (6 papers). Ci Ji Lim is often cited by papers focused on Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (8 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (6 papers). Ci Ji Lim collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and China. Ci Ji Lim's co-authors include Thomas R. Cech, Jie Yan, Linda J. Kenney, Arthur J. Zaug, Anli Geng, Artem K. Efremov, Hee Jin Kim, Deborah S. Wuttke, Karen J. Goodrich and Yuanyuan Qu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Ci Ji Lim

21 papers receiving 846 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.

Shaping human telomeres: from shelterin and CST complexes to telomeric chromatin organization

2021 172 citations Ci Ji Lim, Thomas R. Cech Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ci Ji Lim United States	15	617	242	202	163	59	22	853
Veysel Berk United States	6	529 0.9×	100 0.4×	77 0.4×	98 0.6×	11 0.2×	9	638
Zhenfang Wu China	15	531 0.9×	61 0.3×	122 0.6×	91 0.6×	16 0.3×	27	652
Annie Conter France	14	480 0.8×	45 0.2×	344 1.7×	156 1.0×	18 0.3×	26	782
Tiago Q. Faria Portugal	16	469 0.8×	47 0.2×	96 0.5×	49 0.3×	15 0.3×	28	661
Pierluigi Donini Italy	15	782 1.3×	260 1.1×	301 1.5×	146 0.9×	18 0.3×	45	967
Yehuda Tzfati Israel	24	1.3k 2.1×	791 3.3×	87 0.4×	45 0.3×	34 0.6×	42	1.5k
Edward L. Bolt United Kingdom	22	1.1k 1.9×	21 0.1×	427 2.1×	161 1.0×	10 0.2×	57	1.2k
Patrick D. Curtis United States	12	445 0.7×	16 0.1×	254 1.3×	205 1.3×	16 0.3×	18	628
Elizabeth A. Auger United States	10	457 0.7×	19 0.1×	257 1.3×	113 0.7×	27 0.5×	12	682
Jantana Wongsantichon Thailand	16	534 0.9×	22 0.1×	46 0.2×	25 0.2×	18 0.3×	31	731

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ci Ji Lim

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Baranovskiy, Andrey G., et al.. (2025). Structural basis of herpesvirus helicase-primase inhibition by pritelivir and amenamevir. Science Advances. 11(45). eadz1989–eadz1989.

Lin, Xiuhua, et al.. (2025). Human RPA is an essential telomerase processivity factor for maintaining telomeres. Science. 390(6772). 495–502. 1 indexed citations

Gan, Li, et al.. (2024). Small LEA proteins mitigate air-water interface damage to fragile cryo-EM samples during plunge freezing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7705–7705. 7 indexed citations

Baranovskiy, Andrey G., et al.. (2023). Structures of human primosome elongation complexes. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 30(5). 579–583. 12 indexed citations

Lim, Ci Ji, et al.. (2023). Models for human telomere C-strand fill-in by CST–Polα-primase. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 48(10). 860–872. 5 indexed citations

Lin, Xiuhua, et al.. (2022). Structures of the human CST-Polα–primase complex bound to telomere templates. Nature. 608(7924). 826–832. 47 indexed citations

Zaug, Arthur J., et al.. (2021). CST does not evict elongating telomerase but prevents initiation by ssDNA binding. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(20). 11653–11665. 22 indexed citations

Lim, Ci Ji & Thomas R. Cech. (2021). Shaping human telomeres: from shelterin and CST complexes to telomeric chromatin organization. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 22(4). 283–298. 172 indexed citations breakdown →

Lim, Ci Ji & Thomas R. Cech. (2021). Publisher Correction: Shaping human telomeres: from shelterin and CST complexes to telomeric chromatin organization. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 22(4). 299–299. 6 indexed citations

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Lim, Ci Ji, et al.. (2020). The structure of human CST reveals a decameric assembly bound to telomeric DNA. Science. 368(6495). 1081–1085. 68 indexed citations

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Lim, Ci Ji, Arthur J. Zaug, Hee Jin Kim, & Thomas R. Cech. (2017). Reconstitution of human shelterin complexes reveals unexpected stoichiometry and dual pathways to enhance telomerase processivity. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1075–1075. 57 indexed citations

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Lim, Ci Ji, et al.. (2015). Regulation of Bacterial DNA Packaging in Early Stationary Phase by Competitive DNA Binding of Dps and IHF. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 18146–18146. 44 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, et al.. (2015). Complex kinetics of DNA condensation revealed through DNA twist tracing. Physical Review E. 92(2). 22707–22707. 7 indexed citations

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Efremov, Artem K., Yuanyuan Qu, Hugo Maruyama, et al.. (2015). Transcriptional Repressor TrmBL2 from Thermococcus kodakarensis Forms Filamentous Nucleoprotein Structures and Competes with Histones for DNA Binding in a Salt- and DNA Supercoiling-dependent Manner. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(25). 15770–15784. 23 indexed citations

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Lim, Ci Ji, Linda J. Kenney, & Jie Yan. (2014). Single-molecule studies on the mechanical interplay between DNA supercoiling and H-NS DNA architectural properties. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(13). 8369–8378. 30 indexed citations

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You, Huijuan, Xiangjun Zeng, Yue Xu, et al.. (2014). Dynamics and stability of polymorphic human telomeric G-quadruplex under tension. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(13). 8789–8795. 77 indexed citations

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Lim, Ci Ji, et al.. (2012). Nucleoprotein filament formation is the structural basis for bacterial protein H-NS gene silencing. Scientific Reports. 2(1). 79 indexed citations

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Lim, Ci Ji, et al.. (2012). The nucleoid-associated protein Dan organizes chromosomal DNA through rigid nucleoprotein filament formation in E. coli during anoxia. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(2). 746–753. 24 indexed citations

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Lim, Ci Ji, et al.. (2011). Gene silencing H-NS paralogue StpA forms a rigid protein filament along DNA that blocks DNA accessibility. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(8). 3316–3328. 61 indexed citations

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Geng, Anli, et al.. (2005). Isolation and characterization of a phenol-degrading bacterium from an industrial activated sludge. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 71(5). 728–735. 59 indexed citations

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