Clare Blackburn

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Clare Blackburn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Clare Blackburn has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Immunology and 12 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Clare Blackburn's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (11 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (9 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (8 papers). Clare Blackburn is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (11 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (9 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (8 papers). Clare Blackburn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Clare Blackburn's co-authors include Nancy R. Manley, Julie Gordon, Janet Read, Alison Farley, Nicholas Bredenkamp, Harsh Vaidya, Andrea R. Bennett, Julie M. Sheridan, Craig S. Nowell and Nick Spencer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Clare Blackburn

92 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Thymic involution and rising disease incidence with age 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Thymic involution and rising disease incidence with age
    2018 226 citations Sam Palmer, Luca Albergante et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Clare Blackburn United Kingdom 37 1.5k 1.2k 544 503 492 94 4.5k
Michael Katz United States 41 1.4k 0.9× 568 0.5× 715 1.3× 533 1.1× 870 1.8× 224 6.2k
Debra Rose Wilson United States 34 1.7k 1.1× 504 0.4× 642 1.2× 803 1.6× 367 0.7× 98 4.1k
Jacques Boniver Belgium 42 1.3k 0.9× 1.8k 1.4× 1.1k 2.1× 482 1.0× 193 0.4× 246 5.4k
Jean‐Jacques Cassiman Belgium 37 2.0k 1.3× 584 0.5× 462 0.8× 990 2.0× 450 0.9× 185 4.9k
Hartmut Geiger United States 47 3.3k 2.1× 2.0k 1.7× 866 1.6× 522 1.0× 1.0k 2.1× 193 7.7k
Catherine Waters United States 36 3.5k 2.3× 603 0.5× 1.4k 2.6× 326 0.6× 552 1.1× 112 7.2k
David J. Waters United States 41 936 0.6× 893 0.7× 685 1.3× 764 1.5× 294 0.6× 149 5.9k
Jack Goldblatt Australia 39 1.6k 1.1× 740 0.6× 461 0.8× 1.1k 2.2× 2.4k 4.9× 226 6.2k
Elizabeth George United States 39 2.1k 1.4× 383 0.3× 402 0.7× 364 0.7× 213 0.4× 157 6.8k
Linda Park United States 27 1.3k 0.9× 1.9k 1.6× 849 1.6× 573 1.1× 393 0.8× 73 4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Clare Blackburn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Clare Blackburn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clare Blackburn

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hübscher, Tania, L. Francisco Lorenzo‐Martín, Thomas Barthlott, et al.. (2024). Thymic epithelial organoids mediate T-cell development. Development. 151(17). 5 indexed citations
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Kousa, Anastasia I., Kathy E. O’Neill, Paul Rouse, et al.. (2020). Canonical Notch signaling controls the early thymic epithelial progenitor cell state and emergence of the medullary epithelial lineage in fetal thymus development. Development. 147(12). 32 indexed citations
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Palmer, Sam, Luca Albergante, Clare Blackburn, & T. J. Newman. (2018). Thymic involution and rising disease incidence with age. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(8). 1883–1888. 226 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zepp, Jarod A., Junjie Zhao, Caini Liu, et al.. (2017). IL-17A–Induced PLET1 Expression Contributes to Tissue Repair and Colon Tumorigenesis. The Journal of Immunology. 199(11). 3849–3857. 47 indexed citations
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O’Neill, Kathy E., Nicholas Bredenkamp, Harsh Vaidya, et al.. (2016). Foxn1 Is Dynamically Regulated in Thymic Epithelial Cells during Embryogenesis and at the Onset of Thymic Involution. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0151666–e0151666. 46 indexed citations
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Spencer, N., Clare Blackburn, & Janet Read. (2015). Disabling chronic conditions in childhood and socioeconomic disadvantage: a systematic review and meta-analyses of observational studies. BMJ Open. 5(9). e007062–e007062. 85 indexed citations
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Abbott, David, et al.. (2011). Disabled Children’s Access to Childcare (DCATCH) : a qualitative evaluation. Digital Education Resource Archive (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Rechel, B, et al.. (2010). Policy challenges to the quality of child health services in Bulgaria. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 25(4). 350–367. 2 indexed citations
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Spencer, N., Clare Blackburn, & Janet Read. (2009). Prevalence and social patterning of limiting long‐term illness/disability in children and young people under the age of 20 years in 2001: UK census‐based cross‐sectional study. Child Care Health and Development. 36(4). 566–573. 13 indexed citations
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Foster, Katie, Julie M. Sheridan, Henrique Veiga‐Fernandes, et al.. (2008). Contribution of Neural Crest-Derived Cells in the Embryonic and Adult Thymus. The Journal of Immunology. 180(5). 3183–3189. 135 indexed citations
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Depreter, Marianne, Natalie Blair, Terri Gaskell, et al.. (2008). Identification of Plet-1 as a specific marker of early thymic epithelial progenitor cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(3). 961–966. 72 indexed citations
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Blackburn, Clare. (2007). Making poverty a practice issue. Health & Social Care in the Community. 1(5). 297–305. 1 indexed citations
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Blackburn, Clare, et al.. (2005). Smoking behaviour change among fathers of new infants. Social Science & Medicine. 61(3). 517–526. 41 indexed citations
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Blackburn, Clare & Nancy R. Manley. (2004). Developing a new paradigm for thymus organogenesis. Nature reviews. Immunology. 4(4). 278–289. 180 indexed citations
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Gordon, Julie, Andrea R. Bennett, Clare Blackburn, & Nancy R. Manley. (2001). Gcm2 and Foxn1 mark early parathyroid- and thymus-specific domains in the developing third pharyngeal pouch. Mechanisms of Development. 103(1-2). 141–143. 182 indexed citations
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Johnson, Mark, et al.. (2000). Black and Minority Ethnic Groups (BMEG) in England : the second health and lifestyles survey. 26 indexed citations
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Blackburn, Clare. (1994). Low income, inequality and health promotion.. PubMed. 90(39). 42–3. 2 indexed citations
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Blackburn, Clare. (1993). Wealth and the nation's health.. PubMed. 66(7). 254–6. 2 indexed citations

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