Colin Kern

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 634 citations indexed

About

Colin Kern is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Animal Science and Zoology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Kern has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 634 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Animal Science and Zoology and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Colin Kern's work include Animal Virus Infections Studies (7 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (4 papers). Colin Kern is often cited by papers focused on Animal Virus Infections Studies (7 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (4 papers). Colin Kern collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Italy. Colin Kern's co-authors include Huaijun Zhou, Ganrea Chanthavixay, Pablo J. Ross, Rodrigo A. Gallardo, Quan Zhu, Bing Ren, Alison L. Van Eenennaam, Catherine W. Ernst, Ian Korf and Juan F. Medrano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Colin Kern

23 papers receiving 623 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Spatially organized cellular communities form the developing human heart
    2024 64 citations Elie N. Farah, Colin Kern et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Colin Kern United States 15 416 135 127 121 94 24 634
Yanghua He China 17 497 1.2× 241 1.8× 100 0.8× 176 1.5× 54 0.6× 43 847
Wei‐Ru Huang Taiwan 14 276 0.7× 234 1.7× 87 0.7× 53 0.4× 40 0.4× 31 589
Changzhi Zhao China 13 424 1.0× 168 1.2× 45 0.4× 64 0.5× 50 0.5× 32 579
Arun Kommadath Canada 15 263 0.6× 180 1.3× 99 0.8× 128 1.1× 41 0.4× 29 557
M. Soledad Marín Spain 13 325 0.8× 101 0.7× 173 1.4× 78 0.6× 63 0.7× 16 635
Changjun Liu China 14 205 0.5× 51 0.4× 59 0.5× 145 1.2× 49 0.5× 28 415
Kristie A. Jenkins Australia 14 318 0.8× 232 1.7× 72 0.6× 80 0.7× 29 0.3× 22 608
Yanyan Yang China 15 178 0.4× 164 1.2× 235 1.9× 28 0.2× 47 0.5× 27 535

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Kern

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Kern

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Kern

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

All Works

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Farah, Elie N., Colin Kern, Qingquan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Spatially organized cellular communities form the developing human heart. Nature. 627(8005). 854–864. 64 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mah, Clarence K., Noorsher Ahmed, Alexander Monell, et al.. (2024). Bento: a toolkit for subcellular analysis of spatial transcriptomics data. Genome biology. 25(1). 82–82. 17 indexed citations
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Kern, Colin, et al.. (2023). A spatial genome aligner for resolving chromatin architectures from multiplexed DNA FISH. Nature Biotechnology. 41(7). 1004–1017. 16 indexed citations
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Huang, Hui, Quan Zhu, Yuanyuan Han, et al.. (2021). CTCF mediates dosage- and sequence-context-dependent transcriptional insulation by forming local chromatin domains. Nature Genetics. 53(7). 1064–1074. 104 indexed citations
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Tong, Zhen, Colin Kern, Huaijun Zhou, et al.. (2021). Primary Chicken and Duck Endothelial Cells Display a Differential Response to Infection with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus. Genes. 12(6). 901–901. 3 indexed citations
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Silva, Ana Paula da, Rüdiger Hauck, Colin Kern, et al.. (2021). Molecular Biology and Pathological Process of an Infectious Bronchitis Virus with Enteric Tropism in Commercial Broilers. Viruses. 13(8). 1477–1477. 7 indexed citations
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Halstead, Michelle M., Colin Kern, Perot Saelao, et al.. (2020). A comparative analysis of chromatin accessibility in cattle, pig, and mouse tissues. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 698–698. 38 indexed citations
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Mon, Khin K. Z., Yuhua Zhu, Ganrea Chanthavixay, Colin Kern, & Huaijun Zhou. (2020). Integrative analysis of gut microbiome and metabolites revealed novel mechanisms of intestinal Salmonella carriage in chicken. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 4809–4809. 44 indexed citations
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Halstead, Michelle M., Colin Kern, Perot Saelao, et al.. (2020). Systematic alteration of ATAC-seq for profiling open chromatin in cryopreserved nuclei preparations from livestock tissues. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 5230–5230. 21 indexed citations
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Chanthavixay, Ganrea, Colin Kern, Ying Wang, et al.. (2020). Integrated Transcriptome and Histone Modification Analysis Reveals NDV Infection Under Heat Stress Affects Bursa Development and Proliferation in Susceptible Chicken Line. Frontiers in Genetics. 11. 567812–567812. 14 indexed citations
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Gallardo, Rodrigo A., et al.. (2020). Infectious Coryza: Persistence, Genotyping, and Vaccine Testing. Avian Diseases. 64(2). 157–157. 16 indexed citations
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Hauck, Rüdiger, Simone Stoute, H. L. Shivaprasad, et al.. (2019). Genotypic Characterization of Emerging Avian Reovirus Genetic Variants in California. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 9351–9351. 41 indexed citations
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Kern, Colin, Catherine Creppe, Erin N. Hales, et al.. (2019). Functionally Annotating Regulatory Elements in the Equine Genome Using Histone Mark ChIP-Seq. Genes. 11(1). 3–3. 24 indexed citations
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Bogliotti, Y. S., James Chitwood, Michelle M. Halstead, et al.. (2019). Transcript profiling of bovine embryos implicates specific transcription factors in the maternal-to-embryo transition. Biology of Reproduction. 102(3). 671–679. 18 indexed citations
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Kern, Colin, Ying Wang, James Chitwood, et al.. (2018). Genome-wide identification of tissue-specific long non-coding RNA in three farm animal species. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 684–684. 83 indexed citations
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Hauck, Rüdiger, Ying Wang, Colin Kern, et al.. (2017). Evolution of avian encephalomyelitis virus during embryo-adaptation. Veterinary Microbiology. 204. 1–7. 9 indexed citations
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Platt, Roy N., Michael W. Vandewege, Colin Kern, et al.. (2014). Large Numbers of Novel miRNAs Originate from DNA Transposons and Are Coincident with a Large Species Radiation in Bats. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(6). 1536–1545. 54 indexed citations
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Kern, Colin, Álvaro González, Li Liao, & K. Vijay‐Shanker. (2013). Predicting Interacting Residues Using Long-Distance Information and Novel Decoding in Hidden Markov Models. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. 12(3). 158–164. 5 indexed citations
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