Daniel St Johnston

21.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
167 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

Daniel St Johnston is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel St Johnston has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Molecular Biology, 56 papers in Cell Biology and 25 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Daniel St Johnston's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (55 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (32 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (24 papers). Daniel St Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (55 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (32 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (24 papers). Daniel St Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Daniel St Johnston's co-authors include Christiane Nüsslein‐Volhard, Acaimo González‐Reyes, Richard Benton, William M Gelbart, Isabel M. Palacios, Richard W. Padgett, Jean‐René Huynh, Julie Ahringer, Dirk Beuchle and Sophie G. Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Daniel St Johnston

162 papers receiving 16.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The origin of pattern and polarity in the Drosophila embryo

1992 1.1k citations Daniel St Johnston et al. profile →
A transcript from a Drosophila pattern gene predicts a protein homologous to the transforming growth factor-β family

1987 668 citations Daniel St Johnston et al. Nature profile →
staufen, a gene required to localize maternal RNAs in the Drosophila egg

1991 533 citations Daniel St Johnston et al. profile →
Staufen protein associates with the 3′UTR of bicoid mRNA to form particles that move in a microtubule-dependent manner

1994 353 citations Daniel St Johnston et al. profile →
Apical–basal polarity and the control of epithelial form and function

2022 144 citations Daniel St Johnston et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years 2025 ·Biology Open ·Sarah J. Bray, Stephen Royle, Holly A. Shiels, Daniel St Johnston	0
2	The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years 2025 ·Journal of Cell Science ·Sarah J. Bray, Stephen Royle, Holly A. Shiels, Daniel St Johnston	1
3	The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years 2025 ·Disease Models & Mechanisms ·Sarah J. Bray, Stephen Royle, Holly A. Shiels, Daniel St Johnston	2
4	The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years 2025 ·Development ·Sarah J. Bray, Stephen Royle, Holly A. Shiels, Daniel St Johnston	2
5	User-friendly oblique plane microscopy on a fully functional commercially available microscope base 2024 ·Biomedical Optics Express ·George Sirinakis, Edward S. Allgeyer, Dmitry Nashchekin, Daniel St Johnston	0
6	Quantitative comparison of spinning disk geometries for PAINT based super-resolution microscopy 2022 ·Biomedical Optics Express ·George Sirinakis, Edward S. Allgeyer, Jinmei Cheng, Daniel St Johnston	3
7	MARK4 controls ischaemic heart failure through microtubule detyrosination 2021 ·Nature ·Xianjun Yu, Chen Xiao, Mamta Amrute‐Nayak, Edward S. Allgeyer, Aite Zhao, (unknown), Marc Clément, James Harrison, (unknown), George Sirinakis, Thomas Krieg, Huiyu Zhou, Hongda Huang, Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Daniel St Johnston, Ziad Mallat, Xuan Li	61
8	A single-molecule localization microscopy method for tissues reveals nonrandom nuclear pore distribution in Drosophila 2021 ·Journal of Cell Science ·Jinmei Cheng, Edward S. Allgeyer, Jennifer H. Richens, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), George Sirinakis, Daniel St Johnston	11
9	Symmetry breaking in the female germline cyst 2021 ·Science ·Dmitry Nashchekin, Lara Busby, Maximilian AH Jakobs, (unknown), Daniel St Johnston	23
10	Extracting Axial Depth and Trajectory Trend Using Astigmatism, Gaussian Fitting, and CNNs for Protein Tracking 2020 ·Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) ·(unknown), (unknown), Joël Lefebvre, Helen L. Zenner, Edward S. Allgeyer, Martin J. Booth, Daniel St Johnston, Jens Rittscher	0
11	Drosophila IMP regulates Kuzbanian to control the timing of Notch signalling in the follicle cells 2019 ·Development ·(unknown), (unknown), Daniel St Johnston	6
12	The role of integrins in Drosophila egg chamber morphogenesis 2019 ·Development ·Holly E. Lovegrove, Dan T. Bergstralh, Daniel St Johnston	11
13	Pins is not required for spindle orientation in the Drosophila wing disc 2016 ·Development ·Dan T. Bergstralh, Holly E. Lovegrove, (unknown), (unknown), Jinwei Zhu, (unknown), Rongguang Zhang, Daniel St Johnston	29
14	Growing Microtubules Push the Oocyte Nucleus to Polarize the Drosophila Dorsal-Ventral Axis 2012 ·Science ·(unknown), (unknown), Alexandre A. S. F. Raposo, Daniel St Johnston	109
15	Identification of epididymis-specific transcripts in the mouse and rat by transcriptional profiling 2007 ·Asian Journal of Andrology ·Daniel St Johnston, Terry T. Turner, Joshua N. Finger, (unknown), Gregory S. Kopf, Scott A. Jelinsky	54
16	A translation-independent role of oskar RNA in early Drosophila oogenesis 2006 ·Development ·Andreas Jenny, Olivier Hachet, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Daniel St Johnston, Miklós Erdélyi, Anne Ephrussi	133
17	Kinesin light chain -independent function of the Kinesin heavy chain in cytoplasmic streaming and posterior localisation in the Drosophila oocyte 2002 ·Development ·Isabel M. Palacios, Daniel St Johnston	164
18	Barentsz is essential for the posterior localization of oskar mRNA and colocalizes with it to the posterior pole 2001 ·The Journal of Cell Biology ·Fredericus J. M. van Eeden, Isabel M. Palacios, Mark Petronczki, (unknown), Daniel St Johnston	120
19	Delta signaling from the germ line controls the proliferation and differentiation of the somatic follicle cells during Drosophila oogenesis 2001 ·Genes & Development ·Daniel St Johnston	235
20	Single- and Double-Stranded Viral RNAs in Plants Infected with the Potexviruses Papaya Mosaic Virus and Foxtail Mosaic Virus 1988 ·Intervirology ·George A. Mackie, Daniel St Johnston, J.B. Bancroft	12

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