David John

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

David John is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, David John has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Cancer Research and 18 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in David John's work include Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (15 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (12 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers). David John is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (15 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (12 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers). David John collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United States. David John's co-authors include Stefanie Dimmeler, Shizuka Uchida, Reinier A. Boon, Andreas M. Zeiher, Tyler Weirick, Wesley Abplanalp, Neville D. Yeomans, Graeme P. Young, Yuliya Ponomareva and Wei Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

David John

86 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Long Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Regulates Endothelial Cell Function and Vessel Growth

2014 762 citations Thomas Braun, David John et al. Circulation Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David John Germany	32	2.3k	1.9k	844	730	549	94	4.4k
Maria Zieleńska Canada	44	3.0k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	713 1.0×	309 0.6×	148	5.5k
Laurent Guy France	42	1.5k 0.7×	600 0.3×	820 1.0×	645 0.9×	1.3k 2.3×	153	4.5k
Bing Cui China	35	2.5k 1.1×	682 0.4×	1.0k 1.2×	328 0.4×	276 0.5×	122	4.4k
Kenichi Ohashi Japan	29	1.3k 0.6×	586 0.3×	796 0.9×	298 0.4×	747 1.4×	300	4.1k
Toshiyuki Nakayama Japan	35	1.6k 0.7×	649 0.3×	1.4k 1.7×	324 0.4×	1.0k 1.9×	171	4.2k
Mario Taffurelli Italy	32	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 2.0×	520 0.7×	515 0.9×	125	3.6k
Hiroshi Kanetake Japan	34	2.0k 0.9×	796 0.4×	899 1.1×	206 0.3×	959 1.7×	210	4.1k
Takesada Mori Japan	30	1.4k 0.6×	490 0.3×	1.0k 1.2×	757 1.0×	1.1k 2.1×	158	3.8k
Feliciano Baldi Italy	34	1.5k 0.6×	361 0.2×	1.0k 1.2×	359 0.5×	377 0.7×	76	3.4k
Peter Bugert Germany	32	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	479 0.6×	147 0.2×	441 0.8×	147	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by David John

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Fields of papers citing papers by David John

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David John

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Russell, Douglas, et al.. (2025). Primary prevention of harmful sexual behaviors by children and young people: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Aggression and Violent Behavior. 81. 102022–102022. 2 indexed citations

Larcher, Veronica, Lukas Tombor, Andreas M. Zeiher, et al.. (2025). Vascular Niches Are the Primary Hotspots in Cardiac Aging. Circulation Research. 137(11). 1353–1367.

Fischer, Ariane, Katja Schmitz, David John, et al.. (2025). Beneficial effects of vascular endothelial growth factor B gene transfer in the aged heart. Cardiovascular Research. 121(10). 1594–1608.

Luxán, Guillermo, Christine Bodemer, Mariana Shumliakivska, et al.. (2025). Ageing-associated endothelial decorin induction and the impact of non-glycanated decorin on cardiac inflammation. Cardiovascular Research. 121(10). 1623–1634.

Tombor, Lukas, Ariane Fischer, Marion Muhly-Reinholz, et al.. (2024). Age-Dependent RGS5 Loss in Pericytes Induces Cardiac Dysfunction and Fibrosis. Circulation Research. 134(10). 1240–1255. 14 indexed citations

Tombor, Lukas, Mani Arsalan, Tomáš Holubec, et al.. (2024). Improved integration of single-cell transcriptome data demonstrates common and unique signatures of heart failure in mice and humans. GigaScience. 13. 2 indexed citations

Kattih, Badder, Mariana Shumliakivska, Lukas Tombor, et al.. (2023). Single-nuclear transcriptome profiling identifies persistent fibroblast activation in hypertrophic and failing human hearts of patients with longstanding disease. Cardiovascular Research. 119(15). 2550–2562. 17 indexed citations

Tombor, Lukas, et al.. (2022). Comparative analysis of common alignment tools for single-cell RNA sequencing. GigaScience. 11. 21 indexed citations

John, David, Marion Müller, Susanne Gaul, et al.. (2022). Reduction of A-to-I RNA editing in the failing human heart regulates formation of circular RNAs. Basic Research in Cardiology. 117(1). 32–32. 35 indexed citations

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Botwe, Benard Ohene, et al.. (2021). Radiological determination of the cranial index of present-day Ghanaians. Forensic Sciences Research. 7(2). 138–141. 1 indexed citations

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Frye, Maike, Timo Frömel, David John, et al.. (2021). EVL regulates VEGF receptor‐2 internalization and signaling in developmental angiogenesis. EMBO Reports. 22(2). e48961–e48961. 16 indexed citations

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Nicin, Luka, Wesley Abplanalp, Badder Kattih, et al.. (2020). Cell type-specific expression of the putative SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in human hearts. European Heart Journal. 41(19). 1804–1806. 206 indexed citations

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Kattih, Badder, Piroska Klement, Abel Martin Garrido, et al.. (2020). IDH1/2 mutations in acute myeloid leukemia patients and risk of coronary artery disease and cardiac dysfunction—a retrospective propensity score analysis. Leukemia. 35(5). 1301–1316. 37 indexed citations

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Glaser, Simone-Franziska, Andreas W. Heumüller, Lukas Tombor, et al.. (2020). The histone demethylase JMJD2B regulates endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(8). 4180–4187. 41 indexed citations

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Weirick, Tyler, David John, & Shizuka Uchida. (2016). Resolving the problem of multiple accessions of the same transcript deposited across various public databases. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 18(2). bbw017–bbw017. 7 indexed citations

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Weirick, Tyler, Giuseppe Militello, Yuliya Ponomareva, et al.. (2016). Logic programming to infer complex RNA expression patterns from RNA-seq data. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 19(2). bbw117–bbw117. 17 indexed citations

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Gellert, Pascal, Mizue Teranishi, Piera De Gaspari, et al.. (2011). Gene Array Analyzer: alternative usage of gene arrays to study alternative splicing events. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(6). 2414–2425. 14 indexed citations

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Jenkins, Mark A., Laura Baglietto, Gillian S. Dite, et al.. (2002). After hMSH2 and hMLH1—what next? Analysis of three‐generational, population‐based, early‐onset colorectal cancer families. International Journal of Cancer. 102(2). 166–171. 31 indexed citations

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John, David, et al.. (1998). Counting Balanced Ternary Designs.. Ars Combinatoria. 49.

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John, David, J. P. Masterton, Neville D. Yeomans, & H A F Dudley. (1974). The Mallory-Weiss Syndrome. BMJ. 1(5899). 140–143. 27 indexed citations

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