David Sturgill

10.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

David Sturgill is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Sturgill has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in David Sturgill's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). David Sturgill is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). David Sturgill collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Malaysia. David Sturgill's co-authors include Michael Parisi, Brian Oliver, Brian Oliver, Yu Zhang, Shalini Oberdoerffer, Miroslav Dundr, Iain A. Sawyer, Daniel Arango, Sudhir Kumar and Kyster K. Nanan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

David Sturgill

36 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Acetylation of Cytidine in mRNA Promotes Translation Effi... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Acetylation of Cytidine in mRNA Promotes Translation Efficiency
    2018 566 citations Daniel Arango, David Sturgill et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Sturgill United States 23 2.1k 1.1k 398 331 300 37 2.9k
Hugues Parrinello France 25 1.5k 0.7× 694 0.7× 526 1.3× 123 0.4× 390 1.3× 49 2.4k
Matthias Soller United Kingdom 30 2.6k 1.3× 967 0.9× 483 1.2× 800 2.4× 569 1.9× 79 4.0k
Melissa M. Harrison United States 29 3.1k 1.5× 579 0.6× 674 1.7× 138 0.4× 88 0.3× 53 3.7k
Yavuz Ariyürek Netherlands 25 1.8k 0.9× 530 0.5× 380 1.0× 346 1.0× 87 0.3× 40 2.5k
Fugaku Aoki Japan 34 3.0k 1.5× 746 0.7× 289 0.7× 183 0.6× 55 0.2× 119 4.0k
Brian Oliver United States 33 2.7k 1.3× 2.1k 2.0× 915 2.3× 205 0.6× 579 1.9× 84 4.5k
Michael T. Marr United States 25 2.6k 1.3× 949 0.9× 236 0.6× 190 0.6× 45 0.1× 41 3.2k
Ji‐Long Liu China 39 4.0k 2.0× 469 0.4× 291 0.7× 251 0.8× 60 0.2× 132 4.7k
Tessa G. Montague United States 12 2.8k 1.4× 570 0.5× 331 0.8× 194 0.6× 59 0.2× 16 3.5k
John A. McNeil United States 18 2.3k 1.1× 1.0k 1.0× 488 1.2× 320 1.0× 80 0.3× 24 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Sturgill

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Sturgill

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Sturgill. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Sturgill 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 Sturgill. David Sturgill 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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Beiki, Hamid, et al.. (2024). Detection of ac4C in human mRNA is preserved upon data reassessment. Molecular Cell. 84(8). 1611–1625.e3. 13 indexed citations
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Arango, Daniel, David Sturgill, Renbin Yang, et al.. (2022). Direct epitranscriptomic regulation of mammalian translation initiation through N4-acetylcytidine. Molecular Cell. 82(15). 2797–2814.e11. 102 indexed citations
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Sturgill, David, Daniel Arango, & Shalini Oberdoerffer. (2022). Protocol for base resolution mapping of ac4C using RedaC:T-seq. STAR Protocols. 3(4). 101858–101858. 14 indexed citations
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Heard, Édith, Alexander D. Johnson, Jan O. Korbel, et al.. (2021). The X Chromosome from Telomere to Telomere: Key Achievements and Future Opportunities. PubMed. 10. 63–63. 1 indexed citations
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Nanan, Kyster K., David Sturgill, Morgan Thénoz, et al.. (2019). TET-Catalyzed 5-Carboxylcytosine Promotes CTCF Binding to Suboptimal Sequences Genome-wide. iScience. 19. 326–339. 20 indexed citations
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Sturgill, David, et al.. (2018). HJURP antagonizes CENP-A mislocalization driven by the H3.3 chaperones HIRA and DAXX. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0205948–e0205948. 38 indexed citations
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Arango, Daniel, David Sturgill, Najwa Alhusaini, et al.. (2018). Acetylation of Cytidine in mRNA Promotes Translation Efficiency. Cell. 175(7). 1872–1886.e24. 566 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nanan, Kyster K., et al.. (2017). Independence between pre-mRNA splicing and DNA methylation in an isogenic minigene resource. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(22). 12780–12797. 2 indexed citations
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Raub, Stephan, et al.. (2016). Linking Genes and Brain Development of Honeybee Workers: A Whole-Transcriptome Approach. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0157980–e0157980. 20 indexed citations
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Quénet, Delphine, David Sturgill, & Yamini Dalal. (2016). Identifying Centromeric RNAs Involved in Histone Dynamics In Vivo. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 573. 445–466. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Qiuyan, Iain A. Sawyer, Myong‐Hee Sung, et al.. (2016). Cajal bodies are linked to genome conformation. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10966–10966. 125 indexed citations
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Kim, Jeongkyu, David Sturgill, Andy D. Tran, David Sinclair, & Philipp Oberdoerffer. (2015). Controlled DNA double-strand break induction in mice reveals post-damage transcriptome stability. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(7). e64–e64. 48 indexed citations
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Clough, Emily, Erin Jimenez, Yoo-Ah Kim, et al.. (2014). Sex- and Tissue-Specific Functions of Drosophila Doublesex Transcription Factor Target Genes. Developmental Cell. 31(6). 761–773. 99 indexed citations
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Parisi, Michael, Vaijayanti Gupta, David Sturgill, et al.. (2010). Germline-dependent gene expression in distant non-gonadal somatic tissues of Drosophila. BMC Genomics. 11(1). 346–346. 29 indexed citations
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Larracuente, Amanda M., Timothy B. Sackton, Anthony J. Greenberg, et al.. (2008). Evolution of protein-coding genes in Drosophila. Trends in Genetics. 24(3). 114–123. 208 indexed citations
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Sturgill, David, Yu Zhang, Michael Parisi, & Brian Oliver. (2007). Demasculinization of X chromosomes in the Drosophila genus. Nature. 450(7167). 238–241. 187 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yu, David Sturgill, Michael Parisi, Sudhir Kumar, & Brian Oliver. (2007). Constraint and turnover in sex-biased gene expression in the genus Drosophila. Nature. 450(7167). 233–237. 239 indexed citations
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Fitzgerald, Peter, et al.. (2006). Comparative genomics of Drosophila and human core promoters. Genome biology. 7(7). R53–R53. 117 indexed citations
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Cerrato, Aniello, Michael Parisi, Fanis Missirlis, et al.. (2006). Genetic interactions between Drosophila melanogaster menin and Jun/Fos. Developmental Biology. 298(1). 59–70. 16 indexed citations
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Lü, Jining, et al.. (2004). Core Promoter Sequences Contribute to ovo-B Regulation in the Drosophila melanogaster Germline. Genetics. 169(1). 161–172. 19 indexed citations

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