Derek H. Janssens

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 817 citations indexed

About

Derek H. Janssens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek H. Janssens has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 817 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Derek H. Janssens's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers). Derek H. Janssens is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers). Derek H. Janssens collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Australia. Derek H. Janssens's co-authors include Steven Henikoff, Kami Ahmad, Michael P. Meers, Jorja G. Henikoff, Hatice S Kaya-Okur, Cheng‐Yu Lee, Jay F. Sarthy, Steven J. Wu, Hideyuki Komori and James M. Olson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Derek H. Janssens

23 papers receiving 811 citations

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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.

Efficient low-cost chromatin profiling with CUT&Tag

2020 235 citations Hatice S Kaya-Okur, Derek H. Janssens et al. Nature Protocols profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Derek H. Janssens United States	15	708	106	91	71	70	24	817
Mathieu Gabut France	13	1.0k 1.4×	97 0.9×	147 1.6×	53 0.7×	83 1.2×	22	1.2k
Hans Ienasescu Denmark	3	692 1.0×	115 1.1×	119 1.3×	71 1.0×	150 2.1×	4	834
Michael P. Meers United States	14	1.1k 1.5×	133 1.3×	113 1.2×	106 1.5×	118 1.7×	16	1.3k
Federico Comoglio Switzerland	17	989 1.4×	101 1.0×	144 1.6×	130 1.8×	170 2.4×	27	1.3k
Jarkko Toivonen Finland	6	1.3k 1.8×	140 1.3×	86 0.9×	93 1.3×	211 3.0×	9	1.4k
Magdalena P. Crossley United States	8	938 1.3×	90 0.8×	101 1.1×	102 1.4×	125 1.8×	11	1.1k
Alexey A. Soshnev United States	14	1.1k 1.5×	135 1.3×	139 1.5×	81 1.1×	95 1.4×	22	1.2k
José M. Santos-Pereira Spain	11	973 1.4×	153 1.4×	84 0.9×	41 0.6×	109 1.6×	16	1.1k
Evgenya Y. Popova United States	14	473 0.7×	47 0.4×	101 1.1×	46 0.6×	83 1.2×	24	578
Marco Antonio Mendoza-Parra France	14	774 1.1×	92 0.9×	113 1.2×	38 0.5×	136 1.9×	36	865

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gray, Carley N, Derek H. Janssens, Jennifer Kirchherr, et al.. (2025). Integrator complex subunit 12 knockout overcomes a transcriptional block to HIV latency reversal. eLife. 13.

Gray, Carley N, Derek H. Janssens, Jennifer Kirchherr, et al.. (2024). Integrator complex subunit 12 knockout overcomes a transcriptional block to HIV latency reversal. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Yue, Ye Zheng, Janaki Purushe, et al.. (2024). Prediction of Therapeutic Potential of CD19 CAR-T Cells for LBCL By Histone Mark Analyses of Core Epigenetic Programming. Blood. 144(Supplement 1). 2028–2028. 1 indexed citations

Janssens, Derek H., Charles G. Mullighan, Soheil Meshinchi, et al.. (2024). MLL oncoprotein levels influence leukemia lineage identities. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9341–9341. 5 indexed citations

Zheng, Ye, Janaki Purushe, Jay F. Sarthy, et al.. (2024). Histone marks identify novel transcription factors that parse CAR-T subset-of-origin, clinical potential and expansion. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8309–8309. 4 indexed citations

Janssens, Derek H., Steven J. Wu, Christine A. Codomo, et al.. (2023). Scalable single-cell profiling of chromatin modifications with sciCUT&Tag. Nature Protocols. 19(1). 83–112. 11 indexed citations

Janssens, Derek H., et al.. (2023). A modular CRISPR screen identifies individual and combination pathways contributing to HIV-1 latency. PLoS Pathogens. 19(1). e1011101–e1011101. 14 indexed citations

Henikoff, Steven, Kami Ahmad, Ronald M. Paranal, et al.. (2023). Epigenomic analysis of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples by CUT&Tag. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5930–5930. 13 indexed citations

Janssens, Derek H., et al.. (2022). CUT&Tag2for1: a modified method for simultaneous profiling of the accessible and silenced regulome in single cells. Genome biology. 23(1). 81–81. 37 indexed citations

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Meers, Michael P., et al.. (2022). Multifactorial profiling of epigenetic landscapes at single-cell resolution using MulTI-Tag. Nature Biotechnology. 41(5). 708–716. 45 indexed citations

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Janssens, Derek H., Michael P. Meers, Steven J. Wu, et al.. (2021). Automated CUT&Tag profiling of chromatin heterogeneity in mixed-lineage leukemia. Nature Genetics. 53(11). 1586–1596. 55 indexed citations

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Komori, Hideyuki, Derek H. Janssens, Shu Kondo, et al.. (2020). Sequential activation of transcriptional repressors promotes progenitor commitment by silencing stem cell identity genes. eLife. 9. 14 indexed citations

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Sarthy, Jay F., Michael P. Meers, Derek H. Janssens, et al.. (2020). Histone deposition pathways determine the chromatin landscapes of H3.1 and H3.3 K27M oncohistones. eLife. 9. 46 indexed citations

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Kaya-Okur, Hatice S, Derek H. Janssens, Jorja G. Henikoff, Kami Ahmad, & Steven Henikoff. (2020). Efficient low-cost chromatin profiling with CUT&Tag. Nature Protocols. 15(10). 3264–3283. 235 indexed citations breakdown →

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Molaro, Antoine, Derek H. Janssens, Michael T. Eickbush, et al.. (2020). Biparental contributions of the H2A.B histone variant control embryonic development in mice. PLoS Biology. 18(12). e3001001–e3001001. 15 indexed citations

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Meers, Michael P., Derek H. Janssens, & Steven Henikoff. (2019). Pioneer Factor-Nucleosome Binding Events during Differentiation Are Motif Encoded. Molecular Cell. 75(3). 562–575.e5. 92 indexed citations

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Mathsyaraja, Haritha, Brian Freie, Pei-Feng Cheng, et al.. (2019). Max deletion destabilizes MYC protein and abrogates Eµ- Myc lymphomagenesis. Genes & Development. 33(17-18). 1252–1264. 34 indexed citations

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Janssens, Derek H., Steven J. Wu, Jay F. Sarthy, et al.. (2018). Automated in situ chromatin profiling efficiently resolves cell types and gene regulatory programs. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 11(1). 74–74. 45 indexed citations

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Janssens, Derek H. & Cheng‐Yu Lee. (2014). It takes two to tango, a dance between the cells of origin and cancer stem cells in the Drosophila larval brain. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 28. 63–69. 15 indexed citations

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Gams, W., G L Hennebert, Joost A. Stalpers, et al.. (1988). Structuring Strain Data for Storage and Retrieval of Information on Fungi and Yeasts in MINE, the Microbial Information Network Europe. Microbiology. 134(6). 1667–1689. 22 indexed citations

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