Donna Denton

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Donna Denton is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Donna Denton has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Epidemiology, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Donna Denton's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (21 papers), Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (12 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (9 papers). Donna Denton is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (21 papers), Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (12 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (9 papers). Donna Denton collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and France. Donna Denton's co-authors include Sharad Kumar, Shannon Nicolson, Tianqi Xu, Kathryn Mills, Rachel T. Simin, Bhupendra V. Shravage, Eric H. Baehrecke, Deborah L. Berry, May T. Aung-Htut and Louise V. O’Keefe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Cell Biology and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Donna Denton

35 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Autophagy-dependent cell death 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Autophagy-dependent cell death
    2018 577 citations Donna Denton, Sharad Kumar Cell Death and Differentiation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donna Denton Australia 19 1.1k 1.0k 317 279 204 36 2.0k
Loretta Dorstyn Australia 28 623 0.6× 2.5k 2.4× 748 2.4× 515 1.8× 219 1.1× 46 3.5k
Horng‐Dar Wang Taiwan 30 306 0.3× 1.2k 1.2× 184 0.6× 257 0.9× 170 0.8× 77 2.2k
Jaekyoon Shin South Korea 18 866 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 253 0.8× 372 1.3× 82 0.4× 32 2.1k
Yong Man Kim South Korea 25 312 0.3× 720 0.7× 106 0.3× 161 0.6× 250 1.2× 67 2.3k
Caroline Mauvezin Spain 13 909 0.9× 974 0.9× 152 0.5× 475 1.7× 108 0.5× 23 1.8k
Jody Groenendyk Canada 25 652 0.6× 1.5k 1.4× 548 1.7× 1.4k 5.2× 192 0.9× 48 2.9k
Hilla Weidberg Israel 14 1.7k 1.6× 1.3k 1.2× 178 0.6× 747 2.7× 70 0.3× 17 2.5k
Mi‐Ae Yoo South Korea 28 375 0.4× 1.9k 1.8× 618 1.9× 217 0.8× 345 1.7× 73 3.2k
Georges Stepien France 18 544 0.5× 1.5k 1.4× 129 0.4× 539 1.9× 97 0.5× 31 2.2k
Tomer Shpilka Israel 12 1.7k 1.6× 1.3k 1.2× 196 0.6× 813 2.9× 75 0.4× 17 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Donna Denton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donna Denton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donna Denton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Donna Denton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Donna Denton 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 Donna Denton. Donna Denton 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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Nicolson, Shannon, et al.. (2025). Identification of new candidates regulating autophagy-dependent midgut degradation in Drosophila melanogaster. Cell Death Discovery. 11(1). 181–181.
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Nicolson, Shannon, Jantina Manning, Yoon Lim, et al.. (2024). The Drosophila ZNRF1/2 homologue, detour, interacts with HOPS complex and regulates autophagy. Communications Biology. 7(1). 183–183. 5 indexed citations
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Carosi, Julian M., Donna Denton, Sharad Kumar, & Timothy J. Sargeant. (2021). Retromer dysfunction at the nexus of tauopathies. Cell Death and Differentiation. 28(3). 884–899. 10 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna, Louise V. O’Keefe, & Sharad Kumar. (2020). Drosophila as a model to understand autophagy deregulation in human disorders. Progress in molecular biology and translational science. 172. 375–409. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Tianqi, et al.. (2019). Ecdysone controlled cell and tissue deletion. Cell Death and Differentiation. 27(1). 1–14. 42 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna, Tianqi Xu, Sonia Dayan, Shannon Nicolson, & Sharad Kumar. (2019). Crosstalk between Dpp and Tor signaling coordinates autophagy-dependent midgut degradation. Cell Death and Disease. 10(2). 111–111. 5 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna, Tianqi Xu, Sonia Dayan, Shannon Nicolson, & Sharad Kumar. (2018). Dpp regulates autophagy-dependent midgut removal and signals to block ecdysone production. Cell Death and Differentiation. 26(4). 763–778. 46 indexed citations
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Xu, Tianqi, Donna Denton, & Sharad Kumar. (2018). Hedgehog and Wingless signaling are not essential for autophagy-dependent cell death. Biochemical Pharmacology. 162. 3–13. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Tianqi, Sharad Kumar, & Donna Denton. (2016). Characterization of Autophagic Responses in Drosophila melanogaster. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 588. 445–465. 9 indexed citations
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Xu, Tianqi, Shannon Nicolson, Donna Denton, & Sharad Kumar. (2015). Distinct requirements of Autophagy-related genes in programmed cell death. Cell Death and Differentiation. 22(11). 1792–1802. 54 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna & Sharad Kumar. (2015). Studying Apoptosis in Drosophila. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2015(7). pdb.top070433–pdb.top070433. 10 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna & Sharad Kumar. (2015). Using the Vital Dye Acridine Orange to Detect Dying Cells in Drosophila. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2015(6). pdb.prot086207–pdb.prot086207. 8 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna & Sharad Kumar. (2015). Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase (TdT)-Mediated dUTP Nick-End Labeling (TUNEL) for Detection of Apoptotic Cells in Drosophila. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2015(6). pdb.prot086199–pdb.prot086199. 16 indexed citations
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Nicolson, Shannon, Donna Denton, & Sharad Kumar. (2015). Ecdysone-mediated programmed cell death in Drosophila. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 59(1-2-3). 23–32. 41 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna & Sharad Kumar. (2015). Using Synthetic Peptide Substrates to Measure Drosophila Caspase Activity. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2015(7). pdb.prot086231–pdb.prot086231. 1 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna & Sharad Kumar. (2015). Immunostaining Using an Antibody against Active Caspase-3 to Detect Apoptotic Cells in Drosophila. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2015(6). pdb.prot086215–pdb.prot086215. 4 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna, May T. Aung-Htut, & Sharad Kumar. (2013). Developmentally programmed cell death in Drosophila. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1833(12). 3499–3506. 64 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna, May T. Aung-Htut, Shannon Nicolson, et al.. (2013). UTX coordinates steroid hormone-mediated autophagy and cell death. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2916–2916. 41 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna, Shannon Nicolson, & Sharad Kumar. (2011). Cell death by autophagy: facts and apparent artefacts. Cell Death and Differentiation. 19(1). 87–95. 324 indexed citations
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Denton, Donna, Bhupendra V. Shravage, Rachel T. Simin, et al.. (2009). Autophagy, Not Apoptosis, Is Essential for Midgut Cell Death in Drosophila. Current Biology. 19(20). 1741–1746. 287 indexed citations

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