Eileen Hickey

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Eileen Hickey is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eileen Hickey has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Eileen Hickey's work include Heat shock proteins research (25 papers), thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses (12 papers) and Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (8 papers). Eileen Hickey is often cited by papers focused on Heat shock proteins research (25 papers), thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses (12 papers) and Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (8 papers). Eileen Hickey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Eileen Hickey's co-authors include L A Weber, Jacques Landry, Lee A. Weber, Herman Lambert, Josée N. Lavoie, Corrado Baglioni, Susan E. Brandon, Pierre Chrétien, Janet L. Stein and Georgeann Smale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Eileen Hickey

45 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Heat shock resistance conferred by expression of the human HSP27 gene in rodent cells.

1989 623 citations Jacques Landry, Herman Lambert et al. profile →
Modulation of Cellular Thermoresistance and Actin Filament Stability Accompanies Phosphorylation-Induced Changes in the Oligomeric Structure of Heat Shock Protein 27

1995 551 citations Josée N. Lavoie, Herman Lambert et al. Molecular and Cellular Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eileen Hickey United States	34	4.7k	884	866	659	535	46	5.9k
Jason C. Young Canada	37	4.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	384 0.4×	331 0.5×	329 0.6×	67	5.8k
Douglas Cyr United States	47	7.0k 1.5×	2.8k 3.2×	507 0.6×	426 0.6×	681 1.3×	113	9.2k
Mary‐Jane Gething United States	29	6.7k 1.4×	3.8k 4.3×	866 1.0×	467 0.7×	506 0.9×	47	9.7k
Gregory L. Blatch South Africa	40	3.7k 0.8×	625 0.7×	387 0.4×	226 0.3×	194 0.4×	123	5.1k
Nicolette H. Lubsen Netherlands	34	4.1k 0.9×	698 0.8×	738 0.9×	129 0.2×	746 1.4×	104	4.5k
David Hirsh United States	47	5.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	87 0.1×	1.0k 1.9×	85	9.8k
Jörg Höhfeld Germany	40	6.4k 1.4×	2.5k 2.8×	382 0.4×	264 0.4×	584 1.1×	65	7.7k
Clement L. Markert United States	29	3.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	63 0.1×	468 0.9×	59	6.5k
Mariann Bienz United Kingdom	67	12.4k 2.6×	1.7k 1.9×	1.9k 2.2×	344 0.5×	165 0.3×	133	13.7k
H. Bloemendal Netherlands	59	12.0k 2.6×	3.0k 3.4×	1.4k 1.6×	175 0.3×	2.2k 4.2×	389	14.3k

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Carney, Daniel W., Michiko Tawada, Jumpei Aida, et al.. (2025). Discovery of Highly Potent Noncovalent Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease through Computer-Aided Drug Design. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 68(20). 21330–21345.

Goodacre, Sara L., Agnar Helgason, Lorraine Southam, et al.. (2005). Genetic evidence for a family-based Scandinavian settlement of Shetland and Orkney during the Viking periods. Heredity. 95(2). 129–135. 43 indexed citations

Borrelli, Michael J., Jacques Landry, Douglas R. Spitz, et al.. (2002). Stress protection by a fluorescent Hsp27 chimera that is independent of nuclear translocation or multimeric dissociation. Cell Stress and Chaperones. 7(3). 281–281. 28 indexed citations

Helgason, Agnar, Eileen Hickey, Sara L. Goodacre, et al.. (2001). mtDNA and the Islands of the North Atlantic: Estimating the Proportions of Norse and Gaelic Ancestry. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 68(3). 723–737. 161 indexed citations

Ray, Sidhartha D., et al.. (2001). Differential effects of IH636 grape seed proanthocyanidin extract and a DNA repair modulator 4-aminobenzamide on liver microsomal cytochrome 4502E1-dependent aniline hydroxylation. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 218(1-2). 27–33. 34 indexed citations

Hedges, Jason C., Ilia A. Yamboliev, Joel W. Martin, et al.. (1999). A Role for p38MAPK/HSP27 Pathway in Smooth Muscle Cell Migration. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(34). 24211–24219. 352 indexed citations

Macaulay, Vincent, Martin Richards, Eileen Hickey, et al.. (1999). The Emerging Tree of West Eurasian mtDNAs: A Synthesis of Control-Region Sequences and RFLPs. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 64(1). 232–249. 492 indexed citations

Norris, Carol, Melissa A. Brown, Eileen Hickey, L A Weber, & Lawrence E. Hightower. (1997). Low-molecular-weight heat shock proteins in a desert fish (Poeciliopsis lucida): homologs of human Hsp27 and Xenopus Hsp30. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14(10). 1050–1061. 47 indexed citations

Hickey, Eileen, et al.. (1996). Basal Regulatory Promoter Elements of the hsp27 Gene in Human Breast Cancer Cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 222(1). 155–163. 39 indexed citations

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Lavoie, Josée N., Herman Lambert, Eileen Hickey, Lee A. Weber, & Jacques Landry. (1995). Modulation of Cellular Thermoresistance and Actin Filament Stability Accompanies Phosphorylation-Induced Changes in the Oligomeric Structure of Heat Shock Protein 27. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 15(1). 505–516. 551 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gerthoffer, William T., et al.. (1995). Cloning and sequencing of a cDNA encoding the canine HSP27 protein. Gene. 161(2). 305–306. 12 indexed citations

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Shakoori, Abdul Rauf, Thomas A. Owen, Lee A. Weber, et al.. (1992). Expression of heat shock genes during differentiation of mammalian osteoblasts and promyelocytic leukemia cells. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 48(3). 277–287. 131 indexed citations

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Landry, Jacques, Herman Lambert, Ming Zhou, et al.. (1992). Human HSP27 is phosphorylated at serines 78 and 82 by heat shock and mitogen-activated kinases that recognize the same amino acid motif as S6 kinase II.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 267(2). 794–803. 407 indexed citations

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Morris, Timothy D., L A Weber, Eileen Hickey, G. S. Stein, & Janet L. Stein. (1991). Changes in the stability of a human H3 histone mRNA during the HeLa cell cycle.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 11(1). 544–553. 50 indexed citations

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Thor, Ann D., Christopher C. Benz, Dan H. Moore, et al.. (1991). Stress Response Protein (srp-27) Determination in Primary Human Breast Carcinomas: Clinical, Histologic, and Prognostic Correlations. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 83(3). 170–178. 136 indexed citations

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Hickey, Eileen, Susan E. Brandon, Georgeann Smale, David B. Lloyd, & Lee A. Weber. (1989). Sequence and Regulation of a Gene Encoding a Human 89-Kilodalton Heat Shock Protein. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 9(6). 2615–2626. 50 indexed citations

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Sadis, Seth, Eileen Hickey, & Lee A. Weber. (1988). Effect of heat shock on RNA metabolism in HeLa cells. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 135(3). 377–386. 65 indexed citations

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Herrin, David L., Allan Michaels, & Eileen Hickey. (1981). Synthesis of a chloroplast membrane polypeptide on thylakoid-bound ribosomes during the cell cycle of Chlamydomonas reinhardii 137+. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 655(2). 136–145. 38 indexed citations

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Hickey, Eileen & Norman W. Klein. (1973). The effect of protein deprivation on RNA and protein breakdown in subcellular fractions of the cultured chick embryo. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 294(2). 297–308. 1 indexed citations

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Hickey, Eileen. (1971). Behaviour of DNA, protein and acid hydrolases in response to thyroxine in isolated tail tips ofXenopus-larvae. Development Genes and Evolution. 166(4). 303–330. 22 indexed citations

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