Gareth M. Thomas

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Gareth M. Thomas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gareth M. Thomas has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 15 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Gareth M. Thomas's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (18 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (8 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (6 papers). Gareth M. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (18 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (8 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (6 papers). Gareth M. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Gareth M. Thomas's co-authors include Richard L. Huganir, Takashi Hayashi, Philip Cohen, Michel Goedert, Ana Cuenda, David J. Linden, Kogo Takamiya, Paul Polakis, Sheelagh Frame and Inke Näthke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gareth M. Thomas

44 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

MAPK cascade signalling and synaptic plasticity

2004 1.2k citations Gareth M. Thomas, Richard L. Huganir profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gareth M. Thomas United States	25	2.1k	1.6k	588	388	318	46	3.3k
Sang H. Lee United States	33	2.6k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	667 1.1×	323 0.8×	376 1.2×	62	4.7k
Richard C. Johnson United States	32	2.0k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	794 1.4×	397 1.0×	395 1.2×	59	3.6k
Herman Moreno United States	26	2.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	401 0.7×	653 1.7×	520 1.6×	44	3.5k
Martin Niethammer United States	21	1.8k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	844 1.4×	280 0.7×	321 1.0×	37	3.7k
John Marshall United States	28	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	378 0.6×	210 0.5×	169 0.5×	44	2.9k
Alaa El-Husseini Canada	28	2.5k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	1.2k 2.0×	460 1.2×	398 1.3×	35	4.3k
Norio Sakai Japan	33	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	426 0.7×	353 0.9×	111 0.3×	125	3.7k
Marie Futter United Kingdom	15	1.9k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	846 1.4×	597 1.5×	309 1.0×	16	4.4k
Lit-Fui Lau United States	8	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	439 0.7×	591 1.5×	351 1.1×	8	2.9k
Huu Phuc Nguyen Germany	36	2.3k 1.1×	2.3k 1.4×	299 0.5×	459 1.2×	189 0.6×	155	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Gareth M. Thomas

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Gareth M. Thomas's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Gareth M. Thomas with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Gareth M. Thomas more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Gareth M. Thomas

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Gareth M. Thomas. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Gareth M. Thomas. The network helps show where Gareth M. Thomas may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gareth M. Thomas

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Xiaotian, Hey‐Kyeong Jeong, Jingwen Niu, et al.. (2025). Inhibiting acute, axonal DLK palmitoylation is neuroprotective and avoids deleterious effects of cell-wide DLK inhibition. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3031–3031.

Jeong, Hey‐Kyeong, J. H. Coakley, Jinha Hwang, et al.. (2024). Micro-scale control of oligodendrocyte morphology and myelination by the intellectual disability-linked protein acyltransferase ZDHHC9. eLife. 13.

Zhang, Xiaotian & Gareth M. Thomas. (2024). Recruitment, regulation, and release: Control of signaling enzyme localization and function by reversible S-acylation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(9). 107696–107696. 4 indexed citations

Ahn, Seung C. & Gareth M. Thomas. (2023). Likelihood-based inference for dynamic panel data models. Empirical Economics. 64(6). 2859–2909. 2 indexed citations

Piguel, Nicolas H., Shaun S. Sanders, María Dolores Martin‐de‐Saavedra, et al.. (2023). Palmitoylation controls the stability of 190 kDa ankyrin-G in dendritic spines and is regulated by ZDHHC8 and lithium. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 16. 1144066–1144066. 5 indexed citations

Niu, Jingwen, et al.. (2023). Palmitoylation-dependent control of JAK1 kinase signaling governs responses to neuropoietic cytokines and survival in DRG neurons. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(8). 104965–104965. 10 indexed citations

Mejı́as, Rebeca, Minae Niwa, Irina N. Krasnova, et al.. (2021). Increased novelty-induced locomotion, sensitivity to amphetamine, and extracellular dopamine in striatum of Zdhhc15-deficient mice. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 65–65. 17 indexed citations

Childs, Anne-Marie, Frances Gibbon, Gareth M. Thomas, et al.. (2021). A recent surge of fulminant and early onset subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) in the United Kingdom: An emergence in a time of measles. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 34. 43–49. 15 indexed citations

Sanders, Shaun S., et al.. (2020). The palmitoyl acyltransferase ZDHHC14 controls Kv1-family potassium channel clustering at the axon initial segment. eLife. 9. 30 indexed citations

10.

Niu, Jingwen, et al.. (2020). The palmitoyl acyltransferases ZDHHC5 and ZDHHC8 are uniquely present in DRG axons and control retrograde signaling via the Gp130/JAK/STAT3 pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(46). 15427–15437. 27 indexed citations

11.

Niu, Jingwen, Shaun S. Sanders, Hey‐Kyeong Jeong, et al.. (2020). Coupled Control of Distal Axon Integrity and Somal Responses to Axonal Damage by the Palmitoyl Acyltransferase ZDHHC17. Cell Reports. 33(7). 108365–108365. 25 indexed citations

12.

Sanders, Shaun S., et al.. (2019). mTORC1 Signaling Is Palmitoylation-Dependent in Hippocampal Neurons and Non-neuronal Cells and Involves Dynamic Palmitoylation of LAMTOR1 and mTOR. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 13. 115–115. 30 indexed citations

13.

Martin, Dale D. O., Sabrina Holland, Shaun S. Sanders, et al.. (2019). Identification of Novel Inhibitors of DLK Palmitoylation and Signaling by High Content Screening. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3632–3632. 23 indexed citations

14.

Hussain, Natasha K., Gareth M. Thomas, Junjie Luo, & Richard L. Huganir. (2015). Regulation of AMPA receptor subunit GluA1 surface expression by PAK3 phosphorylation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(43). E5883–90. 49 indexed citations

15.

Thomas, Gareth M., Takashi Hayashi, Richard L. Huganir, & David J. Linden. (2013). DHHC8-Dependent PICK1 Palmitoylation is Required for Induction of Cerebellar Long-Term Synaptic Depression. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(39). 15401–15407. 55 indexed citations

16.

Vieira, Marta, Ana Burgeiro, Gareth M. Thomas, et al.. (2010). Excitotoxicity through Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors requires Ca2+-dependent JNK activation. Neurobiology of Disease. 40(3). 645–655. 24 indexed citations

17.

Thomas, Gareth M., Da‐Ting Lin, Mutsuo Nuriya, & Richard L. Huganir. (2008). Rapid and bi-directional regulation of AMPA receptor phosphorylation and trafficking by JNK. The EMBO Journal. 27(2). 361–372. 65 indexed citations

18.

Steinberg, Jordan P., Kogo Takamiya, Ying Shen, et al.. (2006). Targeted In Vivo Mutations of the AMPA Receptor Subunit GluR2 and Its Interacting Protein PICK1 Eliminate Cerebellar Long-Term Depression. Neuron. 49(6). 845–860. 235 indexed citations

19.

Thomas, Gareth M., Sheelagh Frame, Michel Goedert, et al.. (1999). A GSK3‐binding peptide from FRAT1 selectively inhibits the GSK3‐catalysed phosphorylation of Axin and β‐catenin. FEBS Letters. 458(2). 247–251. 196 indexed citations

20.

Thomas, Gareth M., Jan Haavik, & Philip Cohen. (1997). Participation of a Stress‐Activated Protein Kinase Cascade in the Activation of Tyrosine Hydroxylase in Chromaffin Cells. European Journal of Biochemistry. 247(3). 1180–1189. 54 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact