Gena Whitney

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 909 citations indexed

About

Gena Whitney is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Gena Whitney has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 909 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Immunology and 2 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Gena Whitney's work include interferon and immune responses (4 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers). Gena Whitney is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (4 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers). Gena Whitney collaborates with scholars based in United States and Belgium. Gena Whitney's co-authors include Jesse Donovan, Alexei Korennykh, Sneha Rath, Clifford P. Brangwynne, Yuchen Han, William M. Jacobs, Allana G. Iwanicki, Nancy Kedersha, David W. Sanders and Alicia Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gena Whitney

7 papers receiving 904 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Competing Protein-RNA Interaction Networks Control Multiphase Intracellular Organization

2020 538 citations David W. Sanders, Nancy Kedersha et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gena Whitney United States	7	793	181	71	59	54	7	909
Ritwick Sawarkar Germany	16	777 1.0×	62 0.3×	74 1.0×	20 0.3×	18 0.3×	29	920
Chase A. Weidmann United States	13	1.2k 1.5×	72 0.4×	33 0.5×	54 0.9×	27 0.5×	23	1.3k
Henry C. Nguyen United States	14	503 0.6×	113 0.6×	170 2.4×	25 0.4×	16 0.3×	20	774
Ludwig Englmeier Germany	9	1.4k 1.8×	104 0.6×	123 1.7×	51 0.9×	10 0.2×	10	1.6k
Rafał Tomecki Poland	23	1.8k 2.3×	75 0.4×	40 0.6×	40 0.7×	14 0.3×	37	1.9k
Sergey Bessonov Germany	11	891 1.1×	47 0.3×	35 0.5×	20 0.3×	12 0.2×	14	958
Chu Kong Liew Australia	15	765 1.0×	80 0.4×	26 0.4×	59 1.0×	11 0.2×	18	930
Michele Tolbert United States	6	760 1.0×	19 0.1×	41 0.6×	78 1.3×	58 1.1×	7	876
Cezar Martins de France	11	824 1.0×	89 0.5×	113 1.6×	58 1.0×	10 0.2×	13	914
Szymon Juszkiewicz United Kingdom	12	1.3k 1.7×	91 0.5×	330 4.6×	84 1.4×	11 0.2×	13	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Gena Whitney

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gena Whitney

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gena Whitney

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

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Sanders, David W., Nancy Kedersha, Daniel S.W. Lee, et al.. (2020). Competing Protein-RNA Interaction Networks Control Multiphase Intracellular Organization. Cell. 181(2). 306–324.e28. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Lian, Tiffany M. Richardson, Ludivine Wacheul, et al.. (2019). Controlling the material properties and rRNA processing function of the nucleolus using light. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(35). 17330–17335. 65 indexed citations

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Dzimianski, John V., Courtney M. Daczkowski, Gena Whitney, et al.. (2016). Biochemical and Structural Insights into the Preference of Nairoviral DeISGylases for Interferon-Stimulated Gene Product 15 Originating from Certain Species. Journal of Virology. 90(18). 8314–8327. 27 indexed citations

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Rath, Sneha, Jesse Donovan, Gena Whitney, et al.. (2015). Human RNase L tunes gene expression by selectively destabilizing the microRNA-regulated transcriptome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(52). 15916–15921. 37 indexed citations

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Donovan, Jesse, Gena Whitney, Sneha Rath, & Alexei Korennykh. (2015). Structural mechanism of sensing long dsRNA via a noncatalytic domain in human oligoadenylate synthetase 3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(13). 3949–3954. 66 indexed citations

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Han, Yuchen, Jesse Donovan, Sneha Rath, et al.. (2014). Structure of Human RNase L Reveals the Basis for Regulated RNA Decay in the IFN Response. Science. 343(6176). 1244–1248. 131 indexed citations

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Han, Yuchen, Gena Whitney, Jesse Donovan, & Alexei Korennykh. (2012). Innate Immune Messenger 2-5A Tethers Human RNase L into Active High-Order Complexes. Cell Reports. 2(4). 902–913. 45 indexed citations

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