Gilbert Chu

24.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
87 papers, 19.8k citations indexed

About

Gilbert Chu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gilbert Chu has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 19.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Cancer Research and 14 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Gilbert Chu's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (42 papers), Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (18 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers). Gilbert Chu is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (42 papers), Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (18 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers). Gilbert Chu collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Gilbert Chu's co-authors include Robert Tibshirani, Trevor Hastie, Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Ronald W. Davis, Douglas Vollrath, Paul Berg, Byung Joon Hwang, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Hiroshi Hayakawa and James M. Ford and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Gilbert Chu

87 papers receiving 19.4k citations

Hit Papers

Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the io... 1986 2026 1999 2012 2001 2002 1986 1987 1994 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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. Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response
    2001 8.9k citations Gilbert Chu et al. profile →
  2. Diagnosis of multiple cancer types by shrunken centroids of gene expression
    2002 2.1k citations Gilbert Chu et al. profile →
  3. Separation of Large DNA Molecules by Contour-Clamped Homogeneous Electric Fields
    1986 1.3k citations Gilbert Chu, Douglas Vollrath et al. Science profile →
  4. Electroporation for the efficient transfection of mammalian cells with DNA
    1987 715 citations Gilbert Chu, Paul Berg et al. profile →
  5. Cellular responses to cisplatin. The roles of DNA-binding proteins and DNA repair.
    1994 571 citations Gilbert Chu profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gilbert Chu United States 43 14.0k 3.0k 3.0k 2.3k 1.5k 87 19.8k
Mark S. Boguski United States 52 11.5k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 2.1k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 91 20.0k
Ryûji Kobayashi United States 79 19.7k 1.4× 5.1k 1.7× 2.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.8× 1.6k 1.1× 159 23.8k
Robert M. Stephens United States 64 13.3k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 5.9k 2.0× 2.1k 0.9× 1.8k 1.2× 151 19.1k
David E. Root United States 68 17.0k 1.2× 4.1k 1.4× 3.6k 1.2× 2.1k 0.9× 2.4k 1.6× 223 24.9k
David Lyon United States 26 11.5k 0.8× 2.0k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 2.1k 1.4× 51 19.1k
Alexander Röth Germany 31 15.5k 1.1× 1.8k 0.6× 3.4k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 2.3k 1.5× 80 24.7k
Ron Kerkhoven Netherlands 40 10.8k 0.8× 4.7k 1.5× 3.5k 1.2× 1.9k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 77 15.4k
Reuben Lotan United States 76 14.9k 1.1× 3.7k 1.2× 2.4k 0.8× 3.3k 1.4× 4.3k 2.9× 324 21.3k
Roland Eils Germany 68 14.5k 1.0× 3.8k 1.3× 3.4k 1.1× 2.7k 1.1× 2.5k 1.7× 346 25.1k
Darryl Pappin United Kingdom 58 17.0k 1.2× 2.0k 0.7× 1.8k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 2.0k 1.3× 137 24.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gilbert Chu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gilbert Chu

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All Works

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Hall, Evan, et al.. (2020). Economics of alternative dosing strategies for pembrolizumab and nivolumab at a single academic cancer center. Cancer Medicine. 9(6). 2106–2112. 30 indexed citations
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Steiner, David F., et al.. (2019). Complete and Prolonged Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in POLE-Mutated Colorectal Cancer. JCO Precision Oncology. 3(3). 1–5. 28 indexed citations
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Tsai, Chun J., Vaughn V. Smider, Byung Joon Hwang, & Gilbert Chu. (2012). Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assays for Protein–DNA Complexes Involved in DNA Repair. Methods in molecular biology. 920. 53–78. 5 indexed citations
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Smider, Vaughn V., Byung Joon Hwang, & Gilbert Chu. (2008). Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assays to Study Protein Binding to Damaged DNA. Methods in molecular biology. 314. 323–344. 3 indexed citations
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Budman, Joe & Gilbert Chu. (2006). Assays for Nonhomologous End Joining in Extracts. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 408. 430–444. 9 indexed citations
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Budman, Joe & Gilbert Chu. (2005). Processing of DNA for nonhomologous end‐joining by cell‐free extract. The EMBO Journal. 24(4). 849–860. 90 indexed citations
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Sugasawa, Kaoru, Yuki Okuda, Masafumi Saijo, et al.. (2005). UV-Induced Ubiquitylation of XPC Protein Mediated by UV-DDB-Ubiquitin Ligase Complex. Cell. 121(3). 387–400. 474 indexed citations
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Tan, Thomas & Gilbert Chu. (2002). p53 Binds and Activates the Xeroderma Pigmentosum DDB2 Gene in Humans but Not Mice. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 22(10). 3247–3254. 133 indexed citations
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Tang, Jean Y. & Gilbert Chu. (2002). Xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group E and UV-damaged DNA-binding protein. DNA repair. 1(8). 601–616. 157 indexed citations
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Smider, Vaughn V., W. Kimryn Rathmell, Greg Brown, Susanna M. Lewis, & Gilbert Chu. (1998). Failure of Hairpin-Ended and Nicked DNA To Activate DNA-Dependent Protein Kinase: Implications for V(D)J Recombination. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 18(11). 6853–6858. 28 indexed citations
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Smider, Vaughn V. & Gilbert Chu. (1997). The end-joining reaction in V(D)J recombination. Seminars in Immunology. 9(3). 189–197. 56 indexed citations
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Hwang, Byung Joon, Alan Jay Smith, & Gilbert Chu. (1996). Internal sequence analysis of proteins eluted from polyacrylamide gels. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 686(2). 165–175. 10 indexed citations
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Hwang, Byung Joon & Gilbert Chu. (1993). Purification and characterization of a human protein that binds to damaged DNA. Biochemistry. 32(6). 1657–1666. 93 indexed citations
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Chu, Gilbert & Kevin L. Gunderson. (1991). Separation of large DNA by a variable-angle contour-clamped homogeneous electric field apparatus. Analytical Biochemistry. 194(2). 439–446. 8 indexed citations
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Chu, Gilbert. (1990). Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: Theory and practice. Methods. 1(2). 129–142. 24 indexed citations
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Chu, Gilbert. (1989). Pulsed field electrophoresis in contour‐clamped homogeneous electric fields for the resolution of DNA by size or topology. Electrophoresis. 10(5-6). 290–295. 34 indexed citations
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Chu, Gilbert, Douglas Vollrath, & Ronald W. Davis. (1986). Separation of Large DNA Molecules by Contour-Clamped Homogeneous Electric Fields. Science. 234(4783). 1582–1585. 1312 indexed citations breakdown →
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Naumovski, Louie, Gilbert Chu, Paul Berg, & Errol C. Friedberg. (1985). RAD3 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae : Nucleotide Sequence of Wild-Type and Mutant Alleles, Transcript Mapping, and Aspects of Gene Regulation. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 5(1). 17–26. 28 indexed citations
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Chu, Gilbert & Phillip A. Sharp. (1981). A gene chimaera of SV40 and mouse β-globin is transcribed and properly spliced. Nature. 289(5796). 378–382. 72 indexed citations

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