Heankel Lyons

448 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 224 citations indexed

About

Heankel Lyons is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Heankel Lyons has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 224 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Cancer Research and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Heankel Lyons's work include RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers). Heankel Lyons is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers). Heankel Lyons collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Korea. Heankel Lyons's co-authors include Benjamin R. Sabari, Robert G. Roeder, Keiichi Ito, Gaofeng Pei, Pilong Li, Kenian Chen, Samuel G. Mackintosh, Alan J. Tackett, Stephanie D. Byrum and Ning Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Heankel Lyons

5 papers receiving 224 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.

Functional partitioning of transcriptional regulators by patterned charge blocks

2023 160 citations Heankel Lyons, Keiichi Ito et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heankel Lyons United States	5	199	12	11	11	6	6	224
Jan Großbach Germany	7	146 0.7×	9 0.8×	19 1.7×	7 0.6×	3 0.5×	8	205
Priyesh Mohanty United States	8	202 1.0×	20 1.7×	15 1.4×	4 0.4×	3 0.5×	19	243
Kirsten Kehrein Sweden	7	410 2.1×	10 0.8×	21 1.9×	9 0.8×	7 1.2×	7	436
Matthew D. Berg Canada	9	319 1.6×	11 0.9×	5 0.5×	22 2.0×	9 1.5×	25	340
Daniel Weilandt United States	7	133 0.7×	11 0.9×	2 0.2×	8 0.7×	11 1.8×	13	160
Clarence Yu Cheng United States	4	175 0.9×	5 0.4×	9 0.8×	8 0.7×	6 1.0×	5	189
Yisi Li China	4	142 0.7×	10 0.8×	3 0.3×	13 1.2×	6 1.0×	5	173
Oscar G. Wilkins United Kingdom	5	195 1.0×	8 0.7×	4 0.4×	5 0.5×	12 2.0×	6	219
Shuyu Hou United States	4	111 0.6×	5 0.4×	13 1.2×	7 0.6×	9 1.5×	5	134
Boyan Shen China	4	266 1.3×	9 0.8×	12 1.1×	13 1.2×	5 0.8×	6	280

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heankel Lyons

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Lyons, Heankel, et al.. (2025). Sequence-based prediction of condensate composition reveals that specificity can emerge from multivalent interactions among disordered regions. Communications Chemistry. 8(1). 304–304.

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Lyons, Heankel, Gopinath Prakasam, Vanina Toffessi Tcheuyap, et al.. (2025). RNA polymerase II partitioning is a shared feature of diverse oncofusion condensates. Cell. 188(14). 3843–3862.e28. 5 indexed citations

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Ahn, Jeong Hyun, Yiran Guo, Heankel Lyons, et al.. (2025). The phenylalanine-and-glycine repeats of NUP98 oncofusions form condensates that selectively partition transcriptional coactivators. Molecular Cell. 85(4). 708–725.e9. 8 indexed citations

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Gan, Peiheng, Heankel Lyons, Akansha M. Shah, et al.. (2024). Coactivator condensation drives cardiovascular cell lineage specification. Science Advances. 10(11). eadk7160–eadk7160. 11 indexed citations

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Pei, Gaofeng, Heankel Lyons, Pilong Li, & Benjamin R. Sabari. (2024). Transcription regulation by biomolecular condensates. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 26(3). 213–236. 40 indexed citations

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Lyons, Heankel, et al.. (2023). Functional partitioning of transcriptional regulators by patterned charge blocks. Cell. 186(2). 327–345.e28. 160 indexed citations breakdown →

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