Heather Alcorn

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Heather Alcorn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Alcorn has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Heather Alcorn's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (7 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (4 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (2 papers). Heather Alcorn is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (7 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (4 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (2 papers). Heather Alcorn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Heather Alcorn's co-authors include Kathryn V. Anderson, Elizabeth P. Murchison, Stephen J. Elledge, Alea A. Mills, Mamie Z. Li, Emily Bernstein, Sang Yong Kim, Michelle A. Carmell, Gregory J. Hannon and Danwei Huangfu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics and Development.

In The Last Decade

Heather Alcorn

11 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Dicer is essential for mouse development

2003 1.5k citations Emily Bernstein, Sang Yong Kim et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heather Alcorn United States	8	1.6k	1.1k	260	138	108	12	2.0k
Jennifer H. Mansfield United States	16	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	208 0.8×	108 0.8×	60 0.6×	28	1.8k
Gen Shinoda United States	11	1.2k 0.7×	704 0.7×	117 0.5×	155 1.1×	130 1.2×	14	1.7k
Lars Wittler Germany	24	2.5k 1.6×	792 0.7×	456 1.8×	55 0.4×	158 1.5×	46	2.9k
Jennifer Ishii United States	12	1.1k 0.7×	655 0.6×	279 1.1×	420 3.0×	247 2.3×	14	1.9k
Edwina McGlinn Australia	20	1.2k 0.7×	282 0.3×	268 1.0×	120 0.9×	60 0.6×	38	1.6k
Koichiro Nishino Japan	19	1.7k 1.0×	258 0.2×	475 1.8×	80 0.6×	142 1.3×	38	1.9k
Yuning Wei China	10	1.3k 0.8×	882 0.8×	163 0.6×	109 0.8×	107 1.0×	15	1.7k
Pallavi Bhattaram United States	17	1.1k 0.7×	376 0.3×	379 1.5×	167 1.2×	157 1.5×	33	1.7k
Patrick Schorderet United States	11	2.3k 1.4×	239 0.2×	276 1.1×	45 0.3×	228 2.1×	11	2.4k
Elizabeth M. Mandel United States	7	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	116 0.4×	281 2.0×	167 1.5×	10	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Alcorn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Alcorn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Alcorn

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Brooks, Eric, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Max Land, et al.. (2025). A single-cell atlas of spatial and temporal gene expression in the mouse cranial neural plate. eLife. 13.

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Brooks, Eric, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Max Land, et al.. (2024). A single-cell atlas of spatial and temporal gene expression in the mouse cranial neural plate. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Tingxu, Heather Alcorn, Sujan Devbhandari, et al.. (2022). A hypomorphic mutation in Pold1 disrupts the coordination of embryo size expansion and morphogenesis during gastrulation. Biology Open. 11(8). 1 indexed citations

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Bazzi, Hisham, et al.. (2017). STRIP1, a core component of STRIPAK complexes, is essential for normal mesoderm migration in the mouse embryo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(51). E10928–E10936. 25 indexed citations

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Ramkumar, Nitya, Jeffrey Lee, Heather Alcorn, et al.. (2015). Protein O-Glucosyltransferase 1 (POGLUT1) Promotes Mouse Gastrulation through Modification of the Apical Polarity Protein CRUMBS2. PLoS Genetics. 11(10). e1005551–e1005551. 32 indexed citations

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Qian, Lihui, James P. Mahaffey, Heather Alcorn, & Kathryn V. Anderson. (2011). Tissue-specific roles of Axin2 in the inhibition and activation of Wnt signaling in the mouse embryo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(21). 8692–8697. 47 indexed citations

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Weatherbee, Scott D., Polloneal Jymmiel R. Ocbina, Heather Alcorn, Lee Niswander, & Kathryn V. Anderson. (2008). kerouac is required for proper cilia formation and patterning of multiple tissues. Developmental Biology. 319(2). 474–474. 1 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Marie, et al.. (2007). Mutations in the BMP pathway in mice support the existence of two molecular classes of holoprosencephaly. Development. 134(21). 3789–3794. 79 indexed citations

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García‐García, María J., Jonathan Eggenschwiler, Tamara Caspary, et al.. (2005). Analysis of mouse embryonic patterning and morphogenesis by forward genetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(17). 5913–5919. 113 indexed citations

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Bernstein, Emily, Sang Yong Kim, Michelle A. Carmell, et al.. (2003). Dicer is essential for mouse development. Nature Genetics. 35(3). 215–217. 1508 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dierenfeld, Ellen S., et al.. (2002). 1 NUTRIENT COMPOSITION OF WHOLE VERTEBRATE PREY (EXCLUDING FISH) FED IN ZOOS. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 28 indexed citations

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Caspary, Tamara, María J. García‐García, Danwei Huangfu, et al.. (2002). Mouse Dispatched homolog1 Is Required for Long-Range, but Not Juxtacrine, Hh Signaling. Current Biology. 12(18). 1628–1632. 137 indexed citations

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