Helen Spencer

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Helen Spencer is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Helen Spencer has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Surgery, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Helen Spencer's work include Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (12 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (6 papers) and Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (5 papers). Helen Spencer is often cited by papers focused on Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (12 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (6 papers) and Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (5 papers). Helen Spencer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Canada. Helen Spencer's co-authors include Kathryn Harris, Rebecca A. Garlena, Daniel A. Russell, Robert T. Schooley, Kimberly Gilmour, J F Soothill, Graham F. Hatfull, Katrina Ford, Carlos A. Guerrero-Bustamante and Deborah Jacobs‐Sera and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Medicine and Circulation Research.

In The Last Decade

Helen Spencer

42 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Engineered bacteriophages for treatment of a patient with a disseminated drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus

2019 905 citations Rebekah M. Dedrick, Carlos A. Guerrero-Bustamante et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers

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Falk F. R. Buettner Germany

Yanbing Ma China

Martha B. Furie United States

Frank R. Brennan United Kingdom

Jameel M. Inal United Kingdom

Camden Lo Australia

Kenth Gustafsson United Kingdom

Takayuki Ota Japan

Jonathan H. Lass United States

Roshanak Tolouei Semnani United States

Falk F. R. Buettner Germany

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220 ×0.7

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245 ×0.9

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155 ×0.6

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Countries citing papers authored by Helen Spencer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Helen Spencer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Helen Spencer

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Al-Aloul, M., R. Thompson, M. Carby, et al.. (2023). Early experience of a new national lung allocation scheme in the UK based on clinical urgency. Thorax. 78(12). 1206–1214.

Brugha, Rossa, et al.. (2023). Disparities in lung transplantation in children. Pediatric Pulmonology. 59(12). 3798–3805. 1 indexed citations

Shaw, Liam P., Ronan Doyle, Helen Spencer, et al.. (2019). Children With Cystic Fibrosis Are Infected With Multiple Subpopulations of Mycobacterium abscessus With Different Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 69(10). 1678–1686. 32 indexed citations

Dedrick, Rebekah M., Carlos A. Guerrero-Bustamante, Rebecca A. Garlena, et al.. (2019). Engineered bacteriophages for treatment of a patient with a disseminated drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus. Nature Medicine. 25(5). 730–733. 905 indexed citations breakdown →

MacAskill, Mark G., Jaimy Saif, Alison Condie, et al.. (2018). Robust Revascularization in Models of Limb Ischemia Using a Clinically Translatable Human Stem Cell-Derived Endothelial Cell Product. Molecular Therapy. 26(7). 1669–1684. 52 indexed citations

Gomes, Clarissa P. C., Helen Spencer, K L Ford, et al.. (2017). The Function and Therapeutic Potential of Long Non-coding RNAs in Cardiovascular Development and Disease. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 8. 494–507. 82 indexed citations

Carrabba, Michele, Carmelo De Maria, Atsuhiko Oikawa, et al.. (2016). Design, fabrication and perivascular implantation of bioactive scaffolds engineered with human adventitial progenitor cells for stimulation of arteriogenesis in peripheral ischemia. Biofabrication. 8(1). 15020–15020. 26 indexed citations

Ascione, Raimondo, Jonathan Rowlinson, Elisa Avolio, et al.. (2015). Migration towards SDF-1 selects angiogenin-expressing bone marrow monocytes endowed with cardiac reparative activity in patients with previous myocardial infarction. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 6(1). 53–53. 12 indexed citations

Langelaan, David N., Seth Chitayat, Karen Munro, et al.. (2014). Functional redundancy between the transcriptional activation domains of E2A is mediated by binding to the KIX domain of CBP/p300. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(11). 7370–7382. 23 indexed citations

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Rohrbach, Marianne, Helen Spencer, Louise F. Porter, et al.. (2013). ZNF469 frequently mutated in the brittle cornea syndrome (BCS) is a single exon gene possibly regulating the expression of several extracellular matrix components. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 109(3). 289–295. 58 indexed citations

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Porter, Louise F., Helen Spencer, Jill Clayton‐Smith, et al.. (2013). Brittle cornea syndrome: recognition, molecular diagnosis and management. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 8(1). 68–68. 47 indexed citations

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Thomas, Biju, Paul Aurora, Helen Spencer, et al.. (2012). Persistent disruption of ciliated epithelium following paediatric lung transplantation. European Respiratory Journal. 40(5). 1245–1252. 10 indexed citations

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Robinson, Paul D., Rukshana Shroff, & Helen Spencer. (2012). Renal complications following lung and heart-lung transplantation. Pediatric Nephrology. 28(3). 375–386. 12 indexed citations

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Maher, Geoffrey J., Emma Hilton, Jill Urquhart, et al.. (2011). The cataract-associated protein TMEM114, and TMEM235, are glycosylated transmembrane proteins that are distinct from claudin family members. FEBS Letters. 585(14). 2187–2192. 14 indexed citations

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Spencer, Helen, et al.. (2010). Using Cadherin Expression to Assess Spontaneous Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 690. 81–94. 11 indexed citations

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Pérez-Campo, Flor M., Helen Spencer, Rhoderick H. Elder, Peter L. Stern, & Christopher M. Ward. (2007). Novel vectors for homologous recombination strategies in mouse embryonic stem cells: An ES cell line expressing EGFP under control of the 5T4 promoter. Experimental Cell Research. 313(16). 3604–3615. 2 indexed citations

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Spencer, Helen, Catherine L.R. Merry, Thomas D. Southgate, et al.. (2007). E-Cadherin Inhibits Cell Surface Localization of the Pro-Migratory 5T4 Oncofetal Antigen in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 18(8). 2838–2851. 87 indexed citations

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Spencer, Helen. (2004). Transbronchial biopsies provide longitudinal evidence for epithelial chimerism in children following sex mismatched lung transplantation. Thorax. 60(1). 60–62. 57 indexed citations

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Spencer, Helen & Adam Jaffé. (2004). The potential for stem cell therapy in cystic fibrosis.. PubMed. 97 Suppl 44. 52–6. 3 indexed citations

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Spencer, Helen, et al.. (1982). Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in Jamaica.. PubMed. 31(3). 103–10. 4 indexed citations

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