Ian Blench

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Ian Blench is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Blench has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ian Blench's work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (3 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (3 papers) and Estrogen and related hormone effects (2 papers). Ian Blench is often cited by papers focused on Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (3 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (3 papers) and Estrogen and related hormone effects (2 papers). Ian Blench collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Ian Blench's co-authors include Maria Panico, Howard R. Morris, Harvey F. Lodish, Carla Caruso, W. Jeffrey Allard, Stephen A. Baldwin, Gustav E. Lienhard, Mike Mueckler, Anne Dell and Gail Payne and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Biochemical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ian Blench

14 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Sequence and Structure of a Human Glucose Transporter

1985 1.3k citations Mike Mueckler, Carla Caruso et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Blench United Kingdom	13	1.2k	356	336	274	184	14	1.9k
Mario M. Zakin France	31	1.5k 1.2×	362 1.0×	163 0.5×	529 1.9×	174 0.9×	89	2.8k
Richard G. Kulka Israel	23	1.4k 1.1×	214 0.6×	262 0.8×	197 0.7×	115 0.6×	62	2.0k
John P. Capone Canada	28	1.6k 1.3×	273 0.8×	430 1.3×	580 2.1×	131 0.7×	60	2.5k
Sherrie Tafuri United States	23	2.5k 2.0×	468 1.3×	684 2.0×	340 1.2×	258 1.4×	27	3.3k
Darrell Doyle United States	28	1.5k 1.2×	340 1.0×	212 0.6×	160 0.6×	148 0.8×	59	2.5k
Christopher C. Widnell United States	20	806 0.7×	244 0.7×	186 0.6×	139 0.5×	167 0.9×	37	1.6k
J A Rodkey United States	23	1.3k 1.1×	159 0.4×	262 0.8×	266 1.0×	88 0.5×	26	2.3k
J Kruh France	28	2.3k 1.9×	156 0.4×	267 0.8×	405 1.5×	113 0.6×	143	3.3k
Simone Wattiaux‐De Coninck Belgium	21	913 0.7×	155 0.4×	269 0.8×	121 0.4×	119 0.6×	69	1.6k
Thierry de Barsy Belgium	11	952 0.8×	133 0.4×	326 1.0×	157 0.6×	92 0.5×	14	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Blench

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

Field, Helen I., Ian Blench, Simon L. Croft, & Mark C. Field. (1996). Characterisation of protein isoprenylation in procyclic form Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 82(1). 67–80. 33 indexed citations

Stimson, Elaine, Mumtaz Virji, Stephanie Barker, et al.. (1996). Discovery of a novel protein modification: α-glycerophosphate is a substituent of meningococcal pilin. Biochemical Journal. 316(1). 29–33. 74 indexed citations

Stimson, Elaine, Mumtaz Virji, Katherine Makepeace, et al.. (1995). Meningococcal pilin: a glycoprotein substituted with digalactosyl 2,4‐diacetamido‐2,4,6‐trideoxyhexose. Molecular Microbiology. 17(6). 1201–1214. 216 indexed citations

Siddiqui, Khawar Sohail, M. Rangarajan, B. S. Hartley, et al.. (1993). Arthrobacter d-xylose isomerase: partial proteolysis with thermolysin. Biochemical Journal. 289(1). 201–208. 17 indexed citations

Blench, Ian, et al.. (1992). Synergistic interaction of growth factors and albumin in regulating estradiol synthesis in breast cancer cells. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 85(3). 165–173. 17 indexed citations

Singh, Arvind, et al.. (1992). Identification of albumin in breast tumor cytosol as a factor involved in the stimulation of estradiol 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (reductive) activity. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 83(1). 85–92. 12 indexed citations

Reason, Andrew J., Ian Blench, Robert S. Haltiwanger, et al.. (1991). High-sensitivity FAB-MS strategies for O-GlcNAc characterization. Glycobiology. 1(6). 585–594. 18 indexed citations

Ireland, H., David A. Lane, Elizabeth Thompson, et al.. (1991). Antithrombin Glasgow II: alanine 382 to threonine mutation in the serpin P12 position, resulting in a substrate reaction with thrombin. British Journal of Haematology. 79(1). 70–74. 28 indexed citations

Lane, David A., Elizabeth Thompson, R.J. Olds, et al.. (1991). Antithrombin Vicenza, Ala 384 to Pro (GCA to CCA) mutation, transforming the inhibitor into a substrate. British Journal of Haematology. 77(1). 87–92. 39 indexed citations

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Wimalawansa, Sunil J., et al.. (1990). Isolation, purification and characterization of β-hCGRP from human spinal cord. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 167(3). 993–1000. 29 indexed citations

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Blench, Ian, et al.. (1989). The composition of haemozoin from Plasmodium falciparum. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 83(2). 167–172. 52 indexed citations

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Kallender, Howard, Ian T.D. Petty, Viktor Stein, et al.. (1988). Identification of the Coat Protein Gene of Tomato Golden Mosaic Virus. Journal of General Virology. 69(6). 1351–1357. 29 indexed citations

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Erdjument‐Bromage, Hediye, David A. Lane, H. Ireland, et al.. (1987). Formation of a covalent disulfide-linked antithrombin-albumin complex by an antithrombin variant, antithrombin “Northwick Park”.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 262(28). 13381–13384. 42 indexed citations

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Mueckler, Mike, Carla Caruso, Stephen A. Baldwin, et al.. (1985). Sequence and Structure of a Human Glucose Transporter. Science. 229(4717). 941–945. 1300 indexed citations breakdown →

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