Irene A. Chen

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
106 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Irene A. Chen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Irene A. Chen has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 24 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Irene A. Chen's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (39 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (34 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (17 papers). Irene A. Chen is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (39 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (34 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (17 papers). Irene A. Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Taiwan. Irene A. Chen's co-authors include Jack W. Szostak, Huan Peng, Aaron F. Straight, Nicholas J. Westwood, Timothy J. Mitchison, Amy Cheung, James R. Sellers, Richard W. Roberts, Peter Walde and Celia Blanco and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Irene A. Chen

100 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Dissecting Temporal and Spatial Control of Cytokinesis with a Myosin II Inhibitor

2003 1.2k citations Aaron F. Straight, Amy Cheung et al. Science profile →
The Emergence of Competition Between Model Protocells

2004 316 citations Irene A. Chen, Jack W. Szostak et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Irene A. Chen United States	32	3.1k	1.5k	783	714	689	106	5.2k
Y. Hamada Japan	43	3.4k 1.1×	609 0.4×	653 0.8×	478 0.7×	282 0.4×	195	7.0k
Dawei Xu Sweden	53	4.3k 1.4×	890 0.6×	194 0.2×	601 0.8×	119 0.2×	207	8.7k
Jeffrey L. Fox United States	37	2.2k 0.7×	249 0.2×	171 0.2×	334 0.5×	142 0.2×	411	4.9k
Thomas Peters Germany	43	4.4k 1.4×	154 0.1×	390 0.5×	928 1.3×	99 0.1×	161	7.4k
Jason Greenwald Switzerland	30	2.9k 0.9×	168 0.1×	181 0.2×	459 0.6×	245 0.4×	49	3.9k
Hu Chen China	33	1.7k 0.5×	171 0.1×	626 0.8×	318 0.4×	166 0.2×	170	3.8k
Rachel Green United States	64	11.9k 3.8×	105 0.1×	484 0.6×	1.8k 2.5×	172 0.2×	183	13.8k
Fang Wei China	39	2.3k 0.7×	140 0.1×	115 0.1×	540 0.8×	100 0.1×	261	5.4k
Timothy E. Adams Australia	43	2.7k 0.9×	138 0.1×	212 0.3×	1.1k 1.6×	188 0.3×	179	7.0k
Susan M. Freier United States	53	14.3k 4.5×	95 0.1×	175 0.2×	850 1.2×	454 0.7×	96	16.1k

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Salas‐Ambrosio, Pedro, Rachel Lai, Abigail G. Doyle, et al.. (2025). Biosourced Functional Hydroxybenzoate-co-Lactide Polymers with Antimicrobial Activity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(22). 19230–19238. 3 indexed citations

Jordan, Maria C., Serena Abbondante, Huan Peng, et al.. (2025). A Synthetic Phage-Peptide Conjugate as a Potent Antibacterial Agent for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections. ACS Central Science. 11(9). 1715–1735.

Seelig, Burckhard & Irene A. Chen. (2025). Intellectual frameworks to understand complex biochemical systems at the origin of life. Nature Chemistry. 17(1). 11–19. 1 indexed citations

Cho, Christy J., et al.. (2024). Protocells by spontaneous reaction of cysteine with short-chain thioesters. Nature Chemistry. 17(1). 148–155. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Ziwei, et al.. (2024). Prebiotic chiral transfer from self-aminoacylating ribozymes may favor either handedness. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7980–7980. 3 indexed citations

Peng, Huan, Irene A. Chen, & Udi Qimron. (2024). Engineering Phages to Fight Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria. Chemical Reviews. 125(2). 933–971. 35 indexed citations

Peng, Huan & Irene A. Chen. (2024). Preparation of Bioconjugates of Chimeric M13 Phage and Gold Nanorods. Methods in molecular biology. 2793. 131–141.

Saha, Ranajay, et al.. (2023). Effect of montmorillonite K10 clay on RNA structure and function. Biophysical Journal. 123(4). 451–463. 9 indexed citations

Peng, Huan, Daniele Rossetto, Sheref S. Mansy, et al.. (2022). Treatment of Wound Infections in a Mouse Model Using Zn ²⁺ -Releasing Phage Bound to Gold Nanorods. ACS Nano. 16(3). 4756–4774. 83 indexed citations

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Peng, Huan, et al.. (2021). Vesicle encapsulation stabilizes intermolecular association and structure formation of functional RNA and DNA. Current Biology. 32(1). 86–96.e6. 19 indexed citations

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Pressman, Abe, et al.. (2021). Kinetic sequencing ( k -Seq) as a massively parallel assay for ribozyme kinetics: utility and critical parameters. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(12). e67–e67. 13 indexed citations

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Pressman, Abe, et al.. (2017). Analysis of in vitro evolution reveals the underlying distribution of catalytic activity among random sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(14). 8167–8179. 24 indexed citations

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Saha, Ranajay & Irene A. Chen. (2015). Origin of Life: Protocells Red in Tooth and Claw. Current Biology. 25(24). R1175–R1177. 11 indexed citations

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Jiménez, José I., et al.. (2013). Comprehensive experimental fitness landscape and evolutionary network for small RNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(37). 14984–14989. 109 indexed citations

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Chen, Irene A. & Peter Walde. (2010). From Self-Assembled Vesicles to Protocells. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 2(7). a002170–a002170. 192 indexed citations

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Manapat, Michael L., Irene A. Chen, & Martin A. Nowak. (2009). The basic reproductive ratio of life. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 263(3). 317–327. 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Irene A.. (2006). The Emergence of Cells During the Origin of Life. Science. 314(5805). 1558–1559. 28 indexed citations

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Chen, Irene A., Martin M. Hanczyc, Peter Sazani, & Jack W. Szostak. (2006). 3 Protocells: Genetic Polymers Inside Membrane Vesicles. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 43. 57–88. 22 indexed citations

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Durbin, Dennis R., Irene A. Chen, Michael Elliott, & Flaura K. Winston. (2004). Factors Associated With Front Row Seating of Children in Motor Vehicle Crashes. Epidemiology. 15(3). 345–349. 20 indexed citations

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Cheung, Amy, Nicholas J. Westwood, Irene A. Chen, Timothy J. Mitchison, & Aaron F. Straight. (2001). Blebbistatin A cell permeable inhibitor of non-muscle myosin II. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 12. 271. 4 indexed citations

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