Irina Epstein

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Irina Epstein is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Irina Epstein has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 2 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Irina Epstein's work include RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers) and Click Chemistry and Applications (1 paper). Irina Epstein is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers) and Click Chemistry and Applications (1 paper). Irina Epstein collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Irina Epstein's co-authors include Irena Vlatkovic, Georgi Tushev, Erin M. Schuman, Sivakumar Sambandan, Güney Akbalık, Xi Wang, Wei Chen, Xintian You, Wei Sun and Claudia Quedenau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Neuroscience and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Irina Epstein

7 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Neural circular RNAs are derived from synaptic genes and regulated by development and plasticity

2015 916 citations Xintian You, Irena Vlatkovic et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Irina Epstein Germany	6	994	773	51	31	30	8	1.1k
Mantian Wang Germany	7	1.0k 1.0×	785 1.0×	79 1.5×	25 0.8×	29 1.0×	10	1.1k
Pascal Fenske Germany	6	1.0k 1.0×	816 1.1×	94 1.8×	14 0.5×	31 1.0×	9	1.1k
Güney Akbalık Germany	5	1.0k 1.0×	827 1.1×	51 1.0×	20 0.6×	27 0.9×	5	1.1k
Monika Piwecka Poland	9	1.2k 1.2×	999 1.3×	25 0.5×	31 1.0×	66 2.2×	16	1.4k
C Cerda Germany	6	1.1k 1.1×	830 1.1×	37 0.7×	23 0.7×	34 1.1×	6	1.2k
Vera Zywitza Germany	5	1.1k 1.1×	841 1.1×	33 0.6×	41 1.3×	46 1.5×	6	1.2k
Rebecca Petri Sweden	14	608 0.6×	263 0.3×	79 1.5×	84 2.7×	45 1.5×	16	806
Agnès Belly France	5	596 0.6×	246 0.3×	62 1.2×	26 0.8×	39 1.3×	5	731
Cong Tian China	18	373 0.4×	138 0.2×	41 0.8×	40 1.3×	63 2.1×	40	718
Susana Cañón Spain	13	487 0.5×	153 0.2×	13 0.3×	73 2.4×	26 0.9×	18	668

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Irina Epstein

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Chang, Young Hwan, Jeremy W. Linsley, Irina Epstein, et al.. (2020). Single cell tracking based on Voronoi partition via stable matching. 5086–5091. 3 indexed citations

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Linsley, Jeremy W., Irina Epstein, Galina Schmunk, et al.. (2019). Automated four-dimensional long term imaging enables single cell tracking within organotypic brain slices to study neurodevelopment and degeneration. Communications Biology. 2(1). 155–155. 24 indexed citations

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Wang, Xi, Xintian You, Julian D. Langer, et al.. (2019). Full-length transcriptome reconstruction reveals a large diversity of RNA and protein isoforms in rat hippocampus. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5009–5009. 42 indexed citations

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Epstein, Irina & Steven Finkbeiner. (2018). The Arc of cognition: Signaling cascades regulating Arc and implications for cognitive function and disease. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 77. 63–72. 36 indexed citations

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Akbalık, Güney, Georgi Tushev, Sivakumar Sambandan, et al.. (2016). Visualization of newly synthesized neuronal RNA in vitro and in vivo using click-chemistry. RNA Biology. 14(1). 20–28. 28 indexed citations

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You, Xintian, Irena Vlatkovic, Ana Babić, et al.. (2015). Neural circular RNAs are derived from synaptic genes and regulated by development and plasticity. Nature Neuroscience. 18(4). 603–610. 916 indexed citations breakdown →

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Epstein, Irina, et al.. (2013). Alternative polyadenylation and differential expression of Shank mRNAs in the synaptic neuropil. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 369(1633). 20130137–20130137. 21 indexed citations

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Epstein, Irina. (2009). Life science careers: how to make best use of Europe's brains. New Biotechnology. 25(6). 389–389.

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