James A. Gagnon

7.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
43 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

James A. Gagnon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, James A. Gagnon has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cell Biology and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in James A. Gagnon's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (6 papers). James A. Gagnon is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (6 papers). James A. Gagnon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Norway. James A. Gagnon's co-authors include Eivind Valen, Tessa G. Montague, Alexander F. Schier, Summer B. Thyme, Aaron McKenna, George M. Church, Kornel Labun, Jay Shendure, Andrea Pauli and Steven Zimmerman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

James A. Gagnon

42 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

CHOPCHOP: a CRISPR/Cas9 and TALEN web tool for genome editing

2014 862 citations Tessa G. Montague, James A. Gagnon et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
CHOPCHOP v2: a web tool for the next generation of CRISPR genome engineering

2016 646 citations Kornel Labun, Tessa G. Montague et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Efficient Mutagenesis by Cas9 Protein-Mediated Oligonucleotide Insertion and Large-Scale Assessment of Single-Guide RNAs

2014 634 citations James A. Gagnon, Eivind Valen et al. profile →
Toddler: An Embryonic Signal That Promotes Cell Movement via Apelin Receptors

2014 484 citations Andrea Pauli, Megan L. Norris et al. Science profile →
Whole-organism lineage tracing by combinatorial and cumulative genome editing

2016 477 citations Aaron McKenna, Gregory M. Findlay et al. Science profile →
Simultaneous single-cell profiling of lineages and cell types in the vertebrate brain

2018 408 citations Bushra Raj, Daniel E. Wagner et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James A. Gagnon United States	23	3.6k	682	605	511	361	43	4.7k
Andrea Pauli Austria	26	3.3k 0.9×	493 0.7×	418 0.7×	1.2k 2.3×	325 0.9×	44	4.1k
Masanori Taira Japan	42	5.0k 1.4×	728 1.1×	957 1.6×	307 0.6×	368 1.0×	133	6.0k
Eivind Valen Norway	30	6.1k 1.7×	560 0.8×	1.0k 1.7×	1.4k 2.7×	399 1.1×	50	7.5k
Jing-Ruey Joanna Yeh United States	28	4.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.8×	1.1k 1.7×	296 0.6×	351 1.0×	48	5.9k
Susan Tweedie United Kingdom	28	4.8k 1.3×	246 0.4×	938 1.6×	503 1.0×	299 0.8×	45	5.8k
Tewis Bouwmeester Switzerland	32	5.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	775 1.3×	284 0.6×	548 1.5×	59	6.2k
Karl J. Clark United States	32	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	1.1k 1.9×	198 0.4×	251 0.7×	83	4.0k
Takahiro Nagase Japan	42	4.4k 1.2×	971 1.4×	716 1.2×	423 0.8×	519 1.4×	105	6.2k
Aleš Cvekl United States	50	5.2k 1.4×	714 1.0×	1.1k 1.8×	554 1.1×	414 1.1×	132	6.1k
Joan Galcerán Spain	29	3.6k 1.0×	465 0.7×	633 1.0×	248 0.5×	616 1.7×	39	4.4k

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Askary, Amjad, Wei Chen, Junhong Choi, et al.. (2024). The lives of cells, recorded. Nature Reviews Genetics. 26(3). 203–222. 5 indexed citations

Gagnon, James A., et al.. (2024). Distinct features of the regenerating heart uncovered through comparative single-cell profiling. Biology Open. 13(4). 4 indexed citations

Farrell, Jeffrey A., et al.. (2024). Germ cell progression through zebrafish spermatogenesis declines with age. Development. 151(22). 5 indexed citations

Rice, Marlen C., et al.. (2023). Gadusol is a maternally provided sunscreen that protects fish embryos from DNA damage. Current Biology. 33(15). 3229–3237.e4. 5 indexed citations

Ojelabi, Ogooluwa, et al.. (2021). Orthogonal CRISPR-Cas tools for genome editing, inhibition, and CRISPR recording in zebrafish embryos. Genetics. 220(1). 15 indexed citations

Gagnon, James A., et al.. (2021). Immortalization of primary sheep embryo kidney cells. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal. 57(1). 76–85. 6 indexed citations

Balla, Keir M., Marlen C. Rice, James A. Gagnon, & Nels C. Elde. (2020). Linking Virus Discovery to Immune Responses Visualized during Zebrafish Infections. Current Biology. 30(11). 2092–2103.e5. 27 indexed citations

Wee, Caroline Lei, Maxim Nikitchenko, Wei‐Chun Wang, et al.. (2019). Zebrafish oxytocin neurons drive nocifensive behavior via brainstem premotor targets. Nature Neuroscience. 22(9). 1477–1492. 52 indexed citations

Labun, Kornel, Xiaoge Guo, Alejandro Chavez, et al.. (2019). Accurate analysis of genuine CRISPR editing events with ampliCan. Genome Research. 29(5). 843–847. 46 indexed citations

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Raj, Bushra, Daniel E. Wagner, Aaron McKenna, et al.. (2018). Simultaneous single-cell profiling of lineages and cell types in the vertebrate brain. Nature Biotechnology. 36(5). 442–450. 408 indexed citations breakdown →

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Raj, Bushra, James A. Gagnon, & Alexander F. Schier. (2018). Large-scale reconstruction of cell lineages using single-cell readout of transcriptomes and CRISPR–Cas9 barcodes by scGESTALT. Nature Protocols. 13(11). 2685–2713. 56 indexed citations

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Gagnon, James A., et al.. (2017). The primary role of zebrafish nanog is in extra-embryonic tissue. Development. 145(1). 25 indexed citations

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Norris, Megan L., Andrea Pauli, James A. Gagnon, et al.. (2017). Toddler signaling regulates mesodermal cell migration downstream of Nodal signaling. eLife. 6. 25 indexed citations

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Kreiling, Jill A., et al.. (2017). Analysis of Active Transport by Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching. Biophysical Journal. 112(8). 1714–1725. 15 indexed citations

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Rogers, Katherine W., Nathan D. Lord, James A. Gagnon, et al.. (2017). Nodal patterning without Lefty inhibitory feedback is functional but fragile. eLife. 6. 51 indexed citations

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McKenna, Aaron, Gregory M. Findlay, James A. Gagnon, et al.. (2016). Whole-organism lineage tracing by combinatorial and cumulative genome editing. Science. 353(6298). aaf7907–aaf7907. 477 indexed citations breakdown →

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Merkle, Florian T., Werner Neuhausser, David P. Santos, et al.. (2015). Efficient CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Generation of Knockin Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Lacking Undesired Mutations at the Targeted Locus. Cell Reports. 11(6). 875–883. 114 indexed citations

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Pauli, Andrea, Megan L. Norris, Eivind Valen, et al.. (2014). Toddler: An Embryonic Signal That Promotes Cell Movement via Apelin Receptors. Science. 343(6172). 1248636–1248636. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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Montague, Tessa G., et al.. (2014). CHOPCHOP: a CRISPR/Cas9 and TALEN web tool for genome editing. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(W1). W401–W407. 862 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lohmueller, Jason, John Cumbers, M Schmidt, et al.. (2007). Progress toward construction and modelling of a tri-stable toggle switch in E. coli. 1(1). 25–28. 4 indexed citations

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