James E. Bear

11.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
97 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

James E. Bear is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Immunology and Allergy. According to data from OpenAlex, James E. Bear has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Cell Biology, 35 papers in Molecular Biology and 25 papers in Immunology and Allergy. Recurrent topics in James E. Bear's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (56 papers), Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (25 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (13 papers). James E. Bear is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (56 papers), Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (25 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (13 papers). James E. Bear collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. James E. Bear's co-authors include Frank B. Gertler, Joseph Loureiro, Matthias Krause, Congying Wu, Jeremy D. Rotty, Andrea C. Uetrecht, Dorothy A. Schafer, Liang Cai, Shuvasree SenGupta and Carole A. Parent and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

James E. Bear

92 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Antagonism between Ena/VASP Proteins and Actin Filament Capping Regulates Fibroblast Motility

2002 671 citations James E. Bear, Tatyana Svitkina et al. profile →
Ena/VASP Proteins: Regulators of the Actin Cytoskeleton and Cell Migration

2003 532 citations James E. Bear, Frank B. Gertler et al. profile →
PEGylated PRINT Nanoparticles: The Impact of PEG Density on Protein Binding, Macrophage Association, Biodistribution, and Pharmacokinetics

2012 512 citations James E. Bear et al. profile →
Using mechanobiological mimicry of red blood cells to extend circulation times of hydrogel microparticles

2011 461 citations James E. Bear et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Engineering an improved light-induced dimer (iLID) for controlling the localization and activity of signaling proteins

2014 452 citations Seth P. Zimmerman, Hayretin Yumerefendi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The principles of directed cell migration

2021 384 citations Shuvasree SenGupta, Carole A. Parent et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James E. Bear United States	45	4.1k	3.9k	1.3k	1.2k	1.2k	97	8.9k
Pekka Lappalainen Finland	64	7.9k 1.9×	6.5k 1.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	146	13.6k
Alan Rick Horwitz United States	38	6.8k 1.7×	5.5k 1.4×	2.2k 1.6×	2.9k 2.4×	934 0.8×	56	12.3k
Kurt I. Anderson United Kingdom	53	3.7k 0.9×	3.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	958 0.8×	419 0.4×	92	8.2k
Donna J. Webb United States	45	3.7k 0.9×	4.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	2.4k 1.9×	1.1k 1.0×	92	8.9k
Timothy J. Mitchison United States	35	5.6k 1.4×	4.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	942 0.8×	628 0.5×	39	8.5k
Klemens Rottner Germany	56	6.3k 1.5×	4.3k 1.1×	892 0.7×	1.9k 1.5×	632 0.5×	151	10.2k
Grégory Giannone France	35	3.3k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	921 0.8×	60	6.2k
Carole A. Parent United States	45	3.4k 0.8×	3.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	930 0.8×	564 0.5×	109	7.7k
Matthieu Piel France	60	6.8k 1.7×	5.0k 1.3×	3.1k 2.3×	674 0.5×	689 0.6×	153	11.5k
Josephine C. Adams United Kingdom	54	4.1k 1.0×	4.9k 1.3×	780 0.6×	2.4k 2.0×	711 0.6×	116	10.3k

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Leibfarth, Frank A., et al.. (2025). Measurement of cellular traction forces during confined migration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(48). e2509535122–e2509535122.

Bear, James E., et al.. (2025). When two worlds collide: actin dynamics on endomembranes regulates membrane trafficking. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 97. 102596–102596.

Cisterna, Bruno A., Kristen Skruber, Mitchell T. Butler, et al.. (2024). Prolonged depletion of profilin 1 or F-actin causes an adaptive response in microtubules. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(7). 2 indexed citations

Patel, Hiral, Kem A. Sochacki, Matthew Akamatsu, et al.. (2024). Local monomer levels and established filaments potentiate non-muscle myosin 2 assembly. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(4). 7 indexed citations

Butler, Mitchell T., et al.. (2022). A Photopolymerized Hydrogel System with Dual Stiffness Gradients Reveals Distinct Actomyosin-Based Mechano-Responses in Fibroblast Durotaxis. ACS Nano. 17(1). 197–211. 8 indexed citations

Butler, Mitchell T., et al.. (2022). Coro1B and Coro1C regulate lamellipodia dynamics and cell motility by tuning branched actin turnover. The Journal of Cell Biology. 221(8). 16 indexed citations

SenGupta, Shuvasree, Carole A. Parent, & James E. Bear. (2021). The principles of directed cell migration. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 22(8). 529–547. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

Rotty, Jeremy D., James E. Bear, Veronica Ulici, et al.. (2020). Arp2/3 inactivation causes intervertebral disc and cartilage degeneration with dysregulated TonEBP-mediated osmoadaptation. JCI Insight. 5(4). 24 indexed citations

Hepperla, Austin J., Gregory R. Keele, Hayretin Yumerefendi, et al.. (2020). An optogenetic switch for the Set2 methyltransferase provides evidence for transcription-dependent and -independent dynamics of H3K36 methylation. Genome Research. 30(11). 1605–1617. 13 indexed citations

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Graham, David M., Tomas Andersen, Lisa Sharek, et al.. (2018). Enucleated cells reveal differential roles of the nucleus in cell migration, polarity, and mechanotransduction. The Journal of Cell Biology. 217(3). 895–914. 80 indexed citations

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Castagnino, Alessia, Antonio Castro-Castro, Marie Irondelle, et al.. (2018). Coronin 1C promotes triple-negative breast cancer invasiveness through regulation of MT1-MMP traffic and invadopodia function. Oncogene. 37(50). 6425–6441. 39 indexed citations

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Zimmerman, Seth P., Sreeja B. Asokan, Brian Kuhlman, & James E. Bear. (2017). Cells lay their own tracks – optogenetic Cdc42 activation stimulates fibronectin deposition supporting directed migration. Journal of Cell Science. 130(18). 2971–2983. 23 indexed citations

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Shutova, Maria S., Sreeja B. Asokan, Shefali Talwar, et al.. (2017). Self-sorting of nonmuscle myosins IIA and IIB polarizes the cytoskeleton and modulates cell motility. The Journal of Cell Biology. 216(9). 2877–2889. 58 indexed citations

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Paul, David S., Caterina Casari, Congying Wu, et al.. (2017). Deletion of the Arp2/3 complex in megakaryocytes leads to microthrombocytopenia in mice. Blood Advances. 1(18). 1398–1408. 38 indexed citations

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Oudin, Madeleine J., Oliver Jonas, Tatsiana Kosciuk, et al.. (2016). Tumor Cell–Driven Extracellular Matrix Remodeling Drives Haptotaxis during Metastatic Progression. Cancer Discovery. 6(5). 516–531. 155 indexed citations

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King, Samantha J., Sreeja B. Asokan, Elizabeth M. Haynes, et al.. (2016). Lamellipodia are crucial for haptotactic sensing and response. Journal of Cell Science. 129(12). 2329–2342. 58 indexed citations

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Scott, David W., et al.. (2015). N-glycosylation controls the function of junctional adhesion molecule-A. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 26(18). 3205–3214. 25 indexed citations

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Creed, Sarah J., Caroline P. Le, Mohd Ali Hassan, et al.. (2015). β2-adrenoceptor signaling regulates invadopodia formation to enhance tumor cell invasion. Breast Cancer Research. 17(1). 62 indexed citations

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Roney, Kelly E., Brian P. O’Connor, Haitao Wen, et al.. (2011). Plexin-B2 Negatively Regulates Macrophage Motility, Rac, and Cdc42 Activation. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e24795–e24795. 39 indexed citations

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Marshall, Thomas W., et al.. (2009). Coronin 2A regulates a subset of focal-adhesion-turnover events through the cofilin pathway. Journal of Cell Science. 122(17). 3061–3069. 35 indexed citations

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