James E. Cox

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

James E. Cox is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, James E. Cox has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Physiology and 16 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in James E. Cox's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (21 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (16 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (13 papers). James E. Cox is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (21 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (16 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (13 papers). James E. Cox collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. James E. Cox's co-authors include Carl S. Thummel, J. Alan Maschek, Jason M. Tennessen, Jared Rutter, William E. Barry, Sihem Boudina, Steven P. Gygi, Eric B. Taylor, Jonathan G. Van Vranken and Noah Dephoure and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James E. Cox

103 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

A Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier Required for Pyruvate Uptake in Yeast, Drosophila , and Humans

2012 644 citations Eric B. Taylor, John C. Schell 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
James E. Cox United States	38	3.2k	1.1k	606	580	423	107	5.5k
Dominik Schwudke Germany	34	3.7k 1.2×	690 0.6×	283 0.5×	593 1.0×	417 1.0×	89	5.8k
Aalim M. Weljie United States	44	4.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	867 1.4×	473 0.8×	231 0.5×	107	6.5k
Tao Wang China	36	1.9k 0.6×	673 0.6×	428 0.7×	911 1.6×	510 1.2×	204	4.6k
Kazutaka Ikeda Japan	36	4.1k 1.3×	815 0.8×	395 0.7×	442 0.8×	462 1.1×	95	6.2k
Sunia A. Trauger United States	34	5.4k 1.7×	1.5k 1.4×	362 0.6×	711 1.2×	418 1.0×	71	8.6k
Satoru Matsuda Japan	43	3.5k 1.1×	488 0.5×	675 1.1×	375 0.6×	656 1.6×	201	5.8k
Christian Ramakers Netherlands	20	3.1k 1.0×	445 0.4×	358 0.6×	403 0.7×	396 0.9×	56	6.6k
Mei‐Ling Cheng Taiwan	39	2.3k 0.7×	878 0.8×	497 0.8×	538 0.9×	370 0.9×	229	5.0k
Peter S. Reinach United States	43	3.8k 1.2×	741 0.7×	298 0.5×	531 0.9×	412 1.0×	244	8.4k
J. Andrés Melendez United States	37	4.1k 1.3×	973 0.9×	1.6k 2.6×	443 0.8×	697 1.6×	80	6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James E. Cox

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20 of 20 papers shown

Choi, Ran Hee, Cesar Meza, J. Alan Maschek, et al.. (2025). Semaglutide‐induced weight loss improves mitochondrial energy efficiency in skeletal muscle. Obesity. 33(5). 974–985. 4 indexed citations

Stanley, Claire E., et al.. (2024). Phospholipid isotope tracing suggests β-catenin-driven suppression of phosphatidylcholine metabolism in hepatocellular carcinoma. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1869(6). 159514–159514. 2 indexed citations

Verma, Surbhi, Aaron Atkinson, David A. Nix, et al.. (2024). Zinc-alpha-2-glycoprotein Secreted by Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Promotes Peritumoral Fibrosis. Cancer Research Communications. 4(7). 1655–1666. 7 indexed citations

Maschek, J. Alan, et al.. (2024). The phospholipids cardiolipin and phosphatidylethanolamine differentially regulate MDC biogenesis. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(5). 5 indexed citations

Cheatham, Thomas E., et al.. (2024). The mechanism of covalent inhibition of LAR phosphatase by illudalic acid. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 104. 129740–129740. 1 indexed citations

Ferrara, Patrick J., Jordan M. Johnson, Shinya Watanabe, et al.. (2023). Weight loss increases skeletal muscle mitochondrial energy efficiency in obese mice. PubMed. 2(2). 16 indexed citations

Johnson, Jordan M., Enrique Balderas, Elahu G. Sustarsic, et al.. (2023). Mitochondrial phosphatidylethanolamine modulates UCP1 to promote brown adipose thermogenesis. Science Advances. 9(8). eade7864–eade7864. 39 indexed citations

Nikkanen, Joni, Yew Ann Leong, William C. Krause, et al.. (2022). An evolutionary trade-off between host immunity and metabolism drives fatty liver in male mice. Science. 378(6617). 290–295. 37 indexed citations

Poss, Annelise M., J. Alan Maschek, Benjamin Haaland, et al.. (2022). Following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, serum ceramides demarcate patients that will fail to achieve normoglycemia and diabetes remission. Med. 3(7). 452–467.e4. 10 indexed citations

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Nuebel, Esther, Jeffrey T. Morgan, Sarah Fogarty, et al.. (2021). The biochemical basis of mitochondrial dysfunction in Zellweger Spectrum Disorder. EMBO Reports. 22(10). e51991–e51991. 29 indexed citations

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Petersen, Charisse, Rickesha Bell, Kendra A. Klag, et al.. (2019). T cell–mediated regulation of the microbiota protects against obesity. Science. 365(6451). 297 indexed citations

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Kumar, Dileep, Ethika Tyagi, Tong Liu, et al.. (2018). Aspirin Suppresses PGE2 and Activates AMP Kinase to Inhibit Melanoma Cell Motility, Pigmentation, and Selective Tumor Growth In Vivo. Cancer Prevention Research. 11(10). 629–642. 40 indexed citations

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Ward, Diane M., Opal S. Chen, Liangtao Li, et al.. (2018). Altered sterol metabolism in budding yeast affects mitochondrial iron–sulfur (Fe-S) cluster synthesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(27). 10782–10795. 26 indexed citations

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Li, Hongde, Geetanjali Chawla, Olga Zaslaver, et al.. (2017). Drosophila larvae synthesize the putative oncometabolite L-2-hydroxyglutarate during normal developmental growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(6). 1353–1358. 57 indexed citations

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Chiaro, Tyson R., Ray Soto, W. Zac Stephens, et al.. (2017). A member of the gut mycobiota modulates host purine metabolism exacerbating colitis in mice. Science Translational Medicine. 9(380). 171 indexed citations

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Shen, Peter, Joseph Park, Yidan Qin, et al.. (2015). Rqc2p and 60 S ribosomal subunits mediate mRNA-independent elongation of nascent chains. Science. 347(6217). 75–78. 229 indexed citations

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Taylor, Eric B., John C. Schell, Audrey Boutron, et al.. (2012). A Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier Required for Pyruvate Uptake in Yeast, Drosophila , and Humans. Science. 337(6090). 96–100. 644 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shakya, Arvind, Robert C. Cooksey, James E. Cox, et al.. (2009). Oct1 loss of function induces a coordinate metabolic shift that opposes tumorigenicity. Nature Cell Biology. 11(3). 320–327. 80 indexed citations

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Cox, James E., et al.. (2006). Lipase‐Mediated Purification of Methyl Nonactate, an Important Natural Product Building Block for Diversity‐Oriented Synthesis. Biotechnology Progress. 22(5). 1354–1357. 4 indexed citations

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Molloy, B. P. J. & James E. Cox. (1972). Subfossil forest remains and their bearing on forest history in the Rakaia catchment, Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 10(2). 267–276. 9 indexed citations

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