James E. Haber

65.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
345 papers, 32.6k citations indexed

About

James E. Haber is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James E. Haber has authored 345 papers receiving a total of 32.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 320 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Cell Biology and 40 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in James E. Haber's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (214 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (146 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (108 papers). James E. Haber is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (214 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (146 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (108 papers). James E. Haber collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. James E. Haber's co-authors include Frédéric Pâques, Neal Sugawara, J. Kent Moore, Grzegorz Ira, Anna Malkova, Jacqueline Fishman‐Lobell, E L Ivanov, Charles I. White, Marco Foiani and Norah Rudin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

James E. Haber

340 papers receiving 32.0k 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.

Multiple Pathways of Recombination Induced by Double-Strand Breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1999 1.8k citations James E. Haber et al. profile →
Saccharomyces Ku70, Mre11/Rad50, and RPA Proteins Regulate Adaptation to G2/M Arrest after DNA Damage

1998 642 citations James E. Haber et al. profile →
Cell Cycle and Genetic Requirements of Two Pathways of Nonhomologous End-Joining Repair of Double-Strand Breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1996 600 citations James E. Haber et al. Molecular and Cellular Biology profile →
DNA end resection, homologous recombination and DNA damage checkpoint activation require CDK1

2004 580 citations Debra A. Bressan, James E. Haber et al. profile →
Sources of DNA Double-Strand Breaks and Models of Recombinational DNA Repair

2014 530 citations James E. Haber et al. profile →
Loop extrusion as a mechanism for formation of DNA damage repair foci

2021 207 citations Kevin Li, Felix Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James E. Haber United States	100	30.1k	5.8k	3.9k	3.6k	3.4k	345	32.6k
Kevin Struhl United States	113	38.0k 1.3×	4.9k 0.8×	4.5k 1.2×	1.9k 0.5×	3.9k 1.2×	318	42.9k
Robert E. Kingston United States	92	27.8k 0.9×	3.3k 0.6×	3.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	1.7k 0.5×	259	31.2k
Stephen C. West United Kingdom	93	23.3k 0.8×	2.5k 0.4×	3.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	4.6k 1.3×	241	25.4k
Rodney Rothstein United States	64	21.6k 0.7×	3.5k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	158	22.9k
Geoffrey M. Wahl United States	80	21.7k 0.7×	2.2k 0.4×	4.8k 1.2×	2.6k 0.7×	11.1k 3.3×	178	30.1k
Jerry L. Workman United States	96	30.2k 1.0×	4.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	1.1k 0.3×	2.0k 0.6×	265	33.1k
Susan M. Gasser Switzerland	85	22.5k 0.7×	4.1k 0.7×	956 0.2×	2.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.4×	280	24.4k
Bruce Stillman United States	100	29.3k 1.0×	3.3k 0.6×	2.1k 0.5×	4.0k 1.1×	7.1k 2.1×	227	33.9k
David Scott United States	34	20.7k 0.7×	2.1k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	1.9k 0.6×	53	24.2k
Nikola P. Pavletich United States	65	25.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.2×	3.9k 1.0×	3.6k 1.0×	9.2k 2.7×	79	30.0k

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Zhou, Felix, et al.. (2025). Arp2/3 and type-I myosins control chromosome mobility and end-resection at double-strand breaks in S. cerevisiae. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7212–7212. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Felix, et al.. (2024). Prolonged cell cycle arrest in response to DNA damage in yeast requires the maintenance of DNA damage signaling and the spindle assembly checkpoint. eLife. 13. 4 indexed citations

Priore, Isabella Del, et al.. (2023). Structure-forming CAG/CTG repeats interfere with gap repair to cause repeat expansions and chromosome breaks. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2469–2469. 16 indexed citations

Haber, James E.. (2023). 101 years ago: Hermann Muller's remarkable insight. Genetics. 223(4). 1 indexed citations

Choi, Jihyun, et al.. (2022). Repair of mismatched templates during Rad51-dependent Break-Induced Replication. PLoS Genetics. 18(9). e1010056–e1010056. 8 indexed citations

Waterman, David P., Felix Zhou, Kevin Li, et al.. (2019). Live cell monitoring of double strand breaks in S. cerevisiae. PLoS Genetics. 15(3). e1008001–e1008001. 23 indexed citations

Ferrazzoli, Alexander E., et al.. (2018). CRISPR/Cas9 cleavages in budding yeast reveal templated insertions and strand-specific insertion/deletion profiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(9). E2040–E2047. 138 indexed citations

Yimit, Askar, Tae‐Hyung Kim, R. Anand, et al.. (2016). MTE1 Functions with MPH1 in Double-Strand Break Repair. Genetics. 203(1). 147–157. 14 indexed citations

Braberg, Hannes, Michael Shales, Jiewei Xu, et al.. (2014). Quantitative analysis of triple-mutant genetic interactions. Nature Protocols. 9(8). 1867–1881. 13 indexed citations

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Carlton, Peter M., Jérôme Boulanger, Charles Kervrann, et al.. (2010). Fast live simultaneous multiwavelength four-dimensional optical microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(37). 16016–16022. 143 indexed citations

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Torres‐Rosell, Jordi, Giacomo De Piccoli, Violeta Cordón-Preciado, et al.. (2007). Anaphase Onset Before Complete DNA Replication with Intact Checkpoint Responses. Science. 315(5817). 1411–1415. 108 indexed citations

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Alabert, Constance, Rachel Toth, Neal Sugawara, et al.. (2007). Phosphorylation of Slx4 by Mec1 and Tel1 Regulates the Single-Strand Annealing Mode of DNA Repair in Budding Yeast. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 27(18). 6433–6445. 83 indexed citations

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Sugawara, Neal & James E. Haber. (2006). Repair of DNA Double Strand Breaks: In Vivo Biochemistry. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 408. 416–429. 47 indexed citations

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Miyazaki, Toshiko, Debra A. Bressan, Miki Shinohara, James E. Haber, & Akira Shinohara. (2004). In vivo assembly and disassembly of Rad51 and Rad52 complexes during double‐strand break repair. The EMBO Journal. 23(4). 939–949. 102 indexed citations

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Ma, Nianhan, Eun Mi Kim, James E. Haber, & Sang Eun Lee. (2003). Yeast Mre11 and Rad1 Proteins Define a Ku-Independent Mechanism To Repair Double-Strand Breaks Lacking Overlapping End Sequences. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(23). 8820–8828. 279 indexed citations

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Haber, James E.. (2002). Uses and abuses of HO endonuclease. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 350. 141–164. 39 indexed citations

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Bosco, Giovanni & James E. Haber. (1998). Chromosome Break-Induced DNA Replication Leads to Nonreciprocal Translocations and Telomere Capture. Genetics. 150(3). 1037–1047. 184 indexed citations

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Haber, James E.. (1998). A locus control region regulates yeast recombination. Trends in Genetics. 14(8). 317–321. 20 indexed citations

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Fishman‐Lobell, Jacqueline, Norah Rudin, & James E. Haber. (1992). Two Alternative Pathways of Double-Strand Break Repair That Are Kinetically Separable and Independently Modulated. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 12(3). 1292–1303. 113 indexed citations

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Weiffenbach, Barbara & James E. Haber. (1985). Homothallic Switching of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mating Type Genes by Using a Donor Containing a Large Internal Deletion. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 5(8). 2154–2158. 5 indexed citations

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