James P. Noonan

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

James P. Noonan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James P. Noonan has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in James P. Noonan's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (22 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers). James P. Noonan is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (22 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers). James P. Noonan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. James P. Noonan's co-authors include Edward M. Rubin, Justin Cotney, Steven K. Reilly, Svante Pääbo, Shyam Prabhakar, Jing Leng, Jun Yin, Andrew S. McCallion, Deena Emera and Doug Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James P. Noonan

51 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal Genomic DNA

2006 359 citations James P. Noonan, Graham Coop et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James P. Noonan United States	29	2.4k	1.2k	392	251	204	52	3.5k
Bing Su China	41	2.0k 0.8×	3.1k 2.5×	274 0.7×	164 0.7×	139 0.7×	174	5.3k
Mihaela Pavličev United States	30	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	308 0.8×	86 0.3×	123 0.6×	69	3.7k
J.R. Kidd United States	21	1.2k 0.5×	2.3k 1.9×	434 1.1×	203 0.8×	336 1.6×	41	4.2k
Victor Wiebe Germany	20	836 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	177 0.5×	138 0.5×	168 0.8×	22	2.6k
Chad D. Huff United States	27	2.2k 0.9×	3.1k 2.6×	408 1.0×	61 0.2×	79 0.4×	66	4.9k
Frank W. Albert United States	22	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	291 0.7×	50 0.2×	86 0.4×	44	2.9k
Mehmet Somel Türkiye	22	1.2k 0.5×	670 0.5×	82 0.2×	217 0.9×	169 0.8×	56	2.2k
W. Scott Watkins United States	40	2.5k 1.1×	2.9k 2.4×	851 2.2×	29 0.1×	109 0.5×	78	5.2k
T Jenkins South Africa	31	1.3k 0.5×	2.2k 1.8×	226 0.6×	39 0.2×	223 1.1×	120	4.0k
Alessandro Achilli Italy	40	1.9k 0.8×	3.1k 2.5×	153 0.4×	76 0.3×	77 0.4×	102	5.0k

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Noble, Mark, et al.. (2025). Resolving the three-dimensional interactome of human accelerated regions during human and chimpanzee neurodevelopment. Cell. 188(6). 1504–1523.e27. 4 indexed citations

Noonan, James P., et al.. (2024). Reconstructing human-specific regulatory functions in model systems. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 89. 102259–102259. 2 indexed citations

Uebbing, Severin, et al.. (2024). Evolutionary Innovations in Conserved Regulatory Elements Associate With Developmental Genes in Mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(10). 1 indexed citations

Hong, Lingjuan, Severin Uebbing, Sameet Mehta, et al.. (2023). A systems biology approach identifies the role of dysregulated PRDM6 in the development of hypertension. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 133(4). 7 indexed citations

Uebbing, Severin, Jake Gockley, Steven K. Reilly, et al.. (2020). Massively parallel discovery of human-specific substitutions that alter enhancer activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(2). 69 indexed citations

Tong, Alexander, David van Dijk, Jay S. Stanley, et al.. (2020). Interpretable Neuron Structuring with Graph Spectral Regularization. Lecture notes in computer science. 12080. 509–521. 3 indexed citations

Stewart, Thomas A., Cong Liang, Justin Cotney, et al.. (2019). Evidence against tetrapod-wide digit identities and for a limited frame shift in bird wings. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3244–3244. 17 indexed citations

Emera, Deena, et al.. (2018). Disrupting the three-dimensional regulatory topology of the Pitx1 locus results in overtly normal development. Development. 145(7). 12 indexed citations

Wilderman, Andrea, et al.. (2018). High-Resolution Epigenomic Atlas of Human Embryonic Craniofacial Development. Cell Reports. 23(5). 1581–1597. 73 indexed citations

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Reilly, Steven K., Jun Yin, Albert E. Ayoub, et al.. (2015). Evolutionary changes in promoter and enhancer activity during human corticogenesis. Science. 347(6226). 1155–1159. 183 indexed citations

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Cotney, Justin, Rebecca Muhle, Stephan Sanders, et al.. (2015). The autism-associated chromatin modifier CHD8 regulates other autism risk genes during human neurodevelopment. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6404–6404. 212 indexed citations

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Cotney, Justin, Jing Leng, Sunghee Oh, et al.. (2012). Chromatin state signatures associated with tissue-specific gene expression and enhancer activity in the embryonic limb. Genome Research. 22(6). 1069–1080. 104 indexed citations

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Kong, Yong, et al.. (2010). Construction and maintenance of randomized retroviral expression libraries for transmembrane protein engineering. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 24(3). 311–320. 5 indexed citations

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Noonan, James P.. (2010). Neanderthal genomics and the evolution of modern humans: Figure 1.. Genome Research. 20(5). 547–553. 25 indexed citations

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Noonan, James P.. (2009). Regulatory DNAs and the evolution of human development. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 19(6). 557–564. 12 indexed citations

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Prabhakar, Shyam, Axel Visel, Jennifer A. Akiyama, et al.. (2008). Human-Specific Gain of Function in a Developmental Enhancer. Science. 321(5894). 1346–1350. 246 indexed citations

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Noonan, James P., Graham Coop, Sridhar Kudaravalli, et al.. (2006). Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal Genomic DNA. Science. 314(5802). 1113–1118. 359 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prabhakar, Shyam, James P. Noonan, Svante Pääbo, & Edward M. Rubin. (2006). Accelerated Evolution of Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Humans. Science. 314(5800). 786–786. 315 indexed citations

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Noonan, James P., Michael Hofreiter, Doug Smith, et al.. (2005). Genomic Sequencing of Pleistocene Cave Bears. Science. 309(5734). 597–599. 170 indexed citations

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Noonan, James P., Jun Li, Loan Nguyen, et al.. (2003). Extensive Linkage Disequilibrium, a Common 16.7-Kilobase Deletion, and Evidence of Balancing Selection in the Human Protocadherin α Cluster. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 72(3). 621–635. 46 indexed citations

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