Janet Iwasa

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Janet Iwasa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Janet Iwasa has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Cell Biology and 7 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Janet Iwasa's work include Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (7 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers). Janet Iwasa is often cited by papers focused on Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (7 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers). Janet Iwasa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Janet Iwasa's co-authors include Craig L. Peterson, Cedric R. Clapier, Bradley R. Cairns, R. Dyche Mullins, Johannes Schöneberg, Il‐Hyung Lee, James H. Hurley, Yi‐Wei Chang, Lee A. Rettberg and Grant J. Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Janet Iwasa

43 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Mechanisms of action and regulation of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodelling complexes

2017 821 citations Cedric R. Clapier, Janet Iwasa et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
The Mediator complex as a master regulator of transcription by RNA polymerase II

2022 165 citations William F. Richter, Shraddha Nayak et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Janet Iwasa United States	18	1.8k	550	275	217	171	47	2.4k
Benjamin Podbilewicz Israel	33	1.8k 1.0×	706 1.3×	394 1.4×	233 1.1×	187 1.1×	61	3.3k
Manos Mavrakis France	23	1.3k 0.7×	475 0.9×	175 0.6×	445 2.1×	107 0.6×	34	2.3k
Stanislaw A. Gorski United States	12	1.7k 1.0×	149 0.3×	280 1.0×	233 1.1×	188 1.1×	13	2.2k
Gregory Hinkle United States	16	1.9k 1.1×	290 0.5×	348 1.3×	231 1.1×	199 1.2×	20	2.7k
Aaron Cheng United States	8	2.0k 1.1×	392 0.7×	393 1.4×	193 0.9×	131 0.8×	12	2.6k
Ioannis Vakonakis United Kingdom	29	1.5k 0.8×	785 1.4×	188 0.7×	318 1.5×	209 1.2×	56	2.5k
Gagan D. Gupta Canada	23	2.3k 1.3×	992 1.8×	541 2.0×	200 0.9×	98 0.6×	44	3.0k
Taijiao Jiang China	24	1.2k 0.7×	188 0.3×	148 0.5×	177 0.8×	225 1.3×	78	2.2k
Ralf‐Peter Jansen Germany	31	3.1k 1.7×	683 1.2×	185 0.7×	348 1.6×	67 0.4×	57	3.5k
Daniel Zenklusen United States	31	4.1k 2.3×	238 0.4×	334 1.2×	183 0.8×	104 0.6×	50	4.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Riggi, Margot, et al.. (2025). Clathrin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast at a glance: animated. Journal of Cell Science. 138(22).

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Riggi, Margot & Janet Iwasa. (2025). Agent-based modeling of complex molecular mechanisms. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 172. 103626–103626. 1 indexed citations

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Hurt, Ed, Janet Iwasa, & Roland Beckmann. (2024). SnapShot: Eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis II. Cell. 187(5). 1314–1314.e1. 2 indexed citations

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Hurt, Ed, et al.. (2023). SnapShot: Eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis I. Cell. 186(10). 2282–2282.e1. 8 indexed citations

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Lam, Miu-Ling, Joseph Sall, Christopher J. Petzold, et al.. (2023). 3D reconstructions of parasite development and the intracellular niche of the microsporidian pathogen Encephalitozoon intestinalis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7662–7662. 6 indexed citations

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Richter, William F., Shraddha Nayak, Janet Iwasa, & Dylan J. Taatjes. (2022). The Mediator complex as a master regulator of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 23(11). 732–749. 165 indexed citations breakdown →

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Iwasa, Janet, et al.. (2022). Communicating science through visual means. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 48(1). 2–4. 2 indexed citations

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Iwasa, Janet, Blair Lyons, & Graham T. Johnson. (2022). The dawn of interoperating spatial models in cell biology. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 78. 102838–102838. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Hui, et al.. (2022). A new tool for annotating scientific animations and supporting scientific dialogue. PLoS Biology. 20(8). e3001731–e3001731. 2 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Henry C., Nathaniel Talledge, John McCullough, et al.. (2020). Membrane Constriction and Thinning by Sequential ESCRT-III Polymerization. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 88a–88a. 2 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Shigeki, M. Wayne Davis, Grant F. Kusick, Janet Iwasa, & Erik M. Jørgensen. (2020). SynapsEM: Computer-Assisted Synapse Morphometry. Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience. 12. 584549–584549. 17 indexed citations

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Sinha, Niladri K., Janet Iwasa, Peter Shen, & Brenda Bass. (2017). Dicer uses distinct modules for recognizing dsRNA termini. Science. 359(6373). 329–334. 79 indexed citations

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Clapier, Cedric R., Janet Iwasa, Bradley R. Cairns, & Craig L. Peterson. (2017). Mechanisms of action and regulation of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodelling complexes. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 18(7). 407–422. 821 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chang, Yi‐Wei, Lee A. Rettberg, Anke Treuner‐Lange, et al.. (2016). Architecture of the type IVa pilus machine. Science. 351(6278). aad2001–aad2001. 288 indexed citations

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Iwasa, Janet, Wallace F. Marshall, & Gerald Karp. (2016). Karp's cell and molecular biology : concepts and experiments. 7 indexed citations

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Iwasa, Janet. (2015). Bringing macromolecular machinery to life using 3D animation. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 31. 84–88. 26 indexed citations

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Iwasa, Janet. (2014). Crafting a career in molecular animation. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(19). 2891–2893. 3 indexed citations

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Iwasa, Janet. (2010). Animating the model figure. Trends in Cell Biology. 20(12). 699–704. 27 indexed citations

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Meiklejohn, Duncan A., et al.. (2001). A Polychaete hunchback Ortholog. Developmental Biology. 235(2). 476–488. 22 indexed citations

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Iwasa, Janet, et al.. (2000). The leech hunchback protein is expressed in the epithelium and CNS but not in the segmental precursor lineages. Development Genes and Evolution. 210(6). 277–288. 21 indexed citations

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