Jernej Ule

26.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
150 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

Jernej Ule is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jernej Ule has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cancer Research and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jernej Ule's work include RNA Research and Splicing (116 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (95 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (76 papers). Jernej Ule is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (116 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (95 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (76 papers). Jernej Ule collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Slovenia. Jernej Ule's co-authors include Robert B. Darnell, Aldo Mele, Nicholas M. Luscombe, Tomaž Curk, Julian König, Kathi Zarnack, Melis Kayikci, Benjamin J. Blencowe, Blaž Zupan and Kirk B. Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jernej Ule

147 papers receiving 16.5k 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.

HITS-CLIP yields genome-wide insights into brain alternative RNA processing

2008 1.1k citations Aldo Mele, Jernej Ule et al. Nature profile →
iCLIP reveals the function of hnRNP particles in splicing at individual nucleotide resolution

2010 879 citations Julian König, Kathi Zarnack et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →
CLIP Identifies Nova-Regulated RNA Networks in the Brain

2003 866 citations Jernej Ule, Kirk B. Jensen et al. Science profile →
Characterizing the RNA targets and position-dependent splicing regulation by TDP-43

2011 859 citations Tomaž Curk, Melis Kayikci et al. profile →
Alternative Splicing Regulatory Networks: Functions, Mechanisms, and Evolution

2019 458 citations Jernej Ule et al. profile →
RNA modifications detection by comparative Nanopore direct RNA sequencing

2021 246 citations Charlotte Capitanchik, Federica Capraro et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jernej Ule United Kingdom	63	14.6k	3.1k	2.0k	1.5k	874	150	16.7k
Zuoshang Xu United States	46	5.2k 0.4×	1.3k 0.4×	3.6k 1.8×	1.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.6×	86	9.3k
Thomas A. Cooper United States	57	12.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	705 0.3×	856 0.6×	3.8k 4.3×	113	13.9k
Harley I. Kornblum United States	59	6.7k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	609 0.3×	2.1k 1.4×	2.5k 2.8×	158	11.7k
Frank Rigo United States	48	8.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	2.2k 1.1×	3.8k 2.5×	1.6k 1.8×	141	11.2k
Henry Furneaux United States	47	6.8k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	268 0.2×	1.0k 1.2×	77	9.7k
Suzanne J. Baker United States	53	9.9k 0.7×	3.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	2.3k 1.5×	977 1.1×	123	17.1k
Stefan Stamm United States	52	8.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	264 0.1×	649 0.4×	820 0.9×	117	9.6k
Masato Nakafuku Japan	59	12.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	418 0.2×	961 0.6×	3.0k 3.5×	93	17.6k
Markus A. Rüegg Switzerland	70	10.0k 0.7×	755 0.2×	1.8k 0.9×	836 0.5×	3.4k 3.9×	184	14.8k
Hemali Phatnani United States	25	4.6k 0.3×	557 0.2×	1.2k 0.6×	662 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	39	8.3k

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Gameiro, Paulo A., Iosifina P. Foskolou, Nordin D. Zandhuis, et al.. (2026). Meta-unstable mRNAs in activated CD8+ T cells are defined by interlinked AU-rich elements and m6A mRNA methylation. Nature Communications. 17(1). 160–160.

Faraway, Rupert, Oscar G. Wilkins, Anob M. Chakrabarti, et al.. (2025). Collective homeostasis of condensation-prone proteins via their mRNAs. Nature. 647(8090). 798–808. 1 indexed citations

Monti, Mie, Leonardo Mancini, Charlotte Capitanchik, et al.. (2024). Interrogation of RNA-protein interaction dynamics in bacterial growth. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(5). 573–589. 2 indexed citations

Modic, Miha, Rupert Faraway, Igor Ruiz de los Mozos, et al.. (2024). Poised PABP–RNA hubs implement signal-dependent mRNA decay in development. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(9). 1439–1447. 3 indexed citations

Dodel, Martin, Federica Capraro, Rupert Faraway, et al.. (2023). An ERK1/2‐driven RNA‐binding switch in nucleolin drives ribosome biogenesis and pancreatic tumorigenesis downstream of RAS oncogene. The EMBO Journal. 42(11). e110902–e110902. 14 indexed citations

Chakrabarti, Anob M., et al.. (2023). A computationally-enhanced hiCLIP atlas reveals Staufen1-RNA binding features and links 3′ UTR structure to RNA metabolism. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(8). 3573–3589. 4 indexed citations

Chakrabarti, Anob M., Charlotte Capitanchik, Jernej Ule, & Nicholas M. Luscombe. (2023). clipplotr —a comparative visualization and analysis tool for CLIP data. RNA. 29(6). 715–723. 5 indexed citations

Balendra, Rubika, Igor Ruiz de los Mozos, Hana M. Odeh, et al.. (2023). Transcriptome-wide RNA binding analysis of C9orf72 poly(PR) dipeptides. Life Science Alliance. 6(9). e202201824–e202201824. 5 indexed citations

Varier, Radhika A., Theodora Sideri, Charlotte Capitanchik, et al.. (2022). N6-methyladenosine (m6A) reader Pho92 is recruited co-transcriptionally and couples translation to mRNA decay to promote meiotic fitness in yeast. eLife. 11. 20 indexed citations

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Wei, Guifeng, Mafalda Almeida, Greta Pintacuda, et al.. (2021). Acute depletion of METTL3 implicates N ⁶ -methyladenosine in alternative intron/exon inclusion in the nascent transcriptome. Genome Research. 31(8). 1395–1408. 47 indexed citations

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Hafner, Markus, Maria Katsantoni, Tino Köster, et al.. (2021). CLIP and complementary methods. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 1(1). 183 indexed citations

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Rafiee, Mahmoud‐Reza, Julian A. Zagalak, Sviatoslav Sidorov, et al.. (2021). Chromatin-contact atlas reveals disorder-mediated protein interactions and moonlighting chromatin-associated RBPs. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(22). 13092–13107. 12 indexed citations

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Fernández‐Moya, Sandra M., Karl E. Bauer, Rico Schieweck, et al.. (2021). RGS4 RNA Secondary Structure Mediates Staufen2 RNP Assembly in Neurons. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(23). 13021–13021. 9 indexed citations

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Haag, Carl, Susan Boerner, Jernej Ule, et al.. (2018). The key protein of endosomal mRNP transport Rrm4 binds translational landmark sites of cargo mRNAs. EMBO Reports. 20(1). 32 indexed citations

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Rot, Gregor, Zhen Wang, Ina Huppertz, et al.. (2017). High-Resolution RNA Maps Suggest Common Principles of Splicing and Polyadenylation Regulation by TDP-43. Cell Reports. 19(5). 1056–1067. 67 indexed citations

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Beltrán, Manuel, Christopher M. Yates, Lenka Skalska, et al.. (2016). The interaction of PRC2 with RNA or chromatin is mutually antagonistic. Genome Research. 26(7). 896–907. 170 indexed citations

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Coelho, Miguel B., Jan Attig, Nicolás Bellora, et al.. (2015). Nuclear matrix protein Matrin3 regulates alternative splicing and forms overlapping regulatory networks with PTB. The EMBO Journal. 34(5). 653–668. 113 indexed citations

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Ule, Jernej, et al.. (2010). Cholinergic regulation of striatal Nova mRNAs. Neuroscience. 169(2). 619–627. 7 indexed citations

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Ule, Jernej, Kirk B. Jensen, Matteo Ruggiu, et al.. (2003). CLIP Identifies Nova-Regulated RNA Networks in the Brain. Science. 302(5648). 1212–1215. 866 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bibb, James, Akinori Nishi, James P. O’Callaghan, et al.. (2001). Phosphorylation of Protein Phosphatase Inhibitor-1 by Cdk5. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(17). 14490–14497. 75 indexed citations

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