Jesse Gray

8.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
35 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Jesse Gray is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Jesse Gray has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Jesse Gray's work include RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (6 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). Jesse Gray is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (6 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). Jesse Gray collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. Jesse Gray's co-authors include Cornelia I. Bargmann, Martin Hemberg, Tae-Kyung Kim, Joseph J. Hill, David A. Harmin, Michael E. Greenberg, Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, Daniel M. Bear, Scott Kuersten and Gabriel Kreiman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Jesse Gray

34 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Widespread transcription at neuronal activity-regulated enhancers

2010 1.8k citations Tae-Kyung Kim, Martin Hemberg et al. Nature profile →
A circuit for navigation in Caenorhabditis elegans

2005 572 citations Jesse Gray, Joseph J. Hill et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
A circuit mechanism for differentiating positive and negative associations

2015 391 citations Jesse Gray et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jesse Gray United States	21	3.1k	1.3k	1.1k	991	885	35	5.4k
Su Guo United States	47	4.6k 1.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	319 0.3×	642 0.7×	134	8.0k
Steven W. Flavell United States	20	1.4k 0.5×	710 0.5×	962 0.9×	585 0.6×	295 0.3×	28	2.9k
Patrick M. Nolan United Kingdom	36	2.3k 0.8×	341 0.3×	1.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	255 0.3×	108	5.2k
Alessandro Cellerino Italy	46	2.5k 0.8×	643 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	188 0.2×	394 0.4×	134	6.2k
Shai Shaham United States	43	3.2k 1.0×	2.3k 1.7×	807 0.7×	810 0.8×	184 0.2×	95	5.4k
Anne C. Hart United States	40	3.0k 1.0×	2.4k 1.8×	1.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	138 0.2×	73	5.7k
Mei Zhen Canada	38	2.4k 0.8×	2.1k 1.6×	1.6k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	84 0.1×	92	4.8k
Kang Shen United States	54	4.8k 1.6×	2.1k 1.6×	4.3k 3.8×	954 1.0×	119 0.1×	158	9.3k
Mark J. Alkema United States	30	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	815 0.7×	793 0.8×	84 0.1×	54	3.5k
Yishi Jin United States	53	5.3k 1.7×	3.6k 2.8×	3.6k 3.3×	1.2k 1.2×	221 0.2×	163	9.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jesse Gray

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jesse Gray

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jesse Gray

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jesse Gray. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jesse Gray based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jesse Gray. Jesse Gray is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gray, Jesse & Heidi Mertes. (2025). On misempowerment & mobile health. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy. 28(3). 549–560.

Gray, Jesse, Seppe Segers, & Heidi Mertes. (2024). The information, control, and value models of mobile health‐driven empowerment. Bioethics. 39(5). 460–466. 2 indexed citations

Gray, Jesse, et al.. (2022). Is mechanical bowel preparation necessary in bariatric surgery?. The American Journal of Surgery. 224(1). 449–452. 1 indexed citations

Gray, Jesse. (2020). Radical enhancement as a moral status de-enhancer. Bioethics News. 38(2). 146–165. 3 indexed citations

Tyssowski, Kelsey M. & Jesse Gray. (2019). Blue Light Increases Neuronal Activity-Regulated Gene Expression in the Absence of Optogenetic Proteins. eNeuro. 6(5). ENEURO.0085–19.2019. 37 indexed citations

Tyssowski, Kelsey M., et al.. (2019). Firing Rate Homeostasis Can Occur in the Absence of Neuronal Activity-Regulated Transcription. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(50). 9885–9899. 11 indexed citations

Tyssowski, Kelsey M., Nicholas R. DeStefino, Jin-Hyung Cho, et al.. (2018). Different Neuronal Activity Patterns Induce Different Gene Expression Programs. Neuron. 98(3). 530–546.e11. 223 indexed citations

Gray, Jesse & Ivo Spiegel. (2018). Cell-type-specific programs for activity-regulated gene expression. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 56. 33–39. 21 indexed citations

Cho, Jin-Hyung, et al.. (2017). Brain-wide maps of Fos expression during fear learning and recall. Learning & Memory. 24(4). 169–181. 27 indexed citations

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Georgakopoulos‐Soares, Ilias, et al.. (2016). MPRAnator: a web-based tool for the design of massively parallel reporter assay experiments. Bioinformatics. 33(1). 137–138. 8 indexed citations

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Gruene, Tina, et al.. (2016). Activity-dependent structural plasticity after aversive experiences in amygdala and auditory cortex pyramidal neurons. Neuroscience. 328. 157–164. 13 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Thomas, Richard D. Jones, Andreas R. Pfenning, et al.. (2016). High-throughput functional comparison of promoter and enhancer activities. Genome Research. 26(8). 1023–1033. 89 indexed citations

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Gray, Jesse, David A. Harmin, Sarah A. Boswell, et al.. (2014). SnapShot-Seq: A Method for Extracting Genome-Wide, In Vivo mRNA Dynamics from a Single Total RNA Sample. PLoS ONE. 9(2). e89673–e89673. 73 indexed citations

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Busby, Michele, Jesse Gray, Chip Stewart, et al.. (2011). Expression divergence measured by transcriptome sequencing of four yeast species. BMC Genomics. 12(1). 635–635. 21 indexed citations

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Kim, Tae-Kyung, Martin Hemberg, Jesse Gray, et al.. (2010). Widespread transcription at neuronal activity-regulated enhancers. Nature. 465(7295). 182–187. 1786 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zimmer, Manuel, Jesse Gray, Navin Pokala, et al.. (2009). Neurons Detect Increases and Decreases in Oxygen Levels Using Distinct Guanylate Cyclases. Neuron. 61(6). 865–879. 212 indexed citations

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Flavell, Steven W., Tae-Kyung Kim, Jesse Gray, et al.. (2008). Genome-Wide Analysis of MEF2 Transcriptional Program Reveals Synaptic Target Genes and Neuronal Activity-Dependent Polyadenylation Site Selection. Neuron. 60(6). 1022–1038. 355 indexed citations

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Chalasani, Sreekanth H., Nikos Chronis, Makoto Tsunozaki, et al.. (2007). Dissecting a circuit for olfactory behaviour in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 450(7166). 63–70. 465 indexed citations

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Gray, Jesse, Joseph J. Hill, & Cornelia I. Bargmann. (2005). A circuit for navigation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(9). 3184–3191. 572 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hanken, Dennis G., et al.. (1997). Synthesis, Spectroscopic Characterization, and Electro-Optical Properties of Noncentrosymmetric Azobenzene/Zirconium Phosphonate Multilayer Films. Analytical Chemistry. 69(2). 240–248. 28 indexed citations

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