Jill Heemskerk

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Jill Heemskerk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jill Heemskerk has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 3 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Jill Heemskerk's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (7 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (4 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers). Jill Heemskerk is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (7 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (4 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers). Jill Heemskerk collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Jill Heemskerk's co-authors include Stephen DiNardo, Patrick H. O’Farrell, Marysia Placzek, Jane Dodd, Yasuto Tanabe, Henk Roelink, Stefan Norlin, Thomas M. Jessell, Helena Edlund and Ariel Ruiz i Altaba and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Jill Heemskerk

20 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Floor plate and motor neu... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Floor plate and motor neuron induction by vhh-1, a vertebrate homolog of hedgehog expressed by the notochord
    1994 724 citations Henk Roelink, Jill Heemskerk et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jill Heemskerk United States 16 1.6k 347 347 239 208 20 1.9k
Susan A. Cook United States 19 1.2k 0.7× 332 1.0× 305 0.9× 210 0.9× 152 0.7× 32 1.8k
Celia W. Campagnoni United States 25 1.1k 0.7× 529 1.5× 204 0.6× 146 0.6× 662 3.2× 42 1.9k
Gaëlle Friocourt France 21 983 0.6× 668 1.9× 493 1.4× 372 1.6× 840 4.0× 39 2.2k
A. T. Campagnoni United States 30 1.4k 0.9× 607 1.7× 337 1.0× 181 0.8× 862 4.1× 53 2.6k
Jae W. Lee United States 25 1.9k 1.1× 225 0.6× 367 1.1× 155 0.6× 303 1.5× 44 2.4k
José P. López‐Atalaya Spain 27 1.2k 0.7× 427 1.2× 399 1.1× 101 0.4× 174 0.8× 46 2.0k
Albert E. Ayoub United States 15 1.1k 0.7× 450 1.3× 435 1.3× 138 0.6× 562 2.7× 16 1.8k
Catherine Krull United States 22 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 3.6× 305 0.9× 554 2.3× 457 2.2× 38 2.2k
Alice J. Paquette United States 11 2.0k 1.2× 355 1.0× 374 1.1× 88 0.4× 123 0.6× 16 2.4k
Karen Lettieri United States 13 2.1k 1.3× 755 2.2× 233 0.7× 481 2.0× 492 2.4× 14 2.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jill Heemskerk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jill Heemskerk

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bianchi, Diana W., Judith Cooper, Joshua A. Gordon, et al.. (2018). Neuroethics for the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(50). 10583–10585. 18 indexed citations
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Cedarbaum, Jesse M., Diane Stephenson, Richard A. Rudick, et al.. (2014). Commonalities and Challenges in the Development of Clinical Trial Measures in Neurology. Neurotherapeutics. 12(1). 151–169. 8 indexed citations
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Heemskerk, Jill, et al.. (2011). Neuroscience Networking: Linking Discovery to Drugs. Neuropsychopharmacology. 37(1). 287–288. 4 indexed citations
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Cotticelli, M. Grazia, Lynn Rasmussen, Nicole L. Kushner, et al.. (2011). Primary and Secondary Drug Screening Assays for Friedreich Ataxia. SLAS DISCOVERY. 17(3). 303–313. 20 indexed citations
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Williams, Virginia, Jill Heemskerk, Susan T. Iannaccone, et al.. (2007). Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Classification, Diagnosis, Management, Pathogenesis, and Future Research Directions. Journal of Child Neurology. 22(8). 926–945. 31 indexed citations
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Heemskerk, Jill. (2005). Screening Existing Drugs for Neurodegeneration: The National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Model. Retina. 25(Supplement). S56–S57. 9 indexed citations
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Hirtz, Deborah, et al.. (2005). Challenges and opportunities in clinical trials for spinal muscular atrophy. Neurology. 65(9). 1352–1357. 33 indexed citations
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Stavrovskaya, Irina G., Malini Narayanan, Wenhua Zhang, et al.. (2004). Clinically Approved Heterocyclics Act on a Mitochondrial Target and Reduce Stroke-induced Pathology. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 200(2). 211–222. 82 indexed citations
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Heemskerk, Jill. (2004). High throughput drug screening. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Disorders. 5(sup1). 19–21. 10 indexed citations
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Heemskerk, Jill, Allan J. Tobin, & Bernard Ravina. (2002). From chemical to drug: neurodegeneration drug screening and the ethics of clinical trials. Nature Neuroscience. 5(S11). 1027–1029. 30 indexed citations
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Horváth, Balázs, Claudia Spies, Gyöngyi Horváth, et al.. (2002). Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) lowers alcohol sensitivity and pain threshold. Biochemical Pharmacology. 64(3). 369–374. 31 indexed citations
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Heemskerk, Jill. (2002). Teaching old drugs new tricks. Trends in Neurosciences. 25(10). 494–496. 58 indexed citations
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LaMantia, Anthony‐Samuel, et al.. (2000). Mesenchymal/Epithelial Induction Mediates Olfactory Pathway Formation. Neuron. 28(2). 411–425. 137 indexed citations
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Dale, J. Kim, et al.. (1999). Differential patterning of ventral midline cells by axial mesoderm is regulated by BMP7 and chordin. Development. 126(2). 397–408. 89 indexed citations
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Tomlinson, Andrew, Walter Strapps, & Jill Heemskerk. (1997). Linking Frizzled and Wnt signaling in Drosophila development. Development. 124(22). 4515–4521. 81 indexed citations
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Roelink, Henk, Jill Heemskerk, Vladimir Korzh, et al.. (1994). Floor plate and motor neuron induction by vhh-1, a vertebrate homolog of hedgehog expressed by the notochord. Cell. 76(4). 761–775. 724 indexed citations breakdown →
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Heemskerk, Jill & Stephen DiNardo. (1994). Drosophila hedgehog acts as a morphogen in cellular patterning. Cell. 76(3). 449–460. 195 indexed citations
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DiNardo, Stephen, Jill Heemskerk, Scott T. Dougan, & Patrick H. O’Farrell. (1994). The making of a maggot: patterning the Drosophila embryonic epidermis. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 4(4). 529–534. 102 indexed citations
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Heemskerk, Jill, Stephen DiNardo, Richard Kostriken, & Patrick H. O’Farrell. (1991). Multiple modes of engrailed regulation in the progression towards cell fate determination. Nature. 352(6334). 404–410. 225 indexed citations
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DiNardo, Stephen & Jill Heemskerk. (1990). Molecular and cellular interactions responsible for intrasegmental patterning during Drosophila embryogenesis.. PubMed. 1(3). 173–83. 20 indexed citations

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