Joan C. Ritland Politz

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Joan C. Ritland Politz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Aging and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Joan C. Ritland Politz has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Aging and 3 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Joan C. Ritland Politz's work include RNA Research and Splicing (22 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers). Joan C. Ritland Politz is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (22 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers). Joan C. Ritland Politz collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Joan C. Ritland Politz's co-authors include Thoru Pederson, Richard A. Tuft, Robert H. Singer, Elizabeth Browne, David E. Wolf, Mark Groudine, David Scalzo, Fan Zhang, Victor O. Leshyk and Jay Shendure and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joan C. Ritland Politz

30 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. The 4D nucleome project
    2017 439 citations Job Dekker, Andrew S. Belmont et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joan C. Ritland Politz United States 23 2.0k 253 221 213 208 30 2.3k
Jeffrey A. Chao Switzerland 26 3.2k 1.6× 261 1.0× 260 1.2× 235 1.1× 197 0.9× 48 3.6k
Daniel Zenklusen United States 31 4.1k 2.0× 198 0.8× 282 1.3× 183 0.9× 334 1.6× 50 4.4k
Anne‐Cécile Déclais United Kingdom 19 1.6k 0.8× 119 0.5× 125 0.6× 122 0.6× 285 1.4× 33 1.7k
Yolanda Markaki Germany 22 1.6k 0.8× 244 1.0× 396 1.8× 263 1.2× 227 1.1× 25 2.0k
Alex S. Shcheglov Russia 9 1.3k 0.6× 120 0.5× 681 3.1× 141 0.7× 181 0.9× 19 1.8k
Krishna Shrinivas United States 10 3.4k 1.6× 226 0.9× 68 0.3× 287 1.3× 192 0.9× 17 3.6k
Katrin E. Wiese Germany 7 1.2k 0.6× 158 0.6× 174 0.8× 72 0.3× 124 0.6× 11 1.5k
Susan M. Janicki United States 21 2.6k 1.3× 152 0.6× 180 0.8× 212 1.0× 273 1.3× 29 3.0k
Gaku Mizuguchi United States 21 3.4k 1.7× 137 0.5× 273 1.2× 831 3.9× 194 0.9× 27 3.9k
Grigory S. Filonov United States 15 1.8k 0.9× 198 0.8× 348 1.6× 128 0.6× 110 0.5× 16 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joan C. Ritland Politz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joan C. Ritland Politz

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joan C. Ritland Politz. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joan C. Ritland Politz 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 Joan C. Ritland Politz. Joan C. Ritland Politz is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Strom, Amy R., Ronald Biggs, Edward J. Banigan, et al.. (2021). HP1α is a chromatin crosslinker that controls nuclear and mitotic chromosome mechanics. eLife. 10. 86 indexed citations
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Dekker, Job, Andrew S. Belmont, Mitchell Guttman, et al.. (2017). The 4D nucleome project. Nature. 549(7671). 219–226. 439 indexed citations breakdown →
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland, David Scalzo, & Mark Groudine. (2015). The redundancy of the mammalian heterochromatic compartment. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 37. 1–8. 28 indexed citations
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Reyes‐Gutierrez, Pablo, Joan C. Ritland Politz, & Thoru Pederson. (2014). A mRNA and Cognate MicroRNAs Localize in the Nucleolus. Nucleus. 5(6). 636–642. 26 indexed citations
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Strongin, Daniel E., Mark Groudine, & Joan C. Ritland Politz. (2014). Nucleolar tethering mediates pairing between theIgHandMycloci. Nucleus. 5(5). 474–481. 15 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland, et al.. (2009). MicroRNAs with a nucleolar location. RNA. 15(9). 1705–1715. 143 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland, Fan Zhang, & Thoru Pederson. (2006). MicroRNA-206 colocalizes with ribosome-rich regions in both the nucleolus and cytoplasm of rat myogenic cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(50). 18957–18962. 123 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland, Richard A. Tuft, Kannanganattu V. Prasanth, et al.. (2005). Rapid, Diffusional Shuttling of Poly(A) RNA between Nuclear Speckles and the Nucleoplasm. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(3). 1239–1249. 77 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland, et al.. (2005). A Nonribosomal Landscape in the Nucleolus Revealed by the Stem Cell Protein Nucleostemin. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 16(7). 3401–3410. 73 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland, et al.. (2003). Nuclear export of signal recognition particle RNA in mammalian cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 313(2). 351–355. 22 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Timothy P., Carol J. Bult, Christoph Cremer, et al.. (2003). Genome Function and Nuclear Architecture: From Gene Expression to Nanoscience. Genome Research. 13(6a). 1029–1041. 55 indexed citations
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Wang, Chen, Joan C. Ritland Politz, Thoru Pederson, & Sui Huang. (2003). RNA Polymerase III Transcripts and the PTB Protein Are Essential for the Integrity of the Perinucleolar Compartment. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 14(6). 2425–2435. 54 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland, Roel van Driel, Markus Sauer, & Ana Pombo. (2003). From linear genome sequence to three-dimensional organization of the cell nucleus.. Genome Biology. 4(3). 310–310. 5 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland & Ana Pombo. (2002). Genomics meets nanoscience: probing genes and the cell nucleus at 10-9 meters.. Genome Biology. 3(3). reports4007.1–reports4007.1. 5 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland & Thoru Pederson. (2000). Review: Movement of mRNA from Transcription Site to Nuclear Pores. Journal of Structural Biology. 129(2-3). 252–257. 44 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland, Richard A. Tuft, Thoru Pederson, & Robert H. Singer. (1999). Movement of nuclear poly(A) RNA throughout the interchromatin space in living cells. Current Biology. 9(6). 285–291. 161 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland & Robert H. Singer. (1999). In Situ Reverse Transcription for Detection of Hybridization between Oligonucleotides and Their Intracellular Targets. Methods. 18(3). 281–285. 16 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland. (1999). Use of caged fluorochromes to track macromolecular movement in living cells. Trends in Cell Biology. 9(7). 284–287. 83 indexed citations
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Politz, Joan C. Ritland, Krishan Taneja, & Robert H. Singer. (1995). Characterization of hybridization between synthetic oligodeoxynuclotides and RNA in living cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 23(24). 4946–4953. 46 indexed citations
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Edgar, R. S., George N. Cox, Meredith Kusch, & Joan C. Ritland Politz. (1982). The Cuticle of Caenorhabditis elegans.. PubMed. 14(2). 248–58. 35 indexed citations

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