JoAnn Buchanan

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

JoAnn Buchanan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, JoAnn Buchanan has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in JoAnn Buchanan's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (7 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (6 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (5 papers). JoAnn Buchanan is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (7 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (6 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (5 papers). JoAnn Buchanan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Colombia. JoAnn Buchanan's co-authors include Minnie M. Wu, Richard S. Lewis, Stephen J Smith, Matthew P. Scott, James D. Jontes, Xun Huang, Vivek Malhotra, A.G.S. Lumsden, W. James Nelson and Kenneth A. Beck and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Neuroscience and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

JoAnn Buchanan

23 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Ca2+ store depletion causes STIM1 to accumulate in ER regions closely associated with the plasma membrane

2006 657 citations Minnie M. Wu, JoAnn Buchanan et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
The elementary unit of store-operated Ca2+ entry: local activation of CRAC channels by STIM1 at ER–plasma membrane junctions

2006 533 citations Minnie M. Wu, JoAnn Buchanan et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
JoAnn Buchanan United States	17	1.4k	1.1k	943	656	418	24	3.0k
Jaime Garcı́a-Añoveros United States	26	1.6k 1.1×	827 0.7×	1.9k 2.0×	345 0.5×	541 1.3×	42	3.6k
Olaf Strauß Germany	35	4.0k 2.9×	1.5k 1.3×	343 0.4×	534 0.8×	274 0.7×	144	5.5k
Miyuki Nishi Japan	48	5.5k 4.0×	2.9k 2.6×	1.0k 1.1×	692 1.1×	1.2k 2.8×	111	7.4k
Marlin H. Dehoff United States	23	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	357 0.4×	174 0.3×	292 0.7×	29	2.6k
Susana Montenegro Gouveia Netherlands	15	1.6k 1.2×	510 0.4×	243 0.3×	1.8k 2.7×	152 0.4×	15	2.6k
Fred A. Pereira United States	31	2.3k 1.7×	558 0.5×	724 0.8×	370 0.6×	270 0.6×	65	3.9k
Melissa A. Vollrath United States	12	958 0.7×	735 0.6×	2.4k 2.6×	137 0.2×	579 1.4×	13	3.1k
Manfred Gratzl Germany	40	2.6k 1.9×	1.2k 1.1×	268 0.3×	1.4k 2.2×	433 1.0×	133	4.4k
Kenneth W. Young United Kingdom	28	1.7k 1.2×	850 0.7×	137 0.1×	418 0.6×	308 0.7×	52	2.5k
Sviatoslav N. Bagriantsev United States	30	1.5k 1.1×	569 0.5×	556 0.6×	430 0.7×	889 2.1×	54	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of JoAnn Buchanan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Buchanan, JoAnn & Lucas Cheadle. (2025). The Many Lives of an Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 48(1). 425–444. 1 indexed citations

Ott, Carolyn M., Russel Torres, T. S. Kuan, et al.. (2024). Ultrastructural differences impact cilia shape and external exposure across cell classes in the visual cortex. Current Biology. 34(11). 2418–2433.e4. 16 indexed citations

Buchanan, JoAnn, Nuno Maçarico da Costa, & Lucas Cheadle. (2023). Emerging roles of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in neural circuit development and remodeling. Trends in Neurosciences. 46(8). 628–639. 39 indexed citations

Mahalingam, Gayathri, Tong Jiao, Casey M Schneider-Mizell, et al.. (2022). Anomaly Detection in EM Images - A Zero-Shot Learning Approach. 2022 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). 184. 1–5.

Micheva, Kristina D., Dylan Wolman, Brett D. Mensh, et al.. (2016). A large fraction of neocortical myelin ensheathes axons of local inhibitory neurons. eLife. 5. 196 indexed citations

Buchanan, JoAnn, et al.. (2013). Late Recruitment of Synapsin to Nascent Synapses Is Regulated by Cdk5. Cell Reports. 3(4). 1199–1212. 35 indexed citations

Tapia, Juan Carlos, Narayanan Kasthuri, Kenneth J. Hayworth, et al.. (2012). High-contrast en bloc staining of neuronal tissue for field emission scanning electron microscopy. Nature Protocols. 7(2). 193–206. 206 indexed citations

O’Brien, Georgeann S., Sandra Rieger, Fang Wang, et al.. (2011). Coordinate development of skin cells and cutaneous sensory axons in zebrafish. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 520(4). 816–831. 51 indexed citations

Huang, Xun, James T. Warren, JoAnn Buchanan, Lawrence I. Gilbert, & Matthew P. Scott. (2007). Drosophila Niemann-Pick Type C-2genes control sterol homeostasis and steroid biosynthesis: a model of human neurodegenerative disease. Development. 134(20). 3733–3742. 119 indexed citations

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Wu, Minnie M., et al.. (2006). The elementary unit of store-operated Ca2+ entry: local activation of CRAC channels by STIM1 at ER–plasma membrane junctions. The Journal of Cell Biology. 174(6). 815–825. 533 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Minnie M., et al.. (2006). Ca2+ store depletion causes STIM1 to accumulate in ER regions closely associated with the plasma membrane. The Journal of Cell Biology. 174(6). 803–813. 657 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ko, Dennis C., et al.. (2005). Cell-Autonomous Death of Cerebellar Purkinje Neurons with Autophagy in Niemann-Pick Type C Disease. PLoS Genetics. 1(1). e7–e7. 182 indexed citations

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Ko, Dennis C., et al.. (2005). Correction: Cell-Autonomous Death of Cerebellar Purkinje Neurons with Autophagy in Niemann-Pick Type C Disease. PLoS Genetics. 1(6). e86–e86. 6 indexed citations

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Buchanan, JoAnn. (2004). Microwave Processing of Drosophila Tissues for Electron Microscopy. Microscopy Today. 12(6). 42–42. 2 indexed citations

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Jontes, James D., JoAnn Buchanan, & Stephen J Smith. (2000). Growth cone and dendrite dynamics in zebrafish embryos: early events in synaptogenesis imaged in vivo. Nature Neuroscience. 3(3). 231–237. 172 indexed citations

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Jonas, Elizabeth A., JoAnn Buchanan, & Leonard K. Kaczmarek. (1999). Prolonged Activation of Mitochondrial Conductances During Synaptic Transmission. Science. 286(5443). 1347–1350. 74 indexed citations

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Reist, Noreen E., et al.. (1998). Morphologically Docked Synaptic Vesicles Are Reduced insynaptotagminMutants ofDrosophila. Journal of Neuroscience. 18(19). 7662–7673. 154 indexed citations

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Beck, Kenneth A., JoAnn Buchanan, Vivek Malhotra, & W. James Nelson. (1994). Golgi spectrin: identification of an erythroid beta-spectrin homolog associated with the Golgi complex.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 127(3). 707–723. 157 indexed citations

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Dailey, Michael E., et al.. (1994). Mossy fiber growth and synaptogenesis in rat hippocampal slices in vitro. Journal of Neuroscience. 14(3). 1060–1078. 94 indexed citations

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Smith, Stephen J, et al.. (1993). The spatial distribution of calcium signals in squid presynaptic terminals.. The Journal of Physiology. 472(1). 573–593. 58 indexed citations

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