Joel A. Spencer

8.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Joel A. Spencer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Hematology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel A. Spencer has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Hematology and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Joel A. Spencer's work include Mesenchymal stem cell research (8 papers), Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (7 papers) and Chemokine receptors and signaling (5 papers). Joel A. Spencer is often cited by papers focused on Mesenchymal stem cell research (8 papers), Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (7 papers) and Chemokine receptors and signaling (5 papers). Joel A. Spencer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Joel A. Spencer's co-authors include Charles P. Lin, David T. Scadden, Mehmet Toner, David T. Miyamoto, Nicola Aceto, Shyamala Maheswaran, Toshi Shioda, Min Yu, Daniel A. Haber and Maria Donaldson Collier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joel A. Spencer

41 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters Are Oligoclonal Precursors of Breast Cancer Metastasis

2014 1.8k citations Nicola Aceto, Aditya Bardia et al. Cell profile →
Direct measurement of local oxygen concentration in the bone marrow of live animals

2014 876 citations Joel A. Spencer, Francesca Ferraro et al. Nature profile →
Endogenous Bone Marrow MSCs Are Dynamic, Fate-Restricted Participants in Bone Maintenance and Regeneration

2012 500 citations Dongsu Park, Joel A. Spencer et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joel A. Spencer United States	23	1.9k	1.9k	1.2k	1.1k	1.0k	42	5.4k
Pablo Menéndez Spain	52	1.4k 0.7×	5.1k 2.7×	922 0.7×	732 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	233	8.1k
Andrew J. Connolly United States	42	1.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.6×	919 0.7×	734 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	88	8.0k
Nadia Carlesso United States	32	973 0.5×	2.7k 1.5×	468 0.4×	538 0.5×	728 0.7×	65	5.5k
Katia Manova‐Todorova United States	27	2.8k 1.5×	3.9k 2.1×	1.2k 1.0×	633 0.6×	365 0.3×	48	6.8k
Edward W. Scott United States	43	1.5k 0.8×	4.2k 2.2×	836 0.7×	392 0.4×	1.7k 1.6×	110	8.4k
Volker Eckstein Germany	37	1.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	701 0.6×	415 0.4×	2.9k 2.8×	121	6.4k
Ute Reuning Germany	34	1.2k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	446 0.4×	260 0.2×	83	4.3k
Kairbaan Hodivala‐Dilke United Kingdom	50	2.0k 1.1×	5.3k 2.8×	1.6k 1.3×	392 0.4×	775 0.7×	107	9.7k
Graça Almeida‐Porada United States	40	1.4k 0.8×	3.0k 1.6×	546 0.4×	557 0.5×	2.7k 2.6×	161	7.5k
Ryan Reca United States	25	1.5k 0.8×	3.3k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	219 0.2×	1.4k 1.4×	43	6.0k

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Gustafsson, Karin, Johanna Hofmann, Kameron Kooshesh, et al.. (2025). Mesenchymal thymic niche cells enable regeneration of the adult thymus and T cell immunity. Nature Biotechnology.

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Spencer, Joel A., et al.. (2024). Intravital two-photon microscopy of the native mouse thymus. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0307962–e0307962. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Juwell W., Yookyung Jung, Judith Runnels, et al.. (2021). Intravital fluorescence microscopy with negative contrast. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0255204–e0255204. 5 indexed citations

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Christodoulou, Constantina, Joel A. Spencer, Shu-Chi Yeh, et al.. (2020). Live-animal imaging of native haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Nature. 578(7794). 278–283. 172 indexed citations

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Jung, Yookyung, Joel A. Spencer, Anthony P. Raphael, et al.. (2018). Intravital Imaging of Mouse Bone Marrow: Hemodynamics and Vascular Permeability. Methods in molecular biology. 1763. 11–22. 8 indexed citations

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Tsigkou, Olga, et al.. (2015). Analyzing Structure and Function of Vascularization in Engineered Bone Tissue by Video-Rate Intravital Microscopy and 3D Image Processing. Tissue Engineering Part C Methods. 21(10). 1025–1031. 8 indexed citations

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Aceto, Nicola, Aditya Bardia, David T. Miyamoto, et al.. (2014). Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters Are Oligoclonal Precursors of Breast Cancer Metastasis. Cell. 158(5). 1110–1122. 1786 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spencer, Joel A., Francesca Ferraro, Emmanuel Roussakis, et al.. (2014). Direct measurement of local oxygen concentration in the bone marrow of live animals. Nature. 508(7495). 269–273. 876 indexed citations breakdown →

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Park, Dongsu, Joel A. Spencer, Charles P. Lin, & David T. Scadden. (2014). Sequential <em>In vivo</em> Imaging of Osteogenic Stem/Progenitor Cells During Fracture Repair. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 9 indexed citations

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Park, Dongsu, Joel A. Spencer, Charles P. Lin, & David T. Scadden. (2014). Sequential <em>In vivo</em> Imaging of Osteogenic Stem/Progenitor Cells During Fracture Repair. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

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Carlson, Alicia L., Joji Fujisaki, Juwell W. Wu, et al.. (2013). Correction: Tracking Single Cells in Live Animals Using a Photoconvertible Near-Infrared Cell Membrane Label. PLoS ONE. 8(11). 11 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Debanjan, Joel A. Spencer, Joseph A. Phillips, et al.. (2011). Engineered cell homing. Blood. 118(25). e184–e191. 175 indexed citations

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Ashida, Noboru, Sucharita SenBanerjee, Shohta Kodama, et al.. (2011). IKKβ regulates essential functions of the vascular endothelium through kinase-dependent and -independent pathways. Nature Communications. 2(1). 318–318. 36 indexed citations

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Pitsillides, Costas, Judith Runnels, Joel A. Spencer, et al.. (2011). Cell labeling approaches for fluorescence‐based in vivo flow cytometry. Cytometry Part A. 79A(10). 758–765. 42 indexed citations

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Fan, Zhigang, Joel A. Spencer, Yan Lu, et al.. (2010). In vivo tracking of 'color-coded' effector, natural and induced regulatory T cells in the allograft response. Nature Medicine. 16(6). 718–722. 120 indexed citations

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Kudryavtseva, Elena, et al.. (2007). Involvement of LIM-domain Cofactor Clim/Ldb in Corneal Homeostasis. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 48(13). 2727–2727. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaoman, Jaana Männik, Elena Kudryavtseva, et al.. (2007). Co-factors of LIM domains (Clims/Ldb/Nli) regulate corneal homeostasis and maintenance of hair follicle stem cells. Developmental Biology. 312(2). 484–500. 22 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhengquan, Kevin Lin, Ambica Bhandari, et al.. (2006). The Grainyhead-like epithelial transactivator Get-1/Grhl3 regulates epidermal terminal differentiation and interacts functionally with LMO4. Developmental Biology. 299(1). 122–136. 143 indexed citations

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Lyubovitsky, Julia G., Joel A. Spencer, Tatiana B. Krasieva, Bogi Andersen, & Bruce J. Tromberg. (2006). Imaging corneal pathology in a transgenic mouse model using nonlinear microscopy. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 11(1). 14013–14013. 34 indexed citations

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Leleu, Xavier, Hai T. Ngo, Costas Pitsillides, et al.. (2006). The PI3K/Akt Pathway Is an Important Regulator of Homing and Adhesion in Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia.. Blood. 108(11). 2417–2417. 2 indexed citations

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