John C. Igwe

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 925 citations indexed

About

John C. Igwe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Rheumatology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Igwe has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 925 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Rheumatology and 2 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in John C. Igwe's work include Bone and Dental Protein Studies (2 papers), Bone Metabolism and Diseases (2 papers) and dental development and anomalies (1 paper). John C. Igwe is often cited by papers focused on Bone and Dental Protein Studies (2 papers), Bone Metabolism and Diseases (2 papers) and dental development and anomalies (1 paper). John C. Igwe collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. John C. Igwe's co-authors include Ivo Kalajzić, Angelika Bierhaus, Frane Paić, Sven T. Pleger, H. Christian Volz, Ziya Kaya, Florian Bea, Benjamin Funke, Ivan Krešimir Lukić and Heimo Mairbäurl and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, PLoS ONE and Bone.

In The Last Decade

John C. Igwe

8 papers receiving 918 citations

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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.

High-Mobility Group Box-1 in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury of the Heart

2008 527 citations Martin Andrassy, H. Christian Volz et al. Circulation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John C. Igwe United States	7	407	314	177	131	126	8	925
Zhengbin Zhu China	14	312 0.8×	112 0.4×	68 0.4×	97 0.7×	159 1.3×	44	773
Barbara Celona United States	10	497 1.2×	319 1.0×	316 1.8×	31 0.2×	39 0.3×	13	976
Shiyong Yu China	16	357 0.9×	100 0.3×	177 1.0×	35 0.3×	148 1.2×	33	840
Amy Lu United States	9	509 1.3×	839 2.7×	296 1.7×	142 1.1×	28 0.2×	33	1.3k
Claire Crola Da Silva France	17	746 1.8×	56 0.2×	134 0.8×	179 1.4×	183 1.5×	54	1.3k
Xiao‐Lei Moore Australia	17	437 1.1×	45 0.1×	137 0.8×	65 0.5×	366 2.9×	21	1.1k
Mark Ingram United States	7	450 1.1×	839 2.7×	302 1.7×	95 0.7×	22 0.2×	7	1.2k
Zhaoqiang Cui China	14	615 1.5×	31 0.1×	195 1.1×	74 0.6×	206 1.6×	26	1.2k
G Melillo Italy	19	562 1.4×	38 0.1×	122 0.7×	41 0.3×	258 2.0×	44	1.2k
HP Hammes Germany	12	299 0.7×	265 0.8×	42 0.2×	41 0.3×	34 0.3×	22	888

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John C. Igwe

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Duttenhoefer, Fabian, Subrata Kumar Biswas, John C. Igwe, Sebastian Sauerbier, & Angelika Bierhaus. (2014). Sp1-Dependent Regulation of PPARα in Bone Metabolism. The International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Implants. 29(1). e107–e116. 10 indexed citations

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Wei, Chongjuan, et al.. (2012). The LKB1 Tumor Suppressor Controls Spindle Orientation and Localization of Activated AMPK in Mitotic Epithelial Cells. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e41118–e41118. 21 indexed citations

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Igwe, John C., Paiyz E. Mikael, & Syam P. Nukavarapu. (2012). Design, fabrication andin vitroevaluation of a novel polymer-hydrogel hybrid scaffold for bone tissue engineering. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. 8(2). 131–142. 46 indexed citations

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Pejda, Slavica, et al.. (2011). Tracking Osteocyte Lineage Plasticity In Vitro. 2 indexed citations

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Igwe, John C., Qi Gao, Tomislav Kizivat, Winston W.‐Y. Kao, & Ivo Kalajzić. (2011). Keratocan is Expressed by Osteoblasts and Can Modulate Osteogenic Differentiation. Connective Tissue Research. 52(5). 401–407. 31 indexed citations

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Igwe, John C., Xi Jiang, Frane Paić, et al.. (2009). Neuropeptide Y is expressed by osteocytes and can inhibit osteoblastic activity. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 108(3). 621–630. 95 indexed citations

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Paić, Frane, John C. Igwe, Mark S. Kronenberg, et al.. (2009). Identification of differentially expressed genes between osteoblasts and osteocytes. Bone. 45(4). 682–692. 193 indexed citations

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Andrassy, Martin, H. Christian Volz, John C. Igwe, et al.. (2008). High-Mobility Group Box-1 in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury of the Heart. Circulation. 117(25). 3216–3226. 527 indexed citations breakdown →

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