John Tam

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

John Tam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, John Tam has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Spectroscopy and 2 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in John Tam's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (5 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (2 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (2 papers). John Tam is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (5 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (2 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (2 papers). John Tam collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. John Tam's co-authors include Byung Hee Han, David M. Holtzman, Ning Luo, Stephen A. Back, Steven Xanthoudakis, Sophie Roy, Donald W. Nicholson, John P. Vaillancourt, Dita Rasper and Robert Zamboni and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

John Tam

12 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Selective Vulnerability of Late Oligodendrocyte Progenitors to Hypoxia–Ischemia

2002 641 citations Stephen A. Back, Byung Hee Han et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Tam Canada	11	515	508	245	206	182	12	1.2k
Małgorzata Puka‐Sundvall Sweden	15	826 1.6×	466 0.9×	237 1.0×	207 1.0×	213 1.2×	20	1.4k
Qazi M. Ashraf United States	19	370 0.7×	570 1.1×	143 0.6×	166 0.8×	131 0.7×	52	1.0k
Nael A. Al‐Abdulla United States	11	100 0.2×	439 0.9×	51 0.2×	339 1.6×	153 0.8×	15	1.0k
Ingrid Rasquinha Canada	18	153 0.3×	949 1.9×	33 0.1×	513 2.5×	188 1.0×	27	1.6k
Jean‐Christophe Copin United States	23	92 0.2×	576 1.1×	48 0.2×	256 1.2×	75 0.4×	37	1.3k
R. Christian Crumrine United States	14	59 0.1×	356 0.7×	72 0.3×	222 1.1×	104 0.6×	19	904
Steven Mah United States	9	63 0.1×	867 1.7×	101 0.4×	310 1.5×	95 0.5×	11	1.3k
Ramanjit Gill Switzerland	12	71 0.1×	413 0.8×	35 0.1×	201 1.0×	118 0.6×	15	779
Maura Casalgrandi Italy	5	127 0.2×	402 0.8×	49 0.2×	293 1.4×	47 0.3×	6	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by John Tam

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Tam

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Tam

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

Tam, John, Martin Hénault, Lianhai Li, et al.. (2011). An activity-based probe for high-throughput measurements of triacylglycerol lipases. Analytical Biochemistry. 414(2). 254–260. 12 indexed citations

Isabel, Élise, Renée Aspiotis, W. Cameron Black, et al.. (2007). Solid-phase analogue synthesis of caspase-3 inhibitors via palladium-catalyzed amination of 3-bromopyrazinones. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 17(6). 1671–1674. 9 indexed citations

Han, Yongxin, André Giroux, John Colucci, et al.. (2005). Novel pyrazinone mono-amides as potent and reversible caspase-3 inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 15(4). 1173–1180. 25 indexed citations

Mellon, Christophe, Renée Aspiotis, Christopher I. Bayly, et al.. (2005). Lipophilic versus hydrogen-bonding effect in P3 on potency and selectivity of valine aspartyl ketones as caspase 3 inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 15(17). 3886–3890. 10 indexed citations

Robichaud, Annette, Stephanie A. Tuck, Stacia Kargman, et al.. (2005). Gob-5 Is Not Essential for Mucus Overproduction in Preclinical Murine Models of Allergic Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 33(3). 303–314. 43 indexed citations

Grimm, Erich L., Bruno Roy, Renée Aspiotis, et al.. (2004). Solid phase synthesis of selective caspase-3 peptide inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 12(5). 845–851. 12 indexed citations

Méthot, Nathalie, Jingqi Huang, Nathalie Coulombe, et al.. (2004). Differential Efficacy of Caspase Inhibitors on Apoptosis Markers during Sepsis in Rats and Implication for Fractional Inhibition Requirements for Therapeutics. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 199(2). 199–207. 49 indexed citations

Han, Yongxin, André Giroux, Erich L. Grimm, et al.. (2003). Discovery of novel aspartyl ketone dipeptides as potent and selective caspase-3 inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 14(3). 805–808. 23 indexed citations

Isabel, Élise, W. Cameron Black, Christopher I. Bayly, et al.. (2003). Nicotinyl aspartyl ketones as inhibitors of caspase-3. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 13(13). 2137–2140. 18 indexed citations

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Back, Stephen A., et al.. (2002). Selective Vulnerability of Late Oligodendrocyte Progenitors to Hypoxia–Ischemia. Journal of Neuroscience. 22(2). 455–463. 641 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gervais, François G., Roshni R. Singaraja, Steven Xanthoudakis, et al.. (2002). Recruitment and activation of caspase-8 by the Huntingtin-interacting protein Hip-1 and a novel partner Hippi. Nature Cell Biology. 4(2). 95–105. 241 indexed citations

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Han, Byung Hee, Daigen Xu, Junjeong Choi, et al.. (2002). Selective, Reversible Caspase-3 Inhibitor Is Neuroprotective and Reveals Distinct Pathways of Cell Death after Neonatal Hypoxic-ischemic Brain Injury. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(33). 30128–30136. 141 indexed citations

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