Johnna Doherty

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Johnna Doherty is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Johnna Doherty has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Johnna Doherty's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers), Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (3 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers). Johnna Doherty is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers), Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (3 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers). Johnna Doherty collaborates with scholars based in United States. Johnna Doherty's co-authors include Eric H. Baehrecke, Marc Freeman, Jennifer S. Ziegenfuss, Amy E. Sheehan, Sean D. Speese, Mary A. Logan, Tsai-Yi Lu, Rachel Hackett, A. Nicole Fox and Maria D. Purice and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Johnna Doherty

9 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Life, death and autophagy 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Life, death and autophagy
    2018 520 citations Johnna Doherty, Eric H. Baehrecke Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Johnna Doherty United States 8 533 445 306 261 165 10 1.2k
Rory Kirchner United States 21 994 1.9× 309 0.7× 98 0.3× 175 0.7× 181 1.1× 36 1.8k
Lukas J. Neukomm Switzerland 18 398 0.7× 285 0.6× 102 0.3× 190 0.7× 277 1.7× 28 1.0k
Matthieu Y. Pasco France 11 482 0.9× 418 0.9× 534 1.7× 162 0.6× 204 1.2× 11 1.4k
Elio Messi Italy 23 723 1.4× 281 0.6× 371 1.2× 80 0.3× 281 1.7× 45 1.7k
Milena Pinto United States 20 1.3k 2.5× 275 0.6× 167 0.5× 70 0.3× 107 0.6× 32 1.8k
Jeehye Park South Korea 19 994 1.9× 452 1.0× 450 1.5× 134 0.5× 198 1.2× 39 1.8k
Manish Jaiswal United States 22 1.3k 2.5× 467 1.0× 189 0.6× 115 0.4× 450 2.7× 31 2.0k
Hansong Deng China 11 567 1.1× 253 0.6× 260 0.8× 94 0.4× 115 0.7× 17 990
Lore Becker Germany 24 653 1.2× 440 1.0× 72 0.2× 49 0.2× 178 1.1× 43 1.4k
Jonathan Gilley United Kingdom 26 1.7k 3.1× 896 2.0× 361 1.2× 180 0.7× 426 2.6× 45 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Johnna Doherty

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Fields of papers citing papers by Johnna Doherty

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Johnna Doherty

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Shen, James, et al.. (2022). Atg6 promotes organismal health by suppression of cell stress and inflammation. Cell Death and Differentiation. 29(11). 2275–2287. 3 indexed citations
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Doherty, Johnna & Eric H. Baehrecke. (2018). Life, death and autophagy. Nature Cell Biology. 20(10). 1110–1117. 520 indexed citations breakdown →
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Purice, Maria D., et al.. (2016). Insulin-like Signaling Promotes Glial Phagocytic Clearance of Degenerating Axons through Regulation of Draper. Cell Reports. 16(7). 1838–1850. 42 indexed citations
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Doherty, Johnna, et al.. (2014). PI3K Signaling and Stat92E Converge to Modulate Glial Responsiveness to Axonal Injury. PLoS Biology. 12(11). e1001985–e1001985. 54 indexed citations
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Lu, Tsai-Yi, Johnna Doherty, & Marc Freeman. (2014). DRK/DOS/SOS converge with Crk/Mbc/dCed-12 to activate Rac1 during glial engulfment of axonal debris. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(34). 12544–12549. 31 indexed citations
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Ziegenfuss, Jennifer S., Johnna Doherty, & Marc Freeman. (2012). Distinct molecular pathways mediate glial activation and engulfment of axonal debris after axotomy. Nature Neuroscience. 15(7). 979–987. 66 indexed citations
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Logan, Mary A., Rachel Hackett, Johnna Doherty, et al.. (2012). Negative regulation of glial engulfment activity by Draper terminates glial responses to axon injury. Nature Neuroscience. 15(5). 722–730. 71 indexed citations
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Doherty, Johnna. (2011). Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Driving Glial Engulfment of Degenerating Axons: A Dissertation. University of Massachusetts (UMass) Chan Medical School.
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Doherty, Johnna, et al.. (2009). Ensheathing Glia Function as Phagocytes in the AdultDrosophilaBrain. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(15). 4768–4781. 262 indexed citations
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Freeman, Marc & Johnna Doherty. (2006). Glial cell biology in Drosophila and vertebrates. Trends in Neurosciences. 29(2). 82–90. 191 indexed citations

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