Joshua J. Waterfall

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Joshua J. Waterfall is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua J. Waterfall has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Immunology and 7 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Joshua J. Waterfall's work include RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Joshua J. Waterfall is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Joshua J. Waterfall collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Ireland. Joshua J. Waterfall's co-authors include Leighton J. Core, John T. Lis, Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Christopher R. Myers, James P. Sethna, Fergal Casey, Kevin Brown, Nasun Hah, Charles G. Danko and Adam Siepel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Joshua J. Waterfall

33 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Nascent RNA Sequencing Reveals Widespread Pausing and Divergent Initiation at Human Promoters

2008 1.5k citations Leighton J. Core, Joshua J. Waterfall et al. Science profile →
Universally Sloppy Parameter Sensitivities in Systems Biology Models

2007 846 citations Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Joshua J. Waterfall et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua J. Waterfall United States	19	3.2k	627	400	369	289	33	4.2k
Emma Lundberg Sweden	35	4.0k 1.2×	461 0.7×	406 1.0×	372 1.0×	468 1.6×	93	5.6k
Caroline C. Friedel Germany	33	2.5k 0.8×	502 0.8×	221 0.6×	500 1.4×	364 1.3×	82	3.9k
Hilmar Lapp United States	21	3.1k 0.9×	389 0.6×	682 1.7×	389 1.1×	328 1.1×	59	4.5k
Benjamin P. Berman United States	37	4.0k 1.2×	925 1.5×	869 2.2×	439 1.2×	417 1.4×	75	5.3k
Kai Tan United States	36	2.8k 0.9×	389 0.6×	436 1.1×	686 1.9×	360 1.2×	98	3.9k
Asim Siddiqui Canada	16	3.0k 0.9×	815 1.3×	372 0.9×	546 1.5×	328 1.1×	30	4.3k
Olivier Harismendy United States	32	3.0k 0.9×	1.0k 1.6×	774 1.9×	507 1.4×	611 2.1×	90	4.9k
Slimane Ben Miled Tunisia	8	1.7k 0.5×	501 0.8×	231 0.6×	279 0.8×	301 1.0×	40	2.7k
Alistair G. Rust United Kingdom	34	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 2.0×	364 0.9×	791 2.1×	646 2.2×	76	4.4k
Pavel Sumazin United States	29	2.8k 0.9×	1.4k 2.2×	336 0.8×	454 1.2×	658 2.3×	68	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua J. Waterfall

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All Works

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Lahaye, Xavier, Patrick Tran Van, Anna Shmakova, et al.. (2025). Centromeric DNA amplification triggered by viral proteins activates nuclear cGAS. Cell. 188(15). 4043–4057.e21. 4 indexed citations

Gueguen, Paul, Thomas Dupic, Myriam Lawand, et al.. (2021). Contribution of resident and circulating precursors to tumor-infiltrating CD8 ⁺ T cell populations in lung cancer. Science Immunology. 6(55). 89 indexed citations

Pierron, Gaëlle, Nadège Gruel, Delphine Guillemot, et al.. (2021). Identification of Tissue of Origin and Guided Therapeutic Applications in Cancers of Unknown Primary Using Deep Learning and RNA Sequencing (TransCUPtomics). Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 23(10). 1380–1392. 17 indexed citations

Alsafadi, Samar, Stéphane Dayot, Alexandre Houy, et al.. (2020). Genetic alterations of SUGP1 mimic mutant-SF3B1 splice pattern in lung adenocarcinoma and other cancers. Oncogene. 40(1). 85–96. 20 indexed citations

Brodie, Seth A., Neelam Giri, Mia Steinberg, et al.. (2019). 1q21.1 deletion and a rare functional polymorphism in siblings with thrombocytopenia-absent radius–like phenotypes. Molecular Case Studies. 5(6). a004564–a004564. 4 indexed citations

Pace, Luigia, Christel Goudot, Elina Zueva, et al.. (2018). The epigenetic control of stemness in CD8 ⁺ T cell fate commitment. Science. 359(6372). 177–186. 164 indexed citations

Masliah‐Planchon, Julien, Delphine Héron, Fabienne Giuliano, et al.. (2018). Does ATRX germline variation predispose to osteosarcoma? Three additional cases of osteosarcoma in two ATR-X syndrome patients. European Journal of Human Genetics. 26(8). 1217–1221. 20 indexed citations

Killian, J. Keith, Lambert C. J. Dorssers, Britton Trabert, et al.. (2016). Imprints and DPPA3 are bypassed during pluripotency- and differentiation-coupled methylation reprogramming in testicular germ cell tumors. Genome Research. 26(11). 1490–1504. 40 indexed citations

Sorber, Rebecca, Yaroslav Teper, Abisola Abisoye-Ogunniyan, et al.. (2016). Whole Genome Sequencing of Newly Established Pancreatic Cancer Lines Identifies Novel Somatic Mutation (c.2587G>A) in Axon Guidance Receptor Plexin A1 as Enhancer of Proliferation and Invasion. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0149833–e0149833. 22 indexed citations

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Waterfall, Joshua J., J. Keith Killian, & Paul S. Meltzer. (2014). The role of mutation of metabolism-related genes in genomic hypermethylation. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 455(1-2). 16–23. 19 indexed citations

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Waterfall, Joshua J., Evgeny Arons, Robert L. Walker, et al.. (2013). High prevalence of MAP2K1 mutations in variant and IGHV4-34–expressing hairy-cell leukemias. Nature Genetics. 46(1). 8–10. 180 indexed citations

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Core, Leighton J., Joshua J. Waterfall, Daniel A. Gilchrist, et al.. (2012). Defining the Status of RNA Polymerase at Promoters. Cell Reports. 2(4). 1025–1035. 189 indexed citations

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Killian, Jonathan Keith, Sven Bilke, Sean Davis, et al.. (2011). A Methyl-Deviator Epigenotype of Estrogen Receptor–Positive Breast Carcinoma Is Associated with Malignant Biology. American Journal Of Pathology. 179(1). 55–65. 10 indexed citations

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Core, Leighton J., Joshua J. Waterfall, & John T. Lis. (2008). Nascent RNA Sequencing Reveals Widespread Pausing and Divergent Initiation at Human Promoters. Science. 322(5909). 1845–1848. 1504 indexed citations breakdown →

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Casey, Fergal, Joshua J. Waterfall, Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Christopher R. Myers, & James P. Sethna. (2008). Variational method for estimating the rate of convergence of Markov-chain Monte Carlo algorithms. Physical Review E. 78(4). 46704–46704. 6 indexed citations

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Sethna, James P., Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Joshua J. Waterfall, et al.. (2007). Sloppy systems biology: tight predictions with loose parameters. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Gutenkunst, Ryan N., Joshua J. Waterfall, Fergal Casey, et al.. (2007). Universally Sloppy Parameter Sensitivities in Systems Biology Models. PLoS Computational Biology. 3(10). e189–e189. 846 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gutenkunst, Ryan N., Fergal Casey, Joshua J. Waterfall, Christopher R. Myers, & James P. Sethna. (2007). Extracting Falsifiable Predictions from Sloppy Models. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1115(1). 203–211. 42 indexed citations

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Waterfall, Joshua J., Fergal Casey, Ryan N. Gutenkunst, et al.. (2006). Sloppy-Model Universality Class and the Vandermonde Matrix. Physical Review Letters. 97(15). 150601–150601. 108 indexed citations

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Gutenkunst, Ryan N., Joshua J. Waterfall, Fergal Casey, et al.. (2005). Universally Sloppy Parameter Sensitivities in Systems Biology Models. PLoS Computational Biology. preprint(2007). e189–e189. 33 indexed citations

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