Julia A. Belk

5.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
27 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Julia A. Belk is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Julia A. Belk has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Immunology, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Julia A. Belk's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (9 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers). Julia A. Belk is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (9 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers). Julia A. Belk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Portugal. Julia A. Belk's co-authors include Ansuman T. Satpathy, Bence Dániel, Howard Y. Chang, Quanming Shi, David J. Perreault, Charles R. Sullivan, Seungbum Lim, Alex J. Hanson, Paul A. Wender and Laura Amaya and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Julia A. Belk

24 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Engineering circular RNA for enhanced protein production

2022 271 citations Robert Chen, Sean K. Wang et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Genome-wide CRISPR screens of T cell exhaustion identify chromatin remodeling factors that limit T cell persistence

2022 201 citations Julia A. Belk, Winnie Yao et al. Cancer Cell profile →
Spatiotemporal co-dependency between macrophages and exhausted CD8+ T cells in cancer

2022 188 citations Kelly Kersten, Kenneth H. Hu et al. Cancer Cell profile →
Epigenetic regulation of T cell exhaustion

2022 173 citations Julia A. Belk, Bence Dániel et al. Nature Immunology profile →
Discovery and functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-host protein interactions

2021 130 citations Ryan A. Flynn, Julia A. Belk et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Julia A. Belk United States	15	708	639	446	204	172	27	1.6k
Jean‐Sébastien Delisle Canada	18	339 0.5×	564 0.9×	490 1.1×	54 0.3×	54 0.3×	92	1.2k
Hiroyuki Tsunoda Japan	19	870 1.2×	295 0.5×	277 0.6×	83 0.4×	113 0.7×	64	1.7k
Zoltán Pós Hungary	16	642 0.9×	1.5k 2.4×	1.1k 2.5×	71 0.3×	106 0.6×	36	2.3k
Joyce Chen United States	9	610 0.9×	1.0k 1.6×	924 2.1×	59 0.3×	86 0.5×	20	2.0k
Misty R. Jenkins Australia	30	697 1.0×	1.4k 2.2×	947 2.1×	106 0.5×	67 0.4×	60	2.5k
Valentin Voillet United States	14	446 0.6×	522 0.8×	847 1.9×	130 0.6×	63 0.4×	26	1.3k
Sonia Lameiras France	17	1.1k 1.5×	452 0.7×	596 1.3×	30 0.1×	410 2.4×	24	1.8k
Özcan Met Denmark	29	591 0.8×	1.5k 2.3×	1.5k 3.3×	75 0.4×	88 0.5×	81	2.3k
Susan R. Opalenik United States	19	582 0.8×	241 0.4×	344 0.8×	34 0.2×	114 0.7×	32	1.4k
Leslie E. Huye United States	19	615 0.9×	663 1.0×	1.0k 2.3×	83 0.4×	99 0.6×	28	1.7k

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All Works

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Sankar, Venkat, King L. Hung, Aditi Gnanasekar, et al.. (2025). Genetic elements promote retention of extrachromosomal DNA in cancer cells. Nature. 649(8095). 152–160. 1 indexed citations

Belk, Julia A., Katerina Kraft, Anne-Valérie Gendrel, et al.. (2025). Genetic and chromatin regulation of Pvt1 monoallelic expression. Cell Reports. 44(11). 116554–116554.

Rose, John C., Julia A. Belk, Ivy Tsz-Lo Wong, et al.. (2024). Disparate Pathways for Extrachromosomal DNA Biogenesis and Genomic DNA Repair. Cancer Discovery. 15(1). 69–82. 10 indexed citations

Steinhart, Zachary, Quanming Shi, Julia A. Belk, et al.. (2024). Bidirectional epigenetic editing reveals hierarchies in gene regulation. Nature Biotechnology. 43(3). 355–368. 16 indexed citations

Buquicchio, Frank A., Raíssa Fonseca, Patrick Yan, et al.. (2024). Distinct epigenomic landscapes underlie tissue-specific memory T cell differentiation. Immunity. 57(9). 2202–2215.e6. 16 indexed citations

Hasegawa, Kazuteru, Yang Zhao, Alina Garbuzov, et al.. (2024). Clonal inactivation of TERT impairs stem cell competition. Nature. 632(8023). 201–208. 6 indexed citations

Ashkin, Emily L., Yuning J. Tang, King L. Hung, et al.. (2024). A STAG2-PAXIP1/PAGR1 axis suppresses lung tumorigenesis. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 222(1).

Brioschi, Simone, Julia A. Belk, Vincent Peng, et al.. (2023). A Cre-deleter specific for embryo-derived brain macrophages reveals distinct features of microglia and border macrophages. Immunity. 56(5). 1027–1045.e8. 42 indexed citations

Liu, Tiantian, Feiya Ou, Julia A. Belk, et al.. (2023). Cisinteractions in theIrf8locus regulate stage-dependent enhancer activation. Genes & Development. 37(7-8). 291–302. 7 indexed citations

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Kersten, Kelly, Kenneth H. Hu, Alexis J. Combes, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal co-dependency between macrophages and exhausted CD8+ T cells in cancer. Cancer Cell. 40(6). 624–638.e9. 188 indexed citations breakdown →

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Belk, Julia A., Bence Dániel, & Ansuman T. Satpathy. (2022). Epigenetic regulation of T cell exhaustion. Nature Immunology. 23(6). 848–860. 173 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dániel, Bence, Julia A. Belk, Stefanie L. Meier, et al.. (2022). Macrophage inflammatory and regenerative response periodicity is programmed by cell cycle and chromatin state. Molecular Cell. 83(1). 121–138.e7. 19 indexed citations

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Dániel, Bence, Kathryn E. Yost, Sunnie Hsiung, et al.. (2022). Divergent clonal differentiation trajectories of T cell exhaustion. Nature Immunology. 23(11). 1614–1627. 97 indexed citations

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Yu, Bingfei, Quanming Shi, Julia A. Belk, et al.. (2022). Engineered cell entry links receptor biology with single-cell genomics. Cell. 185(26). 4904–4920.e22. 40 indexed citations

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Belk, Julia A., Winnie Yao, Nghi Ly, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide CRISPR screens of T cell exhaustion identify chromatin remodeling factors that limit T cell persistence. Cancer Cell. 40(7). 768–786.e7. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shivaprasad, Shwetha, Kuo‐Feng Weng, Yaw Shin Ooi, et al.. (2022). Loquacious modulates flaviviral RNA replication in mosquito cells. PLoS Pathogens. 18(4). e1010163–e1010163. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Robert, Sean K. Wang, Julia A. Belk, et al.. (2022). Engineering circular RNA for enhanced protein production. Nature Biotechnology. 41(2). 262–272. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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Warshauer, Jeremy, Julia A. Belk, Alice Chan, et al.. (2021). A human mutation in STAT3 promotes type 1 diabetes through a defect in CD8+ T cell tolerance. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(8). 33 indexed citations

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Flynn, Ryan A., Julia A. Belk, Yanyan Qi, et al.. (2021). Discovery and functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-host protein interactions. Cell. 184(9). 2394–2411.e16. 130 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wong, Rachel, Julia A. Belk, Jennifer Govero, et al.. (2020). Affinity-Restricted Memory B Cells Dominate Recall Responses to Heterologous Flaviviruses. Immunity. 53(5). 1078–1094.e7. 71 indexed citations

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