Justin B. Kinney

6.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Justin B. Kinney is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Justin B. Kinney has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Justin B. Kinney's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Justin B. Kinney is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Justin B. Kinney collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Sweden. Justin B. Kinney's co-authors include Gurinder S. Atwal, Ammar Tareen, Curtis G. Callan, Juan Maldacena, Shiraz Minwalla, Suvrat Raju, Anand Murugan, Junwei Shi, Christopher R. Vakoc and Eric Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Justin B. Kinney

44 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Discovery of cancer drug targets by CRISPR-Cas9 screening of protein domains

2015 500 citations Junwei Shi, Justin B. Kinney et al. profile →
An Index for 4 Dimensional Super Conformal Theories

2007 441 citations Justin B. Kinney et al. profile →
Equitability, mutual information, and the maximal information coefficient

2014 435 citations Justin B. Kinney, Gurinder S. Atwal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Justin B. Kinney United States	24	2.3k	693	419	227	182	47	3.4k
Anirvan M. Sengupta India	28	1.3k 0.6×	424 0.6×	481 1.1×	343 1.5×	116 0.6×	204	3.8k
C. Barnes United Kingdom	37	1.9k 0.8×	774 1.1×	942 2.2×	1.5k 6.5×	181 1.0×	84	5.0k
Vésteinn Thórsson United States	20	3.3k 1.4×	389 0.6×	360 0.9×	214 0.9×	116 0.6×	44	4.9k
Carl Herrmann Germany	24	1.5k 0.7×	237 0.3×	164 0.4×	88 0.4×	46 0.3×	56	2.4k
Stephen A. Ramsey United States	30	2.3k 1.0×	260 0.4×	120 0.3×	178 0.8×	75 0.4×	92	3.9k
Frank Lee United States	39	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 1.9×	2.1k 5.0×	75 0.3×	38 0.2×	183	5.4k
Joel Rozowsky United States	42	5.8k 2.5×	1.1k 1.5×	856 2.0×	400 1.8×	87 0.5×	79	7.7k
Charles K. Kaufman United States	21	1.3k 0.5×	220 0.3×	57 0.1×	28 0.1×	244 1.3×	56	2.8k
Andrew Grimshaw United States	25	643 0.3×	77 0.1×	133 0.3×	135 0.6×	580 3.2×	129	5.6k
Anthony J. Cox United States	26	1.9k 0.8×	991 1.4×	549 1.3×	23 0.1×	359 2.0×	102	4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Justin B. Kinney

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Martí‐Gómez, Carlos, et al.. (2026). Inference and Visualization of Complex Genotype–Phenotype Maps. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 43(2).

Posfai, Anna, et al.. (2025). Gauge fixing for sequence-function relationships. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(3). e1012818–e1012818. 2 indexed citations

Alpsoy, Aktan, Jonathan J. Ipsaro, Damianos Skopelitis, et al.. (2025). Structural basis of DNA-dependent coactivator recruitment by the tuft cell master regulator POU2F3. Cell Reports. 44(11). 116572–116572.

Ishigami, Yuma, Mandy S. Wong, Carlos Martí‐Gómez, et al.. (2024). Specificity, synergy, and mechanisms of splice-modifying drugs. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1880–1880. 17 indexed citations

Sun, Dianqing, et al.. (2023). Advancing Pharmacy Education by Moving From Sequenced “Integration” to True Curricular Integration. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 87(6). 100056–100056. 10 indexed citations

Wong, Mandy S., et al.. (2022). Higher-order epistasis and phenotypic prediction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(39). e2204233119–e2204233119. 23 indexed citations

Molodtsov, Vadim, Mahdi Kooshkbaghi, Ammar Tareen, et al.. (2022). Structural and mechanistic basis of σ-dependent transcriptional pausing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(23). e2201301119–e2201301119. 8 indexed citations

Li, Lingting, Yuanchao Zhang, Irina O. Vvedenskaya, et al.. (2021). Promoter-sequence determinants and structural basis of primer-dependent transcription initiation in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(27). 7 indexed citations

Ireland, William T., Nicholas S. McCarty, Nathan M. Belliveau, et al.. (2020). Deciphering the regulatory genome of Escherichia coli, one hundred promoters at a time. eLife. 9. 31 indexed citations

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Tareen, Ammar & Justin B. Kinney. (2019). Logomaker: beautiful sequence logos in Python. Bioinformatics. 36(7). 2272–2274. 254 indexed citations

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Barnes, Stephanie L., Nathan M. Belliveau, William T. Ireland, Justin B. Kinney, & Rob Phillips. (2019). Mapping DNA sequence to transcription factor binding energy in vivo. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(2). e1006226–e1006226. 29 indexed citations

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Belliveau, Nathan M., Stephanie L. Barnes, William T. Ireland, et al.. (2018). Systematic approach for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(21). E4796–E4805. 60 indexed citations

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Jones, Daniel, et al.. (2018). Measuring cis-regulatory energetics in living cells using allelic manifolds. eLife. 7. 16 indexed citations

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Şentürk, Şerif, Nitin H. Shirole, Dawid G. Nowak, et al.. (2017). Rapid and tunable method to temporally control gene editing based on conditional Cas9 stabilization. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14370–14370. 133 indexed citations

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Ipsaro, Jonathan J., Chen Shen, Eri Arai, et al.. (2017). Rapid generation of drug-resistance alleles at endogenous loci using CRISPR-Cas9 indel mutagenesis. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0172177–e0172177. 23 indexed citations

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Sheu, Yi-Jun, Justin B. Kinney, & Bruce Stillman. (2016). Concerted activities of Mcm4, Sld3, and Dbf4 in control of origin activation and DNA replication fork progression. Genome Research. 26(3). 315–330. 27 indexed citations

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Kinney, Justin B.. (2015). Unification of field theory and maximum entropy methods for learning probability densities. Physical Review E. 92(3). 32107–32107. 10 indexed citations

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Kinney, Justin B. & Gurinder S. Atwal. (2014). Equitability, mutual information, and the maximal information coefficient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(9). 3354–3359. 435 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kinney, Justin B. & Gurinder S. Atwal. (2014). Parametric Inference in the Large Data Limit Using Maximally Informative Models. Neural Computation. 26(4). 637–653. 10 indexed citations

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Kinney, Justin B. & Gurinder S. Atwal. (2012). Maximally informative models and diffeomorphic modes in the analysis of large data sets. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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