Kara Rainbow

827 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 286 citations indexed

About

Kara Rainbow is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Kara Rainbow has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 286 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 2 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Kara Rainbow's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers) and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (2 papers). Kara Rainbow is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers) and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (2 papers). Kara Rainbow collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Kara Rainbow's co-authors include Brian Lam, Giles S.H. Yeo, Marcella Ma, Anthony C.F. Perry, Matthew VerMilyea, Maki Asami, Stephen O’Rahilly, John A. Tadross, Joseph Polex-Wolf and Eduard Ayuso and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Kara Rainbow

7 papers receiving 279 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.

A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus

2025 29 citations John A. Tadross, Lukas Steuernagel et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kara Rainbow United Kingdom	6	149	90	61	45	39	7	286
Rik Hendrickx Belgium	7	123 0.8×	130 1.4×	21 0.3×	30 0.7×	32 0.8×	17	329
Л. А. Кузнецова Russia	11	174 1.2×	39 0.4×	48 0.8×	97 2.2×	39 1.0×	66	388
Lisa C. Burnett United States	10	262 1.8×	158 1.8×	48 0.8×	31 0.7×	48 1.2×	10	383
Teresia Wangensteen Norway	10	97 0.7×	120 1.3×	58 1.0×	49 1.1×	23 0.6×	16	295
Leonore Wigger Switzerland	10	189 1.3×	35 0.4×	40 0.7×	13 0.3×	55 1.4×	14	341
Annemarie M. Simonis-Bik Netherlands	6	67 0.4×	76 0.8×	23 0.4×	17 0.4×	69 1.8×	6	220
Audrey Guérardel Switzerland	8	109 0.7×	67 0.7×	39 0.6×	10 0.2×	106 2.7×	9	240
Hannah Blackburn United Kingdom	4	99 0.7×	123 1.4×	57 0.9×	20 0.4×	22 0.6×	4	263
Marie R. Mooney United States	8	115 0.8×	46 0.5×	61 1.0×	7 0.2×	15 0.4×	10	270
Nobuyuki Masumoto Japan	10	105 0.7×	27 0.3×	60 1.0×	143 3.2×	16 0.4×	15	365

Countries citing papers authored by Kara Rainbow

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kara Rainbow

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kara Rainbow. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kara Rainbow. The network helps show where Kara Rainbow may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kara Rainbow

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

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Tadross, John A., Lukas Steuernagel, Georgina K.C. Dowsett, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus. Nature. 639(8055). 708–716. 29 indexed citations breakdown →

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Asami, Maki, Brian Lam, Martin Hoffmann, et al.. (2023). A program of successive gene expression in mouse one-cell embryos. Cell Reports. 42(2). 112023–112023. 14 indexed citations

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Pittol, José M. Ramos, Alexandra Milona, Kara Rainbow, et al.. (2023). Dax1 modulates ERα-dependent hypothalamic estrogen sensing in female mice. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3076–3076. 5 indexed citations

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Wade, Kaitlin H., Brian Lam, Audrey Melvin, et al.. (2021). Loss-of-function mutations in the melanocortin 4 receptor in a UK birth cohort. Nature Medicine. 27(6). 1088–1096. 69 indexed citations

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Asami, Maki, Brian Lam, Marcella Ma, et al.. (2021). Human embryonic genome activation initiates at the one-cell stage. Cell stem cell. 29(2). 209–216.e4. 86 indexed citations

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Polex-Wolf, Joseph, Brian Lam, Rachel Larder, et al.. (2018). Hypothalamic loss of Snord116 recapitulates the hyperphagia of Prader-Willi syndrome. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 128(3). 960–969. 70 indexed citations

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Maier, Lisa M., Sarah Howlett, Kara Rainbow, et al.. (2008). NKG2D-RAE-1 Receptor-Ligand Variation Does Not Account for the NK Cell Defect in Nonobese Diabetic Mice. The Journal of Immunology. 181(10). 7073–7080. 13 indexed citations

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