Karen Adelman

12.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
83 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Karen Adelman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Adelman has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Karen Adelman's work include RNA Research and Splicing (50 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (40 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (28 papers). Karen Adelman is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (50 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (40 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (28 papers). Karen Adelman collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Karen Adelman's co-authors include John T. Lis, Sergei Nechaev, Daniel A. Gilchrist, David C. Fargo, Leighton J. Core, Ginger W. Muse, Telmo Henriques, Julia Zeitlinger, Gilberto dos Santos and Adam Burkholder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Karen Adelman

82 papers receiving 8.6k 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.

Promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II: emerging roles in metazoans

2012 865 citations Karen Adelman, John T. Lis profile →
RNA polymerase is poised for activation across the genome

2007 596 citations Sergei Nechaev, Karen Adelman et al. profile →
RNA polymerase stalling at developmental control genes in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo

2007 592 citations Sergei Nechaev, Karen Adelman et al. profile →
Promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II: a nexus of gene regulation

2019 357 citations Karen Adelman et al. Genes & Development profile →
Mapping information-rich genotype-phenotype landscapes with genome-scale Perturb-seq

2022 253 citations Lauren G. Mascibroda, Eric J. Wagner et al. Cell profile →

Peers

Karen Adelman

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Andrew C. Adey United States

M. Mar Albà Spain

Leighton J. Core United States

C. Peter Verrijzer Netherlands

Yuri V. Svitkin Canada

Tom Owen‐Hughes United Kingdom

Robin Reed United States

Grzegorz Kudla United Kingdom

Alan B. Sachs United States

Juan Valcárcel Spain

Andrew C. Adey United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Karen Adelman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karen Adelman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Adelman

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mimoso, Claudia A., et al.. (2025). Restrictor slows RNAPII elongation to promote termination at noncoding RNA loci. Genes & Development. 39(13-14). 868–885. 3 indexed citations

Nelson, Geoffrey M., et al.. (2024). RNA polymerase II pausing is essential during spermatogenesis for appropriate gene expression and completion of meiosis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 848–848. 16 indexed citations

Rogers, Julia M., Claudia A. Mimoso, Benjamín Martín, et al.. (2024). Notch induces transcription by stimulating release of paused RNA polymerase II. Genes & Development. 38(21-24). 965–978. 2 indexed citations

Seo, Ji-Heui, Claudia Giambartolomei, Geoffrey M. Nelson, et al.. (2024). Decoding the epigenetics and chromatin loop dynamics of androgen receptor-mediated transcription. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9494–9494. 4 indexed citations

Martín, Benjamín, et al.. (2023). Global identification of SWI/SNF targets reveals compensation by EP400. Cell. 186(24). 5290–5307.e26. 36 indexed citations

Mimoso, Claudia A. & Karen Adelman. (2023). U1 snRNP increases RNA Pol II elongation rate to enable synthesis of long genes. Molecular Cell. 83(8). 1264–1279.e10. 50 indexed citations

Vlaming, Hanneke, Claudia A. Mimoso, Andrew R. Field, Benjamín Martín, & Karen Adelman. (2022). Screening thousands of transcribed coding and non-coding regions reveals sequence determinants of RNA polymerase II elongation potential. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(6). 613–620. 32 indexed citations

Shipkovenska, Gergana, Marian Kalocsay, João A. Paulo, et al.. (2022). Rixosomal RNA degradation contributes to silencing of Polycomb target genes. Nature. 604(7904). 167–174. 23 indexed citations

Field, Andrew R., et al.. (2022). Integrator endonuclease drives promoter-proximal termination at all RNA polymerase II-transcribed loci. Molecular Cell. 82(22). 4232–4245.e11. 61 indexed citations

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Luppino, Jennifer M., Andrew R. Field, Son C. Nguyen, et al.. (2022). Co-depletion of NIPBL and WAPL balance cohesin activity to correct gene misexpression. PLoS Genetics. 18(11). e1010528–e1010528. 8 indexed citations

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Mimoso, Claudia A., et al.. (2021). Co-transcriptional splicing regulates 3′ end cleavage during mammalian erythropoiesis. Molecular Cell. 81(5). 998–1012.e7. 98 indexed citations

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Rogers, Julia M., Bingqian Guo, Emily D. Egan, et al.. (2020). MAML1-Dependent Notch-Responsive Genes Exhibit Differing Cofactor Requirements for Transcriptional Activation. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 40(11). 7 indexed citations

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Santoriello, Cristina, Song Yang, Ryan A. Flynn, et al.. (2020). RNA helicase DDX21 mediates nucleotide stress responses in neural crest and melanoma cells. Nature Cell Biology. 22(4). 372–379. 34 indexed citations

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Huang, Kai-Lieh, David Jee, Nathan D. Elrod, et al.. (2020). Integrator Recruits Protein Phosphatase 2A to Prevent Pause Release and Facilitate Transcription Termination. Molecular Cell. 80(2). 345–358.e9. 119 indexed citations

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Meers, Michael P., Telmo Henriques, Christopher A. Lavender, et al.. (2017). Histone gene replacement reveals a post-transcriptional role for H3K36 in maintaining metazoan transcriptome fidelity. eLife. 6. 35 indexed citations

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Pai, Athma A., Telmo Henriques, Kayla McCue, et al.. (2017). The kinetics of pre-mRNA splicing in the Drosophila genome and the influence of gene architecture. eLife. 6. 52 indexed citations

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Nechaev, Sergei, David C. Fargo, Gilberto dos Santos, et al.. (2009). Global Analysis of Short RNAs Reveals Widespread Promoter-Proximal Stalling and Arrest of Pol II in Drosophila. Science. 327(5963). 335–338. 334 indexed citations

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Fan, Xiaochun, Hua Shi, Karen Adelman, & John T. Lis. (2004). Probing TBP interactions in transcription initiation and reinitiation with RNA aptamers that act in distinct modes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(18). 6934–6939. 34 indexed citations

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Adelman, Karen, A. La Porta, Thomas J. Santangelo, et al.. (2002). Single molecule analysis of RNA polymerase elongation reveals uniform kinetic behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(21). 13538–13543. 154 indexed citations

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Urbauer, Jeffrey L., et al.. (2002). Solution structure and stability of the anti-sigma factor AsiA: Implications for novel functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(4). 1831–1835. 35 indexed citations

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