Karen Lee

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Karen Lee is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Lee has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Plant Science, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Karen Lee's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (9 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (6 papers) and Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (4 papers). Karen Lee is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (9 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (6 papers) and Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (4 papers). Karen Lee collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Karen Lee's co-authors include George Coupland, Frances Robson, Rüdiger Simon, Enrico Coen, Joanna Putterill, Hiroshi Kamada, Sumire Fujiwara, Hitoshi Onouchi, Aidyn Mouradov and Frédéric Cremer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Karen Lee

14 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

The CONSTANS gene of arabidopsis promotes flowering and encodes a protein showing similarities to zinc finger transcription factors

1995 1.1k citations Frances Robson, Karen Lee 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
Karen Lee United Kingdom	11	1.9k	1.5k	246	187	42	14	2.2k
Sae Shimizu‐Sato Japan	12	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	292 1.2×	134 0.7×	60 1.4×	19	2.0k
Célia Baroux Switzerland	29	2.4k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	360 1.5×	247 1.3×	39 0.9×	62	2.8k
José Manuel Pérez‐Pérez Spain	29	2.3k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	139 0.6×	122 0.7×	31 0.7×	78	2.7k
Tetsuya Kurata Japan	27	2.5k 1.3×	2.0k 1.4×	91 0.4×	203 1.1×	30 0.7×	43	2.8k
Sean Gordon United States	17	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	133 0.5×	163 0.9×	48 1.1×	26	2.0k
Dong‐Hoon Jeong South Korea	25	4.0k 2.1×	2.7k 1.8×	330 1.3×	68 0.4×	39 0.9×	55	4.6k
Lexiang Ji United States	23	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	302 1.2×	100 0.5×	33 0.8×	36	2.3k
Hannes Vanhaeren Belgium	12	1.2k 0.7×	922 0.6×	108 0.4×	49 0.3×	34 0.8×	16	1.5k
Héctor Candela Spain	22	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	154 0.6×	51 0.3×	24 0.6×	50	1.7k
Gwyneth Ingram France	32	3.6k 1.9×	2.8k 1.9×	159 0.6×	210 1.1×	48 1.1×	72	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Karen Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karen Lee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Lee

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

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

Lee, Karen, Richard Kennaway, J. Elaine Barclay, et al.. (2023). Brassinosteroid coordinates cell layer interactions in plants via cell wall and tissue mechanics. Science. 380(6651). 1275–1281. 43 indexed citations

Vijayan, Athul, Soeren Strauss, Rachele Tofanelli, et al.. (2022). The annotation and analysis of complex 3D plant organs using 3DCoordX. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 189(3). 1278–1295. 3 indexed citations

Whitewoods, Christopher, Beatriz Gonçalves, Jie Cheng, et al.. (2019). Evolution of carnivorous traps from planar leaves through simple shifts in gene expression. Science. 367(6473). 91–96. 85 indexed citations

Lee, Karen, Yohei Koide, John Fozard, et al.. (2019). Shaping of a three-dimensional carnivorous trap through modulation of a planar growth mechanism. PLoS Biology. 17(10). e3000427–e3000427. 27 indexed citations

Lee, Karen, Grant Calder, Jacob Newman, et al.. (2016). Macro optical projection tomography for large scale 3D imaging of plant structures and gene activity. Journal of Experimental Botany. 68(3). erw452–erw452. 16 indexed citations

Southam, Paul, et al.. (2009). Ufeel: Using haptics and stereo to place landmarks in three-dimensional volumetric images. 2653–2656. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Minsung, Pilar Cubas, Amanda Gillies, et al.. (2008). Regulatory Genes Control a Key Morphological and Ecological Trait Transferred Between Species. Science. 322(5904). 1116–1119. 218 indexed citations

Lee, Karen, Jerome Avondo, Harris Morrison, et al.. (2006). Visualizing Plant Development and Gene Expression in Three Dimensions Using Optical Projection Tomography. The Plant Cell. 18(9). 2145–2156. 107 indexed citations

Mizoguchi, Tsuyoshi, Sumire Fujiwara, Frédéric Cremer, et al.. (2005). Distinct Roles of GIGANTEA in Promoting Flowering and Regulating Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 17(8). 2255–2270. 383 indexed citations

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Lee, Karen, Xuliang Deng, & Eileen Friedman. (2000). Mirk protein kinase is a mitogen-activated protein kinase substrate that mediates survival of colon cancer cells.. PubMed. 60(13). 3631–7. 94 indexed citations

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Coupland, George, M. Isabel Igeño, Robert J. Schaffer, et al.. (1998). The regulation of flowering time by daylength in Arabidopsis.. PubMed. 51. 105–10. 2 indexed citations

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Robson, Frances, et al.. (1995). The CONSTANS gene of arabidopsis promotes flowering and encodes a protein showing similarities to zinc finger transcription factors. Cell. 80(6). 847–857. 1148 indexed citations breakdown →

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Putterill, Joanna, Frances Robson, Karen Lee, & George Coupland. (1993). Chromosome walking with YAC clones in Arabidopsis: isolation of 1700 kb of contiguous DNA on chromosome 5, including a 300 kb region containing the flowering-time gene CO. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 239(1-2). 145–157. 46 indexed citations

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Long, Debbie, June Swinburne, Marta Martín, et al.. (1993). Analysis of the frequency of inheritance of transposed Ds elements in Arabidopsis after activation by a CaMV 35S promoter fusion to the Ac transposase gene. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 241-241(5-6). 627–636. 28 indexed citations

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