Karen M. Polizzi

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Karen M. Polizzi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen M. Polizzi has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 20 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Karen M. Polizzi's work include Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (36 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (25 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers). Karen M. Polizzi is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (36 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (25 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers). Karen M. Polizzi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Karen M. Polizzi's co-authors include Paul S. Freemont, Javier Chaparro‐Riggers, Lisa Goers, Cleo Kontoravdi, Andreas S. Bommarius, Rochelle Aw, James M. Broering, Guy‐Bart Stan, Simon J. Moore and Ioscani Jiménez del Val and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Karen M. Polizzi

103 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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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.

Co-culture systems and technologies: taking synthetic biology to the next level

2014 450 citations Paul S. Freemont, Karen M. Polizzi et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karen M. Polizzi United Kingdom	32	2.6k	775	393	316	273	105	3.4k
Joelle N. Pelletier Canada	30	2.4k 0.9×	496 0.6×	264 0.7×	375 1.2×	204 0.7×	105	3.4k
Diletta Ami Italy	29	2.1k 0.8×	456 0.6×	215 0.5×	176 0.6×	138 0.5×	63	3.2k
Ying Lin China	32	2.4k 0.9×	746 1.0×	533 1.4×	145 0.5×	204 0.7×	205	3.6k
Antonino Natalello Italy	36	2.0k 0.8×	443 0.6×	189 0.5×	132 0.4×	160 0.6×	127	3.6k
Ipsita Roy India	32	2.5k 1.0×	642 0.8×	720 1.8×	172 0.5×	130 0.5×	144	4.1k
Itaru Urabe Japan	33	2.4k 0.9×	519 0.7×	274 0.7×	189 0.6×	503 1.8×	115	3.3k
A. James Link United States	37	4.0k 1.5×	357 0.5×	220 0.6×	650 2.1×	357 1.3×	92	5.3k
Hak‐Sung Kim South Korea	31	3.1k 1.2×	882 1.1×	358 0.9×	415 1.3×	180 0.7×	152	4.3k
Liqing Chen China	37	2.0k 0.8×	611 0.8×	125 0.3×	172 0.5×	156 0.6×	142	3.9k
Ryan Davis United States	21	1.7k 0.6×	426 0.5×	144 0.4×	243 0.8×	294 1.1×	62	3.0k

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Kontoravdi, Cleo, et al.. (2026). Spatially-resolved optical monitoring of bioreactor cell growth. Biomedical Optics Express. 17(2). 1098–1098. 1 indexed citations

Polizzi, Karen M., et al.. (2025). Manipulating subcellular protein localization to enhance target protein accumulation in minicells. Journal of Biological Engineering. 19(1). 27–27. 3 indexed citations

Ceroni, Francesca & Karen M. Polizzi. (2024). Mammalian Synthetic Systems. Methods in molecular biology. 1 indexed citations

Bineva‐Todd, Ganka, Richard W. Meek, Olga V. Moroz, et al.. (2024). A Bioorthogonal Precision Tool for Human N -Acetylglucosaminyltransferase V. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(39). 26707–26718. 1 indexed citations

Krueger, A. P., Ignacio Moya‐Ramírez, D.A. Kuntz, et al.. (2024). Immobilized enzyme cascade for targeted glycosylation. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(6). 732–741. 17 indexed citations

Griffin, Guy D., et al.. (2022). A curcumin direct protein biosensor for cell‐free prototyping. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(2-3). 62–68. 2 indexed citations

Lai, Hung‐En, Rhodri M. L. Morgan, Sunil V. Sharma, et al.. (2021). GenoChemetic Strategy for Derivatization of the Violacein Natural Product Scaffold. ACS Chemical Biology. 16(11). 2116–2123. 18 indexed citations

Kotidis, Pavlos, et al.. (2021). Hitting the sweet spot with capillary electrophoresis: advances in N-glycomics and glycoproteomics. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 71. 182–190. 5 indexed citations

Siciliano, Velia, et al.. (2021). A call for caution in analysing mammalian co-transfection experiments and implications of resource competition in data misinterpretation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2545–2545. 31 indexed citations

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Moya‐Ramírez, Ignacio, Pavlos Kotidis, Richard P. Matthews, et al.. (2021). An experimental approach probing the conformational transitions and energy landscape of antibodies: a glimmer of hope for reviving lost therapeutic candidates using ionic liquid. Chemical Science. 12(27). 9528–9545. 19 indexed citations

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Aw, Rochelle, Bram Laukens, Riet De Rycke, et al.. (2020). Knockout of RSN1 , TVP18 or CSC1 ‐2 causes perturbation of Golgi cisternae in Pichia pastoris . Traffic. 22(3). 48–63. 5 indexed citations

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Tomazou, Marios, Mauricio Barahona, Karen M. Polizzi, & Guy‐Bart Stan. (2018). Computational Re-design of Synthetic Genetic Oscillators for Independent Amplitude and Frequency Modulation. Cell Systems. 6(4). 508–520.e5. 22 indexed citations

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Moore, Simon J., James T. MacDonald, Argyro Tsipa, et al.. (2018). Rapid acquisition and model-based analysis of cell-free transcription–translation reactions from nonmodel bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(19). E4340–E4349. 138 indexed citations

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Kylilis, Nicolas, Zoltán A. Tuza, Guy‐Bart Stan, & Karen M. Polizzi. (2018). Tools for engineering coordinated system behaviour in synthetic microbial consortia. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2677–2677. 112 indexed citations

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Anastasiadi, Maria, Karen M. Polizzi, & R.J.W. Lambert. (2017). An improved model for the analysis of combined antimicrobials: a replacement for the Chou-Talalay combination index method. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 124(1). 97–107. 3 indexed citations

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Aw, Rochelle, Paul F. McKay, Robin J. Shattock, & Karen M. Polizzi. (2017). Expressing anti-HIV VRC01 antibody using the murine IgG1 secretion signal in Pichia pastoris. AMB Express. 7(1). 70–70. 15 indexed citations

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Dekker, Linda & Karen M. Polizzi. (2017). Sense and sensitivity in bioprocessing — detecting cellular metabolites with biosensors. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 40. 31–36. 27 indexed citations

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Aw, Rochelle & Karen M. Polizzi. (2016). Liquid PTVA: a faster and cheaper alternative for generating multi-copy clones in Pichia pastoris. Microbial Cell Factories. 15(1). 29–29. 31 indexed citations

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Polizzi, Karen M., et al.. (2013). Evaluation of transfection methods for transient gene expression in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology. 4(12). 1013–1019. 14 indexed citations

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Kontoravdi, Cleo, et al.. (2012). In Situ Monitoring of Intracellular Glucose and Glutamine in CHO Cell Culture. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34512–e34512. 35 indexed citations

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