Kathy Schaefer

815 total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 261 citations indexed

About

Kathy Schaefer is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathy Schaefer has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 261 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Cell Biology, 1 paper in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Kathy Schaefer's work include Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (2 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (1 paper) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (1 paper). Kathy Schaefer is often cited by papers focused on Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (2 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (1 paper) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (1 paper). Kathy Schaefer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Kathy Schaefer's co-authors include Jennifer Lippincott‐Schwartz, Heejun Choi, Timothy A. Brown, Ronak Patel, Boaz Mohar, Qinsi Zheng, Jonathan B. Grimm, Ariana N. Tkachuk, Liangqi Xie and Natalie Falco and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Methods and Developmental Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kathy Schaefer

4 papers receiving 258 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.

Motion of VAPB molecules reveals ER–mitochondria contact site subdomains

2024 48 citations Christopher J. Obara, Jonathon Nixon‐Abell 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
Kathy Schaefer United States	3	123	75	62	59	41	4	261
Harsha E. Rajapakse United States	5	191 1.6×	126 1.7×	57 0.9×	35 0.6×	29 0.7×	7	368
Conner A. Hoelzel United States	6	190 1.5×	131 1.7×	56 0.9×	43 0.7×	86 2.1×	7	372
Chia‐Heng Hsiung United States	8	201 1.6×	91 1.2×	26 0.4×	32 0.5×	54 1.3×	14	345
Manyu Du United States	5	184 1.5×	68 0.9×	27 0.4×	23 0.4×	40 1.0×	7	287
Zi Yao United States	9	222 1.8×	58 0.8×	67 1.1×	146 2.5×	52 1.3×	15	343
Chengjun Wang China	11	102 0.8×	141 1.9×	32 0.5×	141 2.4×	50 1.2×	18	345
Olivier Sallin Switzerland	6	265 2.2×	112 1.5×	118 1.9×	93 1.6×	96 2.3×	6	471
Jiazhu Zheng China	11	114 0.9×	150 2.0×	71 1.1×	164 2.8×	24 0.6×	12	344
Tobias Vöpel Germany	10	237 1.9×	63 0.8×	28 0.5×	22 0.4×	24 0.6×	18	354
Elisabeth M. W. M. van Dongen Netherlands	8	290 2.4×	64 0.9×	72 1.2×	57 1.0×	16 0.4×	9	471

Countries citing papers authored by Kathy Schaefer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kathy Schaefer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kathy Schaefer

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

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Obara, Christopher J., Jonathon Nixon‐Abell, Andrew S. Moore, et al.. (2024). Motion of VAPB molecules reveals ER–mitochondria contact site subdomains. Nature. 626(7997). 169–176. 48 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liao, Ya-Cheng, Song Pang, Weiping Li, et al.. (2024). COPII with ALG2 and ESCRTs control lysosome-dependent microautophagy of ER exit sites. Developmental Cell. 59(11). 1410–1424.e4. 10 indexed citations

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Liao, Ya-Cheng, Song Pang, Weiping Li, et al.. (2022). A Mechanism for ER Exit Site Delivery Into Lysosomes Involving COPII, ALG2 and ESCRTs. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Grimm, Jonathan B., Ariana N. Tkachuk, Liangqi Xie, et al.. (2020). A general method to optimize and functionalize red-shifted rhodamine dyes. Nature Methods. 17(8). 815–821. 201 indexed citations

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