Kevin Travers

11.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Kevin Travers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Hematology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Travers has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Hematology and 5 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Kevin Travers's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Kevin Travers is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Kevin Travers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Kevin Travers's co-authors include Jonathan S. Weissman, Christopher K. Patil, Lisa Wodicka, David J. Lockhart, Peter Walter, Daniel Herschlag, Dale R. Webster, Benjamin A. Flusberg, Eric C. Olivares and Jonas Korlach and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Travers

22 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Functional and Genomic Analyses Reveal an Essential Coordination between the Unfolded Protein Response and ER-Associated Degradation

2000 1.6k citations Kevin Travers, Christopher K. Patil et al. Cell profile →
Direct detection of DNA methylation during single-molecule, real-time sequencing

2010 1.1k citations Benjamin A. Flusberg, Dale R. Webster et al. Nature Methods profile →
Validation of ITD mutations in FLT3 as a therapeutic target in human acute myeloid leukaemia

2012 542 citations Catherine C. Smith, Qi Wang 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
Kevin Travers United States	17	4.0k	2.0k	741	583	398	22	5.6k
Marcus Bantscheff Germany	40	6.3k 1.6×	661 0.3×	305 0.4×	274 0.5×	346 0.9×	88	8.3k
Sonja Hess United States	43	4.9k 1.2×	666 0.3×	1.1k 1.5×	211 0.4×	592 1.5×	141	6.9k
Elena Conti Germany	63	11.2k 2.8×	1.3k 0.6×	337 0.5×	268 0.5×	702 1.8×	174	13.3k
Ashley M. Buckle Australia	43	4.1k 1.0×	481 0.2×	318 0.4×	792 1.4×	773 1.9×	156	7.2k
Jean‐Paul Mornon France	42	4.1k 1.0×	550 0.3×	203 0.3×	450 0.8×	737 1.9×	132	6.5k
Diana R. Tomchick United States	54	6.6k 1.6×	3.0k 1.5×	366 0.5×	106 0.2×	571 1.4×	115	9.6k
Fabian Glaser Israel	34	4.6k 1.1×	459 0.2×	367 0.5×	215 0.4×	707 1.8×	76	6.2k
Dimitar B. Nikolov United States	42	4.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.5×	794 1.1×	127 0.2×	636 1.6×	89	7.2k
Sachdev S. Sidhu Canada	67	11.4k 2.8×	1.6k 0.8×	724 1.0×	190 0.3×	1.1k 2.9×	290	14.9k
Alexandre V. Podtelejnikov Denmark	31	4.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	272 0.4×	80 0.1×	267 0.7×	41	6.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Travers

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Smith, Catherine C., Amy L. Paguirigan, Grace R. Jeschke, et al.. (2017). Heterogeneous resistance to quizartinib in acute myeloid leukemia revealed by single-cell analysis. Blood. 130(1). 48–58. 120 indexed citations

Pagan, Moraima, Richard T. Kloos, Kevin Travers, et al.. (2016). The diagnostic application of RNA sequencing in patients with thyroid cancer: an analysis of 851 variants and 133 fusions in 524 genes. BMC Bioinformatics. 17(S1). 6–6. 27 indexed citations

Smith, Catherine C., Qi Wang, Chen-Shan Chin, et al.. (2012). Validation of ITD mutations in FLT3 as a therapeutic target in human acute myeloid leukaemia. Nature. 485(7397). 260–263. 542 indexed citations breakdown →

Smith, Catherine C., Elisabeth A. Lasater, Amy L. Paguirigan, et al.. (2012). Constitutively Activating Mutations At the FLT3 Activation Loop Residue D835 Are Associated with Clinical Resistance to AC220. Blood. 120(21). 674–674. 4 indexed citations

Smith, Catherine C., Michael P. Brown, Wendy T Parker, et al.. (2012). Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT™) Sequencing Sensitively Detects the Evolution of Polyclonal and Compound BCR-ABL Mutations in Patients Who Relapse On Kinase Inhibitor Therapy. Blood. 120(21). 917–917. 3 indexed citations

Travers, Kevin, Chen-Shan Chin, David R. Rank, John Eid, & Steve Turner. (2010). A flexible and efficient template format for circular consensus sequencing and SNP detection. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(15). e159–e159. 292 indexed citations

Flusberg, Benjamin A., Dale R. Webster, Jessica H. Lee, et al.. (2010). Direct detection of DNA methylation during single-molecule, real-time sequencing. Nature Methods. 7(6). 461–465. 1055 indexed citations breakdown →

Flusberg, Benjamin A., Dale R. Webster, Kevin Travers, et al.. (2010). Abstract 1154: Direct detection of DNA methylation and mutagenic damage through single-molecule, real-time (SMRTTM) DNA sequencing. Cancer Research. 70(8_Supplement). 1154–1154. 10 indexed citations

Zhao, Wei, et al.. (2008). Direct Measurement of Tertiary Contact Cooperativity in RNA Folding. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(19). 6085–6087. 59 indexed citations

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Travers, Kevin, et al.. (2007). Low specificity of metal ion binding in the metal ion core of a folded RNA. RNA. 13(8). 1205–1213. 30 indexed citations

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Lee, Tae-Hee, Lisa J. Lapidus, Wei Zhao, et al.. (2007). Measuring the Folding Transition Time of Single RNA Molecules. Biophysical Journal. 92(9). 3275–3283. 42 indexed citations

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Bai, Yu, Max Greenfeld, Kevin Travers, et al.. (2007). Quantitative and Comprehensive Decomposition of the Ion Atmosphere around Nucleic Acids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129(48). 14981–14988. 229 indexed citations

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Russell, Rick, et al.. (2006). The Paradoxical Behavior of a Highly Structured Misfolded Intermediate in RNA Folding. Journal of Molecular Biology. 363(2). 531–544. 83 indexed citations

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Woodside, Michael T., et al.. (2006). Nanomechanical measurements of the sequence-dependent folding landscapes of single nucleic acid hairpins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(16). 6190–6195. 359 indexed citations

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Das, Rhiju, Kevin Travers, Yu Bai, & Daniel Herschlag. (2005). Determining the Mg ²⁺ Stoichiometry for Folding an RNA Metal Ion Core. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(23). 8272–8273. 82 indexed citations

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Travers, Kevin, Christopher K. Patil, & Jonathan S. Weissman. (2001). Functional genomic approaches to understanding molecular chaperones and stress responses. Advances in protein chemistry. 59. 345–390. 7 indexed citations

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Fewell, Sheara W., Kevin Travers, Jonathan S. Weissman, & Jeffrey L. Brodsky. (2001). The Action of Molecular Chaperones in the Early Secretory Pathway. Annual Review of Genetics. 35(1). 149–191. 231 indexed citations

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Travers, Kevin, Christopher K. Patil, Lisa Wodicka, et al.. (2000). Functional and Genomic Analyses Reveal an Essential Coordination between the Unfolded Protein Response and ER-Associated Degradation. Cell. 101(3). 249–258. 1628 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tu, Benjamin P., et al.. (2000). Biochemical Basis of Oxidative Protein Folding in the Endoplasmic Reticulum. Science. 290(5496). 1571–1574. 373 indexed citations

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Travers, Kevin, et al.. (1998). Ero1p: A Novel and Ubiquitous Protein with an Essential Role in Oxidative Protein Folding in the Endoplasmic Reticulum. Molecular Cell. 1(2). 171–182. 369 indexed citations

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