Khalil Arar

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Khalil Arar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Khalil Arar has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Khalil Arar's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (18 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (12 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (10 papers). Khalil Arar is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (18 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (12 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (10 papers). Khalil Arar collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Denmark. Khalil Arar's co-authors include Charles‐Henri Lecellier, Stéphanie Eyquem, Jacqueline Lehmann‐Che, Christophe Himber, Olivier Voinnet, Patrice Dunoyer, David R. Corey, Dwaine A. Braasch, Yinghui Liu and Susan E. Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Khalil Arar

26 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

A Cellular MicroRNA Mediates Antiviral Defense in Human C... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 200 400 600
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.

  1. A Cellular MicroRNA Mediates Antiviral Defense in Human Cells
    2005 738 citations Charles‐Henri Lecellier, Khalil Arar et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Khalil Arar France 16 1.7k 615 199 174 166 26 2.1k
Lloyd B. Jeffs Canada 12 1.3k 0.8× 330 0.5× 192 1.0× 258 1.5× 89 0.5× 17 1.7k
Walter N. Moss United States 27 1.8k 1.1× 538 0.9× 235 1.2× 60 0.3× 118 0.7× 74 2.2k
Chia‐Ying Chu Taiwan 15 1.4k 0.8× 661 1.1× 203 1.0× 134 0.8× 73 0.4× 21 1.7k
Fedor V. Karginov United States 17 1.8k 1.1× 827 1.3× 144 0.7× 160 0.9× 120 0.7× 28 2.0k
Stefan Juranek Germany 21 2.7k 1.6× 557 0.9× 152 0.8× 228 1.3× 384 2.3× 29 2.9k
J H Miller United States 11 1.2k 0.7× 231 0.4× 182 0.9× 475 2.7× 186 1.1× 11 1.8k
Manuela Mura Italy 21 746 0.4× 271 0.4× 103 0.5× 162 0.9× 241 1.5× 48 1.5k
Sunnie R. Thompson United States 26 1.5k 0.9× 140 0.2× 178 0.9× 119 0.7× 228 1.4× 36 1.9k
Françoise Stutz Switzerland 39 5.3k 3.2× 367 0.6× 152 0.8× 298 1.7× 369 2.2× 70 5.7k
Yi Pei United States 23 2.2k 1.3× 500 0.8× 101 0.5× 193 1.1× 732 4.4× 42 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Khalil Arar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Khalil Arar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hansen, Lykke H., Sune Lobedanz, Stephen Douthwaite, et al.. (2011). Minimal Substrate Features for Erm Methyltransferases Defined by Using a Combinatorial Oligonucleotide Library. ChemBioChem. 12(4). 610–614. 9 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Jakob T., Khalil Arar, & Michael Petersen. (2009). Solution Structure of a Locked Nucleic Acid Modified Quadruplex: Introducing the V4 Folding Topology. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(17). 3099–3103. 39 indexed citations
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Hu, Jiaxin, Masayuki Matsui, Keith T. Gagnon, et al.. (2009). Allele-specific silencing of mutant huntingtin and ataxin-3 genes by targeting expanded CAG repeats in mRNAs. Nature Biotechnology. 27(5). 478–484. 198 indexed citations
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Lebedev, Alexandre, et al.. (2008). Properties of pseudo-complementary DNA substituted with weakly pairing analogs of guanine or cytosine. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(22). 6999–7008. 10 indexed citations
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Lebedev, Alexandre, Miguel de Vega, Margarita Salas, et al.. (2008). Enzymatic synthesis of structure-free DNA with pseudo-complementary properties. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(10). 3409–3419. 19 indexed citations
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Arar, Khalil, et al.. (2008). RecA-mediated strand invasion of DNA by oligonucleotides substituted with 2-aminoadenine and 2-thiothymine. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(21). 6806–6815. 3 indexed citations
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Saumet, Anne, Guillaume Vetter, Manuella Bouttier, et al.. (2008). Transcriptional repression of microRNA genes by PML-RARA increases expression of key cancer proteins in acute promyelocytic leukemia. Blood. 113(2). 412–421. 91 indexed citations
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Lobedanz, Sune, et al.. (2007). LNA nucleotides improve cleavage efficiency of singular and binary hammerhead ribozymes. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 15(18). 6135–6143. 14 indexed citations
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Formstecher, Étienne, Céline Reverdy, Cécile Planquette, et al.. (2006). Combination of Active and Inactive siRNA Targeting the Mitotic Kinesin Eg5 Impairs Silencing Efficiency in Several Cancer Cell Lines. Oligonucleotides. 16(4). 387–394. 12 indexed citations
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Gamper, Howard, Khalil Arar, Alan M. Gewirtz, & Ya‐Ming Hou. (2006). Unrestricted Hybridization of Oligonucleotides to Structure-Free DNA. Biochemistry. 45(22). 6978–6986. 5 indexed citations
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Arar, Khalil, et al.. (2005). Unrestricted accessibility of short oligonucleotides to RNA. RNA. 11(9). 1441–1447. 9 indexed citations
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Arar, Khalil, et al.. (2005). Locked nucleic acids for optimizing displacement probes for quantitative real-time PCR. Analytical Biochemistry. 348(2). 294–299. 16 indexed citations
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Sørensen, Mads D., et al.. (2004). Parallel nucleic acid recognition by the LNA (locked nucleic acid) stereoisomers β-L-LNA and α-D-LNA; studies in the mirror image world. Chemical Communications. 282–283. 13 indexed citations
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Costa, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2004). Chimeric LNA/DNA probes as a detection system for real-time PCR. Clinical Biochemistry. 37(10). 930–932. 33 indexed citations
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Pérelle, Sylvie, et al.. (2003). Evaluation of the performance of LNA and MGB probes in 5′-nuclease PCR assays. Molecular and Cellular Probes. 17(6). 307–311. 61 indexed citations
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Ugozzoli, Luis, et al.. (2003). Real-time genotyping with oligonucleotide probes containing locked nucleic acids. Analytical Biochemistry. 324(1). 143–152. 121 indexed citations
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Latorra, David, Khalil Arar, & James Hurley. (2003). Design considerations and effects of LNA in PCR primers. Molecular and Cellular Probes. 17(5). 253–259. 94 indexed citations
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Arar, Khalil, et al.. (1995). Synthesis and Antiviral Activity of Peptide-Oligonucleotide Conjugates Prepared by Using N.alpha.-(Bromoacetyl)peptides. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 6(5). 573–577. 56 indexed citations
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Arar, Khalil, Michel Monsigny, & Roger Mayer. (1993). Synthesis of oligonucleotide-peptide conjugates containing a KDEL signal sequence. Tetrahedron Letters. 34(50). 8087–8090. 23 indexed citations

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