Kimmo Palin

12.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Kimmo Palin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Kimmo Palin has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cancer Research and 9 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Kimmo Palin's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (8 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (8 papers). Kimmo Palin is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (8 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (8 papers). Kimmo Palin collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Sweden and United Kingdom. Kimmo Palin's co-authors include Jussi Taipale, Esko Ukkonen, Teemu Kivioja, Mikko Taipale, Timothy R. Hughes, Jian Yan, Martin Enge, Gong‐Hong Wei, Arttu Jolma and Jarkko Toivonen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Kimmo Palin

35 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

DNA-Binding Specificities of Human Transcription Factors

2013 889 citations Arttu Jolma, Jian Yan 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
Kimmo Palin Finland	19	2.2k	412	326	267	231	36	3.1k
Hui Ge United States	27	3.3k 1.5×	583 1.4×	167 0.5×	252 0.9×	130 0.6×	47	4.0k
Noriko Hosoya Japan	22	1.2k 0.6×	435 1.1×	232 0.7×	271 1.0×	81 0.4×	53	2.2k
Nathan J. Bowen United States	26	1.9k 0.9×	260 0.6×	67 0.2×	435 1.6×	606 2.6×	49	2.8k
Maria Doyle Australia	22	993 0.5×	394 1.0×	181 0.6×	582 2.2×	54 0.2×	44	2.0k
Yegor Vassetzky France	35	2.7k 1.2×	404 1.0×	186 0.6×	310 1.2×	229 1.0×	160	3.4k
Sara A. Grimm United States	26	2.4k 1.1×	635 1.5×	212 0.7×	1.0k 3.8×	132 0.6×	61	3.6k
Nikita Avvakumov Canada	17	1.9k 0.9×	369 0.9×	207 0.6×	185 0.7×	139 0.6×	25	2.3k
Abul Bashar Mir Md. Khademul Islam Bangladesh	30	1.7k 0.8×	227 0.6×	167 0.5×	517 1.9×	76 0.3×	87	2.6k
Sally P. Wheatley United Kingdom	28	2.2k 1.0×	197 0.5×	157 0.5×	188 0.7×	254 1.1×	48	2.8k
Said Hashemolhosseini Germany	21	1.1k 0.5×	227 0.6×	82 0.3×	126 0.5×	86 0.4×	49	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kimmo Palin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kimmo Palin

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Taira, Aurora, Mervi Aavikko, Riku Katainen, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive metabolomic and epigenomic characterization of microsatellite stable BRAF-mutated colorectal cancer. Oncogene. 44(22). 1718–1730. 2 indexed citations

Taira, Aurora, Kimmo Palin, Anna Kuosmanen, et al.. (2023). Vitamin C boosts DNA demethylation in TET2 germline mutation carriers. Clinical Epigenetics. 15(1). 7–7. 16 indexed citations

Brown, Rachel E., Justin Jacobse, Bob Chen, et al.. (2022). MTG16 regulates colonic epithelial differentiation, colitis, and tumorigenesis by repressing E protein transcription factors. JCI Insight. 7(10). 12 indexed citations

Sahu, Biswajyoti, Päivi Pihlajamaa, Kaiyang Zhang, et al.. (2021). Human cell transformation by combined lineage conversion and oncogene expression. Oncogene. 40(36). 5533–5547. 14 indexed citations

Hänninen, Ulrika A., Erkki‐Ville Wirta, Riku Katainen, et al.. (2019). Exome and immune cell score analyses reveal great variation within synchronous primary colorectal cancers. British Journal of Cancer. 120(9). 922–930. 4 indexed citations

Cornish, Alex J., Philip Law, Maria Timofeeva, et al.. (2019). Modifiable pathways for colorectal cancer: a mendelian randomisation analysis. The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology. 5(1). 55–62. 79 indexed citations

Katainen, Riku, Iikki Donner, Tatiana Cajuso, et al.. (2018). Discovery of potential causative mutations in human coding and noncoding genome with the interactive software BasePlayer. Nature Protocols. 13(11). 2580–2600. 29 indexed citations

Hänninen, Ulrika A., Riku Katainen, Tomas Tanskanen, et al.. (2018). Exome-wide somatic mutation characterization of small bowel adenocarcinoma. PLoS Genetics. 14(3). e1007200–e1007200. 54 indexed citations

Kondelin, Johanna, Alexandra E. Gylfe, Tomas Tanskanen, et al.. (2017). Comprehensive Evaluation of Protein Coding Mononucleotide Microsatellites in Microsatellite-Unstable Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Research. 77(15). 4078–4088. 14 indexed citations

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Cajuso, Tatiana, Riku Katainen, Päivi Sulo, et al.. (2017). Detection of subclonal L1 transductions in colorectal cancer by long-distance inverse-PCR and Nanopore sequencing. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14521–14521. 18 indexed citations

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Kaasinen, Eevi, Elisa Rahikkala, Peppi Koivunen, et al.. (2014). Clinical characterization, genetic mapping and whole-genome sequence analysis of a novel autosomal recessive intellectual disability syndrome. European Journal of Medical Genetics. 57(10). 543–551. 14 indexed citations

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Tanskanen, Tomas, Alexandra E. Gylfe, Riku Katainen, et al.. (2014). Systematic search for rare variants in Finnish early-onset colorectal cancer patients. Cancer Genetics. 208(1-2). 35–40. 22 indexed citations

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Jolma, Arttu, Jian Yan, Thomas Whitington, et al.. (2013). DNA-Binding Specificities of Human Transcription Factors. Cell. 152(1-2). 327–339. 889 indexed citations breakdown →

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Palin, Kimmo, Harry Campbell, Alan F. Wright, James F. Wilson, & Richard Durbin. (2011). Identity‐by‐descent‐based phasing and imputation in founder populations using graphical models. Genetic Epidemiology. 35(8). 853–860. 22 indexed citations

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Wei, Gong‐Hong, Gwenaël Badis, Michael F. Berger, et al.. (2010). Genome-wide analysis of ETS-family DNA-binding in vitro and in vivo. The EMBO Journal. 29(13). 2147–2160. 433 indexed citations

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Vingron, Martin, Alvis Brāzma, Richard Coulson, et al.. (2009). Integrating sequence, evolution and functional genomics in regulatory genomics. Genome Biology. 10(1). 202–202. 14 indexed citations

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Hallikas, Outi, et al.. (2006). Genome-wide Prediction of Mammalian Enhancers Based on Analysis of Transcription-Factor Binding Affinity. Cell. 124(1). 47–59. 355 indexed citations

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Palin, Kimmo, Jussi Taipale, & Esko Ukkonen. (2006). Locating potential enhancer elements by comparative genomics using the EEL software. Nature Protocols. 1(1). 368–374. 26 indexed citations

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Foxman, Betsy, Brenda W. Gillespie, James S. Koopman, et al.. (2000). Risk Factors for Second Urinary Tract Infection among College Women. American Journal of Epidemiology. 151(12). 1194–1205. 249 indexed citations

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Foxman, Betsy, L Zhang, Kimmo Palin, P Tallman, & Carl F. Marrs. (1995). Bacterial Virulence Characteristics of Escherichia coli Isolates from First-Time Urinary Tract Infection. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 171(6). 1514–1521. 106 indexed citations

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