Kirk Beebe

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Kirk Beebe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kirk Beebe has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Physiology and 4 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Kirk Beebe's work include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). Kirk Beebe is often cited by papers focused on Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). Kirk Beebe collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Kirk Beebe's co-authors include Paul Schimmel, Walter Gall, Michael V. Milburn, Matthew Mitchell, John Ryals, Dehua Pei, Chantal M. Longo-Guess, Jae-Seon Jang, Susan L. Ackerman and Leslie A. Nangle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kirk Beebe

31 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

α-Hydroxybutyrate Is an Early Biomarker of Insulin Resistance and Glucose Intolerance in a Nondiabetic Population

2010 546 citations Walter Gall, Kirk Beebe et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kirk Beebe United States	21	1.9k	590	229	228	217	31	2.5k
Gillian Hughes New Zealand	23	1.9k 1.0×	481 0.8×	176 0.8×	186 0.8×	147 0.7×	41	3.0k
Xin Jiang China	31	2.0k 1.1×	533 0.9×	188 0.8×	254 1.1×	273 1.3×	110	3.3k
Maria Eugenia Schininà Italy	34	1.7k 0.9×	461 0.8×	235 1.0×	157 0.7×	330 1.5×	92	2.8k
Filipe Cabreiro United Kingdom	20	1.5k 0.8×	598 1.0×	172 0.8×	97 0.4×	99 0.5×	32	2.4k
Margherita Ruoppolo Italy	30	1.5k 0.8×	344 0.6×	164 0.7×	280 1.2×	322 1.5×	116	2.4k
Anca D. Petrescu United States	27	1.6k 0.8×	326 0.6×	347 1.5×	87 0.4×	304 1.4×	59	2.4k
Hiromasa Tojo Japan	32	1.6k 0.8×	315 0.5×	129 0.6×	343 1.5×	262 1.2×	111	2.9k
Gary F. Merrill United States	33	2.3k 1.2×	670 1.1×	219 1.0×	229 1.0×	378 1.7×	113	3.6k
Elizabeth C. Ledgerwood New Zealand	24	2.0k 1.0×	399 0.7×	234 1.0×	128 0.6×	236 1.1×	50	2.9k
Jiyan Ma United States	34	3.3k 1.7×	763 1.3×	172 0.8×	223 1.0×	386 1.8×	95	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kirk Beebe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kirk Beebe

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

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Tzankov, Alexandar, Fatima König, Joanne Lewis, et al.. (2021). Expression of end-binding protein 1 (EB1), a potential response-predictive biomarker for lisavanbulin, in glioblastoma and various other solid tumor types.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 39(15_suppl). 3118–3118. 1 indexed citations

Kennedy, Adam D., Marcus J. Miller, Kirk Beebe, et al.. (2016). Metabolomic Profiling of Human Urine as a Screen for Multiple Inborn Errors of Metabolism. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 20(9). 485–495. 42 indexed citations

Beebe, Kirk & Adam D. Kennedy. (2016). Sharpening Precision Medicine by a Thorough Interrogation of Metabolic Individuality. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 14. 97–105. 27 indexed citations

Lerín, Carles, Allison B. Goldfine, Tanner Boes, et al.. (2016). Defects in muscle branched-chain amino acid oxidation contribute to impaired lipid metabolism. Molecular Metabolism. 5(10). 926–936. 118 indexed citations

Beebe, Kirk, Brante P. Sampey, Steven M. Watkins, Michael V. Milburn, & Andrea D. Eckhart. (2014). Understanding the Apothecaries Within: The Necessity of a Systematic Approach for Defining the Chemical Output of the Human Microbiome. Clinical and Translational Science. 7(1). 74–81. 8 indexed citations

Eckhart, Andrea D., Kirk Beebe, & Mike Milburn. (2012). Metabolomics as a Key Integrator for “Omic” Advancement of Personalized Medicine and Future Therapies. Clinical and Translational Science. 5(3). 285–288. 43 indexed citations

Spitale, Robert C., Michelle Cheng, Kimberly Chun, et al.. (2012). Differential effects of dietary supplements on metabolomic profile of smokers versus non-smokers. Genome Medicine. 4(2). 14–14. 11 indexed citations

Macotela, Yazmín, Brice Emanuelli, Daniel Espinoza, et al.. (2011). Dietary Leucine - An Environmental Modifier of Insulin Resistance Acting on Multiple Levels of Metabolism. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e21187–e21187. 219 indexed citations

Gall, Walter, Kirk Beebe, Kay A. Lawton, et al.. (2010). α-Hydroxybutyrate Is an Early Biomarker of Insulin Resistance and Glucose Intolerance in a Nondiabetic Population. PLoS ONE. 5(5). e10883–e10883. 546 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ohta, Tetsuya, Naoya Masutomi, Naohisa Tsutsui, et al.. (2009). Untargeted Metabolomic Profiling as an Evaluative Tool of Fenofibrate-Induced Toxicology in Fischer 344 Male Rats. Toxicologic Pathology. 37(4). 521–535. 187 indexed citations

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Guo, Min, Yeeting E. Chong, Ryan Shapiro, et al.. (2009). Paradox of mistranslation of serine for alanine caused by AlaRS recognition dilemma. Nature. 462(7274). 808–812. 84 indexed citations

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Beebe, Kirk, et al.. (2008). Distinct domains of tRNA synthetase recognize the same base pair. Nature. 451(7174). 90–93. 69 indexed citations

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Beebe, Kirk, William F. Waas, Zhanna Druzina, Min Guo, & Paul Schimmel. (2007). A universal plate format for increased throughput of assays that monitor multiple aminoacyl transfer RNA synthetase activities. Analytical Biochemistry. 368(1). 111–121. 34 indexed citations

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Schimmel, Paul & Kirk Beebe. (2006). 8 Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases: From the RNA World to the Theater of Proteins. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 43. 227–255. 4 indexed citations

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Lee, Jeong-Woong, Kirk Beebe, Leslie A. Nangle, et al.. (2006). Editing-defective tRNA synthetase causes protein misfolding and neurodegeneration. Nature. 443(7107). 50–55. 488 indexed citations

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Beebe, Kirk, et al.. (2003). Structure-specific tRNA Determinants for Editing a Mischarged Amino Acid. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(46). 45056–45061. 19 indexed citations

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Beebe, Kirk. (2003). Elucidation of tRNA-dependent editing by a class II tRNA synthetase and significance for cell viability. The EMBO Journal. 22(3). 668–675. 149 indexed citations

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Arabacı, Gülnur, Yi Tian, Hua Fu, et al.. (2002). α-Bromoacetophenone derivatives as neutral protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors: structure–Activity relationship. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 12(21). 3047–3050. 37 indexed citations

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Wang, Peng, In‐Ja L. Byeon, Hua Liao, et al.. (2000). II. Structure and specificity of the interaction between the FHA2 domain of rad53 and phosphotyrosyl peptides. Journal of Molecular Biology. 302(4). 927–940. 43 indexed citations

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Beebe, Kirk & Dehua Pei. (1998). A Continuous Fluorimetric Assay for Tail-Specific Protease. Analytical Biochemistry. 263(1). 51–56. 5 indexed citations

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