Kristine A. Willis

933 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 617 citations indexed

About

Kristine A. Willis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kristine A. Willis has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 617 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 1 paper in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Kristine A. Willis's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and Nuclear Structure and Function (3 papers). Kristine A. Willis is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and Nuclear Structure and Function (3 papers). Kristine A. Willis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and India. Kristine A. Willis's co-authors include George M. Santangelo, Matthew J. Perkins, Alison F. Davis, James M. Anderson, Michael S. Lauer, Hannah A. Valantine, Aviva Litovitz, Rebecca A. Meseroll, B. Ian Hutchins and Travis Hoppe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Kristine A. Willis

8 papers receiving 606 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.

  1. Topic choice contributes to the lower rate of NIH awards to African-American/black scientists
    2019 374 citations Travis Hoppe, Aviva Litovitz et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kristine A. Willis United States 7 227 153 134 74 69 9 617
Rebecca A. Meseroll United States 8 220 1.0× 156 1.0× 158 1.2× 78 1.1× 71 1.0× 9 676
María E. González United States 12 142 0.6× 91 0.6× 102 0.8× 37 0.5× 25 0.4× 29 608
Camille A. Martina United States 12 39 0.2× 46 0.3× 116 0.9× 69 0.9× 44 0.6× 25 424
Todd Cassese United States 9 101 0.4× 28 0.2× 195 1.5× 69 0.9× 15 0.2× 19 422
Leonard A. Cole United States 11 85 0.4× 43 0.3× 27 0.2× 32 0.4× 95 1.4× 41 320
Nidhi Subbaraman India 14 54 0.2× 16 0.1× 48 0.4× 37 0.5× 57 0.8× 70 449
Nicole Reynolds United States 6 114 0.5× 279 1.8× 21 0.2× 63 0.9× 197 2.9× 16 582
Charis Thompson United States 10 66 0.3× 58 0.4× 89 0.7× 48 0.6× 49 0.7× 24 545
Anne Wagner Canada 12 59 0.3× 65 0.4× 71 0.5× 44 0.6× 128 1.9× 17 467
Lisa D. Erickson United States 12 47 0.2× 26 0.2× 391 2.9× 51 0.7× 114 1.7× 19 722

Countries citing papers authored by Kristine A. Willis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kristine A. Willis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kristine A. Willis

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

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Busse, Brad, James D. Tucker, Summer Allen, George M. Santangelo, & Kristine A. Willis. (2025). A thirty-year trend of increasing clinical orientation at the National Institutes of Health. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).
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Hoppe, Travis, Aviva Litovitz, Kristine A. Willis, et al.. (2019). Topic choice contributes to the lower rate of NIH awards to African-American/black scientists. Science Advances. 5(10). eaaw7238–eaaw7238. 374 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sarma, Nayan J. & Kristine A. Willis. (2012). The new nucleoporin. Nucleus. 3(6). 508–515. 5 indexed citations
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Sarma, Nayan J., et al.. (2011). The Nuclear Pore Complex Mediates Binding of the Mig1 Repressor to Target Promoters. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e27117–e27117. 25 indexed citations
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Willis, Kristine A., et al.. (2007). Coiled coil structures and transcription: an analysis of the S. cerevisiae coilome. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 278(2). 135–147. 11 indexed citations
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Haley, Terry, et al.. (2006). The transcription factor Gcr1 stimulates cell growth by participating in nutrient-responsive gene expression on a global level. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 277(2). 171–188. 27 indexed citations
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Menon, Balaraj B., Nayan J. Sarma, Satish Pasula, et al.. (2005). Reverse recruitment: The Nup84 nuclear pore subcomplex mediates Rap1/Gcr1/Gcr2 transcriptional activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(16). 5749–5754. 113 indexed citations
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