Lesley Jones

24.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

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Lesley Jones is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lesley Jones has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 56 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Lesley Jones's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (56 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (41 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (15 papers). Lesley Jones is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (56 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (41 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (15 papers). Lesley Jones collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Lesley Jones's co-authors include Stephen B. Dunnett, Simon P. Brooks, Nicolle H. Packer, Yi Xing, Scott Q. Harper, Beverly L. Davidson, Peter Holmans, Thomas H. Massey, Julie Williams and Zubeyde Bayram-Weston and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Lesley Jones

75 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

The Bifunctional microRNA miR-9/miR-9* Regulates REST and CoREST and Is Downregulated in Huntington's Disease

2008 559 citations Nicolle H. Packer, Yi Xing et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lesley Jones United Kingdom	36	2.3k	1.8k	698	403	340	79	3.3k
Tie-Shan Tang United States	21	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	456 0.7×	272 0.7×	199 0.6×	22	2.9k
Scott Zeitlin United States	34	4.0k 1.7×	3.6k 2.0×	1.2k 1.6×	232 0.6×	364 1.1×	47	5.5k
Ignacio Muñoz-Sanjuán United States	29	2.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	470 0.7×	109 0.3×	208 0.6×	82	3.3k
Amber L. Southwell Canada	31	2.3k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	687 1.0×	75 0.2×	310 0.9×	48	3.2k
Ghazaleh Sadri‐Vakili United States	29	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	303 0.4×	106 0.3×	175 0.5×	52	2.9k
Hossein Aleyasin United States	23	1.1k 0.5×	803 0.4×	622 0.9×	168 0.4×	342 1.0×	32	2.5k
Ursula Boschert United States	30	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	197 0.3×	242 0.6×	271 0.8×	55	4.2k
Louis J. DeGennaro United States	22	1.5k 0.6×	814 0.5×	549 0.8×	214 0.5×	500 1.5×	30	2.9k
Seung Kwak United States	32	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	314 0.4×	128 0.3×	184 0.5×	55	2.7k
Cataldo Tirolo Italy	31	1.1k 0.5×	968 0.5×	579 0.8×	178 0.4×	265 0.8×	49	2.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Paisey, Stephen J., Lesley Jones, David J. Harrison, et al.. (2025). Imaging of human stem cell-derived dopamine grafts correlates with behavioural recovery and reveals microstructural brain changes. Neurobiology of Disease. 209. 106910–106910.

McAllister, Branduff, et al.. (2023). Mutant huntingtin confers cell-autonomous phenotypes on Huntington’s disease iPSC-derived microglia. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20477–20477. 6 indexed citations

Taylor, Alysha, Nastassia Gobet, Branduff McAllister, et al.. (2022). Repeat Detector: versatile sizing of expanded tandem repeats and identification of interrupted alleles from targeted DNA sequencing. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 4(4). lqac089–lqac089. 7 indexed citations

Jones, Lesley, Vanessa C. Wheeler, & Christopher E. Pearson. (2021). Special Issue: DNA Repair and Somatic Repeat Expansion in Huntington’s Disease. Journal of Huntington s Disease. 10(1). 3–5. 4 indexed citations

Hong, Eun Pyo, Marcy E. MacDonald, Vanessa C. Wheeler, et al.. (2021). Huntington’s Disease Pathogenesis: Two Sequential Components. Journal of Huntington s Disease. 10(1). 35–51. 54 indexed citations

Holmans, Peter, et al.. (2021). What is the Pathogenic CAG Expansion Length in Huntington’s Disease?. Journal of Huntington s Disease. 10(1). 175–202. 37 indexed citations

Goold, Robert, Michael Flower, Davina J. Hensman Moss, et al.. (2018). FAN1 modifies Huntington’s disease progression by stabilizing the expanded HTT CAG repeat. Human Molecular Genetics. 28(4). 650–661. 90 indexed citations

Moss, Davina J. Hensman, Michael Flower, Kitty Lo, et al.. (2017). Huntington’s disease blood and brain show a common gene expression pattern and share an immune signature with Alzheimer’s disease. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44849–44849. 40 indexed citations

Bayram-Weston, Zubeyde, Timothy Stone, Peter Giles, et al.. (2015). Similar striatal gene expression profiles in the striatum of the YAC128 and HdhQ150 mouse models of Huntington’s disease are not reflected in mutant Huntingtin inclusion prevalence. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 1079–1079. 5 indexed citations

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Bowles, Kathryn R. & Lesley Jones. (2014). Kinase Signalling in Huntington's Disease. Journal of Huntington s Disease. 3(2). 89–123. 44 indexed citations

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Taylor, David, Roger Moser, Etienne Régulier, et al.. (2013). MAP Kinase Phosphatase 1 (MKP-1/DUSP1) Is Neuroprotective in Huntington's Disease via Additive Effects of JNK and p38 Inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(6). 2313–2325. 94 indexed citations

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Feyeux, Maxime, Peter Giles, Nathalie Lefort, et al.. (2012). Early transcriptional changes linked to naturally occurring Huntington's disease mutations in neural derivatives of human embryonic stem cells. Human Molecular Genetics. 21(17). 3883–3895. 56 indexed citations

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Brooks, Simon P., et al.. (2011). Longitudinal analysis of the behavioural phenotype in R6/1 (C57BL/6J) Huntington's disease transgenic mice. Brain Research Bulletin. 88(2-3). 94–103. 45 indexed citations

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Bayram-Weston, Zubeyde, Lesley Jones, Stephen B. Dunnett, & Simon P. Brooks. (2011). Light and electron microscopic characterization of the evolution of cellular pathology in the R6/1 Huntington's disease transgenic mice. Brain Research Bulletin. 88(2-3). 104–112. 45 indexed citations

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Bayram-Weston, Zubeyde, Lesley Jones, Stephen B. Dunnett, & Simon P. Brooks. (2011). Light and electron microscopic characterization of the evolution of cellular pathology in HdhQ92 Huntington's disease knock-in mice. Brain Research Bulletin. 88(2-3). 171–181. 24 indexed citations

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Packer, Nicolle H., Yi Xing, Scott Q. Harper, Lesley Jones, & Beverly L. Davidson. (2008). The Bifunctional microRNA miR-9/miR-9* Regulates REST and CoREST and Is Downregulated in Huntington's Disease. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(53). 14341–14346. 559 indexed citations breakdown →

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Strand, Andrew D., Zachary C. Baquet, Aaron K. Aragaki, et al.. (2007). Expression Profiling of Huntington's Disease Models Suggests That Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Depletion Plays a Major Role in Striatal Degeneration. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(43). 11758–11768. 174 indexed citations

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Trueman, Rebecca C., Simon P. Brooks, Lesley Jones, & Stephen B. Dunnett. (2007). The operant serial implicit learning task reveals early onset motor learning deficits in the Hdh^Q92 knock‐in mouse model of Huntington's disease. European Journal of Neuroscience. 25(2). 551–558. 46 indexed citations

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Stephens, Dafydd & Lesley Jones. (2006). The effects of genetic hearing impairment in the family. Wiley eBooks. 13 indexed citations

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Jones, Lesley, Peter Kille, Jane E. Dancer, & John L. Harwood. (1993). The cloning and overexpression of escherichia-coli acyl carrier protein. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 1 indexed citations

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