Luis Barrera

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Luis Barrera is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luis Barrera has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Plant Science and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Luis Barrera's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (7 papers). Luis Barrera is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (7 papers). Luis Barrera collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Luis Barrera's co-authors include Martha L. Bulyk, Stephen S. Gisselbrecht, Giuseppe Ciaramella, David A. Born, Nicole M. Gaudelli, Holly A. Rees, Lauren Young, Seung‐Joo Lee, Michael S. Packer and Dieter K. Lam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Luis Barrera

22 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Directed evolution of adenine base editors with increased activity and therapeutic application

2020 341 citations Nicole M. Gaudelli, Dieter K. Lam et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luis Barrera United States	16	1.3k	355	134	129	117	22	1.5k
Rhiannon K. Macrae United States	18	1.3k 1.0×	299 0.8×	179 1.3×	85 0.7×	77 0.7×	33	1.6k
Garrett R. Rettig United States	14	1.1k 0.8×	331 0.9×	75 0.6×	137 1.1×	56 0.5×	19	1.2k
Timm Weber Germany	10	1.2k 0.9×	369 1.0×	85 0.6×	187 1.4×	87 0.7×	14	1.5k
Yilong Li United States	16	1.7k 1.3×	352 1.0×	225 1.7×	209 1.6×	110 0.9×	26	2.0k
Shiyou Zhu China	10	1.2k 0.9×	205 0.6×	59 0.4×	85 0.7×	94 0.8×	13	1.4k
Ruth E. Hanna United States	11	1.0k 0.8×	166 0.5×	60 0.4×	156 1.2×	80 0.7×	13	1.2k
Robin M. Meyers United States	14	1.6k 1.2×	302 0.9×	116 0.9×	188 1.5×	99 0.8×	21	2.0k
Ren-Jang Lin United States	27	3.0k 2.2×	271 0.8×	163 1.2×	144 1.1×	63 0.5×	62	3.2k
Shun‐Qing Liang United States	17	922 0.7×	212 0.6×	40 0.3×	200 1.6×	94 0.8×	32	1.2k
Jiazhi Hu China	21	1.9k 1.5×	349 1.0×	194 1.4×	255 2.0×	100 0.9×	40	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Luis Barrera

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luis Barrera

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

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Urnov, Fyodor D., Sadik H. Kassim, Kiran Musunuru, et al.. (2025). Advancing gene-editing platforms to improve the viability of rare-disease therapeutics: key insights from a 2024 Scientific Exchange hosted by ARM, ISCT, and Danaher. Cytotherapy. 27(10). 1151–1163. 2 indexed citations

Kassim, Sadik H., Fyodor D. Urnov, Kiran Musunuru, et al.. (2025). Platform solutions for commercial challenges to expanding patient access and making gene editing sustainable. Nature Biotechnology. 43(7). 1047–1049. 2 indexed citations

Smekalova, Elena M., María Guadalupe Martínez, Emmanuel Combe, et al.. (2023). Cytosine base editing inhibits hepatitis B virus replication and reduces HBsAg expression in vitro and in vivo. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 35(1). 102112–102112. 18 indexed citations

Chu, S. Haihua, Michael S. Packer, Holly A. Rees, et al.. (2021). Rationally Designed Base Editors for Precise Editing of the Sickle Cell Disease Mutation. The CRISPR Journal. 4(2). 169–177. 55 indexed citations

Yang, Yinmeng, Ryan Murray, Faith Musenge, et al.. (2021). 155 CD5 knockout enhances the potency of multiplex base-edited allogeneic anti-CD5 CAR T-cell therapy for the treatment of T-cell malignancies. Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts. A165–A165. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Xinfu, Weiyu Zhao, Giang N. Nguyen, et al.. (2020). Functionalized lipid-like nanoparticles for in vivo mRNA delivery and base editing. Science Advances. 6(34). 151 indexed citations

Yu, Yi, Thomas Leete, David A. Born, et al.. (2020). Cytosine base editors with minimized unguided DNA and RNA off-target events and high on-target activity. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2052–2052. 151 indexed citations

Gaudelli, Nicole M., Dieter K. Lam, Holly A. Rees, et al.. (2020). Directed evolution of adenine base editors with increased activity and therapeutic application. Nature Biotechnology. 38(7). 892–900. 341 indexed citations breakdown →

MUKHERJEE, H. G., J. Craig Blain, Lee E. Vandivier, et al.. (2020). PEARL-seq: A Photoaffinity Platform for the Analysis of Small Molecule-RNA Interactions. ACS Chemical Biology. 15(9). 2374–2381. 33 indexed citations

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Chu, S. Haihua, Michael S. Packer, Jeffrey Marshall, et al.. (2020). Adenine Base Editing of the Sickle Allele in CD34+ Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells Eliminates Hemoglobin S. Blood. 136(Supplement 1). 47–47. 2 indexed citations

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Tycko, Josh, Luis Barrera, Nicholas C. Huston, et al.. (2018). Pairwise library screen systematically interrogates Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 specificity in human cells. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2962–2962. 27 indexed citations

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Giannoukos, Georgia, Dawn Ciulla, Eugenio Marco, et al.. (2018). UDiTaS™, a genome editing detection method for indels and genome rearrangements. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 212–212. 93 indexed citations

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Bothmer, Anne, Luis Barrera, Carrie M. Margulies, et al.. (2017). Characterization of the interplay between DNA repair and CRISPR/Cas9-induced DNA lesions at an endogenous locus. Nature Communications. 8(1). 13905–13905. 145 indexed citations

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Mariani, Luca, Kathryn Weinand, Anastasia Vedenko, Luis Barrera, & Martha L. Bulyk. (2017). Identification of Human Lineage-Specific Transcriptional Coregulators Enabled by a Glossary of Binding Modules and Tunable Genomic Backgrounds. Cell Systems. 5(3). 187–201.e7. 25 indexed citations

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Nelms, Brad, Levi Waldron, Luis Barrera, et al.. (2016). CellMapper: rapid and accurate inference of gene expression in difficult-to-isolate cell types. Genome biology. 17(1). 201–201. 15 indexed citations

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Rogers, Julia M., Luis Barrera, Deepak Reyon, et al.. (2015). Context influences on TALE–DNA binding revealed by quantitative profiling. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7440–7440. 28 indexed citations

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Barrera, Luis, et al.. (2014). UniPROBE, update 2015: new tools and content for the online database of protein-binding microarray data on protein–DNA interactions. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D117–D122. 206 indexed citations

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Zhao, Bo, Luis Barrera, Ina Ersing, et al.. (2014). The NF-κB Genomic Landscape in Lymphoblastoid B Cells. Cell Reports. 8(5). 1595–1606. 125 indexed citations

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Gisselbrecht, Stephen S., Luis Barrera, Anton Aboukhalil, et al.. (2013). Highly parallel assays of tissue-specific enhancers in whole Drosophila embryos. Nature Methods. 10(8). 774–780. 48 indexed citations

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Hladish, Thomas J., Eugene Melamud, Luis Barrera, Alison P. Galvani, & Lauren Ancel Meyers. (2012). EpiFire: An open source C++ library and application for contact network epidemiology. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(1). 76–76. 27 indexed citations

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