Mark Willard

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

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Mark Willard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Willard has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Cell Biology and 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mark Willard's work include Skin and Cellular Biology Research (10 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (10 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (7 papers). Mark Willard is often cited by papers focused on Skin and Cellular Biology Research (10 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (10 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (7 papers). Mark Willard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Russia. Mark Willard's co-authors include Joel S. Levine, J. H. Pate Skene, Nobutaka Hirokawa, Carolyn Simon, Marcie A. Glicksman, Karina F. Meiri, K H Pfenninger, Richard E. Cheney, Andrés M. Lozano and Albert J. Aguayo and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Mark Willard

43 papers receiving 4.4k citations

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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.

Axonally transported proteins associated with axon growth in rabbit central and peripheral nervous systems

1981 514 citations Mark Willard et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
Growth-associated protein, GAP-43, a polypeptide that is induced when neurons extend axons, is a component of growth cones and corresponds to pp46, a major polypeptide of a subcellular fraction enriched in growth cones.

1986 493 citations Karina F. Meiri, Mark Willard et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Willard United States	27	2.3k	2.1k	2.1k	668	649	44	4.6k
Richard U. Margolis United States	37	3.3k 1.4×	2.8k 1.4×	2.2k 1.0×	406 0.6×	764 1.2×	67	5.9k
William W. Schlaepfer United States	44	2.7k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	626 0.9×	398 0.6×	107	5.8k
Denis Monard Switzerland	40	2.3k 1.0×	721 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	471 0.7×	497 0.8×	89	5.2k
Doris Dahl United States	32	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	293 0.4×	989 1.5×	70	4.4k
Philip Grant United States	32	1.6k 0.7×	898 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	438 0.7×	388 0.6×	88	3.6k
Patrizia Rosa Italy	42	3.3k 1.4×	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	607 0.9×	487 0.8×	74	5.7k
Renée K. Margolis United States	48	4.3k 1.9×	4.0k 1.9×	1.7k 0.8×	391 0.6×	439 0.7×	93	6.4k
Nancy H. Sternberger United States	34	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	729 1.1×	839 1.3×	61	5.0k
Gianluca Gallo United States	39	2.1k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.3×	333 0.5×	1.0k 1.6×	82	4.7k
VM Lee United States	17	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	937 0.5×	333 0.5×	455 0.7×	18	2.7k

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Spencer, Susan & Mark Willard. (1992). Does GAP-43 support axon growth by increasing the axonal transport velocity of calmodulin?. Experimental Neurology. 115(1). 167–172. 13 indexed citations

Schuh, Susan M., et al.. (1992). GAP-43, a protein associated with axon growth, is phosphorylated at three sites in cultured neurons and rat brain.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 267(13). 9059–9064. 59 indexed citations

Lozano, Andrés M., et al.. (1991). Chapter 2: GAP-43: purification from a prokaryotic expression system, phosphorylation in cultured neurons, and regulation of synthesis in the central nervous system. Progress in brain research. 89. 17–26. 4 indexed citations

Schuh, Susan M., Susan Spencer, & Mark Willard. (1991). Production of the neuronal growth-associated protein GAP-43 in a bacterial expression system. Brain Research. 565(1). 85–93. 2 indexed citations

Lozano, Andrés M., et al.. (1991). Expression of the growth-associated protein GAP-43 in adult rat retinal ganglion cells following axon injury. Neuron. 6(4). 635–647. 284 indexed citations

Soppet, Dan, Lora Beasley, & Mark Willard. (1991). Sequence of the rabbit neurofilament protein L. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 30(1). 42–46. 4 indexed citations

Changelian, Paul S., et al.. (1990). Purification of the growth-associated protein GAP-43 by reversed phase chromatography: amino acid sequence analysis and cDNA identification. Brain Research. 510(2). 259–268. 16 indexed citations

McIntosh, Helen, David Parkinson, Karina F. Meiri, Nigel W. Daw, & Mark Willard. (1989). A GAP-43-like protein in cat visual cortex. Visual Neuroscience. 2(6). 583–591. 16 indexed citations

Willard, Mark, et al.. (1988). Distribution and phosphorylation of the growth-associated protein GAP- 43 in regenerating sympathetic neurons in culture. Journal of Neuroscience. 8(7). 2571–2581. 154 indexed citations

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Baitinger, Celia & Mark Willard. (1987). Axonal transport of synapsin I-like proteins in rabbit retinal ganglion cells. Journal of Neuroscience. 7(11). 3723–3735. 61 indexed citations

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Schatten, Heide, Richard E. Cheney, Ron Balczon, et al.. (1986). Localization of fodrin during fertilization and early development of sea urchins and mice. Developmental Biology. 118(2). 457–466. 72 indexed citations

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Hirokawa, Nobutaka, Marcie A. Glicksman, & Mark Willard. (1984). Organization of mammalian neurofilament polypeptides within the neuronal cytoskeleton.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 98(4). 1523–1536. 433 indexed citations

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Hirokawa, Nobutaka, Richard E. Cheney, & Mark Willard. (1983). Location of a protein of the fodrin-spectrin-TW260/240 family in the mouse intestinal brush border. Cell. 32(3). 953–965. 135 indexed citations

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Levine, Joel S. & Mark Willard. (1983). Redistribution of fodrin (a component of the cortical cytoplasm) accompanying capping of cell surface molecules.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 80(1). 191–195. 97 indexed citations

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Baitinger, Celia, Richard E. Cheney, Dave Clements, et al.. (1983). Axonally Transported Proteins in Axon Development, Maintenance, and Regeneration. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 48(0). 791–802. 12 indexed citations

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Skene, J. H. Pate & Mark Willard. (1981). Characteristics of growth-associated polypeptides in regenerating toad retinal ganglion cell axons. Journal of Neuroscience. 1(4). 419–426. 137 indexed citations

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Willard, Mark, et al.. (1981). Axonally transported proteins associated with axon growth in rabbit central and peripheral nervous systems. The Journal of Cell Biology. 89(1). 96–103. 514 indexed citations breakdown →

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Willard, Mark, Carolyn Simon, Celia Baitinger, Joel S. Levine, & J. H. Pate Skene. (1980). Association of an axonally transported polypeptide (H) with 100-A filaments. Use of immunoaffinity electron microscope grids.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 85(3). 587–596. 27 indexed citations

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Willard, Mark, M. Wiseman, Joel S. Levine, & J. H. Pate Skene. (1979). Axonal transport of actin in rabbit retinal ganglion cells.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 81(3). 581–591. 75 indexed citations

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Willard, Mark. (1977). The identification of two intra-axonally transported polypeptides resembling myosin in some respects in the rabbit visual system.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 75(1). 1–11. 51 indexed citations

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