Michael A. Black

8.3k citations

128 papers · 6.7k · 2 hit papers · h-index 45

Impact in

Obstetrics and Gynecology top 1%
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
Physiology top 1%
- Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species

Papers in

Cancer Research 17
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies 10
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics 4
Obstetrics and Gynecology 7
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies 7

Co-authors: Neil J. Gemmell (9 shared papers)Lance David Miller (13 shared papers)Rebecca W. Doerge (3 shared papers)Bruce Α. Craig (5 shared papers)Lesley M. E. McCowan (7 shared papers)Rennae S. Taylor (5 shared papers)James C. Carrington (1 shared paper)Robert A. Martienssen (1 shared paper)
Journals: Frontiers in Genetics (6 papers)BMC Bioinformatics (4 papers)PLoS ONE (4 papers)BMC Cancer (3 papers)Cancers (3 papers)
Partner nations: New Zealand United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Black

126 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Michael A. Black's Hit Papers

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Clinical risk prediction for pre-eclampsia in nulliparous women: development of model in international prospective cohort 2011 · 355 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2011 BMJ
2004 Nature

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1	Role of transposable elements in heterochromatin and epigenetic control Nature ·Zachary B. Lippman, Anne-Valérie Gendrel, Michael A. Black, Matthew W. Vaughn, Neilay Dedhia, William Richard McCombie, Kimberly Lavine, Vivek Mittal Hit paper breakdown →	2004	956
2	Clinical risk prediction for pre-eclampsia in nulliparous women: development of model in international prospective cohort BMJ ·Lesley M. E. McCowan, Gustaaf Dekker, Lucilla Poston, E. H. Y. Chan, A. W. Stewart, Michael A. Black, Rennae S. Taylor, James Johnston Walker Hit paper breakdown →	2011	355
3	Tumor mutational burden is a determinant of immune-mediated survival in breast cancer OncoImmunology ·Alexandra Thomas, Eric D. Routh, Ashok Pullikuth, Guangxu Jin, Jing Su, Jeff W. Chou, Katherine A. Hoadley, Cristin Gregor Print	2018	227
4	Mutations in genes encoding the cadherin receptor-ligand pair DCHS1 and FAT4 disrupt cerebral cortical development Nature Genetics ·Silvia Cappello, Mary Jane Gray, Caroline Badouel, Simona Lange, Melanie Einsiedler, Myriam Srour, David A. Chitayat, Fadi F. Hamdan	2013	219
5	The G Protein–Coupled Receptor GPR30 Inhibits Proliferation of Estrogen Receptor–Positive Breast Cancer Cells Cancer Research ·Eric A. Ariazi, Eugen Brailoiu, Smitha Yerrum, Heather A. Shupp, Michael J. Slifker, Heather E. Cunliffe, Michael A. Black, Anne L. Donato	2010	210
6	Early Pregnancy Prediction of Preeclampsia in Nulliparous Women, Combining Clinical Risk and Biomarkers Hypertension ·Louise C. Kenny, Michael A. Black, Lucilla Poston, Rennae S. Taylor, Jenny Myers, Philip Newton Baker, Lesley M. E. McCowan, Nigel Simpson	2014	191
7	Sleeping Beauty mutagenesis reveals cooperating mutations and pathways in pancreatic adenocarcinoma Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Karen M. Mann, Jerrold Michael Ward, Christopher Chin Kuan Yew, Anne Kovochich, David W. Dawson, Michael A. Black, Benjamin T. Brett, Todd E. Scheetz	2012	183
8	An Iron Regulatory Gene Signature Predicts Outcome in Breast Cancer Cancer Research ·Lance David Miller, Lan Gardner Coffman, Jeff W. Chou, Michael A. Black, Jonas C. S. Bergh, Suzy V. Torti, Frank M. Torti +1 other	2011	178
9	The power and promise of RNA ‐seq in ecology and evolution Molecular Ecology ·Erica V. Todd, Michael A. Black, Neil J. Gemmell	2016	174
10	Interactions between immunity, proliferation and molecular subtype in breast cancer prognosis Genome biology ·Srikanth Nagalla, Jeff W. Chou, Mark C. Willingham, Jimmy Ruiz, James P. Vaughn, Purnima Dubey, Timothy Lee Lash, Stephen Jacques Hamilton-Dutoit	2013	159
11	Cyclin E2 Overexpression Is Associated with Endocrine Resistance but not Insensitivity to CDK2 Inhibition in Human Breast Cancer Cells Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·Catherine Elizabeth Caldon, C. Marcelo Sergio, Anita Muthukaruppan, Marijke N. Boersma, Andrew M. Stone, Jane Barraclough, Christine S Lee, Michael A. Black	2012	135
12	Microsatellite Tandem Repeats Are Abundant in Human Promoters and Are Associated with Regulatory Elements PLoS ONE ·Sterling M. Sawaya, Andrew Bagshaw, Emmanuel Buschiazzo, Pankaj Kumar, Shantanu Chowdhury, Michael A. Black, Neil J. Gemmell	2013	127
13	Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae from Recent Outbreaks of Kiwifruit Bacterial Canker Belong to Different Clones That Originated in China PLoS ONE ·Margaret I. Butler, Peter A. Stockwell, Michael A. Black, Robert C. Day, Iain L. Lamont, Russell T. M. Poulter	2013	127
14	E-cadherin loss alters cytoskeletal organization and adhesion in non-malignant breast cells but is insufficient to induce an epithelial-mesenchymal transition BMC Cancer ·Augustine Chen, Henry G. Beetham, Michael A. Black, Rashmi Priya, Bryony J. Telford, Joanne Guest, George A. R. Wiggins, Tanis D. Godwin	2014	113
15	Stress, novel sex genes, and epigenetic reprogramming orchestrate socially controlled sex change Science Advances ·Erica V. Todd, Oscar Ortega‐Recalde, Hui Liu, Melissa S. Lamm, Kim Rutherford, Hugh Cross, Michael A. Black, Olga Kardailsky	2019	113
16	Multiple Gene Expression Classifiers from Different Array Platforms Predict Poor Prognosis of Colorectal Cancer Clinical Cancer Research ·Yu-Hsin Lin, Jan Friederichs, Michael A. Black, Jörg Mages, Parry Guilford, Vicky Phillips, Mark W. Thompson-Fawcett, Nikola Kirilov Kasabov	2007	111
17	Duration of sexual relationship and its effect on preeclampsia and small for gestational age perinatal outcome Journal of Reproductive Immunology ·Ee Min Kho, Lesley M. E. McCowan, Robyn A. North, Claire Trelford Roberts, Eliza Chan, Michael A. Black, Rennae S. Taylor, Gustaaf Dekker	2009	100
18	YB-1, the E2F Pathway, and Regulation of Tumor Cell Growth JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute ·Annette Lasham, Weini Samuel, Helen Cao, Rachna Patel, Reena Mehta, Josh Lewis Stern, Glen Reid, Adele G. Woolley	2011	100
19	JMJD6 is a driver of cellular proliferation and motility and a marker of poor prognosis in breast cancer Breast Cancer Research ·Yi Fang Lee, Lance David Miller, Xiu Bin Chan, Michael A. Black, Brendan Pang, Chee Wee Ong, Manuel Salto‐Tellez, Edison T. Liu	2012	92
20	Large-scale transcriptome sequencing reveals novel expression patterns for key sex-related genes in a sex-changing fish Biology of Sex Differences ·Hui Liu, Melissa S. Lamm, Kim Rutherford, Michael A. Black, John Godwin, Neil J. Gemmell	2015	90

About Michael A. Black

Michael A. Black is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology, having authored 128 papers that have together received 6.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Breast Cancer Treatment Studies (10 papers), Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (7 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (7 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (4 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (3 papers) and Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Obstetrics and Gynecology (602 citations), Physiology (154 citations), Cancer Research (393 citations), Oncology (515 citations) and Molecular Biology (1.2k citations). Michael A. Black has collaborated with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Neil J. Gemmell, Lance David Miller, Rebecca W. Doerge, Bruce Α. Craig, Lesley M. E. McCowan, Rennae S. Taylor, James C. Carrington, Robert A. Martienssen, Neilay Dedhia and Kristin D. Kasschau. Their work appears in journals such as Frontiers in Genetics, BMC Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE, BMC Cancer and Cancers.

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