Michael Scher

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Scher is a scholar working on Geriatrics and Gerontology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Scher has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Michael Scher's work include Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (4 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (2 papers). Michael Scher is often cited by papers focused on Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (4 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (2 papers). Michael Scher collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Israel. Michael Scher's co-authors include Danny Reinberg, Alejandro Vaquero, Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, Paul Tempst, Donghoon Lee, Lourdes Serrano, Ann Sutton, Rolf Sternglanz, Dong Hoon Lee and Frederick W. Alt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Michael Scher

9 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Human SirT1 Interacts with Histone H1 and Promotes Formation of Facultative Heterochromatin

2004 730 citations Alejandro Vaquero, Michael Scher et al. Molecular Cell profile →
SirT2 is a histone deacetylase with preference for histone H4 Lys 16 during mitosis

2006 509 citations Alejandro Vaquero, Michael Scher et al. Genes & Development profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Scher United States	8	1.3k	1.3k	717	536	286	9	2.4k
Bhavapriya Vaitheesvaran United States	17	748 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	575 0.8×	598 1.1×	246 0.9×	20	2.3k
Yvette Bultsma United Kingdom	10	691 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	312 0.4×	434 0.8×	231 0.8×	11	1.8k
Yolanda Olmos United Kingdom	17	310 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	357 0.5×	531 1.0×	131 0.5×	19	1.8k
Armando van der Horst Netherlands	16	398 0.3×	1.9k 1.4×	251 0.4×	350 0.7×	460 1.6×	23	2.5k
Nargis Nasrin United States	15	368 0.3×	996 0.8×	228 0.3×	310 0.6×	119 0.4×	25	1.5k
Joshua J. Carson United States	11	381 0.3×	1.6k 1.2×	279 0.4×	450 0.8×	127 0.4×	12	2.1k
Emine C. Koc United States	21	360 0.3×	1.7k 1.3×	267 0.4×	271 0.5×	88 0.3×	38	2.1k
Stéphane J. H. Ricoult United States	10	230 0.2×	1.4k 1.0×	326 0.5×	311 0.6×	179 0.6×	13	2.0k
Qihuang Jin China	17	208 0.2×	1.8k 1.4×	239 0.3×	273 0.5×	306 1.1×	20	2.3k
Lear E. Brace United States	10	156 0.1×	712 0.5×	198 0.3×	312 0.6×	115 0.4×	15	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Scher

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Scher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Scher

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Scher, Michael, Michael Elbaum, David W. Hilbert, et al.. (2012). Detecting DNA Methylation of the BCL2 , CDKN2A and NID2 Genes in Urine Using a Nested Methylation Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay to Predict Bladder Cancer. The Journal of Urology. 188(6). 2101–2107. 27 indexed citations

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Vaquero, Alejandro, Michael Scher, Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, et al.. (2007). SIRT1 regulates the histone methyl-transferase SUV39H1 during heterochromatin formation. Nature. 450(7168). 440–444. 344 indexed citations

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Scher, Michael, Alejandro Vaquero, & Danny Reinberg. (2007). SirT3 is a nuclear NAD ⁺ -dependent histone deacetylase that translocates to the mitochondria upon cellular stress. Genes & Development. 21(8). 920–928. 390 indexed citations

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Scher, Michael. (2006). On Doing "Being Reasonable".. 31(6). 40–47. 3 indexed citations

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Vaquero, Alejandro, Michael Scher, Dong Hoon Lee, et al.. (2006). SirT2 is a histone deacetylase with preference for histone H4 Lys 16 during mitosis. Genes & Development. 20(10). 1256–1261. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coté, Marie L., Michael Scher, Joelle N. Pelletier, et al.. (2006). Revealing Domain Structure through Linker-Scanning Analysis of the Murine Leukemia Virus (MuLV) RNase H and MuLV and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Integrase Proteins. Journal of Virology. 80(19). 9497–9510. 21 indexed citations

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Kuzmichev, Andrei, Raphaël Margueron, Alejandro Vaquero, et al.. (2005). Composition and histone substrates of polycomb repressive group complexes change during cellular differentiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(6). 1859–1864. 343 indexed citations

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Vaquero, Alejandro, Michael Scher, Donghoon Lee, et al.. (2004). Human SirT1 Interacts with Histone H1 and Promotes Formation of Facultative Heterochromatin. Molecular Cell. 16(1). 93–105. 730 indexed citations breakdown →

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Waxman, Susannah, Yu‐Ting Huang, B M Scher, & Michael Scher. (1992). Enhancement of differentiation and cytotoxicity of leukemia cells by combinations of fluorinated pyrimidines and differentiation inducers: development of DNA double-strand breaks. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 46(5-7). 183–192. 19 indexed citations

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