Monya Baker

27.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
202 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Monya Baker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Monya Baker has authored 202 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Physiology and 25 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Monya Baker's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (34 papers), Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (30 papers) and Science, Research, and Medicine (21 papers). Monya Baker is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (34 papers), Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (30 papers) and Science, Research, and Medicine (21 papers). Monya Baker collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Monya Baker's co-authors include Christopher Thomas Scott, Laura DeFrancesco, David Cyranoski, Natalie DeWitt, Davide Castelvecchi, Erika Check Hayden, Ewen Callaway, Erik M. Jørgensen, Sara Reardon and Quirin Schiermeier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Monya Baker

188 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility 2015 2026 2018 2022 2016 2015 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility
    2016 2.3k citations Monya Baker Nature profile →
  2. Reproducibility crisis: Blame it on the antibodies
    2015 585 citations Monya Baker Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Monya Baker United States 31 2.9k 1.1k 580 522 426 202 6.8k
C. Glenn Begley Australia 51 3.1k 1.1× 397 0.4× 294 0.5× 614 1.2× 549 1.3× 144 10.8k
Per O. Seglen Norway 65 7.3k 2.5× 580 0.5× 388 0.7× 2.0k 3.9× 1.1k 2.5× 200 21.7k
Heidi Ledford United States 42 2.8k 1.0× 418 0.4× 163 0.3× 139 0.3× 415 1.0× 514 7.3k
David Cyranoski Denmark 38 2.2k 0.8× 343 0.3× 146 0.3× 274 0.5× 73 0.2× 548 7.0k
Andrey Rzhetsky United States 48 6.7k 2.3× 507 0.5× 148 0.3× 244 0.5× 363 0.9× 135 12.7k
Francis S. Collins United States 19 2.4k 0.8× 318 0.3× 142 0.2× 232 0.4× 630 1.5× 28 6.8k
S. K. Joshi India 53 2.1k 0.7× 559 0.5× 171 0.3× 41 0.1× 283 0.7× 538 13.0k
James Zou United States 54 3.2k 1.1× 558 0.5× 81 0.1× 100 0.2× 544 1.3× 240 12.1k
Kimmo Kaski Finland 55 1.1k 0.4× 712 0.6× 90 0.2× 271 0.5× 64 0.2× 375 12.2k
Ewen Callaway Denmark 40 1.8k 0.6× 218 0.2× 145 0.3× 176 0.3× 67 0.2× 449 6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Monya Baker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Monya Baker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Monya Baker. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Monya Baker. The network helps show where Monya Baker may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Monya Baker

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baker, Monya. (2016). Reproducibility: Respect your cells!. Nature. 537(7620). 433–435. 106 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2015). Trade talk: Quality wrangler. Nature. 522(7554). 119–119. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2013). First fluorescent protein identified in a vertebrate. Nature. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2012). Structural variation: the genome's hidden architecture. Nature Methods. 9(2). 133–137. 56 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2012). Gene data to hit milestone. Nature. 487(7407). 282–283. 24 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2012). Cancer stem cells tracked. Nature. 488(7409). 13–14. 17 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2012). Independent labs to verify high-profile papers. Nature. 11 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2011). Genomes in three dimensions. Nature. 470(7333). 289–294. 20 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2011). Sorting out sequencing data. Nature Methods. 8(10). 799–803. 3 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya & Laura DeFrancesco. (2011). Five more years of Nature Biotechnology research. Nature Biotechnology. 29(3). 221–227. 7 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2010). Laser tricks without labels. Nature Methods. 7(4). 261–266. 15 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2010). Screening: the age of fishes. Nature Methods. 8(1). 47–51. 18 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2010). Testing time for stem cells. Nature. 463(7282). 719–719. 6 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2010). Clever PCR: more genotyping, smaller volumes. Nature Methods. 7(5). 351–356. 30 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2008). Prepping stem cells for the clinic. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2008). Nerve cells made from elderly patient's skin cells. Nature. 454(7205). 675–675. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2007). Adult cells reprogrammed to pluripotency, without tumors. 11 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya. (2006). From bench to briefs. Nature. 442(7102). 596–597. 3 indexed citations
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Baker, Monya, et al.. (2004). Public biotechnology 2003—the numbers. Nature Biotechnology. 22(6). 665–670. 3 indexed citations

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