Mustafa Şahin

32.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
314 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Mustafa Şahin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mustafa Şahin has authored 314 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Molecular Biology, 104 papers in Physiology and 80 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Mustafa Şahin's work include Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research (96 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (49 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (34 papers). Mustafa Şahin is often cited by papers focused on Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research (96 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (49 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (34 papers). Mustafa Şahin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Mustafa Şahin's co-authors include Jonathan O. Lipton, Ioannis Kramvis, David J. Kwiatkowski, Darius Ebrahimi‐Fakhari, Lynsey M. Meikle, Peter T. Tsai, Jurriaan M. Peters, Michael E. Greenberg, Bin Cai and Kai Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Mustafa Şahin

293 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

Promoting Axon Regenerati... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2012 2010 2014 2021 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Promoting Axon Regeneration in the Adult CNS by Modulation of the PTEN/mTOR Pathway
    2008 1.3k citations Mustafa Şahin et al. profile →
  2. Autistic-like behaviour and cerebellar dysfunction in Purkinje cell Tsc1 mutant mice
    2012 643 citations Mustafa Şahin et al. profile →
  3. ATM signals to TSC2 in the cytoplasm to regulate mTORC1 in response to ROS
    2010 576 citations Mustafa Şahin et al. profile →
  4. The Neurology of mTOR
    2014 550 citations Mustafa Şahin et al. profile →
  5. Enhanced prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes
    2021 488 citations Mustafa Şahin et al. profile →
  6. Meta-analysis and multidisciplinary consensus statement: exome sequencing is a first-tier clinical diagnostic test for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders
    2019 367 citations Siddharth Srivastava, Kira A. Dies et al. profile →
  7. Single-cell dissection of the human brain vasculature
    2022 173 citations Mustafa Şahin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mustafa Şahin United States 62 7.4k 3.7k 3.7k 3.5k 2.3k 314 15.9k
Li-Huei Tsai United States 43 8.1k 1.1× 2.0k 0.5× 2.7k 0.7× 3.4k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 48 14.4k
Giovanni Coppola United States 71 7.9k 1.1× 1.6k 0.4× 3.4k 0.9× 6.2k 1.8× 1.6k 0.7× 274 18.7k
Stephen J. Haggarty United States 56 13.4k 1.8× 2.8k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 2.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 140 19.0k
Jacques Mallet France 73 9.6k 1.3× 4.1k 1.1× 2.2k 0.6× 7.2k 2.1× 1.3k 0.5× 367 18.7k
Karl Herrup United States 66 10.6k 1.4× 2.4k 0.6× 3.4k 0.9× 5.1k 1.5× 1.1k 0.5× 214 19.7k
Joseph D. Buxbaum United States 87 11.2k 1.5× 8.1k 2.2× 7.0k 1.9× 4.5k 1.3× 6.9k 3.0× 357 26.2k
Leszek Kaczmarek Poland 65 7.1k 1.0× 1.9k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 5.8k 1.7× 2.6k 1.1× 295 15.3k
Howard J. Federoff United States 69 8.2k 1.1× 3.0k 0.8× 3.1k 0.8× 4.2k 1.2× 611 0.3× 255 16.8k
William C. Mobley United States 73 7.5k 1.0× 2.6k 0.7× 4.1k 1.1× 7.1k 2.1× 1.3k 0.5× 224 18.1k
Guy A. Rouleau Canada 89 14.3k 1.9× 5.5k 1.5× 2.9k 0.8× 7.7k 2.2× 2.0k 0.9× 659 33.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mustafa Şahin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Makhortova, Nina R., Ashish Jain, Davide Cacchiarelli, et al.. (2025). Excitatory cortical neurons from CDKL5 deficiency disorder patient-derived organoids show early hyperexcitability not identified in neurogenin2 induced neurons. Neurobiology of Disease. 215. 107093–107093. 1 indexed citations
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Winden, Kellen D., Juan Pablo Ruíz, & Mustafa Şahin. (2024). Construction destruction: Contribution of dyregulated proteostasis to neurodevelopmental disorders. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 90. 102934–102934. 1 indexed citations
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Saffari, Afshin, M. L. ZIEGLER, Catherine Jordan, et al.. (2023). Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain Is Elevated in Adaptor Protein Complex 4‐Related Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia. Movement Disorders. 38(9). 1742–1750. 6 indexed citations
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Davis, Peter E., Bo Zhang, Jurriaan M. Peters, et al.. (2023). Epilepsy Severity Is Associated With Head Circumference and Growth Rate in Infants With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Pediatric Neurology. 144. 26–32. 1 indexed citations
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Srivastava, Siddharth, Booil Jo, Bo Zhang, et al.. (2022). A randomized controlled trial of everolimus for neurocognitive symptoms in PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics. 31(20). 3393–3404. 15 indexed citations
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Dalal, Jasbir, Kellen D. Winden, Catherine L. Salussolia, et al.. (2021). Loss of Tsc1 in cerebellar Purkinje cells induces transcriptional and translation changes in FMRP target transcripts. eLife. 10. 11 indexed citations
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Capal, Jamie K., Paul S. Horn, Molly S. Griffith, et al.. (2021). Epilepsy Is Heterogeneous in Early-Life Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Pediatric Neurology. 123. 1–9. 13 indexed citations
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Nardo, Alessia Di, et al.. (2020). A Cell-Based Assay Optimized for High-Content Cilia Imaging with Primary Rat Hippocampal Neurons. STAR Protocols. 1(3). 100189–100189. 2 indexed citations
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Winden, Kellen D., et al.. (2019). Biallelic Mutations inTSC2Lead to Abnormalities Associated with Cortical Tubers in Human iPSC-Derived Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(47). 9294–9305. 61 indexed citations
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Sundberg, Maria, Ivan Tochitsky, David E. Buchholz, et al.. (2018). Purkinje cells derived from TSC patients display hypoexcitability and synaptic deficits associated with reduced FMRP levels and reversed by rapamycin. Molecular Psychiatry. 23(11). 2167–2183. 75 indexed citations
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Winden, Kellen D., Darius Ebrahimi‐Fakhari, & Mustafa Şahin. (2018). Abnormal mTOR Activation in Autism. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 41(1). 1–23. 150 indexed citations
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Ercan, Ebru, Juliette M. Han, Alessia Di Nardo, et al.. (2017). Neuronal CTGF/CCN2 negatively regulates myelination in a mouse model of tuberous sclerosis complex. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 214(3). 681–697. 78 indexed citations
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Şahin, Mustafa, et al.. (2015). Mesleki Kararsızlığın Yordanmasında Kontrol Odağı ve Mantık Dışı İnançların Rolü. DergiPark (Istanbul University). 5(43). 11–20.
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Goldman, Samuel M., et al.. (2014). A Vascular Model of Tsc1 Deficiency Accelerates Renal Tumor Formation with Accompanying Hemangiosarcomas. Molecular Cancer Research. 13(3). 548–555. 10 indexed citations
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Şahin, Mustafa. (2013). PASIPHAE – Daidalos Mozaiği Üzerine Yeni Düşünceler. Bursa Uludag University - AVESIS. 1 indexed citations
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Şahin, Mustafa, et al.. (2013). Spor ve Çocuk Gelişimi. The journal of academic social science studies/The journal of academic social science. 6(1). 6 indexed citations
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Şahin, Mustafa. (2011). Masalların Çocuk Gelişimine Etkilerinin Öğretmen Görüşleri Açısından İncelenmesi. 12(89). 208–219. 3 indexed citations
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Şahin, Mustafa, et al.. (2009). DEĞİŞEN İLKÖĞRETİM PROGRAMININ SINIF ÖĞRETMENLERİ ÜZERİNDEKİ PSİKOLOJİK ETKİLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ ÜZERİNE NİTEL BİR ARAŞTIRMA. DergiPark (Istanbul University). 3 indexed citations
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Özcan, Umut, Lale Özcan, Erkan Yılmaz, et al.. (2008). Loss of the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Tumor Suppressors Triggers the Unfolded Protein Response to Regulate Insulin Signaling and Apoptosis. Molecular Cell. 29(5). 541–551. 353 indexed citations
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Yazıcı, Hikmet & Mustafa Şahin. (2005). Üniversite öğrencilerinin sigara içme tutumları ile sigara içme statüleri arasındaki ilişki. 13(2). 455–466. 2 indexed citations

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