Nancy Kleckner

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Nancy Kleckner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy Kleckner has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Nancy Kleckner's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (4 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers). Nancy Kleckner is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (4 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers). Nancy Kleckner collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Nancy Kleckner's co-authors include Joseph L. Campbell, Liang Cao, Eric Alani, Yuval Blat, Beth Weiner, Donald G. Ross, David F. Barker, David Botstein, Min Lu and Jay K. Fisher and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Nancy Kleckner

13 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

A pathway for generation and processing of double-strand breaks during meiotic recombination in S. cerevisiae

1990 593 citations Liang Cao, Eric Alani et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nancy Kleckner United States	11	1.8k	728	339	286	248	13	2.0k
Jorge B. Schvartzman Spain	23	1.4k 0.8×	280 0.4×	298 0.9×	161 0.6×	138 0.6×	60	1.6k
Gregory M. Koningstein Netherlands	20	881 0.5×	411 0.6×	96 0.3×	82 0.3×	137 0.6×	36	1.1k
Tohru Yoshihisa Japan	23	1.7k 1.0×	271 0.4×	107 0.3×	711 2.5×	99 0.4×	41	2.0k
Marc R. Gartenberg United States	27	2.3k 1.3×	429 0.6×	418 1.2×	105 0.4×	128 0.5×	45	2.4k
Niels P. Fiil Denmark	25	1.9k 1.1×	1.0k 1.4×	108 0.3×	101 0.4×	352 1.4×	33	2.2k
David Chafin United States	12	810 0.4×	373 0.5×	64 0.2×	68 0.2×	138 0.6×	29	1.0k
Françoise Schwager Switzerland	19	1.1k 0.6×	301 0.4×	73 0.2×	351 1.2×	83 0.3×	31	1.4k
C A Robertson United States	7	1.3k 0.7×	464 0.6×	85 0.3×	44 0.2×	279 1.1×	9	1.5k
Yeon‐Gil Kim South Korea	19	986 0.5×	161 0.2×	107 0.3×	338 1.2×	52 0.2×	41	1.3k
Teresa Baker United States	9	1.1k 0.6×	777 1.1×	66 0.2×	48 0.2×	258 1.0×	10	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nancy Kleckner

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

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13 of 13 papers shown

Chu, Lingluo, Zheng Zhang, Maria Mukhina, Denise Zickler, & Nancy Kleckner. (2022). Sister chromatids separate during anaphase in a three-stage program as directed by interaxis bridges. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(10). e2123363119–e2123363119. 9 indexed citations

Chu, Lingluo, Zhangyi Liang, Maria Mukhina, et al.. (2020). The 3D Topography of Mitotic Chromosomes. Molecular Cell. 79(6). 902–916.e6. 34 indexed citations

Chu, Lingluo, Zhangyi Liang, Maria Mukhina, et al.. (2020). One-dimensional spatial patterning along mitotic chromosomes: A mechanical basis for macroscopic morphogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(43). 26749–26755. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Shunxin, Yanlei Liu, Yongliang Shang, et al.. (2019). Crossover Interference, Crossover Maturation, and Human Aneuploidy. BioEssays. 41(10). e1800221–e1800221. 27 indexed citations

Fisher, Jay K., Aude Bourniquel, Guillaume Witz, et al.. (2013). Four-Dimensional Imaging of E. coli Nucleoid Organization and Dynamics in Living Cells. Cell. 153(4). 882–895. 229 indexed citations

Grinthal, Alison, Ivana Adamovic, Beth Weiner, Martin Karplus, & Nancy Kleckner. (2010). PR65, the HEAT-repeat scaffold of phosphatase PP2A, is an elastic connector that links force and catalysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(6). 2467–2472. 98 indexed citations

Blat, Yuval & Nancy Kleckner. (1999). Cohesins Bind to Preferential Sites along Yeast Chromosome III, with Differential Regulation along Arms versus the Centric Region. Cell. 98(2). 249–259. 320 indexed citations

Lu, Min & Nancy Kleckner. (1994). Molecular cloning and characterization of the pgm gene encoding phosphoglucomutase of Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 176(18). 5847–5851. 88 indexed citations

Cao, Liang, Eric Alani, & Nancy Kleckner. (1990). A pathway for generation and processing of double-strand breaks during meiotic recombination in S. cerevisiae. Cell. 61(6). 1089–1101. 593 indexed citations breakdown →

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Campbell, Joseph L. & Nancy Kleckner. (1990). E. coli oriC and the dnaA gene promoter are sequestered from dam methyltransferase following the passage of the chromosomal replication fork. Cell. 62(5). 967–979. 392 indexed citations

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Campbell, Joseph L. & Nancy Kleckner. (1988). The rate of Dam-mediated DNA adenine methylation in Escherichia coli. Gene. 74(1). 189–190. 18 indexed citations

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Kleckner, Nancy & Donald G. Ross. (1980). recA-dependent genetic switch generated by transposon Tn10. Journal of Molecular Biology. 144(2). 215–221. 18 indexed citations

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Kleckner, Nancy, David F. Barker, Donald G. Ross, & David Botstein. (1978). PROPERTIES OF THE TRANSLOCATABLE TETRACYCLINE-RESISTANCE ELEMENT Tn10 IN ESCHERICHIA COLI AND BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA. Genetics. 90(3). 427–461. 178 indexed citations

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