Nicholas F. Lahens

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Nicholas F. Lahens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas F. Lahens has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas F. Lahens's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (13 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (11 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers). Nicholas F. Lahens is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (13 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (11 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers). Nicholas F. Lahens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovenia and India. Nicholas F. Lahens's co-authors include John B. Hogenesch, Ray Zhang, Michael E. Hughes, Heather Ballance, Angel Pizarro, Katharina E. Hayer, Gregory R. Grant, Amita Sehgal, Yoseph Barash and Jorge Vaquero-Garcia and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas F. Lahens

35 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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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 circadian gene expression atlas in mammals: Implications for biology and medicine

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas F. Lahens United States	22	1.9k	1.4k	1.1k	421	415	38	3.6k
Qing‐Jun Meng United Kingdom	31	1.8k 1.0×	824 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	405 1.0×	374 0.9×	81	3.3k
Masao Doi Japan	28	2.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	910 0.9×	524 1.2×	412 1.0×	77	4.0k
Benedetto Grimaldi Italy	24	1.9k 1.0×	859 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	621 1.5×	548 1.3×	34	3.3k
Vivek Kumar United States	22	2.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	955 2.3×	647 1.6×	58	4.0k
Kyungjin Kim South Korea	31	1.9k 1.0×	852 0.6×	888 0.8×	401 1.0×	325 0.8×	86	3.5k
Anna A. Kondratova United States	17	1.9k 1.0×	574 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	424 1.0×	736 1.8×	21	2.7k
Emi Nagoshi Switzerland	22	1.6k 0.9×	908 0.6×	588 0.6×	628 1.5×	368 0.9×	46	2.7k
Megumi Hatori United States	20	2.9k 1.6×	869 0.6×	2.0k 1.9×	376 0.9×	500 1.2×	28	4.2k
Jean‐Michel Fustin Japan	22	1.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	386 0.4×	267 0.6×	151 0.4×	33	2.3k
Angela Relógio Germany	25	1.1k 0.6×	676 0.5×	544 0.5×	280 0.7×	224 0.5×	61	2.0k

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Theken, Katherine N., Carsten Skarke, Susanne Fries, et al.. (2025). Degree of Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibition Modulates Blood Pressure Response. Hypertension. 83(2). e25516–e25516.

Brooks, Thomas G., Nicholas F. Lahens, Dimitra Sarantopoulou, et al.. (2024). BEERS2: RNA-Seq simulation through high fidelity in silico modeling. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(3).

Skarke, Carsten, Ronan Lordan, Amruta Naik, et al.. (2023). Modulation of the Immune Response to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Vaccination by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 386(2). 198–204. 1 indexed citations

Lahens, Nicholas F., Cynthia T. Hsu, Gregory R. Grant, et al.. (2023). Evidence for a role of human blood-borne factors in mediating age-associated changes in molecular circadian rhythms. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations

Brooks, Thomas G., Nicholas F. Lahens, Gregory R. Grant, et al.. (2023). Diurnal rhythms of wrist temperature are associated with future disease risk in the UK Biobank. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5172–5172. 24 indexed citations

Lahens, Nicholas F., Mahboob Rahman, Jordana B. Cohen, et al.. (2022). Time-specific associations of wearable sensor-based cardiovascular and behavioral readouts with disease phenotypes in the outpatient setting of the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort. Digital Health. 8. 2282130183–2282130183. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Shirley, et al.. (2021). A circadian clock regulates efflux by the blood-brain barrier in mice and human cells. Nature Communications. 12(1). 617–617. 89 indexed citations

Naik, Amruta, Soon Yew Tang, Thomas G. Brooks, et al.. (2021). Loss of circadian protection against influenza infection in adult mice exposed to hyperoxia as neonates. eLife. 10. 16 indexed citations

Tang, Soon Yew, Hu Meng, Seán T. Anderson, et al.. (2021). Sex-dependent compensatory mechanisms preserve blood pressure homeostasis in prostacyclin receptor–deficient mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(14). 1 indexed citations

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Sarantopoulou, Dimitra, et al.. (2021). Comparative evaluation of full-length isoform quantification from RNA-Seq. BMC Bioinformatics. 22(1). 266–266. 23 indexed citations

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Radens, Caleb M., Paul Jewell, Anupama Jha, et al.. (2021). MOCCASIN: a method for correcting for known and unknown confounders in RNA splicing analysis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3353–3353. 17 indexed citations

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Theken, Katherine N., Elliot V. Hersh, Nicholas F. Lahens, et al.. (2019). Variability in the Analgesic Response to Ibuprofen Is Associated With Cyclooxygenase Activation in Inflammatory Pain. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 106(3). 632–641. 25 indexed citations

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Perron, Isaac J., Brendan T Keenan, Karthikeyani Chellappa, et al.. (2018). Dietary challenges differentially affect activity and sleep/wake behavior in mus musculus: Isolating independent associations with diet/energy balance and body weight. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0196743–e0196743. 4 indexed citations

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Norton, Scott, Jorge Vaquero-Garcia, Nicholas F. Lahens, Gregory R. Grant, & Yoseph Barash. (2017). Outlier detection for improved differential splicing quantification from RNA-Seq experiments with replicates. Bioinformatics. 34(9). 1488–1497. 25 indexed citations

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Skarke, Carsten, Nicholas F. Lahens, Seth D. Rhoades, et al.. (2017). A Pilot Characterization of the Human Chronobiome. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17141–17141. 59 indexed citations

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Lahens, Nicholas F., Emanuela Ricciotti, Olga Smirnova, et al.. (2017). A comparison of Illumina and Ion Torrent sequencing platforms in the context of differential gene expression. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 602–602. 50 indexed citations

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Hayer, Katharina E., Angel Pizarro, Nicholas F. Lahens, John B. Hogenesch, & Gregory R. Grant. (2015). Benchmark analysis of algorithms for determining and quantifying full-length mRNA splice forms from RNA-seq data. Bioinformatics. 31(24). 3938–3945. 64 indexed citations

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Jang, Christopher J., Nicholas F. Lahens, John B. Hogenesch, & Amita Sehgal. (2015). Ribosome profiling reveals an important role for translational control in circadian gene expression. Genome Research. 25(12). 1836–1847. 80 indexed citations

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Lahens, Nicholas F., İbrahim Halil Kavaklı, Ray Zhang, et al.. (2014). IVT-seq reveals extreme bias in RNA sequencing. Genome biology. 15(6). R86–R86. 110 indexed citations

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Toung, Jonathan, Nicholas F. Lahens, John B. Hogenesch, & Gregory R. Grant. (2014). Detection Theory in Identification of RNA-DNA Sequence Differences Using RNA-Sequencing. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e112040–e112040. 6 indexed citations

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