Nicki Watson

7.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
36 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Nicki Watson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicki Watson has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cell Biology and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Nicki Watson's work include Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (3 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (3 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (3 papers). Nicki Watson is often cited by papers focused on Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (3 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (3 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (3 papers). Nicki Watson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Nicki Watson's co-authors include Darrell J. Irvine, Shuguang Zhang, Sylvain Vauthey, Haiyan Gong, Steve Santoso, Francesco Stellacci, Oktay Uzun, Yuhua Hu, Hee‐Sun Han and Ying Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicki Watson

36 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Surface-structure-regulated cell-membrane penetration by monolayer-protected nanoparticles

2008 1.1k citations Ayush Verma, Oktay Uzun et al. Nature Materials profile →
Temporal targeting of tumour cells and neovasculature with a nanoscale delivery system

2005 766 citations Shiladitya Sengupta, David A. Eavarone et al. Nature profile →
Molecular self-assembly of surfactant-like peptides to form nanotubes and nanovesicles

2002 693 citations Nicki Watson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicki Watson United States	28	3.0k	1.7k	1.2k	803	536	36	5.5k
Shirley K. Knauer Germany	39	3.9k 1.3×	2.4k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.6k 2.0×	311 0.6×	150	7.6k
Zhuo Chen China	31	3.3k 1.1×	2.4k 1.4×	1.8k 1.5×	724 0.9×	162 0.3×	80	6.5k
J. Clifford Murray United Kingdom	20	3.1k 1.0×	2.7k 1.6×	1.9k 1.6×	984 1.2×	391 0.7×	45	6.7k
Zihua Wang China	39	2.5k 0.8×	602 0.4×	1.0k 0.9×	872 1.1×	586 1.1×	184	5.9k
Ki Young Choi South Korea	47	2.6k 0.9×	2.6k 1.6×	3.2k 2.7×	1.6k 2.0×	585 1.1×	120	7.7k
Filip Braet Australia	44	2.7k 0.9×	694 0.4×	1.7k 1.5×	1.5k 1.9×	962 1.8×	163	8.0k
Xiankai Sun United States	45	1.7k 0.6×	979 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.7×	156 0.3×	136	5.8k
Marcel Garcia France	45	2.7k 0.9×	660 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	474 0.9×	146	6.2k
Silvia Muro United States	41	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	973 0.8×	419 0.5×	676 1.3×	100	4.8k
Ramasamy Paulmurugan United States	53	4.5k 1.5×	1.0k 0.6×	2.9k 2.4×	629 0.8×	413 0.8×	227	8.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicki Watson

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Serebryany, Eugene, Sourav Chowdhury, David C. Thorn, et al.. (2022). A native chemical chaperone in the human eye lens. eLife. 11. 16 indexed citations

Pelka, Karin, Damien Bertheloot, Kshiti Phulphagar, et al.. (2018). The Chaperone UNC93B1 Regulates Toll-like Receptor Stability Independently of Endosomal TLR Transport. Immunity. 48(5). 911–922.e7. 98 indexed citations

Yang, Yu-Sang Sabrina, Kelly D. Moynihan, Ahmet Bekdemir, et al.. (2018). Targeting small molecule drugs to T cells with antibody-directed cell-penetrating gold nanoparticles. Biomaterials Science. 7(1). 113–124. 72 indexed citations

Bosak, Tanja, Florence Schubotz, Jennifer V. Kuehl, et al.. (2016). System-Wide Adaptations of Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20 to Phosphate-Limited Conditions. PLoS ONE. 11(12). e0168719–e0168719. 18 indexed citations

Qiao, Kangjian, Syed Hussain Imam Abidi, Hongjuan Liu, et al.. (2015). Engineering lipid overproduction in the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Metabolic Engineering. 29. 56–65. 280 indexed citations

Koenig, Paul-Albert, Peter K. Nicholls, Florian I. Schmidt, et al.. (2014). The E2 Ubiquitin-conjugating Enzyme UBE2J1 Is Required for Spermiogenesis in Mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(50). 34490–34502. 33 indexed citations

Strijbis, Karin, Fikadu Tafesse, Gregory D. Fairn, et al.. (2013). Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) and Vav1 Contribute to Dectin1-Dependent Phagocytosis of Candida albicans in Macrophages. PLoS Pathogens. 9(6). e1003446–e1003446. 66 indexed citations

Dougan, Stephanie K., Elizabeth J. Klemm, Guanghou Shui, et al.. (2009). XBP-1-Deficient Plasmablasts Show Normal Protein Folding but Altered Glycosylation and Lipid Synthesis. The Journal of Immunology. 183(6). 3690–3699. 41 indexed citations

Jackson, Walker S., Andrew W. Borkowski, Henryk Faas, et al.. (2009). Spontaneous Generation of Prion Infectivity in Fatal Familial Insomnia Knockin Mice. Neuron. 63(4). 438–450. 108 indexed citations

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Pritchard, Christopher, Karin Arnér, Rebekah A. Neal, et al.. (2009). The use of surface modified poly(glycerol-co-sebacic acid) in retinal transplantation. Biomaterials. 31(8). 2153–2162. 49 indexed citations

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Verma, Ayush, Oktay Uzun, Yuhua Hu, et al.. (2008). Surface-structure-regulated cell-membrane penetration by monolayer-protected nanoparticles. Nature Materials. 7(7). 588–595. 1062 indexed citations breakdown →

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Park, Hyoungshin, Rajiv Saigal, Milica Radisic, et al.. (2008). Effects of electrical stimulation in C2C12 muscle constructs. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. 2(5). 279–287. 95 indexed citations

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Hu, Yuhua, Tamara R. Litwin, Arpun R. Nagaraja, et al.. (2007). Cytosolic Delivery of Membrane-Impermeable Molecules in Dendritic Cells Using pH-Responsive Core−Shell Nanoparticles. Nano Letters. 7(10). 3056–3064. 260 indexed citations

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Ferreira, Lino, Sharon Gerecht, Hester F. Shieh, et al.. (2007). Vascular Progenitor Cells Isolated From Human Embryonic Stem Cells Give Rise to Endothelial and Smooth Muscle–Like Cells and Form Vascular Networks In Vivo. Circulation Research. 101(3). 286–294. 176 indexed citations

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Doege, Holger, Rebecca Baillie, Angelica M. Ortegon, et al.. (2006). Targeted Deletion of FATP5 Reveals Multiple Functions in Liver Metabolism: Alterations in Hepatic Lipid Homeostasis. Gastroenterology. 130(4). 1245–1258. 204 indexed citations

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Sengupta, Shiladitya, David A. Eavarone, Ishan Capila, et al.. (2005). Temporal targeting of tumour cells and neovasculature with a nanoscale delivery system. Nature. 436(7050). 568–572. 766 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xiao, Zhan, Nicki Watson, Carlos Rodríguez, & Harvey F. Lodish. (2001). Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of Smad1 Conferred by Its Nuclear Localization and Nuclear Export Signals. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(42). 39404–39410. 96 indexed citations

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Stahl, Andreas, David J. Hirsch, Ruth E. Gimeno, et al.. (1999). Identification of the Major Intestinal Fatty Acid Transport Protein. Molecular Cell. 4(3). 299–308. 326 indexed citations

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Vries, Luc De, J. Michael McCaffery, T Fischer, et al.. (1998). RGS-GAIP, a GTPase-activating Protein for Gα_iHeterotrimeric G Proteins, Is Located on Clathrin-coated Vesicles. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 9(5). 1123–1134. 87 indexed citations

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Acharya, U. Rajendra, Richard A. Jacobs, Jan‐Michael Peters, et al.. (1995). The formation of golgi stacks from vesiculated golgi membranes requires two distinct fusion events. Cell. 82(6). 895–904. 183 indexed citations

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