Nigel Roberts

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Nigel Roberts is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nigel Roberts has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Physiology and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nigel Roberts's work include RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (6 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (6 papers). Nigel Roberts is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (6 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (6 papers). Nigel Roberts collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Nigel Roberts's co-authors include Susan M. Kingsman, Melanie J. Dobson, Alan J. Kingsman, Mick F. Tuite, Douglas R. Higgs, Jim R. Hughes, Simon J. McGowan, Jane Mellor, Stephen Taylor and Stephen C. Conroy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Nigel Roberts

24 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Conservation of high efficiency promoter sequences inSaccharomyces cerevisiae

1982 388 citations Melanie J. Dobson, Mick F. Tuite et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nigel Roberts United Kingdom	16	1.6k	376	284	158	122	25	1.8k
S S Sommer United States	10	1.3k 0.8×	125 0.3×	309 1.1×	44 0.3×	54 0.4×	11	1.7k
Sabine Strahl Germany	25	1.9k 1.2×	386 1.0×	129 0.5×	157 1.0×	150 1.2×	50	2.2k
Thomas P. St. John United States	8	1.3k 0.8×	303 0.8×	220 0.8×	150 0.9×	86 0.7×	9	1.7k
Denise Muhlrad United States	25	3.7k 2.3×	212 0.6×	142 0.5×	53 0.3×	39 0.3×	26	3.9k
Lihua He United States	23	955 0.6×	193 0.5×	207 0.7×	35 0.2×	31 0.3×	46	1.7k
Yasuhisa Nogi Japan	32	2.8k 1.8×	249 0.7×	244 0.9×	241 1.5×	107 0.9×	65	3.0k
Masako Hasebe Japan	10	1.4k 0.9×	417 1.1×	168 0.6×	39 0.2×	28 0.2×	15	1.8k
Francesca Storici United States	26	2.6k 1.7×	341 0.9×	331 1.2×	70 0.4×	66 0.5×	67	2.8k
Masumi Hidaka Japan	23	1.7k 1.1×	118 0.3×	607 2.1×	90 0.6×	67 0.5×	49	2.2k
Sabine Strahl‐Bolsinger Germany	14	2.4k 1.5×	582 1.5×	179 0.6×	72 0.5×	71 0.6×	16	2.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roberts, Nigel, Mira Kassouf, Simone G. Riva, et al.. (2025). Active regulatory elements recruit cohesin to establish cell specific chromatin domains. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 11780–11780. 2 indexed citations

Caulier, Alexis, Claudia Fiorini, Jacob C. Ulirsch, et al.. (2023). RNA polymerase II pausing temporally coordinates cell cycle progression and erythroid differentiation. Developmental Cell. 58(20). 2112–2127.e4. 18 indexed citations

Downes, Damien J., Robert A. Beagrie, Matthew Gosden, et al.. (2021). High-resolution targeted 3C interrogation of cis-regulatory element organization at genome-wide scale. Nature Communications. 12(1). 531–531. 23 indexed citations

Downes, Damien J., Amy Cross, Hua Peng, et al.. (2021). Identification of LZTFL1 as a candidate effector gene at a COVID-19 risk locus. Nature Genetics. 53(11). 1606–1615. 92 indexed citations

Brown, Jill M., Nigel Roberts, Bryony Graham, et al.. (2018). A tissue-specific self-interacting chromatin domain forms independently of enhancer-promoter interactions. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3849–3849. 51 indexed citations

Davies, James, Jelena Telenius, Simon J. McGowan, et al.. (2015). Multiplexed analysis of chromosome conformation at vastly improved sensitivity. Nature Methods. 13(1). 74–80. 181 indexed citations

Hughes, Jim R., Nigel Roberts, Simon J. McGowan, et al.. (2014). Analysis of hundreds of cis-regulatory landscapes at high resolution in a single, high-throughput experiment. Nature Genetics. 46(2). 205–212. 338 indexed citations

Babbs, Christian, Nigel Roberts, Luis Sánchez‐Pulido, et al.. (2013). Homozygous mutations in a predicted endonuclease are a novel cause of congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type I. Haematologica. 98(9). 1383–1387. 52 indexed citations

Renella, Raffaele, Nigel Roberts, Jill M. Brown, et al.. (2011). Codanin-1 mutations in congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type 1 affect HP1α localization in erythroblasts. Blood. 117(25). 6928–6938. 34 indexed citations

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Brantberg, A., et al.. (2009). Severe intrauterine anemia: a new form of thalassemia presenting in utero in a Norwegian family. Haematologica. 94(8). 1157–1159. 13 indexed citations

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Renella, Raffaele, Nigel Roberts, Jacqueline A. Sharpe, et al.. (2008). A Transgenic Mouse Model for Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia Type I. Blood. 112(11). 3455–3455. 2 indexed citations

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Sloane‐Stanley, Jackie, Nigel Roberts, Nancy F. Olivieri, D. J. Weatherall, & W. G. Wood. (2006). Globin gene expression in Hb Lepore‐BAC transgenic mice. British Journal of Haematology. 135(5). 735–737. 3 indexed citations

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Thomson, Andrew M., Nigel Roberts, & W. G. Wood. (1998). Bb1‐3, a transgenic hybrid cell line with erythroid and megakaryocytic differentiation potential that expresses high levels of human γ‐globin and human β‐globin. British Journal of Haematology. 102(4). 976–985. 2 indexed citations

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Stanworth, S.J., Nigel Roberts, J A Sharpe, & W. G. Wood. (1996). Gene expression in somatic cell hybrids derived from embryonic mice transgenic for human globin genes. British Journal of Haematology. 94(4). 631–638. 2 indexed citations

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Stanworth, S.J., Nigel Roberts, J A Sharpe, Jacqueline A. Sloane-Stanley, & W. G. Wood. (1995). Established Epigenetic Modifications Determine the Expression of Developmentally Regulated Globin Genes in Somatic Cell Hybrids. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 15(8). 3969–3978. 18 indexed citations

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Sleep, Darrell, Jill E. Ogden, Nigel Roberts, & A. R. Goodey. (1991). Cloning and characterisation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GUT2) promoter. Gene. 101(1). 89–96. 22 indexed citations

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Mellor, Jane, Melanie J. Dobson, Nigel Roberts, Alan J. Kingsman, & Susan M. Kingsman. (1985). Factors affecting heterologous gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gene. 33(2). 215–226. 96 indexed citations

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Mellor, Jane, Melanie J. Dobson, Nigel Roberts, et al.. (1983). Efficient synthesis of enzymatically active calf chymosin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gene. 24(1). 1–14. 290 indexed citations

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Dobson, Melanie J., Mick F. Tuite, Nigel Roberts, et al.. (1982). Conservation of high efficiency promoter sequences inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Research. 10(8). 2625–2637. 388 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tuite, Mick F., Melanie J. Dobson, Nigel Roberts, et al.. (1982). Regulated high efficiency expression of human interferon-alpha in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.. The EMBO Journal. 1(5). 603–608. 110 indexed citations

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