Nimet Maherali

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
20 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Nimet Maherali is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nimet Maherali has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Nimet Maherali's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (13 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers) and Renal and related cancers (5 papers). Nimet Maherali is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (13 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers) and Renal and related cancers (5 papers). Nimet Maherali collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Nimet Maherali's co-authors include Konrad Hochedlinger, Matthias Stadtfeld, Jochen Utikal, Tim Ahfeldt, Chad A. Cowan, George Q. Daley, M. William Lensch, In-Hyun Park, Natasha Arora and Akiko Shimamura and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Nimet Maherali

20 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Disease-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells 2007 2026 2013 2019 2008 2007 2009 2008 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Disease-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
    2008 1.6k citations In-Hyun Park, Natasha Arora et al. Cell profile →
  2. Directly Reprogrammed Fibroblasts Show Global Epigenetic Remodeling and Widespread Tissue Contribution
    2007 1.3k citations Nimet Maherali, Rupa Sridharan et al. Cell stem cell profile →
  3. Immortalization eliminates a roadblock during cellular reprogramming into iPS cells
    2009 660 citations Jochen Utikal, José M. Polo et al. Nature profile →
  4. Defining Molecular Cornerstones during Fibroblast to iPS Cell Reprogramming in Mouse
    2008 621 citations Matthias Stadtfeld, Nimet Maherali et al. Cell stem cell profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nimet Maherali United States 16 6.3k 955 873 855 764 20 6.9k
Hongguang Huo United States 12 5.3k 0.8× 1.0k 1.1× 909 1.0× 951 1.1× 546 0.7× 13 6.0k
In-Hyun Park United States 26 7.0k 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 1.0k 1.2× 959 1.1× 838 1.1× 32 8.1k
Guðrún A. Jónsdóttir United States 9 7.5k 1.2× 1.5k 1.6× 1.3k 1.4× 909 1.1× 826 1.1× 10 8.7k
Holm Zaehres Germany 31 4.3k 0.7× 731 0.8× 655 0.8× 517 0.6× 429 0.6× 62 5.2k
Stuart M. Chambers United States 24 5.0k 0.8× 574 0.6× 894 1.0× 768 0.9× 532 0.7× 29 6.8k
Takashi Aoi Japan 18 4.9k 0.8× 1.0k 1.1× 729 0.8× 694 0.8× 463 0.6× 48 5.5k
Jeff Nie United States 17 8.3k 1.3× 1.6k 1.6× 1.5k 1.7× 927 1.1× 818 1.1× 20 9.4k
Guangming Wu Germany 38 5.0k 0.8× 678 0.7× 532 0.6× 329 0.4× 843 1.1× 87 6.1k
Yuin‐Han Loh Singapore 33 7.8k 1.2× 984 1.0× 903 1.0× 867 1.0× 925 1.2× 76 8.6k
Knut Woltjen Japan 32 5.3k 0.8× 821 0.9× 692 0.8× 556 0.7× 915 1.2× 69 6.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Borkent, Marti, Brian D. Bennett, Brad Lackford, et al.. (2016). A Serial shRNA Screen for Roadblocks to Reprogramming Identifies the Protein Modifier SUMO2. Stem Cell Reports. 6(5). 704–716. 43 indexed citations
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Wang, Su, Xiaojie Li, Steven J. Schanz, et al.. (2013). Human iPSC-Derived Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells Can Myelinate and Rescue a Mouse Model of Congenital Hypomyelination. Cell stem cell. 12(2). 252–264. 453 indexed citations
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Errington, Timothy M., Fraser Elisabeth Tan, Nicole Perfito, et al.. (2013). Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 13 indexed citations
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Deng, Jie, Robert Shoemaker, Bin Xie, et al.. (2009). Targeted bisulfite sequencing reveals changes in DNA methylation associated with nuclear reprogramming. Nature Biotechnology. 27(4). 353–360. 357 indexed citations
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Maherali, Nimet & Konrad Hochedlinger. (2009). Tgfβ Signal Inhibition Cooperates in the Induction of iPSCs and Replaces Sox2 and cMyc. Current Biology. 19(20). 1718–1723. 276 indexed citations
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Eminli, Sarah, Adlen Foudi, Matthias Stadtfeld, et al.. (2009). Differentiation stage determines potential of hematopoietic cells for reprogramming into induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature Genetics. 41(9). 968–976. 322 indexed citations
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Utikal, Jochen, José M. Polo, Matthias Stadtfeld, et al.. (2009). Immortalization eliminates a roadblock during cellular reprogramming into iPS cells. Nature. 460(7259). 1145–1148. 660 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stadtfeld, Matthias, Nimet Maherali, Marti Borkent, & Konrad Hochedlinger. (2009). A reprogrammable mouse strain from gene-targeted embryonic stem cells. Nature Methods. 7(1). 53–55. 154 indexed citations
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Utikal, Jochen, Nimet Maherali, Warakorn Kulalert, & Konrad Hochedlinger. (2009). Sox2 is dispensable for the reprogramming of melanocytes and melanoma cells into induced pluripotent stem cells. Journal of Cell Science. 122(19). 3502–3510. 248 indexed citations
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Park, In-Hyun, Natasha Arora, Hongguang Huo, et al.. (2008). Disease-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell. 134(5). 877–886. 1616 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stadtfeld, Matthias, Nimet Maherali, David T. Breault, & Konrad Hochedlinger. (2008). Defining Molecular Cornerstones during Fibroblast to iPS Cell Reprogramming in Mouse. Cell stem cell. 2(3). 230–240. 621 indexed citations breakdown →
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Maherali, Nimet, Tim Ahfeldt, Alessandra Rigamonti, et al.. (2008). A High-Efficiency System for the Generation and Study of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell stem cell. 3(3). 340–345. 426 indexed citations
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Maherali, Nimet & Konrad Hochedlinger. (2008). Guidelines and Techniques for the Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell stem cell. 3(6). 595–605. 338 indexed citations
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Maherali, Nimet & Konrad Hochedlinger. (2008). Induced Pluripotency of Mouse and Human Somatic Cells. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 73(0). 157–162. 24 indexed citations
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Varas, Florencio, Matthias Stadtfeld, Luísa de Andrés-Aguayo, et al.. (2008). Fibroblast-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Show No Common Retroviral Vector Insertions. Stem Cells. 27(2). 300–306. 49 indexed citations
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Maherali, Nimet, Rupa Sridharan, Wei Xie, et al.. (2007). Directly Reprogrammed Fibroblasts Show Global Epigenetic Remodeling and Widespread Tissue Contribution. Cell stem cell. 1(1). 55–70. 1266 indexed citations breakdown →

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