Oliver H. Tam

4.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
20 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Oliver H. Tam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver H. Tam has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Oliver H. Tam's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers). Oliver H. Tam is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers). Oliver H. Tam collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Oliver H. Tam's co-authors include Gregory J. Hannon, Elizabeth P. Murchison, Sihem Cheloufi, Molly Hammell, Janet F. Partridge, Ying Jin, Martin Anger, Richard M. Schultz, Ravi Sachidanandam and Emily Hodges and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Oliver H. Tam

20 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Pseudogene-derived small interfering RNAs regulate gene expression in mouse oocytes

2008 822 citations Oliver H. Tam, Alexei A. Aravin et al. Nature profile →
Characterization of Dicer-deficient murine embryonic stem cells

2005 623 citations Elizabeth P. Murchison, Janet F. Partridge et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
TEtranscripts: a package for including transposable elements in differential expression analysis of RNA-seq datasets

2015 381 citations Ying Jin, Oliver H. Tam et al. Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver H. Tam United States	13	2.4k	895	740	270	129	20	2.7k
Carla Klattenhoff United States	11	2.5k 1.0×	1000 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	247 0.9×	113 0.9×	13	2.8k
Łukasz Jaśkiewicz Switzerland	15	2.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.7×	378 0.5×	185 0.7×	200 1.6×	32	3.2k
Alena Shkumatava France	19	3.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.8×	381 0.5×	416 1.5×	162 1.3×	29	3.7k
Colin D. Malone United States	20	3.4k 1.4×	580 0.6×	2.0k 2.7×	415 1.5×	190 1.5×	21	4.0k
Sihem Cheloufi United States	16	4.0k 1.7×	2.1k 2.4×	502 0.7×	251 0.9×	293 2.3×	24	4.5k
Bruce Wightman United States	15	3.2k 1.3×	2.5k 2.8×	359 0.5×	193 0.7×	180 1.4×	23	4.0k
Monica Di Giacomo Italy	17	1.7k 0.7×	585 0.7×	469 0.6×	219 0.8×	107 0.8×	20	2.0k
Jafar Sharif Japan	26	3.1k 1.3×	382 0.4×	318 0.4×	706 2.6×	179 1.4×	44	3.4k
Bernd Schuettengruber France	20	3.8k 1.6×	357 0.4×	826 1.1×	560 2.1×	169 1.3×	27	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver H. Tam

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20 of 20 papers shown

Garza, Raquel, Patricia Gerdes, Pia A. Johansson, et al.. (2025). LINE-1 retrotransposons mediate cis-acting transcriptional control in human pluripotent stem cells and regulate early brain development. Cell Genomics. 5(10). 100979–100979. 1 indexed citations

Tam, Oliver H., et al.. (2025). ALS molecular subtypes are a combination of cellular and pathological features learned by deep multiomics classifiers. Cell Reports. 44(3). 115402–115402. 2 indexed citations

Hubbard, Isabel, et al.. (2023). TDP-43 pathology in Drosophila induces glial-cell type specific toxicity that can be ameliorated by knock-down of SF2/SRSF1. PLoS Genetics. 19(9). e1010973–e1010973. 2 indexed citations

Tam, Oliver H., Nikolay V. Rozhkov, Duyang Kim, et al.. (2019). Postmortem Cortex Samples Identify Distinct Molecular Subtypes of ALS: Retrotransposon Activation, Oxidative Stress, and Activated Glia. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

Tam, Oliver H., Eszter Pósfai, Lingyu Li, et al.. (2019). Esrrb function is required for proper primordial germ cell development in presomite stage mouse embryos. Developmental Biology. 455(2). 382–392. 11 indexed citations

Tam, Oliver H., Lyle W. Ostrow, & Molly Hammell. (2019). Diseases of the nERVous system: retrotransposon activity in neurodegenerative disease. Mobile DNA. 10(1). 32–32. 86 indexed citations

Carlston, Colleen M., Oliver H. Tam, Janice C. Palumbos, et al.. (2018). Three novel GJB2 (connexin 26) variants associated with autosomal dominant syndromic and nonsyndromic hearing loss. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 176(4). 945–950. 7 indexed citations

Tam, Oliver H., et al.. (2018). Crim1 is required for maintenance of the ocular lens epithelium. Experimental Eye Research. 170. 58–66. 10 indexed citations

Tajima, Ken, Toshifumi Yae, Sarah Javaid, et al.. (2015). SETD1A modulates cell cycle progression through a miRNA network that regulates p53 target genes. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8257–8257. 40 indexed citations

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Goh, W.S. Sho, Ilaria Falciatori, Oliver H. Tam, et al.. (2015). piRNA-directed cleavage of meiotic transcripts regulates spermatogenesis. Genes & Development. 29(10). 1032–1044. 202 indexed citations

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Wasik, Kaja A., Oliver H. Tam, Simon Knott, et al.. (2015). RNF17 blocks promiscuous activity of PIWI proteins in mouse testes. Genes & Development. 29(13). 1403–1415. 44 indexed citations

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Jin, Ying, et al.. (2015). TEtranscripts: a package for including transposable elements in differential expression analysis of RNA-seq datasets. Bioinformatics. 31(22). 3593–3599. 381 indexed citations breakdown →

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Petsch, Katherine, Oliver H. Tam, Robert Meeley, et al.. (2015). Novel DICER-LIKE1 siRNAs Bypass the Requirement for DICER-LIKE4 in Maize Development. The Plant Cell. 27(8). 2163–2177. 18 indexed citations

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Kojima, Yoji, Oliver H. Tam, & Patrick Tam. (2014). Timing of developmental events in the early mouse embryo. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 34. 65–75. 106 indexed citations

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Pósfai, Eszter, Oliver H. Tam, & Janet Rossant. (2014). Mechanisms of Pluripotency In Vivo and In Vitro. Current topics in developmental biology. 107. 1–37. 41 indexed citations

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Kojima, Yoji, Keren Kaufman‐Francis, Joshua B. Studdert, et al.. (2013). The Transcriptional and Functional Properties of Mouse Epiblast Stem Cells Resemble the Anterior Primitive Streak. Cell stem cell. 14(1). 107–120. 221 indexed citations

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Teta, Monica, Yeon Sook Choi, Gabrielle S. Wong, et al.. (2012). Inducible deletion of epidermal Dicer and Drosha reveals multiple functions for miRNAs in postnatal skin. Development. 139(8). 1405–1416. 78 indexed citations

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Tam, Oliver H., Alexei A. Aravin, Paula Stein, et al.. (2008). Pseudogene-derived small interfering RNAs regulate gene expression in mouse oocytes. Nature. 453(7194). 534–538. 822 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, You‐Tzung, et al.. (2007). Generation of a Twist1 conditional null allele in the mouse. genesis. 45(9). 588–592. 46 indexed citations

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Murchison, Elizabeth P., Janet F. Partridge, Oliver H. Tam, Sihem Cheloufi, & Gregory J. Hannon. (2005). Characterization of Dicer-deficient murine embryonic stem cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(34). 12135–12140. 623 indexed citations breakdown →

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