Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

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Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (37 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (19 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (18 papers). Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (37 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (19 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (18 papers). Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn's co-authors include Roger A. Pedersen, Ludovic Vallier, Lucy Smithers, Matthew Trotter, I. G. M. Brons, Sarah Howlett, Bowen Sun, Lars Ährlund‐Richter, Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes and Janet Rossant and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn

55 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Derivation of pluripotent epiblast stem cells from mammalian embryos

2007 1.5k citations I. G. M. Brons, Lucy Smithers et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn United Kingdom	29	4.4k	703	498	419	313	58	4.7k
Dieter Egli United States	32	3.3k 0.7×	1.0k 1.4×	810 1.6×	267 0.6×	491 1.6×	71	4.2k
Rupa Sridharan United States	19	3.9k 0.9×	530 0.8×	477 1.0×	320 0.8×	207 0.7×	35	4.5k
Jason Wray United Kingdom	12	4.8k 1.1×	572 0.8×	542 1.1×	654 1.6×	290 0.9×	14	5.2k
Mirei Murakami Japan	5	3.1k 0.7×	371 0.5×	328 0.7×	256 0.6×	356 1.1×	5	3.6k
Effie Apostolou United States	24	4.0k 0.9×	518 0.7×	400 0.8×	346 0.8×	90 0.3×	45	4.3k
Jacob Zucker United States	6	4.0k 0.9×	451 0.6×	472 0.9×	367 0.9×	160 0.5×	9	4.4k
Josh Chenoweth United States	16	3.3k 0.7×	671 1.0×	394 0.8×	299 0.7×	109 0.3×	24	3.6k
Laura Batlle‐Morera Spain	11	3.7k 0.8×	508 0.7×	431 0.9×	478 1.1×	177 0.6×	15	4.0k
Morag Robertson United Kingdom	12	3.8k 0.9×	579 0.8×	451 0.9×	458 1.1×	307 1.0×	22	4.4k
Masako Tada Japan	19	2.8k 0.6×	977 1.4×	330 0.7×	188 0.4×	312 1.0×	42	3.1k

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Wang, Yang, Jingyu Li, W Mansfield, et al.. (2025). Combinatorial profiling of multiple histone modifications and transcriptome in single cells using scMTR-seq. Science Advances. 11(32). eadu3308–eadu3308.

Rugg‐Gunn, Peter J., et al.. (2023). Epigenetic regulation of early human embryo development. Cell stem cell. 30(12). 1569–1584. 53 indexed citations

Alagöz, Gökberk, Felix Krueger, Maria Rostovskaya, et al.. (2023). NANOGP1 , a tandem duplicate of NANOG , exhibits partial functional conservation in human naïve pluripotent stem cells. Development. 150(2). 2 indexed citations

Novo, Clara Lopes, Colin Hockings, Chetan Poudel, et al.. (2022). Satellite repeat transcripts modulate heterochromatin condensates and safeguard chromosome stability in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3525–3525. 30 indexed citations

Collier, Amanda J., Katarzyna Tilgner, Claudia I. Semprich, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide screening identifies Polycomb repressive complex 1.3 as an essential regulator of human naïve pluripotent cell reprogramming. Science Advances. 8(12). eabk0013–eabk0013. 13 indexed citations

Tomimatsu, Kosuke, Dóra Bihary, Ioana Olan, et al.. (2021). Locus-specific induction of gene expression from heterochromatin loci during cellular senescence. Nature Aging. 2(1). 31–45. 18 indexed citations

Osnato, Anna, Stephanie Brown, Christel Krueger, et al.. (2021). TGFβ signalling is required to maintain pluripotency of human naïve pluripotent stem cells. eLife. 10. 28 indexed citations

Chovanec, Peter, Amanda J. Collier, Christel Krueger, et al.. (2021). Widespread reorganisation of pluripotent factor binding and gene regulatory interactions between human pluripotent states. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2098–2098. 23 indexed citations

Wojdyła, Katarzyna, et al.. (2020). Cell-Surface Proteomics Identifies Differences in Signaling and Adhesion Protein Expression between Naive and Primed Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Stem Cell Reports. 14(5). 972–988. 23 indexed citations

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Rugg‐Gunn, Peter J., Anne E. Corcoran, Peter Chovanec, Amanda J. Collier, & Christel Krueger. (2019). Promoter Capture Hi-C Naive Primed. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Goodwin, Jacob, Andrew L. Laslett, & Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn. (2019). The application of cell surface markers to demarcate distinct human pluripotent states. Experimental Cell Research. 387(1). 111749–111749. 8 indexed citations

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Rulands, Steffen, Heather Lee, Stephen J. Clark, et al.. (2018). Genome-Scale Oscillations in DNA Methylation during Exit from Pluripotency. Cell Systems. 7(1). 63–76.e12. 54 indexed citations

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Hassan‐Zadeh, Vahideh, Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn, & David P. Bazett‐Jones. (2017). DNA methylation is dispensable for changes in global chromatin architecture but required for chromocentre formation in early stem cell differentiation. Chromosoma. 126(5). 605–614. 14 indexed citations

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Novo, Clara Lopes, Kashif Ahmed, Ugljesa Djuric, et al.. (2016). The pluripotency factor Nanog regulates pericentromeric heterochromatin organization in mouse embryonic stem cells. Genes & Development. 30(9). 1101–1115. 43 indexed citations

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Vallot, Céline, Catherine Patrat, Amanda J. Collier, et al.. (2016). XACT Noncoding RNA Competes with XIST in the Control of X Chromosome Activity during Human Early Development. Cell stem cell. 20(1). 102–111. 133 indexed citations

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Collier, Amanda J., et al.. (2016). Deletion of the Polycomb-Group Protein EZH2 Leads to Compromised Self-Renewal and Differentiation Defects in Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell Reports. 17(10). 2700–2714. 98 indexed citations

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Novo, Clara Lopes & Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn. (2015). Chromatin organization in pluripotent cells: emerging approaches to study and disrupt function. Briefings in Functional Genomics. 15(4). 305–314. 5 indexed citations

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Rugg‐Gunn, Peter J., Brian Cox, Fredrik Lanner, et al.. (2012). Cell-Surface Proteomics Identifies Lineage-Specific Markers of Embryo-Derived Stem Cells. Developmental Cell. 22(4). 887–901. 114 indexed citations

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Vallier, Ludovic, Thomas Touboul, Zhenzhi Chng, et al.. (2009). Early Cell Fate Decisions of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Mouse Epiblast Stem Cells Are Controlled by the Same Signalling Pathways. PLoS ONE. 4(6). e6082–e6082. 202 indexed citations

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Brons, I. G. M., Lucy Smithers, Matthew Trotter, et al.. (2007). Derivation of pluripotent epiblast stem cells from mammalian embryos. Nature. 448(7150). 191–195. 1487 indexed citations breakdown →

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