Peter W. Reddien

12.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Peter W. Reddien is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter W. Reddien has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 57 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 25 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Peter W. Reddien's work include Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation (62 papers), Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (56 papers) and Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (24 papers). Peter W. Reddien is often cited by papers focused on Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation (62 papers), Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (56 papers) and Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (24 papers). Peter W. Reddien collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Peter W. Reddien's co-authors include Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Christian P. Petersen, H. Robert Horvitz, Daniel E. Wagner, Sylvain W. Lapan, Irving E. Wang, M. Lucila Scimone, Omri Wurtzel, Josien C. van Wolfswinkel and Kellie M. Kravarik and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Peter W. Reddien

69 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANARIAN REGENERATION 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2011 200 400 600
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. FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANARIAN REGENERATION
    2004 603 citations Peter W. Reddien, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado profile →
  2. Clonogenic Neoblasts Are Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells That Underlie Planarian Regeneration
    2011 481 citations Daniel E. Wagner, Peter W. Reddien et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter W. Reddien United States 44 7.2k 4.8k 2.0k 1.9k 629 72 8.4k
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado United States 48 9.5k 1.3× 5.8k 1.2× 3.3k 1.6× 2.2k 1.1× 213 0.3× 117 11.2k
Kiyokazu Agata Japan 60 8.2k 1.1× 4.6k 1.0× 2.9k 1.4× 1.8k 0.9× 114 0.2× 231 10.5k
John R. Finnerty United States 38 4.1k 0.6× 1.6k 0.3× 403 0.2× 2.2k 1.1× 189 0.3× 79 7.0k
Yutaka Satou Japan 54 6.2k 0.9× 4.0k 0.8× 280 0.1× 685 0.4× 127 0.2× 158 7.9k
Ulrich Technau Austria 49 4.3k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 422 0.2× 4.2k 2.2× 101 0.2× 102 7.5k
Linda Z. Holland United States 52 5.4k 0.7× 1.5k 0.3× 406 0.2× 794 0.4× 89 0.1× 162 7.6k
Bret J. Pearson Canada 29 2.7k 0.4× 1.3k 0.3× 757 0.4× 456 0.2× 238 0.4× 53 3.4k
Nori Satoh Japan 45 3.9k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 377 0.2× 809 0.4× 77 0.1× 149 6.6k
Emili Saló Spain 38 3.4k 0.5× 2.5k 0.5× 926 0.5× 1.0k 0.5× 96 0.2× 85 3.8k
Jochen C. Rink Germany 26 3.4k 0.5× 1.5k 0.3× 840 0.4× 593 0.3× 72 0.1× 46 4.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter W. Reddien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Atabay, Kutay Deniz, et al.. (2026). Whole-body single-cell atlas of an adult vertebrate in homeostasis and regeneration. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).
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Cooke, Thomas F., et al.. (2025). Reduced adult stem cell fate specification led to eye reduction in cave planarians. Nature Communications. 16(1). 304–304.
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Moreno, Sira, et al.. (2025). egal-1 and microtubules promote regeneration polarity in planarians. Development. 152(20).
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Reddien, Peter W.. (2024). The purpose and ubiquity of turnover. Cell. 187(11). 2657–2681. 13 indexed citations
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King, Hunter O., et al.. (2024). A transcription factor atlas of stem cell fate in planarians. Cell Reports. 43(3). 113843–113843. 9 indexed citations
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Reddien, Peter W., et al.. (2024). Agelessness is possible under the disposable soma theory but system complexity makes it unlikely. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 595. 111958–111958. 1 indexed citations
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Park, Chanyoung, et al.. (2023). Fate specification is spatially intermingled across planarian stem cells. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7422–7422. 8 indexed citations
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Dagan, Yaël, et al.. (2022). m6A is required for resolving progenitor identity during planarian stem cell differentiation. The EMBO Journal. 41(21). e109895–e109895. 16 indexed citations
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Rozario, Tania, et al.. (2022). A Krüppel-like factor is required for development and regeneration of germline and yolk cells from somatic stem cells in planarians. PLoS Biology. 20(7). e3001472–e3001472. 14 indexed citations
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Scimone, M. Lucila, et al.. (2022). The planarian wound epidermis gene equinox is required for blastema formation in regeneration. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2726–2726. 16 indexed citations
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Cloutier, Jennifer, et al.. (2021). activin-2 is required for regeneration of polarity on the planarian anterior-posterior axis. PLoS Genetics. 17(3). e1009466–e1009466. 16 indexed citations
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Scimone, M. Lucila, et al.. (2020). Muscle and neuronal guidepost-like cells facilitate planarian visual system regeneration. Science. 368(6498). 29 indexed citations
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Gehrke, Andrew R., Yi‐Jyun Luo, Alexander Brandt, et al.. (2019). Acoel genome reveals the regulatory landscape of whole-body regeneration. Science. 363(6432). 104 indexed citations
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Reddien, Peter W., et al.. (2019). Nuclear receptor NR4A is required for patterning at the ends of the planarian anterior-posterior axis. eLife. 8. 15 indexed citations
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Petersen, Christian P., et al.. (2019). A small set of conserved genes, including sp5 and Hox, are activated by Wnt signaling in the posterior of planarians and acoels. PLoS Genetics. 15(10). e1008401–e1008401. 23 indexed citations
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Fincher, Christopher T., et al.. (2018). Cell type transcriptome atlas for the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Science. 360(6391). 273 indexed citations
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Atabay, Kutay Deniz, et al.. (2018). Self-organization and progenitor targeting generate stable patterns in planarian regeneration. Science. 360(6387). 404–409. 36 indexed citations
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Carmell, Michelle A., Gregoriy A. Dokshin, Helen Skaletsky, et al.. (2016). A widely employed germ cell marker is an ancient disordered protein with reproductive functions in diverse eukaryotes. eLife. 5. 52 indexed citations
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Petersen, Christian P. & Peter W. Reddien. (2007). Smed- β catenin-1 Is Required for Anteroposterior Blastema Polarity in Planarian Regeneration. Science. 319(5861). 327–330. 297 indexed citations
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Reddien, Peter W., et al.. (2005). SMEDWI-2 Is a PIWI-Like Protein That Regulates Planarian Stem Cells. Science. 310(5752). 1327–1330. 487 indexed citations

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