Polly Weller

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Polly Weller is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Reproductive Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Polly Weller has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Reproductive Medicine. Recurrent topics in Polly Weller's work include Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (4 papers), Sexual Differentiation and Disorders (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers). Polly Weller is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (4 papers), Sexual Differentiation and Disorders (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers). Polly Weller collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Polly Weller's co-authors include Peter N. Goodfellow, Sahar Mansour, Silvana Guioli, Jamie W. Foster, Alan J. Schafer, Cheni Kwok, J. David Brook, I D Young, Milena Stevanović and M. Dominguez-Steglich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Polly Weller

10 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Campomelic dysplasia and autosomal sex reversal caused by mutations in an SRY-related gene

1994 1.2k citations Jamie W. Foster, M. Dominguez-Steglich et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Polly Weller United Kingdom	10	1.2k	1.1k	273	211	124	10	1.7k
M. Dominguez-Steglich Germany	11	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	278 1.0×	203 1.0×	135 1.1×	15	1.6k
Cheni Kwok United Kingdom	12	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	331 1.2×	248 1.2×	113 0.9×	14	2.0k
Jutta Wirth Germany	13	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	230 0.8×	209 1.0×	195 1.6×	26	1.8k
Androulla Economou United Kingdom	10	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	357 1.3×	101 0.5×	201 1.6×	11	1.8k
S. M. Darling United Kingdom	20	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	197 0.7×	55 0.3×	323 2.6×	32	1.8k
Guang-Quan Zhao United States	18	1.8k 1.5×	552 0.5×	314 1.2×	86 0.4×	46 0.4×	18	2.2k
Danielle M. Maatouk United States	17	1.2k 1.0×	966 0.9×	480 1.8×	182 0.9×	82 0.7×	22	1.6k
Sheila X. Zhou Australia	9	964 0.8×	569 0.5×	77 0.3×	187 0.9×	39 0.3×	10	1.5k
Annemiek Beverdam Australia	17	974 0.8×	677 0.6×	182 0.7×	71 0.3×	49 0.4×	28	1.3k
Leslie F. Lock United States	19	1.6k 1.4×	719 0.6×	119 0.4×	101 0.5×	107 0.9×	27	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Polly Weller

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Polly Weller

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Polly Weller. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Polly Weller based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Polly Weller. Polly Weller is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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10 of 10 papers shown

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McDowall, Sharon G., Anthony Argentaro, Shoba Ranganathan, et al.. (1999). Functional and Structural Studies of Wild Type SOX9 and Mutations Causing Campomelic Dysplasia. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(34). 24023–24030. 98 indexed citations

2.

Schafer, Alan J., Jamie W. Foster, Cheni Kwok, et al.. (1996). Campomelic Dysplasia with XY Sex Reversal: Diverse Phenotypes Resulting from Mutations in a Single Genea. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 785(1). 137–149. 34 indexed citations

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Ellis, Nathan A., et al.. (1994). Cloning of PBDX, an MIC2-related gene that spans the pseudoautosomal boundary on chromosome Xp. Nature Genetics. 6(4). 394–400. 69 indexed citations

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Ellis, Nathan A., Patricia Tippett, Marion E. Reid, et al.. (1994). PBDX is the XG blood group gene. Nature Genetics. 8(3). 285–290. 51 indexed citations

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Foster, Jamie W., M. Dominguez-Steglich, Silvana Guioli, et al.. (1994). Campomelic dysplasia and autosomal sex reversal caused by mutations in an SRY-related gene. Nature. 372(6506). 525–530. 1237 indexed citations breakdown →

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Weller, Polly, et al.. (1989). Nuclear factor I can functionally replace transcription factor Sp1 in a U2 small nuclear RNA gene enhancer. Journal of Molecular Biology. 205(2). 387–396. 26 indexed citations

7.

Bark, Christina, et al.. (1987). A distant enhancer element is required for polymerase III transcription of a U6 RNA gene. Nature. 328(6128). 356–359. 97 indexed citations

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Bark, Christina, Polly Weller, Jan Zabielski, & Ulf Pettersson. (1986). Genes for human U4 small nuclear RNA. Gene. 50(1-3). 333–344. 31 indexed citations

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Weller, Polly, et al.. (1986). Myoglobin Expression: Early Induction and Subsequent Modulation of Myoglobin and Myoglobin mRNA During Myogenesis. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 6(12). 4539–4547. 36 indexed citations

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Jeffreys, Alec J., Victoria Wilson, A. Blanchetot, et al.. (1984). The human myoglobin gene: a third dispersed globin locus in the human genome. Nucleic Acids Research. 12(7). 3235–3243. 9 indexed citations

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