Rachel S. Edgar

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Rachel S. Edgar is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Aging and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel S. Edgar has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, 5 papers in Aging and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Rachel S. Edgar's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (14 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (5 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (3 papers). Rachel S. Edgar is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (14 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (5 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (3 papers). Rachel S. Edgar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Rachel S. Edgar's co-authors include John S. O’Neill, Akhilesh B. Reddy, Utham K. Valekunja, María Olmedo, Martha Merrow, Kevin A. Feeney, Michael H. Hastings, Elizabeth S. Maywood, Edward W. Green and Min Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rachel S. Edgar

17 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Peroxiredoxins are conserved markers of circadian rhythms

2012 682 citations Rachel S. Edgar, Edward W. Green et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachel S. Edgar United Kingdom	12	718	400	320	298	181	18	1.3k
Guillaume Rey Switzerland	15	766 1.1×	336 0.8×	404 1.3×	286 1.0×	241 1.3×	21	1.3k
Angela Relógio Germany	25	1.1k 1.5×	676 1.7×	544 1.7×	280 0.9×	224 1.2×	61	2.0k
Thomas Wallach Germany	17	562 0.8×	317 0.8×	190 0.6×	310 1.0×	119 0.7×	37	1.0k
Utham K. Valekunja United Kingdom	10	769 1.1×	462 1.2×	339 1.1×	322 1.1×	215 1.2×	14	1.3k
Sofia Axelrod United States	5	626 0.9×	215 0.5×	299 0.9×	114 0.4×	118 0.7×	6	1.1k
Jean‐Pierre Etchegaray United States	17	416 0.6×	659 1.6×	208 0.7×	213 0.7×	115 0.6×	28	1.3k
Yoshiki Tsuchiya Japan	23	879 1.2×	612 1.5×	422 1.3×	374 1.3×	249 1.4×	74	1.9k
Bert Maier Germany	18	1.7k 2.4×	455 1.1×	743 2.3×	570 1.9×	353 2.0×	27	2.4k
Jonathan D. Clayton United Kingdom	10	637 0.9×	281 0.7×	301 0.9×	221 0.7×	185 1.0×	11	981
Krisztina Káldi Hungary	21	586 0.8×	749 1.9×	213 0.7×	477 1.6×	103 0.6×	39	1.6k

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Styles, Christine T., et al.. (2025). Chronic CRYPTOCHROME deficiency enhances cell-intrinsic antiviral defences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1918). 20230344–20230344. 1 indexed citations

Beale, Andrew D., Iacovos N. Michaelides, Sew‐Yeu Peak‐Chew, et al.. (2025). Development of compounds for targeted degradation of mammalian cryptochrome proteins.. PubMed. 380(1918). 20230342–20230342. 2 indexed citations

Edgar, Rachel S., Aidan J. O’Donnell, Xiaodong Zhuang, & Sarah E. Reece. (2025). Time to start taking time seriously: how to investigate unexpected biological rhythms within infectious disease research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1918). 20230336–20230336.

Styles, Christine T., Jie Zhou, Katie E. Flight, et al.. (2023). Propylene glycol inactivates respiratory viruses and prevents airborne transmission. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 15(12). e17932–e17932. 5 indexed citations

Beale, Andrew D., Edward A. Hayter, Priya Crosby, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms and physiological function of daily haemoglobin oxidation rhythms in red blood cells. The EMBO Journal. 42(19). e114164–e114164. 12 indexed citations

Zhuang, Xiaodong, Rachel S. Edgar, & Jane A. McKeating. (2022). The role of circadian clock pathways in viral replication. Seminars in Immunopathology. 44(2). 175–182. 10 indexed citations

Wong, David, Estere Seinkmane, Alessandra Stangherlin, et al.. (2021). CRYPTOCHROMES promote daily protein homeostasis. The EMBO Journal. 41(1). e108883–e108883. 15 indexed citations

Putker, Marrit, David Wong, Estere Seinkmane, et al.. (2021). CRYPTOCHROMES confer robustness, not rhythmicity, to circadian timekeeping. The EMBO Journal. 40(7). e106745–e106745. 29 indexed citations

O’Neill, John S., Nathaniel P. Hoyle, James B. Robertson, et al.. (2020). Eukaryotic cell biology is temporally coordinated to support the energetic demands of protein homeostasis. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4706–4706. 19 indexed citations

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Lasselin, Julie, Michael Ingre, Christina Regenbogen, et al.. (2019). Sleep during naturally occurring respiratory infections: A pilot study. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 79. 236–243. 19 indexed citations

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Henslee, Erin A., Priya Crosby, Andrea Bernardini, et al.. (2017). Rhythmic potassium transport regulates the circadian clock in human red blood cells. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1978–1978. 60 indexed citations

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Edgar, Rachel S., Alessandra Stangherlin, András D. Nagy, et al.. (2016). Cell autonomous regulation of herpes and influenza virus infection by the circadian clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(36). 10085–10090. 158 indexed citations

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Milev, N, Guillaume Rey, Utham K. Valekunja, et al.. (2014). Analysis of the Redox Oscillations in the Circadian Clockwork. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 552. 185–210. 7 indexed citations

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Valekunja, Utham K., Rachel S. Edgar, Małgorzata Oklejewicz, et al.. (2013). Histone methyltransferase MLL3 contributes to genome-scale circadian transcription. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(4). 1554–1559. 101 indexed citations

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Edgar, Rachel S., Edward W. Green, Yuwei Zhao, et al.. (2012). Peroxiredoxins are conserved markers of circadian rhythms. Nature. 485(7399). 459–464. 682 indexed citations breakdown →

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Olmedo, María, John S. O’Neill, Rachel S. Edgar, et al.. (2012). Circadian regulation of olfaction and an evolutionarily conserved, nontranscriptional marker in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(50). 20479–20484. 51 indexed citations

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Gill, Michael B., Rachel S. Edgar, Janet S. May, & Philip G. Stevenson. (2008). A Gamma-Herpesvirus Glycoprotein Complex Manipulates Actin to Promote Viral Spread. PLoS ONE. 3(3). e1808–e1808. 41 indexed citations

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Jones, Des C., Rachel S. Edgar, Tariq Ahmad, et al.. (2006). Killer Ig-like receptor (KIR) genotype and HLA ligand combinations in ulcerative colitis susceptibility. Genes and Immunity. 7(7). 576–582. 57 indexed citations

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