Rengül Çetin-Atalay

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
140 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Rengül Çetin-Atalay is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Rengül Çetin-Atalay has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Organic Chemistry and 20 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Rengül Çetin-Atalay's work include Synthesis and biological activity (31 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers) and Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (10 papers). Rengül Çetin-Atalay is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and biological activity (31 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers) and Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (10 papers). Rengül Çetin-Atalay collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, United States and United Kingdom. Rengül Çetin-Atalay's co-authors include Tülin Erşahin, Nurcan Tunçbağ, Volkan Atalay, Tunca Doğan, María Martin, Ahmet Süreyya Rifaioğlu, İrem Durmaz, Deniz Kahraman, Heval Ataş and Mehmet Öztürk and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Rengül Çetin-Atalay

136 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

The PI3K/AKT/mTOR interactive pathway

2015 510 citations Tülin Erşahin, Nurcan Tunçbağ et al. Molecular BioSystems profile →
Recent applications of deep learning and machine intelligence on in silico drug discovery: methods, tools and databases

2018 363 citations Ahmet Süreyya Rifaioğlu, Heval Ataş et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rengül Çetin-Atalay Türkiye	33	2.0k	779	670	358	312	140	3.8k
Zhenming Liu China	32	2.1k 1.0×	644 0.8×	884 1.3×	380 1.1×	338 1.1×	198	4.3k
Teruki Honma Japan	31	1.8k 0.9×	724 0.9×	701 1.0×	319 0.9×	252 0.8×	124	3.5k
Weiqiang Lü China	31	2.1k 1.0×	400 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	329 0.9×	189 0.6×	97	3.3k
Stephan C. Schürer United States	38	2.7k 1.3×	776 1.0×	814 1.2×	424 1.2×	101 0.3×	130	4.5k
Shuxing Zhang United States	35	2.8k 1.4×	339 0.4×	824 1.2×	631 1.8×	225 0.7×	87	4.2k
Dan Li China	36	2.7k 1.3×	484 0.6×	1.3k 2.0×	577 1.6×	357 1.1×	156	4.7k
Rozbeh Jafari Sweden	9	2.6k 1.3×	340 0.4×	434 0.6×	527 1.5×	125 0.4×	25	3.6k
Cristian Bologa United States	30	3.3k 1.6×	484 0.6×	1.4k 2.1×	553 1.5×	196 0.6×	88	5.8k
Yong Xu China	39	2.9k 1.4×	716 0.9×	387 0.6×	729 2.0×	151 0.5×	171	5.1k
Rashmi Kumari India	9	2.1k 1.0×	736 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	377 1.1×	196 0.6×	40	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Rengül Çetin-Atalay

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20 of 20 papers shown

Atalay, Volkan, Rengül Çetin-Atalay, Erin O’Leary, et al.. (2025). mTOR signaling regulates multiple metabolic pathways in human lung fibroblasts after TGF-β and in pulmonary fibrosis. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 328(2). L215–L228. 5 indexed citations

Meliton, Angelo Y., Rengül Çetin-Atalay, Volkan Atalay, et al.. (2025). Mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism is required for TGF-β-induced glycine synthesis and fibrotic responses. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9250–9250.

Hamanaka, Robert B., Volkan Atalay, Rengül Çetin-Atalay, et al.. (2025). Arginine promotes the activation of human lung fibroblasts independent of its metabolism. Biochemical Journal. 482(12). 823–838.

Çetin-Atalay, Rengül, Angelo Y. Meliton, Yufeng Tian, et al.. (2024). Sustained hypoxia but not intermittent hypoxia induces HIF-1α transcriptional response in human aortic endothelial cells. Molecular Omics. 21(1). 19–31. 1 indexed citations

Rifaioğlu, Ahmet Süreyya, María Martin, Rengül Çetin-Atalay, et al.. (2023). Transfer learning for drug–target interaction prediction. Bioinformatics. 39(Supplement_1). i103–i110. 35 indexed citations

Çetin-Atalay, Rengül, Angelo Y. Meliton, Cevher Özcan, et al.. (2023). Loss of heme oxygenase 2 causes reduced expression of genes in cardiac muscle development and contractility and leads to cardiomyopathy in mice. PLoS ONE. 18(10). e0292990–e0292990. 1 indexed citations

Çetin-Atalay, Rengül, et al.. (2023). Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Classification from H&E Stained Histopathology Images with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks and Focal Loss Function. Journal of Imaging. 9(2). 25–25. 11 indexed citations

Woods, Parker S., Lucas Kimmig, Kaitlyn A. Sun, et al.. (2022). HIF-1α induces glycolytic reprograming in tissue-resident alveolar macrophages to promote cell survival during acute lung injury. eLife. 11. 33 indexed citations

Doğan, Tunca, Heval Ataş, Vishal Joshi, et al.. (2021). CROssBAR: comprehensive resource of biomedical relations with knowledge graph representations. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(16). e96–e96. 26 indexed citations

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Hawash, Mohammed, et al.. (2021). Synthesis of novel indole-isoxazole hybrids and evaluation of their cytotoxic activities on hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines. BMC Chemistry. 15(1). 66–66. 34 indexed citations

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O’Leary, Erin, Yufeng Tian, Recep Niğdelioğlu, et al.. (2020). TGF-β Promotes Metabolic Reprogramming in Lung Fibroblasts via mTORC1-dependent ATF4 Activation. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 63(5). 601–612. 62 indexed citations

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Sun, Kaitlyn A., Yan Li, Angelo Y. Meliton, et al.. (2020). Endogenous itaconate is not required for particulate matter-induced NRF2 expression or inflammatory response. eLife. 9. 48 indexed citations

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Kahraman, Deniz, et al.. (2019). Targeting PI3K/Akt/mTOR Pathway Identifies Differential Expression and Functional Role of IL8 in Liver Cancer Stem Cell Enrichment. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 18(11). 2146–2157. 83 indexed citations

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Bajaj, Jasmohan S., Ramazan Idılman, Andrew Fagan, et al.. (2018). Diet affects gut microbiota and modulates hospitalization risk differentially in an international cirrhosis cohort. Hepatology. 68(1). 234–247. 90 indexed citations

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Erşahin, Tülin, Mehmet Öztürk, & Rengül Çetin-Atalay. (2015). Molecular Biology of Liver Cancer. OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University). 1. 206–243. 3 indexed citations

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Erşahin, Tülin, Nurcan Tunçbağ, & Rengül Çetin-Atalay. (2015). The PI3K/AKT/mTOR interactive pathway. Molecular BioSystems. 11(7). 1946–1954. 510 indexed citations breakdown →

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Küçükoğlu, Kaan, Halise İnci Gül, Rengül Çetin-Atalay, et al.. (2013). Synthesis of new N,N′-bis[1-aryl-3-(piperidine-1-yl)propylidene]hydrazine dihydrochlorides and evaluation of their cytotoxicity against human hepatoma and breast cancer cells. Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry. 29(3). 420–426. 11 indexed citations

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Işık, Zerrin, Tülin Erşahin, Volkan Atalay, Cevdet Aykanat, & Rengül Çetin-Atalay. (2012). A signal transduction score flow algorithm for cyclic cellular pathway analysis, which combines transcriptome and ChIP-seq data. Molecular BioSystems. 8(12). 3224–3231. 6 indexed citations

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Erşahin, Tülin, et al.. (2011). Microscopic image classification using sparsity in a transform domain and Bayesian learning. Bilkent University Institutional Repository (Bilkent University). 1005–1009. 2 indexed citations

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Sayan, Berna S., et al.. (2009). Nuclear Exclusion of p33ING1b Tumor Suppressor Protein: Explored in HCC Cells Using a New Highly Specific Antibody. Hybridoma. 28(1). 1–6. 2 indexed citations

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