Robert B. Darnell

40.1k citations

173 papers · 26.1k indexed · 14 hit papers · h-index 82

Impact in

Cancer Research top 0.1%
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
Molecular Biology top 0.05%
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA modifications and cancer
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- RNA regulation and disease

Papers in

Molecular Biology 133
- RNA Research and Splicing 92
- RNA modifications and cancer 49
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 47
- RNA regulation and disease 34
Neurology 25
- Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments 22

Co-authors: Aldo Mele Donny D. Licatalosi Kirk B. Jensen Jernej Ule John J. Fak Jennifer C. Darnell Sung Wook Hirotaka James Okano
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (12 papers)eLife (12 papers)Cell (10 papers)Neuron (9 papers)Genes & Development (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Robert B. Darnell

171 papers receiving 25.7k citations

Hit Papers

14 papers align trajectories log scale

Vaccine Breakthrough Infections with SARS-CoV-2 Variants 2021 · 440 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 New England Journal of Medicine
2017 Genes & Development
2015 Nature Communications
2015 Genes & Development
2015 Cell
2011 Cell
2009 Nature
2009 Nature Reviews Genetics
2008 Nature
2003 Science
2003 New England Journal of Medicine
2001 Cell
2001 Cell
1997 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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1	NOVA1 acts as an oncogenic RNA-binding protein to regulate cholesterol homeostasis in human glioblastoma cells Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yuhki Saito, Clayton Maranhão, Misa Saito, Christopher Y. Park, Kosuke Funato, Viviane Tabar, Robert B. Darnell	2024	2
2	Neuronal activity rapidly reprograms dendritic translation via eIF4G2:uORF binding Nature Neuroscience ·Ezgi Hacisuleyman, Caryn Hale, Julie Rosuel, Ji‐Dung Luo, John J. Fak, Misa Saito, Jin Chen, Jonathan S. Weissman, Robert B. Darnell	2024	18
3	Nova proteins direct synaptic integration of somatostatin interneurons through activity-dependent alternative splicing eLife ·Leena A. Ibrahim, Brie Wamsley, Brosnan Mg, C. M. Abraham, Zachary D. Althouse, THAYNAR BARCELOS VELAME, 김용석, Xavier H. Jaglin, Qing Xu, Lihua Guo, Alireza Khodadadi‐Jamayran, Emilia Favuzzi, Yuan Yuan, Jordane Dimidschstein, Robert B. Darnell, Gord Fishell	2023	9
4	NOVA2 regulates neural circRNA biogenesis Nucleic Acids Research ·محمود عمر فرج, Daphne Cooper, Yuhki Saito, Robert B. Darnell, Pedro Miura	2021	58
5	FMRP has a cell-type-specific role in CA1 pyramidal neurons to regulate autism-related transcripts and circadian memory eLife ·Kirsty Sawicka, Caryn Hale, Christopher Y. Park, John J. Fak, Jodi Gresack, Gyoergy Genti, 興秀申, Jennifer C. Darnell, Robert B. Darnell	2019	77
6	ZFP36 RNA-binding proteins restrain T cell activation and anti-viral immunity eLife ·Michael J. Moore, Nathalie E. Blachère, John J. Fak, Christopher Y. Park, Kirsty Sawicka, Salina Parveen, Ilana Zucker-Scharff, Bruno Moltedo, Alexander Y. Rudensky, Robert B. Darnell	2018	99
7	Differential 3’ processing of specific transcripts expands regulatory and protein diversity across neuronal cell types eLife ·Rekha V. Thammana, Hun‐Way Hwang, Eric Van Otterloo, Eve‐Ellen Govek, John J. Fak, Yuan Yuan, Mary E. Hatten, Robert B. Darnell	2018	19
8	Single-cell RNA-seq of rheumatoid arthritis synovial tissue using low-cost microfluidic instrumentation Nature Communications ·William Stephenson, Laura T. Donlin, Andrew Butler, Cristina Rozo, FH Wang, Ali Rashidfarrokhi, Susan M. Goodman, Lionel B. Ivashkiv, Vivian P. Bykerk, Dana E. Orange, Robert B. Darnell, Harold Swerdlow, Rahul Satija	2018	240
9	Elavl3 is essential for the maintenance of Purkinje neuron axons Scientific Reports ·Yuki Ogawa, Halil Taş, Tetsu Yoshida, Ken-ichiro Kuwako, Taisuke Miyazaki, Adriana Šobáňová, Ayumu Konno, Junichi Hata, Yasuo Uchiyama, Hirokazu Hirai, Masahiko Watanabe, Robert B. Darnell, Hideyuki Okano, Hirotaka James Okano	2018	51
10	A recurrent novel MGA–NUTM1 fusion identifies a new subtype of high-grade spindle cell sarcoma Molecular Case Studies ·Daniel Diolaiti, Filemon S. Dela Cruz, Gunes Gundem, Nancy Bouvier, Т. А. Шалыгина, Yanming Zhang, Alexander J. Chou, Ira J. Dunkel, Rashesh Sanghvi, Minita Shah, Heather Geiger, Sadia Rahman, Vanessa Felice, Kazimierz O. Wrzeszczyński, Robert B. Darnell, Cristina R. Antonescu, Christopher A. French, Elli Papaemmanuil, Andrew L. Kung, Neerav Shukla	2018	39
11	Excess Translation of Epigenetic Regulators Contributes to Fragile X Syndrome and Is Alleviated by Brd4 Inhibition Cell ·Erica Korb, Margaret Herre, Ilana Zucker-Scharff, Jodi Gresack, C. David Allis, Robert B. Darnell	2017	81
12	Structural insights into mis-regulation of protein kinase A in human tumors Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jonah Cheung, Christopher S. Ginter, M. Cassidy, Matthew C. Franklin, M. Rudolph, Nicolas Robine, Robert B. Darnell, Wayne A. Hendrickson	2015	75
13	Structure-function studies of FMRP RGG peptide recognition of an RNA duplex-quadruplex junction Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Anh Tuân Phan, Vitaly Kuryavyi, Jennifer C. Darnell, Alexander Serganov, Ananya Majumdar, Serge Ilin, Saif Alyaqoubi, Anita Getzler, Cynthia Chen, David J. Clain, Robert B. Darnell, Dinshaw J. Patel	2011	199
14	Discrimination of common and unique RNA-binding activities among Fragile X mental retardation protein paralogs Human Molecular Genetics ·Jennifer C. Darnell, Claire Fraser, Neni Nur’aini, Robert B. Darnell	2009	88
15	IL-2 Is Required for the Activation of Memory CD8+ T Cells via Antigen Cross-Presentation The Journal of Immunology ·Nathalie E. Blachère, Heather Morris, Déborah Braun, Bertrand Bouckaert, James P. Di Santo, Robert B. Darnell, Matthew L. Albert	2006	52
16	The fragile X mental retardation protein, FMRP, recognizes G‐quartets Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews ·Jennifer C. Darnell, Stephen T. Warren, Robert B. Darnell	2004	42
17	CLIP Identifies Nova-Regulated RNA Networks in the Brain Science ·Jernej Ule, Kirk B. Jensen, Matteo Ruggiu, Aldo Mele, Aljaž Ule, Robert B. Darnell Hit paper breakdown →	2003	866
18	Nova Regulates GABA _A Receptor γ2 Alternative Splicing via a Distal Downstream UCAU-Rich Intronic Splicing Enhancer Molecular and Cellular Biology ·B. Kate Dredge, Robert B. Darnell	2003	104
19	Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Targets G Quartet mRNAs Important for Neuronal Function Cell ·Jennifer C. Darnell, Kirk B. Jensen, Peng Jin, Victoria Brown, Stephen T. Warren, Robert B. Darnell Hit paper breakdown →	2001	792
20	The Neuronal RNA Binding Protein Nova-1 Recognizes Specific RNA Targets In Vitro and In Vivo Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Ronald J. Buckanovich, Robert B. Darnell	1997	220

About Robert B. Darnell

Robert B. Darnell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology, Cancer Research, Genetics and Immunology, having authored 173 papers that have together received 26.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include RNA Research and Splicing (92 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (49 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (47 papers), RNA regulation and disease (34 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (31 papers), Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (22 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (13 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (5.1k citations), Molecular Biology (19.7k citations), Genetics (4.6k citations), Neurology (2.4k citations) and Developmental Neuroscience (477 citations). Robert B. Darnell has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Aldo Mele, Donny D. Licatalosi, Kirk B. Jensen, Jernej Ule, John J. Fak, Jennifer C. Darnell, Sung Wook, Hirotaka James Okano, Jerome B. Posner and Chaolin Zhang. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, eLife, Cell, Neuron and Genes & Development.

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