Robert Piskol

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Robert Piskol is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Piskol has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Oncology and 5 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Robert Piskol's work include RNA regulation and disease (9 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Robert Piskol is often cited by papers focused on RNA regulation and disease (9 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Robert Piskol collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Robert Piskol's co-authors include Jin Billy Li, Gokul Ramaswami, Meng How Tan, Wei Lin, Peter H. Seeburg, Alistair M. Chalk, Carl R. Walkley, Brian Liddicoat, Jochen C. Hartner and Zora Modrušan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert Piskol

32 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

RNA editing by ADAR1 prevents MDA5 sensing of endogenous dsRNA as nonself

2015 667 citations Brian Liddicoat, Robert Piskol et al. profile →
A distinct role for Lgr5+ stem cells in primary and metastatic colon cancer

2017 558 citations Felipe de Sousa e Melo, Antonina V. Kurtova et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Piskol United States	19	2.3k	711	523	499	245	32	3.0k
Yijie Gao China	15	2.4k 1.1×	715 1.0×	401 0.8×	314 0.6×	229 0.9×	31	2.8k
Valeria Tosello Italy	26	1.5k 0.7×	782 1.1×	328 0.6×	1.1k 2.3×	180 0.7×	59	3.1k
Timothy P. Bender United States	29	2.3k 1.0×	744 1.0×	1.1k 2.2×	1.4k 2.8×	254 1.0×	63	4.0k
Lyn Healy United Kingdom	27	1.3k 0.6×	714 1.0×	249 0.5×	588 1.2×	204 0.8×	59	2.7k
Marcus Kretzschmar United States	12	2.7k 1.2×	725 1.0×	345 0.7×	281 0.6×	274 1.1×	12	3.3k
Prakash K. Rao United States	16	1.6k 0.7×	522 0.7×	824 1.6×	409 0.8×	180 0.7×	20	2.3k
Tadanori Yamochi Japan	24	1.1k 0.5×	617 0.9×	391 0.7×	669 1.3×	144 0.6×	39	2.2k
Marc Lipinski France	28	1.8k 0.8×	306 0.4×	212 0.4×	413 0.8×	269 1.1×	67	2.6k
Gerard Brady United Kingdom	29	1.6k 0.7×	737 1.0×	327 0.6×	564 1.1×	443 1.8×	57	2.9k
Tyson V. Sharp United Kingdom	24	958 0.4×	347 0.5×	335 0.6×	317 0.6×	171 0.7×	48	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Piskol

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Curtis, Matthew B., Gu Zhang, Robyn Clark, et al.. (2025). Abstract PR002: T cell engager therapy affects the spatial distribution and phenotype of T cells in the tumor microenvironment. Cancer Immunology Research. 13(2_Supplement). PR002–PR002. 1 indexed citations

Himmels, Patricia, Alfonso Arrazate, Robyn Clark, et al.. (2023). T cell‐dependent bispecific antibodies alter organ‐specific endothelial cell–T cell interaction. EMBO Reports. 24(3). e55532–e55532. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Putianqi, Noelyn M. Kljavin, Elaine E. Storm, et al.. (2023). Adrenergic nerves regulate intestinal regeneration through IL-22 signaling from type 3 innate lymphoid cells. Cell stem cell. 30(9). 1166–1178.e8. 22 indexed citations

Mosteiro, Lluc, Simona Hankeová, Daniel Álvarez‐Sierra, et al.. (2023). Notch signaling in thyrocytes is essential for adult thyroid function and mammalian homeostasis. Nature Metabolism. 5(12). 2094–2110. 3 indexed citations

Chang, Matthew T., Fergus Shanahan, Steven T. Staben, et al.. (2021). Identifying transcriptional programs underlying cancer drug response with TraCe-seq. Nature Biotechnology. 40(1). 86–93. 24 indexed citations

Hagenbeek, Thijs J., Ho-June Lee, Jason Li, et al.. (2020). Machine-Learning and Chemicogenomics Approach Defines and Predicts Cross-Talk of Hippo and MAPK Pathways. Cancer Discovery. 11(3). 778–793. 37 indexed citations

Piskol, Robert, Ling Huw, Ismail Sergin, et al.. (2019). A Clinically Applicable Gene-Expression Classifier Reveals Intrinsic and Extrinsic Contributions to Consensus Molecular Subtypes in Primary and Metastatic Colon Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 25(14). 4431–4442. 40 indexed citations

Hegde, Ganapati V., Jennifer M. Giltnane, Lisa Crocker, et al.. (2019). NRG1 is a critical regulator of differentiation in TP63-driven squamous cell carcinoma. eLife. 8. 9 indexed citations

Li, Ji, Robert Piskol, Ryan Ybarra, et al.. (2019). CD3 bispecific antibody–induced cytokine release is dispensable for cytotoxic T cell activity. Science Translational Medicine. 11(508). 128 indexed citations

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Biehs, Brian, Gerrit J.P. Dijkgraaf, Robert Piskol, et al.. (2018). A cell identity switch allows residual BCC to survive Hedgehog pathway inhibition. Nature. 562(7727). 429–433. 95 indexed citations

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Nile, Aaron H., Felipe de Sousa e Melo, Susmith Mukund, et al.. (2018). A selective peptide inhibitor of Frizzled 7 receptors disrupts intestinal stem cells. Nature Chemical Biology. 14(6). 582–590. 66 indexed citations

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Melo, Felipe de Sousa e, Antonina V. Kurtova, Jonathan M. Harnoss, et al.. (2017). A distinct role for Lgr5+ stem cells in primary and metastatic colon cancer. Nature. 543(7647). 676–680. 558 indexed citations breakdown →

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Karra, Kalpana, Jessica Chang, Robert Piskol, et al.. (2016). XenMine: A genomic interaction tool for the Xenopus community. Developmental Biology. 426(2). 155–164. 4 indexed citations

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Kusumi, Junko, et al.. (2015). A model of compensatory molecular evolution involving multiple sites in RNA molecules. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 388. 96–107. 4 indexed citations

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Liddicoat, Brian, Robert Piskol, Jin Billy Li, et al.. (2014). RNA editing is the primary in vivo function of ADAR1 and is essential for hematopoiesis. Experimental Hematology. 42(8). S17–S17. 1 indexed citations

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Ramaswami, Gokul, Rui Zhang, Robert Piskol, et al.. (2013). Identifying RNA editing sites using RNA sequencing data alone. Nature Methods. 10(2). 128–132. 289 indexed citations

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Piskol, Robert, Gokul Ramaswami, & Jin Billy Li. (2013). Reliable Identification of Genomic Variants from RNA-Seq Data. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 93(4). 641–651. 238 indexed citations

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Ramaswami, Gokul, Wei Lin, Robert Piskol, et al.. (2012). Accurate identification of human Alu and non-Alu RNA editing sites. Nature Methods. 9(6). 579–581. 298 indexed citations

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Piskol, Robert, Michaela Beitzinger, Jia Zhu, et al.. (2010). The small RNA expression profile of the developing murine urinary and reproductive systems. FEBS Letters. 584(21). 4426–4434. 17 indexed citations

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Piskol, Robert & Wolfgang Stephan. (2010). Selective Constraints in Conserved Folded RNAs of Drosophilid and Hominid Genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(4). 1519–1529. 10 indexed citations

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