Robert Sladek

23.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Robert Sladek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Sladek has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Robert Sladek's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (10 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (7 papers). Robert Sladek is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (10 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (7 papers). Robert Sladek collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Robert Sladek's co-authors include Thomas J. Hudson, Vincent Giguère, Jiangming Luo, Scott Gurd, Celia M.T. Greenwood, Denis Richard, Peter Lee, Rémi Rabasa‐Lhoret, Marie-Ève Lavoie and Virginie Messier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Robert Sladek

83 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Characterizing the profile of obese patients who are metabolically healthy

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Sladek Canada	35	3.2k	1.5k	1.0k	713	566	87	5.8k
Nicholas J. G. Webster United States	42	3.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	680 0.7×	504 0.7×	669 1.2×	116	6.7k
Timothy J. Aitman United Kingdom	44	3.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.8×	839 0.8×	583 0.8×	529 0.9×	140	7.1k
Anthony J. Brookes United Kingdom	42	3.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	988 1.0×	389 0.5×	418 0.7×	149	6.3k
Janet A. Warrington United States	34	4.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	643 0.6×	470 0.7×	922 1.6×	60	7.8k
Anne E. Kwitek United States	34	2.0k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	651 0.6×	393 0.6×	295 0.5×	125	4.5k
Shannon K. McWeeney United States	46	3.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	692 0.7×	864 1.2×	828 1.5×	202	7.2k
Jan‐Gowth Chang Taiwan	43	4.4k 1.4×	742 0.5×	932 0.9×	513 0.7×	1.2k 2.2×	329	8.2k
Tim Wiltshire United States	34	5.7k 1.8×	2.1k 1.4×	704 0.7×	422 0.6×	704 1.2×	95	9.4k
Dennis Huszar United States	42	3.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	985 1.4×	416 0.7×	86	8.7k
Michael P. Morley United States	43	5.1k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	644 0.6×	613 0.9×	993 1.8×	90	8.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Sladek

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Sladek

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dong, Wenqi, et al.. (2025). SpaTM: topic models for inferring spatially informed transcriptional programs. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 26(6).

Zhang, Wenmin, Robert Sladek, Yue Li, Hamed S. Najafabadi, & Josée Dupuis. (2024). Accounting for genetic effect heterogeneity in fine-mapping and improving power to detect gene-environment interactions with SharePro. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9374–9374. 2 indexed citations

So, Derek, Robert Sladek, & Yann Joly. (2024). Modular Ontologies for Genetically Modified People and their Bioethical Implications. NanoEthics. 18(2). 9–9.

Turgeon, Maxime, et al.. (2024). Case-Base Neural Network: Survival analysis with time-varying, higher-order interactions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 16. 100535–100535.

Al‐Mass, Anfal, Pegah Poursharifi, Marie‐Line Peyot, et al.. (2022). Hepatic glycerol shunt and glycerol-3-phosphate phosphatase control liver metabolism and glucodetoxification under hyperglycemia. Molecular Metabolism. 66. 101609–101609. 11 indexed citations

Piltonen, Marjo, Marc Parisien, Stéphanie Grégoire, et al.. (2018). Alternative Splicing of the Delta-Opioid Receptor Gene Suggests Existence of New Functional Isoforms. Molecular Neurobiology. 56(4). 2855–2869. 18 indexed citations

Sterck, Hans De, Geoffrey Sanders, Haig Djambazian, et al.. (2010). Multilevel Space‐Time Aggregation for Bright Field Cell Microscopy Segmentation and Tracking. International Journal of Biomedical Imaging. 2010(1). 582760–582760. 5 indexed citations

Camateros, Pierre, Rafael Marino, Anny Fortin, et al.. (2009). Identification of novel chromosomal regions associated with airway hyperresponsiveness in recombinant congenic strains of mice. Mammalian Genome. 21(1-2). 28–38. 14 indexed citations

Fulton, Debra L., Saravanan Sundararajan, Gwenaël Badis, et al.. (2009). TFCat: the curated catalog of mouse and human transcription factors. Genome biology. 10(3). R29–R29. 150 indexed citations

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Chimienti, Fabrice, Matthew B. Wheeler, Elisa A. Bellomo, et al.. (2008). Single nucleotide polymorphism rs13266634 modifies the zinc transport activity of SLC30A8/ZnT-8 in clonal pancreatic beta cells. Diabetologia. 51.

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Kwan, Tony, David Benovoy, Christel Dias, et al.. (2008). Genome-wide analysis of transcript isoform variation in humans. Nature Genetics. 40(2). 225–231. 231 indexed citations

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Kwan, Tony, David Benovoy, Christel Dias, et al.. (2007). Heritability of alternative splicing in the human genome. Genome Research. 17(8). 1210–1218. 91 indexed citations

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Hollmann, Christiane, Trevor Owens, Joséphine Nalbantoglu, Thomas J. Hudson, & Robert Sladek. (2006). Constitutive Activation of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Predisposes Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Cell Lines to CD40-Mediated Cell Death. Cancer Research. 66(7). 3550–3557. 30 indexed citations

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Lipsett, Mark, et al.. (2005). Morphogenetic plasticity of adult human pancreatic islets of Langerhans. Cell Death and Differentiation. 12(7). 702–712. 66 indexed citations

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Vohl, Marie‐Claude, Robert Sladek, Julie Robitaille, et al.. (2004). A Survey of Genes Differentially Expressed in Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Tissue in Men*. Obesity Research. 12(8). 1217–1222. 262 indexed citations

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Mootha, Vamsi K., Patricia Lepage, Kathleen A. Miller, et al.. (2003). Identification of a gene causing human cytochrome c oxidase deficiency by integrative genomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(2). 605–610. 452 indexed citations

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Lee, Peter, Robert Sladek, Celia M.T. Greenwood, & Thomas J. Hudson. (2002). Control Genes and Variability: Absence of Ubiquitous Reference Transcripts in Diverse Mammalian Expression Studies. Genome Research. 12(2). 292–297. 310 indexed citations

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Moustafa, Ala‐Eddin Al, Moulay A. Alaoui‐Jamali, Gerald Batist, et al.. (2002). Identification of genes associated with head and neck carcinogenesis by cDNA microarray comparison between matched primary normal epithelial and squamous carcinoma cells. Oncogene. 21(17). 2634–2640. 177 indexed citations

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Sladek, Robert & Vincent Giguère. (1999). Orphan Nuclear Receptors: An Emerging Family of Metabolic Regulators. Advances in pharmacology. 47. 23–87. 46 indexed citations

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Sladek, Robert, et al.. (1997). The Orphan Nuclear Receptor Estrogen-Related Receptor α Is a Transcriptional Regulator of the Human Medium-Chain Acyl Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Gene. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 17(9). 5400–5409. 328 indexed citations

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