Rory Johnson

97.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Rory Johnson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Rory Johnson has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Cancer Research and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Rory Johnson's work include Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (37 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (31 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (27 papers). Rory Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (37 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (31 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (27 papers). Rory Johnson collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Spain and Singapore. Rory Johnson's co-authors include Roderic Guigó, Lawrence W. Stanton, Joana Carlevaro-Fita, Noel J. Buckley, Shi‐Yan Ng, Leonard Lipovich, Barbara Uszczyńska-Ratajczak, Julien Lagarde, Adam Frankish and Elena Cattaneo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Circulation and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Rory Johnson

55 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Towards a complete map of the human long non-coding RNA transcriptome

2018 431 citations Barbara Uszczyńska-Ratajczak, Julien Lagarde et al. profile →
Targeting and engineering long non-coding RNAs for cancer therapy

2024 98 citations Simon Haefliger, Samir Ounzain et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rory Johnson Switzerland	35	5.2k	3.8k	357	356	283	58	5.9k
Orly L. Wapinski United States	12	2.9k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	235 0.7×	248 0.7×	71 0.3×	13	3.5k
Claudio Santoro Italy	31	3.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	165 0.5×	428 1.2×	185 0.7×	90	4.1k
Fan Lai United States	20	3.0k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	63 0.2×	234 0.7×	295 1.0×	33	3.7k
Laurakay Bruhn United States	13	2.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	133 0.4×	1.1k 3.1×	515 1.8×	15	3.4k
Ulf Andersson Ørom Denmark	25	5.2k 1.0×	4.1k 1.1×	37 0.1×	356 1.0×	265 0.9×	41	6.0k
Phillip Grote Germany	23	2.8k 0.5×	2.1k 0.6×	69 0.2×	153 0.4×	57 0.2×	32	3.3k
Thimmaiah P. Chendrimada United States	9	5.7k 1.1×	4.3k 1.1×	71 0.2×	256 0.7×	317 1.1×	13	6.4k
Shintaro Katayama Sweden	31	2.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.3×	64 0.2×	403 1.1×	180 0.6×	89	4.0k
Qi Ma China	24	2.3k 0.4×	614 0.2×	122 0.3×	408 1.1×	287 1.0×	54	3.0k
Graham F. Kay Australia	33	4.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	164 0.5×	2.6k 7.3×	488 1.7×	66	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Rory Johnson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rory Johnson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Johnson, Rory, et al.. (2025). Targeting Wnt signalling through LINC02418: insights from CRISPR screens. Gut. 74(4). 513–515.

Zamani, Mina, et al.. (2022). CASC11 and PVT1 spliced transcripts play an oncogenic role in colorectal carcinogenesis. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 954634–954634. 3 indexed citations

Vancura, Adrienne, et al.. (2021). Cancer LncRNA Census 2 (CLC2): an enhanced resource reveals clinical features of cancer lncRNAs. NAR Cancer. 3(2). zcab013–zcab013. 20 indexed citations

Gazdhar, Amiq, Roberta Esposito, Carlos Pulido-Quetglas, et al.. (2021). Enhancing CRISPR deletion via pharmacological delay of DNA-PKcs. Genome Research. 31(3). 461–471. 7 indexed citations

Terrazas, Montserrat, Vito Genna, Guillem Portella, et al.. (2019). The Origins and the Biological Consequences of the Pur/Pyr DNA·RNA Asymmetry. Chem. 5(6). 1619–1631. 14 indexed citations

Carlevaro-Fita, Joana, et al.. (2018). Ancient exapted transposable elements promote nuclear enrichment of human long noncoding RNAs. Genome Research. 29(2). 208–222. 54 indexed citations

Johnson, Rory, et al.. (2017). Engineering Habits of Mind… for Better or Worse?.. 1 indexed citations

Mas-Ponte, David, Joana Carlevaro-Fita, Emilio Palumbo, et al.. (2017). LncATLAS database for subcellular localization of long noncoding RNAs. RNA. 23(7). 1080–1087. 237 indexed citations

Lagarde, Julien, Barbara Uszczyńska-Ratajczak, Silvia Carbonell‐Morote, et al.. (2017). High-throughput annotation of full-length long noncoding RNAs with capture long-read sequencing. Nature Genetics. 49(12). 1731–1740. 165 indexed citations

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Carlevaro-Fita, Joana, et al.. (2016). Cytoplasmic long noncoding RNAs are frequently bound to and degraded at ribosomes in human cells. RNA. 22(6). 867–882. 180 indexed citations

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Arnan, Carme, et al.. (2015). DECKO: Single-oligo, dual-CRISPR deletion of genomic elements including long non-coding RNAs. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 846–846. 84 indexed citations

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Johnson, Rory, Nikolaos Biris, Vladislav Tsiperson, et al.. (2015). RING Dimerization Links Higher-Order Assembly of TRIM5α to Synthesis of K63-Linked Polyubiquitin. Cell Reports. 12(5). 788–797. 71 indexed citations

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Ounzain, Samir, Rudi Micheletti, Frédéric Burdet, et al.. (2014). Functional importance of cardiac enhancer-associated noncoding RNAs in heart development and disease. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 76. 55–70. 96 indexed citations

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Ounzain, Samir, R. Micheletti, Tim Beckmann, et al.. (2014). Genome-wide profiling of the cardiac transcriptome after myocardial infarction identifies novel heart-specific long non-coding RNAs. European Heart Journal. 36(6). 353–368. 214 indexed citations

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Ng, Shi‐Yan, Rory Johnson, & Lawrence W. Stanton. (2011). Human long non‐coding RNAs promote pluripotency and neuronal differentiation by association with chromatin modifiers and transcription factors. The EMBO Journal. 31(3). 522–533. 421 indexed citations

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Johnson, Rory. (2011). Long non-coding RNAs in Huntington's disease neurodegeneration. Neurobiology of Disease. 46(2). 245–254. 334 indexed citations

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Jia, Hui, et al.. (2010). Genome-wide computational identification and manual annotation of human long noncoding RNA genes. RNA. 16(8). 1478–1487. 310 indexed citations

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Buckley, Noel J., Rory Johnson, Chiara Zuccato, Angela Bithell, & Elena Cattaneo. (2010). The role of REST in transcriptional and epigenetic dysregulation in Huntington's disease. Neurobiology of Disease. 39(1). 28–39. 111 indexed citations

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Johnson, Rory, Galih Kunarso, Kandhadayar G. Srinivasan, et al.. (2008). REST Regulates Distinct Transcriptional Networks in Embryonic and Neural Stem Cells. PLoS Biology. 6(10). e256–e256. 167 indexed citations

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Sun, Yuh-Man, Rory Johnson, Nikolai D. Belyaev, et al.. (2005). Distinct Profiles of REST Interactions with Its Target Genes at Different Stages of Neuronal Development. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 16(12). 5630–5638. 143 indexed citations

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