Sara L. Prescott

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Sara L. Prescott is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara L. Prescott has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 3 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Sara L. Prescott's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (3 papers). Sara L. Prescott is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (3 papers). Sara L. Prescott collaborates with scholars based in United States. Sara L. Prescott's co-authors include Joanna Wysocka, Hannah K. Long, Stephen D. Liberles, Tomek Swigut, Álvaro Rada-Iglesias, Samantha A. Brugmann, Ruchi Bajpai, Yandan Wang, Zerong Cai and Judith A. Kaye and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Sara L. Prescott

11 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Ever-Changing Landscapes: Transcriptional Enhancers in Development and Evolution

2016 607 citations Hannah K. Long, Sara L. Prescott et al. Cell profile →
Internal senses of the vagus nerve

2022 159 citations Sara L. Prescott, Stephen D. Liberles Neuron profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sara L. Prescott	1.1k	260	196	188	169	12	1.8k
Paschalis Kratsios	1.0k 0.9×	130 0.5×	210 1.1×	334 1.8×	103 0.6×	38	1.6k
Valérie Matagne	702 0.6×	751 2.9×	103 0.5×	145 0.8×	66 0.4×	28	1.5k
Paolo Giacobini	1.1k 1.0×	583 2.2×	149 0.8×	373 2.0×	51 0.3×	74	3.8k
Sara B. Linker	854 0.7×	213 0.8×	143 0.7×	31 0.2×	163 1.0×	26	1.5k
Dong Won Kim	577 0.5×	91 0.3×	175 0.9×	267 1.4×	154 0.9×	72	1.5k
Natalia V. Gounko	1.1k 0.9×	157 0.6×	205 1.0×	33 0.2×	65 0.4×	43	1.9k
Jon M. Madison	1.6k 1.4×	560 2.2×	138 0.7×	218 1.2×	55 0.3×	25	2.4k
Florence Tang	898 0.8×	145 0.6×	243 1.2×	168 0.9×	28 0.2×	83	1.8k
Fabio Demontis	1.5k 1.3×	140 0.5×	727 3.7×	134 0.7×	57 0.3×	48	2.5k
Anouch Matevossian	844 0.7×	435 1.7×	166 0.8×	40 0.2×	28 0.2×	14	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara L. Prescott

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12 of 12 papers shown

Prescott, Sara L., et al.. (2025). The airway-brain axis: Connecting breath, brain, and behavior. Cell Reports. 44(9). 116239–116239.

Bin, Na‐Ryum, Sara L. Prescott, Nao Horio, et al.. (2023). An airway-to-brain sensory pathway mediates influenza-induced sickness. Nature. 615(7953). 660–667. 57 indexed citations

Prescott, Sara L. & Stephen D. Liberles. (2022). Internal senses of the vagus nerve. Neuron. 110(4). 579–599. 159 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Chuchu, Judith A. Kaye, Zerong Cai, et al.. (2020). Area Postrema Cell Types that Mediate Nausea-Associated Behaviors. Neuron. 109(3). 461–472.e5. 163 indexed citations

Prescott, Sara L., Benjamin D. Umans, Erika K. Williams, Rachael D. Brust, & Stephen D. Liberles. (2020). An Airway Protection Program Revealed by Sweeping Genetic Control of Vagal Afferents. Cell. 181(3). 574–589.e14. 130 indexed citations

Min, Soohong, Rui B. Chang, Sara L. Prescott, et al.. (2019). Arterial Baroreceptors Sense Blood Pressure through Decorated Aortic Claws. Cell Reports. 29(8). 2192–2201.e3. 85 indexed citations

Long, Hannah K., Sara L. Prescott, & Joanna Wysocka. (2016). Ever-Changing Landscapes: Transcriptional Enhancers in Development and Evolution. Cell. 167(5). 1170–1187. 607 indexed citations breakdown →

Prescott, Sara L., Rajini Srinivasan, Maria C. Marchetto, et al.. (2015). Enhancer Divergence and cis-Regulatory Evolution in the Human and Chimp Neural Crest. Cell. 163(1). 68–83. 223 indexed citations

Rada-Iglesias, Álvaro, Sara L. Prescott, & Joanna Wysocka. (2013). Human genetic variation within neural crest enhancers: molecular and phenotypic implications. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 368(1620). 20120360–20120360. 16 indexed citations

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Rada-Iglesias, Álvaro, Ruchi Bajpai, Sara L. Prescott, et al.. (2012). Epigenomic Annotation of Enhancers Predicts Transcriptional Regulators of Human Neural Crest. Cell stem cell. 11(5). 633–648. 221 indexed citations

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Boutet, Stéphane C., Tom H. Cheung, Ling Liu, et al.. (2012). Alternative Polyadenylation Mediates MicroRNA Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Function. Cell stem cell. 10(3). 327–336. 124 indexed citations

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Prescott, Sara L., et al.. (1990). Fowl Model for Vitiligo: Genetic Regulation on the Fate of the Melanocytes. Pigment Cell Research. 3(S2). 242–248. 11 indexed citations

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