Sarah Cooper

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Sarah Cooper is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Cooper has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Sarah Cooper's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (6 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Sarah Cooper is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (6 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Sarah Cooper collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Sarah Cooper's co-authors include Neil Brockdorff, Tianyi Zhang, Robert J. Klose, Neil P. Blackledge, Andrew Bassett, Haruhiko Koseki, Anca M. Farcas, Joanna F. McGouran, Benedikt M. Kessler and Shinsuke Ito and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Cooper

21 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

The interplay of histone modifications – writers that read

2015 577 citations Tianyi Zhang, Sarah Cooper et al. EMBO Reports profile →
Variant PRC1 Complex-Dependent H2A Ubiquitylation Drives PRC2 Recruitment and Polycomb Domain Formation

2014 553 citations Neil P. Blackledge, Anca M. Farcas et al. Cell profile →
Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer’s disease risk genes

2021 280 citations Jeremy Schwartzentruber, Sarah Cooper et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Cooper United Kingdom	13	2.2k	416	396	212	160	22	2.5k
Timothy Durham United States	12	2.7k 1.3×	544 1.3×	379 1.0×	221 1.0×	100 0.6×	15	3.1k
Robin Andersson Denmark	30	2.4k 1.1×	470 1.1×	473 1.2×	311 1.5×	86 0.5×	59	2.9k
Robbyn Issner United States	12	2.8k 1.3×	564 1.4×	377 1.0×	201 0.9×	102 0.6×	16	3.2k
Alexias Safi United States	20	2.2k 1.0×	590 1.4×	289 0.7×	148 0.7×	86 0.5×	36	2.6k
Cristina Tufarelli United Kingdom	22	1.3k 0.6×	280 0.7×	438 1.1×	184 0.9×	64 0.4×	36	1.7k
Shin‐ichiro Takebayashi Japan	22	2.8k 1.3×	586 1.4×	161 0.4×	215 1.0×	145 0.9×	48	3.1k
Tina Branscombe Miranda United States	19	2.3k 1.1×	528 1.3×	323 0.8×	89 0.4×	114 0.7×	24	2.8k
Achim Breiling Germany	19	2.1k 1.0×	350 0.8×	422 1.1×	181 0.9×	64 0.4×	27	2.5k
John E. Blume United States	22	3.2k 1.5×	455 1.1×	693 1.8×	127 0.6×	73 0.5×	32	3.7k
Miguel A. Gama-Sosa United States	12	2.1k 1.0×	544 1.3×	233 0.6×	138 0.7×	221 1.4×	14	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Cooper

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Cooper

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cooper, Max D. & Sarah Cooper. (2026). ‘This noble method in physic’: Peter Shaw's proposal for a controlled trial of an ‘antidote’ for rabies (1723). Journal of Medical Biography. 3587322514–3587322514.

Cooper, Sarah, Matthew A. Coelho, Qianxin Wu, et al.. (2024). scSNV-seq: high-throughput phenotyping of single nucleotide variants by coupled single-cell genotyping and transcriptomics. Genome biology. 25(1). 20–20. 8 indexed citations

Cooper, Sarah, Jeremy Schwartzentruber, Eve L. Coomber, Qianxin Wu, & Andrew Bassett. (2023). Screening for functional regulatory variants in open chromatin using GenIE-ATAC. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(11). e64–e64. 1 indexed citations

Schwartzentruber, Jeremy, Sarah Cooper, Jimmy Z. Liu, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer’s disease risk genes. Nature Genetics. 53(4). 585–586. 7 indexed citations

Schwartzentruber, Jeremy, Sarah Cooper, Jimmy Z. Liu, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer’s disease risk genes. Nature Genetics. 53(3). 392–402. 280 indexed citations breakdown →

Cooper, Sarah, Jeremy Schwartzentruber, Erica Bello, Eve L. Coomber, & Andrew Bassett. (2020). Screening for functional transcriptional and splicing regulatory variants with GenIE. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(22). e131–e131. 9 indexed citations

Sirey, Tamara, Kenny Roberts, Wilfried Haerty, et al.. (2019). The long non-coding RNA Cerox1 is a post transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial complex I catalytic activity. eLife. 8. 54 indexed citations

Cooper, Sarah, et al.. (2019). Solution Conformation of Bovine Leukemia Virus Gag Suggests an Elongated Structure. Journal of Molecular Biology. 431(6). 1203–1216. 4 indexed citations

Godwin, Jonathan, Haruhiko Koseki, Michał R. Gdula, et al.. (2016). Functional analysis of AEBP2, a PRC2 Polycomb protein, reveals a Trithorax phenotype in embryonic development and in ESCs. Development. 143(15). 2716–2723. 75 indexed citations

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Cooper, Sarah, E. Underwood, Katia Ancelin, et al.. (2016). Jarid2 binds mono-ubiquitylated H2A lysine 119 to mediate crosstalk between Polycomb complexes PRC1 and PRC2. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13661–13661. 187 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tianyi, Sarah Cooper, & Neil Brockdorff. (2015). The interplay of histone modifications – writers that read. EMBO Reports. 16(11). 1467–1481. 577 indexed citations breakdown →

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Katz, Margaret E. & Sarah Cooper. (2015). Extreme Diversity in the Regulation of Ndt80-Like Transcription Factors in Fungi. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 5(12). 2783–2792. 15 indexed citations

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Vance, Keith W., Stephen N. Sansom, Stephen Lee, et al.. (2014). The long non-coding RNA Paupar regulates the expression of both local and distal genes. The EMBO Journal. 33(4). 296–311. 171 indexed citations

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Cooper, Sarah, Martin Dienstbier, Lothar Schermelleh, et al.. (2014). Targeting Polycomb to Pericentric Heterochromatin in Embryonic Stem Cells Reveals a Role for H2AK119u1 in PRC2 Recruitment. Cell Reports. 7(5). 1456–1470. 251 indexed citations

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Blackledge, Neil P., Anca M. Farcas, Takashi Kondo, et al.. (2014). Variant PRC1 Complex-Dependent H2A Ubiquitylation Drives PRC2 Recruitment and Polycomb Domain Formation. Cell. 157(6). 1445–1459. 553 indexed citations breakdown →

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Klose, Robert J., Sarah Cooper, Anca M. Farcas, Neil P. Blackledge, & Neil Brockdorff. (2013). Chromatin Sampling—An Emerging Perspective on Targeting Polycomb Repressor Proteins. PLoS Genetics. 9(8). e1003717–e1003717. 97 indexed citations

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Bassett, Andrew, Sarah Cooper, Chen‐Yi Wu, & Andrew Travers. (2009). The folding and unfolding of eukaryotic chromatin. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 19(2). 159–165. 61 indexed citations

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Bassett, Andrew, Sarah Cooper, Anan Ragab, & Andrew Travers. (2008). The Chromatin Remodelling Factor dATRX Is Involved in Heterochromatin Formation. PLoS ONE. 3(5). e2099–e2099. 31 indexed citations

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Cooper, Sarah, Christopher M. Murawsky, Nicholas J. Lowe, & Andrew Travers. (2007). Two Modes of Degradation of the Tramtrack Transcription Factors by Siah Homologues. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(2). 1076–1083. 7 indexed citations

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Cooper, Sarah. (2007). In vivo function of a novel Siah protein in Drosophila. Mechanisms of Development. 124(7-8). 584–591. 9 indexed citations

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