Sarah U. Morton

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Sarah U. Morton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah U. Morton has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Epidemiology and 19 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Sarah U. Morton's work include Congenital Heart Disease Studies (18 papers), Congenital heart defects research (13 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (9 papers). Sarah U. Morton is often cited by papers focused on Congenital Heart Disease Studies (18 papers), Congenital heart defects research (13 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (9 papers). Sarah U. Morton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Sarah U. Morton's co-authors include Kathryn N. Ivey, Deepak Srivastava, Didier Y. R. Stainier, Kimberly R. Cordes, Joshua D. Wythe, Jason E. Fish, Sangho Yu, Massimo Santoro, Ru-Fang Yeh and Benoit G. Bruneau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sarah U. Morton

60 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

miR-126 Regulates Angiogenic Signaling and Vascular Integrity

2008 1.4k citations Sarah U. Morton, Benoit G. Bruneau et al. profile →
miR-145 and miR-143 regulate smooth muscle cell fate and plasticity

2009 1.3k citations Sarah U. Morton et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah U. Morton United States	17	2.6k	2.0k	350	322	279	70	3.9k
Nam Keun Kim South Korea	36	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	391 1.1×	435 1.4×	249 0.9×	305	5.6k
Ming Lü China	30	3.0k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	250 0.7×	405 1.3×	81 0.3×	175	5.0k
Fang Yang China	33	1.5k 0.6×	932 0.5×	686 2.0×	246 0.8×	174 0.6×	162	4.2k
Guoying Wang China	31	1.6k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	467 1.3×	666 2.1×	78 0.3×	141	4.1k
Antonio Gómez Spain	33	2.6k 1.0×	832 0.4×	425 1.2×	254 0.8×	67 0.2×	95	3.9k
Michelle A.T. Hildebrandt United States	34	1.7k 0.6×	903 0.4×	473 1.4×	336 1.0×	68 0.2×	117	3.3k
Sebastián Morán Spain	35	3.4k 1.3×	940 0.5×	379 1.1×	221 0.7×	70 0.3×	70	4.6k
Chunxiang Zhang China	32	4.7k 1.8×	4.3k 2.1×	399 1.1×	595 1.8×	702 2.5×	98	6.6k
Ashima Madan United States	22	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	710 2.0×	255 0.8×	76 0.3×	51	4.2k
Helene Rundqvist Sweden	33	1.1k 0.4×	731 0.4×	434 1.2×	190 0.6×	297 1.1×	81	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah U. Morton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah U. Morton

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Cohen, Jennifer L., Michael Duyzend, Mark D. Fleming, et al.. (2025). Advancing precision care in pregnancy through a treatable fetal findings list. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(6). 1251–1269.

Patterson, Rolvix H., Catherine McMahon, Sarah U. Morton, et al.. (2025). Access to Ear and Hearing Care Globally: A Survey of Stakeholder Perceptions from the Lancet Commission on Global Hearing Loss. Otology & Neurotology. 46(3). 256–264. 2 indexed citations

Morton, Sarah U., et al.. (2025). Protocol to analyze deep-learning-predicted functional scores for noncoding de novo variants and their correlation with complex brain traits. STAR Protocols. 6(2). 103738–103738.

Sabir, Sharjeel, Julia Foster, J.M. Ortega, et al.. (2025). Increasing length board use in a neonatal intensive care unit: a quality improvement initiative. Journal of Perinatology. 46(3). 479–484.

Ward, Tarsha, Sarah U. Morton, Gabriela Venturini, et al.. (2025). Modeling SMAD2 Mutations in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Provides Insights Into Cardiovascular Disease Pathogenesis. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(5). e036860–e036860. 2 indexed citations

Morton, Sarah U., Isabella Zaniletti, Philip T. Levy, et al.. (2025). Impact of congenital heart disease and prematurity on brain injury from a national registry. Journal of Perinatology. 45(7). 1005–1008.

Wypij, David, Caitlin K. Rollins, Hyuk Jin Yun, et al.. (2024). Meta-regression of sulcal patterns, clinical and environmental factors on neurodevelopmental outcomes in participants with multiple CHD types. Cerebral Cortex. 34(6).

Smith, Danielle, Kathy Burgoine, James R. Broach, et al.. (2024). A Systematic Review of Human Paenibacillus Infections and Comparison of Adult and Pediatric Cases. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 44(5). 455–461. 1 indexed citations

Hjelm, Brooke E., et al.. (2023). Mutations in genes related to myocyte contraction and ventricular septum development in non-syndromic tetralogy of Fallot. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 10. 1249605–1249605. 3 indexed citations

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Smith, Danielle, Kathy Burgoine, James R. Broach, et al.. (2023). Human Paenibacillus Infections: A Systematic Review with Comparison of Adult and Infant Cases. medRxiv. 1 indexed citations

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Shin, Samuel S., Andrea L.C. Schneider, Sarah U. Morton, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of Phosphorylated Cis-Tau Antibody in a Pig Model of Traumatic Brain Injury. Biomedicines. 11(7). 1807–1807. 4 indexed citations

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Sutin, Jason, Henry A. Feldman, Silvina L. Ferradal, et al.. (2023). Association of cerebral metabolic rate following therapeutic hypothermia with 18-month neurodevelopmental outcomes after neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. EBioMedicine. 94. 104673–104673. 5 indexed citations

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Roberts, Amy E., et al.. (2022). The Genetics of Neurodevelopment in Congenital Heart Disease. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 39(2). 97–114. 12 indexed citations

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Morton, Sarah U., Daniel Quiat, Jonathan G. Seidman, & Christine E. Seidman. (2021). Genomic frontiers in congenital heart disease. Nature Reviews Cardiology. 19(1). 26–42. 124 indexed citations

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Morton, Sarah U., et al.. (2021). Supporting Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in Engineering: K-12 and Beyond. RIT Scholar Works (Rochester Institute of Technology). 24(1). 1–21. 4 indexed citations

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Morton, Sarah U., Christopher Sefton, Huanqing Zhang, et al.. (2021). microRNA-mRNA Profile of Skeletal Muscle Differentiation and Relevance to Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(5). 2692–2692. 7 indexed citations

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Morton, Sarah U., David Wypij, Hyuk Jin Yun, et al.. (2019). Abnormal Left-Hemispheric Sulcal Patterns Correlate with Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Subjects with Single Ventricular Congenital Heart Disease. Cerebral Cortex. 30(2). 476–487. 23 indexed citations

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Taylor, Jacob, Jean-Christophe Debost, Sarah U. Morton, et al.. (2019). Paternal-age-related de novo mutations and risk for five disorders. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3043–3043. 61 indexed citations

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O’Connell, Amy E., Maxim V. Gerashchenko, Marie-Françoise O’Donohue, et al.. (2019). Mammalian Hbs1L deficiency causes congenital anomalies and developmental delay associated with Pelota depletion and 80S monosome accumulation. PLoS Genetics. 15(2). e1007917–e1007917. 16 indexed citations

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Morton, Sarah U., Borjan Gagoski, Jonathan S. Litt, et al.. (2019). Maternal Dietary Intake of Omega-3 Fatty Acids Correlates Positively with Regional Brain Volumes in 1-Month-Old Term Infants. Cerebral Cortex. 30(4). 2057–2069. 20 indexed citations

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