Sean E. McGeary

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Sean E. McGeary is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean E. McGeary has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cancer Research and 1 paper in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sean E. McGeary's work include RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers). Sean E. McGeary is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers). Sean E. McGeary collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Sean E. McGeary's co-authors include David P. Bartel, Kathy S. Lin, Namita Bisaria, Thy Pham, Charlie Y. Shi, Vincent C. Auyeung, Igor Ulitsky, Stephen W. Eichhorn, Phillip A. Sharp and Nicole Lambert and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sean E. McGeary

11 papers receiving 2.4k 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 biochemical basis of microRNA targeting efficacy

2019 937 citations Sean E. McGeary, Kathy S. Lin et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean E. McGeary United States	9	2.0k	1.4k	159	70	67	12	2.4k
Sarina Keller Germany	2	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	165 1.0×	76 1.1×	85 1.3×	4	2.1k
Tommaso Leonardi United Kingdom	18	1.6k 0.8×	827 0.6×	198 1.2×	59 0.8×	72 1.1×	30	1.9k
Nikos Kostoulas Greece	4	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	134 0.8×	68 1.0×	69 1.0×	6	1.7k
Aaron Gabow United States	5	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	186 1.2×	109 1.6×	61 0.9×	5	2.2k
Peiyao Li China	25	2.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	199 1.3×	81 1.2×	110 1.6×	61	2.5k
Charlie Y. Shi United States	5	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	105 0.7×	34 0.5×	51 0.8×	7	1.6k
Xintian You Germany	14	2.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	163 1.0×	55 0.8×	76 1.1×	18	2.4k
Giulia Soldà Italy	23	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	88 0.6×	167 2.4×	78 1.2×	61	2.2k
Sònia Guil Spain	23	2.8k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	122 0.8×	177 2.5×	71 1.1×	38	3.1k
Gracjan Michlewski United Kingdom	26	2.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	320 2.0×	105 1.5×	64 1.0×	40	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean E. McGeary

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Flynn, Michael, Bo Gu, Dongyang Li, et al.. (2025). miRNA modules for precise, tunable control of gene expression. Molecular Cell. 86(1). 194–212.e7.

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McGeary, Sean E., et al.. (2025). Tissue fluidity mediates a trade-off between the speed and accuracy of multicellular patterning by cell sorting. Biophysical Journal. 124(23). 4157–4175. 1 indexed citations

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Jia, Bill, et al.. (2024). Cell state transitions are decoupled from cell division during early embryo development. Nature Cell Biology. 26(12). 2035–2045. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Li, Sarah Bowling, Sean E. McGeary, et al.. (2023). A mouse model with high clonal barcode diversity for joint lineage, transcriptomic, and epigenomic profiling in single cells. Cell. 186(23). 5183–5199.e22. 78 indexed citations

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McGeary, Sean E., Namita Bisaria, Thy Pham, Peter Y. Wang, & David P. Bartel. (2022). MicroRNA 3′-compensatory pairing occurs through two binding modes, with affinity shaped by nucleotide identity and position. eLife. 11. 45 indexed citations

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Eisen, Timothy J., Stephen W. Eichhorn, Alexander O. Subtelny, et al.. (2020). The Dynamics of Cytoplasmic mRNA Metabolism. Molecular Cell. 77(4). 786–799.e10. 103 indexed citations

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McGeary, Sean E., Kathy S. Lin, Charlie Y. Shi, et al.. (2019). The biochemical basis of microRNA targeting efficacy. Science. 366(6472). 937 indexed citations breakdown →

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Denzler, Rémy, Sean E. McGeary, Alexandra C. Title, et al.. (2016). Impact of MicroRNA Levels, Target-Site Complementarity, and Cooperativity on Competing Endogenous RNA-Regulated Gene Expression. Molecular Cell. 64(3). 565–579. 245 indexed citations

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Lambert, Nicole, Alex Robertson, Mohini Jangi, et al.. (2014). RNA Bind-n-Seq: Quantitative Assessment of the Sequence and Structural Binding Specificity of RNA Binding Proteins. Molecular Cell. 54(5). 887–900. 288 indexed citations

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Eichhorn, Stephen W., Huili Guo, Sean E. McGeary, et al.. (2014). mRNA Destabilization Is the Dominant Effect of Mammalian MicroRNAs by the Time Substantial Repression Ensues. Molecular Cell. 56(1). 104–115. 378 indexed citations

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Auyeung, Vincent C., Igor Ulitsky, Sean E. McGeary, & David P. Bartel. (2013). Beyond Secondary Structure: Primary-Sequence Determinants License Pri-miRNA Hairpins for Processing. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 11 indexed citations

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Auyeung, Vincent C., Igor Ulitsky, Sean E. McGeary, & David P. Bartel. (2013). Beyond Secondary Structure: Primary-Sequence Determinants License Pri-miRNA Hairpins for Processing. Cell. 152(4). 844–858. 327 indexed citations

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