Shawn Gillespie

18.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
21 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Shawn Gillespie is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Shawn Gillespie has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Shawn Gillespie's work include Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (6 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers). Shawn Gillespie is often cited by papers focused on Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (6 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers). Shawn Gillespie collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Israel. Shawn Gillespie's co-authors include B Bernstein, Mario L. Suvà, Anoop P. Patel, Yotam Drier, Brian B. Liau, Andrew S. Venteicher, William Flavahan, Anat Stemmer‐Rachamimov, Orit Rozenblatt–Rosen and Itay Tirosh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Shawn Gillespie

20 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Primary and Metast... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2017 2015 2017 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Primary and Metastatic Tumor Ecosystems in Head and Neck Cancer
    2017 1.5k citations Sidharth V. Puram, Itay Tirosh et al. Cell profile →
  2. Insulator dysfunction and oncogene activation in IDH mutant gliomas
    2015 867 citations William Flavahan, Yotam Drier et al. Nature profile →
  3. Targeting neuronal activity-regulated neuroligin-3 dependency in high-grade glioma
    2017 352 citations Humsa S. Venkatesh, Lydia Tam et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Shawn Gillespie
Anoop P. Patel United States
Mario L. Suvà United States
Claudia Petritsch United States
Mizuhiko Terasaki Japan
Manu Setty United States
In-Kyung Park United States
Håkan Axelson Sweden
Farbod Shojaei United States
Sonika Dahiya United States
Anoop P. Patel United States
Shawn Gillespie
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Fields of papers citing papers by Shawn Gillespie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shawn Gillespie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shawn Gillespie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shawn Gillespie based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shawn Gillespie. Shawn Gillespie is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gibson, Erin M., F. Chris Bennett, Shawn Gillespie, et al.. (2020). How Support of Early Career Researchers Can Reset Science in the Post-COVID19 World. Cell. 181(7). 1445–1449. 40 indexed citations
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Nagaraja, Surya, Michael A. Quezada, Shawn Gillespie, et al.. (2019). Histone Variant and Cell Context Determine H3K27M Reprogramming of the Enhancer Landscape and Oncogenic State. Molecular Cell. 76(6). 965–980.e12. 101 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Shawn & Michelle Monje. (2019). The Neural Regulation of Cancer. 4(1). 371–390. 10 indexed citations
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Venkatesh, Humsa S., Wade Morishita, Anna C. Geraghty, et al.. (2019). DIPG-21. ELECTRICAL INTEGRATION OF GLIOMA INTO NEURAL CIRCUITRY. Neuro-Oncology. 21(Supplement_2). ii73–ii73.
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Karaayvaz, Mihriban, Simona Cristea, Shawn Gillespie, et al.. (2018). Unravelling subclonal heterogeneity and aggressive disease states in TNBC through single-cell RNA-seq. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3588–3588. 315 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Shawn, Surya Nagaraja, & Michelle Monje. (2018). DIPG-48. DIFFUSE INTRINSIC PONTINE GLIOMA CELLS ARE INTERCONNECTED BY ‘TUMOR MICROTUBES’. Neuro-Oncology. 20(suppl_2). i58–i58. 1 indexed citations
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Venkatesh, Humsa S., Lydia Tam, Pamelyn J. Woo, et al.. (2017). Targeting neuronal activity-regulated neuroligin-3 dependency in high-grade glioma. Nature. 549(7673). 533–537. 352 indexed citations breakdown →
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Puram, Sidharth V., Itay Tirosh, Anuraag S. Parikh, et al.. (2017). Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Primary and Metastatic Tumor Ecosystems in Head and Neck Cancer. Cell. 171(7). 1611–1624.e24. 1547 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ryan, Russell J.H., Jelena Petrovic, Dylan M. Rausch, et al.. (2017). A B Cell Regulome Links Notch to Downstream Oncogenic Pathways in Small B Cell Lymphomas. Cell Reports. 21(3). 784–797. 60 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaofeng, Ryan S. Lee, B. Alver, et al.. (2016). SMARCB1-mediated SWI/SNF complex function is essential for enhancer regulation. Nature Genetics. 49(2). 289–295. 239 indexed citations
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Liau, Brian B., Cem Sievers, Laura K. Donohue, et al.. (2016). Adaptive Chromatin Remodeling Drives Glioblastoma Stem Cell Plasticity and Drug Tolerance. Cell stem cell. 20(2). 233–246.e7. 354 indexed citations
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Drier, Yotam, Matthew J. Cotton, Kaylyn E. Williamson, et al.. (2016). An oncogenic MYB feedback loop drives alternate cell fates in adenoid cystic carcinoma. Nature Genetics. 48(3). 265–272. 224 indexed citations
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Ryan, Russell J.H., Jelena Petrovic, Dylan M. Rausch, et al.. (2016). Notch-Regulated Enhancers in B-Cell Lymphoma Activate MYC and Potentiate B-Cell Receptor Signaling. Blood. 128(22). 457–457. 4 indexed citations
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Ryan, Russell J.H., Yotam Drier, Holly Whitton, et al.. (2015). Detection of Enhancer-Associated Rearrangements Reveals Mechanisms of Oncogene Dysregulation in B-cell Lymphoma. Cancer Discovery. 5(10). 1058–1071. 86 indexed citations
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Galen, Peter van, Aaron D. Viny, Oren Ram, et al.. (2015). A Multiplexed System for Quantitative Comparisons of Chromatin Landscapes. Molecular Cell. 61(1). 170–180. 78 indexed citations
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Flavahan, William, Yotam Drier, Brian B. Liau, et al.. (2015). Insulator dysfunction and oncogene activation in IDH mutant gliomas. Nature. 529(7584). 110–114. 867 indexed citations breakdown →
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Drier, Yotam, Holly Whitton, Matthew J. Cotton, et al.. (2015). Detection of Enhancer-Associated Rearrangements Reveals Mechanisms of Oncogene Dysregulation in B- cell Lymphoma Authors and affiliations:. 2 indexed citations
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Patel, Anoop P., Itay Tirosh, John J. Trombetta, et al.. (2014). Single-cell RNA-seq highlights intratumoral heterogeneity in primary glioblastoma. Science. 344(6190). 1396–1401. 186 indexed citations
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Rheinbay, Esther, Mario L. Suvà, Shawn Gillespie, et al.. (2013). An Aberrant Transcription Factor Network Essential for Wnt Signaling and Stem Cell Maintenance in Glioblastoma. Cell Reports. 3(5). 1567–1579. 197 indexed citations
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Teixeira, Susana C. M., Matthew P. Blakeley, Ricardo M. F. Leal, et al.. (2010). Sweet neutron crystallography. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 66(11). 1139–1143. 5 indexed citations

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