Sheila C. Barton

12.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
59 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

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Sheila C. Barton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sheila C. Barton has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Sheila C. Barton's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (34 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (31 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers). Sheila C. Barton is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (34 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (31 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers). Sheila C. Barton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Slovakia and Japan. Sheila C. Barton's co-authors include M. Azim Surani, Mitinori Saitou, M. L. Norris, Dónal O’Carroll, Wolf Reik, Sylvia Erhardt, E.B. Keverne, Thomas Jenuwein, Alexander Tarakhovsky and Bernhard Payer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sheila C. Barton

59 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Blimp1 is a critical determinant of the germ cell lineage in mice

2005 789 citations Yasuhide Ohinata, Bernhard Payer et al. Nature profile →
The Polycomb-Group GeneEzh2 Is Required for Early Mouse Development

2001 698 citations Dónal O’Carroll, Sheila C. Barton et al. profile →
A molecular programme for the specification of germ cell fate in mice

2002 671 citations Mitinori Saitou, Sheila C. Barton et al. Nature profile →
Role of paternal and maternal genomes in mouse development

1984 538 citations Sheila C. Barton, M. Azim Surani et al. Nature profile →
Eomesodermin is required for mouse trophoblast development and mesoderm formation

2000 506 citations William H Colledge, Mark Carlton et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sheila C. Barton United Kingdom	46	7.8k	4.8k	2.2k	1.7k	661	59	9.5k
Fátima Santos United Kingdom	34	8.4k 1.1×	2.6k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	446 0.7×	48	9.3k
B.M. Cattanach United Kingdom	47	5.9k 0.8×	5.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	672 0.4×	606 0.9×	136	9.4k
Veronica van Heyningen United Kingdom	64	12.3k 1.6×	5.0k 1.0×	836 0.4×	636 0.4×	987 1.5×	212	15.9k
Satoshi Tanaka Japan	42	5.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.4×	945 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	541 0.8×	138	8.2k
Norio Niikawa Japan	52	5.2k 0.7×	4.9k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	495 0.3×	418 0.6×	306	9.3k
Petra Hájková United Kingdom	35	6.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.4×	889 0.4×	823 0.5×	886 1.3×	58	7.0k
Reinald Fundele Germany	32	4.6k 0.6×	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	731 0.4×	256 0.4×	80	5.9k
Hongcang Gu United States	36	10.5k 1.3×	2.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	525 0.3×	1.2k 1.8×	73	12.5k
Myriam Hemberger United Kingdom	46	5.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.3×	2.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	604 0.9×	110	9.1k
Julie C. Baker United States	33	6.6k 0.8×	2.0k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	595 0.4×	1.4k 2.1×	65	9.8k

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Tang, Fuchou, Masahiro Kaneda, Dónal O’Carroll, et al.. (2007). Maternal microRNAs are essential for mouse zygotic development. Genes & Development. 21(6). 644–648. 456 indexed citations

Tang, Fuchou, Petra Hájková, Sheila C. Barton, et al.. (2006). 220-plex microRNA expression profile of a single cell. Nature Protocols. 1(3). 1154–1159. 81 indexed citations

Western, Patrick, Jocelyn van den Bergen, Petra Hájková, et al.. (2005). Analysis of Esg1 Expression in Pluripotent Cells and the Germline Reveals Similarities with Oct4 and Sox2 and Differences Between Human Pluripotent Cell Lines. Stem Cells. 23(10). 1436–1442. 60 indexed citations

Ohinata, Yasuhide, Bernhard Payer, Dónal O’Carroll, et al.. (2005). Blimp1 is a critical determinant of the germ cell lineage in mice. Nature. 436(7048). 207–213. 789 indexed citations breakdown →

Salas, Martha, Rosalind M. John, Anjana Saxena, et al.. (2004). Placental growth retardation due to loss of imprinting of Phlda2. Mechanisms of Development. 121(10). 1199–1210. 123 indexed citations

Payer, Bernhard, Mitinori Saitou, Sheila C. Barton, et al.. (2003). stella Is a Maternal Effect Gene Required for Normal Early Development in Mice. Current Biology. 13(23). 2110–2117. 299 indexed citations

Saitou, Mitinori, Sheila C. Barton, & M. Azim Surani. (2002). A molecular programme for the specification of germ cell fate in mice. Nature. 418(6895). 293–300. 671 indexed citations breakdown →

Lefebvre, Louis, Stéphane Viville, Sheila C. Barton, et al.. (1998). Abnormal maternal behaviour and growth retardation associated with loss of the imprinted gene Mest. Nature Genetics. 20(2). 163–169. 451 indexed citations

Kikyo, Nobuaki, Christine M. Williamson, Rosalind M. John, et al.. (1997). Genetic and Functional Analysis of neuronatin in Mice with Maternal or Paternal Duplication of Distal Chr 2. Developmental Biology. 190(1). 66–77. 90 indexed citations

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Keverne, E.B., Reinald Fundele, Maithreyi Narasimha, Sheila C. Barton, & M. Azim Surani. (1996). Genomic imprinting and the differential roles of parental genomes in brain development. Developmental Brain Research. 92(1). 91–100. 160 indexed citations

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Allen, Maxine, et al.. (1994). Tandemly repeated transgenes of the human minisatellite MS32 (D1S8), with novel mouse gamma satellite integration. Nucleic Acids Research. 22(15). 2976–2981. 21 indexed citations

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Kay, Graham F., et al.. (1994). Imprinting and X chromosome counting mechanisms determine Xist expression in early mouse development. Cell. 77(5). 639–650. 202 indexed citations

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Reik, Wolf, et al.. (1993). Adult phenotype in the mouse can be affected by epigenetic events in the early embryo. Development. 119(3). 933–942. 151 indexed citations

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Brüggemann, Marianne, Lakjaya Buluwela, Ian Rosewell, et al.. (1991). Human antibody production in transgenic mice: expression from 100 kb of the human IgH locus. European Journal of Immunology. 21(5). 1323–1326. 48 indexed citations

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Surani, M. Azim, Rashmi Kothary, Nicholas D. Allen, et al.. (1990). Genome imprinting and development in the mouse. Development. 108(Supplement). 89–98. 152 indexed citations

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Surani, M. Azim, Sheila C. Barton, Sarah Howlett, & M. L. Norris. (1988). Influence of chromosomal determinants on development of androgenetic and parthenogenetic cells. Development. 103(1). 171–178. 55 indexed citations

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Cran, D. G., et al.. (1988). Transgenes as probes for active chromosomal domains in mouse development. Nature. 333(6176). 852–855. 219 indexed citations

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Reik, Wolf, et al.. (1987). Provision of the immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer downstream of a test gene is sufficient to confer lymphoid‐specific expression in transgenic mice. European Journal of Immunology. 17(4). 465–469. 32 indexed citations

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Norris, M. L., Sheila C. Barton, & M. Azim Surani. (1985). A qualitative comparison of protein synthesis in the preimplantation embryos of four rodent species (mouse, rat, hamster, gerbil). Gamete Research. 12(3). 313–316. 12 indexed citations

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Surani, M. Azim, Sheila C. Barton, & Matthew H. Kaufman. (1977). Development to term of chimaeras between diploid parthenogenetic and fertilised embryos. Nature. 270(5638). 601–603. 70 indexed citations

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