Shila Mekhoubad

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Shila Mekhoubad is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Shila Mekhoubad has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Shila Mekhoubad's work include Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (2 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers). Shila Mekhoubad is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (2 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers). Shila Mekhoubad collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Israel. Shila Mekhoubad's co-authors include Kevin Eggan, Alexander Meissner, Rebecca K. Rowntree, Jeannie T. Lee, K.C. Humm, Michelle M. Chan, Aviv Regev, Rahul Karnik, Zachary D. Smith and Evangelos Kiskinis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Cell stem cell.

In The Last Decade

Shila Mekhoubad

5 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

DNA methylation dynamics of the human preimplantation embryo 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400
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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. DNA methylation dynamics of the human preimplantation embryo
    2014 422 citations Zachary D. Smith, Michelle M. Chan et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shila Mekhoubad United States 5 1.2k 356 147 99 80 5 1.3k
Tamar Golan‐Lev Israel 16 1.0k 0.9× 263 0.7× 76 0.5× 52 0.5× 71 0.9× 26 1.2k
Helene Kretzmer Germany 14 1.2k 1.0× 184 0.5× 77 0.5× 23 0.2× 76 0.9× 29 1.3k
Louise Hyslop United Kingdom 11 1.0k 0.9× 132 0.4× 210 1.4× 75 0.8× 334 4.2× 17 1.4k
Jonathan Pearce United Kingdom 11 1.5k 1.3× 331 0.9× 105 0.7× 31 0.3× 122 1.5× 11 1.8k
Kibibi Ganz United States 5 1.4k 1.1× 242 0.7× 60 0.4× 21 0.2× 62 0.8× 5 1.5k
Sundeep Kalantry United States 25 1.7k 1.4× 668 1.9× 87 0.6× 27 0.3× 121 1.5× 42 2.0k
P. Gallano Spain 20 1.0k 0.8× 287 0.8× 158 1.1× 261 2.6× 28 0.3× 65 1.4k
Kerrianne Cunniff United States 9 1.2k 1.0× 271 0.8× 85 0.6× 74 0.7× 328 4.1× 10 1.3k
Noriyuki Nishioka Japan 9 1.8k 1.5× 282 0.8× 112 0.8× 29 0.3× 385 4.8× 10 2.1k
Valerie R. Prideaux Canada 8 938 0.8× 388 1.1× 132 0.9× 25 0.3× 142 1.8× 8 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Shila Mekhoubad

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shila Mekhoubad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Shila Mekhoubad. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Shila Mekhoubad. The network helps show where Shila Mekhoubad may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shila Mekhoubad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shila Mekhoubad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shila Mekhoubad 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 Shila Mekhoubad. Shila Mekhoubad is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

5 of 5 papers shown
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Jangi, Mohini, Christina Fleet, Patrick Cullen, et al.. (2017). SMN deficiency in severe models of spinal muscular atrophy causes widespread intron retention and DNA damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(12). E2347–E2356. 91 indexed citations
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Merkle, Florian T., Sulagna Ghosh, Nolan Kamitaki, et al.. (2017). Human pluripotent stem cells recurrently acquire and expand dominant negative P53 mutations. Nature. 545(7653). 229–233. 348 indexed citations
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Smith, Zachary D., Michelle M. Chan, K.C. Humm, et al.. (2014). DNA methylation dynamics of the human preimplantation embryo. Nature. 511(7511). 611–615. 422 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mekhoubad, Shila, et al.. (2012). Erosion of Dosage Compensation Impacts Human iPSC Disease Modeling. Cell stem cell. 10(5). 595–609. 260 indexed citations
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Rowntree, Rebecca K., et al.. (2008). X-chromosome inactivation and epigenetic fluidity in human embryonic stem cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(12). 4820–4825. 225 indexed citations

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