Stephen M. Testa

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Stephen M. Testa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ocean Engineering and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen M. Testa has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Ocean Engineering and 6 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Stephen M. Testa's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers). Stephen M. Testa is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers). Stephen M. Testa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and Italy. Stephen M. Testa's co-authors include Douglas H. Turner, Timothy C. Wong, Sanjeev G. Shroff, David Schwartzman, Erik B. Schelbert, Christopher G Meier, Peter Kellman, Matthew D. Disney, Jonathan Shakesprere and Ryszard Kierzek and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Stephen M. Testa

47 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Association Between Extracellular Matrix Expansion Quantified by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Short-Term Mortality

2012 369 citations Timothy C. Wong, Kayla Piehler et al. Circulation profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen M. Testa United States	15	451	383	338	88	79	51	1.1k
Ryôhei Suzuki Japan	16	259 0.6×	293 0.8×	190 0.6×	75 0.9×	113 1.4×	114	1.1k
David Hill United States	21	292 0.6×	123 0.3×	125 0.4×	95 1.1×	224 2.8×	101	1.4k
A. Bini Italy	17	90 0.2×	47 0.1×	253 0.7×	160 1.8×	115 1.5×	42	1.3k
Alan G. Dawson United Kingdom	14	211 0.5×	47 0.1×	67 0.2×	284 3.2×	144 1.8×	35	990
Ziqiang Wang China	28	86 0.2×	171 0.4×	406 1.2×	340 3.9×	656 8.3×	176	2.5k
PO Box United States	17	78 0.2×	419 1.1×	64 0.2×	40 0.5×	66 0.8×	127	1.2k
Qing Ye United States	25	96 0.2×	326 0.9×	234 0.7×	13 0.1×	197 2.5×	52	1.8k
Alex Maes Belgium	15	165 0.4×	276 0.7×	35 0.1×	10 0.1×	123 1.6×	47	978
Michael D. Rosenberg New Zealand	18	56 0.1×	111 0.3×	60 0.2×	338 3.8×	93 1.2×	30	872
Eric B. Lieberman United States	8	473 1.0×	81 0.2×	19 0.1×	14 0.2×	164 2.1×	10	689

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen M. Testa

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Joung, Kyoung Eun, et al.. (2025). The effects of early enteral feeding, fortification, and rapid feeding advancement in extremely low birth weight infants. Early Human Development. 201. 106202–106202.

Thomas, Elizabeth & Stephen M. Testa. (2016). The colorimetric determination of selectively cleaved adenosines and guanosines in DNA oligomers using bicinchoninic acid and copper. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 22(1). 31–46. 3 indexed citations

Wong, Timothy C., Kayla Piehler, Christopher G Meier, et al.. (2012). Association Between Extracellular Matrix Expansion Quantified by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Short-Term Mortality. Circulation. 126(10). 1206–1216. 369 indexed citations breakdown →

Hart, Jonathan, et al.. (2012). Ribozyme-Mediated Trans Insertion-Splicing into Target RNAs. Methods in molecular biology. 848. 385–394. 1 indexed citations

Hart, Jonathan, Z.M. Harris, & Stephen M. Testa. (2010). Analyzing and predicting the thermodynamic effects of the metabolite trehalose on nucleic acids. Biopolymers. 93(12). 1085–1092. 6 indexed citations

Senese, Vincenzo Paolo, Elena Boriani, Diego Baderna, et al.. (2010). Assessing the environmental risks associated with contaminated sites: Definition of an Ecotoxicological Classification index for landfill areas (ECRIS). Chemosphere. 80(1). 60–66. 15 indexed citations

Testa, Stephen M.. (2010). One Man's Planet - Earth in Today's Political Culture.

Testa, Stephen M., et al.. (2008). Kinetic characterization of the first step of the ribozyme‐catalyzed trans excision‐splicing reaction. FEBS Journal. 275(12). 3110–3122. 1 indexed citations

Testa, Stephen M., et al.. (2008). Ribozyme mediated trans insertion-splicing of modified oligonucleotides into RNA. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 478(1). 81–84. 6 indexed citations

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Testa, Stephen M., et al.. (2008). A Pneumocystis carinii Group I Intron-Derived Ribozyme Utilizes an Endogenous Guanosine as the First Reaction Step Nucleophile in the Trans Excision−Splicing Reaction. Biochemistry. 47(16). 4780–4787. 7 indexed citations

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Testa, Stephen M., et al.. (2005). In vivo excision of a single targeted nucleotide from an mRNA by a trans excision-splicing ribozyme. RNA. 11(6). 897–905. 9 indexed citations

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Testa, Stephen M., et al.. (2004). Molecular Recognition in a Trans Excision-Splicing Ribozyme: Non-Watson−Crick Base Pairs at the 5‘ Splice Site and ωG at the 3‘ Splice Site Can Play a Role in Determining the Binding Register of Reaction Substrates. Biochemistry. 44(3). 1067–1077. 6 indexed citations

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Moore, M. T., Stephen M. Testa, & C. M. Cooper. (2001). Clear as mud : The challenge of sediment criteria and TMDLs. 13(8). 49–53. 2 indexed citations

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Testa, Stephen M., Matthew D. Disney, Douglas H. Turner, & Ryszard Kierzek. (1999). Thermodynamics of RNA−RNA Duplexes with 2- or 4-Thiouridines: Implications for Antisense Design and Targeting a Group I Intron. Biochemistry. 38(50). 16655–16662. 100 indexed citations

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Testa, Stephen M., Constantine G. Haidaris, Francis Gigliotti, & Douglas H. Turner. (1997). A Pneumocystis carinii Group I Intron Ribozyme That Does Not Require 2‘ OH Groups on Its 5‘ Exon Mimic for Binding to the Catalytic Core. Biochemistry. 36(49). 15303–15314. 24 indexed citations

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Testa, Stephen M.. (1996). Groundwater Restoration and Site Closure. SPE Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Conference.

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Giordano, Paola, et al.. (1995). [Colonic angiodysplasia: an important cause of digestive hemorrhage].. PubMed. 50(9). 737–40. 1 indexed citations

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Testa, Stephen M. & P. T. Gilham. (1993). Analysis of oligonucleotide structure using hyperchromism measurements at long wavelengths. Nucleic Acids Research. 21(16). 3907–3608. 10 indexed citations

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Testa, Stephen M., et al.. (1989). Volume Determination and Recoverability of Free Hydrocarbon. Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation. 9(1). 120–128. 17 indexed citations

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Weigand, P. & Stephen M. Testa. (1982). Petrology and geochemistry of Mesozoic dolerites from the Hinlopenstretet area, Svalbard. Polar Research. 1982(1). 35–52. 10 indexed citations

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