Stephen Rea

7.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
13 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Stephen Rea is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Rea has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Stephen Rea's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (4 papers). Stephen Rea is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (4 papers). Stephen Rea collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Ireland. Stephen Rea's co-authors include Thomas Jenuwein, Karl Mechtler, Dónal O’Carroll, Monika Lachner, Susanne Opravil, Manfred Schmid, Zu‐Wen Sun, C. David Allis, Chris P. Ponting and Frank Eisenhaber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Rea

13 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 creates a binding site for HP1 proteins

2001 2.2k citations Monika Lachner, Dónal O’Carroll et al. Nature profile →
Regulation of chromatin structure by site-specific histone H3 methyltransferases

2000 2.1k citations Stephen Rea, Frank Eisenhaber et al. Nature profile →
Reversal of H3K9me2 by a Small-Molecule Inhibitor for the G9a Histone Methyltransferase

2007 670 citations Stefan Kubicek, Roderick J. O’Sullivan et al. Molecular Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Rea Germany	11	5.4k	828	653	275	251	13	5.8k
Jürg Müller Germany	40	6.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	936 1.4×	219 0.8×	297 1.2×	75	7.2k
Judd C. Rice United States	29	4.9k 0.9×	698 0.8×	816 1.2×	389 1.4×	411 1.6×	45	5.5k
Susanne Opravil Austria	15	6.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	860 1.3×	466 1.7×	427 1.7×	15	7.4k
Monika Lachner Austria	14	6.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.6×	281 1.0×	411 1.6×	16	7.3k
Gunnar Schotta Germany	39	5.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	829 1.3×	365 1.3×	400 1.6×	77	6.3k
Gary LeRoy United States	37	5.4k 1.0×	395 0.5×	569 0.9×	431 1.6×	378 1.5×	47	5.9k
Niall Dillon United Kingdom	34	4.4k 0.8×	706 0.9×	996 1.5×	191 0.7×	212 0.8×	64	5.1k
Bernd Schuettengruber France	20	3.8k 0.7×	826 1.0×	560 0.9×	207 0.8×	357 1.4×	27	4.2k
Jean‐Pierre Quivy France	28	3.6k 0.7×	630 0.8×	302 0.5×	264 1.0×	234 0.9×	56	4.0k
Sandra B. Hake Germany	32	4.2k 0.8×	487 0.6×	368 0.6×	294 1.1×	272 1.1×	54	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Rea

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Rea

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

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Apostolova, Galina, Dietmar Rieder, Georg Dechant, et al.. (2018). Genes regulated by SATB2 during neurodevelopment contribute to schizophrenia and educational attainment. PLoS Genetics. 14(7). e1007515–e1007515. 30 indexed citations

Harold, Denise, Kimberley Kendall, Alexander Richards, et al.. (2016). Cognitive analysis of schizophrenia risk genes that function as epigenetic regulators of gene expression. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 171(8). 1170–1179. 41 indexed citations

Canitrot, Yvan, et al.. (2013). Msl2 Is a Novel Component of the Vertebrate DNA Damage Response. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e68549–e68549. 7 indexed citations

Recchia, F., Giampiero Candeloro, Giovambattista Desideri, Stefano Necozione, & Stephen Rea. (2011). Estrogen and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF): Their role in breast cancer (BC) carcinogenesis and disease progression in premenopause.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 29(15_suppl). 540–540. 1 indexed citations

Chubb, Jennifer E. & Stephen Rea. (2009). Core and Linker Histone Modifications Involved in the DNA Damage Response. Sub-cellular biochemistry. 50. 17–42. 11 indexed citations

Kubicek, Stefan, Roderick J. O’Sullivan, Elias August, et al.. (2007). Reversal of H3K9me2 by a Small-Molecule Inhibitor for the G9a Histone Methyltransferase. Molecular Cell. 25(3). 473–481. 670 indexed citations breakdown →

Pfister, Stefan M., Stephen Rea, Mikko Taipale, et al.. (2007). The histone acetyltransferase hMOF is frequently downregulated in primary breast carcinoma and medulloblastoma and constitutes a biomarker for clinical outcome in medulloblastoma. International Journal of Cancer. 122(6). 1207–1213. 126 indexed citations

Rea, Stephen, Georgia Xouri, & Asifa Akhtar. (2007). Males absent on the first (MOF): from flies to humans. Oncogene. 26(37). 5385–5394. 106 indexed citations

Rea, Stephen & Asifa Akhtar. (2006). MSL Proteins and the Regulation of Gene Expression. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 310. 117–140. 17 indexed citations

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Taipale, Mikko, Stephen Rea, Karsten Richter, et al.. (2005). hMOF Histone Acetyltransferase Is Required for Histone H4 Lysine 16 Acetylation in Mammalian Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(15). 6798–6810. 251 indexed citations

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Lachner, Monika, Dónal O’Carroll, Stephen Rea, Karl Mechtler, & Thomas Jenuwein. (2001). Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 creates a binding site for HP1 proteins. Nature. 410(6824). 116–120. 2180 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rea, Stephen, Frank Eisenhaber, Dónal O’Carroll, et al.. (2000). Regulation of chromatin structure by site-specific histone H3 methyltransferases. Nature. 406(6796). 593–599. 2143 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Carroll, Dónal, Harry Scherthan, Antoine H.F.M. Peters, et al.. (2000). Isolation and Characterization of Suv39h2, a Second Histone H3 Methyltransferase Gene That Displays Testis-Specific Expression. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 20(24). 9423–9433. 246 indexed citations

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