Stephen Royle

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Stephen Royle is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Royle has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 49 papers in Cell Biology and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stephen Royle's work include Cellular transport and secretion (40 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (21 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (18 papers). Stephen Royle is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (40 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (21 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (18 papers). Stephen Royle collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Stephen Royle's co-authors include Leon Lagnado, Benjamin Odermatt, Björn Granseth, Ruth D. Murrell‐Lagnado, Fiona E. Hood, Anna K. Willox, Nicholas A. Bright, Ian A. Prior, Daniel G. Booth and Andrew B. Fielding and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Royle

61 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis Is the Dominant Mechanism o... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis Is the Dominant Mechanism of Vesicle Retrieval at Hippocampal Synapses
    2006 510 citations Björn Granseth, Benjamin Odermatt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephen Royle United Kingdom 34 2.0k 1.8k 636 339 217 64 3.0k
Helena Sabanay Israel 28 2.0k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 876 1.4× 138 0.4× 257 1.2× 35 3.8k
A. Pejmun Haghighi United States 21 2.0k 1.0× 770 0.4× 1.5k 2.3× 366 1.1× 155 0.7× 33 3.0k
Federico Calegari Germany 35 3.3k 1.6× 801 0.5× 1.1k 1.7× 211 0.6× 175 0.8× 69 4.8k
Martin Bähler Germany 37 3.0k 1.4× 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 1.7× 109 0.3× 263 1.2× 78 4.3k
Uri Ashery Israel 35 2.8k 1.4× 2.0k 1.1× 1.4k 2.2× 312 0.9× 475 2.2× 80 4.3k
Manojkumar A. Puthenveedu United States 30 2.5k 1.2× 1.4k 0.8× 985 1.5× 134 0.4× 255 1.2× 57 3.3k
Jan R.T. van Weering Netherlands 28 1.6k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 376 0.6× 203 0.6× 378 1.7× 56 2.4k
Beverly Wendland United States 41 4.0k 1.9× 3.4k 2.0× 864 1.4× 193 0.6× 491 2.3× 69 5.2k
Stefan Eimer Germany 32 1.8k 0.9× 988 0.6× 862 1.4× 120 0.4× 482 2.2× 51 3.2k
Corey L. Smith United States 23 2.5k 1.2× 657 0.4× 435 0.7× 82 0.2× 160 0.7× 36 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Royle

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Royle

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephen Royle. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephen Royle 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 Royle. Stephen Royle 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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Bray, Sarah J., Stephen Royle, Holly A. Shiels, & Daniel St Johnston. (2025). The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years. Biology Open. 14(1).
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Bray, Sarah J., Stephen Royle, Holly A. Shiels, & Daniel St Johnston. (2025). The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years. Journal of Cell Science. 138(1). 1 indexed citations
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Bray, Sarah J., Stephen Royle, Holly A. Shiels, & Daniel St Johnston. (2025). The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 18(1). 2 indexed citations
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Bray, Sarah J., Stephen Royle, Holly A. Shiels, & Daniel St Johnston. (2025). The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years. Development. 152(1). 2 indexed citations
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Royle, Stephen, et al.. (2025). ATG9A vesicles are a subtype of intracellular nanovesicle. Journal of Cell Science. 138(7). 2 indexed citations
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Ferrándiz, Nuria, et al.. (2025). Nondisruptive inducible labeling of ER-membrane contact sites using the Lamin B receptor. PLoS Biology. 23(7). e3003249–e3003249. 1 indexed citations
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Ferrándiz, Nuria, et al.. (2022). Endomembranes promote chromosome missegregation by ensheathing misaligned chromosomes. The Journal of Cell Biology. 221(6). 17 indexed citations
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Smith, Sarah M., Kyle L. Morris, Alan M. Roseman, et al.. (2021). Multi‐modal adaptor‐clathrin contacts drive coated vesicle assembly. The EMBO Journal. 40(19). e108795–e108795. 10 indexed citations
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Caswell, Patrick T., et al.. (2021). Intracellular nanovesicles mediate α5β1 integrin trafficking during cell migration. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(10). 8 indexed citations
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Ryan, Ellis L., et al.. (2020). Defining endogenous TACC3–chTOG–clathrin–GTSE1 interactions at the mitotic spindle using induced relocalization. Journal of Cell Science. 134(3). 12 indexed citations
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Royle, Stephen, et al.. (2019). Unintended perturbation of protein function using GFP nanobodies in human cells. Journal of Cell Science. 132(21). 14 indexed citations
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Burgess, Selena G., Sarah Sabir, Nimesh Joseph, et al.. (2018). Mitotic spindle association of TACC3 requires Aurora‐A‐dependent stabilization of a cryptic α‐helix. The EMBO Journal. 37(8). 43 indexed citations
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Beckett, Alison J., et al.. (2017). Microtubule organization within mitotic spindles revealed by serial block face scanning electron microscopy and image analysis. Journal of Cell Science. 130(10). 1845–1855. 34 indexed citations
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Gutiérrez‐Caballero, Cristina, Selena G. Burgess, Richard Bayliss, & Stephen Royle. (2015). TACC3–ch-TOG track the growing tips of microtubules independently of clathrin and Aurora-A phosphorylation. Biology Open. 4(2). 170–179. 34 indexed citations
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Willox, Anna K., et al.. (2014). Non-specificity of Pitstop 2 in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Biology Open. 3(5). 326–331. 62 indexed citations
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Royle, Stephen. (2013). Protein adaptation: mitotic functions for membrane trafficking proteins. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 14(9). 592–599. 28 indexed citations
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Qureshi, Omar, Satdip Kaur, Tie Zheng Hou, et al.. (2012). Constitutive Clathrin-mediated Endocytosis of CTLA-4 Persists during T Cell Activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(12). 9429–9440. 122 indexed citations
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Royle, Stephen & Leon Lagnado. (2010). Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis at the Synaptic Terminal: Bridging the Gap Between Physiology and Molecules. Traffic. 11(12). 1489–1497. 45 indexed citations
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Lagnado, Leon, Stephen Royle, Benjamin Odermatt, & Björn Granseth. (2007). Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is the dominant mechanism of vesicle retrieval at hippocampal synapses. Proceedings of The Physiological Society. 1 indexed citations
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Royle, Stephen. (2006). The cellular functions of clathrin. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 63(16). 1823–1832. 117 indexed citations

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