Stephen Tran

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 768 citations indexed

About

Stephen Tran is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Tran has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 768 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Plant Science and 1 paper in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stephen Tran's work include RNA regulation and disease (4 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Stephen Tran is often cited by papers focused on RNA regulation and disease (4 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Stephen Tran collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bulgaria and Germany. Stephen Tran's co-authors include Xinshu Xiao, Jae Hoon Bahn, Daniel H. Geschwind, Ei-Wen Yang, Giovanni Quinones-Valdez, Sergiu P. Pașca, John R. Huguenard, Taiho Park, Alfredo M. Valencia and Steve Horvath and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Neuroscience and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Tran

10 papers receiving 762 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.

Long-term maturation of human cortical organoids matches key early postnatal transitions

2021 228 citations Aaron Gordon, Se‐Jin Yoon et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Tran United States	9	634	117	73	70	69	11	768
Samson Jacob United States	7	909 1.4×	182 1.6×	107 1.5×	101 1.4×	31 0.4×	9	1.1k
Sofia B. Lizarraga United States	13	653 1.0×	144 1.2×	31 0.4×	78 1.1×	25 0.4×	21	866
Daniela Karra Austria	8	529 0.8×	85 0.7×	39 0.5×	36 0.5×	19 0.3×	10	643
Connor Ludwig United States	9	533 0.8×	68 0.6×	71 1.0×	57 0.8×	22 0.3×	10	832
Dylan Kwart United States	3	742 1.2×	177 1.5×	35 0.5×	33 0.5×	10 0.1×	3	909
Yuan Xie United States	13	529 0.8×	24 0.2×	37 0.5×	78 1.1×	20 0.3×	19	723
Yanan Chen China	12	420 0.7×	85 0.7×	18 0.2×	36 0.5×	11 0.2×	19	630
Elisabeth A. Murphy United States	9	401 0.6×	86 0.7×	23 0.3×	94 1.3×	16 0.2×	13	647
Jakub Nowak United Kingdom	7	528 0.8×	253 2.2×	18 0.2×	23 0.3×	108 1.6×	12	731
Nataša Savić Switzerland	12	567 0.9×	84 0.7×	14 0.2×	26 0.4×	100 1.4×	14	764

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Tran

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Tran

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Tran

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Guevara, James P., Stephen Tran, Serge Batalov, et al.. (2026). Long-read genome sequencing improves detection and functional interpretation of structural and repeat variants in autism. Cell Genomics. 101186–101186.

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Gordon, Aaron, Se‐Jin Yoon, Stephen Tran, et al.. (2021). Long-term maturation of human cortical organoids matches key early postnatal transitions. Nature Neuroscience. 24(3). 331–342. 228 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Tran, Stephen, Qing Zhou, & Xinshu Xiao. (2020). Statistical inference of differential RNA-editing sites from RNA-sequencing data by hierarchical modeling. Bioinformatics. 36(9). 2796–2804. 19 indexed citations

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Quinones-Valdez, Giovanni, Stephen Tran, Jae Hoon Bahn, et al.. (2019). Regulation of RNA editing by RNA-binding proteins in human cells. Communications Biology. 2(1). 19–19. 103 indexed citations

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Hsiao, Yun-Hua Esther, Jae Hoon Bahn, Yun Yang, et al.. (2018). RNA editing in nascent RNA affects pre-mRNA splicing. Genome Research. 28(6). 812–823. 106 indexed citations

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Ohashi, Minori, Denise E. Allen, Peiyee Lee, et al.. (2018). Loss of MECP2 Leads to Activation of P53 and Neuronal Senescence. Stem Cell Reports. 10(5). 1453–1463. 56 indexed citations

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Tran, Stephen, Jae Hoon Bahn, Gokul Ramaswami, et al.. (2018). Widespread RNA editing dysregulation in brains from autistic individuals. Nature Neuroscience. 22(1). 25–36. 138 indexed citations

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Maymon, Maskit, Pilar Martínez‐Hidalgo, Stephen Tran, et al.. (2015). Mining the phytomicrobiome to understand how bacterial coinoculations enhance plant growth. Frontiers in Plant Science. 6. 784–784. 23 indexed citations

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Tran, Stephen, Ryan J. Marcheschi, James Thompson, et al.. (2015). Integrative genomic mining for enzyme function to enable engineering of a non-natural biosynthetic pathway. Nature Communications. 6(1). 10005–10005. 79 indexed citations

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Hirsch, Ann M., David Bruce, Olga Chertkov, et al.. (2013). Complete Genome Sequence of Micromonospora Strain L5, a Potential Plant-Growth-Regulating Actinomycete, Originally Isolated from Casuarina equisetifolia Root Nodules. Genome Announcements. 1(5). 15 indexed citations

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Boot, J.R., et al.. (1997). Pharmacological studies using human voltage-dependent calcium channels. 89. 1 indexed citations

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