Stephen Turner

12.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Stephen Turner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Turner has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Stephen Turner's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (12 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (6 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers). Stephen Turner is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (12 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (6 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers). Stephen Turner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Stephen Turner's co-authors include Jeffrey J. Lysiak, Terry T. Turner, Alexander F. Koeppel, William A. Petri, Carol A. Gilchrist, Wendy Baker, Igor Smirnov, Jonathan Kipnis, Vladimir Litvak and Erik L. Hewlett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Turner

88 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

qqman: an R package for visualizing GWAS results using Q-Q and manhattan plots

2018 639 citations Stephen Turner profile →
Unexpected role of interferon-γ in regulating neuronal connectivity and social behaviour

2016 496 citations Wendy Baker, Igor Smirnov et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Turner United States	29	1.4k	791	650	428	409	93	4.0k
Gene B. Hubbard United States	42	1.8k 1.4×	784 1.0×	741 1.1×	1.4k 3.2×	529 1.3×	239	6.7k
John D. Bancroft United States	14	1.4k 1.0×	478 0.6×	633 1.0×	545 1.3×	763 1.9×	25	6.9k
Patrick Descombes Switzerland	46	4.2k 3.1×	1.3k 1.6×	828 1.3×	570 1.3×	514 1.3×	82	7.8k
Eric D. Green United States	36	3.8k 2.8×	1.5k 2.0×	449 0.7×	499 1.2×	475 1.2×	65	7.7k
Lihong Zhang China	38	1.9k 1.4×	322 0.4×	416 0.6×	1.3k 3.0×	415 1.0×	238	5.6k
Kazuyuki Uchida Japan	33	1.2k 0.9×	733 0.9×	375 0.6×	852 2.0×	435 1.1×	365	4.9k
Jun Miyoshi Japan	46	3.9k 2.9×	834 1.1×	1.2k 1.9×	625 1.5×	572 1.4×	160	6.8k
Yasuhiro Yoshikawa Japan	35	1.3k 0.9×	581 0.7×	490 0.8×	796 1.9×	223 0.5×	244	4.6k
Jie Tang China	33	1.8k 1.3×	276 0.3×	618 1.0×	390 0.9×	509 1.2×	129	4.1k
Cory Teuscher United States	46	1.9k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	3.0k 4.6×	464 1.1×	382 0.9×	189	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Turner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Turner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Turner

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nagraj, VP, et al.. (2025). PLANES: Plausibility analysis of epidemiological signals. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0320442–e0320442. 1 indexed citations

Oosterhout, Cock van, Megan A. Supple, Hernán E. Morales, et al.. (2025). Genome engineering in biodiversity conservation and restoration. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 1(8). 543–555. 2 indexed citations

Peck, Michelle A., et al.. (2023). Developmental Validation of the Illumina Infinium Assay Using the Global Screening Array on the iScan System for Use in Forensic Laboratories. 3(1). 15–24. 10 indexed citations

Peck, Michelle A., et al.. (2022). Internal Validation of the ForenSeq Kintelligence Kit for Application to Forensic Genetic Genealogy. 2(4). 103–114. 17 indexed citations

Nagraj, VP, Matthew Scholz, Jianye Ge, et al.. (2022). Relationship Inference with Low-Coverage Whole Genome Sequencing on Forensic Samples. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2(3). 81–91. 3 indexed citations

Turner, Stephen, VP Nagraj, Matthew Scholz, et al.. (2022). Evaluating the Impact of Dropout and Genotyping Error on SNP-Based Kinship Analysis With Forensic Samples. Frontiers in Genetics. 13. 882268–882268. 16 indexed citations

Dickinson, Amanda, et al.. (2021). E-liquids and vanillin flavoring disrupts retinoic acid signaling and causes craniofacial defects in Xenopus embryos. Developmental Biology. 481. 14–29. 10 indexed citations

Meneveau, Max O., Marit M. Melssen, Kevin Lynch, et al.. (2020). Incomplete Freund’s adjuvant reduces arginase and enhances Th1 dominance, TLR signaling and CD40 ligand expression in the vaccine site microenvironment. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 8(1). e000544–e000544. 23 indexed citations

Goncearenco, Alexander, Hanna M. Petrykowska, Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri, et al.. (2020). DNA methylation profiles unique to Kalahari KhoeSan individuals. Epigenetics. 16(5). 537–553. 2 indexed citations

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Burgess, Stacey L., Jhansi L. Leslie, Md. Jashim Uddin, et al.. (2020). Gut microbiome communication with bone marrow regulates susceptibility to amebiasis. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130(8). 4019–4024. 40 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ying, Nichola Cruickshanks, Fang Yuan, et al.. (2017). Targetable T-type Calcium Channels Drive Glioblastoma. Cancer Research. 77(13). 3479–3490. 81 indexed citations

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Turner, Stephen. (2015). Tutorial: RNA-seq differential expression & pathway analysis with Sailfish, DESeq2, GAGE, and Pathview. Figshare. 2 indexed citations

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Cronk, James C., Noel Derecki, Yang Xu, et al.. (2015). Methyl-CpG Binding Protein 2 Regulates Microglia and Macrophage Gene Expression in Response to Inflammatory Stimuli. Immunity. 42(4). 679–691. 164 indexed citations

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Giorgi, Elena, Daniel O. Stram, Darin Taverna, et al.. (2014). Fine-Mapping IGF1 and Prostate Cancer Risk in African Americans: The Multiethnic Cohort Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 23(9). 1928–1932. 7 indexed citations

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Allen, E. Kaitlynn, Alexander F. Koeppel, J. Owen Hendley, et al.. (2014). Characterization of the nasopharyngeal microbiota in health and during rhinovirus challenge. Microbiome. 2(1). 22–22. 86 indexed citations

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Turner, Stephen & William S. Bush. (2010). MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF REGULATORY SNPS: EMPOWERING PERSONAL GENOMICS BY CONSIDERING CIS-EPISTASIS AND HETEROGENEITY. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 276–287. 6 indexed citations

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Turner, Stephen, Dana C. Crawford, & Marylyn D. Ritchie. (2009). Methods for optimizing statistical analyses in pharmacogenomics research. Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology. 2(5). 559–570. 5 indexed citations

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Turner, Stephen. (2005). Livelihoods and Sharing: Trends in a Lesotho Village, 1976 - 2004. UWC Research Repository (University of the Western Cape). 40(2). 59–59. 6 indexed citations

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Lysiak, Jeffrey J., et al.. (2001). Essential Role of Neutrophils in Germ Cell-Specific Apoptosis Following Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury of the Mouse Testis1. Biology of Reproduction. 65(3). 718–725. 140 indexed citations

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Hartley, Christopher, et al.. (1981). Experimental ulcerative herpetic keratitis. IV. Preliminary observations on the efficacy of a herpes simplex subunit vaccine.. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 65(10). 679–682. 12 indexed citations

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