Tak Ko

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Tak Ko is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tak Ko has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Physiology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Tak Ko's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (2 papers). Tak Ko is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (2 papers). Tak Ko collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Tak Ko's co-authors include Li‐Huei Tsai, Yuan-Ta Lin, Waseem Raja, Jinsoo Seo, Fatema Abdurrob, Alison E. Mungenast, Julia Maeve Bonner, Qiuhong Li, Alexander Frank and Lee McIntosh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Tak Ko

11 papers receiving 1000 citations

Hit Papers

Self-Organizing 3D Human Neural Tissue Derived from Induc... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Self-Organizing 3D Human Neural Tissue Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Recapitulate Alzheimer’s Disease Phenotypes
    2016 409 citations Waseem Raja, Alison E. Mungenast et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tak Ko United States 9 652 242 220 207 189 12 1.0k
Sol M. Reyna United States 7 793 1.2× 510 2.1× 194 0.9× 344 1.7× 187 1.0× 8 1.2k
Sylvie Boisseau France 18 431 0.7× 159 0.7× 55 0.3× 332 1.6× 98 0.5× 29 859
Takahito Yoshizaki Japan 15 937 1.4× 251 1.0× 155 0.7× 579 2.8× 276 1.5× 25 1.4k
Mathéa Pietri France 14 636 1.0× 212 0.9× 147 0.7× 252 1.2× 54 0.3× 22 1.0k
Michael W. Nestor United States 15 568 0.9× 134 0.6× 143 0.7× 287 1.4× 122 0.6× 31 843
Kinga Molnár Hungary 14 329 0.5× 284 1.2× 88 0.4× 186 0.9× 70 0.4× 34 762
Monique Pena United States 6 583 0.9× 185 0.8× 50 0.2× 180 0.9× 220 1.2× 7 1.3k
Abinaya Chandrasekaran Denmark 7 331 0.5× 146 0.6× 103 0.5× 176 0.9× 127 0.7× 13 538
Hannah M. Gibbons New Zealand 20 317 0.5× 152 0.6× 41 0.2× 298 1.4× 190 1.0× 24 1.1k
Jason P. Covy United States 12 1.0k 1.6× 378 1.6× 119 0.5× 608 2.9× 138 0.7× 14 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Tak Ko

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tak Ko

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tak Ko. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Tak Ko. The network helps show where Tak Ko may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tak Ko

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

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Meyer, Katharina, King‐Hwa Ling, Derek Drake, et al.. (2023). Impaired neural stress resistance and loss of REST in bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(1). 153–164. 4 indexed citations
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Meharena, Hiruy S., Asaf Marco, Vishnu Dileep, et al.. (2022). Down-syndrome-induced senescence disrupts the nuclear architecture of neural progenitors. Cell stem cell. 29(1). 116–130.e7. 56 indexed citations
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Blanchard, Joel, Michael Bula, José Dávila-Velderrain, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Reconstruction of the human blood–brain barrier in vitro reveals a pathogenic mechanism of APOE4 in pericytes. Nature Medicine. 27(2). 356–356. 4 indexed citations
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Blanchard, Joel, Michael Bula, José Dávila-Velderrain, et al.. (2020). Reconstruction of the human blood–brain barrier in vitro reveals a pathogenic mechanism of APOE4 in pericytes. Nature Medicine. 26(6). 952–963. 182 indexed citations
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Seo, Jinsoo, Oleg Kritskiy, L. Ashley Watson, et al.. (2017). Inhibition of p25/Cdk5 Attenuates Tauopathy in Mouse and iPSC Models of Frontotemporal Dementia. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(41). 9917–9924. 120 indexed citations
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Raja, Waseem, Alison E. Mungenast, Yuan-Ta Lin, et al.. (2016). Self-Organizing 3D Human Neural Tissue Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Recapitulate Alzheimer’s Disease Phenotypes. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0161969–e0161969. 409 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nott, Alexi, Jemmie Cheng, Fan Gao, et al.. (2016). Histone deacetylase 3 associates with MeCP2 to regulate FOXO and social behavior. Nature Neuroscience. 19(11). 1497–1505. 86 indexed citations
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Ross, Pablo J., Steven T. Suhr, Ramón María Alvargonzález Rodríguez, et al.. (2009). Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Produced Under Xeno-Free Conditions. Stem Cells and Development. 19(8). 1221–1229. 37 indexed citations
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Beyhan, Zeki, et al.. (2009). Increased cellular turnover in response to fluoxetine in neuronal precursors derived from human embryonic stem cells. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 54(4). 707–715. 14 indexed citations
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Kim, Jonguk, et al.. (2008). Examination of Correction Factor for Manganese Nodule Abundance Using the Free Fall Grab and Box Corer. 13(3). 280–285. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Qiuhong, R. Gary Ritzel, Lee McIntosh, et al.. (1996). Cloning and Analysis of the Alternative Oxidase Gene of Neurospora crassa. Genetics. 142(1). 129–140. 83 indexed citations

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