Thomas C. Roberts

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas C. Roberts is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas C. Roberts has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Cancer Research and 5 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Thomas C. Roberts's work include Muscle Physiology and Disorders (23 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (19 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (17 papers). Thomas C. Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Muscle Physiology and Disorders (23 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (19 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (17 papers). Thomas C. Roberts collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Thomas C. Roberts's co-authors include Matthew J. A. Wood, Róbert Langer, Kevin V. Morris, Anna Coenen-Stass, Marc S. Weinberg, Samir EL Andaloussi, Graham McClorey, Corinne Betts, Gregory A. Storch and Jonathan R. Hart and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas C. Roberts

60 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Advances in oligonucleotide drug delivery

2020 1.4k citations Thomas C. Roberts, Róbert Langer et al. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas C. Roberts United Kingdom	32	3.2k	1.2k	300	265	230	64	3.9k
Francesco Fazi Italy	36	4.4k 1.4×	2.3k 1.9×	282 0.9×	162 0.6×	149 0.6×	92	5.5k
Anita G. Seto United States	20	3.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	187 0.6×	107 0.4×	87 0.4×	29	3.8k
Darren N. Saunders Australia	32	2.1k 0.7×	825 0.7×	252 0.8×	257 1.0×	350 1.5×	69	3.3k
Astrid Schauß Germany	27	2.9k 0.9×	503 0.4×	197 0.7×	515 1.9×	501 2.2×	53	3.8k
Xianming Mo China	31	2.2k 0.7×	562 0.5×	297 1.0×	226 0.9×	227 1.0×	116	3.6k
Hong Yu China	26	1.9k 0.6×	649 0.6×	261 0.9×	268 1.0×	76 0.3×	131	2.9k
Minna U. Kaikkonen Finland	33	4.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.3×	705 2.4×	347 1.3×	206 0.9×	107	5.5k
Joshua Babiarz United States	23	3.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.7×	427 1.4×	168 0.6×	45 0.2×	38	4.3k
Xinghua Pan China	31	1.6k 0.5×	546 0.5×	220 0.7×	164 0.6×	81 0.4×	139	2.6k
Timothy A. Vickers United States	36	4.3k 1.4×	536 0.5×	315 1.1×	129 0.5×	104 0.5×	57	5.0k

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Ning, Feng, Nenad Svrzikapa, Yan Dai, et al.. (2025). Targeted BDNF upregulation via upstream open reading frame disruption. Molecular Therapy. 34(3). 1652–1671.

Vilchinskaya, Natalia A., Wooi Fang Lim, С. П. Белова, et al.. (2023). Investigating Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 2 Kinase/Eukaryotic Translation Elongation Factor 2 Pathway Regulation and Its Role in Protein Synthesis Impairment during Disuse-Induced Skeletal Muscle Atrophy. American Journal Of Pathology. 193(6). 813–828. 4 indexed citations

Roberts, Thomas C.. (2023). Long-term dystrophin restoration supports development of splice correction therapy for DMD patients with exon 2 duplications. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 31. 101160–101160. 4 indexed citations

Hanson, Britt, Wenyi Zheng, Mariana Conceição, et al.. (2023). EV-mediated promotion of myogenic differentiation is dependent on dose, collection medium, and isolation method. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 33. 511–528. 13 indexed citations

Roberts, Thomas C., Matthew J. A. Wood, & Kay E. Davies. (2023). Therapeutic approaches for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 22(11). 917–934. 57 indexed citations

Mäkinen, Petri I., Minna U. Kaikkonen, Marc S. Weinberg, et al.. (2022). Nuclear microRNA-466c regulates Vegfa expression in response to hypoxia. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0265948–e0265948. 12 indexed citations

Dar, Ghulam Hassan, Cláudia C. Mendes, Wei‐Li Kuan, et al.. (2021). GAPDH controls extracellular vesicle biogenesis and enhances the therapeutic potential of EV mediated siRNA delivery to the brain. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6666–6666. 65 indexed citations

Aoki, Yoshitsugu, Taavi Lehto, Shouta Miyatake, et al.. (2021). Fine Tuning of Phosphorothioate Inclusion in 2′-O-Methyl Oligonucleotides Contributes to Specific Cell Targeting for Splice-Switching Modulation. Frontiers in Physiology. 12. 689179–689179.

Hanson, Britt, et al.. (2020). Application of CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing for the Treatment of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1. Molecular Therapy. 28(12). 2527–2539. 21 indexed citations

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Roberts, Thomas C., Róbert Langer, & Matthew J. A. Wood. (2020). Advances in oligonucleotide drug delivery. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 19(10). 673–694. 1404 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coenen-Stass, Anna, Matthew J. A. Wood, & Thomas C. Roberts. (2017). Biomarker Potential of Extracellular miRNAs in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Trends in Molecular Medicine. 23(11). 989–1001. 48 indexed citations

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Saayman, Sheena, Thomas C. Roberts, Kevin V. Morris, & Marc S. Weinberg. (2015). HIV Latency and the Noncoding RNA Therapeutic Landscape. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 848. 169–189. 10 indexed citations

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Roberts, Thomas C., Jonathan R. Hart, Minna U. Kaikkonen, et al.. (2015). Quantification of nascent transcription by bromouridine immunocapture nuclear run-on RT-qPCR. Nature Protocols. 10(8). 1198–1211. 87 indexed citations

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Roberts, Thomas C.. (2014). The MicroRNA Biology of the Mammalian Nucleus. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 3. e188–e188. 143 indexed citations

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Roberts, Thomas C., Kevin V. Morris, & Marc S. Weinberg. (2013). Perspectives on the mechanism of transcriptional regulation by long non-coding RNAs. Epigenetics. 9(1). 13–20. 113 indexed citations

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Roberts, Thomas C., Caroline Godfrey, Graham McClorey, et al.. (2013). Extracellular microRNAs are dynamic non-vesicular biomarkers of muscle turnover. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(20). 9500–9513. 79 indexed citations

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Roberts, Thomas C., et al.. (2011). Current and Innovative Solutions to Roadside Revegetation Using Native Plants - A Domestic Scan Report. 21(3). 293–6. 1 indexed citations

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Khoury, H. Jean, R Brown, Lawrence T. Goodnough, et al.. (1999). Successful treatment of cerebral toxoplasmosis in a marrow transplant recipient: contribution of a PCR test in diagnosis and early detection. Bone Marrow Transplantation. 23(4). 409–411. 22 indexed citations

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Roberts, Thomas C., Daniel C. Brennan, Richard S. Buller, et al.. (1998). Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction to Predict Occurrence of Symptomatic Cytomegalovirus Infection and Assess Response to Ganciclovir Therapy in Renal Transplant Recipients. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 178(3). 626–635. 92 indexed citations

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Mamon, Harvey J., Nidhi Gupta Williams, Kris C. Wood, et al.. (1991). New Perspectives on Raf-1: The Involvement of p21ras in the Activation of Raf-1 and a Potential Role for Raf-1 in Events Occurring Later in the Cell Cycle. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 56(0). 251–263. 7 indexed citations

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