Thomas E. Hughes

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
64 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas E. Hughes is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas E. Hughes has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 29 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Thomas E. Hughes's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (29 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (21 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (15 papers). Thomas E. Hughes is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (29 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (21 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (15 papers). Thomas E. Hughes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Estonia and Canada. Thomas E. Hughes's co-authors include Mikhail Drobizhev, Aleksander Rebane, Nikolay S. Makarov, Shane Tillo, Charles O. Boyd, Marc Pypaert, Peter Novick, Lorise C. Gahring, Barbara J. Crain and Scott W. Rogers and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas E. Hughes

64 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Two-photon absorption properties of fluorescent proteins

2011 533 citations Mikhail Drobizhev, Nikolay S. Makarov et al. Nature Methods profile →
Autoantibodies to Glutamate Receptor GluR3 in Rasmussen's Encephalitis

1994 512 citations Thomas E. Hughes et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Thomas E. Hughes	1.7k	1.3k	859	464	284	64	3.1k
Karl A. Kasischke	878 0.5×	822 0.6×	634 0.7×	399 0.9×	88 0.3×	33	2.6k
Sabine Lévi	2.3k 1.4×	2.0k 1.6×	272 0.3×	278 0.6×	662 2.3×	68	4.2k
Tomomi Nemoto	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	782 0.9×	513 1.1×	245 0.9×	107	4.0k
Harshad D. Vishwasrao	1.2k 0.7×	635 0.5×	603 0.7×	525 1.1×	382 1.3×	30	2.6k
Mazahir T. Hasan	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	551 0.6×	370 0.8×	131 0.5×	44	3.9k
Martin Heine	2.6k 1.6×	2.8k 2.2×	343 0.4×	196 0.4×	241 0.8×	83	4.9k
Gabriele S. Kaminski Schierle	2.5k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	755 0.9×	580 1.3×	734 2.6×	121	5.5k
Steven S. Vogel	3.3k 2.0×	1.4k 1.1×	821 1.0×	341 0.7×	265 0.9×	68	5.1k
Varda Lev‐Ram	2.5k 1.5×	2.2k 1.7×	888 1.0×	444 1.0×	191 0.7×	47	5.1k
Oliver Griesbeck	3.5k 2.1×	2.9k 2.2×	1.7k 1.9×	309 0.7×	141 0.5×	64	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas E. Hughes

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Zhang, Jinfan, Bian Liu, Ingie Hong, et al.. (2020). An ultrasensitive biosensor for high-resolution kinase activity imaging in awake mice. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(1). 39–46. 71 indexed citations

Molina, Rosana S., Jonathan King, Nathan Clack, et al.. (2020). High throughput instrument to screen fluorescent proteins under two-photon excitation. Biomedical Optics Express. 11(12). 7192–7192. 5 indexed citations

Qian, Yong, Kiryl D. Piatkevich, Benedict Mc Larney, et al.. (2019). A genetically encoded near-infrared fluorescent calcium ion indicator. Nature Methods. 16(2). 171–174. 162 indexed citations

Harlen, Kevin, et al.. (2019). Live-Cell Assays for Cell Stress Responses Reveal New Patterns of Cell Signaling Caused by Mutations in Rhodopsin, α-Synuclein and TDP-43. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 13. 535–535. 7 indexed citations

Tewson, Paul, Scott Martinka, Nathan C. Shaner, et al.. (2018). Assay for Detecting Gαi-Mediated Decreases in cAMP in Living Cells. SLAS DISCOVERY. 23(9). 898–906. 11 indexed citations

Piatkevich, Kiryl D., Ho-Jun Suk, Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, et al.. (2017). Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins Engineered from Bacterial Phytochromes in Neuroimaging. Biophysical Journal. 113(10). 2299–2309. 42 indexed citations

Ding, Yidan, Jiao Li, Jhon R. Enterina, et al.. (2015). Ratiometric biosensors based on dimerization-dependent fluorescent protein exchange. Nature Methods. 12(3). 195–198. 121 indexed citations

Guan, Yinghua, Matthias Meurer, Aleksander Rebane, et al.. (2015). Live-cell multiphoton fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with an improved large Stokes shift fluorescent protein. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 26(11). 2054–2066. 17 indexed citations

Sung, Uhna, et al.. (2015). Improving Signal Dynamics of Fluorescent Protein Voltage Sensors by Optimizing FRET Interactions. Biophysical Journal. 108(2). 152a–152a. 3 indexed citations

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Sarkisyan, Karen S., Peter V. Lidsky, D.A. Gorbachev, et al.. (2015). Green Fluorescent Protein with Anionic Tryptophan-Based Chromophore and Long Fluorescence Lifetime. Biophysical Journal. 109(2). 380–389. 53 indexed citations

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Stoltzfus, Caleb, et al.. (2014). The Two-Photon Bazooka: A New Way of Optically Screening Randomly Mutagenized Libraries of Fluorescent Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 810a–811a. 1 indexed citations

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Drobizhev, Mikhail, Thomas E. Hughes, Yuriy Stepanenko, et al.. (2012). Primary Role of the Chromophore Bond Length Alternation in Reversible Photoconversion of Red Fluorescence Proteins. Scientific Reports. 2(1). 688–688. 27 indexed citations

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Drobizhev, Mikhail, Shane Tillo, Nikolay S. Makarov, Aleksander Rebane, & Thomas E. Hughes. (2010). Color Hues in Fluorescent Proteins with the Same Chromophore are due to Internal Quadratic Stark Effect. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 413a–413a. 1 indexed citations

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Drobizhev, Mikhail, Shane Tillo, Nikolay S. Makarov, Aleksander Rebane, & Thomas E. Hughes. (2009). Absolute Two-photon Absorption Spectra Of Orange And Red Fluorescent Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 400a–401a. 1 indexed citations

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Miranda, Pablo, et al.. (2008). FRET with multiply labeled HERG K+ channels as a reporter of the in vivo coarse architecture of the cytoplasmic domains. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1783(10). 1681–1699. 22 indexed citations

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Sheridan, Douglas, et al.. (2006). Regions of α-amino-5-methyl-3-hydroxy-4-isoxazole propionic acid receptor subunits that are permissive for the insertion of green fluorescent protein. Neuroscience. 141(2). 837–849. 6 indexed citations

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Giráldez, Teresa, Thomas E. Hughes, & Fred J. Sigworth. (2005). Generation of Functional Fluorescent BK Channels by Random Insertion of GFP Variants. The Journal of General Physiology. 126(5). 429–438. 43 indexed citations

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Rex, Tonia S., Enrico Maria Surace, Alberto Auricchio, et al.. (2004). EGFP levels and toxicity in transgenic and virus injected animals.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 45(13). 3707–3707. 1 indexed citations

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Molloy, Raymond, et al.. (1998). Ionotropic glutamate receptors in the retina: Moving from molecules to circuits. Vision Research. 38(10). 1399–1410. 21 indexed citations

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Hughes, Thomas E.. (1994). Transmembrane topology of the glutamate receptors. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience. 5(4). 211–217. 6 indexed citations

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