Thomas J. Cunningham

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Thomas J. Cunningham is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas J. Cunningham has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Oncology and 11 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Thomas J. Cunningham's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (11 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (7 papers) and Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology (7 papers). Thomas J. Cunningham is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (11 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (7 papers) and Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology (7 papers). Thomas J. Cunningham collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Thomas J. Cunningham's co-authors include Gregg Duester, John Horton, Xianling Zhao, Sandeep Kumar, Christina Chatzi, Robert W. Sponzo, Kenneth B. Olson, Thomas Brade, P. Duc Si Dong and Paul A. Trainor and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Cunningham

61 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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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.

Mechanisms of retinoic acid signalling and its roles in organ and limb development

2015 426 citations Thomas J. Cunningham, Gregg Duester Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas J. Cunningham United States	27	1.5k	458	329	287	284	64	2.3k
Ian Roberts United Kingdom	24	1.2k 0.8×	522 1.1×	303 0.9×	187 0.7×	288 1.0×	44	2.0k
Claudia Wohlenberg Germany	12	983 0.7×	340 0.7×	217 0.7×	283 1.0×	587 2.1×	12	2.3k
Irene Nunes United States	16	1.4k 0.9×	422 0.9×	246 0.7×	521 1.8×	414 1.5×	25	3.0k
Andrés F. Muro Italy	34	2.1k 1.4×	480 1.0×	405 1.2×	409 1.4×	483 1.7×	91	3.8k
Xingyi Guo United States	27	1.3k 0.9×	440 1.0×	379 1.2×	271 0.9×	258 0.9×	99	2.4k
Børge Teisner Denmark	29	997 0.7×	189 0.4×	282 0.9×	256 0.9×	284 1.0×	63	2.4k
Rehannah Borup Denmark	34	2.2k 1.5×	564 1.2×	469 1.4×	137 0.5×	234 0.8×	67	3.7k
Paul Kiefer Germany	27	1.4k 0.9×	216 0.5×	217 0.7×	139 0.5×	329 1.2×	53	2.3k
Jacqueline A. Proper United States	18	1.2k 0.8×	261 0.6×	342 1.0×	149 0.5×	528 1.9×	20	2.1k
Leo De Ridder Belgium	30	935 0.6×	761 1.7×	133 0.4×	279 1.0×	246 0.9×	104	2.5k

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Alsakarneh, Saqr, et al.. (2025). Safety and Outcomes of Colonoscopy in Cardiac Transplant Candidates with Severely Versus Non-severely Reduced Left Ventricular Function: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 71(2). 561–568.

Jones, Emma, Elizabeth Hill, Jacqueline M. Linehan, et al.. (2023). Characterisation and prion transmission study in mice with genetic reduction of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease risk gene Stx6. Neurobiology of Disease. 190. 106363–106363. 3 indexed citations

Hill, Elizabeth & Thomas J. Cunningham. (2023). Modelling Alzheimer’s disease in a dish: dissecting amyloid-β metabolism in human neurons. PubMed. 8(1). NS20230020–NS20230020. 1 indexed citations

Nair, R., Shoshana Spring, Brian J. Nieman, et al.. (2023). Mutation in the FUS nuclear localisation signal domain causes neurodevelopmental and systemic metabolic alterations. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 16(10). 1 indexed citations

Garone, Maria Giovanna, Nicol Birsa, Maria Rosito, et al.. (2021). ALS-related FUS mutations alter axon growth in motoneurons and affect HuD/ELAVL4 and FMRP activity. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1025–1025. 24 indexed citations

Cleverley, Karen, Weaverly Colleen Lee, Paige Mumford, et al.. (2021). A novel knockout mouse for the small EDRK-rich factor 2 (Serf2) showing developmental and other deficits. Mammalian Genome. 32(2). 94–103. 6 indexed citations

Lee, Weaverly Colleen, Thomas J. Cunningham, Giampietro Schiavo, et al.. (2021). NMJ-Analyser identifies subtle early changes in mouse models of neuromuscular disease. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 12251–12251. 16 indexed citations

Sala, David, Thomas J. Cunningham, Michael J. Stec, et al.. (2019). The Stat3-Fam3a axis promotes muscle stem cell myogenic lineage progression by inducing mitochondrial respiration. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1796–1796. 48 indexed citations

Nair, R., Silvia Corrochano, Charlotte Tibbit, et al.. (2019). Uses for humanised mouse models in precision medicine for neurodegenerative disease. Mammalian Genome. 30(7-8). 173–191. 23 indexed citations

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Lancman, Joseph J., et al.. (2018). Mouse but not zebrafish requires retinoic acid for control of neuromesodermal progenitors and body axis extension. Developmental Biology. 441(1). 127–131. 17 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Thomas J., et al.. (2018). Genomic Knockout of Two Presumed Forelimb Tbx5 Enhancers Reveals They Are Nonessential for Limb Development. Cell Reports. 23(11). 3146–3151. 29 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Thomas J. & Gregg Duester. (2015). Mechanisms of retinoic acid signalling and its roles in organ and limb development. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 16(2). 110–123. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cunningham, Thomas J., Thomas Brade, Linda J. Sandell, et al.. (2015). Retinoic Acid Activity in Undifferentiated Neural Progenitors Is Sufficient to Fulfill Its Role in Restricting Fgf8 Expression for Somitogenesis. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0137894–e0137894. 38 indexed citations

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Mason, Mandy K., Dorit Hockman, Thomas J. Cunningham, et al.. (2015). Retinoic acid-independent expression of Meis2 during autopod patterning in the developing bat and mouse limb. EvoDevo. 6(1). 6–6. 8 indexed citations

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Lin, Nianwei, Kung‐Yen Chang, Zhonghan Li, et al.. (2014). An Evolutionarily Conserved Long Noncoding RNA TUNA Controls Pluripotency and Neural Lineage Commitment. Molecular Cell. 53(6). 1005–1019. 319 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Thomas J., Xianling Zhao, Linda J. Sandell, et al.. (2013). Antagonism between Retinoic Acid and Fibroblast Growth Factor Signaling during Limb Development. Cell Reports. 3(5). 1503–1511. 80 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Thomas J., Christina Chatzi, Linda J. Sandell, Paul A. Trainor, & Gregg Duester. (2011). Rdh10 mutants deficient in limb field retinoic acid signaling exhibit normal limb patterning but display interdigital webbing. Developmental Dynamics. 240(5). 1142–1150. 47 indexed citations

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Kumar, Sandeep, Christina Chatzi, Thomas Brade, et al.. (2011). Sex-specific timing of meiotic initiation is regulated by Cyp26b1 independent of retinoic acid signalling. Nature Communications. 2(1). 151–151. 118 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Thomas J.. (2002). Identification of the Human cDNA for New Survival/Evasion Peptide (DSEP): Studies in Vitro and in Vivo of Overexpression by Neural Cells. Experimental Neurology. 177(1). 32–39. 33 indexed citations

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Bishop, Monica B., et al.. (1968). ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS IN A NORTH AMERICAN NEGRO. The Lancet. 292(7571). 750–751. 8 indexed citations

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