Thomas Kidd

6.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
34 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas Kidd is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Kidd has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Thomas Kidd's work include Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (26 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (15 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (6 papers). Thomas Kidd is often cited by papers focused on Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (26 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (15 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (6 papers). Thomas Kidd collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Thomas Kidd's co-authors include Corey S. Goodman, K Bland, Katja Brose, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne, William J. Henzel, Kuan Hong Wang, David Arnott, Guy Tear, Kevin J. Mitchell and Richard D. Fetter and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Kidd

34 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Slit Proteins Bind Robo Receptors and Have an Evolutionarily Conserved Role in Repulsive Axon Guidance

1999 958 citations Katja Brose, K Bland et al. Cell profile →
Slit Is the Midline Repellent for the Robo Receptor in Drosophila

1999 781 citations Thomas Kidd, K Bland et al. Cell profile →
Roundabout Controls Axon Crossing of the CNS Midline and Defines a Novel Subfamily of Evolutionarily Conserved Guidance Receptors

1998 734 citations Thomas Kidd, Katja Brose et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Kidd United States	19	4.2k	2.8k	1.8k	1.6k	141	34	4.9k
Jonathan A. Raper United States	38	5.0k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	186 1.3×	55	6.3k
Esther T. Stoeckli Switzerland	40	3.7k 0.9×	3.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	65 0.5×	101	5.8k
Artur Kania Canada	31	1.9k 0.5×	2.2k 0.8×	811 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	92 0.7×	74	3.6k
Melitta Schachner Germany	43	3.1k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	47 0.3×	79	5.6k
Todd McLaughlin United States	21	2.6k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	697 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	53 0.4×	30	3.3k
Domna Karagogeos Greece	34	2.0k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	46 0.3×	94	4.6k
Greg J. Bashaw United States	31	2.1k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	641 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	54 0.4×	57	3.1k
Britta J. Eickholt Germany	34	1.7k 0.4×	2.2k 0.8×	528 0.3×	892 0.6×	69 0.5×	80	3.6k
Ruben Adler United States	44	3.1k 0.7×	4.8k 1.7×	826 0.5×	984 0.6×	103 0.7×	124	6.4k
Lynda Erskine United Kingdom	29	1.8k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	757 0.4×	719 0.5×	54 0.4×	50	2.9k

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Kidd, Thomas & Timothy A. Evans. (2023). Collection, Fixation, and Antibody Staining ofDrosophilaEmbryos. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2024(9). pdb.prot108116–pdb.prot108116. 2 indexed citations

Mastick, Grant S., Lauren Jones, & Thomas Kidd. (2023). Axons will not be silenced! A balancing act of attractive receptors. Cell Reports. 42(5). 112493–112493. 1 indexed citations

Kidd, Thomas & Timothy A. Evans. (2023). Analysis of Axon Guidance in theDrosophilaEmbryo. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2024(9). pdb.top108109–pdb.top108109. 1 indexed citations

Kidd, Thomas & Timothy A. Evans. (2023). Ventral Nerve Cord Dissection and Microscopy ofDrosophilaEmbryos. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2024(9). pdb.prot108117–pdb.prot108117. 2 indexed citations

Mastick, Grant S., et al.. (2020). Proteolytic cleavage of Slit by the Tolkin protease converts an axon repulsion cue to an axon growth cue in vivo. Development. 147(20). 6 indexed citations

Kidd, Thomas, et al.. (2017). The WAGR syndrome gene PRRG4 is a functional homologue of the commissureless axon guidance gene. PLoS Genetics. 13(8). e1006865–e1006865. 36 indexed citations

Song, Minmin, et al.. (2016). Dscam1 Forms a Complex with Robo1 and the N-Terminal Fragment of Slit to Promote the Growth of Longitudinal Axons. PLoS Biology. 14(9). e1002560–e1002560. 36 indexed citations

Kidd, Thomas, et al.. (2015). Genetic Tools for the Analysis of Drosophila Stomatogastric Nervous System Development. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0128290–e0128290. 8 indexed citations

Erfurth, Maria‐Luise, Minmin Song, Rachel Bortnick, et al.. (2015). Slit and Receptor Tyrosine Phosphatase 69D Confer Spatial Specificity to Axon Branching via Dscam1. Cell. 162(5). 1140–1154. 57 indexed citations

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Clemens, James C., et al.. (2013). Blocking Apoptotic Signaling Rescues Axon Guidance in Netrin Mutants. Cell Reports. 3(3). 595–606. 20 indexed citations

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Kidd, Thomas, et al.. (2013). Control of Male and Female Fertility by the Netrin Axon Guidance Genes. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e72524–e72524. 10 indexed citations

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Cavalcanti, Francesca, Thomas Kidd, A. Patitucci, et al.. (2009). An Axon Regeneration Signature in a Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 2 Patient. Journal of Neurogenetics. 23(3). 324–328. 5 indexed citations

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Farmer, W. Todd, et al.. (2008). Pioneer longitudinal axons navigate using floor plate and Slit/Robo signals. Development. 135(22). 3643–3653. 56 indexed citations

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Andrews, Gracie L., W. Todd Farmer, Steves Morin, et al.. (2008). Dscam guides embryonic axons by Netrin-dependent and -independent functions. Development. 135(23). 3839–3848. 96 indexed citations

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Bashaw, Greg J., et al.. (2000). Repulsive Axon Guidance. Cell. 101(7). 703–715. 377 indexed citations

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Simpson, J., Thomas Kidd, K Bland, & Corey S. Goodman. (2000). Short-Range and Long-Range Guidance by Slit and Its Robo Receptors. Neuron. 28(3). 753–766. 201 indexed citations

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Wang, Kuan Hong, Katja Brose, David Arnott, et al.. (1999). Biochemical Purification of a Mammalian Slit Protein as a Positive Regulator of Sensory Axon Elongation and Branching. Cell. 96(6). 771–784. 400 indexed citations

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Nguyen-Ba-Charvet, Kim T., Katja Brose, Thomas Kidd, et al.. (1999). Slit2-Mediated Chemorepulsion and Collapse of Developing Forebrain Axons. Neuron. 22(3). 463–473. 232 indexed citations

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Chadwick, Brian P., Thomas Kidd, John Sgouros, David Ish‐Horowicz, & A.-M. Frischauf. (1999). Cloning, mapping and expression of UBL3, a novel ubiquitin-like gene. Gene. 233(1-2). 189–195. 12 indexed citations

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Kidd, Thomas, K Bland, & Corey S. Goodman. (1999). Slit Is the Midline Repellent for the Robo Receptor in Drosophila. Cell. 96(6). 785–794. 781 indexed citations breakdown →

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