Thomas Spruce

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 852 citations indexed

About

Thomas Spruce is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Spruce has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 852 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cancer Research and 1 paper in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Spruce's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (4 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers). Thomas Spruce is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (4 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers). Thomas Spruce collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Thomas Spruce's co-authors include Antonio Rosato, Maria Rondina, Sirio Dupont, Francesco Ferrari, Andrea Manfrin, Vincenza Guzzardo, Silvio Bicciato, Elena Enzo, A. Parenti and Maria Grazia Daidone and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Spruce

9 papers receiving 840 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.

A MicroRNA Targeting Dicer for Metastasis Control

2010 541 citations Graziano Martello, Antonio Rosato 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 Spruce United Kingdom	8	747	553	69	62	40	9	852
Ling‐Yueh Hu Taiwan	14	759 1.0×	707 1.3×	57 0.8×	43 0.7×	62 1.6×	18	949
T. P. Kazubskaya Russia	15	788 1.1×	513 0.9×	110 1.6×	57 0.9×	39 1.0×	83	928
Simona Pedrotti Italy	11	661 0.9×	218 0.4×	56 0.8×	44 0.7×	26 0.7×	14	746
Huacheng Luo United States	14	874 1.2×	274 0.5×	98 1.4×	119 1.9×	78 1.9×	29	1.1k
Lena J. Chin United States	5	952 1.3×	855 1.5×	78 1.1×	25 0.4×	62 1.6×	6	1.1k
Roza Selimyan United States	8	656 0.9×	410 0.7×	39 0.6×	71 1.1×	128 3.2×	9	850
Young-Chul Choi South Korea	10	433 0.6×	386 0.7×	67 1.0×	24 0.4×	43 1.1×	11	569
Josianne Payette Canada	5	332 0.4×	244 0.4×	60 0.9×	39 0.6×	30 0.8×	5	448
Rose‐Marie Sjöberg Sweden	15	414 0.6×	267 0.5×	141 2.0×	88 1.4×	24 0.6×	16	629
Emmanuelle Despras France	14	574 0.8×	223 0.4×	201 2.9×	56 0.9×	36 0.9×	19	697

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Spruce

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Spruce

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Spruce, Thomas, Mireya Plass, André Gohr, et al.. (2022). The X-linked splicing regulator MBNL3 has been co-opted to restrict placental growth in eutherians. PLoS Biology. 20(4). e3001615–e3001615. 7 indexed citations

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Gentsch, George E., Thomas Spruce, Nick Owens, & James C. Smith. (2019). Maternal pluripotency factors initiate extensive chromatin remodelling to predefine first response to inductive signals. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4269–4269. 39 indexed citations

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Gentsch, George E., et al.. (2018). Innate Immune Response and Off-Target Mis-splicing Are Common Morpholino-Induced Side Effects in Xenopus. Developmental Cell. 44(5). 597–610.e10. 31 indexed citations

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Pernaute, Bárbara, et al.. (2014). MicroRNAs control the apoptotic threshold in primed pluripotent stem cells through regulation of BIM. Genes & Development. 28(17). 1873–1878. 45 indexed citations

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Pernaute, Bárbara, Thomas Spruce, Tristan A. Rodríguez, & Miguel Manzanares. (2011). MiRNA-mediated regulation of cell signaling and homeostasis in the early mouse embryo. Cell Cycle. 10(4). 584–591. 12 indexed citations

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Spruce, Thomas, Bárbara Pernaute, Bradley S. Cobb, et al.. (2010). An Early Developmental Role for miRNAs in the Maintenance of Extraembryonic Stem Cells in the Mouse Embryo. Developmental Cell. 19(2). 207–219. 73 indexed citations

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Martello, Graziano, Antonio Rosato, Francesco Ferrari, et al.. (2010). A MicroRNA Targeting Dicer for Metastasis Control. Cell. 141(7). 1195–1207. 541 indexed citations breakdown →

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Santos, Joana Dos, Carlos‐Filipe Pereira, Thomas Spruce, et al.. (2010). Differences in the epigenetic and reprogramming properties of pluripotent and extra-embryonic stem cells implicate chromatin remodelling as an important early event in the developing mouse embryo. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 3(1). 1–1. 36 indexed citations

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Nesterova, Tatyana B., Bilyana Popova, Bradley S. Cobb, et al.. (2008). Dicer regulates Xist promoter methylation in ES cells indirectly through transcriptional control of Dnmt3a. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 1(1). 2–2. 68 indexed citations

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