Thomas Whitington

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Whitington is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Whitington has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Thomas Whitington's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (2 papers) and Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (2 papers). Thomas Whitington is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (2 papers) and Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (2 papers). Thomas Whitington collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Finland and United Kingdom. Thomas Whitington's co-authors include Jussi Taipale, Arttu Jolma, Jian Yan, Martin Enge, Teemu Kivioja, Gong‐Hong Wei, Ekaterina Morgunova, Esko Ukkonen, Mikko Taipale and Kimmo Palin and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Genetics and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Whitington

8 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

DNA-Binding Specificities of Human Transcription Factors

2013 889 citations Arttu Jolma, Jian Yan et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Whitington Sweden	7	1.2k	241	146	122	99	8	1.4k
Aditi K. Narayanan United States	5	1.2k 1.1×	237 1.0×	279 1.9×	95 0.8×	60 0.6×	6	1.4k
Federico Comoglio Switzerland	17	989 0.9×	170 0.7×	144 1.0×	101 0.8×	106 1.1×	27	1.3k
Anne Laugesen Denmark	8	1.1k 1.0×	161 0.7×	192 1.3×	70 0.6×	57 0.6×	9	1.3k
Inês de Santiago United Kingdom	13	1.3k 1.1×	188 0.8×	254 1.7×	218 1.8×	90 0.9×	16	1.5k
Hans-Martin Herz United States	15	1.9k 1.6×	244 1.0×	140 1.0×	127 1.0×	37 0.4×	15	2.0k
Gilad Landan United States	9	875 0.8×	209 0.9×	257 1.8×	107 0.9×	73 0.7×	12	1.1k
Constantinos Chronis United States	18	1.6k 1.4×	280 1.2×	243 1.7×	148 1.2×	42 0.4×	27	1.9k
Roman Alpatov United States	8	1.1k 1.0×	275 1.1×	116 0.8×	72 0.6×	33 0.3×	13	1.3k
Adnan Derti United States	16	1.1k 0.9×	117 0.5×	183 1.3×	97 0.8×	73 0.7×	20	1.3k
Andrea Scelfo Italy	15	1.2k 1.0×	181 0.8×	113 0.8×	137 1.1×	34 0.3×	18	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Whitington

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Whitington

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Whitington

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Seipel, Amanda H., Thomas Whitington, Brett Delahunt, et al.. (2017). Genetic profile of ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate. Human Pathology. 69. 1–7. 22 indexed citations

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Whitington, Thomas, Ping Gao, Wei Song, et al.. (2016). Gene regulatory mechanisms underpinning prostate cancer susceptibility. Nature Genetics. 48(4). 387–397. 81 indexed citations

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Kristiansen, Wenche, Robert Karlsson, Trine B. Rounge, et al.. (2015). Two new loci and gene sets related to sex determination and cancer progression are associated with susceptibility to testicular germ cell tumor. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(14). 4138–4146. 34 indexed citations

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Yan, Jian, Martin Enge, Thomas Whitington, et al.. (2013). Transcription Factor Binding in Human Cells Occurs in Dense Clusters Formed around Cohesin Anchor Sites. Cell. 154(4). 801–813. 268 indexed citations

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Jolma, Arttu, Jian Yan, Thomas Whitington, et al.. (2013). DNA-Binding Specificities of Human Transcription Factors. Cell. 152(1-2). 327–339. 889 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sur, Inderpreet, Sari Tuupanen, Thomas Whitington, Lauri A. Aaltonen, & Jussi Taipale. (2013). Lessons from Functional Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies. Cancer Research. 73(14). 4180–4184. 48 indexed citations

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Whitington, Thomas, Arttu Jolma, & Jussi Taipale. (2011). Beyond the Balance of Activator and Repressor. Science Signaling. 4(176). pe29–pe29. 9 indexed citations

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Tallack, Michael R., Thomas Whitington, Brooke Gardiner, et al.. (2009). Klf1 Regulatory Networks in Primary Erythroid Cells.. Blood. 114(22). 1462–1462. 2 indexed citations

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