Thorsten Boroviak

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Thorsten Boroviak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thorsten Boroviak has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Surgery and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thorsten Boroviak's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (21 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (7 papers). Thorsten Boroviak is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (21 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (7 papers). Thorsten Boroviak collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and Germany. Thorsten Boroviak's co-authors include Jennifer Nichols, Paul Bertone, Austin Smith, Remco Loos, Erika Sasaki, Giuliano Giuseppe Stirparo, Rüdiger Behr, Junko Okahara, Patrick Lombard and Christopher A. Penfold and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thorsten Boroviak

26 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

The ability of inner-cell-mass cells to self-renew as emb... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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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.

  1. The ability of inner-cell-mass cells to self-renew as embryonic stem cells is acquired following epiblast specification
    2014 332 citations Thorsten Boroviak, Remco Loos et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thorsten Boroviak United Kingdom 17 1.3k 219 158 156 125 27 1.5k
Ivan Bedzhov Germany 15 733 0.6× 215 1.0× 79 0.5× 135 0.9× 96 0.8× 29 916
Mieke Geens Belgium 23 988 0.8× 412 1.9× 189 1.2× 153 1.0× 216 1.7× 42 1.4k
Elen Gócza Hungary 16 1.1k 0.8× 207 0.9× 411 2.6× 80 0.5× 244 2.0× 50 1.5k
Vincent Pasque Belgium 23 1.4k 1.1× 211 1.0× 335 2.1× 62 0.4× 112 0.9× 44 1.6k
Wesley D. Gifford United States 9 1.7k 1.3× 90 0.4× 215 1.4× 86 0.6× 80 0.6× 9 1.9k
Alice Jouneau France 23 1.1k 0.8× 419 1.9× 349 2.2× 33 0.2× 80 0.6× 55 1.3k
Vasiliy Galat United States 16 753 0.6× 89 0.4× 186 1.2× 112 0.7× 112 0.9× 35 1.3k
Leehee Weinberger Israel 6 1.4k 1.0× 185 0.8× 282 1.8× 100 0.6× 166 1.3× 8 1.5k
Anna Sahakyan United States 13 1.2k 0.9× 65 0.3× 308 1.9× 118 0.8× 87 0.7× 14 1.4k
Dan Strumpf Canada 8 2.0k 1.5× 468 2.1× 374 2.4× 50 0.3× 120 1.0× 12 2.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thorsten Boroviak

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thorsten Boroviak

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All Works

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Weberling, Antonia, et al.. (2024). Primitive to visceral endoderm maturation is essential for mouse epiblast survival beyond implantation. iScience. 28(1). 111671–111671. 1 indexed citations
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Penfold, Christopher A., Timo N. Kohler, Antonia Weberling, et al.. (2024). Marmoset and human trophoblast stem cells differ in signaling requirements and recapitulate divergent modes of trophoblast invasion. Cell stem cell. 31(10). 1427–1446.e8. 5 indexed citations
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Penfold, Christopher A., Kazuaki Kojima, Haruka Yabukami, et al.. (2023). mRNA-based generation of marmoset PGCLCs capable of differentiation into gonocyte-like cells. Stem Cell Reports. 18(10). 1987–2002. 6 indexed citations
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Kohler, Timo N., Joachim De Jonghe, Ayaka Yanagida, et al.. (2023). Plakoglobin is a mechanoresponsive regulator of naive pluripotency. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4022–4022. 8 indexed citations
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Penfold, Christopher A., Michael D. Morgan, Walfred W. C. Tang, et al.. (2023). Origin and segregation of the human germline. Life Science Alliance. 6(8). e202201706–e202201706. 23 indexed citations
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Penfold, Christopher A., Charis Drummer, Stephen J. Clark, et al.. (2022). Spatial profiling of early primate gastrulation in utero. Nature. 609(7925). 136–143. 68 indexed citations
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Penfold, Christopher A., et al.. (2022). A hexa-species transcriptome atlas of mammalian embryogenesis delineates metabolic regulation across three different implantation modes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3407–3407. 26 indexed citations
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Stirparo, Giuliano Giuseppe, Agata Kurowski, Ayaka Yanagida, et al.. (2021). OCT4 induces embryonic pluripotency via STAT3 signaling and metabolic mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(3). 42 indexed citations
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Penfold, Christopher A., et al.. (2021). Building a stem cell-based primate uterus. Communications Biology. 4(1). 749–749. 18 indexed citations
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Kohler, Timo N., et al.. (2021). Agarose microgel culture delineates lumenogenesis in naive and primed human pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Reports. 16(5). 1347–1362. 22 indexed citations
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Boroviak, Thorsten, et al.. (2020). Origin and function of the yolk sac in primate embryogenesis. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3760–3760. 111 indexed citations
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Stirparo, Giuliano Giuseppe, Thorsten Boroviak, Ge Guo, et al.. (2018). Integrated analysis of single-cell embryo data yields a unified transcriptome signature for the human preimplantation epiblast. Development. 145(3). 142 indexed citations
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Boroviak, Thorsten, Giuliano Giuseppe Stirparo, Sabine Dietmann, et al.. (2018). Single cell transcriptome analysis of human, marmoset and mouse embryos reveals common and divergent features of preimplantation development. Development. 145(21). 142 indexed citations
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Boroviak, Thorsten, Remco Loos, Patrick Lombard, et al.. (2015). Lineage-Specific Profiling Delineates the Emergence and Progression of Naive Pluripotency in Mammalian Embryogenesis. Developmental Cell. 35(3). 366–382. 303 indexed citations
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Nichols, Jennifer & Thorsten Boroviak. (2015). Maximizing Clonal Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation by ERK Pathway Inhibition. Methods in molecular biology. 1341. 1–13. 3 indexed citations
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Boroviak, Thorsten, Remco Loos, Paul Bertone, Austin Smith, & Jennifer Nichols. (2014). The ability of inner-cell-mass cells to self-renew as embryonic stem cells is acquired following epiblast specification. Nature Cell Biology. 16(6). 513–525. 332 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tatsumoto, Shoji, Naoki Adati, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, et al.. (2013). Development and Characterization of cDNA Resources for the Common Marmoset: One of the Experimental Primate Models. DNA Research. 20(3). 255–262. 10 indexed citations
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Boroviak, Thorsten & Penny Rashbass. (2010). The Apical Polarity Determinant Crumbs 2 Is a Novel Regulator of ESC-Derived Neural Progenitors. Stem Cells. 29(2). 193–205. 19 indexed citations
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Reitinger, Stephan, Thorsten Boroviak, Gerhard Laschober, et al.. (2007). High-yield recombinant expression of the extremophile enzyme, bee hyaluronidase in Pichia pastoris. Protein Expression and Purification. 57(2). 226–233. 23 indexed citations

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