Tim Hunt

23.2k citations

159 papers · 18.9k indexed · 16 hit papers · h-index 73

Cell Biology top 0.05%
- Microtubule and mitosis dynamics 53
Aging top 0.5%
Molecular Biology top 0.1%
- Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways 21
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 19
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 13
- RNA Research and Splicing 11
Oncology top 0.5%
- Cancer-related Molecular Pathways 28
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health top 0.5%
- Reproductive Biology and Fertility 11
Genetics
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction 10

Co-authors: Richard J. Jackson Jeremy Minshull Ángel R. Nebreda Julian Gannon Satoru Mochida Eric T. Rosenthal Daniel L. Distel Tom Evans
Cited by: Cell Biology Aging Molecular Biology
Journals: The EMBO Journal (15 papers)Nature (13 papers)Journal of Cell Science (8 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Japan

In The Last Decade

Tim Hunt

157 papers receiving 18.0k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

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.

1996 Nature
1994 Nature
1994 Cell
1993 The EMBO Journal
1991 Nature
1990 Cell
1990 The EMBO Journal
1989 Cell
1983 Cell
1983 Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology
1977 Cell
1976 Nature
1975 Journal of Biological Chemistry
1973 Journal of Molecular Biology
1972 Journal of Molecular Biology
1971 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Hunt

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Citations

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Tim Hunt, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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#	Work
1	Pursuing the impossible: an interview with Tim Hunt BMC Biology ·Tim Hunt	2015	0
2	On the regulation of protein phosphatase 2A and its role in controlling entry into and exit from mitosis Advances in Biological Regulation ·Tim Hunt	2013	60
3	Greatwall Phosphorylates an Inhibitor of Protein Phosphatase 2Α That Is Essential for Mitosis Science ·Satoru Mochida,Sarah Maslen,Mark Skehel,Tim Hunt	2010	340
4	The structure of CDK4/cyclin D3 has implications for models of CDK activation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Tohru Takaki,Aude Echalier,Nick R. Brown,Tim Hunt,Jane Endicott,M.E.M. Noble	2009	93
5	Meiotic Inactivation of Xenopus Myt1 by CDK/XRINGO, but Not CDK/Cyclin, via Site-Specific Phosphorylation Molecular Cell ·Walters Robert,Tim Hunt,Ángel R. Nebreda	2008	25
6	Riding Tandem: Circadian Clocks and the Cell Cycle Cell ·Tim Hunt,Paolo Sassone‐Corsi	2007	175
7	Calcineurin is required to release Xenopus egg extracts from meiotic M phase Nature ·Satoru Mochida,Tim Hunt	2007	118
8	The Spike of S Phase Cyclin Cig2 Expression at the G1–S Border in Fission Yeast Requires Both APC and SCF Ubiquitin Ligases Molecular Cell ·Hiroyuki Yamano,Kenji Kitamura,Kin‐ichiro Kominami,A. Lehmann,Satoshi Katayama,Tim Hunt,Takashi Toda	2000	32
9	Cell multiplication - Overview Current Opinion in Cell Biology ·Tim Hunt,Kim Nasmyth	1997	3
10	Fission yeast Cut2 required for anaphase has two destruction boxes The EMBO Journal ·Hironori Funabiki,Hiroyuki Yamano,Koji Nagao,Hirofumi Tanaka,Hideyo Yasuda,Tim Hunt,Mitsuhiro Yanagida	1997	64
11	Cell cycle regulatory proteins—an overview with relevance to oral cancer Oral Oncology ·N.M. Goodger,Julian Gannon,Tim Hunt,Philip G. Morgan	1997	29
12	Xenopus cyclin A1 can associate with Cdc28 in budding yeast, causing cell‐cycle arrest with an abnormal distribution of nuclear DNA Genes to Cells ·M Funakoshi,Hashmat Sikder,Anders Malmborg,Kenji Irie,Katsunori Sugimoto,Kunihiro Matsumoto,Tim Hunt,Takeharu Nishimoto,Hideki Kobayashi	1997	9
13	The crystal structure of cyclin A Structure ·I Nikolov,M.E.M. Noble,Jane Endicott,Elspeth F. Garman,Soichi Wakatsuki,Edward P. Mitchell,Bjarne Rasmussen,Tim Hunt,Ruud Koolen	1995	162
14	The protein kinase mos activates MAP kinase kinase in vitro and stimulates the MAP kinase pathway in mammalian somatic cells in vivo FEBS Letters ·Ángel R. Nebreda,Caroline S. Hill,Néstor Gómez,Philip Cohen,Tim Hunt	1993	71
15	Antisense ablation of mRNA in frog and rabbit cell-free systems. Jeremy Minshull,Tim Hunt	1992	6
16	Identification of the domains in cyclin A required for binding to, and activation of, p34cdc2 and p32cdk2 protein kinase subunits. Molecular Biology of the Cell ·Hideki Kobayashi,Elspeth Stewart,Randy Y.C. Poon,J P Adamczewski,Julian Gannon,Tim Hunt	1992	161
17	Summary: Put Out More Flags Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology ·Tim Hunt	1991	8
18	Cyclins and Their Partners during Xenopus Oocyte Maturation Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology ·Hideki Kobayashi,Roy M. Golsteyn,Randy Y.C. Poon,Elspeth Stewart,Julian Gannon,Jeremy Minshull,Roger Smith,Tim Hunt	1991	50
19	Maturation promoting factor, cyclin and the control of M-phase Current Opinion in Cell Biology ·Tim Hunt	1989	219
20	WHAT MAKES CYCLIN CYCLE Biological Bulletin ·Richard J. Cornall,Elayne A. Bornslaeger,Tim Hunt	1983	2

About Tim Hunt

Tim Hunt is a scholar working on Aging, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology, having authored 159 papers that have together received 18.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (53 papers), Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (28 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (13 papers), Reproductive Biology and Fertility (11 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers) and Animal Genetics and Reproduction (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cell Biology (7.1k citations), Aging (504 citations) and Molecular Biology (15.0k citations). Tim Hunt has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Richard J. Jackson, Jeremy Minshull, Ángel R. Nebreda, Julian Gannon, Satoru Mochida, Eric T. Rosenthal, Daniel L. Distel, Tom Evans, J P Adamczewski and Philip Cohen. Their work appears in journals such as The EMBO Journal, Nature, Journal of Cell Science, The Journal of Cell Biology and Cell.

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