Tim Stearns

15.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

Tim Stearns is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Stearns has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Molecular Biology, 97 papers in Cell Biology and 38 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Tim Stearns's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (88 papers), Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (35 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (30 papers). Tim Stearns is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (88 papers), Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (35 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (30 papers). Tim Stearns collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Tim Stearns's co-authors include David Botstein, Marc W. Kirschner, Jens Lüders, Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou, Erich A. Nigg, M. Andrew Hoyt, Louise Evans, Richard Kahn, Connie Holm and Peter K. Jackson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tim Stearns

123 papers receiving 11.7k citations

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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.

γ-Tubulin is a highly conserved component of the centrosome

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Stearns United States	59	9.6k	7.7k	2.6k	1.3k	992	124	11.9k
Pierre Gönczy Switzerland	60	8.1k 0.8×	6.9k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	522 0.5×	141	11.0k
Alexey Khodjakov United States	59	9.1k 0.9×	9.3k 1.2×	1.4k 0.5×	2.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.2×	107	11.3k
Stephen Doxsey United States	50	6.8k 0.7×	5.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	605 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	94	8.9k
Katsuhiko Shirahige Japan	70	14.4k 1.5×	2.8k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	2.5k 2.0×	1.1k 1.1×	219	15.7k
Angelika Amon United States	73	15.2k 1.6×	10.2k 1.3×	2.0k 0.7×	4.1k 3.2×	1.8k 1.9×	166	18.6k
Mark Winey United States	56	8.3k 0.9×	6.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	689 0.7×	151	9.5k
Arshad Desai United States	70	13.7k 1.4×	11.8k 1.5×	1.1k 0.4×	3.9k 3.1×	1.0k 1.0×	160	16.9k
Karen Oegema United States	60	8.2k 0.9×	7.3k 0.9×	815 0.3×	1.9k 1.5×	552 0.6×	127	10.5k
Mark Peifer United States	67	12.2k 1.3×	5.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	800 0.8×	168	15.0k
Stephen P. Bell United States	56	14.3k 1.5×	2.2k 0.3×	2.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	110	16.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Stearns

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Wong, Cassandra J., Angela I. M. Barth, Tim Stearns, et al.. (2023). Calcineurin associates with centrosomes and regulates cilia length maintenance. Journal of Cell Science. 136(8). 6 indexed citations

Wang, Jennifer T., et al.. (2023). Spindle assembly checkpoint-dependent mitotic delay is required for cell division in absence of centrosomes. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations

Geisinger, Jonathan M. & Tim Stearns. (2020). CRISPR/Cas9 treatment causes extended TP53-dependent cell cycle arrest in human cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(16). 9067–9081. 29 indexed citations

Sala, Roberta, et al.. (2020). Growth disadvantage associated with centrosome amplification drives population-level centriole number homeostasis. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 31(24). 2646–2656. 10 indexed citations

Weiss, Lucien E., et al.. (2019). Motional dynamics of single Patched1 molecules in cilia are controlled by Hedgehog and cholesterol. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(12). 5550–5557. 42 indexed citations

Wills, Airon A., et al.. (2015). Zeta-Tubulin Is a Member of a Conserved Tubulin Module and Is a Component of the Centriolar Basal Foot in Multiciliated Cells. Current Biology. 25(16). 2177–2183. 43 indexed citations

Lee, Yin Loon, Colin J. Comerci, Luís F. Menezes, et al.. (2014). Cby1 promotes Ahi1 recruitment to a ring-shaped domain at the centriole–cilium interface and facilitates proper cilium formation and function. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(19). 2919–2933. 49 indexed citations

Tan, Fraser Elisabeth, Eszter K. Vladar, Lina Ma, et al.. (2013). Myb promotes centriole amplification and later steps of the multiciliogenesis program. Development. 140(20). 4277–4286. 97 indexed citations

Temiyasathit, Sara, Philipp Leucht, Charles T. Anderson, et al.. (2012). Mechanosensing by the Primary Cilium: Deletion of Kif3A Reduces Bone Formation Due to Loading. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e33368–e33368. 83 indexed citations

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Lee, Yin Loon, et al.. (2012). STED Microscopy with Optimized Labeling Density Reveals 9-Fold Arrangement of a Centriole Protein. Biophysical Journal. 102(12). 2926–2935. 88 indexed citations

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Schaub, Johanna & Tim Stearns. (2012). The Rilp-like proteins Rilpl1 and Rilpl2 regulate ciliary membrane content. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 24(4). 453–464. 41 indexed citations

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Lee, Yin Loon, et al.. (2011). STED super-resolution microscopy in Drosophila tissue and in mammalian cells. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7910. 79101N–79101N. 8 indexed citations

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Jaspersen, Sue L. & Tim Stearns. (2008). Exploring the pole: an EMBO conference on centrosomes and spindle pole bodies. Nature Cell Biology. 10(12). 1375–1378. 5 indexed citations

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Malone, Amanda, Charles T. Anderson, Padmaja Tummala, et al.. (2007). Primary cilia mediate mechanosensing in bone cells by a calcium-independent mechanism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(33). 13325–13330. 340 indexed citations

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Lüders, Jens & Tim Stearns. (2007). Microtubule-organizing centres: a re-evaluation. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 8(2). 161–167. 315 indexed citations

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Tsou, Meng-Fu Bryan & Tim Stearns. (2006). Mechanism limiting centrosome duplication to once per cell cycle. Nature. 442(7105). 947–951. 345 indexed citations

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Manandhar, Gaurishankar, Peter Šutovský, Harish Chandra Joshi, Tim Stearns, & Gerald Schatten. (1998). Centrosome Reduction during Mouse Spermiogenesis. Developmental Biology. 203(2). 424–434. 111 indexed citations

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Botstein, David, David C. Amberg, Jon Mulholland, et al.. (1997). 1 The Yeast Cytoskeleton. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 21. 1–90. 9 indexed citations

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Stearns, Tim & Mark Winey. (1997). The Cell Center at 100. Cell. 91(3). 303–309. 60 indexed citations

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Stearns, Tim. (1995). Green Flourescent Protein: The green revolution. Current Biology. 5(3). 262–264. 100 indexed citations

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