Walter Rocha

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Walter Rocha is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Rocha has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Walter Rocha's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers), Estrogen and related hormone effects (3 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers). Walter Rocha is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers), Estrogen and related hormone effects (3 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers). Walter Rocha collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Brazil and France. Walter Rocha's co-authors include Alain Verreault, Geneviève Almouzni, Anja Groth, John H. White, Rocío Sánchez, Sylvie Mader, Robert P. Fuchs, Stéphanie Gon, Stéphane Coulon and Rita L. Napolitano and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Walter Rocha

11 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Chromatin Challenges during DNA Replication and Repair

2007 583 citations Anja Groth, Walter Rocha et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter Rocha Canada	8	878	239	127	96	65	11	1.0k
Brianna J. Klein United States	23	1.5k 1.7×	207 0.9×	122 1.0×	79 0.8×	80 1.2×	36	1.6k
Masayoshi Iizuka Japan	15	1.0k 1.2×	175 0.7×	140 1.1×	183 1.9×	90 1.4×	36	1.3k
Nicholas T. Crump United Kingdom	11	922 1.1×	125 0.5×	111 0.9×	66 0.7×	63 1.0×	15	1.1k
Guido van Mierlo Netherlands	14	950 1.1×	184 0.8×	78 0.6×	61 0.6×	82 1.3×	28	1.1k
Ragini Bhargava United States	15	765 0.9×	128 0.5×	195 1.5×	89 0.9×	92 1.4×	22	896
Stephen E. Rundlett United States	12	1.3k 1.5×	207 0.9×	139 1.1×	201 2.1×	49 0.8×	13	1.6k
Miriam Miranda United States	19	928 1.1×	306 1.3×	83 0.7×	37 0.4×	76 1.2×	22	1.3k
Atlanta G. Cook United Kingdom	18	1.3k 1.5×	117 0.5×	137 1.1×	116 1.2×	74 1.1×	29	1.5k
Rong Wu United States	8	944 1.1×	129 0.5×	273 2.1×	138 1.4×	74 1.1×	11	1.1k
Tina Thorslund Denmark	10	1.1k 1.3×	223 0.9×	296 2.3×	70 0.7×	151 2.3×	11	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Walter Rocha

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walter Rocha

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Rocha

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Rocha, Walter, Roberto Schreiber, Lígia M. Antunes‐Correa, et al.. (2024). Impaired Cardiac Sympathetic Activity Is Associated With Myocardial Remodeling and Established Biomarkers of Heart Failure. Journal of the American Heart Association. 13(14). e035264–e035264. 4 indexed citations

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Rocha, Walter, Audes D. M. Feitosa, Pedro Paulo Martins de Oliveira, et al.. (2022). Impact of Hypertension History and Blood Pressure at Presentation on Cardiac Remodeling and Mortality in Aortic Dissection. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 8. 803283–803283. 6 indexed citations

3.

Rocha, Walter, Audes D. M. Feitosa, Pedro Paulo Martins de Oliveira, et al.. (2021). Left Ventricular Concentric Geometric Patterns Are Associated With Worse Prognosis Among Patients With Type‐A Aortic Dissection. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(5). e018273–e018273. 4 indexed citations

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Gon, Stéphanie, Rita L. Napolitano, Walter Rocha, Stéphane Coulon, & Robert P. Fuchs. (2011). Increase in dNTP pool size during the DNA damage response plays a key role in spontaneous and induced-mutagenesis in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(48). 19311–19316. 87 indexed citations

5.

Rocha, Walter & Alain Verreault. (2008). Clothing up DNA for all seasons: Histone chaperones and nucleosome assembly pathways. FEBS Letters. 582(14). 1938–1949. 37 indexed citations

6.

Tang, Yong, Marc A. Holbert, Hugo Würtele, et al.. (2008). Fungal Rtt109 histone acetyltransferase is an unexpected structural homolog of metazoan p300/CBP. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 15(7). 738–745. 103 indexed citations

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Nguyen, David H., Virginie Dupont, Jean Deschênes, et al.. (2007). Rational design of an estrogen receptor mutant with altered DNA-binding specificity. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(10). 3465–3477. 8 indexed citations

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Groth, Anja, Walter Rocha, Alain Verreault, & Geneviève Almouzni. (2007). Chromatin Challenges during DNA Replication and Repair. Cell. 128(4). 721–733. 583 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dayan, Guila, Mathieu Lupien, Anick Auger, et al.. (2006). Tamoxifen and Raloxifene Differ in Their Functional Interactions with Aspartate 351 of Estrogen Receptor α. Molecular Pharmacology. 70(2). 579–588. 29 indexed citations

10.

Rocha, Walter, Rocío Sánchez, Julie Deschênes, et al.. (2005). Opposite Effects of Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors on Glucocorticoid and Estrogen Signaling in Human Endometrial Ishikawa Cells. Molecular Pharmacology. 68(6). 1852–1862. 15 indexed citations

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Sánchez, Rocío, et al.. (2002). Diversity in the mechanisms of gene regulation by estrogen receptors. BioEssays. 24(3). 244–254. 167 indexed citations

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