Wendy K. Johnston

9.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
8 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Wendy K. Johnston is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wendy K. Johnston has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cancer Research and 1 paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Wendy K. Johnston's work include MicroRNA in disease regulation (6 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers). Wendy K. Johnston is often cited by papers focused on MicroRNA in disease regulation (6 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers). Wendy K. Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United States. Wendy K. Johnston's co-authors include David P. Bartel, Kyle Kai‐How Farh, Andrew Grimson, Lee P. Lim, Philip W. Garrett-Engele, Benjamin P. Lewis, Christopher B. Burge, J. Graham Ruby, Michael S. Lawrence and Margaret E. Glasner and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Wendy K. Johnston

8 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

4 papers align trajectories

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.

MicroRNA Targeting Specificity in Mammals: Determinants beyond Seed Pairing

2007 3.0k citations Andrew Grimson, Kyle Kai‐How Farh et al. Molecular Cell profile →
The Widespread Impact of Mammalian MicroRNAs on mRNA Repression and Evolution

2005 1.2k citations Kyle Kai‐How Farh, Andrew Grimson et al. Science profile →
Connecting microRNA Genes to the Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitry of Embryonic Stem Cells

2008 1.1k citations Alexander Marson, Stuart S. Levine et al. Cell profile →
Mammalian microRNAs: experimental evaluation of novel and previously annotated genes

2010 655 citations Hou‐Yu Chiang, Lori W. Schoenfeld et al. Genes & Development profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wendy K. Johnston United States	8	6.1k	4.7k	488	396	322	8	7.1k
Margaret S. Ebert United States	11	4.9k 0.8×	3.6k 0.8×	458 0.9×	298 0.8×	19 0.1×	14	5.8k
I‐hung Shih United States	14	5.3k 0.9×	4.3k 0.9×	292 0.6×	337 0.9×	7 0.0×	18	6.3k
Scott Baskerville United States	14	4.1k 0.7×	3.1k 0.6×	326 0.7×	196 0.5×	7 0.0×	20	4.7k
Ivan Adzhubei United States	12	2.2k 0.4×	450 0.1×	1.3k 2.7×	176 0.4×	31 0.1×	20	3.4k
Sandro J. de Souza Brazil	29	2.2k 0.4×	374 0.1×	358 0.7×	239 0.6×	31 0.1×	118	2.9k
Jens Lykke‐Andersen United States	40	7.1k 1.2×	974 0.2×	405 0.8×	414 1.0×	7 0.0×	61	7.8k
Peter Lorenz Germany	26	1.7k 0.3×	432 0.1×	321 0.7×	274 0.7×	39 0.1×	73	2.6k
Jérôme Cavaillé France	36	5.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.5×	1.7k 3.6×	216 0.5×	6 0.0×	58	5.7k
Petr Svoboda Czechia	36	4.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.2×	794 1.6×	359 0.9×	6 0.0×	89	5.1k
Predrag Slijepčević United Kingdom	27	1.7k 0.3×	341 0.1×	338 0.7×	135 0.3×	36 0.1×	89	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wendy K. Johnston

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Schnall-Levin, Michael, Olivia S. Rissland, Wendy K. Johnston, et al.. (2011). Unusually effective microRNA targeting within repeat-rich coding regions of mammalian mRNAs. Genome Research. 21(9). 1395–1403. 111 indexed citations

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Chiang, Hou‐Yu, Lori W. Schoenfeld, J. Graham Ruby, et al.. (2010). Mammalian microRNAs: experimental evaluation of novel and previously annotated genes. Genes & Development. 24(10). 992–1009. 655 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Marson, Alexander, Stuart S. Levine, Megan F. Cole, et al.. (2008). Connecting microRNA Genes to the Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitry of Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell. 134(3). 521–533. 1104 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Ruby, J. Graham, Alexander Stark, Wendy K. Johnston, et al.. (2007). Evolution, biogenesis, expression, and target predictions of a substantially expanded set of Drosophila microRNAs. Genome Research. 17(12). 1850–1864. 477 indexed citations

5.

Grimson, Andrew, Kyle Kai‐How Farh, Wendy K. Johnston, et al.. (2007). MicroRNA Targeting Specificity in Mammals: Determinants beyond Seed Pairing. Molecular Cell. 27(1). 91–105. 3011 indexed citations breakdown →

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Farh, Kyle Kai‐How, Andrew Grimson, Benjamin P. Lewis, et al.. (2005). The Widespread Impact of Mammalian MicroRNAs on mRNA Repression and Evolution. Science. 310(5755). 1817–1821. 1219 indexed citations breakdown →

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Johnston, Wendy K., Peter J. Unrau, Michael S. Lawrence, Margaret E. Glasner, & David P. Bartel. (2001). RNA-Catalyzed RNA Polymerization: Accurate and General RNA-Templated Primer Extension. Science. 292(5520). 1319–1325. 465 indexed citations

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Bergman, Nicholas H., Wendy K. Johnston, & David P. Bartel. (2000). Kinetic Framework for Ligation by an Efficient RNA Ligase Ribozyme. Biochemistry. 39(11). 3115–3123. 46 indexed citations

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