Wesley Skillern

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 801 citations indexed

About

Wesley Skillern is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wesley Skillern has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 801 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cell Biology and 1 paper in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Wesley Skillern's work include Cellular transport and secretion (4 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (3 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers). Wesley Skillern is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (4 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (3 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers). Wesley Skillern collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Wesley Skillern's co-authors include Tomas Kirchhausen, Srigokul Upadhyayula, Giuseppe Di Caprio, Kangmin He, Raphaël Gaudin, Agnieszka Lewandowska, Max-Hinderk Schuler, Brian Cunniff, Janet M. Shaw and Charles L. Evavold and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Wesley Skillern

9 papers receiving 796 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.

HDAC6 mediates an aggresome-like mechanism for NLRP3 and pyrin inflammasome activation

2020 286 citations Venkat Giri Magupalli, Roberto Negro et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wesley Skillern United States	9	603	282	131	77	72	9	801
Seiji Ura Japan	12	482 0.8×	385 1.4×	65 0.5×	67 0.9×	76 1.1×	17	778
Andrew Rozelle United States	7	630 1.0×	624 2.2×	157 1.2×	136 1.8×	71 1.0×	8	1.0k
Deborah M. Leonard United States	16	365 0.6×	244 0.9×	50 0.4×	68 0.9×	68 0.9×	20	626
James P. Zewe United States	11	465 0.8×	394 1.4×	43 0.3×	76 1.0×	95 1.3×	14	741
Cédric M. Blouin France	16	594 1.0×	442 1.6×	158 1.2×	211 2.7×	91 1.3×	26	1.0k
Jinzhong Zhang United States	13	367 0.6×	353 1.3×	96 0.7×	122 1.6×	219 3.0×	18	752
Lunhua Liu United States	14	319 0.5×	149 0.5×	192 1.5×	41 0.5×	52 0.7×	21	607
Fátima Verı́ssimo Germany	10	571 0.9×	241 0.9×	36 0.3×	34 0.4×	41 0.6×	13	793
Claire N. Medine United Kingdom	15	583 1.0×	225 0.8×	43 0.3×	84 1.1×	39 0.5×	22	823
Bethan Lloyd‐Lewis United Kingdom	17	523 0.9×	114 0.4×	109 0.8×	62 0.8×	72 1.0×	26	953

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wesley Skillern

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Chou, Yi‐ying, Srigokul Upadhyayula, Justin R. Houser, et al.. (2021). Inherited nuclear pore substructures template post-mitotic pore assembly. Developmental Cell. 56(12). 1786–1803.e9. 19 indexed citations

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He, Kangmin, Eli Song, Srigokul Upadhyayula, et al.. (2020). Dynamics of Auxilin 1 and GAK in clathrin-mediated traffic. The Journal of Cell Biology. 219(3). 35 indexed citations

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Magupalli, Venkat Giri, Roberto Negro, Yuzi Tian, et al.. (2020). HDAC6 mediates an aggresome-like mechanism for NLRP3 and pyrin inflammasome activation. Science. 369(6510). 286 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Rong, Mingzhao Zhu, Rajan Chaudhari, et al.. (2019). Creating novel translation inhibitors to target pro-survival proteins in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 33(7). 1663–1674. 13 indexed citations

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Adell, Manuel Alonso Y, Simona M. Migliano, Srigokul Upadhyayula, et al.. (2017). Recruitment dynamics of ESCRT-III and Vps4 to endosomes and implications for reverse membrane budding. eLife. 6. 123 indexed citations

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He, Kangmin, Robert Marsland, Srigokul Upadhyayula, et al.. (2017). Dynamics of phosphoinositide conversion in clathrin-mediated endocytic traffic. Nature. 552(7685). 410–414. 103 indexed citations

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Schuler, Max-Hinderk, Agnieszka Lewandowska, Giuseppe Di Caprio, et al.. (2017). Miro1-mediated mitochondrial positioning shapes intracellular energy gradients required for cell migration. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 28(16). 2159–2169. 124 indexed citations

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Aguet, François, Srigokul Upadhyayula, Raphaël Gaudin, et al.. (2016). Membrane dynamics of dividing cells imaged by lattice light-sheet microscopy. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 27(22). 3418–3435. 89 indexed citations

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Marais, David L. Des, Wesley Skillern, & Thomas Juenger. (2014). Deeply Diverged Alleles in the Arabidopsis AREB1 Transcription Factor Drive Genome-Wide Differences in Transcriptional Response to the Environment. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(4). 956–969. 9 indexed citations

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