Wietske Pieters

545 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 370 citations indexed

About

Wietske Pieters is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Wietske Pieters has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 370 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Oncology and 3 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Wietske Pieters's work include Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (3 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (2 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers). Wietske Pieters is often cited by papers focused on Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (3 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (2 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers). Wietske Pieters collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Pakistan. Wietske Pieters's co-authors include Floris Foijer, Maurits Roorda, Tineke van der Sluis, Bert van der Vegt, Marta Requesens, Marcel A.T.M. van Vugt, Michaël Schubert, Christy Hong, Marco de Bruyn and Diana C.J. Spierings and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Wietske Pieters

9 papers receiving 368 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.

cGAS–STING drives the IL-6-dependent survival of chromosomally instable cancers

2022 226 citations Christy Hong, Michaël Schubert et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wietske Pieters Netherlands	8	190	189	120	65	52	9	370
Heng Yang China	10	178 0.9×	104 0.6×	186 1.6×	49 0.8×	38 0.7×	16	389
Marta Requesens Netherlands	6	145 0.8×	205 1.1×	110 0.9×	45 0.7×	52 1.0×	7	331
Qingzhe Wu China	9	223 1.2×	143 0.8×	162 1.4×	60 0.9×	41 0.8×	12	424
Yanghong Ni China	8	148 0.8×	108 0.6×	140 1.2×	67 1.0×	20 0.4×	9	328
Noemí Aguilera‐Montilla Spain	12	139 0.7×	129 0.7×	56 0.5×	29 0.4×	29 0.6×	20	307
Melba Marie Tejera United States	9	137 0.7×	304 1.6×	163 1.4×	40 0.6×	15 0.3×	9	451
Ruth Asher United Kingdom	9	154 0.8×	207 1.1×	163 1.4×	26 0.4×	15 0.3×	17	414
Aaron C. Trotman-Grant Canada	6	386 2.0×	161 0.9×	106 0.9×	95 1.5×	16 0.3×	12	583
Peiying Ye China	9	180 0.9×	256 1.4×	275 2.3×	71 1.1×	14 0.3×	16	515

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wietske Pieters

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Pieters, Wietske, Alexander Fish, A. Manuel Liaci, et al.. (2023). Unexpected moves: a conformational change in MutSα enables high-affinity DNA mismatch binding. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(3). 1173–1188. 9 indexed citations

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Hong, Christy, Michaël Schubert, Andréa E. Tijhuis, et al.. (2022). cGAS–STING drives the IL-6-dependent survival of chromosomally instable cancers. Nature. 607(7918). 366–373. 226 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kos, Kevin, Muhammad Assad Aslam, Rieneke van de Ven, et al.. (2022). Tumor-educated Tregs drive organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer by impairing NK cells in the lymph node niche. Cell Reports. 38(9). 110447–110447. 39 indexed citations

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Pieters, Wietske, Floor Hugenholtz, Kevin Kos, et al.. (2022). Pro-mutagenic effects of the gut microbiota in a Lynch syndrome mouse model. Gut Microbes. 14(1). 2035660–2035660. 7 indexed citations

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Pieters, Wietske, Mir Farshid Alemdehy, Muhammad Assad Aslam, et al.. (2021). The Widely Used Antihelmintic Drug Albendazole is a Potent Inducer of Loss of Heterozygosity. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 12. 596535–596535. 8 indexed citations

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Pieters, Wietske, et al.. (2020). Extensive trimming of short single-stranded DNA oligonucleotides during replication-coupled gene editing in mammalian cells. PLoS Genetics. 16(10). e1009041–e1009041. 2 indexed citations

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Dekker, Marleen, et al.. (2019). Three-step site-directed mutagenesis screen identifies pathogenic MLH1 variants associated with Lynch syndrome. Journal of Medical Genetics. 57(5). 308–315. 7 indexed citations

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Benedict, Bente, Marleen Dekker, Aslι Küçükosmanoğlu, et al.. (2018). Loss of p53 suppresses replication-stress-induced DNA breakage in G1/S checkpoint deficient cells. eLife. 7. 39 indexed citations

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Beijnum, Judy R. van, Wietske Pieters, Patrycja Nowak‐Sliwinska, & Arjan W. Griffioen. (2016). Insulin‐like growth factor axis targeting in cancer and tumour angiogenesis – the missing link. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 92(3). 1755–1768. 33 indexed citations

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