William B. Hamilton

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 770 citations indexed

About

William B. Hamilton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William B. Hamilton has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 770 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William B. Hamilton's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (6 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (4 papers). William B. Hamilton is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (6 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (4 papers). William B. Hamilton collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and United Kingdom. William B. Hamilton's co-authors include Joshua M. Brickman, Takeo Narita, Shankha Satpathy, Chunaram Choudhary, Wei Wang, Kenneth D. Bromberg, Brian T. Weinert, Wenshe Ray Liu, Beth E. Zucconi and Edward A. Kesicki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

William B. Hamilton

16 papers receiving 756 citations

Hit Papers

Nuclear export of circular RNA 2024 2026 2025 2024 20 40 60
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.

  1. Nuclear export of circular RNA
    2024 60 citations Andrew G. Bert, B. Kate Dredge et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William B. Hamilton Denmark 8 684 82 81 42 35 20 770
Georgia Xouri Germany 10 401 0.6× 53 0.6× 149 1.8× 31 0.7× 26 0.7× 10 539
Óscar Meca‐Cortés Spain 9 315 0.5× 110 1.3× 99 1.2× 36 0.9× 41 1.2× 12 416
Diane L. Trinh Canada 9 367 0.5× 157 1.9× 132 1.6× 18 0.4× 62 1.8× 15 508
Takita Felder Sumter United States 7 308 0.5× 169 2.1× 63 0.8× 18 0.4× 47 1.3× 11 441
David Sedwick United States 6 446 0.7× 63 0.8× 137 1.7× 61 1.5× 48 1.4× 7 514
Colleen Crane Canada 4 212 0.3× 97 1.2× 116 1.4× 47 1.1× 44 1.3× 5 397
Jason M. Beckta United States 10 366 0.5× 76 0.9× 195 2.4× 18 0.4× 32 0.9× 27 544
Takeshi Terui Japan 10 394 0.6× 48 0.6× 98 1.2× 38 0.9× 36 1.0× 18 517
Pravina Fernandez United States 4 514 0.8× 43 0.5× 79 1.0× 30 0.7× 52 1.5× 11 572
Uta-Maria Bauer Germany 6 945 1.4× 62 0.8× 218 2.7× 69 1.6× 46 1.3× 6 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by William B. Hamilton

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Fields of papers citing papers by William B. Hamilton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by William B. Hamilton. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by William B. Hamilton. The network helps show where William B. Hamilton may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of William B. Hamilton

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leijnse, Natascha, et al.. (2025). Differential Elasticity Affects Lineage Segregation of Embryonic Stem Cells. Physical Review Letters. 134(16). 168401–168401. 2 indexed citations
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Bert, Andrew G., B. Kate Dredge, Vincent J. Murphy, et al.. (2024). Nuclear export of circular RNA. Nature. 627(8002). 212–220. 60 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hamilton, William B., et al.. (2023). A bipartite function of ESRRB can integrate signaling over time to balance self-renewal and differentiation. Cell Systems. 14(9). 788–805.e8. 5 indexed citations
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Narita, Takeo, Shinsuke Ito, Yoshiki Higashijima, et al.. (2021). Enhancers are activated by p300/CBP activity-dependent PIC assembly, RNAPII recruitment, and pause release. Molecular Cell. 81(10). 2166–2182.e6. 136 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B., Yaron Mosesson, Kristina B. Emdal, et al.. (2019). Dynamic lineage priming is driven via direct enhancer regulation by ERK. Nature. 575(7782). 355–360. 49 indexed citations
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Mondal, Sudip, et al.. (2019). An automated microfluidic device for time-lapse imaging of mouse embryonic stem cells. Biomicrofluidics. 13(5). 54102–54102. 1 indexed citations
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Weinert, Brian T., Takeo Narita, Shankha Satpathy, et al.. (2018). Time-Resolved Analysis Reveals Rapid Dynamics and Broad Scope of the CBP/p300 Acetylome. Cell. 174(1). 231–244.e12. 312 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B., et al.. (2017). Insulin fine-tunes self-renewal pathways governing naive pluripotency and extra-embryonic endoderm. Nature Cell Biology. 19(10). 1164–1177. 62 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B. & Joshua M. Brickman. (2014). Erk Signaling Suppresses Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal to Specify Endoderm. Cell Reports. 9(6). 2056–2070. 88 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B., Keisuke Kaji, & Tilo Kunath. (2013). ERK2 Suppresses Self-Renewal Capacity of Embryonic Stem Cells, but Is Not Required for Multi-Lineage Commitment. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e60907–e60907. 27 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B.. (1996). Place Names of Atlantic Canada. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B.. (1977). The MacMillan Book of Canadian Place Names. 2 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B.. (1972). Local history in Atlantic Canada. 1 indexed citations
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Robinson, Kenneth, et al.. (1965). The Dilemmas of Trusteeship. Aspects of British Colonial Policy Between the Wars. International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis. 21(1). 121–121. 3 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B., et al.. (1965). The Transfer of Institutions. The Western Political Quarterly. 18(2). 401–401. 3 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B.. (1965). The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales 1770–1812. The American Historical Review. 71(1). 181–182.
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Hamilton, William B., et al.. (1957). The First Copyright Statute: An Essay on An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, 1710. The William and Mary Quarterly. 14(1). 118–118. 9 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B. & Wallace Notestein. (1955). The English People on the Eve of Colonization, 1603-1630. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 41(4). 685–685. 3 indexed citations
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Hamilton, William B., et al.. (1954). Anglo-American Law on the Frontier: Thomas Rodney and His Territorial Cases. The William and Mary Quarterly. 11(2). 320–320. 3 indexed citations
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Craig, Hardin & William B. Hamilton. (1952). Fifty Years of the South Atlantic Quarterly. The American Historical Review. 58(1). 76–76.

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