William Chia

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

William Chia is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, William Chia has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Cell Biology and 26 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in William Chia's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (44 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (22 papers) and Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (15 papers). William Chia is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (44 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (22 papers) and Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (15 papers). William Chia collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United Kingdom and United States. William Chia's co-authors include Xiaohang Yang, Michael Zavortink, Xavier Morin, Richard Daneman, Fengwei Yu, Hongyan Wang, Yu Cai, J. John Holbrook, Tony Atkinson and Anthony R. Clarke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

William Chia

90 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A protein trap strategy to detect GFP-tagged proteins expressed from their endogenous loci in Drosophila

2001 653 citations Xavier Morin, Richard Daneman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
William Chia	4.6k	2.2k	1.2k	640	529	90	5.9k
John Sondek	7.8k 1.7×	2.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	712 1.1×	534 1.0×	114	10.0k
David A. Zacharias	6.2k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	506 0.8×	221 0.4×	33	8.3k
David Drechsel	8.0k 1.7×	3.7k 1.6×	738 0.6×	458 0.7×	258 0.5×	49	10.1k
Nicholas J. Cowan	8.7k 1.9×	5.0k 2.2×	1.4k 1.1×	559 0.9×	659 1.2×	98	12.1k
Kenneth E. Prehoda	3.0k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	582 0.5×	189 0.3×	393 0.7×	60	4.2k
David J. Owen	7.0k 1.5×	5.4k 2.4×	661 0.5×	532 0.8×	267 0.5×	78	9.3k
Susan R. Wente	9.7k 2.1×	1.7k 0.8×	260 0.2×	781 1.2×	187 0.4×	106	11.0k
Takanari Inoue	3.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	313 0.5×	328 0.6×	81	5.5k
Sally A. Lewis	4.2k 0.9×	2.7k 1.2×	512 0.4×	302 0.5×	319 0.6×	43	5.4k
Jeffrey Field	4.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	494 0.4×	392 0.6×	132 0.2×	87	6.7k

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Udolph, Gerald, Murni Tio, Wanru Fang, et al.. (2009). On the roles of Notch, Delta, kuzbanian, and inscuteable during the development of Drosophila embryonic neuroblast lineages. Developmental Biology. 336(2). 156–168. 19 indexed citations

Chia, William, et al.. (2008). Klumpfuss is involved in the determination of sensory organ precursors in Drosophila. Developmental Biology. 324(2). 177–191. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Cheng, Ruifeng Lu, Xuezhi Ouyang, et al.. (2007). DrosophilaOverexpressing Parkin R275W Mutant Exhibits Dopaminergic Neuron Degeneration and Mitochondrial Abnormalities. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(32). 8563–8570. 97 indexed citations

Wasser, Martin, et al.. (2007). EAST and Chromator control the destruction and remodeling of muscles during Drosophila metamorphosis. Developmental Biology. 307(2). 380–393. 25 indexed citations

Wang, Hongyan, Yingshi Ouyang, W. Gregory Somers, William Chia, & Bingwei Lu. (2007). Polo inhibits progenitor self-renewal and regulates Numb asymmetry by phosphorylating Pon. Nature. 449(7158). 96–100. 147 indexed citations

Buescher, Marita, Murni Tio, Guy Tear, et al.. (2006). Functions of the segment polarity genes midline and H15 in Drosophila melanogaster neurogenesis. Developmental Biology. 292(2). 418–429. 17 indexed citations

Babu, Kavita, Sami Bahri, Luke Alphey, & William Chia. (2005). Bifocal and PP1 interaction regulates targeting of the R-cell growth cone in Drosophila. Developmental Biology. 288(2). 372–386. 9 indexed citations

Wei, Shu‐Yi, Luis M. Escudero, Fengwei Yu, et al.. (2005). Echinoid Is a Component of Adherens Junctions That Cooperates with DE-Cadherin to Mediate Cell Adhesion. Developmental Cell. 8(4). 493–504. 146 indexed citations

Wang, Hongyan, et al.. (2005). Ric-8 controls Drosophila neural progenitor asymmetric division by regulating heterotrimeric G proteins. Nature Cell Biology. 7(11). 1091–1098. 106 indexed citations

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Conder, Ryan, Hong Yu, Michael G. Ricos, et al.. (2004). dPak is required for integrity of the leading edge cytoskeleton during Drosophila dorsal closure but does not signal through the JNK cascade. Developmental Biology. 276(2). 378–390. 26 indexed citations

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Buescher, Marita, et al.. (2004). Drosophila T Box Proteins Break the Symmetry of Hedgehog-Dependent Activation of wingless. Current Biology. 14(19). 1694–1702. 36 indexed citations

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Yu, Fengwei, et al.. (2003). Subcellular Localization of LGN During Mitosis: Evidence for Its Cortical Localization in Mitotic Cell Culture Systems and Its Requirement for Normal Cell Cycle Progression. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 14(8). 3144–3155. 51 indexed citations

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Tuxworth, Richard I. & William Chia. (2003). Asymmetric Cell Division. Molecular Cell. 11(2). 288–289. 4 indexed citations

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Udolph, Gerald, et al.. (2002). Inscuteable‐independent apicobasally oriented asymmetric divisions in the Drosophila embryonic CNS. EMBO Reports. 3(7). 660–665. 8 indexed citations

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Morin, Xavier, Richard Daneman, Michael Zavortink, & William Chia. (2001). A protein trap strategy to detect GFP-tagged proteins expressed from their endogenous loci in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(26). 15050–15055. 653 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bahri, Sami, William Chia, & Xiaohang Yang. (2001). Characterization and mutant analysis of the Drosophila sema 5c gene. Developmental Dynamics. 221(3). 322–330. 18 indexed citations

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Murugasu-Oei, B., Rohini Balakrishnan, Xiaohang Yang, William Chia, & Verônica Rodrigues. (1996). Mutations in masquerade, a novel serine-protease-like molecule, affect axonal guidance and taste behavior in Drosophila. Mechanisms of Development. 57(1). 91–101. 15 indexed citations

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Chia, William, et al.. (1992). Apical secretion and association of the Drosophila yellow gene product with developing larval cuticle structures during embryogenesis. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 235(2-3). 397–405. 37 indexed citations

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Martin, Mark O., et al.. (1989). Regulatory elements involved in the tissue-specific expression of the yellow gene of Drosophila. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 218(1). 118–126. 60 indexed citations

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Howes, G., Mark J. O’Connor, & William Chia. (1988). On the specificity and effects on transcription of P-element insertions at theyellowlocus ofDrosophila melanogaster. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(7). 3039–3052. 9 indexed citations

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