William J. Faller

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

William J. Faller is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Faller has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Oncology and 5 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in William J. Faller's work include RNA modifications and cancer (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). William J. Faller is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). William J. Faller collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. William J. Faller's co-authors include William M. Gallagher, Manel Esteller, George A. Calin, Santiago Ropero, Simona Rossi, David Blanco, Carlo M. Croce, Amaia Lujambio, Luis M. Montuenga and Montse Sánchez‐Céspedes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William J. Faller

29 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

A microRNA DNA methylation signature for human cancer metastasis

2008 843 citations William J. Faller, William M. Gallagher et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William J. Faller Netherlands	15	1.1k	728	205	167	86	30	1.4k
Karen D. Cowden Dahl United States	15	678 0.6×	432 0.6×	277 1.4×	120 0.7×	141 1.6×	26	1.1k
Matteo Morello Italy	12	1.1k 1.0×	738 1.0×	134 0.7×	248 1.5×	125 1.5×	26	1.4k
Stephen M. Lewis Canada	21	1.5k 1.4×	451 0.6×	109 0.5×	196 1.2×	163 1.9×	44	1.7k
Karen M. Watters Ireland	18	695 0.6×	443 0.6×	189 0.9×	54 0.3×	124 1.4×	22	1.0k
Koos Rooijers Netherlands	14	1.6k 1.4×	635 0.9×	132 0.6×	56 0.3×	63 0.7×	16	1.8k
Shi-Juan Mai China	16	690 0.6×	306 0.4×	242 1.2×	127 0.8×	90 1.0×	19	981
Olga Anczuków United States	20	2.1k 1.9×	521 0.7×	165 0.8×	60 0.4×	128 1.5×	34	2.3k
Alfiya Safina United States	21	1.2k 1.1×	277 0.4×	331 1.6×	104 0.6×	134 1.6×	34	1.5k
Enrico Cappelli Italy	19	1.2k 1.1×	333 0.5×	316 1.5×	81 0.5×	146 1.7×	69	1.6k
Nathalie Meyer‐Schaller Switzerland	17	1.2k 1.0×	399 0.5×	494 2.4×	194 1.2×	105 1.2×	21	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William J. Faller

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Alkan, Ferhat, Stefan Preković, Katarzyna Jastrzebski, et al.. (2025). NAC regulates metabolism and cell fate in intestinal stem cells. Science Advances. 11(2). eadn9750–eadn9750. 2 indexed citations

Alkan, Ferhat, et al.. (2025). High-throughput approaches for the identification of ribosome heterogeneity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1921). 20230381–20230381. 2 indexed citations

Faller, William J., et al.. (2024). Ribosome specialization in cancer: a spotlight on ribosomal proteins. NAR Cancer. 6(3). zcae029–zcae029. 7 indexed citations

Fédry, Juliette, Joana Silva, Mihajlo Vanević, et al.. (2024). Visualization of translation reorganization upon persistent ribosome collision stress in mammalian cells. Molecular Cell. 84(6). 1078–1089.e4. 14 indexed citations

Kohli, Jaskaren, Ge Chen, Eleni Fitsiou, et al.. (2022). Targeting anti-apoptotic pathways eliminates senescent melanocytes and leads to nevi regression. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7923–7923. 25 indexed citations

Silva, Joana, Ning Qing Liu, Judith H.I. Haarhuis, et al.. (2022). The histone methyltransferase SETD2 negatively regulates cell size. Journal of Cell Science. 135(19). 2 indexed citations

Silva, Joana, Ferhat Alkan, Goda Snieckute, et al.. (2022). Ribosome impairment regulates intestinal stem cell identity via ZAKɑ activation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4492–4492. 14 indexed citations

Alkan, Ferhat, Shinyeong Ju, Abhijeet Pataskar, et al.. (2022). Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation generates downstream uncapped RNA isoforms with translation potential. Molecular Cell. 82(20). 3840–3855.e8. 15 indexed citations

Faller, William J., et al.. (2022). Proteome diversification by mRNA translation in cancer. Molecular Cell. 83(3). 469–480. 7 indexed citations

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Alkan, Ferhat, et al.. (2022). Identifying ribosome heterogeneity using ribosome profiling. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(16). e95–e95. 16 indexed citations

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Alkan, Ferhat, et al.. (2021). Ribo-ODDR : oligo design pipeline for experiment-specific rRNA depletion in Ribo-seq. Bioinformatics. 37(17). 2659–2667. 7 indexed citations

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Roest, Manon van, Jacqueline L.M. Vermeulen, Sander Meisner, et al.. (2021). Early Life Antibiotics Influence In Vivo and In Vitro Mouse Intestinal Epithelium Maturation and Functioning. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 12(3). 943–981. 25 indexed citations

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Champagne, Julien, Abhijeet Pataskar, Remco Nagel, et al.. (2021). Oncogene-dependent sloppiness in mRNA translation. Molecular Cell. 81(22). 4709–4721.e9. 30 indexed citations

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Huels, David J., Lotte Bruens, Michael C. Hodder, et al.. (2018). Wnt ligands influence tumour initiation by controlling the number of intestinal stem cells. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1132–1132. 64 indexed citations

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Ma, Yafeng, William J. Faller, Owen J. Sansom, et al.. (2015). Fascin expression is increased in metastatic lesions but does not correlate with progression nor outcome in melanoma. Melanoma Research. 25(2). 169–172. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Ang, Jennifer P. Morton, Yafeng Ma, et al.. (2014). Fascin Is Regulated by Slug, Promotes Progression of Pancreatic Cancer in Mice, and Is Associated With Patient Outcomes. Gastroenterology. 146(5). 1386–1396.e17. 89 indexed citations

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Gremel, Gabriela, Máirín Rafferty, Fiona Lanigan, et al.. (2011). Functional and prognostic relevance of the homeobox protein MSX2 in malignant melanoma. British Journal of Cancer. 105(4). 565–574. 12 indexed citations

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Faller, William J., Máirín Rafferty, Shauna Hegarty, et al.. (2010). Metallothionein 1E is methylated in malignant melanoma and increases sensitivity to cisplatin-induced apoptosis. Melanoma Research. 20(5). 392–400. 47 indexed citations

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Rafferty, Máirín, Shauna Hegarty, Patrick C. O’Leary, et al.. (2010). Topoisomerase I amplification in melanoma is associated with more advanced tumours and poor prognosis. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. 23(4). 542–553. 16 indexed citations

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Rafferty, Máirín, et al.. (2007). Real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis of melanoma progression-associated genes.. PubMed. 27(3A). 1301–7. 1 indexed citations

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