William R. Taylor

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

William R. Taylor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, William R. Taylor has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cell Biology and 11 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in William R. Taylor's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (14 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers) and Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (7 papers). William R. Taylor is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (14 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers) and Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (7 papers). William R. Taylor collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Tanzania. William R. Taylor's co-authors include William J. Drury, Raphaël Margueron, Danny Reinberg, Philipp Voigt, Stephen R. Martin, S.J. Gamblin, Vincenzo Pirrotta, N. Justin, Jinsook Son and Miriam L. Sharpe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

William R. Taylor

62 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Role of the polycomb protein EED in the propagation of repressive histone marks

2009 890 citations Raphaël Margueron, N. Justin et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William R. Taylor United States	24	2.0k	347	316	247	246	66	2.7k
Petra Ross‐Macdonald United States	22	1.9k 1.0×	313 0.9×	175 0.6×	352 1.4×	318 1.3×	39	2.5k
Jayanta K. Pal India	25	1.4k 0.7×	351 1.0×	254 0.8×	206 0.8×	137 0.6×	95	2.0k
Ujwal Shinde United States	34	2.0k 1.0×	362 1.0×	209 0.7×	546 2.2×	133 0.5×	80	3.0k
Anita Saraf United States	26	2.7k 1.4×	583 1.7×	231 0.7×	443 1.8×	214 0.9×	41	3.4k
J.E. Dixon United States	18	2.6k 1.3×	577 1.7×	584 1.8×	277 1.1×	264 1.1×	20	3.3k
William M. Old United States	30	2.9k 1.4×	517 1.5×	175 0.6×	306 1.2×	126 0.5×	56	3.8k
Tapasree Goswami United States	13	1.6k 0.8×	326 0.9×	222 0.7×	359 1.5×	87 0.4×	15	2.8k
Lara G. Hays United States	13	2.3k 1.2×	282 0.8×	123 0.4×	417 1.7×	301 1.2×	14	3.2k
Dário Eluan Kalume Brazil	27	2.1k 1.0×	188 0.5×	331 1.0×	140 0.6×	239 1.0×	48	3.0k
Kevin Blackburn United States	27	2.0k 1.0×	262 0.8×	186 0.6×	412 1.7×	620 2.5×	50	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William R. Taylor

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tillekeratne, L. M. Viranga, et al.. (2025). Regulation of ferroptosis by transcription factor E2F1. Biochimie. 236. 127–137. 2 indexed citations

Witzig, Thomas E., William R. Taylor, Douglas W. Mahoney, et al.. (2024). Blood Plasma Methylated DNA Markers in the Detection of Lymphoma: Discovery, Validation, and Clinical Pilot. American Journal of Hematology. 100(2). 218–228. 3 indexed citations

Tillekeratne, L. M. Viranga, et al.. (2024). Mutant p53 reactivators protect breast cancer cells from ferroptosis. Cell Biochemistry and Function. 42(4). e4036–e4036. 2 indexed citations

Taylor, William R., et al.. (2022). C9ORF78 partially localizes to centromeres and plays a role in chromosome segregation. Experimental Cell Research. 413(2). 113063–113063. 2 indexed citations

Perera, L., et al.. (2022). Tunable Cysteine-Targeting Electrophilic Heteroaromatic Warheads Induce Ferroptosis. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65(17). 11788–11817. 29 indexed citations

Fu, Yu, et al.. (2022). First-in-Class Dual Mechanism Ferroptosis-HDAC Inhibitor Hybrids. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65(21). 14764–14791. 14 indexed citations

So, Kevin Kam Fung, et al.. (2018). Small-molecule anticancer agents kill cancer cells by harnessing reactive oxygen species in an iron-dependent manner. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 16(9). 1465–1479. 11 indexed citations

Samarasekera, Radhika, Shiroma M. Handunnetti, James T. Slama, et al.. (2018). A Bioactive Resveratrol Trimer from the Stem Bark of the Sri Lankan Endemic Plant Vateria copallifera. Journal of Natural Products. 81(8). 1693–1700. 7 indexed citations

Carré, Aurore, Athanasia Stoupa, Dulanjalee Kariyawasam, et al.. (2016). Mutations in BOREALIN cause thyroid dysgenesis. Human Molecular Genetics. 26(3). ddw419–ddw419. 36 indexed citations

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Margueron, Raphaël, N. Justin, Katsuhito Ohno, et al.. (2009). Role of the polycomb protein EED in the propagation of repressive histone marks. Nature. 461(7265). 762–767. 890 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bekier, Michael E., et al.. (2009). Length of mitotic arrest induced by microtubule-stabilizing drugs determines cell death after mitotic exit. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 8(6). 1646–1654. 68 indexed citations

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Mahabusarakam, Wilawan, et al.. (2005). Xanthone derivatives from Cratoxylum cochinchinense roots. Phytochemistry. 67(5). 470–474. 61 indexed citations

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Taylor, William R.. (2004). FACS-Based Detection of Phosphorylated Histone H3 for the Quantitation of Mitotic Cells. Humana Press eBooks. 281. 293–300. 17 indexed citations

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Trucco, Carlotta, Delmiro Fernández-Reyes, Steven Howell, et al.. (2001). The merozoite surface protein 6 gene codes for a 36 kDa protein associated with the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 complex. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 112(1). 91–101. 105 indexed citations

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Holder, Anthony A., et al.. (1996). A Novel 11-Residue Coiled-Coil Motif Predicts a Histidine Zipper. Protein and Peptide Letters. 3(2). 139–145. 4 indexed citations

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Kelly, C., Philip Evans, Jianfeng Ma, et al.. (1990). Sequencing and characterization of the 185 kDa cell surface antigen of Streptococcus mutans. Archives of Oral Biology. 35. S33–S38. 24 indexed citations

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Taylor, William R., et al.. (1989). The predicted secondary structures of the nucleotide‐binding sites of six cation‐transporting ATPases lead to a probable tertiary fold. European Journal of Biochemistry. 179(1). 241–248. 135 indexed citations

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McLauchlan, John, et al.. (1986). Structural features of ribonucleotide reductase. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 1(4). 376–384. 66 indexed citations

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Taylor, William R.. (1979). Using Systems Theory to Organize Confusion. Family Process. 18(4). 479–488. 2 indexed citations

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Taylor, William R.. (1977). Observations on specimen fixation. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 90(4). 753–763. 5 indexed citations

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