William Stephenson

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

William Stephenson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Stephenson has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in William Stephenson's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers). William Stephenson is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers). William Stephenson collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. William Stephenson's co-authors include Rahul Satija, Harold Swerdlow, Peter Smibert, Marlon Stoeckius, Pratip K. Chattopadhyay, Christoph Hafemeister, Brian Houck‐Loomis, H. T. Clifford, J. W. Carmichael and Spyros Darmanis and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William Stephenson

36 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Simultaneous epitope and transcriptome measurement in single cells

2017 1.8k citations Marlon Stoeckius, Christoph Hafemeister et al. Nature Methods profile →
Single-cell proteomics enabled by next-generation sequencing or mass spectrometry

2023 204 citations Hayley M. Bennett, William Stephenson et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Stephenson United States	17	2.0k	766	399	348	290	37	3.3k
Natasha S. Barteneva United States	29	1.7k 0.8×	941 1.2×	622 1.6×	181 0.5×	168 0.6×	75	3.4k
Ying Tang China	16	2.1k 1.1×	941 1.2×	516 1.3×	472 1.4×	163 0.6×	54	3.5k
Asim Siddiqui Canada	16	3.0k 1.5×	546 0.7×	815 2.0×	328 0.9×	256 0.9×	30	4.3k
David R. Parks United States	34	2.3k 1.2×	2.2k 2.8×	188 0.5×	566 1.6×	402 1.4×	57	5.3k
Kei Iida Japan	43	3.7k 1.9×	1.7k 2.2×	306 0.8×	383 1.1×	163 0.6×	122	7.6k
Lolita Penland United States	13	2.0k 1.0×	630 0.8×	322 0.8×	301 0.9×	88 0.3×	15	3.3k
Richard H. Gomer United States	45	2.8k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	187 0.5×	457 1.3×	163 0.6×	201	7.3k
Ferdinand von Eggeling Germany	36	1.9k 1.0×	346 0.5×	409 1.0×	571 1.6×	249 0.9×	155	3.7k
Rui Chen United States	47	4.6k 2.4×	639 0.8×	531 1.3×	220 0.6×	96 0.3×	216	7.1k
J. S. Ploem Netherlands	28	1.0k 0.5×	420 0.5×	255 0.6×	208 0.6×	221 0.8×	95	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by William Stephenson

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Stephenson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Stephenson

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

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Goyon, Alexandre, et al.. (2025). Direct RNA modification mapping: Technological advances, gaps, and emerging trends. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 193. 118465–118465. 1 indexed citations

Kabza, Michał, et al.. (2024). Accurate long-read transcript discovery and quantification at single-cell, pseudo-bulk and bulk resolution with Isosceles. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7316–7316. 7 indexed citations

Byrne, Ashley, Daniel Le, Hari Menon, et al.. (2024). Single-cell long-read targeted sequencing reveals transcriptional variation in ovarian cancer. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6916–6916. 10 indexed citations

Bennett, Hayley M., William Stephenson, Christopher M. Rose, & Spyros Darmanis. (2023). Single-cell proteomics enabled by next-generation sequencing or mass spectrometry. Nature Methods. 20(3). 363–374. 204 indexed citations breakdown →

Petrescu, Joana, Miguel Cuevas, William Stephenson, et al.. (2022). An open source toolkit for repurposing Illumina sequencing systems as versatile fluidics and imaging platforms. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 5081–5081. 6 indexed citations

Stephenson, William & Tamara Broderick. (2020). Approximate Cross-Validation in High Dimensions with Guarantees. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 2424–2434. 3 indexed citations

Stephenson, William, Laura T. Donlin, Andrew Butler, et al.. (2018). Single-cell RNA-seq of rheumatoid arthritis synovial tissue using low-cost microfluidic instrumentation. Nature Communications. 9(1). 791–791. 240 indexed citations

Stephenson, William. (2018). High-throughput magnetic particle washing in nanoliter droplets using serial injection and splitting. Micro and Nano Systems Letters. 6(1). 10 indexed citations

Stoeckius, Marlon, Christoph Hafemeister, William Stephenson, et al.. (2017). Simultaneous epitope and transcriptome measurement in single cells. Nature Methods. 14(9). 865–868. 1786 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hughes, Michael C., William Stephenson, & Erik B. Sudderth. (2015). Scalable adaptation of state complexity for nonparametric hidden Markov models. Neural Information Processing Systems. 28. 1198–1206. 11 indexed citations

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Stephenson, William, et al.. (2013). Combining Temperature and Force to Study Folding of Single RNA Molecules. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 412a–412a. 1 indexed citations

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Aprelev, Alexey, et al.. (2013). The Physical Foundation of Vaso-Occlusion in Sickle Cell Disease. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 677a–677a. 1 indexed citations

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Stephenson, William, et al.. (2013). Combining temperature and force to study folding of an RNA hairpin. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(3). 906–917. 24 indexed citations

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Stephenson, William, Alan Chen, Scott A. Tenenbaum, et al.. (2013). The Essential Role of Stacking Adenines in a Two-Base-Pair RNA Kissing Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(15). 5602–5611. 26 indexed citations

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Beer, Tomasz M., Catherine M. Tangen, Craig R. Nichols, et al.. (2006). Southwest oncology group phase II study of arsenic trioxide in patients with refractory germ cell malignancies. Cancer. 106(12). 2624–2629. 23 indexed citations

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Wexler, Isaiah D., Douglas S. Kerr, Yuefen Du, et al.. (1998). Molecular Characterization of Pyruvate Carboxylase Deficiency in Two Consanguineous Families. Pediatric Research. 43(5). 579–584. 26 indexed citations

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Chapman, Louisa E., et al.. (1993). Coxsackievirus B2 Infection and Aseptic Meningitis: A Focal Outbreak among Members of a High School Football Team. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 167(5). 1201–1205. 33 indexed citations

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Stephenson, William, et al.. (1991). Gender Influences Subsite of Origin of Laryngeal Carcinoma. Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 117(7). 774–778. 22 indexed citations

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Stephenson, William, et al.. (1990). Analysis of bladder carcinoma by subsite. Cystoscopic location may have prognostic value. Cancer. 66(7). 1630–1635. 44 indexed citations

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Earnshaw, J. C., J. R. Hook, J. H. Hough, et al.. (1974). Computer simulations of cosmic-ray air showers I. Average characteristics of proton initiated showers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 339(1617). 133–155. 13 indexed citations

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