Y. Esther Tak

997 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 648 citations indexed

About

Y. Esther Tak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Y. Esther Tak has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 648 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Plant Science and 1 paper in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Y. Esther Tak's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers). Y. Esther Tak is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers). Y. Esther Tak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Y. Esther Tak's co-authors include J. Keith Joung, Joy E. Horng, Jonathan Y. Hsu, Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, Martin J. Aryee, Luca Pinello, Marcela V. Maus, Alexander A. Sousa, Moira M. Welch and Jose Malagon-Lopez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Methods.

In The Last Decade

Y. Esther Tak

6 papers receiving 639 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.

Engineered CRISPR–Cas12a variants with increased activities and improved targeting ranges for gene, epigenetic and base editing

2019 453 citations Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, Alexander A. Sousa et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Y. Esther Tak United States	5	635	95	81	73	56	7	648
Kyung Wook Been South Korea	2	549 0.9×	85 0.9×	81 1.0×	76 1.0×	60 1.1×	3	572
Do Yon Kim South Korea	5	605 1.0×	132 1.4×	79 1.0×	87 1.2×	44 0.8×	7	636
Su Bin Moon South Korea	7	623 1.0×	132 1.4×	79 1.0×	87 1.2×	44 0.8×	8	650
Nerges Winblad Sweden	4	768 1.2×	118 1.2×	127 1.6×	84 1.2×	88 1.6×	4	795
Joonsun Lee South Korea	7	496 0.8×	90 0.9×	55 0.7×	60 0.8×	35 0.6×	8	526
András Tálas Hungary	11	460 0.7×	96 1.0×	60 0.7×	68 0.9×	35 0.6×	15	473
Jianhang Yin China	10	509 0.8×	125 1.3×	77 1.0×	69 0.9×	29 0.5×	12	545
Saskia Gressel Germany	6	773 1.2×	67 0.7×	49 0.6×	55 0.8×	37 0.7×	7	801
Anthony J. Garrity United States	4	521 0.8×	63 0.7×	45 0.6×	54 0.7×	50 0.9×	5	567
Catherine L. Weiner United States	7	669 1.1×	104 1.1×	87 1.1×	49 0.7×	71 1.3×	8	697

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Y. Esther Tak

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Tak, Y. Esther, Viraat Y. Goel, Mital S. Bhakta, et al.. (2025). High-resolution CTCF footprinting reveals impact of chromatin state on cohesin extrusion. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4506–4506. 2 indexed citations

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Tak, Y. Esther, Gaylor Boulay, Sowmya Iyer, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide functional perturbation of human microsatellite repeats using engineered zinc finger transcription factors. Cell Genomics. 2(4). 100119–100119. 7 indexed citations

3.

Tak, Y. Esther, Joy E. Horng, Nicholas T. Perry, et al.. (2021). Augmenting and directing long-range CRISPR-mediated activation in human cells. Nature Methods. 18(9). 1075–1081. 19 indexed citations

4.

Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., Alexander A. Sousa, Russell T. Walton, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Engineered CRISPR–Cas12a variants with increased activities and improved targeting ranges for gene, epigenetic and base editing. Nature Biotechnology. 38(7). 901–901. 6 indexed citations

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Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., Alexander A. Sousa, Russell T. Walton, et al.. (2019). Engineered CRISPR–Cas12a variants with increased activities and improved targeting ranges for gene, epigenetic and base editing. Nature Biotechnology. 37(3). 276–282. 453 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tak, Y. Esther, Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, James K. Nuñez, et al.. (2017). Inducible and multiplex gene regulation using CRISPR–Cpf1-based transcription factors. Nature Methods. 14(12). 1163–1166. 160 indexed citations

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Kim, Seungchan, Y. Esther Tak, & Luis Tari. (2006). Mining Gene Expression Profiles with Biological Prior Knowledge. 4. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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