By Selene Colon
The School of Medicine Basic Sciences would like to recognize our faculty for pursuing high-impact research that leads to national recognition of Vanderbilt’s research excellence. High-impact science is often identified by the number of citations related papers receive, but highly cited papers are not always in premier journals. We would like to recognize the top two cited research papers from three years ago for which the corresponding or co-corresponding author is a primary assistant professor, associate professor, or professor in Basic Sciences.
The winners have the highest citation count, as of May 2023, for a paper published in the 2020 calendar year. For each faculty rank, the winner gets $5,000 and the runner-up gets $2,500.
Assistant Professors
- Emily Hodges, Ph.D. Cited 30 times.
- Barnett, K. R., Decato, B. E., Scott, T. J., Hansen, T. J., Chen, B., Attalla, J., Smith, A. D., & Hodges, E. (2020). ATAC-Me Captures Prolonged DNA Methylation of Dynamic Chromatin Accessibility Loci during Cell Fate Transitions. Molecular Cell, 77(6), 1350-1364.e6.
- Zixiu Xiang, Ph.D. Cited 18 times.
- Manuel, T. J., Kusunose, J., Zhan, X., Lv, X., Kang, E., Yang, A., Xiang, Z., & Caskey, C. F. (2020). Ultrasound neuromodulation depends on pulse repetition frequency and can modulate inhibitory effects of TTX. Scientific Reports 2020 10:1, 10(1), 1–10.
Associate Professors
- Ken Lau, Ph.D. Cited 64 times.
- Banerjee, A., Herring, C. A., Chen, B., Kim, H., Simmons, A. J., Southard-Smith, A. N., Allaman, M. M., White, J. R., Macedonia, M. C., Mckinley, E. T., Ramirez-Solano, M. A., Scoville, E. A., Liu, Q., Wilson, K. T., Coffey, R. J., Washington, M. K., Goettel, J. A., & Lau, K. S. (2020). Succinate Produced by Intestinal Microbes Promotes Specification of Tuft Cells to Suppress Ileal Inflammation. Gastroenterology, 159(6), 2101-2115.e5.
- Manuel Ascano Jr., Ph.D. Cited 41 times.
- Kim, B., Arcos, S., Rothamel, K., Jian, J., Rose, K. L., McDonald, W. H., Bian, Y., Reasoner, S., Barrows, N. J., Bradrick, S., Garcia-Blanco, M. A., & Ascano, M. (2020). Discovery of Widespread Host Protein Interactions with the Pre-replicated Genome of CHIKV Using VIR-CLASP. Molecular Cell, 78(4), 624-640.e7.
Professors
- Alissa Weaver, M.D., Ph.D. Cited 101 times.
- Sung, B. H., von Lersner, A., Guerrero, J., Krystofiak, E. S., Inman, D., Pelletier, R., Zijlstra, A., Ponik, S. M., & Weaver, A. M. (2020). A live cell reporter of exosome secretion and uptake reveals pathfinding behavior of migrating cells. Nature Communications 2020 11:1, 11(1), 1–15.
- David Cortez, Ph.D. Cited 32 times.
- Liu, W., Krishnamoorthy, A., Zhao, R., & Cortez, D. (2020). Two replication fork remodeling pathways generate nuclease substrates for distinct fork protection factors. Science Advances, 6(46), 3598–3611.