Patrick H. O’Farrell

41.3k citations

143 papers · 35.6k · 3 hit papers · h-index 67

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Cell Biology top 0.02%
- Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
Aging top 0.2%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 114
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 48
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation 38
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 15
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology 13
Cell Biology 49
- Microtubule and mitosis dynamics 43

Co-authors: Patricia Z. O’Farrell (2 shared papers)Howard M. Goodman (1 shared paper)Bruce A. Edgar (4 shared papers)Christian F. Lehner (3 shared papers)Edan Foley (7 shared papers)Robert J. Duronio (10 shared papers)Claude Desplan (5 shared papers)Stephen DiNardo (6 shared papers)
Journals: Current Biology (23 papers)Cell (17 papers)Genes & Development (12 papers)Molecular and Cellular Biology (7 papers)The Journal of Cell Biology (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Germany

In The Last Decade

Patrick H. O’Farrell

141 papers receiving 33.0k citations

Patrick H. O’Farrell's Hit Papers

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Genetic control of cell division patterns in the Drosophila embryo 1989 · 507 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1989 Cell
1977 Cell
1975 Journal of Biological Chemistry

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1	High resolution two-dimensional electrophoresis of proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Patrick H. O’Farrell Hit paper breakdown →	1975	17826
2	High resolution two-dimensional electrophoresis of basic as well as acidic proteins Cell ·Patricia Z. O’Farrell, Howard M. Goodman, Patrick H. O’Farrell Hit paper breakdown →	1977	3379
3	Genetic control of cell division patterns in the Drosophila embryo Cell ·Bruce A. Edgar, Patrick H. O’Farrell Hit paper breakdown →	1989	507
4	The sequence specificity of homeodomain-DNA interaction Cell ·Claude Desplan, (unknown), Patrick H. O’Farrell	1988	476
5	The endocytic pathway mediates cell entry of dsRNA to induce RNAi silencing Nature Cell Biology ·Maria‐Carla Saleh, Ronald P. van Rij, Armin Hekele, Amethyst Gillis, Edan Foley, Patrick H. O’Farrell, Raul Andino	2006	466
6	The engrailed locus of drosophila: In situ localization of transcripts reveals compartment-specific expression Cell ·Thomas B. Kornberg, I Sidén, Patrick H. O’Farrell, Michael A. Simon	1985	424
7	The roles of Drosophila cyclins A and B in mitotic control Cell ·Christian F. Lehner, Patrick H. O’Farrell	1990	410
8	The three postblastoderm cell cycles of Drosophila embryogenesis are regulated in G2 by string Cell ·Bruce A. Edgar, Patrick H. O’Farrell	1990	397
9	Expression and function of Drosophila cyclin a during embryonic cell cycle progression Cell ·Christian F. Lehner, Patrick H. O’Farrell	1989	376
10	The Drosophila developmental gene, engrailed, encodes a sequence-specific DNA binding activity Nature ·Claude Desplan, James F. Theis, Patrick H. O’Farrell	1985	369
11	Two-tiered regulation of spatially patterned engrailed gene expression during Drosophila embryogenesis Nature ·Stephen DiNardo, Elizabeth Sher, Jill Heemskerk-Jongens, Judith A. Kassis, Patrick H. O’Farrell	1988	364
12	Progression of the cell cycle through mitosis leads to abortion of nascent transcripts Cell ·Antony W. Shermoen, Patrick H. O’Farrell	1991	316
13	A restriction map of the bacteriophage T4 genome Molecular and General Genetics MGG ·Patrick H. O’Farrell, Elizabeth Kutter, Mikiye Nakanishi	1980	302
14	Distinct molecular mechanism regulate cell cycle timing at successive stages of Drosophila embryogenesis. Genes & Development ·B A Edgar, Frank Sprenger, Robert J. Duronio, Pierre Léopold, Patrick H. O’Farrell	1994	270
15	Identification of Drosophila Gene Products Required for Phagocytosis of Candida albicans PLoS Biology ·Shannon L. Stroschein-Stevenson, Edan Foley, Patrick H. O’Farrell, Alexander D. Johnson	2005	254
16	Terminal Cytokinesis Events Uncovered after an RNAi Screen Current Biology ·Arnaud Échard, Gilles R.X. Hickson, Edan Foley, Patrick H. O’Farrell	2004	237
17	Multiple modes of engrailed regulation in the progression towards cell fate determination Nature ·Jill Heemskerk, Stephen DiNardo, Richard Kostriken, Patrick H. O’Farrell	1991	233
18	Nitric oxide contributes to induction of innate immune responses to gram-negative bacteria in Drosophila Genes & Development ·Edan Foley, Patrick H. O’Farrell	2003	231
19	The transcription factor E2F is required for S phase during Drosophila embryogenesis. Genes & Development ·Robert J. Duronio, Patrick H. O’Farrell, J. E. Xie, A. Brook, Nicholas J. Dyson	1995	227
20	The glucocorticoid domain: Steroid-mediated changes in the rate of synthesis of rat hepatoma proteins Cell ·Robert Ivarie, Patrick H. O’Farrell	1978	220

About Patrick H. O’Farrell

Patrick H. O’Farrell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Plant Science and Oncology, having authored 143 papers that have together received 35.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (48 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (43 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (38 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (16 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (15 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (14 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (13 papers) and Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cell Biology (7.3k citations), Aging (722 citations), Molecular Biology (25.6k citations), Spectroscopy (3.6k citations) and Genetics (4.8k citations). Patrick H. O’Farrell has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Patricia Z. O’Farrell, Howard M. Goodman, Bruce A. Edgar, Christian F. Lehner, Edan Foley, Robert J. Duronio, Claude Desplan, Stephen DiNardo, Antony W. Shermoen and Tin Tin Su. Their work appears in journals such as Current Biology, Cell, Genes & Development, Molecular and Cellular Biology and The Journal of Cell Biology.

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