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Thomas R. Cech

Active 1977–2025

207
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51,927
Citations
125
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Citations

Citations per year for Thomas R. Cech1952: 1 citations1971: 1 citations1978: 2 citations1979: 5 citations1981: 7 citations1982: 15 citations1983: 40 citations1984: 77 citations1985: 107 citations1986: 206 citations1987: 129 citations1988: 174 citations1989: 227 citations1990: 235 citations1991: 227 citations1992: 320 citations1993: 342 citations1994: 260 citations1995: 213 citations1996: 260 citations1997: 364 citations1998: 471 citations1999: 489 citations2000: 545 citations2001: 394 citations2002: 431 citations2003: 446 citations2004: 477 citations2005: 383 citations2006: 444 citations2007: 425 citations2008: 324 citations2009: 273 citations2010: 310 citations2011: 235 citations2012: 276 citations2013: 282 citations2014: 309 citations2015: 391 citations2016: 384 citations2017: 385 citations2018: 324 citations2019: 1,052 citations2020: 1,116 citations2021: 1,031 citations2022: 731 citations2023: 554 citations2024: 813 citations2025: 336 citations2026: 16 citations1953–1970: no citations, so these years are not shown1972–1977: no citations, so these years are not shown1980: no citations, so this year is not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 5,168 citing papers, 40.4% of this breakdownChina: 1,359 citing papers, 10.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 751 citing papers, 5.9% of this breakdownGermany: 626 citing papers, 4.9% of this breakdownFrance: 555 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownCanada: 461 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownJapan: 424 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownItaly: 303 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownAustralia: 245 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 234 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownIndia: 217 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdownSpain: 207 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology69.2%
  • Medicine21.5%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.7%
  • Physics and Astronomy2%
  • Immunology and Microbiology1.3%
  • Environmental Science0.6%
  • Other2.7%

Topics

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms11.3%
  • RNA modifications and cancer8.9%
  • RNA Research and Splicing7.8%
  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence6%
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques5.2%
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry4.9%
  • Other55.9%

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  1. The Noncoding RNA Revolution—Trashing Old Rules to Forge New Ones

    Authors: Thomas R. Cech, Joan A. Steitz - Cell 2014 cited by 2,573

  2. RNA Duplex Map in Living Cells Reveals Higher-Order Transcriptome Structure

    Authors: Zhipeng Lu, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang, Byron Lee, Ryan A. Flynn, Martin A. Smith, James Robinson, Chen Davidovich, Anne R. Gooding, Karen J. Goodrich, John S. Mattick, Jill P. Mesirov, Thomas R. Cech, Howard Y. Chang - Cell 2016 cited by 713

  3. Self-splicing RNA: Autoexcision and autocyclization of the ribosomal RNA intervening sequence of tetrahymena

    Authors: Kelly Kruger, Paula J. Grabowski, Arthur J. Zaug, Julie Sands, Daniel E. Gottschling, Thomas R. Cech - Cell 1982 cited by 2,332

  4. How do lncRNAs regulate transcription?

    Authors: Yicheng Long, Xueyin Wang, Daniel T. Youmans, Thomas R. Cech - Science Advances 2017 cited by 706

  5. Shaping human telomeres: from shelterin and CST complexes to telomeric chromatin organization

    Authors: Ci Ji Lim, Thomas R. Cech - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2021 cited by 277

  6. Structural basis for inactivation of PRC2 by G-quadruplex RNA

    Authors: Jiarui Song, Anne R. Gooding, Wayne O. Hemphill, Brittney Love, Anne L. Robertson, Liqi Yao, Leonard I. Zon, Trista E. North, Vignesh Kasinath, Thomas R. Cech - Science 2023 cited by 68

  7. Polycomb-mediated genome architecture enables long-range spreading of H3K27 methylation

    Authors: Katerina Kraft, Kathryn E. Yost, Sedona E. Murphy, Andreas Magg, Yicheng Long, M. Ryan Corces, Jeffrey M. Granja, Lars Wittler, Stefan Mundlos, Thomas R. Cech, Alistair N. Boettiger, Howard Y. Chang - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022 cited by 109

  8. RNA is essential for PRC2 chromatin occupancy and function in human pluripotent stem cells

    Authors: Yicheng Long, Taeyoung Hwang, Anne R. Gooding, Karen J. Goodrich, John L. Rinn, Thomas R. Cech - Nature Genetics 2020 cited by 154

  9. Biochemical Properties and Biological Functions of FET Proteins

    Authors: Jacob C. Schwartz, Thomas R. Cech, Roy Parker - Annual Review of Biochemistry 2014 cited by 235

  10. Targeting of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 to RNA by Short Repeats of Consecutive Guanines

    Authors: Xueyin Wang, Karen J. Goodrich, Anne R. Gooding, Haroon Naeem, Stuart K. Archer, Richard D. Paucek, Daniel T. Youmans, Thomas R. Cech, Chen Davidovich - Molecular Cell 2017 cited by 234

  11. The chemical repertoire of natural ribozymes

    Authors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Thomas R. Cech - Nature 2002 cited by 764

  12. The recruitment of chromatin modifiers by long noncoding RNAs: lessons from PRC2

    Authors: Chen Davidovich, Thomas R. Cech - RNA 2015 cited by 301

  13. Monovalent cation-induced structure of telomeric DNA: The G-quartet model

    Authors: James R. Williamson, M. K. Raghuraman, Thomas R. Cech - Cell 1989 cited by 1,236

  14. The POT1–TPP1 telomere complex is a telomerase processivity factor

    Authors: Feng Wang, Elaine R. Podell, Arthur J. Zaug, Yuting Yang, Paul Baciu, Thomas R. Cech, Ming Lei - Nature 2007 cited by 712

  15. Promiscuous RNA binding by Polycomb repressive complex 2

    Authors: Chen Davidovich, Léon Zheng, Karen J. Goodrich, Thomas R. Cech - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2013 cited by 447

  16. TRIM28 is a transcriptional activator of the mutant TERT promoter in human bladder cancer

    Authors: Neeraj Agarwal, Sébastien Rinaldetti, Bassem Ben Cheikh, Qiong Zhou, Evan P. Hass, Robert T. Jones, Molishree Joshi, Daniel V. LaBarbera, Simon Knott, Thomas R. Cech, Dan Theodorescu - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021 cited by 60

  17. RNA Seeds Higher-Order Assembly of FUS Protein

    Authors: Jacob C. Schwartz, Xueyin Wang, Elaine R. Podell, Thomas R. Cech - Cell Reports 2013 cited by 338

  18. Inhibition of telomerase by G-quartet DMA structures

    Authors: Alan M. Zahler, James R. Williamson, Thomas R. Cech, David M. Prescott - Nature 1991 cited by 1,123

  19. The Ribosome Is a Ribozyme

    Authors: Thomas R. Cech - Science 2000 cited by 378

  20. Molecular analysis of PRC2 recruitment to DNA in chromatin and its inhibition by RNA

    Authors: Xueyin Wang, Richard D. Paucek, Anne R. Gooding, Zachary Z. Brown, Eva J. Ge, Tom W. Muir, Thomas R. Cech - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2017 cited by 228

  21. Telomerase Catalytic Subunit Homologs from Fission Yeast and Human

    Authors: Toru Nakamura, Gregg B. Morin, Karen Chapman, Scott L. Weinrich, William H. Andrews, Joachim Lingner, Calvin B. Harley, Thomas R. Cech - Science 1997 cited by 2,274

  22. TERT promoter mutations and telomerase reactivation in urothelial cancer

    Authors: Sumit Borah, Linghe Xi, Arthur J. Zaug, Natasha M. Powell, Garrett M. Dancik, Scott B. Cohen, James C. Costello, Dan Theodorescu, Thomas R. Cech - Science 2015 cited by 296

  23. In vitro splicing of the ribosomal RNA precursor of tetrahymena: Involvement of a guanosine nucleotide in the excision of the intervening sequence

    Authors: Thomas R. Cech, Arthur J. Zaug, Paula J. Grabowski - Cell 1981 cited by 894

  24. The TEL patch of telomere protein TPP1 mediates telomerase recruitment and processivity

    Authors: Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Caitlin Bell, Ina Weidenfeld, Arthur J. Zaug, Leslie A. Leinwand, Thomas R. Cech - Nature 2012 cited by 354