2026 Jean Paul Thiery: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	133	368	330	2	2	578	92450
Medicine	132	2271	2113	7	7	562	91730

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Singapore Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Medicine in Singapore Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Singapore Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Medicine in Singapore Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Singapore Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Singapore Leader Award
1991 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jean Paul Thiery is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a strong focus on subfields such as Oncology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Immunology, and Cell Biology.

Their main research topics include:

Cancer Cells and Metastasis
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
RNA modifications and cancer
CAR-T cell therapy research
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Cellular Mechanics and Interactions

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jean Paul Thiery include:

"Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial-mesenchymal transition," 2020, published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
"Spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of mouse organogenesis using DNA nanoball-patterned arrays," 2022, published in Cell
"TGF-β, EMT, and resistance to anti-cancer treatment," 2023, published in Seminars in Cancer Biology
"Characterization of circulating breast cancer cells with tumorigenic and metastatic capacity," 2020, published in EMBO Molecular Medicine
"AXL Targeting Abrogates Autophagic Flux and Induces Immunogenic Cell Death in Drug-Resistant Cancer Cells," 2020, published in Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Jean Paul Thiery has frequently published in venues such as:

Cancer Research
Cancers
Research Square (Research Square)
Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
Annals of Oncology

The scientist has collaborated often with several co-authors including:

Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani (17 collaborations)
Tuan Zea Tan (15 collaborations)
Hamidreza Aboulkheyr Es (8 collaborations)
Maria L. Lotsberg (7 collaborations)
James B. Lorens (7 collaborations)

Jean Paul Thiery was awarded membership in the Academia Europaea in 1991.

Best Publications

Epithelial–mesenchymal transitions in tumour progression

Jean Paul Thiery

12146
Citations
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in Development and Disease

Jean Paul Thiery;Jean Paul Thiery;Hervé Acloque;Ruby Y.J. Huang;Ruby Y.J. Huang;M. Angela Nieto

11134
Citations
Complex networks orchestrate epithelial–mesenchymal transitions

Jean Paul Thiery;Jonathan P. Sleeman

4610
Citations
Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions in development and pathologies.

Jean Paul Thiery

2427
Citations
Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial–mesenchymal transition

Jing Yang;Parker Antin;Geert Berx;Cédric Blanpain

1546
Citations
Frequent activating mutations of FGFR3 in human bladder and cervix carcinomas.

Cappellen D;De Oliveira C;Ricol D;de Medina S

1092
Citations
Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions: insights from development

Jormay Lim;Jean Paul Thiery;Jean Paul Thiery

738
Citations
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition spectrum quantification and its efficacy in deciphering survival and drug responses of cancer patients.

Tuan Zea Tan;Qing Hao Miow;Yoshio Miki;Tetsuo Noda

714
Citations
Analysis of array CGH data: from signal ratio to gain and loss of DNA regions

Philippe Hupé;Nicolas Stransky;Jean-Paul Thiery;François Radvanyi

691
Citations
The Zinc-Finger Protein Slug Causes Desmosome Dissociation, an Initial and Necessary Step for Growth Factor–induced Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition

Pierre Savagner;Kenneth M. Yamada;Jean Paul Thiery

650
Citations
Chromosomes in Ewing's sarcoma. I. An evaluation of 85 cases and remarkable consistency of t(11;22)(q24;q12)

Claude Turc-Carel;Alain Aurias;Francine Mugneret;Sarab Lizard

619
Citations
Frequent FGFR3 Mutations in Papillary Non-Invasive Bladder (pTa) Tumors

Claude Billerey;Dominique Chopin;Marie-Hélène Aubriot-Lorton;David Ricol

590
Citations
Adhesion among neural cells of the chick embryo. II. Purification and characterization of a cell adhesion molecule from neural retina.

J P Thiery;R Brackenbury;U Rutishauser;G M Edelman

585
Citations
Fgf10 is essential for maintaining the proliferative capacity of epithelial progenitor cells during early pancreatic organogenesis

Anil Bhushan;Nobuyuki Itoh;Shigeaki Kato;Jean P. Thiery

567
Citations
Biologically active synthetic peptides as probes of embryonic development: a competitive peptide inhibitor of fibronectin function inhibits gastrulation in amphibian embryos and neural crest cell migration in avian embryos.

J C Boucaut;T Darribère;T J Poole;H Aoyama

562
Citations
Identical reactivity of monoclonal antibodies HNK-1 and NC-1: conservation in vertebrates on cells derived from the neural primordium and on some leukocytes

Gordon C. Tucker;Hirohiko Aoyama;Mare Lipinski;Thomas Tursz

537
Citations
Focal adhesions: structure and dynamics.

Valérie Petit;Jean-Paul Thiery

529
Citations
Cell adhesion molecules in early chicken embryogenesis.

Jean-Paul Thiery;Jean-Loup Duband;Urs Rutishauser;Gerald M. Edelman

526
Citations
An EMT spectrum defines an anoikis-resistant and spheroidogenic intermediate mesenchymal state that is sensitive to e-cadherin restoration by a src-kinase inhibitor, saracatinib (AZD0530)

R Y-J Huang;M K Wong;T Z Tan;K T Kuay

519
Citations
Force measurements in E-cadherin–mediated cell doublets reveal rapid adhesion strengthened by actin cytoskeleton remodeling through Rac and Cdc42

Yeh Shiu Chu;William A. Thomas;Olivier Eder;Frederic Pincet

490
Citations