🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Robert Wirka

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ORCID: 0000-0001-9131-9508

Also affiliated with University of North Carolina Health Care

Immunology and MicrobiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyNeuroscience

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Papers

Driven by 14 papers. Top paper: “Comprehensive Integration of Multiple Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data Sets Defines Distinct Cell Populations and Their Phenotypic Changes in Murine Atherosclerosis”.

Comprehensive Integration of Multiple Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data Sets Defines Distinct Cell Populations and Their Phenotypic Changes in Murine Atherosclerosis

Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology(2023)10.1161/atvbaha.123.320030

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0.561DataRank · unranked

41 citations

Matthew Worssam, Albert J Pedroza, Alex R. Dalal, Haizea Alemany, Hyun-Jung Kim +6 more

Molecular mechanisms of coronary disease revealed using quantitative trait loci for TCF21 binding, chromatin accessibility, and chromosomal looping

Genome biology(2020)10.1186/s13059-020-02049-5

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0.529DataRank · unranked

33 citations

Michael Dacre, Trieu Nguyen, Milos Pjanic, Boxiang Liu, Dharini Iyer +6 more

Atheroma transcriptomics identifies ARNTL as a smooth muscle cell regulator and with clinical and genetic data improves risk stratification

European Heart Journal(2024)10.1093/eurheartj/ehae768

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0.464DataRank · unranked

21 citations

Sofija Vuckovic, Otto Bergman, Robert Wirka, José Verdezoto Mosquera, Qiao Sen Chen +13 more

A cell and transcriptome atlas of human arterial vasculature

Cell Genomics(2025)10.1016/j.xgen.2025.101034

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0.350DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Albert J Pedroza, Disha Sharma, Wenduo Gu, Alex R. Dalal, Chad S. Weldy +20 more

Smad3 Regulates Smooth Muscle Cell Fate and Governs Adverse Remodeling and Calcification of Atherosclerotic Plaque

Research Square(2021)10.21203/rs.3.rs-708882/v1

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0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Robert Wirka, Juyong Brian Kim, Trieu Nguyen, Ramendra Kundu, Quanyi Zhao +7 more

Embryologic Origin Influences Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotypic Modulation Signatures in Murine Marfan Syndrome Aortic Aneurysm

Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology(2022)10.1161/atvbaha.122.317381

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0DataRank · unranked

44 citations

Alex R. Dalal, Rohan Shad, Nobu Yokoyama, Ken Nakamura, Paul Cheng +7 more

Local tissue mechanics control cardiac pacemaker cell embryonic patterning

Life Science Alliance(2023)10.26508/lsa.202201799

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0DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Julie Goudy, Marietta R. Easterling, Carrie L. Donley, Robert Wirka, Michael Bressan +1 more

Atheroma transcriptomics identifies ARNTL as a smooth muscle cell regulator and with clinical and genetic data improves risk stratification

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/bx31-2420

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Bruna Gigante, Otto Bergman, Redouane Aherahrrou, Fabrizio Veglia, Elena Tremoli +13 more

Pro-efferocytic nanoparticles are specifically taken up by lesional macrophages and prevent atherosclerosis

Nature Nanotechnology(2020)10.1038/s41565-019-0619-3

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0DataRank · unranked

284 citations

Niloufar Hosseini-Nassab, Kai-Uwe Jarr, Jianqin Ye, Xingjun Zhu, Robert Wirka +13 more

Vascular smooth muscle cell atherosclerosis trajectories characterized at single cell resolution identify causal transcriptomic and epigenomic mechanisms of disease risk

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.06.04.655863

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0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Soumya Kundu, Paul Cheng, Wenduo Gu, Will Jackson, Quanyi Zhao +12 more

Environment-Sensing Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Inhibits the Chondrogenic Fate of Modulated Smooth Muscle Cells in Atherosclerotic Lesions

Circulation(2020)10.1161/circulationaha.120.045981

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0DataRank · unranked

101 citations

Quanyi Zhao, Trieu Nguyen, Milos Pjanic, Paul Cheng, Robert Wirka +5 more

Genomic profiling of human vascular cells identifies TWIST1 as a causal gene for common vascular diseases

PLoS Genetics(2020)10.1371/journal.pgen.1008538

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0DataRank · unranked

61 citations

Marie Guerraty, Robert Wirka, H. Shanker Rao, Milos Pjanic, Scott Norton +17 more

Smad3 Regulates Smooth Muscle Cell Fate and Governs Adverse Remodeling and Calcification of Atherosclerotic Plaque

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.09.15.299131

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Robert Wirka, Juyong Brian Kim, Trieu Nguyen, Ramendra Kundu, Quanyi Zhao +6 more

Quantitative trait loci mapped for TCF21 binding, chromatin accessibility and chromosomal looping in coronary artery smooth muscle cells reveal molecular mechanisms of coronary disease loci

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.02.03.932368

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Michael Dacre, Trieu Nguyen, Milos Pjanic, Boxiang Liu, Dharini Iyer +6 more