Amélie Leforestier

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Amélie Leforestier is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amélie Leforestier has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Amélie Leforestier's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (18 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers). Amélie Leforestier is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (18 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers). Amélie Leforestier collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Switzerland. Amélie Leforestier's co-authors include Françoise Livolant, F. Livolant, D. Durand, Éric Raspaud, Jacques Dubochet, Stéphanie Mangenot, Nathalie Sartori Blanc, Karsten Richter, M. de Frutos and Daniel Studer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Amélie Leforestier

41 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cryo‐electron microscopy of vitreous sections

2004 350 citations Ashraf Al‐Amoudi, Jiin-Ju Chang et al. The EMBO Journal profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amélie Leforestier France	23	1.4k	329	323	242	238	41	2.1k
Françoise Livolant France	23	1.5k 1.1×	312 0.9×	99 0.3×	295 1.2×	238 1.0×	34	2.1k
Matthias Wolf Japan	29	834 0.6×	166 0.5×	243 0.8×	251 1.0×	572 2.4×	64	2.7k
Jens Michaelis Germany	32	1.8k 1.3×	299 0.9×	185 0.6×	617 2.5×	556 2.3×	86	3.2k
Koji Yonekura Japan	31	2.0k 1.4×	345 1.0×	571 1.8×	188 0.8×	692 2.9×	82	3.3k
Nadav Elad Israel	28	1.2k 0.8×	116 0.4×	205 0.6×	211 0.9×	430 1.8×	50	2.6k
Zhifeng Shao United States	34	1.8k 1.3×	161 0.5×	163 0.5×	595 2.5×	305 1.3×	91	4.0k
Saori Maki-Yonekura Japan	24	1.0k 0.7×	225 0.7×	355 1.1×	138 0.6×	395 1.7×	48	1.9k
Claudio Rivetti Italy	26	2.1k 1.5×	414 1.3×	179 0.6×	367 1.5×	194 0.8×	61	3.2k
Sacha De Carlo United States	20	710 0.5×	146 0.4×	358 1.1×	156 0.6×	362 1.5×	36	1.4k
Fernando Moreno‐Herrero Spain	31	2.3k 1.6×	462 1.4×	111 0.3×	632 2.6×	187 0.8×	73	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amélie Leforestier

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Ihiawakrim, Dris, Mohamed Haouas, Doru Constantin, et al.. (2025). Chimie-Douce Route to Tungsten Oxide Hydrate: Comprehensive Insight into the Formation Mechanism by Liquid-Phase Electron Microscopy Combined with Complementary Techniques. Chemistry of Materials. 37(15). 5454–5465. 1 indexed citations

Falaise, Clément, Pierre Bauduin, Jéril Degrouard, et al.. (2024). Cooperative Self-Assembly Process Involving Giant Toroidal Polyoxometalate as a Membrane Building Block in Nanoscale Vesicles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(2). 1501–1511. 10 indexed citations

Jiménez‐Calvo, Pablo, Yassine Naciri, Anna Sobolewska, et al.. (2023). Ti‐Modified Imogolite Nanotubes as Promising Photocatalyst 1D Nanostructures for H ₂ Production. Small Methods. 8(8). e2301369–e2301369. 8 indexed citations

Luppino, Jennifer M., Vincent Piras, Jéril Degrouard, et al.. (2023). Multi-feature clustering of CTCF binding creates robustness for loop extrusion blocking and Topologically Associating Domain boundaries. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5615–5615. 25 indexed citations

Livolant, Françoise, et al.. (2021). Local structure of DNA toroids reveals curvature-dependent intermolecular forces. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(7). 3709–3718. 5 indexed citations

Eltsov, Mikhail, et al.. (2021). HEMNMA-3D: Cryo Electron Tomography Method Based on Normal Mode Analysis to Study Continuous Conformational Variability of Macromolecular Complexes. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 8. 663121–663121. 24 indexed citations

Eltsov, Mikhail, et al.. (2021). TomoFlow: Analysis of Continuous Conformational Variability of Macromolecules in Cryogenic Subtomograms based on 3D Dense Optical Flow. Journal of Molecular Biology. 434(2). 167381–167381. 12 indexed citations

Sung, Baeckkyoung, Amélie Leforestier, & Françoise Livolant. (2015). Coexistence of coil and globule domains within a single confined DNA chain. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(3). 1421–1427. 5 indexed citations

Leforestier, Amélie, Pierre Levitz, Thomas Préat, et al.. (2014). Imaging Drosophila brain by combining cryo-soft X-ray microscopy of thick vitreous sections and cryo-electron microscopy of ultrathin vitreous sections. Journal of Structural Biology. 188(2). 177–182. 3 indexed citations

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Leforestier, Amélie. (2013). Polymorphism of DNA conformation inside the bacteriophage capsid. Journal of Biological Physics. 39(2). 201–213. 13 indexed citations

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Al‐Amoudi, Ashraf, Jiin-Ju Chang, Amélie Leforestier, et al.. (2004). Cryo‐electron microscopy of vitreous sections. The EMBO Journal. 23(18). 3583–3588. 350 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mangenot, Stéphanie, Amélie Leforestier, D. Durand, & Françoise Livolant. (2003). X-Ray Diffraction Characterization of the Dense Phases Formed by Nucleosome Core Particles. Biophysical Journal. 84(4). 2570–2584. 38 indexed citations

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Mangenot, Stéphanie, Amélie Leforestier, D. Durand, & F. Livolant. (2003). Phase Diagram of Nucleosome Core Particles. Journal of Molecular Biology. 333(5). 907–916. 54 indexed citations

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Mangenot, Stéphanie, Amélie Leforestier, Patrice Vachette, D. Durand, & Françoise Livolant. (2002). Salt-Induced Conformation and Interaction Changes of Nucleosome Core Particles. Biophysical Journal. 82(1). 345–356. 93 indexed citations

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Frutos, M. de, Éric Raspaud, Amélie Leforestier, & Françoise Livolant. (2001). Aggregation of Nucleosomes by Divalent Cations. Biophysical Journal. 81(2). 1127–1132. 64 indexed citations

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Leforestier, Amélie, J DUBOCHET, & Françoise Livolant. (2001). Bilayers of Nucleosome Core Particles. Biophysical Journal. 81(4). 2414–2421. 61 indexed citations

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Blanc, Nathalie Sartori, A. Senn, Amélie Leforestier, Françoise Livolant, & Jacques Dubochet. (2001). DNA in Human and Stallion Spermatozoa Forms Local Hexagonal Packing with Twist and Many Defects. Journal of Structural Biology. 134(1). 76–81. 51 indexed citations

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Livolant, Françoise & Amélie Leforestier. (2000). Chiral Discotic Columnar Germs of Nucleosome Core Particles. Biophysical Journal. 78(5). 2716–2729. 42 indexed citations

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Leforestier, Amélie, et al.. (1999). Spermidine-induced aggregation of nucleosome core particles: evidence for multiple liquid crystalline phases. Journal of Molecular Biology. 290(2). 481–494. 31 indexed citations

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Leforestier, Amélie & F. Livolant. (1993). Supramolecular ordering of DNA in the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase: an ultrastructural study. Biophysical Journal. 65(1). 56–72. 97 indexed citations

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