Ana Pombo

14.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
92 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Ana Pombo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Pombo has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Plant Science and 7 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Ana Pombo's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (56 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (44 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (20 papers). Ana Pombo is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (56 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (44 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (20 papers). Ana Pombo collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. Ana Pombo's co-authors include Dean A. Jackson, Miguel R. Branco, Niall Dillon, Peter R. Cook, Emily Brookes, Mario Nicodemi, Rieke Kempfer, Francisco J. Iborra, Sheila Q. Xie and Mita Chotalia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Ana Pombo

89 papers receiving 7.9k 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.

Replicon Clusters Are Stable Units of Chromosome Structure: Evidence That Nuclear Organization Contributes to the Efficient Activation and Propagation of S Phase in Human Cells

1998 665 citations Ana Pombo et al. profile →
Intermingling of Chromosome Territories in Interphase Suggests Role in Translocations and Transcription-Dependent Associations

2006 523 citations Miguel R. Branco, Ana Pombo profile →
Complex multi-enhancer contacts captured by genome architecture mapping

2017 462 citations Robert A. Beagrie, Antonio Scialdone et al. profile →
Methods for mapping 3D chromosome architecture

2019 310 citations Rieke Kempfer, Ana Pombo profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ana Pombo United Kingdom	41	7.0k	1.2k	1.1k	589	490	92	8.0k
Marion Cremer Germany	41	5.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	680 1.2×	406 0.8×	104	7.6k
Andrew S. Belmont United States	52	9.3k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	1.5k 1.3×	252 0.4×	309 0.6×	111	10.5k
Michael O. Dorschner United States	22	6.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	577 1.0×	626 1.3×	49	7.9k
Édouard Bertrand France	55	11.2k 1.6×	713 0.6×	890 0.8×	543 0.9×	1.6k 3.3×	175	12.9k
J. Wiegant Netherlands	42	4.4k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.6×	488 0.8×	630 1.3×	103	6.6k
Tobias Ragoczy United States	14	5.9k 0.8×	1.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	357 0.6×	423 0.9×	20	7.0k
Nynke L. van Berkum United States	10	9.2k 1.3×	2.6k 2.2×	1.7k 1.5×	394 0.7×	665 1.4×	10	10.1k
Agnes Telling United States	16	6.7k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	356 0.6×	429 0.9×	22	7.6k
Richard Sandstrom United States	26	9.7k 1.4×	2.3k 1.9×	2.2k 1.9×	787 1.3×	1.2k 2.4×	38	11.3k
Stéfan Dimitrov France	47	6.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	727 0.6×	380 0.6×	396 0.8×	139	7.0k

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Stein, Johannes, Maria Ericsson, Sarah Aufmkolk, et al.. (2025). Cryosectioning-enhanced super-resolution microscopy for single-protein imaging across cells and tissues. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(32). e2504578122–e2504578122.

Carvalho, Sílvia, Duncan C. Miller, Alexander Kukalev, et al.. (2024). SRRM2 splicing factor modulates cell fate in early development. Biology Open. 13(4). 1 indexed citations

Beagrie, Robert A., Christoph J. Thieme, Carlo Annunziatella, et al.. (2023). Multiplex-GAM: genome-wide identification of chromatin contacts yields insights overlooked by Hi-C. Nature Methods. 20(7). 1037–1047. 19 indexed citations

Kopp, Wolfgang, Rieke Kempfer, Antje Hirsekorn, et al.. (2022). Single-cell-resolved dynamics of chromatin architecture delineate cell and regulatory states in zebrafish embryos. Cell Genomics. 2(1). 100083–100083. 11 indexed citations

Markowski, Julia, Rieke Kempfer, Alexander Kukalev, et al.. (2021). GAMIBHEAR: whole-genome haplotype reconstruction from Genome Architecture Mapping data. Bioinformatics. 37(19). 3128–3135. 4 indexed citations

Fiorillo, Luca, Francesco Musella, Mattia Conte, et al.. (2021). Comparison of the Hi-C, GAM and SPRITE methods using polymer models of chromatin. Nature Methods. 18(5). 482–490. 37 indexed citations

Bianco, Simona, Darío G. Lupiáñez, Andrea M. Chiariello, et al.. (2018). Polymer physics predicts the effects of structural variants on chromatin architecture. Nature Genetics. 50(5). 662–667. 140 indexed citations

Martı́-Renom, Marc A., Wendy A. Bickmore, Kerstin Bystricky, et al.. (2018). Challenges and guidelines toward 4D nucleome data and model standards. Nature Genetics. 50(10). 1352–1358. 38 indexed citations

Barbieri, Mariano, Sheila Q. Xie, Elena Torlai Triglia, et al.. (2017). Active and poised promoter states drive folding of the extended HoxB locus in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 24(6). 515–524. 66 indexed citations

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Pombo, Ana & Niall Dillon. (2015). Erratum: Three-dimensional genome architecture: players and mechanisms. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 16(9). 576–576. 3 indexed citations

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Nicodemi, Mario & Ana Pombo. (2014). Models of chromosome structure. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 28. 90–95. 75 indexed citations

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Barbieri, Mariano, James A. Fraser, Mita Chotalia, et al.. (2013). A polymer model explains the complexity of large-scale chromatin folding. Nucleus. 4(4). 267–273. 23 indexed citations

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Alder, Olivia, Fabrice Lavial, Emily Brookes, et al.. (2010). Ring1B and Suv39h1 delineate distinct chromatin states at bivalent genes during early mouse lineage commitment. Development. 137(15). 2483–2492. 92 indexed citations

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Xie, Sheila Q., et al.. (2010). CryoFISH: Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization on Ultrathin Cryosections. Methods in molecular biology. 659. 219–230. 8 indexed citations

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Baddeley, David, Vadim O. Chagin, Lothar Schermelleh, et al.. (2009). Measurement of replication structures at the nanometer scale using super-resolution light microscopy. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(2). e8–e8. 85 indexed citations

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Ferrai, Carmelo & Ana Pombo. (2009). 3D Chromatin Regulation of Sonic Hedgehog in the Limb Buds. Developmental Cell. 16(1). 9–11. 4 indexed citations

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Hiragami-Hamada, Kyoko, Sheila Q. Xie, Alexander Saveliev, et al.. (2009). The molecular basis for stability of heterochromatin-mediated silencing in mammals. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 2(1). 14–14. 17 indexed citations

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Branco, Miguel R., Tiago Branco, Francisco Ramı́rez, & Ana Pombo. (2008). Changes in chromosome organization during PHA-activation of resting human lymphocytes measured by cryo-FISH. Chromosome Research. 16(3). 413–426. 35 indexed citations

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Martin, Sonya, et al.. (2004). Measuring the Size of Biological Nanostructures with Spatially Modulated Illumination Microscopy. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15(5). 2449–2455. 46 indexed citations

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Martin, Sonya & Ana Pombo. (2003). Transcription factories: quantitative studies of nanostructures in the mammalian nucleus. Chromosome Research. 11(5). 461–470. 40 indexed citations

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