Axel Cournac

2.8k total citations
27 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Axel Cournac is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Cournac has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Axel Cournac's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers). Axel Cournac is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers). Axel Cournac collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Germany. Axel Cournac's co-authors include Romain Koszul, Julien Mozziconacci, Martial Marbouty, Hervé Marie-Nelly, Annick Lesne, Jacqueline Plumbridge, Jean‐François Flot, Frédéric Boccard, Virginia S. Lioy and Lyam Baudry and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Axel Cournac

25 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Axel Cournac France 18 1.5k 498 493 334 70 27 1.7k
Martial Marbouty France 20 1.4k 0.9× 532 1.1× 400 0.8× 562 1.7× 73 1.0× 42 1.7k
Diego I. Cattoni France 18 1.1k 0.7× 370 0.7× 300 0.6× 228 0.7× 26 0.4× 31 1.4k
Monika Reuter Germany 23 1.0k 0.7× 429 0.9× 228 0.5× 294 0.9× 48 0.7× 57 1.4k
Weijun Xu United States 22 1.2k 0.8× 418 0.8× 380 0.8× 262 0.8× 61 0.9× 34 1.8k
Patrick Pausch Germany 16 1.3k 0.8× 256 0.5× 206 0.4× 166 0.5× 61 0.9× 21 1.4k
Marie‐Françoise Noirot‐Gros France 21 882 0.6× 573 1.2× 150 0.3× 233 0.7× 107 1.5× 29 1.2k
Axel Müller United Kingdom 13 807 0.5× 358 0.7× 340 0.7× 185 0.6× 35 0.5× 16 1.3k
Anita Marchfelder Germany 33 2.6k 1.7× 579 1.2× 207 0.4× 426 1.3× 80 1.1× 100 2.8k
Harri Savilahti Finland 28 1.7k 1.1× 642 1.3× 409 0.8× 670 2.0× 77 1.1× 62 2.1k
Tim Durfee United States 14 1.3k 0.8× 600 1.2× 418 0.8× 252 0.8× 34 0.5× 23 1.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Axel Cournac

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chapard, Christophe, Axel Cournac, Sophie Queillé, et al.. (2025). RNA Pol II-based regulations of chromosome folding. Cell Genomics. 5(10). 100970–100970. 1 indexed citations
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Thierry, Agnès, et al.. (2025). Parasitic plasmids are anchored to inactive regions of eukaryotic chromosomes through a nucleosome signal. The EMBO Journal. 44(7). 2134–2156.
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Chapard, Christophe, Axel Cournac, Olivier Gadal, et al.. (2024). Sister chromatid cohesion halts DNA loop expansion. Molecular Cell. 84(6). 1139–1148.e5. 12 indexed citations
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Cournac, Axel, et al.. (2022). Crosstalk between Hepatitis B Virus and the 3D Genome Structure. Viruses. 14(2). 445–445. 9 indexed citations
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Matthey-Doret, Cyril, et al.. (2021). Normalization of Chromosome Contact Maps: Matrix Balancing and Visualization. Methods in molecular biology. 2301. 1–15. 7 indexed citations
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Matthey-Doret, Cyril, Lyam Baudry, Rémi Montagne, et al.. (2020). Computer vision for pattern detection in chromosome contact maps. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5795–5795. 78 indexed citations
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Montagne, Rémi, Agnès Thierry, Luciana Lazar‐Stefanita, et al.. (2020). Regulation of Cohesin-Mediated Chromosome Folding by Eco1 and Other Partners. Molecular Cell. 77(6). 1279–1293.e4. 71 indexed citations
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García-Luis, Jonay, Luciana Lazar‐Stefanita, Pilar Gutiérrez-Escribano, et al.. (2019). FACT mediates cohesin function on chromatin. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(10). 970–979. 28 indexed citations
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Moreau, Pierrick, Axel Cournac, Martial Marbouty, et al.. (2018). Tridimensional infiltration of DNA viruses into the host genome shows preferential contact with active chromatin. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4268–4268. 56 indexed citations
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Baudement, Marie-Odile, Axel Cournac, Franck Court, et al.. (2018). High-salt–recovered sequences are associated with the active chromosomal compartment and with large ribonucleoprotein complexes including nuclear bodies. Genome Research. 28(11). 1733–1746. 9 indexed citations
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Lioy, Virginia S., Axel Cournac, Martial Marbouty, et al.. (2018). Multiscale Structuring of the E. coli Chromosome by Nucleoid-Associated and Condensin Proteins. Cell. 172(4). 771–783.e18. 234 indexed citations
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Marbouty, Martial, Lyam Baudry, Axel Cournac, & Romain Koszul. (2017). Scaffolding bacterial genomes and probing host-virus interactions in gut microbiome by proximity ligation (chromosome capture) assay. Science Advances. 3(2). e1602105–e1602105. 92 indexed citations
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Ruault, Myriam, Martial Marbouty, Isabelle Loı̈odice, et al.. (2015). Spatial reorganization of telomeres in long-lived quiescent cells. Genome biology. 16(1). 206–206. 61 indexed citations
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Cournac, Axel, Romain Koszul, & Julien Mozziconacci. (2015). The 3D folding of metazoan genomes correlates with the association of similar repetitive elements. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(1). 245–255. 72 indexed citations
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Marbouty, Martial, Antoine Le Gall, Diego I. Cattoni, et al.. (2015). Condensin- and Replication-Mediated Bacterial Chromosome Folding and Origin Condensation Revealed by Hi-C and Super-resolution Imaging. Molecular Cell. 59(4). 588–602. 201 indexed citations
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Descorps‐Declère, Stéphane, Cyril Saguez, Axel Cournac, et al.. (2015). Genome-wide replication landscape of Candida glabrata. BMC Biology. 13(1). 69–69. 11 indexed citations
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Lesne, Annick, et al.. (2014). 3D genome reconstruction from chromosomal contacts. Nature Methods. 11(11). 1141–1143. 182 indexed citations
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Marie-Nelly, Hervé, Martial Marbouty, Axel Cournac, et al.. (2014). High-quality genome (re)assembly using chromosomal contact data. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5695–5695. 106 indexed citations
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Cournac, Axel & Jacqueline Plumbridge. (2013). DNA Looping in Prokaryotes: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches. Journal of Bacteriology. 195(6). 1109–1119. 65 indexed citations
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Cournac, Axel, Hervé Marie-Nelly, Martial Marbouty, Romain Koszul, & Julien Mozziconacci. (2012). Normalization of a chromosomal contact map. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 436–436. 141 indexed citations

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