Axel Visel

39.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
107 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Axel Visel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Visel has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Axel Visel's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (44 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (28 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (17 papers). Axel Visel is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (44 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (28 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (17 papers). Axel Visel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Axel Visel's co-authors include L Pennacchio, Edward M. Rubin, Veena Afzal, Jennifer A. Akiyama, Ingrid Plajzer-Frick, Amy Holt, Susannah G. Tringe, Malak Shoukry, Tanja Woyke and Diane E. Dickel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Axel Visel

103 papers receiving 9.5k 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.

Metagenomic Discovery of Biomass-Degrading Genes and Genomes from Cow Rumen

2011 950 citations L Pennacchio, Axel Visel et al. Science profile →
In vivo enhancer analysis of human conserved non-coding sequences

2006 860 citations L Pennacchio, Shyam Prabhakar et al. Nature profile →
Plant compartment and biogeography affect microbiome composition in cultivated and native Agave species

2015 547 citations Devin Coleman‐Derr, Axel Visel et al. New Phytologist profile →
Enhancer redundancy provides phenotypic robustness in mammalian development

2018 407 citations Marco Osterwalder, Iros Barozzi et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Axel Visel United States	47	7.1k	2.0k	1.7k	755	690	107	9.6k
Paul Theodor Pyl Sweden	7	8.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.6×	723 1.0×	1.9k 2.8×	13	14.5k
Brandon J. Wainwright Australia	50	6.9k 1.0×	2.4k 1.2×	648 0.4×	433 0.6×	615 0.9×	170	11.1k
Kiyokazu Agata Japan	60	8.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	2.9k 1.7×	651 0.9×	448 0.6×	231	10.5k
David Ish‐Horowicz United Kingdom	50	9.5k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	647 0.9×	406 0.6×	103	11.2k
Shawn M. Burgess United States	46	6.6k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	319 0.4×	414 0.6×	119	8.8k
Yutaka Suzuki Japan	50	6.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	385 0.5×	1.0k 1.5×	318	9.8k
Ryan Lister Australia	52	11.9k 1.7×	2.4k 1.2×	4.6k 2.7×	271 0.4×	956 1.4×	96	15.3k
Markus Schuelke Germany	41	5.7k 0.8×	2.7k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	686 0.9×	271 0.4×	151	9.8k
Susan Land United States	31	4.4k 0.6×	3.3k 1.7×	2.0k 1.2×	505 0.7×	1.3k 1.8×	71	10.5k
Marijke J. van Baren United States	14	9.1k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	3.4k 2.0×	614 0.8×	2.4k 3.4×	18	14.7k

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Kumari, Priyanka, Sarah W. Curtis, Kitt Paraiso, et al.. (2025). Identification of functional non-coding variants associated with orofacial cleft. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6545–6545.

Hollingsworth, Ethan W., Sandra Jacinto, Joshua A. Alcantara, et al.. (2025). Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity. Nature. 643(8072). 830–838. 7 indexed citations

Kosicki, Michael, Fotis A. Baltoumas, Guy Kelman, et al.. (2024). VISTA Enhancer browser: an updated database of tissue-specific developmental enhancers. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(D1). D324–D330. 10 indexed citations

Bezrutczyk, Margaret, Danielle Goudeau, Ronan C. O’Malley, et al.. (2024). Spatial co-transcriptomics reveals discrete stages of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Nature Plants. 10(4). 673–688. 30 indexed citations

Ali, Shahid, Muhammad Abrar, Irfan Hussain, et al.. (2023). Identification of ancestral gnathostome Gli3 enhancers with activity in mammals. Development Growth & Differentiation. 66(1). 75–88. 2 indexed citations

Mannion, Brandon J., Dunja Knapp, Fabian Lim, et al.. (2023). Conserved enhancers control notochord expression of vertebrate Brachyury. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6594–6594. 5 indexed citations

Weber, Christopher R., et al.. (2023). Identification of conserved skeletal enhancers associated with craniosynostosis risk genes. Human Molecular Genetics. 33(10). 837–849. 3 indexed citations

Barozzi, Iros, Robert Reinhardt, Thomas Oberholzer, et al.. (2021). SMAD4 target genes are part of a transcriptional network that integrates the response to BMP and SHH signaling during early limb bud patterning. Development. 148(23). 11 indexed citations

Ypsilanti, Athéna R., Kartik Pattabiraman, Rinaldo Catta-Preta, et al.. (2021). Transcriptional network orchestrating regional patterning of cortical progenitors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(51). 27 indexed citations

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Cole, Benjamin, Dominique C. Bergmann, Crysten E. Blaby‐Haas, et al.. (2021). Plant single-cell solutions for energy and the environment. Communications Biology. 4(1). 962–962. 30 indexed citations

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He, Peng, Brian A. Williams, Diane Trout, et al.. (2020). The changing mouse embryo transcriptome at whole tissue and single-cell resolution. Nature. 583(7818). 760–767. 97 indexed citations

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Wang, Gaoyan, Elizabeth M. Ryan, Meredith McDonald, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide identification of bacterial plant colonization genes. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations

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Hashimoto, Hisayuki, Zhaoning Wang, Glynnis A. Garry, et al.. (2019). Cardiac Reprogramming Factors Synergistically Activate Genome-wide Cardiogenic Stage-Specific Enhancers. Cell stem cell. 25(1). 69–86.e5. 68 indexed citations

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Preißl, Sebastian, Rongxin Fang, Hui Huang, et al.. (2018). Single-nucleus analysis of accessible chromatin in developing mouse forebrain reveals cell-type-specific transcriptional regulation. Nature Neuroscience. 21(3). 432–439. 195 indexed citations

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Sasse, Joëlle, Josefine Kant, Benjamin Cole, et al.. (2018). Multilab EcoFAB study shows highly reproducible physiology and depletion of soil metabolites by a model grass. New Phytologist. 222(2). 1149–1160. 56 indexed citations

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Cole, Benjamin, Meghan E. Feltcher, R. Jordan Waters, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide identification of bacterial plant colonization genes. PLoS Biology. 15(9). e2002860–e2002860. 148 indexed citations

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Osterwalder, Marco, Wing-Lee Chan, Lars Wittler, et al.. (2017). Composition and dosage of a multipartite enhancer cluster control developmental expression of Ihh (Indian hedgehog). Nature Genetics. 49(10). 1539–1545. 85 indexed citations

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Attanasio, Catia, Alex S. Nord, Yiwen Zhu, et al.. (2013). Fine Tuning of Craniofacial Morphology by Distant-Acting Enhancers. Science. 342(6157). 1241006–1241006. 170 indexed citations

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Prabhakar, Shyam, Axel Visel, Jennifer A. Akiyama, et al.. (2008). Human-Specific Gain of Function in a Developmental Enhancer. Science. 321(5894). 1346–1350. 246 indexed citations

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Bassingthwaighte, James B., Ellen‐Marie Forsberg, Axel Visel, et al.. (2002). The Physiome Project: The Macroethics of Engineering toward Health. 22(3). 5 indexed citations

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