Barbara Nicol

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Barbara Nicol is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Nicol has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Genetics, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Barbara Nicol's work include Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (20 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (9 papers) and Reproductive Biology and Fertility (6 papers). Barbara Nicol is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (20 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (9 papers) and Reproductive Biology and Fertility (6 papers). Barbara Nicol collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Morocco. Barbara Nicol's co-authors include Yann Guiguen, Ayaka Yano, Elodie Jouanno, Alexis Fostier, Edwige Quillet, René R. Guyomard, Humphrey Hung‐Chang Yao, Olivier Bouchez, Christophe Klopp and Cédric Cabau and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Nicol

28 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

An Immune-Related Gene Evolved into the Master Sex-Determining Gene in Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

2012 396 citations Ayaka Yano, René R. Guyomard et al. Current Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara Nicol United States	16	1.0k	458	403	199	154	28	1.4k
Rajini Sreenivasan Australia	15	810 0.8×	426 0.9×	578 1.4×	192 1.0×	95 0.6×	24	1.2k
Chutian Ge China	16	678 0.7×	218 0.5×	330 0.8×	170 0.9×	54 0.4×	39	972
Makoto Kusakabe Japan	19	582 0.6×	580 1.3×	150 0.4×	155 0.8×	74 0.5×	40	1.2k
Sérgio Ricardo Batlouni Brazil	19	540 0.5×	748 1.6×	171 0.4×	425 2.1×	121 0.8×	59	1.3k
Chuangju Li China	19	589 0.6×	449 1.0×	230 0.6×	131 0.7×	32 0.2×	60	1.1k
Marina Govoroun France	17	1.1k 1.1×	863 1.9×	338 0.8×	347 1.7×	147 1.0×	24	1.4k
Peter Batzel United States	13	468 0.5×	213 0.5×	406 1.0×	55 0.3×	40 0.3×	21	927
Noèlia Díaz Spain	17	610 0.6×	402 0.9×	631 1.6×	84 0.4×	28 0.2×	30	1.4k
Maëlle Pannetier France	22	1.2k 1.2×	234 0.5×	847 2.1×	391 2.0×	317 2.1×	42	1.6k
Kohei Ohta Japan	17	631 0.6×	528 1.2×	211 0.5×	203 1.0×	62 0.4×	47	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Nicol

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Rodriguez, Karina F., et al.. (2025). Single-nucleus multiomics reveals the gene regulatory networks underlying sex determination of murine primordial germ cells. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Breen, James, Barbara Nicol, Natalie J. Foot, et al.. (2023). Progesterone receptor mediates ovulatory transcription through RUNX transcription factor interactions and chromatin remodelling. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(12). 5981–5996. 13 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Karina F., Paula R. Brown, Barbara Nicol, et al.. (2022). Somatic cell fate maintenance in mouse fetal testes via autocrine/paracrine action of AMH and activin B. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4130–4130. 15 indexed citations

Nicol, Barbara, Martín A. Estermann, Humphrey Hung‐Chang Yao, & Namya Mellouk. (2022). Becoming female: Ovarian differentiation from an evolutionary perspective. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 944776–944776. 11 indexed citations

Li, Rong, San‐Pin Wu, Lecong Zhou, et al.. (2020). Increased FOXL2 expression alters uterine structures and functions†. Biology of Reproduction. 103(5). 951–965. 6 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Karina F., Namya Mellouk, Erica Ungewitter, et al.. (2020). In utero exposure to arsenite contributes to metabolic and reproductive dysfunction in male offspring of CD-1 mice. Reproductive Toxicology. 95. 95–103. 10 indexed citations

Hedderson, Monique M., Derrick Lee, Kimberly Lee, et al.. (2019). Enhanced Recovery After Surgery to Change Process Measures and Reduce Opioid Use After Cesarean Delivery. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 134(3). 511–519. 65 indexed citations

Nicol, Barbara, Sara A. Grimm, Frédéric Chalmel, et al.. (2019). RUNX1 maintains the identity of the fetal ovary through an interplay with FOXL2. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5116–5116. 65 indexed citations

Bertho, Sylvain, Amaury Herpin, Elodie Jouanno, et al.. (2018). The unusual rainbow trout sex determination gene hijacked the canonical vertebrate gonadal differentiation pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(50). 12781–12786. 60 indexed citations

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Rodriguez, Karina F., Erica Ungewitter, Chang Liu, et al.. (2015). Effects of in Utero Exposure to Arsenic during the Second Half of Gestation on Reproductive End Points and Metabolic Parameters in Female CD-1 Mice. Environmental Health Perspectives. 124(3). 336–343. 64 indexed citations

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Nicol, Barbara & Humphrey Hung‐Chang Yao. (2015). Gonadal Identity in the Absence of Pro-Testis Factor SOX9 and Pro-Ovary Factor Beta-Catenin in Mice1. Biology of Reproduction. 93(2). 35–35. 48 indexed citations

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Nicol, Barbara & Humphrey Hung‐Chang Yao. (2014). Building an Ovary: Insights into Establishment of Somatic Cell Lineages in the Mouse. Sexual Development. 8(5). 243–251. 28 indexed citations

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Herpin, Amaury, Mateus Contar Adolfi, Barbara Nicol, et al.. (2013). Divergent Expression Regulation of Gonad Development Genes in Medaka Shows Incomplete Conservation of the Downstream Regulatory Network of Vertebrate Sex Determination. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(10). 2328–2346. 59 indexed citations

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Yano, Ayaka, Barbara Nicol, Elodie Jouanno, & Yann Guiguen. (2013). Heritable Targeted Inactivation of the Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Master Sex-Determining Gene Using Zinc-Finger Nucleases. Marine Biotechnology. 16(2). 243–250. 30 indexed citations

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Nicol, Barbara, et al.. (2013). Follistatin Is an Early Player in Rainbow Trout Ovarian Differentiation and Is Both Colocalized with Aromatase and Regulated by the Wnt Pathway. Sexual Development. 7(5). 267–276. 18 indexed citations

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Cam, Aurélie Le, Julien Bobe, Olivier Bouchez, et al.. (2012). Characterization of rainbow trout gonad, brain and gill deep cDNA repertoires using a Roche 454-Titanium sequencing approach. Gene. 500(1). 32–39. 10 indexed citations

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Yano, Ayaka, René R. Guyomard, Barbara Nicol, et al.. (2012). An Immune-Related Gene Evolved into the Master Sex-Determining Gene in Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Current Biology. 22(15). 1423–1428. 396 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yano, Ayaka, et al.. (2011). The duplicated rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) T‐box transcription factors 1, tbx1a and tbx1b, are up‐regulated during testicular development. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 78(3). 172–180. 19 indexed citations

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Nicol, Barbara, et al.. (2011). Ovary‐predominant wnt4 expression during gonadal differentiation is not conserved in the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Molecular Reproduction and Development. 79(1). 51–63. 38 indexed citations

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Laurent, Audrey, et al.. (2010). Involvement of ZFPIP/Zfp462 in chromatin integrity and survival of P19 pluripotent cells. Experimental Cell Research. 316(7). 1190–1201. 12 indexed citations

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