Benjamin Beck

7.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
43 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Beck is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Sensory Systems and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Beck has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Sensory Systems and 11 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Beck's work include Ion Channels and Receptors (13 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (9 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (7 papers). Benjamin Beck is often cited by papers focused on Ion Channels and Receptors (13 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (9 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (7 papers). Benjamin Beck collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and United States. Benjamin Beck's co-authors include Cédric Blanpain, Grégory Driessens, Natalia Prevarskaya, Roman Skryma, Gaëlle Lapouge, Alexandra Van Keymeulen, Benjamin D. Simons, Sophie Dekoninck, Jason R. Rock and Marielle Ousset and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Beck

41 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Unravelling cancer stem cell potential

2013 668 citations Benjamin Beck, Cédric Blanpain Nature reviews. Cancer profile →
Distinct stem cells contribute to mammary gland development and maintenance

2011 650 citations Alexandra Van Keymeulen, Benjamin Beck et al. Nature profile →
Defining the mode of tumour growth by clonal analysis

2012 547 citations Grégory Driessens, Benjamin Beck et al. Nature profile →
SOX2 controls tumour initiation and cancer stem-cell functions in squamous-cell carcinoma

2014 521 citations Soufiane Boumahdi, Grégory Driessens et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Beck Belgium	30	3.1k	2.0k	1.0k	870	587	43	5.4k
Wen‐Tai Chiu Taiwan	30	1.8k 0.6×	483 0.2×	471 0.5×	476 0.5×	511 0.9×	96	3.1k
Estela E. Medrano United States	38	5.9k 1.9×	1.8k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	181 0.2×	1.8k 3.1×	81	10.3k
Jens Peter von Kries Germany	32	5.0k 1.6×	878 0.4×	367 0.4×	95 0.1×	552 0.9×	86	6.2k
Jianrong Lu United States	44	8.3k 2.6×	1.6k 0.8×	2.3k 2.3×	88 0.1×	706 1.2×	92	10.6k
Lei Huang China	29	2.6k 0.8×	847 0.4×	447 0.4×	262 0.3×	471 0.8×	84	3.7k
Achim Temme Germany	36	2.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	539 0.5×	104 0.1×	246 0.4×	105	4.4k
Seung‐Taek Lee South Korea	35	2.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	76 0.1×	1.1k 1.9×	125	4.6k
David F. Barker United States	33	2.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	703 0.7×	86 0.1×	712 1.2×	77	6.5k
Noriko Gotoh Japan	39	5.0k 1.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.9k 1.9×	57 0.1×	717 1.2×	116	6.4k
Dirk Geerts Netherlands	44	3.4k 1.1×	708 0.3×	731 0.7×	103 0.1×	1.2k 2.0×	120	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin Beck

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Beck

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20 of 20 papers shown

Beck, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). Pharmacological SHIP2 blockade enhances sensitivity to standard and targeted cancer therapies. Advances in Biological Regulation. 99. 101130–101130.

Marx, Christian, Frank Weise, Birgit Perner, et al.. (2020). Biomimetic reconstruction of the hematopoietic stem cell niche for in vitro amplification of human hematopoietic stem cells. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0234638–e0234638. 11 indexed citations

Ramos, Ana Raquel, Somadri Ghosh, Clément Chevalier, et al.. (2019). Phosphoinositide 5-phosphatases SKIP and SHIP2 in ruffles, the endoplasmic reticulum and the nucleus: An update. Advances in Biological Regulation. 75. 100660–100660. 11 indexed citations

Latil, Mathilde, Dany Nassar, Benjamin Beck, et al.. (2016). Cell-Type-Specific Chromatin States Differentially Prime Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tumor-Initiating Cells for Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition. Cell stem cell. 20(2). 191–204.e5. 151 indexed citations

Beck, Benjamin, Gaëlle Lapouge, Sandrine Rorive, et al.. (2015). Different Levels of Twist1 Regulate Skin Tumor Initiation, Stemness, and Progression. Cell stem cell. 16(1). 67–79. 160 indexed citations

Beck, Benjamin & Cédric Blanpain. (2013). Unravelling cancer stem cell potential. Nature reviews. Cancer. 13(10). 727–738. 668 indexed citations breakdown →

Beck, Benjamin & Cédric Blanpain. (2012). Mechanisms regulating epidermal stem cells. The EMBO Journal. 31(9). 2067–2075. 51 indexed citations

Lapouge, Gaëlle, Benjamin Beck, Dany Nassar, et al.. (2012). Skin squamous cell carcinoma propagating cells increase with tumour progression and invasiveness. The EMBO Journal. 31(24). 4563–4575. 60 indexed citations

Bondue, Antoine, Samira Chabab, Mirana Ramialison, et al.. (2011). Defining the earliest step of cardiovascular progenitor specification during embryonic stem cell differentiation. The Journal of Cell Biology. 192(5). 751–765. 101 indexed citations

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Beck, Benjamin, Grégory Driessens, Steven Goossens, et al.. (2011). A vascular niche and a VEGF–Nrp1 loop regulate the initiation and stemness of skin tumours. Nature. 478(7369). 399–403. 375 indexed citations

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Bidaux, Gabriel, Benjamin Beck, Alexander V. Zholos, et al.. (2011). Regulation of Activity of Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 8 (TRPM8) Channel by Its Short Isoforms. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(5). 2948–2962. 41 indexed citations

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Flourakis, Matthieu, V’yacheslav Lehen’kyi, Benjamin Beck, et al.. (2010). Orai1 contributes to the establishment of an apoptosis-resistant phenotype in prostate cancer cells. Cell Death and Disease. 1(9). e75–e75. 174 indexed citations

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Bavencoffe, Alexis, Dimitra Gkika, Artem Kondratskyi, et al.. (2010). The Transient Receptor Potential Channel TRPM8 Is Inhibited via the α2A Adrenoreceptor Signaling Pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(13). 9410–9419. 50 indexed citations

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Bonnefont, Jérôme, Térèse Laforge, Olivier Plastre, et al.. (2010). Primate-specific RFPL1 gene controls cell-cycle progression through cyclin B1/Cdc2 degradation. Cell Death and Differentiation. 18(2). 293–303. 14 indexed citations

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Youssef, Khalil Kass, Alexandra Van Keymeulen, Gaëlle Lapouge, et al.. (2010). Identification of the cell lineage at the origin of basal cell carcinoma. Nature Cell Biology. 12(3). 299–305. 299 indexed citations

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Beck, Benjamin, V’yacheslav Lehen’kyi, Morad Roudbaraki, et al.. (2007). TRPC channels determine human keratinocyte differentiation: New insight into basal cell carcinoma. Cell Calcium. 43(5). 492–505. 57 indexed citations

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Bidaux, Gabriel, Matthieu Flourakis, Stéphanie Thebault, et al.. (2007). Prostate cell differentiation status determines transient receptor potential melastatin member 8 channel subcellular localization and function. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 117(6). 1647–1657. 159 indexed citations

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Beck, Benjamin, Alexander V. Zholos, Vadym Sydorenko, et al.. (2006). TRPC7 Is a Receptor-Operated DAG-Activated Channel in Human Keratinocytes. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 126(9). 1982–1993. 44 indexed citations

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Abeele, Fabien Vanden, Alexander V. Zholos, Gabriel Bidaux, et al.. (2006). Ca2+-independent Phospholipase A2-dependent Gating of TRPM8 by Lysophospholipids. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(52). 40174–40182. 109 indexed citations

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Beck, Benjamin, Gabriel Bidaux, Alexis Bavencoffe, et al.. (2006). Prospects for prostate cancer imaging and therapy using high-affinity TRPM8 activators. Cell Calcium. 41(3). 285–294. 61 indexed citations

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