Boris Joffe

3.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
25 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

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Boris Joffe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris Joffe has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Boris Joffe's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers), Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation (5 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Boris Joffe is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers), Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation (5 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Boris Joffe collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Russia and United Kingdom. Boris Joffe's co-authors include Irina Solovei, Heinrich Leonhardt, Leo Peichl, Thomas Cremer, Christian Lanctôt, Jochen Guck, Moritz Kreysing, Yana Feodorova, Katharina Thanisch and Colin L. Stewart and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Development.

In The Last Decade

Boris Joffe

25 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

LBR and Lamin A/C Sequentially Tether Peripheral Heterochromatin and Inversely Regulate Differentiation

2013 585 citations Irina Solovei, Audrey S. Wang et al. Cell profile →
Nuclear Architecture of Rod Photoreceptor Cells Adapts to Vision in Mammalian Evolution

2009 585 citations Irina Solovei, Moritz Kreysing et al. Cell profile →
Heterochromatin drives compartmentalization of inverted and conventional nuclei

2019 407 citations Martin Falk, Yana Feodorova 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
Boris Joffe Germany	17	2.0k	428	258	166	143	25	2.3k
Christian Lanctôt Canada	20	2.8k 1.4×	359 0.8×	800 3.1×	232 1.4×	601 4.2×	40	3.6k
Sylvain W. Lapan United States	16	2.1k 1.0×	295 0.7×	118 0.5×	103 0.6×	281 2.0×	19	2.4k
Robert M. Grainger United States	23	2.3k 1.2×	164 0.4×	721 2.8×	424 2.6×	205 1.4×	61	2.9k
Sarah L. Crittenden United States	23	1.9k 0.9×	156 0.4×	253 1.0×	139 0.8×	71 0.5×	40	2.7k
Harris Morrison United Kingdom	18	1.3k 0.7×	263 0.6×	591 2.3×	93 0.6×	116 0.8×	25	1.9k
Martina Rembold Germany	12	937 0.5×	103 0.2×	213 0.8×	350 2.1×	194 1.4×	13	1.4k
Andrea Pauli Austria	26	3.3k 1.6×	345 0.8×	418 1.6×	493 3.0×	325 2.3×	44	4.1k
Woong Y. Hwang United States	10	2.4k 1.2×	224 0.5×	643 2.5×	608 3.7×	188 1.3×	14	2.9k
Ruby Banerjee United Kingdom	13	1.3k 0.6×	134 0.3×	464 1.8×	114 0.7×	66 0.5×	18	1.7k
Olivier Fédrigo United States	21	1.3k 0.6×	296 0.7×	518 2.0×	61 0.4×	43 0.3×	51	1.8k

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Falk, Martin, Yana Feodorova, N. M. Naumova, et al.. (2019). Heterochromatin drives compartmentalization of inverted and conventional nuclei. Nature. 570(7761). 395–399. 407 indexed citations breakdown →

Werken, Harmen J.G. van de, Josien Haan, Yana Feodorova, et al.. (2017). Small chromosomal regions position themselves autonomously according to their chromatin class. Genome Research. 27(6). 922–933. 27 indexed citations

Thanisch, Katharina, Dieter Engelkamp, Einar Hallberg, et al.. (2017). Nuclear envelope localization of LEMD2 is developmentally dynamic and lamin A/C dependent yet insufficient for heterochromatin tethering. Differentiation. 94. 58–70. 21 indexed citations

Feodorova, Yana, Jacky Guy, Leo Peichl, et al.. (2014). DNA methylation reader MECP2: cell type- and differentiation stage-specific protein distribution. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 7(1). 17–17. 53 indexed citations

Solovei, Irina, Audrey S. Wang, Katharina Thanisch, et al.. (2013). LBR and Lamin A/C Sequentially Tether Peripheral Heterochromatin and Inversely Regulate Differentiation. Cell. 152(3). 584–598. 585 indexed citations breakdown →

Feodorova, Yana, Gerhard Wanner, Елена Киселева, et al.. (2013). Epigenetics of eu- and heterochromatin in inverted and conventional nuclei from mouse retina. Chromosome Research. 21(5). 535–554. 53 indexed citations

Joffe, Boris, Leo Peichl, Anita E. Hendrickson, Heinrich Leonhardt, & Irina Solovei. (2013). Diurnality and Nocturnality in Primates: An Analysis from the Rod Photoreceptor Nuclei Perspective. Evolutionary Biology. 41(1). 1–11. 23 indexed citations

Kimurâ, Hiroshi, et al.. (2012). Reliable detection of epigenetic histone marks and nuclear proteins in tissue cryosections. Chromosome Research. 20(7). 849–858. 22 indexed citations

Kuhrt, Heidrun, Hartwig Wolburg, Boris Joffe, et al.. (2012). Postnatal mammalian retinal development: Quantitative data and general rules. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. 31(6). 605–621. 30 indexed citations

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Joffe, Boris, Heinrich Leonhardt, & Irina Solovei. (2010). Differentiation and large scale spatial organization of the genome. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 20(5). 562–569. 55 indexed citations

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Solovei, Irina, Moritz Kreysing, Christian Lanctôt, et al.. (2009). Nuclear Architecture of Rod Photoreceptor Cells Adapts to Vision in Mammalian Evolution. Cell. 137(2). 356–368. 585 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Siwei, Irina Solovei, Roel van Driel, et al.. (2008). Structural analysis of interphase X-chromatin based on statistical shape theory. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1783(11). 2089–2099. 4 indexed citations

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Merico, Valeria, Maurizio Zuccotti, Boris Joffe, et al.. (2007). Epigenomic differentiation in mouse preimplantation nuclei of biparental, parthenote and cloned embryos. Chromosome Research. 15(3). 341–60. 44 indexed citations

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Albiez, H., Marion Cremer, Cinzia Tiberi, et al.. (2006). Chromatin domains and the interchromatin compartment form structurally defined and functionally interacting nuclear networks. Chromosome Research. 14(7). 707–733. 210 indexed citations

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Solovei, Irina, et al.. (1998). Unordered arrangement of chromosomes in the nuclei of chicken spermatozoa. Chromosoma. 107(3). 184–188. 19 indexed citations

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Joffe, Boris, Irina Solovei, & H. C. Macgregor. (1998). Ordered arrangement and rearrangement of chromosomes during spermatogenesis in two species of planarians (Plathelminthes). Chromosoma. 107(3). 173–183. 22 indexed citations

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Joffe, Boris, et al.. (1998). Notentera ivanovi Joffe et al., 1997: a contribution to the question of phylogenetic relationships between ‘turbellarians’ and the parasitic Plathelminthes (Neodermata). Hydrobiologia. 383(1-3). 245–250. 10 indexed citations

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Joffe, Boris, Irina Solovei, & H. C. Macgregor. (1996). Ends of chromosomes inPolycelis tenuis (Platyhelminthes) have telomere repeat TTAGGG. Chromosome Research. 4(4). 323–324. 10 indexed citations

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Joffe, Boris, Irina Solovei, & L. R. G. Cannon. (1996). The Posttentacular Syncytia of Temnocephalids: the First Indication of a Putative Osmoregulatory Organ in the Epidermis of a Platyhelminth. Acta Zoologica. 77(3). 241–247. 7 indexed citations

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Joffe, Boris & Maria Reuter. (1993). The nervous system of Bothriomolus balticus (Proseriata) —a contribution to the knowledge of the orthogon in the Plathelminthes. Zoomorphology. 113(2). 113–127. 28 indexed citations

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