Cees Dekker

74.0k total citations · 24 hit papers
409 papers, 54.2k citations indexed

About

Cees Dekker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Cees Dekker has authored 409 papers receiving a total of 54.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Molecular Biology, 168 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 102 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Cees Dekker's work include Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (125 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (64 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (59 papers). Cees Dekker is often cited by papers focused on Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (125 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (64 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (59 papers). Cees Dekker collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Cees Dekker's co-authors include Sander J. Tans, Alwin R. M. Verschueren, Zhen Yao, R. E. Smalley, Derek Stein, Serge G. Lemay, H.W. Zandbergen, Nynke H. Dekker, Henk W. Ch. Postma and Liesbeth Venema and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Cees Dekker

407 papers receiving 52.7k citations

Hit Papers

Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nano... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1998 1998 1997 2001 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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.

  1. Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube
    1998 4.3k citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  2. Electronic structure of atomically resolved carbon nanotubes
    1998 2.3k citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  3. Individual single-wall carbon nanotubes as quantum wires
    1997 2.3k citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  4. Logic Circuits with Carbon Nanotube Transistors
    2001 2.0k citations Adrian Bachtold, P. Hadley et al. Science profile →
  5. Solid-state nanopores
    2007 1.6k citations Cees Dekker profile →
  6. Carbon nanotube intramolecular junctions
    1999 1.4k citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  7. Direct measurement of electrical transport through DNA molecules
    2000 1.4k citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  8. High-Field Electrical Transport in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
    2000 1.2k citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  9. Fabrication of solid-state nanopores with single-nanometre precision
    2003 1.1k citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  10. Carbon Nanotubes as Molecular Quantum Wires
    1999 1.1k citations Cees Dekker profile →
  11. Enzyme-Coated Carbon Nanotubes as Single-Molecule Biosensors
    2003 978 citations Cees Dekker et al. Nano Letters profile →
  12. Surface-Charge-Governed Ion Transport in Nanofluidic Channels
    2004 968 citations Derek Stein, Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  13. DNA Translocation through Graphene Nanopores
    2010 841 citations Cees Dekker et al. Nano Letters profile →
  14. Carbon Nanotube Single-Electron Transistors at Room Temperature
    2001 829 citations Cees Dekker et al. Science profile →
  15. Salt Dependence of Ion Transport and DNA Translocation through Solid-State Nanopores
    2005 681 citations Cees Dekker et al. Nano Letters profile →
  16. Fast DNA Translocation through a Solid-State Nanopore
    2005 579 citations Cees Dekker et al. Nano Letters profile →
  17. Direct force measurements on DNA in a solid-state nanopore
    2006 524 citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  18. Real-time imaging of DNA loop extrusion by condensin
    2018 514 citations S. Bisht, Christian H. Haering et al. Science profile →
  19. Power Generation by Pressure-Driven Transport of Ions in Nanofluidic Channels
    2007 510 citations Derek Stein, Cees Dekker et al. Nano Letters profile →
  20. Graphene nanodevices for DNA sequencing
    2016 492 citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  21. Treadmilling by FtsZ filaments drives peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial cell division
    2017 417 citations Cees Dekker, Séamus Holden et al. Science profile →
  22. Nanopore-based technologies beyond DNA sequencing
    2022 331 citations Cees Dekker et al. profile →
  23. Multiple rereads of single proteins at single–amino acid resolution using nanopores
    2021 305 citations Henry Brinkerhoff, Aleksei Aksimentiev et al. Science profile →
  24. CTCF is a DNA-tension-dependent barrier to cohesin-mediated loop extrusion
    2023 94 citations Iain F. Davidson, Roman Barth et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cees Dekker Netherlands 106 24.2k 21.7k 15.5k 14.5k 10.2k 409 54.2k
Juan Pablo United States 100 9.5k 0.4× 18.0k 0.8× 3.9k 0.3× 6.9k 0.5× 5.1k 0.5× 790 37.7k
Wolfgang Knoll Germany 96 14.8k 0.6× 9.7k 0.4× 14.5k 0.9× 13.2k 0.9× 5.9k 0.6× 887 38.7k
Daan Frenkel Netherlands 101 13.7k 0.6× 27.3k 1.3× 2.3k 0.1× 7.2k 0.5× 9.0k 0.9× 505 48.9k
Paras N. Prasad United States 118 26.6k 1.1× 37.8k 1.7× 12.9k 0.8× 8.2k 0.6× 7.7k 0.8× 937 62.1k
Thomas A. Witten United States 49 7.7k 0.3× 11.5k 0.5× 7.4k 0.5× 2.5k 0.2× 4.1k 0.4× 157 32.5k
Richard P. Van Duyne United States 117 39.4k 1.6× 26.0k 1.2× 13.3k 0.9× 20.3k 1.4× 9.5k 0.9× 388 77.3k
George C. Schatz United States 141 37.1k 1.5× 38.0k 1.8× 15.4k 1.0× 18.7k 1.3× 24.9k 2.4× 1.1k 99.3k
Paul Mulvaney Australia 100 14.9k 0.6× 23.2k 1.1× 10.9k 0.7× 5.4k 0.4× 7.3k 0.7× 373 42.7k
Giulio Cerullo Italy 83 5.7k 0.2× 7.4k 0.3× 11.5k 0.7× 2.1k 0.1× 14.1k 1.4× 801 28.3k
Mostafa A. El‐Sayed United States 121 41.8k 1.7× 49.8k 2.3× 15.3k 1.0× 19.1k 1.3× 7.5k 0.7× 621 103.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cees Dekker

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barth, Roman, Iain F. Davidson, Jaco van der Torre, et al.. (2025). SMC motor proteins extrude DNA asymmetrically and can switch directions. Cell. 188(3). 749–763.e21. 15 indexed citations
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Bock, Florian Patrick, et al.. (2024). Direct observation of a crescent-shape chromosome in expanded Bacillus subtilis cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2737–2737. 2 indexed citations
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Nova, Ian C., et al.. (2023). Detection of phosphorylation post-translational modifications along single peptides with nanopores. Nature Biotechnology. 42(5). 710–714. 58 indexed citations
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Vanderlinden, Willem, et al.. (2023). Supercoiling-dependent DNA binding: quantitative modeling and applications to bulk and single-molecule experiments. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(1). 59–72. 6 indexed citations
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Brauns, Fridtjof, et al.. (2023). Directing Min protein patterns with advective bulk flow. Nature Communications. 14(1). 450–450. 6 indexed citations
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Bengtson, Michel, et al.. (2021). Diagnosing point-of-care diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(6). e0009405–e0009405. 35 indexed citations
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Yang, Wayne, Boya Radha, Yi You, et al.. (2021). Translocation of DNA through Ultrathin Nanoslits. Advanced Materials. 33(11). e2007682–e2007682. 30 indexed citations
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Buren, Lennard van, Nicola De Franceschi, Christophe Danelon, et al.. (2021). Optimized cDICE for Efficient Reconstitution of Biological Systems in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles. ACS Synthetic Biology. 10(7). 1690–1702. 45 indexed citations
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Japaridze, Aleksandre, et al.. (2020). Direct observation of independently moving replisomes in Escherichia coli. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3109–3109. 32 indexed citations
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Last, Mart G.F., Siddharth Deshpande, & Cees Dekker. (2020). pH-Controlled Coacervate–Membrane Interactions within Liposomes. ACS Nano. 14(4). 4487–4498. 119 indexed citations
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Burla, Federica, et al.. (2019). Shape and Size Control of Artificial Cells for Bottom-Up Biology. ACS Nano. 13(5). 5439–5450. 62 indexed citations
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Hol, Felix J.H., George M. Whitesides, & Cees Dekker. (2019). Bacteria‐in‐paper, a versatile platform to study bacterial ecology. Ecology Letters. 22(8). 1316–1323. 7 indexed citations
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Perez, Amilcar J., Yann Cesbron, Sidney L. Shaw, et al.. (2019). Movement dynamics of divisome proteins and PBP2x:FtsW in cells of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(8). 3211–3220. 88 indexed citations
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Verschueren, Daniel, Wayne Yang, & Cees Dekker. (2018). Lithography-based fabrication of nanopore arrays in freestanding SiN and graphene membranes. Nanotechnology. 29(14). 145302–145302. 69 indexed citations
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Cadinu, Paolo, Sergii Pud, Wayne Yang, et al.. (2018). Double Barrel Nanopores as a New Tool for Controlling Single-Molecule Transport. Nano Letters. 18(4). 2738–2745. 67 indexed citations
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Terakawa, Tsuyoshi, S. Bisht, Jorine M. Eeftens, et al.. (2017). The condensin complex is a mechanochemical motor that translocates along DNA. Science. 358(6363). 672–676. 212 indexed citations
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Dekker, Cees. (2012). Single-molecule conductance measurements of biomolecule translocation across biomimetic nuclear pores. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Loenhout, Marijn T.J. van, et al.. (2012). Dynamics of DNA Supercoils. Science. 338(6103). 94–97. 165 indexed citations
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Stein, Derek, et al.. (2004). Ion transport in nanofluidic channels. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations
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Bachtold, Adrian, P. Hadley, Takeshi Nakanishi, & Cees Dekker. (2001). Logic Circuits with Carbon Nanotube Transistors. Science. 294(5545). 1317–1320. 2044 indexed citations breakdown →

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