Cyrus Modavi

946 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 628 citations indexed

About

Cyrus Modavi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cyrus Modavi has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 628 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Cyrus Modavi's work include Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (4 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (3 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Cyrus Modavi is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (4 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (3 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Cyrus Modavi collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Cyrus Modavi's co-authors include John E. Dueber, Eric B. Wong, David V. Schaffer, Connor J. Tou, Adam R. Abate, Jean‐Christophe Baret, Thomas Beneyton, Andrew D. Griffiths, Andrew J. deMello and Douglas Densmore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Cyrus Modavi

16 papers receiving 613 citations

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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.

Droplet-based microfluidics

2023 166 citations Thomas Beneyton, Cyrus Modavi et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cyrus Modavi United States	10	343	221	96	73	53	16	628
Iman Farasat United States	8	623 1.8×	261 1.2×	76 0.8×	134 1.8×	17 0.3×	8	776
Piro Siuti United States	12	547 1.6×	150 0.7×	39 0.4×	88 1.2×	33 0.6×	18	706
Zhang Chuan-ping China	12	261 0.8×	83 0.4×	67 0.7×	39 0.5×	88 1.7×	29	560
Zehua Bao United States	11	824 2.4×	139 0.6×	15 0.2×	109 1.5×	67 1.3×	17	885
Yunfeng Ding United States	11	549 1.6×	140 0.6×	23 0.2×	29 0.4×	41 0.8×	21	810
Arun S. Rajkumar Ireland	11	764 2.2×	216 1.0×	12 0.1×	87 1.2×	44 0.8×	16	860
Oriol Cós Spain	12	701 2.0×	203 0.9×	53 0.6×	33 0.5×	48 0.9×	17	821
Bodil Nordlander Sweden	9	813 2.4×	244 1.1×	32 0.3×	40 0.5×	153 2.9×	14	1.0k
Jarne Postmus Netherlands	6	476 1.4×	94 0.4×	13 0.1×	83 1.1×	60 1.1×	8	590
Xuelian Zhang China	15	345 1.0×	52 0.2×	102 1.1×	199 2.7×	29 0.5×	29	758

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cyrus Modavi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cyrus Modavi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cyrus Modavi based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cyrus Modavi. Cyrus Modavi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Li, Xiangpeng, Linfeng Xu, Benjamin Demaree, et al.. (2025). Microbiome Single Cell Atlases Generated with a Commercial Instrument. Advanced Science. 12(27). e2409338–e2409338. 2 indexed citations

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Beneyton, Thomas, Cyrus Modavi, Adam R. Abate, et al.. (2023). Droplet-based microfluidics. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 3(1). 166 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Pengfei, Congying Liu, Cyrus Modavi, Adam R. Abate, & Huawei Chen. (2023). Printhead on a chip: empowering droplet-based bioprinting with microfluidics. Trends in biotechnology. 42(3). 353–368. 20 indexed citations

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Modavi, Cyrus, et al.. (2022). Dual‐layered hydrogels allow complete genome recovery with nucleic acid cytometry. Biotechnology Journal. 17(4). e2100483–e2100483. 3 indexed citations

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Tran, Tuan M., Samuel Kim, Cyrus Modavi, & Adam R. Abate. (2022). Robotic automation of droplet microfluidics. Biomicrofluidics. 16(1). 14102–14102. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Linfeng, Xiangpeng Li, Kai‐Chun Chang, et al.. (2022). Microbowls with Controlled Concavity for Accurate Microscale Mass Spectrometry. Advanced Materials. 34(12). e2108194–e2108194. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Linfeng, Kai‐Chun Chang, Emory M. Payne, et al.. (2021). Mapping enzyme catalysis with metabolic biosensing. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6803–6803. 26 indexed citations

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Feng, Siyu, et al.. (2020). Improved Split Fluorescent Proteins for the Visualization of Endogenous Proteins and Synapses. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 175a–175a. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Peng, Cyrus Modavi, Benjamin Demaree, et al.. (2020). Microfluidic automated plasmid library enrichment for biosynthetic gene cluster discovery. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(8). e48–e48. 13 indexed citations

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Feng, Siyu, et al.. (2019). Bright split red fluorescent proteins for the visualization of endogenous proteins and synapses. Communications Biology. 2(1). 344–344. 42 indexed citations

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Tou, Connor J., et al.. (2018). CRISPR-guided DNA polymerases enable diversification of all nucleotides in a tunable window. Nature. 560(7717). 248–252. 237 indexed citations

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Grewal, Parbir S., Cyrus Modavi, Zachary N. Russ, Nicholas C. Harris, & John E. Dueber. (2017). Bioproduction of a betalain color palette in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metabolic Engineering. 45. 180–188. 76 indexed citations

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Raad, Markus de, Cyrus Modavi, David J. Sukovich, & J. Christopher Anderson. (2016). Observing Biosynthetic Activity Utilizing Next Generation Sequencing and the DNA Linked Enzyme Coupled Assay. ACS Chemical Biology. 12(1). 191–199. 5 indexed citations

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Modavi, Cyrus, et al.. (2015). Tracking transience: a method for dynamic monitoring of biological events in Arabidopsis thaliana biosensors. Planta. 242(5). 1251–1261. 1 indexed citations

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Sukovich, David J., et al.. (2015). DNA-Linked Enzyme-Coupled Assay for Probing Glucosyltransferase Specificity. ACS Synthetic Biology. 4(7). 833–841. 6 indexed citations

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Mohaghegh, Shahab D., et al.. (2006). Development of Surrogate Reservoir Models (SRM) for Fast-Track Analysis of Complex Reservoirs. 11 indexed citations

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