David Bensimon

12.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
130 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

David Bensimon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Bensimon has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Bensimon's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (41 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (26 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (23 papers). David Bensimon is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (41 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (26 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (23 papers). David Bensimon collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Israel. David Bensimon's co-authors include Vincent Croquette, Jean‐François Allemand, Terence R. Strick, Aaron Bensimon, Boris I. Shraiman, Leo P. Kadanoff, Adam Simon, Gilles Charvin, Chao Tang and Shoudan Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Bensimon

125 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

The Elasticity of a Single Supercoiled DNA Molecule

1996 1000 citations Terence R. Strick, Jean‐François Allemand et al. profile →
Alignment and Sensitive Detection of DNA by a Moving Interface

1994 658 citations Aaron Bensimon, Vincent Croquette et al. profile →
Viscous flows in two dimensions

1986 591 citations David Bensimon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Bensimon France	52	5.6k	2.6k	2.3k	1.3k	1.1k	130	10.1k
Vincent Croquette France	52	6.6k 1.2×	3.0k 1.2×	2.8k 1.2×	742 0.6×	552 0.5×	138	10.8k
Christoph F. Schmidt Germany	52	4.1k 0.7×	3.7k 1.4×	3.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	135	11.8k
Robijn Bruinsma United States	58	3.3k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	2.5k 2.0×	1.8k 1.6×	220	10.5k
Rudolf Podgornik Slovenia	50	3.4k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.7×	686 0.6×	290	10.2k
Henrik Flyvbjerg Denmark	44	2.8k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	722 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	152	9.7k
Alexander Y. Grosberg United States	59	4.7k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	4.0k 1.7×	4.0k 3.2×	1.3k 1.1×	235	13.2k
John F. Marko United States	60	9.1k 1.6×	2.6k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	536 0.5×	197	12.9k
Dieter Braun Germany	51	3.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	2.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	680 0.6×	202	11.3k
Robert H. Austin United States	76	7.0k 1.3×	3.0k 1.2×	11.3k 4.9×	2.5k 2.0×	969 0.9×	262	21.4k
Davide Marenduzzo United Kingdom	58	3.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	2.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.8×	4.1k 3.7×	252	10.2k

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Scerbo, Pierluigi, et al.. (2024). In vivo targeted and deterministic single-cell malignant transformation. eLife. 13.

Ding, Fangyuan, Simona Cocco, Maria Mañosas, et al.. (2022). Displacement and dissociation of oligonucleotides during DNA hairpin closure under strain. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(21). 12082–12093. 9 indexed citations

Ducos, Bertrand, David Bensimon, & Pierluigi Scerbo. (2022). Vertebrate Cell Differentiation, Evolution, and Diseases: The Vertebrate-Specific Developmental Potential Guardians VENTX/NANOG and POU5/OCT4 Enter the Stage. Cells. 11(15). 2299–2299. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Weiting, Pierluigi Scerbo, Sophie Vriz, et al.. (2022). Fgf8 dynamics and critical slowing down may account for the temperature independence of somitogenesis. Communications Biology. 5(1). 113–113. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Weiting, Isabelle Aujard, Thomas Le Saux, et al.. (2019). Optical control of protein activity and gene expression by photoactivation of caged cyclofen. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 624. 1–23. 4 indexed citations

Gautier, Arnaud, Carole Gauron, Michel Volovitch, et al.. (2014). How to control proteins with light in living systems. Nature Chemical Biology. 10(7). 533–541. 202 indexed citations

Ding, Fangyuan, Maria Mañosas, Michelle M. Spiering, et al.. (2012). Single-molecule mechanical identification and sequencing. Nature Methods. 9(4). 367–372. 42 indexed citations

Mandal, Prasun K., et al.. (2012). Monogalactopyranosides of fluorescein and fluorescein methyl ester: synthesis, enzymatic hydrolysis by biotnylated β-galactosidase, and determination of translational diffusion coefficient. Carbohydrate Research. 358. 40–46. 9 indexed citations

Cian, Anne De, Fangyuan Ding, Vijender Singh, et al.. (2012). ATP-Independent Cooperative Binding of Yeast Isw1a to Bare and Nucleosomal DNA. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e31845–e31845. 8 indexed citations

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Bavli, Danny, Maria Tkachev, Hubert Piwoński, et al.. (2011). Detection and Quantification through a Lipid Membrane Using the Molecularly Controlled Semiconductor Resistor. Langmuir. 28(1). 1020–1028. 12 indexed citations

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Lavelle, Christophe, et al.. (2011). Nucleosome‐remodelling machines and other molecular motors observed at the single‐molecule level. FEBS Journal. 278(19). 3596–3607. 10 indexed citations

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Sinha, Deepak K., Pierre Neveu, Nathalie Gagey‐Eilstein, et al.. (2010). Photoactivation of the CreER ^T2 Recombinase for Conditional Site-Specific Recombination with High Spatiotemporal Resolution. Zebrafish. 7(2). 199–204. 51 indexed citations

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Lia, Giuseppe, Szabolcs Semsey, Dale E. A. Lewis, et al.. (2008). The antiparallel loops in gal DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(12). 4204–4210. 14 indexed citations

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Charvin, Gilles, Alexander Vologodskii, David Bensimon, & Vincent Croquette. (2005). Braiding DNA: Experiments, Simulations, and Models. Biophysical Journal. 88(6). 4124–4136. 63 indexed citations

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Neuman, Keir C., Omar A. Saleh, Timothée Lionnet, et al.. (2005). Statistical determination of the step size of molecular motors. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 17(47). S3811–S3820. 27 indexed citations

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Strick, Terence R., Gilles Charvin, Nynke H. Dekker, et al.. (2002). Observation des cycles enzymatiques des ADN topoisomérases par micromanipulation de molécules individuelles. Comptes Rendus Physique. 3(5). 595–618. 11 indexed citations

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Bensimon, David & Vincent Croquette. (2002). Foreword. Comptes Rendus Physique. 3(5). 561–567. 2 indexed citations

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Strick, Terence R., Jean‐François Allemand, Vincent Croquette, & David Bensimon. (2000). Twisting and stretching single DNA molecules. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 74(1-2). 115–140. 269 indexed citations

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Allemand, Jean‐François, David Bensimon, Ludovic Jullien, Aaron Bensimon, & Vincent Croquette. (1997). pH-dependent specific binding and combing of DNA. Biophysical Journal. 73(4). 2064–2070. 228 indexed citations

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Bensimon, David. (1996). Force: a new structural control parameter?. Structure. 4(8). 885–889. 25 indexed citations

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