Éric Westhof

36.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
334 papers, 24.6k citations indexed

About

Éric Westhof is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Éric Westhof has authored 334 papers receiving a total of 24.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 308 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Ecology and 36 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Éric Westhof's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (260 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (134 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (84 papers). Éric Westhof is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (260 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (134 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (84 papers). Éric Westhof collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Éric Westhof's co-authors include Pascal Auffinger, Neocles B. Leontis, François Michel, Quentin Vicens, Franklin A. Hays, P Shing Ho, Thomas Hermann, Aurélie Lescoute, Luc Jaeger and Dino Moras and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Éric Westhof

327 papers receiving 24.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Halogen bonds in biological molecules

2004 1.4k citations Pascal Auffinger, Franklin A. Hays et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Modelling of the three-dimensional architecture of group I catalytic introns based on comparative sequence analysis

1990 1.0k citations Éric Westhof et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Geometric nomenclature and classification of RNA base pairs

2001 799 citations Éric Westhof et al. RNA profile →
Single Processing Center Models for Human Dicer and Bacterial RNase III

2004 766 citations Éric Westhof et al. profile →
Correlation between segmental mobility and the location of antigenic determinants in proteins

1984 493 citations Éric Westhof et al. Nature profile →
Crystallographic refinement of yeast aspartic acid transfer RNA

1985 438 citations Éric Westhof et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Éric Westhof

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Éric Westhof. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Éric Westhof 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 Éric Westhof. Éric Westhof is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	N1-Methylpseudouridine directly modulates translation dynamics 2026 ·Nature ·Batsheva Rozman, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Éric Westhof, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	The RNA ‐Puzzles Assessments of RNA ‐Only Targets in CASP16 2025 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Éric Westhof, Hao Sun, Fan Bu, Zhichao Miao	0
3	The Biology of tRNA t6A Modification and Hypermodifications—Biogenesis and Disease Relevance 2025 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Wenhua Zhang, Éric Westhof	0
4	Doublesex gene in Bombyx mori: CRISPR‐mediated female‐to‐male sex reversal through exon skipping 2025 ·Pest Management Science ·(unknown), (unknown), Zhangping Yang, Yahui Zhang, Zhan‐Feng Ye, Lulu Liu, Lu Zheng, Zhengwen Yan, Hai Hu, Minjin Han, Éric Westhof, Fangyin Dai, Xiaoling Tong	0
5	Multiple independent origins of the female W chromosome in moths and butterflies 2024 ·Science Advances ·Minjin Han, (unknown), Hai Hu, (unknown), Kunpeng Lu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Éric Westhof, Xiaoling Tong, Fangyin Dai	3
6	Marc van Regenmortel, personal recollections on a forward‐thinking editor 2024 ·Journal of Molecular Recognition ·Jean‐Luc Pellequer, Éric Westhof	0
7	Assessment of three‐dimensional RNA structure prediction in CASP15 2023 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Rhiju Das, Rachael C. Kretsch, Adam J. Simpkin, (unknown), Phillip Pham, Ramya Rangan, Fan Bu, Ronan M. Keegan, Maya Topf, Daniel J. Rigden, Zhichao Miao, Éric Westhof	72
8	Anionic G•U pairs in bacterial ribosomal rRNAs 2023 ·RNA ·Éric Westhof, Zoe L. Watson, Craig L. Zirbel, J.H.D. Cate	8
9	SilkMeta: a comprehensive platform for sharing and exploiting pan-genomic and multi-omic silkworm data 2023 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Kunpeng Lu, (unknown), (unknown), Lin Yang, (unknown), (unknown), Shuaishuai Tai, (unknown), Tian Li, Tingcai Cheng, Bi Ma, Guoqing Pan, Ningjia He, Cheng Lu, Éric Westhof, Zhonghuai Xiang, Minjin Han, Xiaoling Tong, Fangyin Dai	6
10	SARS-CoV-2 NSP1 induces mRNA cleavages on the ribosome 2023 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Antonin Tidu, Éric Westhof, Gilbert Eriani, Franck Martin	17
11	Bacterial translation machinery for deliberate mistranslation of the genetic code 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Oscar Vargas‐Rodriguez, Ahmed H. Badran, Kyle Hoffman, Man‐Yun Chen, Ana Crnković, Yousong Ding, Jonathan R. Krieger, Éric Westhof, Dieter Söll, Sergey Melnikov	12
12	RNA-Puzzles toolkit: a computational resource of RNA 3D structure benchmark datasets, structure manipulation, and evaluation tools 2019 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Marcin Magnus, Maciej Antczak, Tomasz Żok, (unknown), Piotr Łukasiak, Yang Cao, Janusz M. Bujnicki, Éric Westhof, Marta Szachniuk, Zhichao Miao	58
13	RNA Structure: Advances and Assessment of 3D Structure Prediction 2017 ·Annual Review of Biophysics ·Zhichao Miao, Éric Westhof	133
14	Speciation of a group I intron into a lariat capping ribozyme 2014 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Mélanie Meyer, Henrik Nielsen, Vincent Oliéric, Pierre Roblin, Steinar Johansen, Éric Westhof, Benoı̂t Masquida	27
15	An mRNA Is Capped by a 2', 5' Lariat Catalyzed by a Group I-Like Ribozyme 2005 ·Science ·Henrik Nielsen, Éric Westhof, Steinar Johansen	50
16	Functional Hammerhead Ribozymes Naturally Encoded in the Genome of Arabidopsis thaliana 2005 ·The Plant Cell ·Rita Przybilski, Stefan Gräf, Aurélie Lescoute, Wolfgang Nellen, Éric Westhof, Gerhard Steger, Christian Hammann	66
17	Halogen bonds in biological molecules breakdown → 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Pascal Auffinger, Franklin A. Hays, Éric Westhof, P Shing Ho	1447
18	Molecular recognition of aminoglycoside antibiotics by ribosomal RNA and resistance enzymes: An analysis of x‐ray crystal structures 2003 ·Biopolymers ·Quentin Vicens, Éric Westhof	123
19	Water and Biological Macromolecules 1993 ·Éric Westhof	167
20	Photosensitized Induction of H-addition Radicals in Frozen Aqueous Solutions of Cytosine and Uracil Derivatives 1977 ·International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics Chemistry and Medicine ·Éric Westhof, Yves Lion, A. Van de Vorst	3

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