Erik van Nimwegen

18.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
91 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Erik van Nimwegen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik van Nimwegen has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Erik van Nimwegen's work include RNA Research and Splicing (30 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers). Erik van Nimwegen is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (30 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers). Erik van Nimwegen collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Erik van Nimwegen's co-authors include Mihaela Zavolan, Mikhail Pachkov, Lukas Burger, Martijn A. Huynen, James P. Crutchfield, Dimos Gaidatzis, Piotr J. Balwierz, Phil Arnold, Eric D. Siggia and Dirk Schübeler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Erik van Nimwegen

91 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

DNA-binding factors shape the mouse methylome at distal regulatory regions

2011 990 citations Michael Stadler, Erik van Nimwegen et al. profile →
Sox4 Is a Master Regulator of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition by Controlling Ezh2 Expression and Epigenetic Reprogramming

2013 394 citations Piotr J. Balwierz, Phil Arnold et al. profile →
Automated Reconstruction of Whole-Genome Phylogenies from Short-Sequence Reads

2014 343 citations Olin Silander, Mikhail Pachkov et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erik van Nimwegen Switzerland	44	6.4k	1.6k	1.4k	537	471	91	7.8k
Ben Lehner Spain	53	7.1k 1.1×	2.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	655 1.2×	369 0.8×	119	9.1k
Yitzhak Pilpel Israel	49	6.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	670 1.2×	279 0.6×	100	8.3k
Jian‐Bing Fan United States	46	6.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.4×	892 1.7×	708 1.5×	133	8.7k
Yoshihide Hayashizaki Japan	46	4.8k 0.8×	854 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	857 1.6×	424 0.9×	149	6.8k
Paul Bertone United States	48	10.4k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.3×	771 1.4×	495 1.1×	68	12.0k
Saeed Tavazoie United States	38	7.7k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	704 1.3×	200 0.4×	71	9.3k
Fran Supek Spain	28	4.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 2.2×	474 1.0×	57	7.3k
Vivian G. Cheung United States	36	4.7k 0.7×	2.3k 1.4×	810 0.6×	444 0.8×	389 0.8×	74	6.5k
Mark S. Chee United States	27	5.8k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	807 0.6×	471 0.9×	479 1.0×	37	8.2k
Jinrong Min Canada	50	8.7k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	824 0.6×	655 1.2×	850 1.8×	185	10.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Erik van Nimwegen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erik van Nimwegen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik van Nimwegen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Julou, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Rapid Transcription Factor Fluctuations Drive Nonequilibrium Gene Regulatory Dynamics in Bacteria. 3(3). 1 indexed citations

Julou, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Growth rate controls the sensitivity of gene regulatory circuits. Science Advances. 11(17). eadu9279–eadu9279. 2 indexed citations

Katsantoni, Maria, Erik van Nimwegen, & Mihaela Zavolan. (2023). Improved analysis of (e)CLIP data with RCRUNCH yields a compendium of RNA-binding protein binding sites and motifs. Genome biology. 24(1). 7 indexed citations

Mukhtar, Tanzila, Marcelo Boareto, Alice Grison, et al.. (2022). Temporal and sequential transcriptional dynamics define lineage shifts in corticogenesis. The EMBO Journal. 41(24). e111132–e111132. 8 indexed citations

Julou, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide gene expression noise in Escherichia coli is condition-dependent and determined by propagation of noise through the regulatory network. PLoS Biology. 19(12). e3001491–e3001491. 22 indexed citations

Julou, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Subpopulations of sensorless bacteria drive fitness in fluctuating environments. PLoS Biology. 18(12). e3000952–e3000952. 13 indexed citations

Witz, Guillaume, Erik van Nimwegen, & Thomas Julou. (2019). Initiation of chromosome replication controls both division and replication cycles in E. coli through a double-adder mechanism. eLife. 8. 37 indexed citations

Kaiser, Matthias, Florian Jug, Thomas Julou, et al.. (2018). Monitoring single-cell gene regulation under dynamically controllable conditions with integrated microfluidics and software. Nature Communications. 9(1). 212–212. 78 indexed citations

Balwierz, Piotr J., Mikhail Pachkov, Phil Arnold, et al.. (2014). ISMARA: automated modeling of genomic signals as a democracy of regulatory motifs. Genome Research. 24(5). 869–884. 198 indexed citations

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Aceto, Nicola, Nina Sausgruber, Heike Brinkhaus, et al.. (2012). Tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 promotes breast cancer progression and maintains tumor-initiating cells via activation of key transcription factors and a positive feedback signaling loop. Nature Medicine. 18(4). 529–537. 210 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Schindler, Joaquín, Serge Summermatter, Silvia Salatino, et al.. (2012). The Corepressor NCoR1 Antagonizes PGC-1 α and Estrogen-Related Receptor α in the Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Function and Oxidative Metabolism. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 32(24). 4913–4924. 73 indexed citations

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Balwierz, Piotr J., Piero Carninci, Carsten O. Daub, et al.. (2009). Methods for analyzing deep sequencing expression data: constructing the human and mouse promoterome with deepCAGE data. Genome biology. 10(7). 109 indexed citations

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Pipkin, Matthew E., et al.. (2009). MicroRNA-221–222 Regulate the Cell Cycle in Mast Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 182(1). 433–445. 82 indexed citations

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Taddei, Angela, Griet Van Houwe, Shigeki Nagai, et al.. (2009). The functional importance of telomere clustering: Global changes in gene expression result from SIR factor dispersion. Genome Research. 19(4). 611–625. 100 indexed citations

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Schlecht, Ulrich, Ionas Erb, Philippe Demougin, et al.. (2008). Genome-wide Expression Profiling, In Vivo DNA Binding Analysis, and Probabilistic Motif Prediction Reveal Novel Abf1 Target Genes during Fermentation, Respiration, and Sporulation in Yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 19(5). 2193–2207. 26 indexed citations

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Siddharthan, Rahul & Erik van Nimwegen. (2007). Detecting Regulatory Sites Using PhyloGibbs. Methods in molecular biology. 395. 381–402. 10 indexed citations

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Molina, Nacho & Erik van Nimwegen. (2007). Universal patterns of purifying selection at noncoding positions in bacteria. Genome Research. 18(1). 148–160. 49 indexed citations

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Nimwegen, Erik van. (2007). Finding regulatory elements and regulatory motifs: a general probabilistic framework. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(S6). 31 indexed citations

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Nimwegen, Erik van, Chikatoshi Kai, Jun Kawai, et al.. (2006). A Simple Physical Model Predicts Small Exon Length Variations. PLoS Genetics. 2(4). e45–e45. 62 indexed citations

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Zavolan, Mihaela, Erik van Nimwegen, & Terry Gaasterland. (2002). Splice Variation in Mouse Full-Length cDNAs Identified by Mapping to the Mouse Genome. Genome Research. 12(9). 1377–1385. 57 indexed citations

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