Fran Supek

14.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Fran Supek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Fran Supek has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Cancer Research and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Fran Supek's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (17 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). Fran Supek is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (17 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). Fran Supek collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Croatia and United Kingdom. Fran Supek's co-authors include Tomislav Šmuc, Nives Škunca, Matko Bošnjak, Ben Lehner, Rik G.H. Lindeboom, Kristian Vlahoviček, Toni Gabaldón, Belén Miñana, Juan Valcárcel and Michiel Vermeulen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Fran Supek

56 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

REVIGO Summarizes and Visualizes Long Lists of Gene Ontology Terms

2011 4.3k citations Fran Supek, Matko Bošnjak et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fran Supek Spain	28	4.5k	1.2k	1.2k	1.1k	480	57	7.3k
Heinz Himmelbauer Germany	32	3.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	637 0.6×	397 0.8×	129	5.7k
Nicolas Bray United States	14	5.8k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	910 1.9×	17	8.9k
M. Mar Albà Spain	39	4.0k 0.9×	942 0.8×	850 0.7×	727 0.7×	521 1.1×	80	5.7k
Yijun Ruan United States	43	6.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	610 1.3×	106	9.0k
Arend Sidow United States	36	6.5k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	2.4k 2.0×	894 0.8×	440 0.9×	62	8.6k
Nils Blüthgen Germany	36	5.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	752 0.7×	567 1.2×	114	7.9k
Carsten Russ United States	35	5.7k 1.3×	796 0.7×	2.0k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	308 0.6×	56	8.3k
Dapeng Zhang China	45	3.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	860 0.7×	512 0.5×	729 1.5×	178	6.4k
Yutaka Suzuki Japan	50	6.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	1.4k 2.9×	318	9.8k
Ping Liang United States	42	3.7k 0.8×	898 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	440 0.4×	379 0.8×	151	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Fran Supek

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fran Supek

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fran Supek

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Khalil, Ahmed Ibrahim Samir & Fran Supek. (2025). DiffInvex identifies evolutionary shifts in driver gene repertoires during tumorigenesis and chemotherapy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4209–4209.

Supek, Fran, et al.. (2024). Copy number losses of oncogenes and gains of tumor suppressor genes generate common driver mutations. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6139–6139. 7 indexed citations

Supek, Fran, et al.. (2024). Genome-scale quantification and prediction of pathogenic stop codon readthrough by small molecules. Nature Genetics. 56(9). 1914–1924. 12 indexed citations

Supek, Fran, et al.. (2024). Cell cycle gene alterations associate with a redistribution of mutation risk across chromosomal domains in human cancers. Nature Cancer. 5(2). 330–346. 10 indexed citations

García‐Cao, Isabel, et al.. (2021). Loss of the abasic site sensor HMCES is synthetic lethal with the activity of the APOBEC3A cytosine deaminase in cancer cells. PLoS Biology. 19(3). e3001176–e3001176. 23 indexed citations

Park, Solip, Fran Supek, & Ben Lehner. (2021). Higher order genetic interactions switch cancer genes from two-hit to one-hit drivers. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7051–7051. 13 indexed citations

Mas-Ponte, David & Fran Supek. (2020). DNA mismatch repair promotes APOBEC3-mediated diffuse hypermutation in human cancers. Nature Genetics. 52(9). 958–968. 50 indexed citations

Lindeboom, Rik G.H., Michiel Vermeulen, Ben Lehner, & Fran Supek. (2019). The impact of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay on genetic disease, gene editing and cancer immunotherapy. Nature Genetics. 51(11). 1645–1651. 169 indexed citations

Mas-Ponte, David, et al.. (2019). Passenger mutations accurately classify human tumors. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(4). e1006953–e1006953. 34 indexed citations

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Levatić, Jurica, Ivana Perković, Lidija Uzelac, et al.. (2018). Machine learning prioritizes synthesis of primaquine ureidoamides with high antimalarial activity and attenuated cytotoxicity. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 146. 651–667. 10 indexed citations

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Levatić, Jurica, et al.. (2017). QSAR based synthesis of novel primaquine ureidoamides. 200. 1 indexed citations

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Supek, Fran & Ben Lehner. (2017). Clustered Mutation Signatures Reveal that Error-Prone DNA Repair Targets Mutations to Active Genes. Cell. 170(3). 534–547.e23. 120 indexed citations

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Supek, Fran & Nives Škunca. (2016). Visualizing GO Annotations. Methods in molecular biology. 1446. 207–220. 10 indexed citations

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Supek, Fran. (2015). The Code of Silence: Widespread Associations Between Synonymous Codon Biases and Gene Function. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 82(1). 65–73. 54 indexed citations

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Brbić, Maria, Tobias Warnecke, Anita Kriško, & Fran Supek. (2015). Global Shifts in Genome and Proteome Composition Are Very Tightly Coupled. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(6). 1519–1532. 18 indexed citations

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Kriško, Anita, et al.. (2014). Inferring gene function from evolutionary change in signatures of translation efficiency. Genome biology. 15(3). R44–R44. 40 indexed citations

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Škunca, Nives, Matko Bošnjak, Anita Kriško, et al.. (2013). Phyletic Profiling with Cliques of Orthologs Is Enhanced by Signatures of Paralogy Relationships. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(1). e1002852–e1002852. 32 indexed citations

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Supek, Fran, Matko Bošnjak, Nives Škunca, & Tomislav Šmuc. (2011). REVIGO Summarizes and Visualizes Long Lists of Gene Ontology Terms. PLoS ONE. 6(7). e21800–e21800. 4349 indexed citations breakdown →

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Supek, Fran, Marko Marjanović, Maja Buljubašić, et al.. (2011). Could LogP be a principal determinant of biological activity in 18-crown-6 ethers? Synthesis of biologically active adamantane-substituted diaza-crowns. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 46(8). 3444–3454. 26 indexed citations

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Supek, Fran, et al.. (2010). Translational Selection Is Ubiquitous in Prokaryotes. PLoS Genetics. 6(6). e1001004–e1001004. 67 indexed citations

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