François Jacob

19.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
90 papers, 13.6k citations indexed

About

François Jacob is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, François Jacob has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 13.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in François Jacob's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (8 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (6 papers). François Jacob is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (8 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (6 papers). François Jacob collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Japan. François Jacob's co-authors include Jacques Monod, Jean‐Pierre Changeux, Arthur B. Pardee, Charles Babinet, François Hyafil, Yukinori Hirota, David Schubert, Karen Artzt, Gabriel Gachelin and Agnès Ullmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

François Jacob

87 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Hit Papers

Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins 1959 2026 1981 2003 1961 1977 1963 1959 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k

Peers

François Jacob
Comparison fields: 5 of 214
  • Molecular Biology 9.3k
  • Genetics 3.3k
  • Cell Biology 1.2k
  • Ecology 1.0k
  • Materials Chemistry 954
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Benno Müller‐Hill Germany
Michael J. Smith Canada
Lawrence I. Grossman United States
F Jacob France
B. G. Barrell United Kingdom
John C. Gerhart United States
Jacques Monod France
Carl W. Anderson United States
Rodger Staden United Kingdom
Antoine Danchin France
Benno Müller‐Hill Germany View profile →
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Countries citing papers authored by François Jacob

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Fields of papers citing papers by François Jacob

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Jacob

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1 0
2 0
3
Die Logik des Lebenden : eine Geschichte der Vererbung
4
4
La lógica de lo viviente: una historia de la herencia
3
5 7
6
La souris, la mouche et l'homme
25
7
El juego de lo posible
6
8
The logic of life : a history of heredity : the possible and the actual
2
9
La statue intérieure
23
10 1
11
Le jeu des possibles : essai sur la diversité du vivant
26
12 39
13
Biología y sociedad
1
14
Immunology and differentiation
3
15 182
16 5
17
La logique du vivant : une histoire de l'hérédité
72
18 4
19
The Hervey lectures
1
20
Les bactéries lysogènes et la notion de provirus
20

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