François Robert

13.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
106 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

François Robert is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, François Robert has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in François Robert's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (53 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (31 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (20 papers). François Robert is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (53 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (31 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (20 papers). François Robert collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. François Robert's co-authors include Richard A. Young, Celia Jerónimo, Huck‐Hui Ng, Kevin Struhl, Alain R. Bataille, Pierre‐Étienne Jacques, Luc Gaudreau, Nancy M. Hannett, Christopher J. Wilson and Bing Ren and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

François Robert

101 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Genome-Wide Location and Function of DNA Binding Proteins

2000 1.4k citations François Robert et al. profile →
Targeted Recruitment of Set1 Histone Methylase by Elongating Pol II Provides a Localized Mark and Memory of Recent Transcriptional Activity

2003 875 citations François Robert et al. Molecular Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
François Robert Canada	42	6.9k	986	759	300	286	106	8.1k
Shmuel Pietrokovski Israel	42	4.3k 0.6×	743 0.8×	818 1.1×	114 0.4×	223 0.8×	87	5.7k
James Cuff United States	9	6.5k 0.9×	724 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	484 1.6×	316 1.1×	12	7.8k
Mark Schena United States	21	9.1k 1.3×	1.7k 1.7×	1.4k 1.9×	620 2.1×	489 1.7×	26	11.8k
David Landsman United States	40	6.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	853 1.1×	334 1.1×	255 0.9×	145	7.4k
Shuai Weng United States	16	3.7k 0.5×	551 0.6×	1.0k 1.4×	395 1.3×	195 0.7×	29	5.2k
Michael J. Campbell United States	25	5.7k 0.8×	502 0.5×	965 1.3×	495 1.6×	476 1.7×	83	8.3k
Anne‐Claude Gavin Germany	41	5.3k 0.8×	248 0.3×	432 0.6×	173 0.6×	291 1.0×	91	6.7k
Jorja G. Henikoff United States	40	10.8k 1.6×	2.7k 2.8×	1.5k 1.9×	409 1.4×	353 1.2×	54	13.2k
Haiyuan Yu United States	42	8.2k 1.2×	574 0.6×	963 1.3×	430 1.4×	245 0.9×	129	9.9k
Mark S. Chee United States	27	5.8k 0.8×	471 0.5×	1.5k 2.0×	807 2.7×	479 1.7×	37	8.2k

Countries citing papers authored by François Robert

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Fields of papers citing papers by François Robert

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Robert

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of François Robert. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of François Robert 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 Robert. François Robert 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

Jerónimo, Celia, et al.. (2020). The deubiquitylase Ubp15 couples transcription to mRNA export. eLife. 9. 4 indexed citations

Robert, François, et al.. (2019). Les limites de la doxa sur le contrôle des loyers. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics.

Steunou, Anne‐Lise, Maria J. Aristizabal, Nicolas Lacoste, et al.. (2016). Combined Action of Histone Reader Modules Regulates NuA4 Local Acetyltransferase Function but Not Its Recruitment on the Genome. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 36(22). 2768–2781. 24 indexed citations

Gaudreau, Marie‐Claude, Damien Grapton, Charles Vadnais, et al.. (2016). Loss of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein L (HNRNP L) leads to mitochondrial dysfunction, DNA damage response and caspase-dependent cell death in hematopoietic stem cells. Experimental Hematology. 44(9). S78–S79. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Xue, Mohammad Altaf, Simon Drouin, et al.. (2015). Eaf1 Links the NuA4 Histone Acetyltransferase Complex to Htz1 Incorporation and Regulation of Purine Biosynthesis. Eukaryotic Cell. 14(6). 535–544. 11 indexed citations

Robert, François, et al.. (2013). L'immeuble de rapport. Presses universitaires de Rennes eBooks. 5 indexed citations

Bataille, Alain R., Celia Jerónimo, Pierre‐Étienne Jacques, et al.. (2012). A Universal RNA Polymerase II CTD Cycle Is Orchestrated by Complex Interplays between Kinase, Phosphatase, and Isomerase Enzymes along Genes. Molecular Cell. 45(2). 158–170. 171 indexed citations

Hardy, Sara, Pierre‐Étienne Jacques, Nicolas Gévry, et al.. (2009). The Euchromatic and Heterochromatic Landscapes Are Shaped by Antagonizing Effects of Transcription on H2A.Z Deposition. PLoS Genetics. 5(10). e1000687–e1000687. 109 indexed citations

Nourani, Amine, François Robert, & Fred Winston. (2006). Evidence that Spt2/Sin1, an HMG-Like Factor, Plays Roles in Transcription Elongation, Chromatin Structure, and Genome Stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 26(4). 1496–1509. 74 indexed citations

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Blanchette, Mathieu, Alain R. Bataille, Xiaoyu Chen, et al.. (2006). Genome-wide computational prediction of transcriptional regulatory modules reveals new insights into human gene expression. Genome Research. 16(5). 656–668. 205 indexed citations

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Ferretti, Vincent, Christian Poitras, D Bergeron, et al.. (2006). PReMod: a database of genome-wide mammalian cis-regulatory module predictions. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(Database). D122–D126. 65 indexed citations

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Robert, François, et al.. (2001). H2A.Z Is Required for Global Chromatin Integrity and for Recruitment of RNA Polymerase II under Specific Conditions. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 21(18). 6270–6279. 179 indexed citations

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Robert, François. (2000). Pierre Karila-Cohen, Biaise Wilfert, Leçon d'histoire sur le syndicalisme en France. Persée (Ministère de lEnseignement supérieur et de la Recherche). 19(3). 442–443. 3 indexed citations

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Robert, François, Diane Forget, Jean‐Marc Egly, et al.. (1998). Wrapping of Promoter DNA around the RNA Polymerase II Initiation Complex Induced by TFIIF. Molecular Cell. 2(3). 341–351. 83 indexed citations

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Robert, François. (1995). Les systèmes dynamiques discrets. Springer eBooks. 28 indexed citations

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Robert, François & Vincent Geenen. (1992). Thymic Neuropeptides and T‐Lymphocyte Development^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 650(1). 99–104. 4 indexed citations

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Robert, François. (1986). Machine iteration for a linear function. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 12(5-6). 1259–1274. 2 indexed citations

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Robert, François. (1980). Iterations sur des ensembles finis et automates cellulaires contractants. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 29. 393–412. 27 indexed citations

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Robert, François. (1976). Contraction en norme vectorielle: Convergence d'iterations chaotiques pour des equations non linéaires de point fixe à plusieurs variables. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 13(1-2). 19–35. 22 indexed citations

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Robert, François. (1969). Blocs-H-matrices et convergence des methodes iteratives classiques par blocs. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 2(2). 223–265. 79 indexed citations

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