François Serra

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

François Serra is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, François Serra has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in François Serra's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (6 papers). François Serra is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (6 papers). François Serra collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Argentina and France. François Serra's co-authors include Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Peer Bork, Marc A. Martı́-Renom, Guillaume J. Filion, Davide Baù, Hernán Dopazo, François Le Dily, David Castillo, Miguel Beato and Yasmina Cuartero and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

François Serra

26 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit 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.

ETE 3: Reconstruction, Analysis, and Visualization of Phylogenomic Data

2016 1.3k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, François Serra et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
François Serra Spain	16	1.8k	778	514	335	201	27	2.6k
Robert Vaser Croatia	5	1.8k 1.0×	761 1.0×	667 1.3×	481 1.4×	136 0.7×	10	2.9k
Joshua N. Burton United States	15	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	610 1.2×	442 1.3×	193 1.0×	18	3.1k
René L. Warren Canada	21	1.4k 0.8×	510 0.7×	374 0.7×	338 1.0×	130 0.6×	65	2.0k
Layla Hirsh Peru	7	2.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	361 0.7×	499 1.5×	128 0.6×	11	3.3k
Aleksandr Morgulis United States	6	1.3k 0.7×	547 0.7×	388 0.8×	450 1.3×	120 0.6×	8	2.3k
Hajk‐Georg Drost Germany	18	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	355 0.7×	582 1.7×	225 1.1×	31	3.0k
Sara El-Gebali Switzerland	4	2.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	368 0.7×	490 1.5×	129 0.6×	6	3.3k
Travis J. Wheeler United States	14	2.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	515 1.0×	490 1.5×	204 1.0×	44	3.3k
Christian M. Zmasek United States	18	1.6k 0.9×	513 0.7×	418 0.8×	333 1.0×	212 1.1×	27	2.5k
Shengkang Li China	6	1.2k 0.7×	532 0.7×	408 0.8×	360 1.1×	193 1.0×	13	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by François Serra

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of François Serra's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by François Serra with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites François Serra more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by François Serra

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by François Serra. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by François Serra. The network helps show where François Serra may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Serra

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Serra, François, Lucía Fanlo, E. Nola, et al.. (2024). p53 rapidly restructures 3D chromatin organization to trigger a transcriptional response. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2821–2821. 17 indexed citations

Serra, François, Ainoa Planas‐Riverola, Òscar Molina, et al.. (2023). Low input capture Hi-C (liCHi-C) identifies promoter-enhancer interactions at high-resolution. Nature Communications. 14(1). 268–268. 7 indexed citations

Serra, François, et al.. (2022). Identification of chromatin loops from Hi-C interaction matrices by CTCF–CTCF topology classification. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 4(1). lqac021–lqac021. 10 indexed citations

Richart, Laia, Eleonora Lapi, Véra Pancaldi, et al.. (2021). STAG2 loss-of-function affects short-range genomic contacts and modulates the basal-luminal transcriptional program of bladder cancer cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(19). 11005–11021. 21 indexed citations

Stefano, Marco Di, Ralph Stadhouders, Irene Farabella, et al.. (2020). Transcriptional activation during cell reprogramming correlates with the formation of 3D open chromatin hubs. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2564–2564. 49 indexed citations

Stefano, Marco Di, et al.. (2020). Analysis, Modeling, and Visualization of Chromosome Conformation Capture Experiments. Methods in molecular biology. 2157. 35–63. 2 indexed citations

Stadhouders, Ralph, Enrique Vidal, François Serra, et al.. (2018). Transcription factors orchestrate dynamic interplay between genome topology and gene regulation during cell reprogramming. Nature Genetics. 50(2). 238–249. 236 indexed citations

Serra, François, et al.. (2017). Automatic analysis and 3D-modelling of Hi-C data using TADbit reveals structural features of the fly chromatin colors. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(7). e1005665–e1005665. 180 indexed citations

Tourmente, Maximiliano, et al.. (2016). Selective constraints on protamine 2 in primates and rodents. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 21–21. 21 indexed citations

10.

Huerta‐Cepas, Jaime, François Serra, & Peer Bork. (2016). ETE 3: Reconstruction, Analysis, and Visualization of Phylogenomic Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(6). 1635–1638. 1304 indexed citations breakdown →

11.

Santpere, Gabriel, Elena Carnero‐Montoro, Natalia Petit, et al.. (2015). Analysis of Five Gene Sets in Chimpanzees Suggests Decoupling between the Action of Selection on Protein-Coding and on Noncoding Elements. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(6). 1490–1505. 2 indexed citations

12.

Dily, François Le, Davide Baù, Andy Pohl, et al.. (2014). Distinct structural transitions of chromatin topological domains correlate with coordinated hormone-induced gene regulation. Genes & Development. 28(19). 2151–2162. 211 indexed citations

13.

Mensch, Julián, et al.. (2013). Positive Selection in Nucleoporins Challenges Constraints on Early Expressed Genes in Drosophila Development. Genome Biology and Evolution. 5(11). 2231–2241. 12 indexed citations

14.

Serra, François, Verónica Becher, & Hernán Dopazo. (2013). Neutral Theory Predicts the Relative Abundance and Diversity of Genetic Elements in a Broad Array of Eukaryotic Genomes. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e63915–e63915. 10 indexed citations

15.

Serra, François, et al.. (2012). Evolutionary Genomics of Genes Involved in Olfactory Behavior in the Drosophila melanogaster Species Group. Evolutionary Bioinformatics. 8. 89–104. 20 indexed citations

16.

Marigorta, Urko M., Óscar Lao, Ferrán Casals, et al.. (2011). Recent human evolution has shaped geographical differences in susceptibility to disease. BMC Genomics. 12(1). 55–55. 21 indexed citations

17.

Serra, François, Leonardo Arbiza, Joaquı́n Dopazo, & Hernán Dopazo. (2011). Natural Selection on Functional Modules, a Genome-Wide Analysis. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(3). e1001093–e1001093. 11 indexed citations

18.

Gonçalves, Luís G., Nuno Borges, François Serra, et al.. (2011). Evolution of the biosynthesis of di‐ myo ‐inositol phosphate, a marker of adaptation to hot marine environments. Environmental Microbiology. 14(3). 691–701. 27 indexed citations

19.

Sánchez, Rubén, François Serra, Joaquín Tárraga, et al.. (2011). Phylemon 2.0: a suite of web-tools for molecular evolution, phylogenetics, phylogenomics and hypotheses testing. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(suppl). W470–W474. 176 indexed citations

20.

Serra, François, et al.. (2011). Sexual Selection Halts the Relaxation of Protamine 2 among Rodents. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e29247–e29247. 17 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact