Frank Coumans

2.2k total citations
27 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Frank Coumans is a scholar working on Oncology, Cancer Research and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Coumans has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Oncology, 12 papers in Cancer Research and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Frank Coumans's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (17 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (11 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (5 papers). Frank Coumans is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (17 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (11 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (5 papers). Frank Coumans collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Frank Coumans's co-authors include Leon W.M.M. Terstappen, Sjoerd T. Ligthart, Guus van Dalum, Markus Beck, Johann S. de Bono, Gerhardt Attard, Edwin van der Pol, Rienk Nieuwland, Ton G. van Leeuwen and Jonathan W. Uhr and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nano Letters and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Frank Coumans

26 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frank Coumans Netherlands	15	694	556	480	421	210	27	1.3k
Guus van Dalum Netherlands	17	1.1k 1.6×	811 1.5×	547 1.1×	448 1.1×	309 1.5×	26	1.6k
Katharina Pachmann Germany	22	1.0k 1.5×	688 1.2×	333 0.7×	386 0.9×	359 1.7×	106	1.9k
Ruoyan Li China	18	376 0.5×	420 0.8×	137 0.3×	613 1.5×	241 1.1×	51	1.5k
Cornelia Coith Germany	11	1.2k 1.7×	734 1.3×	466 1.0×	329 0.8×	331 1.6×	16	1.5k
Kyung‐A Hyun South Korea	23	529 0.8×	377 0.7×	1.0k 2.1×	617 1.5×	83 0.4×	55	1.7k
Melinda M. Lewis United States	17	407 0.6×	245 0.4×	317 0.7×	603 1.4×	280 1.3×	38	1.6k
Fotios Mpekris Cyprus	20	779 1.1×	306 0.6×	910 1.9×	617 1.5×	187 0.9×	51	2.2k
Steven G. Allen United States	12	502 0.7×	105 0.2×	909 1.9×	287 0.7×	106 0.5×	24	1.4k
Peter M. Ferguson Australia	21	666 1.0×	117 0.2×	187 0.4×	477 1.1×	172 0.8×	68	1.5k
Mazen A. Juratli Germany	15	221 0.3×	147 0.3×	471 1.0×	248 0.6×	94 0.4×	47	881

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Coumans

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Coumans

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Centanni, Maddalena, Afroditi Nanou, Leon W.M.M. Terstappen, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal Analysis of Manually and Automatically Classified Circulating Tumor Biomarkers and their Prediction of Survival in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 119(2). 403–413.

Nanou, Afroditi, Sylvaine Renault, J-Y Pierga, et al.. (2025). Blood tumor load: combining biomarkers to increase the proportion of informative patients. ESMO Open. 10(7). 105302–105302. 1 indexed citations

Nanou, Afroditi, Nikolas H. Stoecklein, Daniel Doerr, et al.. (2024). Training an automated circulating tumor cell classifier when the true classification is uncertain. PNAS Nexus. 3(2). pgae048–pgae048. 5 indexed citations

Stevens, Michiel, Anouk Mentink, Frank Coumans, et al.. (2023). Flow‐based immunomagnetic enrichment of circulating tumor cells from diagnostic leukapheresis product. Molecular Oncology. 19(7). 2133–2143. 2 indexed citations

Stevens, Michiel, Anouk Mentink, Afroditi Nanou, et al.. (2023). Improved enrichment of circulating tumor cells from diagnostic leukapheresis product. Cytometry Part A. 103(11). 881–888. 2 indexed citations

Stevens, Michiel, Afroditi Nanou, Leon W.M.M. Terstappen, et al.. (2022). StarDist Image Segmentation Improves Circulating Tumor Cell Detection. Cancers. 14(12). 2916–2916. 37 indexed citations

Nanou, Afroditi, Frank Coumans, Leon W.M.M. Terstappen, et al.. (2022). Characterizing Circulating Tumor Cells and Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Metastatic Castration-Naive and Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients. Cancers. 14(18). 4404–4404. 7 indexed citations

Nanou, Afroditi, Linda Mol, Frank Coumans, et al.. (2020). Endothelium-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Associate with Poor Prognosis in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Cells. 9(12). 2688–2688. 13 indexed citations

Lee, Wooje, Afroditi Nanou, Linda G. Rikkert, et al.. (2018). Label-Free Prostate Cancer Detection by Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles Using Raman Spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry. 90(19). 11290–11296. 97 indexed citations

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Nanou, Afroditi, Frank Coumans, Guus van Dalum, et al.. (2018). Circulating tumor cells, tumor-derived extracellular vesicles and plasma cytokeratins in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients. Oncotarget. 9(27). 19283–19293. 54 indexed citations

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Pol, Edwin van der, et al.. (2016). Wound scabs protect regenerating tissue against harmful ultraviolet radiation. Medical Hypotheses. 96. 39–41. 2 indexed citations

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Coumans, Frank & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2015). Detection and Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells by the CellSearch Approach. Methods in molecular biology. 1347. 263–278. 49 indexed citations

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Ligthart, Sjoerd T., Frank Coumans, François‐Clément Bidard, et al.. (2013). Circulating Tumor Cells Count and Morphological Features in Breast, Colorectal and Prostate Cancer. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67148–e67148. 76 indexed citations

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Coumans, Frank, Guus van Dalum, Markus Beck, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2013). Filter Characteristics Influencing Circulating Tumor Cell Enrichment from Whole Blood. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61770–e61770. 153 indexed citations

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Coumans, Frank, Guus van Dalum, Markus Beck, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2013). Filtration Parameters Influencing Circulating Tumor Cell Enrichment from Whole Blood. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61774–e61774. 82 indexed citations

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Coumans, Frank, Sjoerd T. Ligthart, Jonathan W. Uhr, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2012). Challenges in the Enumeration and Phenotyping of CTC. Clinical Cancer Research. 18(20). 5711–5718. 150 indexed citations

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Coumans, Frank, Sjoerd T. Ligthart, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2012). Interpretation of Changes in Circulating Tumor Cell Counts. Translational Oncology. 5(6). 486–IN4. 38 indexed citations

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Coumans, Frank, Edwin van der Pol, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2012). Flat‐top illumination profile in an epifluorescence microscope by dual microlens arrays. Cytometry Part A. 81A(4). 324–331. 10 indexed citations

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Swennenhuis, Joost F., Brad Foulk, Frank Coumans, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2011). Construction of repeat-free fluorescence in situ hybridization probes. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(3). e20–e20. 9 indexed citations

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Coumans, Frank, Carine J.M. Doggen, Gerhardt Attard, Johann S. de Bono, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2010). All circulating EpCAM+CK+CD45- objects predict overall survival in castration-resistant prostate cancer. Annals of Oncology. 21(9). 1851–1857. 170 indexed citations

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