Frédéric Berger

19.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
172 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Frédéric Berger is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Frédéric Berger has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Plant Science, 130 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Frédéric Berger's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (119 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (69 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (35 papers). Frédéric Berger is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (119 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (69 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (35 papers). Frédéric Berger collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Singapore and France. Frédéric Berger's co-authors include Pauline E. Jullien, Mathieu Ingouff, Tomokazu Kawashima, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Abed Chaudhury, Damien Garcia, Danhua Jiang, Ming Luo, Jing Li and Jonathan N. Fitz Gerald and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Berger

168 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

Reprogramming of DNA Methylation in Pollen Guides Epigene... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Reprogramming of DNA Methylation in Pollen Guides Epigenetic Inheritance via Small RNA
    2012 417 citations Pauline E. Jullien, Frédéric Berger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Frédéric Berger Austria 62 9.6k 8.2k 1.0k 978 311 172 11.4k
François Parcy France 48 9.5k 1.0× 10.3k 1.2× 913 0.9× 467 0.5× 413 1.3× 85 14.2k
Jörg D. Becker Portugal 46 5.0k 0.5× 5.9k 0.7× 743 0.7× 602 0.6× 736 2.4× 108 8.5k
Suhua Feng United States 57 9.4k 1.0× 10.2k 1.2× 1.8k 1.8× 360 0.4× 136 0.4× 94 14.8k
Peter Huijser Germany 40 10.0k 1.0× 8.6k 1.0× 561 0.5× 773 0.8× 108 0.3× 70 11.2k
José A. Feijó Portugal 47 6.7k 0.7× 5.4k 0.7× 272 0.3× 954 1.0× 257 0.8× 90 8.0k
Seth J Davis United Kingdom 51 6.2k 0.6× 4.8k 0.6× 352 0.3× 263 0.3× 173 0.6× 116 7.4k
Daniel Zilberman United States 40 9.0k 0.9× 7.0k 0.9× 1.2k 1.2× 222 0.2× 87 0.3× 46 11.7k
W. Brad Barbazuk United States 37 3.3k 0.3× 3.6k 0.4× 1.3k 1.2× 507 0.5× 573 1.8× 93 6.2k
David Bouchez France 43 6.5k 0.7× 4.6k 0.6× 627 0.6× 225 0.2× 559 1.8× 68 7.7k
Shawn Cokus United States 29 4.7k 0.5× 6.8k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 135 0.1× 119 0.4× 40 9.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frédéric Berger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frédéric Berger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Frédéric Berger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Frédéric Berger 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 Frédéric Berger. Frédéric Berger 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
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Kim, Jaeil, et al.. (2025). The histone variant H2A.W restricts heterochromatic crossovers in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(14). e2413698122–e2413698122. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Shuangyang, Kelly Swarts, Svetlana Akimcheva, et al.. (2025). Population genomics of Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis reveals evidence of climate adaptation. Current Biology. 35(5). 970–980.e3. 2 indexed citations
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Jiang, Danhua & Frédéric Berger. (2023). Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 75. 102408–102408. 11 indexed citations
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Voichek, Yoav, Caroline Michaud, Anna Schmücker, et al.. (2023). Cell cycle status of male and female gametes during Arabidopsis reproduction. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 194(1). 412–421. 6 indexed citations
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Montgomery, Sean A., Tetsuya Hisanaga, Nan Wang, et al.. (2022). Polycomb-mediated repression of paternal chromosomes maintains haploid dosage in diploid embryos of Marchantia. eLife. 11. 18 indexed citations
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Picard, Colette L., Ramesh Yelagandula, Thierry Pélissier, et al.. (2021). The histone variant H2A.W and linker histone H1 co-regulate heterochromatin accessibility and DNA methylation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2683–2683. 62 indexed citations
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Schmücker, Anna, Zdravko J. Lorković, Matías Capella, et al.. (2021). Crosstalk between H2A variant-specific modifications impacts vital cell functions. PLoS Genetics. 17(6). e1009601–e1009601. 10 indexed citations
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Borg, Michael, et al.. (2019). A simple and robust protocol for immunostaining Arabidopsis pollen nuclei. Plant Reproduction. 32(1). 39–43. 10 indexed citations
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Jiang, Danhua & Frédéric Berger. (2017). DNA replication–coupled histone modification maintains Polycomb gene silencing in plants. Science. 357(6356). 1146–1149. 139 indexed citations
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Li, Jing, et al.. (2013). Integration of epigenetic and genetic controls of seed size by cytokinin in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(38). 15479–15484. 100 indexed citations
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Li, Jing & Frédéric Berger. (2012). Endosperm: food for humankind and fodder for scientific discoveries. New Phytologist. 195(2). 290–305. 120 indexed citations
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Jullien, Pauline E. & Frédéric Berger. (2009). Gamete-specific epigenetic mechanisms shape genomic imprinting. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 12(5). 637–642. 55 indexed citations
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Ingouff, Mathieu, Yuki Hamamura, Mathieu Gourgues, Tetsuya Higashiyama, & Frédéric Berger. (2007). Distinct Dynamics of HISTONE3 Variants between the Two Fertilization Products in Plants. Current Biology. 17(12). 1032–1037. 210 indexed citations
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Luo, Ming, Elizabeth S. Dennis, Frédéric Berger, William James Peacock, & Abed Chaudhury. (2005). MINISEED3 ( MINI3 ), a WRKY family gene, and HAIKU2 ( IKU2 ), a leucine-rich repeat ( LRR ) KINASE gene, are regulators of seed size in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(48). 17531–17536. 439 indexed citations
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Berger, Frédéric. (2003). Endosperm: the crossroad of seed development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 6(1). 42–50. 194 indexed citations
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Mayer, Ulríke, Hélène S. Robert, Gerd Jürgens, et al.. (2002). Cellularisation in the endosperm of Arabidopsis thaliana is coupled to mitosis and shares multiple components with cytokinesis. Development. 129(24). 5567–5576. 94 indexed citations
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Menand, Benoît, Thierry Desnos, Laurent Nussaume, et al.. (2002). Expression and disruption of the Arabidopsis TOR (target of rapamycin) gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(9). 6422–6427. 384 indexed citations
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Dolan, Liam, et al.. (1998). Cell fate in plants. Lessons from the Arabidopsis root.. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 51. 11–7. 6 indexed citations
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Berger, Frédéric, et al.. (1995). Extracellular matrix and pattern in plant embryos : on the lookout for developmental information. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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