Frederic Català-Castro

758 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 460 citations indexed

About

Frederic Català-Castro is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Frederic Català-Castro has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 460 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 7 papers in Cell Biology and 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Frederic Català-Castro's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (9 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (7 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (7 papers). Frederic Català-Castro is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (9 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (7 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (7 papers). Frederic Català-Castro collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Austria and United States. Frederic Català-Castro's co-authors include Michael Krieg, Verena Ruprecht, Valeria Venturini, Fabio Pezzano, Senda Jiménez‐Delgado, Stefan Wieser, Hanna-Maria Häkkinen, Miguel A. Valverde, Mónica Marro and Julian Weghuber and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Frederic Català-Castro

14 papers receiving 451 citations

Hit Papers

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  1. The nucleus measures shape changes for cellular proprioception to control dynamic cell behavior
    2020 286 citations Valeria Venturini, Fabio Pezzano et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Frederic Català-Castro Spain 9 265 173 136 97 45 15 460
Krithika Mohan United States 9 338 1.3× 140 0.8× 107 0.8× 89 0.9× 56 1.2× 22 475
Davide A. D. Cassani United Kingdom 5 290 1.1× 136 0.8× 124 0.9× 53 0.5× 40 0.9× 6 418
Yee Han Tee Singapore 7 258 1.0× 182 1.1× 116 0.9× 38 0.4× 29 0.6× 10 485
Andrea Dimitracopoulos United Kingdom 9 478 1.8× 247 1.4× 158 1.2× 55 0.6× 45 1.0× 11 668
Visalatchi Thiagarajan Israel 4 412 1.6× 219 1.3× 130 1.0× 65 0.7× 45 1.0× 4 604
Tamás Huber Hungary 9 142 0.5× 211 1.2× 87 0.6× 123 1.3× 42 0.9× 16 412
Katheryn E. Rothenberg United States 12 355 1.3× 212 1.2× 152 1.1× 109 1.1× 46 1.0× 20 564
Martin Behrndt Austria 7 412 1.6× 227 1.3× 193 1.4× 64 0.7× 55 1.2× 8 587
Pamela Jreij United States 5 276 1.0× 101 0.6× 92 0.7× 98 1.0× 34 0.8× 6 377
Kévin Carvalho France 10 267 1.0× 203 1.2× 88 0.6× 94 1.0× 33 0.7× 10 411

Countries citing papers authored by Frederic Català-Castro

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frederic Català-Castro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frederic Català-Castro

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

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2025). Obstacles regulate membrane tension propagation to enable localized mechanotransduction. Nature Physics. 21(11). 1741–1752.
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Català-Castro, Frederic, Fabio Pezzano, Carla Garcia‐Cabau, et al.. (2025). Measuring age-dependent viscoelasticity of organelles, cells and organisms with time-shared optical tweezer microrheology. Nature Nanotechnology. 20(3). 411–420. 9 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic, Borja Mateos, Carla Garcia‐Cabau, et al.. (2023). A MEC-2/stomatin condensate liquid-to-solid phase transition controls neuronal mechanotransduction during touch sensing. Nature Cell Biology. 25(11). 1590–1599. 11 indexed citations
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Cappello, Valentina, Domenica Convertino, Ravi Das, et al.. (2022). Axonal plasticity in response to active forces generated through magnetic nano-pulling. Cell Reports. 42(1). 111912–111912. 20 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic, Erik Schäffer, & Michael Krieg. (2022). Exploring cell and tissue mechanics with optical tweezers. Journal of Cell Science. 135(15). 33 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2021). Direct Force Measurements of Subcellular Mechanics in Confinement using Optical Tweezers. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2021). Direct Force Measurements of Subcellular Mechanics in Confinement using Optical Tweezers. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 10 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic. (2021). Positioning Accuracy in Holographic Optical Traps. MDPI (MDPI AG). 3 indexed citations
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Das, Ravi, et al.. (2021). An asymmetric mechanical code ciphers curvature-dependent proprioceptor activity. Science Advances. 7(38). eabg4617–eabg4617. 27 indexed citations
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Venturini, Valeria, Fabio Pezzano, Frederic Català-Castro, et al.. (2020). The nucleus measures shape changes for cellular proprioception to control dynamic cell behavior. Science. 370(6514). 286 indexed citations breakdown →
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Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2017). Extending calibration-free force measurements to optically-trapped rod-shaped samples. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 42960–42960. 15 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2017). Influence of experimental parameters on the laser heating of an optical trap. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16052–16052. 42 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2016). Optical tweezers for force measurements and rheological studies on biological samples. 1–3. 1 indexed citations
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Farré, Arnau, et al.. (2015). Force measurements in complex samples with optical tweezers. OtT1D.1–OtT1D.1. 1 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2014). Momentum measurements with holographic optical tweezers for exploring force detection capabilities on irregular samples. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9164. 91640A–91640A. 1 indexed citations

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