Iain F. Davidson

4.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
30 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Iain F. Davidson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Iain F. Davidson has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Iain F. Davidson's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (7 papers). Iain F. Davidson is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (7 papers). Iain F. Davidson collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Iain F. Davidson's co-authors include Jan‐Michael Peters, Wen Tang, Gordana Wutz, Benedikt Bauer, René Ladurner, Venugopal Bhaskara, Pim J. Huis in ’t Veld, Anatoliy Li, J. Julian Blow and Gabriele Litos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Iain F. Davidson

29 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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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.

DNA loop extrusion by human cohesin

2019 538 citations Iain F. Davidson, Benedikt Bauer et al. Science profile →
Genome folding through loop extrusion by SMC complexes

2021 301 citations Iain F. Davidson, Jan‐Michael Peters Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
CTCF is a DNA-tension-dependent barrier to cohesin-mediated loop extrusion

2023 94 citations Iain F. Davidson, Roman Barth et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Iain F. Davidson Austria	21	2.6k	626	407	320	125	30	2.8k
Camilla Sjögren Sweden	24	2.1k 0.8×	406 0.6×	582 1.4×	239 0.7×	139 1.1×	34	2.4k
Elçin Ünal United States	20	2.6k 1.0×	611 1.0×	651 1.6×	254 0.8×	105 0.8×	45	2.8k
Alexander Strunnikov United States	27	3.2k 1.3×	885 1.4×	1.1k 2.6×	411 1.3×	158 1.3×	46	3.5k
Luís Aragón United Kingdom	29	2.9k 1.1×	676 1.1×	658 1.6×	338 1.1×	175 1.4×	54	3.1k
Gordana Wutz Austria	20	2.4k 0.9×	709 1.1×	268 0.7×	253 0.8×	121 1.0×	25	2.7k
Yota Murakami Japan	27	2.2k 0.9×	541 0.9×	535 1.3×	364 1.1×	452 3.6×	78	2.7k
Hisao Masukata Japan	27	2.5k 1.0×	733 1.2×	423 1.0×	722 2.3×	99 0.8×	45	2.7k
Michiko Hirano United States	12	2.5k 1.0×	717 1.1×	886 2.2×	308 1.0×	106 0.8×	13	2.7k
John T. Lis United States	21	2.0k 0.8×	202 0.3×	144 0.4×	211 0.7×	121 1.0×	38	2.2k
Sarah Elderkin United Kingdom	14	1.5k 0.6×	175 0.3×	239 0.6×	392 1.2×	139 1.1×	15	1.7k

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Barth, Roman, Iain F. Davidson, Jaco van der Torre, et al.. (2025). SMC motor proteins extrude DNA asymmetrically and can switch directions. Cell. 188(3). 749–763.e21. 15 indexed citations

Barth, Roman, Richard Janissen, Jaco van der Torre, et al.. (2025). Two CTCF motifs impede cohesin-mediated DNA loop extrusion. Molecular Cell. 85(23). 4304–4317.e9. 1 indexed citations

Janissen, Richard, Roman Barth, Iain F. Davidson, Jan‐Michael Peters, & Cees Dekker. (2024). All eukaryotic SMC proteins induce a twist of −0.6 at each DNA loop extrusion step. Science Advances. 10(50). eadt1832–eadt1832. 9 indexed citations

Barth, Roman, Biswajit Pradhan, Eugene Kim, et al.. (2023). Testing pseudotopological and nontopological models for SMC-driven DNA loop extrusion against roadblock-traversal experiments. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 8100–8100. 10 indexed citations

Nagasaka, Kota, Iain F. Davidson, Roman R. Stocsits, et al.. (2023). Cohesin mediates DNA loop extrusion and sister chromatid cohesion by distinct mechanisms. Molecular Cell. 83(17). 3049–3063.e6. 24 indexed citations

Davidson, Iain F., Roman Barth, Jaco van der Torre, et al.. (2023). CTCF is a DNA-tension-dependent barrier to cohesin-mediated loop extrusion. Nature. 616(7958). 822–827. 94 indexed citations breakdown →

Scherr, Matthias J, Hugo B. Brandão, Johanna Gassler, et al.. (2022). MCM complexes are barriers that restrict cohesin-mediated loop extrusion. Nature. 606(7912). 197–203. 86 indexed citations

Pradhan, Biswajit, Roman Barth, Eugene Kim, et al.. (2022). SMC complexes can traverse physical roadblocks bigger than their ring size. Cell Reports. 41(3). 111491–111491. 87 indexed citations

Bauer, Benedikt, Iain F. Davidson, Gordana Wutz, et al.. (2021). Cohesin mediates DNA loop extrusion by a “swing and clamp” mechanism. Cell. 184(21). 5448–5464.e22. 101 indexed citations

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Davidson, Iain F. & Jan‐Michael Peters. (2021). Genome folding through loop extrusion by SMC complexes. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 22(7). 445–464. 301 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wutz, Gordana, René Ladurner, Brian Glenn St Hilaire, et al.. (2020). ESCO1 and CTCF enable formation of long chromatin loops by protecting cohesinSTAG1 from WAPL. eLife. 9. 111 indexed citations

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Davidson, Iain F., et al.. (2019). DNA loop extrusion by human cohesin. Science. 366(6471). 1338–1345. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Soh, Young‐Min, Iain F. Davidson, Stefano Zamuner, et al.. (2019). Self-organization of parS centromeres by the ParB CTP hydrolase. Science. 366(6469). 1129–1133. 94 indexed citations

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Holzmann, Johann, Antonio Z. Politi, Kota Nagasaka, et al.. (2019). Absolute quantification of cohesin, CTCF and their regulators in human cells. eLife. 8. 73 indexed citations

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Davidson, Iain F., Maxim I. Molodtsov, Pim J. Huis in ’t Veld, et al.. (2016). Rapid movement and transcriptional re‐localization of human cohesin on DNA. The EMBO Journal. 35(24). 2671–2685. 179 indexed citations

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Qiao, Renping, Florian Weissmann, Masaya Yamaguchi, et al.. (2016). Mechanism of APC/C ^CDC20 activation by mitotic phosphorylation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(19). E2570–8. 108 indexed citations

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Brown, Nicholas G., Edmond R. Watson, Florian Weissmann, et al.. (2014). Mechanism of Polyubiquitination by Human Anaphase-Promoting Complex: RING Repurposing for Ubiquitin Chain Assembly. Molecular Cell. 56(2). 246–260. 92 indexed citations

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Asencio, Claudio, Iain F. Davidson, Rachel Santarella‐Mellwig, et al.. (2012). Coordination of Kinase and Phosphatase Activities by Lem4 Enables Nuclear Envelope Reassembly during Mitosis. Cell. 150(1). 122–135. 132 indexed citations

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Davidson, Iain F., Anatoliy Li, & J. Julian Blow. (2006). Deregulated Replication Licensing Causes DNA Fragmentation Consistent with Head-to-Tail Fork Collision. Molecular Cell. 24(3). 433–443. 114 indexed citations

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Davidson, Iain F.. (1983). Non-linear effects in the support motion of an elastically mounted slider crank mechanism. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 86(1). 71–83. 1 indexed citations

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