Jack Merrin

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Jack Merrin is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jack Merrin has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cell Biology, 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jack Merrin's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (13 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (8 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (4 papers). Jack Merrin is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (13 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (8 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (4 papers). Jack Merrin collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Jack Merrin's co-authors include Stanislas Leibler, Remy Chait, Nathalie Q. Balaban, Michael Sixt, Robert Hauschild, Ingrid de Vries, Julian Stopp, Koji Takahashi, Jiřı́ Friml and Jörg Renkawitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jack Merrin

26 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Bacterial Persistence as a Phenotypic Switch

2004 2.1k citations Nathalie Q. Balaban, Jack Merrin et al. Science profile →
Cell surface and intracellular auxin signalling for H+ fluxes in root growth

2021 175 citations Lanxin Li, Inge Verstraeten 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
Jack Merrin Austria	16	1.8k	1.1k	502	475	426	26	3.4k
Lionel Mourey France	39	2.5k 1.4×	589 0.5×	340 0.7×	519 1.1×	666 1.6×	104	5.0k
Katsumi Imada Japan	41	2.8k 1.5×	1.9k 1.8×	360 0.7×	464 1.0×	153 0.4×	116	4.6k
Avigdor Eldar Israel	25	2.4k 1.3×	838 0.8×	244 0.5×	321 0.7×	124 0.3×	43	3.1k
Holger Sondermann United States	41	4.8k 2.6×	1.1k 1.0×	212 0.4×	1.0k 2.1×	325 0.8×	84	6.1k
Winston Timp United States	33	4.1k 2.2×	850 0.8×	669 1.3×	151 0.3×	142 0.3×	99	5.5k
Éric Le Cam France	36	3.5k 1.9×	738 0.7×	354 0.7×	216 0.5×	90 0.2×	109	4.7k
Tobias Bollenbach Germany	26	1.7k 1.0×	510 0.5×	248 0.5×	594 1.3×	304 0.7×	40	2.9k
Paul Peluso United States	20	2.6k 1.4×	911 0.8×	265 0.5×	218 0.5×	99 0.2×	27	4.0k
Ariane Briegel United States	34	2.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.5×	227 0.5×	214 0.5×	113 0.3×	92	4.0k
Stephen W. Turner United States	20	4.5k 2.5×	755 0.7×	450 0.9×	166 0.3×	242 0.6×	22	6.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Jack Merrin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jack Merrin

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Avellaneda, Mario J., Florian Gaertner, Kari Vaahtomeri, et al.. (2025). Migrating immune cells globally coordinate protrusive forces. Nature Immunology. 26(8). 1258–1266. 4 indexed citations

Bolger-Munro, Madison, Vanessa Zheden, Jack Merrin, et al.. (2024). Friction forces determine cytoplasmic reorganization and shape changes of ascidian oocytes upon fertilization. Nature Physics. 20(2). 310–321. 4 indexed citations

Merrin, Jack, et al.. (2024). Protocol for fabricating elastomeric stencils for patterned stem cell differentiation. STAR Protocols. 5(4). 103187–103187. 1 indexed citations

Brückner, David B., et al.. (2024). Self-organized pattern formation in the developing mouse neural tube by a temporal relay of BMP signaling. Developmental Cell. 60(4). 567–580.e14. 3 indexed citations

Merrin, Jack, et al.. (2023). Synchronization in collectively moving inanimate and living active matter. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5633–5633. 16 indexed citations

Hauschild, Robert, et al.. (2023). Adaptive pathfinding by nucleokinesis during amoeboid migration. The EMBO Journal. 42(24). e114557–e114557. 6 indexed citations

Hannezo, Édouard, et al.. (2023). Adhesion-induced cortical flows pattern E-cadherin-mediated cell contacts. Current Biology. 34(1). 171–182.e8. 5 indexed citations

Li, Lanxin, Inge Verstraeten, Mark Roosjen, et al.. (2021). Cell surface and intracellular auxin signalling for H+ fluxes in root growth. Nature. 599(7884). 273–277. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

Gaertner, Florian, Ingrid de Vries, Miroslav Hons, et al.. (2021). WASp triggers mechanosensitive actin patches to facilitate immune cell migration in dense tissues. Developmental Cell. 57(1). 47–62.e9. 53 indexed citations

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Reversat, Anne, Florian Gaertner, Jack Merrin, et al.. (2020). Cellular locomotion using environmental topography. Nature. 582(7813). 582–585. 148 indexed citations

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Kopf, Aglaja, Jörg Renkawitz, Robert Hauschild, et al.. (2020). Microtubules control cellular shape and coherence in amoeboid migrating cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 219(6). 71 indexed citations

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Merrin, Jack. (2020). Differences in power law growth over time and indicators of COVID-19 pandemic progression worldwide. Physical Biology. 17(6). 65005–65005. 6 indexed citations

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Renkawitz, Jörg, Aglaja Kopf, Julian Stopp, et al.. (2019). Nuclear positioning facilitates amoeboid migration along the path of least resistance. Nature. 568(7753). 546–550. 198 indexed citations

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Merrin, Jack. (2019). Frontiers in Microfluidics, a Teaching Resource Review. Bioengineering. 6(4). 109–109. 20 indexed citations

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Fendrych, Matyáš, Maria Akhmanova, Jack Merrin, et al.. (2018). Rapid and reversible root growth inhibition by TIR1 auxin signalling. Nature Plants. 4(7). 453–459. 182 indexed citations

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Schwarz, Jan, Kari Vaahtomeri, Robert Hauschild, et al.. (2017). Dendritic Cells Interpret Haptotactic Chemokine Gradients in a Manner Governed by Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Dependent on GRK6. Current Biology. 27(9). 1314–1325. 42 indexed citations

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Schwarz, Jan, Jack Merrin, Robert Hauschild, et al.. (2016). A microfluidic device for measuring cell migration towards substrate-bound and soluble chemokine gradients. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 36440–36440. 64 indexed citations

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Leithner, Alexander, Alexander Eichner, Anne Reversat, et al.. (2016). Diversified actin protrusions promote environmental exploration but are dispensable for locomotion of leukocytes. Nature Cell Biology. 18(11). 1253–1259. 116 indexed citations

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Merrin, Jack, Stanislas Leibler, & John S. Chuang. (2007). Printing Multistrain Bacterial Patterns with a Piezoelectric Inkjet Printer. PLoS ONE. 2(7). e663–e663. 53 indexed citations

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Balaban, Nathalie Q., et al.. (2004). Bacterial Persistence as a Phenotypic Switch. Science. 305(5690). 1622–1625. 2150 indexed citations breakdown →

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