Jan Brugués

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Jan Brugués is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Brugués has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Cell Biology and 7 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Jan Brugués's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (16 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (10 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (7 papers). Jan Brugués is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (16 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (10 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (7 papers). Jan Brugués collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Spain. Jan Brugués's co-authors include Daniel Needleman, Jaume Casademunt, Stefan Golfier, Thomas Quail, David Oriola, Pierre Sens, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Joaquim Gomis, Eric Mazur and Valeria Nuzzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jan Brugués

36 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

PARP1-DNA co-condensation drives DNA repair site assembly to prevent disjunction of broken DNA ends

2024 74 citations Thomas Quail, Jan Brugués et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Brugués Germany	21	646	626	193	161	137	38	1.3k
Idse Heemskerk United States	15	409 0.6×	264 0.4×	25 0.1×	96 0.6×	35 0.3×	23	872
Monica Skoge United States	10	304 0.5×	148 0.2×	147 0.8×	70 0.4×	19 0.1×	13	812
Gilberto L. Thomas Brazil	16	326 0.5×	382 0.6×	93 0.5×	34 0.2×	25 0.2×	32	1.0k
Meredith D. Betterton United States	22	709 1.1×	411 0.7×	225 1.2×	79 0.5×	91 0.7×	54	1.3k
Arvind Murugan United States	22	447 0.7×	62 0.1×	84 0.4×	277 1.7×	41 0.3×	41	1.6k
Stephanie C. Weber United States	13	1.8k 2.8×	173 0.3×	117 0.6×	226 1.4×	103 0.8×	16	2.3k
Hervé Mohrbach France	17	152 0.2×	148 0.2×	108 0.6×	182 1.1×	17 0.1×	55	861
Raymond J. Hawkins United States	24	419 0.6×	793 1.3×	207 1.1×	352 2.2×	94 0.7×	79	2.4k
Fabio Giavazzi Italy	20	637 1.0×	250 0.4×	193 1.0×	106 0.7×	23 0.2×	48	1.6k
Ioan Kosztin United States	29	715 1.1×	195 0.3×	626 3.2×	201 1.2×	24 0.2×	54	2.2k

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McCall, Patrick M., Kyoohyun Kim, Anna Shevchenko, et al.. (2025). A label-free method for measuring the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates. Nature Chemistry. 17(12). 1891–1902. 5 indexed citations

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McCall, Patrick M., Kristian Le Vay, Lars Hubatsch, et al.. (2025). RNA-peptide interactions tune the ribozyme activity within coacervate microdroplet dispersions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8765–8765.

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Brugués, Jan, et al.. (2025). Active Loop Extrusion Guides DNA-Protein Condensation. Physical Review Letters. 134(12). 128401–128401. 5 indexed citations

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Xu, Yitong, et al.. (2025). The cell cycle oscillator and spindle length set the speed of chromosome separation in Drosophila embryos. Current Biology. 35(3). 655–664.e3.

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Oriola, David, et al.. (2022). A gelation transition enables the self-organization of bipolar metaphase spindles. Nature Physics. 18(3). 323–331. 7 indexed citations

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Ishihara, Keisuke, et al.. (2022). Topological morphogenesis of neuroepithelial organoids. Nature Physics. 19(2). 177–183. 14 indexed citations

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Ishihara, Keisuke, et al.. (2021). Spatial variation of microtubule depolymerization in large asters. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 32(9). 869–879. 6 indexed citations

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Oriola, David, Frank Jülicher, & Jan Brugués. (2020). Active forces shape the metaphase spindle through a mechanical instability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(28). 16154–16159. 25 indexed citations

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Golfier, Stefan, Thomas Quail, Hiroshi Kimurâ, & Jan Brugués. (2020). Cohesin and condensin extrude DNA loops in a cell cycle-dependent manner. eLife. 9. 148 indexed citations

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Golfier, Stefan, et al.. (2020). Spindle Scaling Is Governed by Cell Boundary Regulation of Microtubule Nucleation. Current Biology. 30(24). 4973–4983.e10. 40 indexed citations

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Baumgart, Johannes, Stefanie Redemann, Jeffrey B. Woodruff, et al.. (2019). Soluble tubulin is significantly enriched at mitotic centrosomes. The Journal of Cell Biology. 218(12). 3977–3985. 26 indexed citations

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Pearce, Daniel J., et al.. (2019). Cooperative ordering of treadmilling filaments in cytoskeletal networks of FtsZ and its crosslinker ZapA. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5744–5744. 38 indexed citations

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Ishihara, Keisuke, et al.. (2019). How to tune spindle size relative to cell size?. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 60. 139–144. 4 indexed citations

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Brugués, Jan, et al.. (2015). Dissecting microtubule structures by laser ablation. Methods in cell biology. 125. 61–75. 5 indexed citations

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Brugués, Jan, et al.. (2014). Determining Physical Principles of Subcellular Organization. Developmental Cell. 29(2). 135–138. 8 indexed citations

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Yu, Che‐Hang, Hai‐Yin Wu, Reza Farhadifar, et al.. (2014). Measuring Microtubule Polarity in Spindles with Second-Harmonic Generation. Biophysical Journal. 106(8). 1578–1587. 23 indexed citations

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Brugués, Jan, Valeria Nuzzo, Eric Mazur, & Daniel Needleman. (2012). Nucleation and Transport Organize Microtubules in Metaphase Spindles. Cell. 149(3). 554–564. 121 indexed citations

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Brugués, Jan, et al.. (2010). Corrections. Biophysical Journal. 99(8). 2715–2715. 1 indexed citations

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Orlandi, Javier G., Carlès Blanch-Mercader, Jan Brugués, & Jaume Casademunt. (2010). Cooperativity of self-organized Brownian motors pulling on soft cargoes. Physical Review E. 82(6). 61903–61903. 13 indexed citations

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Brugués, Jan & Jaume Casademunt. (2009). Self-Organization and Cooperativity of Weakly Coupled Molecular Motors under Unequal Loading. Physical Review Letters. 102(11). 118104–118104. 34 indexed citations

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