Juan Manuel Pedraza

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Juan Manuel Pedraza is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Juan Manuel Pedraza has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Juan Manuel Pedraza's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (18 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (11 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers). Juan Manuel Pedraza is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (18 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (11 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers). Juan Manuel Pedraza collaborates with scholars based in United States, Colombia and Türkiye. Juan Manuel Pedraza's co-authors include Alexander van Oudenaarden, Johan Paulsson, Remy Chait, Roy Kishony, Erdal Toprak, Adrian Veres, Jerome T. Mettetal, Ertuğrul M. Özbudak, Dale Muzzey and J Chabot and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Juan Manuel Pedraza

23 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Noise Propagation in Gene Networks 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 200 400 600
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.

  1. Noise Propagation in Gene Networks
    2005 615 citations Juan Manuel Pedraza, Alexander van Oudenaarden 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
Juan Manuel Pedraza United States 10 1.3k 544 166 152 108 23 1.5k
Vahid Shahrezaei United Kingdom 24 1.9k 1.5× 538 1.0× 184 1.1× 137 0.9× 117 1.1× 56 2.3k
Jonathan W. Young United States 7 1.2k 0.9× 488 0.9× 278 1.7× 199 1.3× 52 0.5× 13 1.5k
William Mather United States 16 1.3k 1.0× 371 0.7× 145 0.9× 274 1.8× 118 1.1× 23 1.6k
Iren Kurtser United States 9 1.5k 1.2× 848 1.6× 149 0.9× 103 0.7× 107 1.0× 9 1.7k
Jesse Stricker United States 8 1.3k 1.0× 715 1.3× 122 0.7× 149 1.0× 66 0.6× 8 1.6k
David R. McMillen Canada 18 2.0k 1.5× 542 1.0× 176 1.1× 243 1.6× 244 2.3× 40 2.3k
Han N. Lim United States 19 1.6k 1.2× 810 1.5× 80 0.5× 90 0.6× 85 0.8× 25 2.0k
Lydia Robert France 13 899 0.7× 581 1.1× 156 0.9× 322 2.1× 24 0.2× 19 1.4k
Octavio Mondragón-Palomino United States 8 894 0.7× 242 0.4× 87 0.5× 404 2.7× 79 0.7× 12 1.2k
Yuichi Taniguchi Japan 12 1.6k 1.3× 549 1.0× 214 1.3× 248 1.6× 64 0.6× 32 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Juan Manuel Pedraza

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Juan Manuel Pedraza

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Juan Manuel Pedraza. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Juan Manuel Pedraza 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 Juan Manuel Pedraza. Juan Manuel Pedraza 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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Vargas-García, Cesar A., et al.. (2024). Mechanisms of cell size regulation in slow-growing Escherichia coli cells: discriminating models beyond the adder. npj Systems Biology and Applications. 10(1). 61–61. 4 indexed citations
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Vargas-García, Cesar A., et al.. (2023). PyEcoLib: a python library for simulating stochastic cell size dynamics. Physical Biology. 20(4). 45006–45006. 2 indexed citations
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Escobar, María, Catalina Gómez, Jorge Madrid‐Wolff, et al.. (2022). Smart pooling: AI-powered COVID-19 informative group testing. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 6519–6519. 6 indexed citations
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Vargas-García, Cesar A., et al.. (2022). Cell size control shapes fluctuations in colony population. 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). 3219–3224. 3 indexed citations
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Vargas-García, Cesar A., et al.. (2022). Modeling cell size control under dynamic environments. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 55(40). 133–138. 1 indexed citations
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Vargas-García, Cesar A., et al.. (2021). Continuous rate modeling of bacterial stochastic size dynamics. Physical review. E. 104(4). 44415–44415. 6 indexed citations
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Vargas-García, Cesar A., et al.. (2020). Correlation between protein concentration and bacterial cell size can reveal mechanisms of gene expression. Physical Biology. 17(4). 45002–45002. 8 indexed citations
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Sánchez, Carlos Martínez, et al.. (2020). Unification of cell division control strategies through continuous rate models. Physical review. E. 101(2). 22401–22401. 24 indexed citations
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Pedraza, Juan Manuel, et al.. (2020). Slipstreaming Mother Machine: A Microfluidic Device for Single-Cell Dynamic Imaging of Yeast. Micromachines. 12(1). 4–4. 4 indexed citations
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Vargas-García, Cesar A., et al.. (2019). Efficient computation of stochastic cell-size transient dynamics. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(S23). 647–647. 13 indexed citations
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Cañas-Duarte, Silvia J., Silvia Restrepo, & Juan Manuel Pedraza. (2014). Novel Protocol for Persister Cells Isolation. PLoS ONE. 9(2). e88660–e88660. 44 indexed citations
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Avendaño, Mauricio, Chad Leidy, & Juan Manuel Pedraza. (2013). Tuning the range and stability of multiple phenotypic states with coupled positive–negative feedback loops. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2605–2605. 33 indexed citations
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Toprak, Erdal, Adrian Veres, Juan Manuel Pedraza, et al.. (2013). Building a morbidostat: an automated continuous-culture device for studying bacterial drug resistance under dynamically sustained drug inhibition. Nature Protocols. 8(3). 555–567. 96 indexed citations
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Avendaño, Mauricio, Chad Leidy, Alexander van Oudenaarden, & Juan Manuel Pedraza. (2010). Tuning the Range and Stability of Multiple Phenotypic States with Coupled Positive-Negative Feedback Loops. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 430a–430a. 9 indexed citations
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Pedraza, Juan Manuel & Johan Paulsson. (2008). Effects of Molecular Memory and Bursting on Fluctuations in Gene Expression. Science. 319(5861). 339–343. 300 indexed citations
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Chabot, J, et al.. (2007). Stochastic gene expression out-of-steady-state in the cyanobacterial circadian clock. Nature. 450(7173). 1249–1252. 87 indexed citations
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Carrasco, Rosa M., et al.. (2007). El análisis de susceptibilidad en la prevención de los movimientos de ladera: un análisis comparativo de las metodologías aplicadas en el Valle del Jerte (Sistema Central Español). Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 221–246. 1 indexed citations
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Mettetal, Jerome T., Dale Muzzey, Juan Manuel Pedraza, Ertuğrul M. Özbudak, & Alexander van Oudenaarden. (2006). Predicting stochastic gene expression dynamics in single cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(19). 7304–7309. 124 indexed citations
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Pedraza, Juan Manuel & Alexander van Oudenaarden. (2005). Noise Propagation in Gene Networks. Science. 307(5717). 1965–1969. 615 indexed citations breakdown →
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Binder, P.‐M., et al.. (1999). An invertibility paradox. American Journal of Physics. 67(12). 1091–1093. 3 indexed citations

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