Luís Aragón

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Luís Aragón is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Luís Aragón has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Cell Biology and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Luís Aragón's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (30 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (28 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (21 papers). Luís Aragón is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (30 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (28 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (21 papers). Luís Aragón collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Luís Aragón's co-authors include Jordi Torres‐Rosell, Adam Jarmuz, Félix Machín, Giacomo De Piccoli, Matthias Merkenschlager, Andrés Clemente‐Blanco, Amanda G. Fisher, Nicholas Sen, Bradley S. Cobb and Zoë Webster and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Luís Aragón

53 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Cohesins Functionally Associate with CTCF on Mammalian Ch... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 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. Cohesins Functionally Associate with CTCF on Mammalian Chromosome Arms
    2008 699 citations Suzana Hadjur, Mikhail Spivakov et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luís Aragón United Kingdom 29 2.9k 676 658 338 175 54 3.1k
Camilla Sjögren Sweden 24 2.1k 0.7× 406 0.6× 582 0.9× 239 0.7× 139 0.8× 34 2.4k
Yota Murakami Japan 27 2.2k 0.8× 541 0.8× 535 0.8× 364 1.1× 452 2.6× 78 2.7k
Gordana Wutz Austria 20 2.4k 0.8× 709 1.0× 268 0.4× 253 0.7× 121 0.7× 25 2.7k
Alexander Strunnikov United States 27 3.2k 1.1× 885 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 411 1.2× 158 0.9× 46 3.5k
Jop Kind Netherlands 25 3.5k 1.2× 695 1.0× 190 0.3× 506 1.5× 120 0.7× 36 3.8k
Iain F. Davidson Austria 21 2.6k 0.9× 626 0.9× 407 0.6× 320 0.9× 125 0.7× 30 2.8k
Mitsuhiro Yanagida Japan 12 2.4k 0.8× 323 0.5× 456 0.7× 262 0.8× 267 1.5× 15 2.8k
Jordi Torres‐Rosell Spain 22 1.7k 0.6× 340 0.5× 504 0.8× 156 0.5× 179 1.0× 33 1.8k
Hiroaki Tachiwana Japan 26 2.2k 0.7× 760 1.1× 268 0.4× 186 0.6× 82 0.5× 50 2.4k
Daniele Fachinetti France 31 3.0k 1.0× 1.3k 1.9× 1.0k 1.5× 521 1.5× 501 2.9× 58 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Luís Aragón

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luís Aragón

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luís Aragón

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luís Aragón. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luís Aragón 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 Luís Aragón. Luís Aragón 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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Cutts, Erin, et al.. (2024). Molecular mechanism of condensin I activation by KIF4A. The EMBO Journal. 44(3). 682–704. 6 indexed citations
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Martínez‐García, Belén, et al.. (2022). Condensin pinches a short negatively supercoiled DNA loop during each round of ATP usage. The EMBO Journal. 42(3). e111913–e111913. 11 indexed citations
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Gutiérrez-Escribano, Pilar, et al.. (2019). PP4 phosphatase cooperates in recombinational DNA repair by enhancing double-strand break end resection. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(20). 10706–10727. 15 indexed citations
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Gutiérrez-Escribano, Pilar, Matthew D. Newton, Aida Llauró, et al.. (2019). A conserved ATP- and Scc2/4-dependent activity for cohesin in tethering DNA molecules. Science Advances. 5(11). eaay6804–eaay6804. 37 indexed citations
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García-Luis, Jonay, Luciana Lazar‐Stefanita, Pilar Gutiérrez-Escribano, et al.. (2019). FACT mediates cohesin function on chromatin. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(10). 970–979. 28 indexed citations
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Bermúdez-López, Marcelino & Luís Aragón. (2016). Detection of Cohesin SUMOylation In Vivo. Methods in molecular biology. 1515. 55–64. 1 indexed citations
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Sen, Nicholas, Raúl Torres, Takashi Sutani, et al.. (2015). Condensin Relocalization from Centromeres to Chromosome Arms Promotes Top2 Recruitment during Anaphase. Cell Reports. 13(11). 2336–2344. 23 indexed citations
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Mayán, María D. & Luís Aragón. (2014). Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) of Tandem Arrays in Yeast. Methods in molecular biology. 1205. 219–229. 1 indexed citations
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Aragón, Luís, Enrique Martínez-Pérez, & Matthias Merkenschlager. (2013). Condensin, cohesin and the control of chromatin states. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 23(2). 204–211. 35 indexed citations
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McAleenan, Alexandra, Violeta Cordón-Preciado, Andrés Clemente‐Blanco, et al.. (2012). SUMOylation of the α-Kleisin Subunit of Cohesin Is Required for DNA Damage-Induced Cohesion. Current Biology. 22(17). 1564–1575. 62 indexed citations
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Seitan, Vlad C., Bingtao Hao, Kikuë Tachibana-Konwalski, et al.. (2011). A role for cohesin in T-cell-receptor rearrangement and thymocyte differentiation. Nature. 476(7361). 467–471. 187 indexed citations
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Farmer, Sarah, Pedro A. San-Segundo, & Luís Aragón. (2011). The Smc5–Smc6 Complex Is Required to Remove Chromosome Junctions in Meiosis. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e20948–e20948. 24 indexed citations
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Baxter, Jonathan & Luís Aragón. (2010). Physical Linkages between Sister Chromatids and Their Removal during Yeast Chromosome Segregation. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 75(0). 389–394. 2 indexed citations
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Aragón, Luís. (2010). Ribosomal Genes: Safety in Numbers. Current Biology. 20(8). R368–R370. 2 indexed citations
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Clemente‐Blanco, Andrés, María D. Mayán, David A. Schneider, et al.. (2009). Cdc14 inhibits transcription by RNA polymerase I during anaphase. Nature. 458(7235). 219–222. 102 indexed citations
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Hadjur, Suzana, Mikhail Spivakov, Marion Leleu, et al.. (2008). Cohesins Functionally Associate with CTCF on Mammalian Chromosome Arms. Cell. 132(3). 422–433. 699 indexed citations breakdown →
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Torres‐Rosell, Jordi, Giacomo De Piccoli, Violeta Cordón-Preciado, et al.. (2007). Anaphase Onset Before Complete DNA Replication with Intact Checkpoint Responses. Science. 315(5817). 1411–1415. 108 indexed citations
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Torres‐Rosell, Jordi, Ivana Šunjevarić, Giacomo De Piccoli, et al.. (2007). The Smc5–Smc6 complex and SUMO modification of Rad52 regulates recombinational repair at the ribosomal gene locus. Nature Cell Biology. 9(8). 923–931. 313 indexed citations
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Tomson, Brett N., et al.. (2006). Ribosomal DNA Transcription-Dependent Processes Interfere with Chromosome Segregation. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 26(16). 6239–6247. 34 indexed citations
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Machín, Félix, et al.. (2004). Condensin Regulates rDNA Silencing by Modulating Nucleolar Sir2p. Current Biology. 14(2). 125–130. 53 indexed citations

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