Marc Sultan

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Marc Sultan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc Sultan has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Immunology and 1 paper in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Marc Sultan's work include RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Marc Sultan is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Marc Sultan collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and Switzerland. Marc Sultan's co-authors include Hans Lehrach, Tatiana Borodina, Marie‐Laure Yaspo, Martin Vingron, Dominic Schmidt, Hugues Richard, Marcel H. Schulz, Stefan A. Haas, Sean O’Keeffe and Martin Seifert and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Marc Sultan

10 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

  1. A Global View of Gene Activity and Alternative Splicing by Deep Sequencing of the Human Transcriptome
    2008 949 citations Marc Sultan, Marcel H. Schulz et al. 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
Marc Sultan Germany 9 1.2k 355 169 118 84 11 1.5k
Hedda A. Meijer United Kingdom 16 1.4k 1.1× 387 1.1× 137 0.8× 97 0.8× 65 0.8× 21 1.7k
Flavio Licciulli Italy 19 1.0k 0.8× 249 0.7× 152 0.9× 122 1.0× 86 1.0× 40 1.4k
Manuel J. Muñoz Argentina 20 2.2k 1.7× 288 0.8× 123 0.7× 165 1.4× 89 1.1× 33 2.4k
Walter Santana-Garcia France 4 1.1k 0.9× 260 0.7× 195 1.2× 176 1.5× 161 1.9× 4 1.4k
Diego Borges-Rivera United States 7 1.5k 1.2× 323 0.9× 174 1.0× 272 2.3× 73 0.9× 10 1.8k
Jiao Ma United States 13 1.6k 1.3× 432 1.2× 109 0.6× 187 1.6× 91 1.1× 24 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Marc Sultan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marc Sultan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Marc Sultan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Marc Sultan. The network helps show where Marc Sultan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marc Sultan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marc Sultan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marc Sultan 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 Marc Sultan. Marc Sultan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Valdeolivas, Alberto, et al.. (2025). Mini Review: Spatial Transcriptomics to Decode the Central Nervous System. Toxicologic Pathology. 53(4). 397–402.
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Nachshon, Aharon, Yael Steuerman, Alexandra Dorman, et al.. (2016). Dissecting the Effect of Genetic Variation on the Hepatic Expression of Drug Disposition Genes across the Collaborative Cross Mouse Strains. Frontiers in Genetics. 7. 172–172. 10 indexed citations
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Warnatz, Hans-Jörg, Ran Elkon, Vyacheslav Amstislavskiy, et al.. (2014). Parallel Profiling of the Transcriptome, Cistrome, and Epigenome in the Cellular Response to Ionizing Radiation. Science Signaling. 7(325). rs3–rs3. 49 indexed citations
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Penkov, Dmitry, Luis C. Fernández, Catalina Ana Rosselló, et al.. (2013). Analysis of the DNA-Binding Profile and Function of TALE Homeoproteins Reveals Their Specialization and Specific Interactions with Hox Genes/Proteins. Cell Reports. 3(4). 1321–1333. 105 indexed citations
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Sultan, Marc, Simon Dökel, Vyacheslav Amstislavskiy, et al.. (2012). A simple strand-specific RNA-Seq library preparation protocol combining the Illumina TruSeq RNA and the dUTP methods. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 422(4). 643–646. 53 indexed citations
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Warnatz, Hans-Jörg, Dominic Schmidt, Thomas Manke, et al.. (2011). The BTB and CNC Homology 1 (BACH1) Target Genes Are Involved in the Oxidative Stress Response and in Control of the Cell Cycle. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(26). 23521–23532. 135 indexed citations
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Borodina, Tatiana, James Adjaye, & Marc Sultan. (2011). A Strand-Specific Library Preparation Protocol for RNA Sequencing. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 500. 79–98. 71 indexed citations
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Richard, Hugues, Marcel H. Schulz, Marc Sultan, et al.. (2010). Prediction of alternative isoforms from exon expression levels in RNA-Seq experiments. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(10). e112–e112. 114 indexed citations
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Sultan, Marc, Marcel H. Schulz, Hugues Richard, et al.. (2008). A Global View of Gene Activity and Alternative Splicing by Deep Sequencing of the Human Transcriptome. Science. 321(5891). 956–960. 949 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dahl, Andreas, Marc Sultan, A. Jung, et al.. (2007). Quantitative PCR based expression analysis on a nanoliter scale using polymer nano-well chips. Biomedical Microdevices. 9(3). 307–314. 27 indexed citations

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