Marcel Koken

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Marcel Koken is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcel Koken has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Immunology and 13 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Marcel Koken's work include Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes (19 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (12 papers) and Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research (8 papers). Marcel Koken is often cited by papers focused on Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes (19 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (12 papers) and Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research (8 papers). Marcel Koken collaborates with scholars based in France, Netherlands and United States. Marcel Koken's co-authors include Hugues de Thé, Frédérique Quignon, Mounira K. Chelbi‐Alix, Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers, D. Bootsma, Jun Zhu, Luis Pelicano, Nicole Honoré, Louise Prakash and Satya Prakash and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Marcel Koken

58 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Serum-free medium for generation and propagation of functional human cytotoxic and helper T cell clones
    1984 346 citations Marcel Koken et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marcel Koken France 38 5.1k 1.5k 1.4k 1.1k 888 61 6.6k
D. Stéhelin France 54 7.0k 1.4× 1.7k 1.1× 456 0.3× 3.1k 2.8× 1.8k 2.0× 185 10.9k
Jeffrey J. Gorman Australia 40 3.5k 0.7× 924 0.6× 554 0.4× 1.2k 1.1× 490 0.6× 106 7.3k
Jacques Ghysdael France 60 5.9k 1.2× 2.9k 1.9× 1.4k 1.0× 2.0k 1.8× 2.1k 2.4× 181 10.7k
Jean‐Pierre Cartron France 57 3.3k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 5.0k 3.5× 1.4k 1.2× 652 0.7× 263 10.0k
Agnès Marchio France 29 4.6k 0.9× 785 0.5× 831 0.6× 1.5k 1.4× 978 1.1× 73 6.3k
Jean‐Marc Egly France 57 9.1k 1.8× 392 0.3× 161 0.1× 1.8k 1.6× 1.5k 1.7× 129 10.3k
Bernard Haendler Germany 40 3.6k 0.7× 681 0.5× 385 0.3× 896 0.8× 926 1.0× 110 5.4k
Elaine Spooncer United Kingdom 33 2.4k 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 543 0.5× 789 0.9× 77 4.7k
Manuel O. Dı́az United States 47 4.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 991 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 108 7.4k
Katsuya Shigesada Japan 42 4.6k 0.9× 654 0.4× 1.6k 1.1× 663 0.6× 943 1.1× 77 6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Marcel Koken

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcel Koken

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcel Koken

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

All Works

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Koken, Marcel, et al.. (2025). A “bioluminescent” common cockchafer?. Arthropod Structure & Development. 87. 101451–101451.
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Koken, Marcel, et al.. (2023). Across the firefly-verse: comparison of niche suitability of an exotic firefly in its native and colonized range. Journal of Insect Conservation. 28(1). 43–56.
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Travers, Marie‐Agnès, Delphine Tourbiez, Philippe Haffner, et al.. (2017). Several strains, one disease: experimental investigation of Vibrio aestuarianus infection parameters in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas. Veterinary Research. 48(1). 32–32. 22 indexed citations
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Jeanne, Marion, Valérie Lallemand-Breitenbach, Omar Ferhi, et al.. (2010). PML/RARA Oxidation and Arsenic Binding Initiate the Antileukemia Response of As2O3. Cancer Cell. 18(1). 88–98. 244 indexed citations
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Travers, Marie‐Agnès, Patrícia Mirella da Silva, Nelly Le Goïc, et al.. (2007). Morphologic, cytometric and functional characterisation of abalone (Haliotis tuberculata) haemocytes. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 24(4). 400–411. 96 indexed citations
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Koken, Marcel, Marie‐Thérèse Daniel, Maurizio Gianni’, et al.. (1999). Retinoic acid, but not arsenic trioxide, degrades the PLZF/RARα fusion protein, without inducing terminal differentiation or apoptosis, in a RA-therapy resistant t(11;17)(q23;q21) APL patient. Oncogene. 18(4). 1113–1118. 80 indexed citations
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Quignon, Frédérique, Frédéric De Bels, Marcel Koken, et al.. (1998). PML induces a novel caspase-independent death process. Nature Genetics. 20(3). 259–265. 329 indexed citations
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Roest, Henk P., Jan de Wit, Marcel Koken, et al.. (1996). Inactivation of the HR6B Ubiquitin-Conjugating DNA Repair Enzyme in Mice Causes Male Sterility Associated with Chromatin Modification. Cell. 86(5). 799–810. 325 indexed citations
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Koken, Marcel, Jos W. Hoogerbrugge, Jan de Wit, et al.. (1996). Expression of the Ubiquitin-Conjugating DNA Repair Enzymes HHR6A and B Suggests a Role in Spermatogenesis and Chromatin Modification. Developmental Biology. 173(1). 119–132. 77 indexed citations
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André, Chantal, Marie-Claude Guillemin, Jun Zhu, et al.. (1996). The PML and PML/RARα Domains: From Autoimmunity to Molecular Oncology and from Retinoic Acid to Arsenic. Experimental Cell Research. 229(2). 253–260. 29 indexed citations
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Hendriksen, Peter J.M., Jos W. Hoogerbrugge, Axel P. N. Themmen, et al.. (1995). Postmeiotic Transcription of X and Y Chromosomal Genes during Spermatogenesis in the Mouse. Developmental Biology. 170(2). 730–733. 84 indexed citations
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Puvion-Dutilleul, F, Mounira K. Chelbi‐Alix, Marcel Koken, et al.. (1995). Adenovirus Infection Induces Rearrangements in the Intranuclear Distribution of the Nuclear Body-Associated PML Protein. Experimental Cell Research. 218(1). 9–16. 78 indexed citations
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Koken, Marcel, Ngan Ching Cheng, Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers, et al.. (1992). Cloning and characterization of theDrosophilahomolog of the xeroderma pigmentosum complementation-group B correcting gene,ERCC3. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(21). 5541–5548. 31 indexed citations
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Broughton, Bernard C., Johanne M. Murray, Felicity Z. Watts, et al.. (1991). Assignment of ten DNA repair genes from Schizosaccharomyces pombe to chromosomal NotI restriction fragments. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 228(3). 470–472. 6 indexed citations
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Yasui, Akira, André P. M. Eker, & Marcel Koken. (1989). Existence and expression of photoreactivation repair genes in various yeast species. Mutation Research/DNA Repair. 217(1). 3–10. 9 indexed citations
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Duin, Marcel van, Marcel Koken, Peter ten Dijke, et al.. (1987). Genomic characterization of the human DNA excision repair geneERCC-1. Nucleic Acids Research. 15(22). 9195–9214. 63 indexed citations

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