Marcus Roper

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Marcus Roper is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcus Roper has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Marcus Roper's work include Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research (10 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (8 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (8 papers). Marcus Roper is often cited by papers focused on Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research (10 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (8 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (8 papers). Marcus Roper collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Marcus Roper's co-authors include Howard A. Stone, Marc Fermigier, Jérôme Bibette, Jean Baudry, Rémi Dreyfus, Emilie Dressaire, Michael P. Brenner, Rachel E. Pepper, Laurent Courbin and Armand Ajdari and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Marcus Roper

40 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Microscopic artificial swimmers 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 400 800 1.2k
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. Microscopic artificial swimmers
    2005 1.5k citations Rémi Dreyfus, Jean Baudry et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marcus Roper United States 18 1.7k 1.4k 669 409 328 41 2.8k
Manu Prakash United States 27 587 0.4× 1.5k 1.0× 439 0.7× 404 1.0× 476 1.5× 85 3.4k
Eran Sharon Israel 31 608 0.4× 1.5k 1.0× 2.7k 4.1× 369 0.9× 356 1.1× 70 4.7k
Willow R. DiLuzio United States 8 1.3k 0.7× 2.1k 1.4× 343 0.5× 590 1.4× 170 0.5× 11 2.9k
Jeffrey Guasto United States 21 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 213 0.3× 451 1.1× 409 1.2× 50 2.7k
Thomas Powers United States 32 3.4k 2.0× 2.6k 1.8× 780 1.2× 825 2.0× 614 1.9× 88 4.7k
Avraham Be’er Israel 23 1.2k 0.7× 881 0.6× 255 0.4× 676 1.7× 100 0.3× 48 2.4k
Rémi Dreyfus United States 23 1.8k 1.0× 1.7k 1.2× 686 1.0× 626 1.5× 193 0.6× 39 3.3k
A. E. Hosoi United States 24 483 0.3× 841 0.6× 453 0.7× 87 0.2× 860 2.6× 72 3.0k
Shmuel M. Rubinstein United States 28 220 0.1× 821 0.6× 746 1.1× 232 0.6× 557 1.7× 62 3.1k
Silas Alben United States 23 579 0.3× 528 0.4× 522 0.8× 152 0.4× 1.1k 3.2× 65 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Marcus Roper

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcus Roper

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcus Roper

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marcus Roper. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marcus Roper 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 Marcus Roper. Marcus Roper 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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Wang, Yixuan, et al.. (2024). Hemodynamic regulation allows stable growth of microvascular networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(9). e2310993121–e2310993121. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Jiayu, et al.. (2024). Mitigating transcription noise via protein sharing in syncytial cells. Biophysical Journal. 123(8). 968–978. 1 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, R., et al.. (2023). Flow modes provide a quantification of Physarum network peristalsis. Fungal ecology. 65. 101283–101283. 1 indexed citations
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Roper, Marcus, et al.. (2023). The role of RNA condensation in reducing gene expression noise. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 415a–416a. 1 indexed citations
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McLaughlin, Grace A., et al.. (2023). Syncytial Assembly Lines: Consequences of Multinucleate Cellular Compartments for Fungal Protein Synthesis. Results and problems in cell differentiation. 71. 159–183. 1 indexed citations
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Baek, Kyung In, Chih‐Chiang Chang, Mehrdad Roustaei, et al.. (2022). Vascular Injury in the Zebrafish Tail Modulates Blood Flow and Peak Wall Shear Stress to Restore Embryonic Circular Network. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 9. 841101–841101. 6 indexed citations
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Roper, Marcus, et al.. (2017). Pairwise interactions in inertially driven one-dimensional microfluidic crystals. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations
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Roper, Marcus, et al.. (2017). A Biologically-Inspired Symmetric Bidirectional Switch. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169856–e0169856. 4 indexed citations
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Dressaire, Emilie, et al.. (2016). Defining individual size in the model filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1826). 20152470–20152470. 4 indexed citations
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Baek, Kyung In, et al.. (2016). What optimization principle explains the zebrafish vasculature. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Abhishek, et al.. (2016). Clustered nuclei maintain autonomy and nucleocytoplasmic ratio control in a syncytium. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 27(13). 2000–2007. 30 indexed citations
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Roper, Marcus, ChangHwan Lee, Patrick C. Hickey, & Amy S. Gladfelter. (2015). Life as a moving fluid: fate of cytoplasmic macromolecules in dynamic fungal syncytia. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 26. 116–122. 24 indexed citations
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Dressaire, Emilie, et al.. (2013). Control of fluidic environments by mushrooms. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Roper, Marcus, Mark J. Dayel, Rachel E. Pepper, & M. A. R. Koehl. (2013). Cooperatively Generated Stresslet Flows Supply Fresh Fluid to Multicellular Choanoflagellate Colonies. Physical Review Letters. 110(22). 228104–228104. 66 indexed citations
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Cameron, Todd A., Marcus Roper, & Patricia Zambryski. (2012). Quantitative Image Analysis and Modeling Indicate the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Type IV Secretion System Is Organized in a Periodic Pattern of Foci. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e42219–e42219. 13 indexed citations
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Roper, Marcus, Chris Ellison, John W. Taylor, & N. Louise Glass. (2011). Nuclear and Genome Dynamics in Multinucleate Ascomycete Fungi. Current Biology. 21(18). R786–R793. 92 indexed citations
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Angelini, Thomas E., Marcus Roper, Roberto Kolter, David A. Weitz, & Michael P. Brenner. (2009). Bacillus subtilis spreads by surfing on waves of surfactant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(43). 18109–18113. 134 indexed citations
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Roper, Marcus. (2007). Symmetry breaking and un-breaking in microhydrodynamical systems: Swimming, pumping and bio-ballistics. PhDT. 1 indexed citations
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Courbin, Laurent, et al.. (2007). Imbibition by polygonal spreading on microdecorated surfaces. Nature Materials. 6(9). 661–664. 262 indexed citations
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Dreyfus, Rémi, Jean Baudry, Marcus Roper, et al.. (2005). Microscopic artificial swimmers. Nature. 437(7060). 862–865. 1458 indexed citations breakdown →

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