Mina Farag

3.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
38 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Mina Farag is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Molecular Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mina Farag has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Mina Farag's work include Nuclear physics research studies (22 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (15 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (15 papers). Mina Farag is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear physics research studies (22 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (15 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (15 papers). Mina Farag collaborates with scholars based in Egypt, United States and Yemen. Mina Farag's co-authors include Rohit V. Pappu, Tanja Mittag, Anne Bremer, Erik Martin, Ivan Peran, Wade M. Borcherds, Alex S. Holehouse, Andrea Soranno, Christy R. Grace and J. Jeremías Incicco and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Mina Farag

33 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Valence and patterning of aromatic residues determine the phase behavior of prion-like domains

2020 713 citations Erik Martin, Alex S. Holehouse et al. Science profile →
Deciphering how naturally occurring sequence features impact the phase behaviours of disordered prion-like domains

2021 302 citations Anne Bremer, Mina Farag et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
Phase Transitions of Associative Biomacromolecules

2023 201 citations Rohit V. Pappu, Samuel R. Cohen et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
Programmable synthetic biomolecular condensates for cellular control

2023 89 citations Yifan Dai, Mina Farag et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →
Macromolecular condensation organizes nucleolar sub-phases to set up a pH gradient

2024 89 citations Matthew R. King, Kiersten M. Ruff et al. Cell profile →
Sequence-specific interactions determine viscoelasticity and ageing dynamics of protein condensates

2024 53 citations Ibraheem Alshareedah, Wade M. Borcherds et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mina Farag Egypt	14	1.5k	162	119	117	96	38	1.8k
Dylan T. Murray United States	14	854 0.6×	116 0.7×	60 0.5×	46 0.4×	80 0.8×	21	1.1k
Ashok Sekhar Canada	24	1.5k 1.0×	503 3.1×	139 1.2×	66 0.6×	124 1.3×	53	2.0k
Manuel Etzkorn Germany	23	1.3k 0.9×	415 2.6×	209 1.8×	19 0.2×	94 1.0×	50	2.1k
Kutti R. Vinothkumar United Kingdom	20	1.6k 1.1×	197 1.2×	44 0.4×	47 0.4×	151 1.6×	40	2.2k
Anne K. Schütz Switzerland	17	790 0.5×	243 1.5×	84 0.7×	17 0.1×	51 0.5×	33	1.3k
Mohona Sarkar United States	9	1.2k 0.8×	510 3.1×	29 0.2×	36 0.3×	260 2.7×	10	1.5k
Patrick Farber Canada	12	2.4k 1.6×	266 1.6×	13 0.1×	220 1.9×	145 1.5×	17	2.6k
Timothy J. Welsh United Kingdom	13	646 0.4×	51 0.3×	48 0.4×	47 0.4×	34 0.4×	18	819
Masakazu Fukuda Japan	21	702 0.5×	109 0.7×	57 0.5×	31 0.3×	86 0.9×	40	1.0k
Alexander S. Mishin Russia	22	882 0.6×	226 1.4×	103 0.9×	19 0.2×	76 0.8×	77	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Mina Farag

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Mina Farag's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Mina Farag with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Mina Farag more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Mina Farag

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mina Farag. 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 Mina Farag. The network helps show where Mina Farag may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mina Farag

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Farag, Mina, Kiersten M. Ruff, Anurag Singh, et al.. (2025). Tunable metastability of condensates reconciles their dual roles in amyloid fibril formation. Molecular Cell. 85(11). 2230–2245.e7. 15 indexed citations

Erkamp, Nadia A., Mina Farag, Daoyuan Qian, et al.. (2025). Differential interactions determine anisotropies at interfaces of RNA-based biomolecular condensates. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3463–3463. 7 indexed citations

Wu, Tingting, et al.. (2025). Single-fluorogen imaging reveals distinct environmental and structural features of biomolecular condensates. Nature Physics. 21(5). 778–786. 13 indexed citations

Alshareedah, Ibraheem, Wade M. Borcherds, Samuel R. Cohen, et al.. (2024). Sequence-specific interactions determine viscoelasticity and ageing dynamics of protein condensates. Nature Physics. 20(9). 1482–1491. 53 indexed citations breakdown →

Qian, Daoyuan, Hannes Ausserwӧger, Tomas Šneideris, et al.. (2024). Dominance analysis to assess solute contributions to multicomponent phase equilibria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(33). e2407453121–e2407453121. 10 indexed citations

King, Matthew R., Kiersten M. Ruff, Andrew Z. Lin, et al.. (2024). Macromolecular condensation organizes nucleolar sub-phases to set up a pH gradient. Cell. 187(8). 1889–1906.e24. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

Farag, Mina, Alex S. Holehouse, Xiangze Zeng, & Rohit V. Pappu. (2023). FIREBALL: A tool to fit protein phase diagrams based on mean-field theories for polymer solutions. Biophysical Journal. 122(12). 2396–2403. 8 indexed citations

Dai, Yifan, Mina Farag, Dongheon Lee, et al.. (2023). Programmable synthetic biomolecular condensates for cellular control. Nature Chemical Biology. 19(4). 518–528. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

Pappu, Rohit V., Samuel R. Cohen, Furqan Dar, Mina Farag, & Mrityunjoy Kar. (2023). Phase Transitions of Associative Biomacromolecules. Chemical Reviews. 123(14). 8945–8987. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Farag, Mina, Wade M. Borcherds, Anne Bremer, Tanja Mittag, & Rohit V. Pappu. (2023). Phase separation of protein mixtures is driven by the interplay of homotypic and heterotypic interactions. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5527–5527. 77 indexed citations

11.

Farag, Mina, Samuel R. Cohen, Wade M. Borcherds, et al.. (2022). Condensates formed by prion-like low-complexity domains have small-world network structures and interfaces defined by expanded conformations. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7722–7722. 125 indexed citations

12.

Bremer, Anne, Mina Farag, Wade M. Borcherds, et al.. (2021). Deciphering how naturally occurring sequence features impact the phase behaviours of disordered prion-like domains. Nature Chemistry. 14(2). 196–207. 302 indexed citations breakdown →

13.

Farag, Mina, et al.. (2020). Cryopreservation of Mulberry (Morus spp.) Germplasm. 1 indexed citations

14.

Martin, Erik, Alex S. Holehouse, Ivan Peran, et al.. (2020). Valence and patterning of aromatic residues determine the phase behavior of prion-like domains. Science. 367(6478). 694–699. 713 indexed citations breakdown →

15.

Farag, Mina, et al.. (2020). Nucleon-nucleon phase variation and in-medium effects on elastic scattering cross sections. Physica Scripta. 95(9). 95301–95301.

16.

Farag, Mina, et al.. (2016). Analysis of proton scattering of stable and exotic light nuclei using an energy-dependent microscopic optical potential. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 107. 8007–8007. 1 indexed citations

17.

Farag, Mina, et al.. (2013). Elastic interaction of protons with stable and exotic light nuclei. Physical Review C. 88(6). 13 indexed citations

18.

Farag, Mina, et al.. (2004). The Dependence of the Nucleon--Nucleon Scattering Amplitude on the Momentum Transfer. Acta Physica Polonica B. 35(8). 2085. 1 indexed citations

19.

Farag, Mina. (2002). Description of Elastic and Reaction Cross-Sections of Heavy Ions Using Modified Glauber Model. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics. 52(8). 927–943. 11 indexed citations

20.

Farag, Mina, et al.. (1996). Multifragmentation of24Mg+24Mg heavy-ion reactions leading to alpha-particles. Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. A, Nuclei, particles and fields. 109(10). 1449–1454.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact