Nikolaos Barkas

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

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Nikolaos Barkas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Hematology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikolaos Barkas has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Hematology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nikolaos Barkas's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (7 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers) and Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research (3 papers). Nikolaos Barkas is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (7 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers) and Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research (3 papers). Nikolaos Barkas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Nikolaos Barkas's co-authors include Peter V. Kharchenko, Adam J. Mead, Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen, Alice Giustacchini, Alba Rodríguez-Meira, Benjamin Povinelli, Supat Thongjuea, Viktor Petukhov, Neil Ashley and Daria Nikolaeva and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Nikolaos Barkas

20 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Analysis of 6.4 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes identifies mutations associated with fitness

2022 162 citations Martin Jankowiak, Nikolaos Barkas et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nikolaos Barkas United Kingdom	12	858	316	308	177	152	22	1.3k
Susanne Reinhardt Germany	19	517 0.6×	73 0.2×	110 0.4×	375 2.1×	52 0.3×	47	1.2k
Edwin D. Hawkins Australia	25	854 1.0×	274 0.9×	156 0.5×	1.2k 6.8×	26 0.2×	54	2.2k
Élodie Gautier France	10	449 0.5×	178 0.6×	99 0.3×	300 1.7×	73 0.5×	19	1.1k
Franziska Paul Israel	10	1.4k 1.6×	137 0.4×	336 1.1×	801 4.5×	18 0.1×	15	2.0k
Fiona Hamey United Kingdom	12	1.5k 1.7×	353 1.1×	257 0.8×	655 3.7×	12 0.1×	19	2.0k
Daniel Bottomly United States	18	856 1.0×	554 1.8×	166 0.5×	146 0.8×	19 0.1×	58	1.5k
May M. Paing United States	15	858 1.0×	323 1.0×	115 0.4×	244 1.4×	22 0.1×	18	1.4k
Lesley Vanes United Kingdom	21	897 1.0×	203 0.6×	114 0.4×	942 5.3×	42 0.3×	26	2.2k
Rahul Karnik United States	14	1.6k 1.8×	122 0.4×	259 0.8×	74 0.4×	21 0.1×	25	1.8k
Christin S. Kuo United States	10	936 1.1×	39 0.1×	141 0.5×	261 1.5×	60 0.4×	14	1.7k

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Gustafsson, Karin, Johanna Hofmann, Kameron Kooshesh, et al.. (2025). Mesenchymal thymic niche cells enable regeneration of the adult thymus and T cell immunity. Nature Biotechnology.

Malik, Mohd Yaseen, Nikolaos Barkas, Kerstin N. Timm, et al.. (2024). Impaired striatal glutathione–ascorbate metabolism induces transient dopamine increase and motor dysfunction. Nature Metabolism. 6(11). 2100–2117. 2 indexed citations

Normandin, Erica, Melissa A. Rudy, Nikolaos Barkas, et al.. (2023). High-depth sequencing characterization of viral dynamics across tissues in fatal COVID-19 reveals compartmentalized infection. Nature Communications. 14(1). 574–574. 12 indexed citations

Jankowiak, Martin, Nikolaos Barkas, S. F. Schaffner, et al.. (2022). Analysis of 6.4 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes identifies mutations associated with fitness. Science. 376(6599). 1327–1332. 162 indexed citations breakdown →

Fast, Eva M., Edroaldo Lummertz da Rocha, Song Yang, et al.. (2021). External signals regulate continuous transcriptional states in hematopoietic stem cells. eLife. 10. 15 indexed citations

Kupari, Jussi, Dmitry Usoskin, Marc Parisien, et al.. (2021). Single cell transcriptomics of primate sensory neurons identifies cell types associated with chronic pain. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1510–1510. 110 indexed citations

Barkas, Nikolaos, Maurício Machaim Franco, Michael Cowley, et al.. (2021). Imprinted Gene Expression and Function of the Dopa Decarboxylase Gene in the Developing Heart. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 676543–676543. 10 indexed citations

Cowley, Michael, et al.. (2020). Transcription of intragenic CpG islands influences spatiotemporal host gene pre-mRNA processing. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(15). 8349–8359. 10 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Meira, Alba, Gemma Buck, Sally‐Ann Clark, et al.. (2019). Unravelling Intratumoral Heterogeneity through High-Sensitivity Single-Cell Mutational Analysis and Parallel RNA Sequencing. Molecular Cell. 73(6). 1292–1305.e8. 204 indexed citations

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Barkas, Nikolaos, Viktor Petukhov, Daria Nikolaeva, et al.. (2019). Joint analysis of heterogeneous single-cell RNA-seq dataset collections. Nature Methods. 16(8). 695–698. 166 indexed citations

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Barkas, Nikolaos, et al.. (2019). Myocardial differentiation is dependent upon endocardial signaling during early cardiogenesis in vitro. Development. 146(9). 22 indexed citations

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Booth, Christopher A.G., Nikolaos Barkas, Wen Hao Neo, et al.. (2018). Ezh2 and Runx1 Mutations Collaborate to Initiate Lympho-Myeloid Leukemia in Early Thymic Progenitors. Cancer Cell. 33(2). 274–291.e8. 39 indexed citations

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Fan, Jean, Hae‐Ock Lee, Soohyun Lee, et al.. (2018). Linking transcriptional and genetic tumor heterogeneity through allele analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data. Genome Research. 28(8). 1217–1227. 126 indexed citations

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Povinelli, Benjamin, Quin F. Wills, Nikolaos Barkas, et al.. (2018). Integrated Single Cell Analysis Reveals Cell Cycle and Ontogeny Related Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Hscs. Experimental Hematology. 64. S95–S96. 1 indexed citations

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Povinelli, Benjamin, Quin F. Wills, Nikolaos Barkas, et al.. (2017). Unravelling Cell Cycle and Ontogeny Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Hematopoietic Stem Cells through Integrated Single Cell RNA-Seq. Blood. 130(Suppl_1). 769–769. 1 indexed citations

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Giustacchini, Alice, Supat Thongjuea, Nikolaos Barkas, et al.. (2017). Single-cell transcriptomics uncovers distinct molecular signatures of stem cells in chronic myeloid leukemia. Nature Medicine. 23(6). 692–702. 287 indexed citations

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Shtrepi, Louena, et al.. (2016). Acoustic characterization of the ancient theatre of Tyndaris: Evaluation and proposals for its reuse. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 8 indexed citations

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Barkas, Nikolaos. (2016). Sleep and Sleeplessness in Byzantium. Gorgias Press eBooks.

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Psaila, Bethan, Nikolaos Barkas, Deena Iskander, et al.. (2016). Single-cell profiling of human megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitors identifies distinct megakaryocyte and erythroid differentiation pathways. Genome biology. 17(1). 83–83. 98 indexed citations

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Barkas, Nikolaos, et al.. (2013). Genome-wide and parental allele-specific analysis of CTCF and cohesin DNA binding in mouse brain reveals a tissue-specific binding pattern and an association with imprinted differentially methylated regions. Genome Research. 23(10). 1624–1635. 46 indexed citations

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