Pascal Silberzan

11.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Pascal Silberzan is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pascal Silberzan has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 37 papers in Cell Biology and 18 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Pascal Silberzan's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (37 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (24 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (17 papers). Pascal Silberzan is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (37 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (24 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (17 papers). Pascal Silberzan collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Pascal Silberzan's co-authors include Axel Buguin, Benoît Ladoux, Alexandre Saez, Guillaume Duclos, L. Léger, Erwan Grasland‐Mongrain, Vincent Hakim, Emilie Verneuil, M. Poujade and Jean‐François Joanny and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Pascal Silberzan

75 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

Collective migration of a... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2007 2006 200 400 600
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. Collective migration of an epithelial monolayer in response to a model wound
    2007 666 citations Erwan Grasland‐Mongrain, Benoît Ladoux et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Bouncing or sticky droplets: Impalement transitions on superhydrophobic micropatterned surfaces
    2006 559 citations Emilie Verneuil, Axel Buguin et al. Europhysics Letters (EPL) profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Pascal Silberzan 4.1k 3.7k 1.6k 1.4k 1.1k 75 8.6k
Axel Buguin 3.2k 0.8× 3.0k 0.8× 923 0.6× 616 0.4× 797 0.8× 65 6.5k
Jean‐François Joanny 3.8k 0.9× 3.7k 1.0× 2.5k 1.6× 2.5k 1.9× 1.6k 1.5× 194 12.2k
Andreas R. Bausch 3.9k 1.0× 4.5k 1.2× 2.8k 1.8× 2.3k 1.7× 2.3k 2.2× 185 14.8k
Eric R. Dufresne 4.6k 1.1× 2.4k 0.6× 1.8k 1.2× 653 0.5× 2.6k 2.5× 153 13.0k
Mingming Wu 3.8k 0.9× 888 0.2× 1.2k 0.8× 698 0.5× 284 0.3× 157 7.2k
Thomas E. Angelini 3.6k 0.9× 2.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 696 0.5× 654 0.6× 112 7.4k
Josef A. Käs 4.6k 1.1× 5.9k 1.6× 3.0k 1.9× 617 0.4× 2.8k 2.7× 219 12.2k
Joe Tien 5.0k 1.2× 2.4k 0.6× 1.5k 1.0× 296 0.2× 861 0.8× 68 7.9k
F. C. MacKintosh 6.1k 1.5× 9.9k 2.7× 3.9k 2.5× 2.1k 1.5× 4.4k 4.2× 197 20.6k
Richard Superfine 2.7k 0.7× 1.9k 0.5× 1.7k 1.1× 602 0.4× 3.4k 3.2× 153 10.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Pascal Silberzan

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Pascal Silberzan'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 Pascal Silberzan with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Pascal Silberzan more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Pascal Silberzan

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pascal Silberzan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pascal Silberzan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pascal Silberzan 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 Pascal Silberzan. Pascal Silberzan 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
1.
Smeets, Bart, et al.. (2024). Emergence of bidirectional cell laning from collective contact guidance. Nature Physics. 20(8). 1324–1331. 1 indexed citations
2.
James, John, Artem I. Fokin, Dmitry Guschin, et al.. (2024). Vinculin–Arp2/3 interaction inhibits branched actin assembly to control migration and proliferation. Life Science Alliance. 8(2). e202402583–e202402583. 2 indexed citations
3.
Wang, Xiuyu, et al.. (2023). Contractility-induced self-organization of smooth muscle cells: from multilayer cell sheets to dynamic three-dimensional clusters. Communications Biology. 6(1). 262–262. 5 indexed citations
4.
Sarkar, Trinish, Victor Yashunsky, Carlès Blanch-Mercader, et al.. (2023). Crisscross multilayering of cell sheets. PNAS Nexus. 2(3). pgad034–pgad034. 12 indexed citations
5.
Yashunsky, Victor, Daniel J. Pearce, Carlès Blanch-Mercader, et al.. (2022). Chiral Edge Current in Nematic Cell Monolayers. Physical Review X. 12(4). 21 indexed citations
6.
Pelon, Floriane, Brigitte Bourachot, Yann Kieffer, et al.. (2020). Cancer-associated fibroblast heterogeneity in axillary lymph nodes drives metastases in breast cancer through complementary mechanisms. Nature Communications. 11(1). 404–404. 268 indexed citations
7.
Oddou, Christiane, et al.. (2019). Local light-activation of the Src oncoprotein in an epithelial monolayer promotes collective extrusion. Communications Physics. 2(1). 10 indexed citations
8.
Duclos, Guillaume, Carlès Blanch-Mercader, Victor Yashunsky, et al.. (2018). Spontaneous shear flow in confined cellular nematics. Nature Physics. 14(7). 728–732. 147 indexed citations
9.
Blanch-Mercader, Carlès, Simón García, Kristina Sliogeryte, et al.. (2018). Collective stresses drive competition between monolayers of normal and Ras-transformed cells. Soft Matter. 15(4). 537–545. 20 indexed citations
10.
Duclos, Guillaume, Christoph Erlenkämper, Jean‐François Joanny, & Pascal Silberzan. (2016). Topological defects in confined populations of spindle-shaped cells. Nature Physics. 13(1). 58–62. 186 indexed citations
11.
Wagstaff, Laura, Guillaume Duclos, Iwo Kuciński, et al.. (2016). Mechanical cell competition kills cells via induction of lethal p53 levels. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11373–11373. 146 indexed citations
12.
Reffay, Myriam, Maria‐Carla Parrini, Olivier Cochet‐Escartin, et al.. (2014). Migration collective : un partage des tâches entre cellulesleaderset coordination supracellulaire. médecine/sciences. 30(8-9). 736–738. 2 indexed citations
13.
Yevick, Hannah, Guillaume Duclos, Isabelle Bonnet, & Pascal Silberzan. (2014). The Effects of Out of Plane Curvature on Collective Cell Migration. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 357a–357a. 1 indexed citations
14.
Déforet, Maxime, Maria Carla Parrini, Laurence Petitjean, et al.. (2012). Automated velocity mapping of migrating cell populations (AVeMap). Nature Methods. 9(11). 1081–1083. 52 indexed citations
15.
Ladoux, Benoît, Ester Anon, Mireille Lambert, et al.. (2010). Strength Dependence of Cadherin-Mediated Adhesions. Biophysical Journal. 98(4). 534–542. 187 indexed citations
16.
Saragosti, Jonathan, Vincent Calvez, Nikolaos Bournaveas, et al.. (2010). Mathematical Description of Bacterial Traveling Pulses. PLoS Computational Biology. 6(8). e1000890–e1000890. 63 indexed citations
17.
Mark, Shirley, et al.. (2010). Physical Model of the Dynamic Instability in an Expanding Cell Culture. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 361–370. 76 indexed citations
18.
Roure, Olivia du, Axel Buguin, Hélène Feracci, & Pascal Silberzan. (2006). Homophilic Interactions between Cadherin Fragments at the Single Molecule Level: An AFM Study. Langmuir. 22(10). 4680–4684. 18 indexed citations
19.
Verneuil, Emilie, Axel Buguin, & Pascal Silberzan. (2004). Permeation-induced flows: Consequences for silicone-based microfluidics. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 68(3). 412–418. 47 indexed citations
20.
Park, Sungsu, Peter M. Wolanin, Emil A. Yuzbashyan, et al.. (2003). Influence of topology on bacterial social interaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(24). 13910–13915. 143 indexed citations

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

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Axel Buguin Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jean‐François Joanny Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Andreas R. Bausch Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Eric R. Dufresne Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mingming Wu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Thomas E. Angelini Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Josef A. Käs Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Joe Tien Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by F. C. MacKintosh Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Richard Superfine
Rankless by CCL
2026