Rafael D. Acemel

2.8k total citations
24 papers, 583 citations indexed

About

Rafael D. Acemel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael D. Acemel has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 583 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Plant Science and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Rafael D. Acemel's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Rafael D. Acemel is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Rafael D. Acemel collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and United States. Rafael D. Acemel's co-authors include José Luis Gómez-Skármeta, Ignacio Maeso, Juan J. Tena, Elisa de la Calle‐Mustienes, Darío G. Lupiáñez, Alejandro Cuetos, Carlos Gómez-Marín, Ibai Irastorza-Azcárate, Fernando Govantes and Silvia Naranjo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rafael D. Acemel

22 papers receiving 576 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rafael D. Acemel Spain 12 497 159 90 30 27 24 583
Aidan J. Peterson United States 11 495 1.0× 81 0.5× 76 0.8× 16 0.5× 24 0.9× 16 563
Gioacchino Palumbo Italy 10 433 0.9× 250 1.6× 132 1.5× 19 0.6× 23 0.9× 13 533
Amit Anand Singapore 12 402 0.8× 203 1.3× 125 1.4× 21 0.7× 17 0.6× 16 492
Sarah F. Clatterbuck Soper United States 8 635 1.3× 202 1.3× 102 1.1× 16 0.5× 33 1.2× 8 721
Liguo Zhang United States 9 641 1.3× 142 0.9× 37 0.4× 30 1.0× 43 1.6× 21 818
Prashanth Rangan United States 18 923 1.9× 204 1.3× 169 1.9× 73 2.4× 45 1.7× 33 1.0k
Benpeng Miao United States 9 431 0.9× 68 0.4× 100 1.1× 23 0.8× 51 1.9× 14 551
Wei Yue China 10 183 0.4× 136 0.9× 85 0.9× 16 0.5× 17 0.6× 16 324
David C. Tack United States 13 378 0.8× 88 0.6× 106 1.2× 27 0.9× 9 0.3× 15 489

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafael D. Acemel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rafael D. Acemel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rafael D. Acemel 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 Rafael D. Acemel. Rafael D. Acemel 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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Schaefer, Nathan K., Kang Du, Susanne Kneitz, et al.. (2026). Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species. Nature.
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Acemel, Rafael D., et al.. (2026). Insights and emerging perspectives from the 2025 Medaka PI / ERC IndiGene meeting: Heidelberg July 22–24, 2025. Developmental Dynamics. 255(2). 116–125.
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Hatkevich, Talia, et al.. (2024). Gonadal sex and temperature independently influence germ cell differentiation and meiotic progression in Trachemys scripta. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(1). e2413191121–e2413191121. 1 indexed citations
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Acemel, Rafael D. & Darío G. Lupiáñez. (2023). Evolution of 3D chromatin organization at different scales. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 78. 102019–102019. 25 indexed citations
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Jiménez-Gancedo, Sandra, Martin Franke, Rafael D. Acemel, et al.. (2022). Gain of gene regulatory network interconnectivity at the origin of vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(11). e2114802119–e2114802119. 10 indexed citations
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Tiana, María, Elena López‐Jiménez, Julio Sainz de Aja, et al.. (2022). Pluripotency factors regulate the onset of Hox cluster activation in the early embryo. Science Advances. 8(28). eabo3583–eabo3583. 9 indexed citations
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Acemel, Rafael D., Adriano Bolondi, Norbert Brieske, et al.. (2022). In vivo dissection of a clustered-CTCF domain boundary reveals developmental principles of regulatory insulation. Nature Genetics. 54(7). 1026–1036. 48 indexed citations
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Clayton, Joshua S., Rafael D. Acemel, Ye Zheng, et al.. (2022). Regulatory Architecture of the RCA Gene Cluster Captures an Intragenic TAD Boundary, CTCF-Mediated Chromatin Looping and a Long-Range Intergenic Enhancer. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 901747–901747. 6 indexed citations
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Marlétaz, Ferdinand, Federica Mantica, Rafael D. Acemel, et al.. (2022). Parallel evolution of amphioxus and vertebrate small-scale gene duplications. Genome biology. 23(1). 243–243. 18 indexed citations
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Corujo, David, Roberto Malinverni, Vanesa Valero, et al.. (2022). MacroH2As regulate enhancer-promoter contacts affecting enhancer activity and sensitivity to inflammatory cytokines. Cell Reports. 39(12). 110988–110988. 10 indexed citations
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Franke, Martin, Elisa de la Calle‐Mustienes, Ana Neto, et al.. (2021). CTCF knockout in zebrafish induces alterations in regulatory landscapes and developmental gene expression. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5415–5415. 37 indexed citations
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Acemel, Rafael D., Panos Firbas, Silvia Naranjo, et al.. (2020). Ancient Genomic Regulatory Blocks Are a Source for Regulatory Gene Deserts in Vertebrates after Whole-Genome Duplications. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(10). 2857–2864. 9 indexed citations
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Santos-Pereira, José M., et al.. (2019). Pioneer and repressive functions of p63 during zebrafish embryonic ectoderm specification. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3049–3049. 31 indexed citations
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Irastorza-Azcárate, Ibai, Rafael D. Acemel, Juan J. Tena, et al.. (2018). 4Cin: A computational pipeline for 3D genome modeling and virtual Hi-C analyses from 4C data. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(3). e1006030–e1006030. 7 indexed citations
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Vicente‐García, Cristina, Ibai Irastorza-Azcárate, Silvia Naranjo, et al.. (2017). Regulatory landscape fusion in rhabdomyosarcoma through interactions between the PAX3 promoter and FOXO1 regulatory elements. Genome biology. 18(1). 106–106. 21 indexed citations
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Acemel, Rafael D., Juan J. Tena, Ibai Irastorza-Azcárate, et al.. (2016). A single three-dimensional chromatin compartment in amphioxus indicates a stepwise evolution of vertebrate Hox bimodal regulation. Nature Genetics. 48(3). 336–341. 87 indexed citations
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Maeso, Ignacio, Rafael D. Acemel, & José Luis Gómez-Skármeta. (2016). Cis-regulatory landscapes in development and evolution. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 43. 17–22. 10 indexed citations
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Acemel, Rafael D., et al.. (2016). Biofilm formation-defective mutants inPseudomonas putida. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 363(13). fnw127–fnw127. 24 indexed citations
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Gómez-Marín, Carlos, Juan J. Tena, Rafael D. Acemel, et al.. (2015). Evolutionary comparison reveals that diverging CTCF sites are signatures of ancestral topological associating domains borders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(24). 7542–7547. 117 indexed citations
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Gámez, Francisco, Rafael D. Acemel, & Alejandro Cuetos. (2013). Demixing and nematic behaviour of oblate hard spherocylinders and hard spheres mixtures: Monte Carlo simulation and Parsons–Lee theory. Molecular Physics. 111(20). 3136–3146. 18 indexed citations

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