Rafael Tapia‐Rojo

969 total citations
29 papers, 620 citations indexed

About

Rafael Tapia‐Rojo is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael Tapia‐Rojo has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 620 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Rafael Tapia‐Rojo's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (18 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (11 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers). Rafael Tapia‐Rojo is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (18 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (11 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers). Rafael Tapia‐Rojo collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Rafael Tapia‐Rojo's co-authors include Julio M. Fernández, Edward C. Eckels, Jaime Andrés Rivas‐Pardo, Álvaro Alonso-Caballero, Shubhasis Haldar, Julio M. Fernández, Jessica Valle‐Orero, J. J. Mazo, F. Falo and Sergi Garcia-Manyes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rafael Tapia‐Rojo

29 papers receiving 611 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 Tapia‐Rojo United States 14 345 340 187 107 79 29 620
Kirstin A. Walther United States 8 464 1.3× 413 1.2× 177 0.9× 68 0.6× 42 0.5× 8 788
Kien Xuan Ngo Japan 11 290 0.8× 116 0.3× 204 1.1× 52 0.5× 74 0.9× 27 552
Jessica Valle‐Orero France 10 269 0.8× 237 0.7× 115 0.6× 70 0.7× 28 0.4× 22 420
Morten Bertz Germany 11 417 1.2× 427 1.3× 148 0.8× 37 0.3× 103 1.3× 14 704
Felix Berkemeier Germany 6 343 1.0× 351 1.0× 106 0.6× 36 0.3× 52 0.7× 7 544
Ronen Berkovich Israel 13 282 0.8× 348 1.0× 144 0.8× 58 0.5× 23 0.3× 33 552
Álvaro Alonso-Caballero Spain 12 222 0.6× 175 0.5× 98 0.5× 50 0.5× 16 0.2× 22 408
Gavin Young United Kingdom 10 315 0.9× 111 0.3× 72 0.4× 196 1.8× 19 0.2× 12 600
Volker Walhorn Germany 15 221 0.6× 99 0.3× 136 0.7× 73 0.7× 238 3.0× 39 608
Julian von der Ecken Germany 5 273 0.8× 123 0.4× 192 1.0× 22 0.2× 266 3.4× 6 571

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafael Tapia‐Rojo

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael. (2025). Single-molecule magnetic tweezers to unravel protein folding dynamics under force. Biophysical Reviews. 17(1). 25–44. 2 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael & Sergi Garcia-Manyes. (2025). Nanomechanics at the extracellular matrix-focal adhesion interface. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. 35. 100599–100599. 1 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, Stephanie Board, Jane Walker, et al.. (2024). Structural anisotropy results in mechano-directional transport of proteins across nuclear pores. Nature Physics. 20(7). 1180–1193. 6 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, et al.. (2024). Single-molecule magnetic tweezers to probe the equilibrium dynamics of individual proteins at physiologically relevant forces and timescales. Nature Protocols. 19(6). 1779–1806. 11 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, Álvaro Alonso-Caballero, Carmen L. Badilla, & Julio M. Fernández. (2024). Identical sequences, different behaviors: Protein diversity captured at the single-molecule level. Biophysical Journal. 123(7). 814–823. 4 indexed citations
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Franz, Florian, Rafael Tapia‐Rojo, Sabina Winograd‐Katz, et al.. (2023). Allosteric activation of vinculin by talin. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4311–4311. 20 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, et al.. (2023). Unfolding and Refolding Proteins Using Single-Molecule AFM. Methods in molecular biology. 2694. 339–354. 1 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, Stephanie Board, Jane Walker, et al.. (2022). Enhanced statistical sampling reveals microscopic complexity in the talin mechanosensor folding energy landscape. Nature Physics. 19(1). 52–60. 27 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, Álvaro Alonso-Caballero, & Julio M. Fernández. (2020). Talin folding as the tuning fork of cellular mechanotransduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(35). 21346–21353. 47 indexed citations
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Alonso-Caballero, Álvaro, Daniel J. Echelman, Rafael Tapia‐Rojo, et al.. (2020). Protein folding modulates the chemical reactivity of a Gram-positive adhesin. Nature Chemistry. 13(2). 172–181. 35 indexed citations
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Rivas‐Pardo, Jaime Andrés, Zsolt Mártonfalvi, Rafael Tapia‐Rojo, et al.. (2020). A HaloTag-TEV genetic cassette for mechanical phenotyping of proteins from tissues. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2060–2060. 39 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, Edward C. Eckels, & Julio M. Fernández. (2019). Ephemeral states in protein folding under force captured with a magnetic tweezers design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(16). 7873–7878. 60 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, J. J. Mazo, & F. Falo. (2019). Thermal versus mechanical unfolding in a model protein. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 151(18). 185105–185105. 7 indexed citations
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Rivas‐Pardo, Jaime Andrés, Carmen L. Badilla, Rafael Tapia‐Rojo, Álvaro Alonso-Caballero, & Julio M. Fernández. (2018). Molecular strategy for blocking isopeptide bond formation in nascent pilin proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(37). 9222–9227. 22 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, Carlos Marcuello, Anabel Lostao, et al.. (2017). A physical picture for mechanical dissociation of biological complexes: from forces to free energies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(6). 4567–4575. 10 indexed citations
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Valle‐Orero, Jessica, Jaime Andrés Rivas‐Pardo, Rafael Tapia‐Rojo, et al.. (2017). Mechanical Deformation Accelerates Protein Ageing. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(33). 9741–9746. 38 indexed citations
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Haldar, Shubhasis, Rafael Tapia‐Rojo, Edward C. Eckels, Jessica Valle‐Orero, & Julio M. Fernández. (2017). Trigger factor chaperone acts as a mechanical foldase. Nature Communications. 8(1). 668–668. 47 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, et al.. (2017). Structure, dynamics and kinetics of two-component Lantibiotic Lichenicidin. PLoS ONE. 12(6). e0179962–e0179962. 4 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, J. J. Mazo, José‐Ángel Hernández‐Rivas, et al.. (2014). Mesoscopic Model and Free Energy Landscape for Protein-DNA Binding Sites: Analysis of Cyanobacterial Promoters. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(10). e1003835–e1003835. 12 indexed citations
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Tapia‐Rojo, Rafael, Diego Prada‐Gracia, J. J. Mazo, & F. Falo. (2012). Mesoscopic model for free-energy-landscape analysis of DNA sequences. Physical Review E. 86(2). 21908–21908. 12 indexed citations

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