Raluca Gordân

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Raluca Gordân is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Raluca Gordân has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Raluca Gordân's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (35 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (17 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). Raluca Gordân is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (35 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (17 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). Raluca Gordân collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Raluca Gordân's co-authors include Alexander J. Hartemink, Remo Rohs, Tianyin Zhou, Lin Yang, Martha L. Bulyk, J.R. Horton, Trevor Siggers, Ana Carolina Dantas Machado, Matthew Slattery and Ning Shen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Raluca Gordân

52 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Short tandem repeats bind transcription factors to tune eukaryotic gene expression

2023 98 citations Amr M. Alexandari, Michael G.B. Hayes et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raluca Gordân United States	24	2.4k	361	354	127	110	54	2.7k
Toyotaka Ishibashi Japan	30	2.1k 0.9×	213 0.6×	611 1.7×	126 1.0×	117 1.1×	63	2.4k
Susan E. Mango United States	36	2.9k 1.2×	393 1.1×	460 1.3×	79 0.6×	92 0.8×	59	3.8k
Carine Giovannangeli France	34	3.3k 1.4×	526 1.5×	166 0.5×	246 1.9×	188 1.7×	68	3.7k
Blaine Bartholomew United States	41	4.2k 1.8×	320 0.9×	556 1.6×	88 0.7×	86 0.8×	76	4.3k
Barak A. Cohen United States	33	3.7k 1.6×	848 2.3×	561 1.6×	117 0.9×	178 1.6×	71	4.3k
Emanuela V. Volpi United Kingdom	21	1.2k 0.5×	516 1.4×	286 0.8×	50 0.4×	82 0.7×	64	1.8k
Gina M. Dailey United States	16	2.0k 0.8×	163 0.5×	215 0.6×	72 0.6×	131 1.2×	24	2.2k
Dierk Niessing Germany	30	2.3k 1.0×	216 0.6×	167 0.5×	132 1.0×	184 1.7×	70	2.6k
Brian J. Beliveau United States	20	2.7k 1.2×	363 1.0×	772 2.2×	68 0.5×	141 1.3×	33	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raluca Gordân

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Glasscock, Cameron J., Ryan McHugh, Lindsey Doyle, et al.. (2025). Computational design of sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(11). 2252–2261. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Wei, Yuning Zhang, Ariel Afek, et al.. (2025). DNA mutagenesis driven by transcription factor competition with mismatch repair. Cell. 188(20). 5735–5747.e15.

Bonnell, Victoria A., Yuning Zhang, Alan S. Brown, et al.. (2024). DNA sequence and chromatin differentiate sequence-specific transcription factor binding in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(17). 10161–10179. 6 indexed citations

Alexandari, Amr M., Michael G.B. Hayes, Emil Marklund, et al.. (2023). Short tandem repeats bind transcription factors to tune eukaryotic gene expression. Science. 381(6664). eadd1250–eadd1250. 98 indexed citations breakdown →

Sun, Tianai, Chien‐Kuang Cornelia Ding, Yuning Zhang, et al.. (2022). MESH1 knockdown triggers proliferation arrest through TAZ repression. Cell Death and Disease. 13(3). 221–221. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuning, et al.. (2021). Competition for DNA binding between paralogous transcription factors determines their genomic occupancy and regulatory functions. Genome Research. 31(7). 1216–1229. 20 indexed citations

Liu, Mo, Arnoud Boot, Alvin Wei Tian Ng, Raluca Gordân, & Steve Rozen. (2021). Mutational processes in cancer preferentially affect binding of particular transcription factors. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 3339–3339. 4 indexed citations

Afek, Ariel, Honglue Shi, Atul Rangadurai, et al.. (2020). DNA mismatches reveal conformational penalties in protein–DNA recognition. Nature. 587(7833). 291–296. 84 indexed citations

Shen, Ning, J.L. Schipper, Yuning Zhang, et al.. (2018). Divergence in DNA Specificity among Paralogous Transcription Factors Contributes to Their Differential In Vivo Binding. Cell Systems. 6(4). 470–483.e8. 33 indexed citations

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Joh, Daniel Y., Angus Hucknall, Qingshan Wei, et al.. (2017). Inkjet-printed point-of-care immunoassay on a nanoscale polymer brush enables subpicomolar detection of analytes in blood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(34). E7054–E7062. 71 indexed citations

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Li, Dongshunyi, et al.. (2017). Quantifying the Impact of Non-coding Variants on Transcription Factor-DNA Binding. Lecture notes in computer science. 10229. 336–352. 13 indexed citations

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Zhou, Tianyin, Ning Shen, Lin Yang, et al.. (2015). Quantitative modeling of transcription factor binding specificities using DNA shape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(15). 4654–4659. 178 indexed citations

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Afek, Ariel, Hagai Cohen, S. Barber-Zucker, Raluca Gordân, & David B. Lukatsky. (2015). Nonconsensus Protein Binding to Repetitive DNA Sequence Elements Significantly Affects Eukaryotic Genomes. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(8). e1004429–e1004429. 19 indexed citations

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Guo, Jiannan, Tiandao Li, J.L. Schipper, et al.. (2014). Sequence specificity incompletely defines the genome-wide occupancy of Myc. Genome biology. 15(10). 482–482. 59 indexed citations

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Mordelet, Fantine, J.R. Horton, Alexander J. Hartemink, Barbara E. Engelhardt, & Raluca Gordân. (2013). Stability selection for regression-based models of transcription factor–DNA binding specificity. Bioinformatics. 29(13). i117–i125. 42 indexed citations

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Miller, Heather B., Timothy J. Robinson, Raluca Gordân, Alexander J. Hartemink, & Mariano A. García-Blanco. (2011). Identification of Tat-SF1 cellular targets by exon array analysis reveals dual roles in transcription and splicing. RNA. 17(4). 665–674. 15 indexed citations

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Gordân, Raluca, Kevin Murphy, Rachel Patton McCord, et al.. (2011). Curated collection of yeast transcription factor DNA binding specificity data reveals novel structural and gene regulatory insights. Genome biology. 12(12). R125–R125. 90 indexed citations

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Gordân, Raluca, Leelavati Narlikar, & Alexander J. Hartemink. (2010). Finding regulatory DNA motifs using alignment-free evolutionary conservation information. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(6). e90–e90. 30 indexed citations

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MacAlpine, Heather K., Raluca Gordân, Sara Powell, Alexander J. Hartemink, & David M. MacAlpine. (2009). Drosophila ORC localizes to open chromatin and marks sites of cohesin complex loading. Genome Research. 20(2). 201–211. 218 indexed citations

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Gordân, Raluca, Alexander J. Hartemink, & Martha L. Bulyk. (2009). Distinguishing direct versus indirect transcription factor–DNA interactions. Genome Research. 19(11). 2090–2100. 111 indexed citations

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