Raphaël Leplae

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Raphaël Leplae is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Raphaël Leplae has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Raphaël Leplae's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). Raphaël Leplae is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). Raphaël Leplae collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Italy and United Kingdom. Raphaël Leplae's co-authors include Ariane Toussaint, Laura S. Frost, Anne O. Summers, Gipsi Lima‐Mendez, Raúl Méndez, Shoshana J. Wodak, Leonardo De Maria, Jacques van Helden, Marc F. Lensink and Laurence Van Melderen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Raphaël Leplae

30 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Mobile genetic elements: the agents of open source evolution

2005 1.2k citations Raphaël Leplae, Ariane Toussaint et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raphaël Leplae Belgium	17	2.2k	1.3k	639	570	536	30	3.6k
Emma Griffiths Canada	24	1.6k 0.7×	539 0.4×	478 0.7×	331 0.6×	428 0.8×	53	2.8k
Mario Juhas Switzerland	32	2.4k 1.1×	588 0.4×	722 1.1×	363 0.6×	757 1.4×	53	3.8k
Hong‐Yu Ou China	36	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	696 1.1×	406 0.7×	1.6k 3.0×	96	4.2k
Remy Chait United States	17	2.6k 1.2×	642 0.5×	2.3k 3.5×	181 0.3×	1.2k 2.2×	22	4.8k
David Vallenet France	34	2.8k 1.3×	996 0.7×	883 1.4×	891 1.6×	1.0k 1.9×	62	4.8k
Sophie Magnet United States	20	1.7k 0.8×	373 0.3×	530 0.8×	145 0.3×	1.4k 2.6×	34	3.1k
Alexis Criscuolo France	28	1.7k 0.8×	938 0.7×	440 0.7×	553 1.0×	614 1.1×	78	4.3k
Philip J. Hill United Kingdom	37	2.9k 1.3×	649 0.5×	1.0k 1.6×	414 0.7×	264 0.5×	87	4.7k
L.J. Worrall Canada	28	1.1k 0.5×	370 0.3×	676 1.1×	165 0.3×	479 0.9×	58	2.5k
Vasili Hauryliuk Sweden	35	3.1k 1.4×	821 0.6×	1.7k 2.6×	190 0.3×	658 1.2×	92	4.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leplae, Raphaël, et al.. (2011). Diversity of bacterial type II toxin–antitoxin systems: a comprehensive search and functional analysis of novel families. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(13). 5513–5525. 317 indexed citations

Lima‐Mendez, Gipsi, Ariane Toussaint, & Raphaël Leplae. (2011). A modular view of the bacteriophage genomic space: identification of host and lifestyle marker modules. Research in Microbiology. 162(8). 737–746. 46 indexed citations

Leplae, Raphaël, Gipsi Lima‐Mendez, & Ariane Toussaint. (2009). ACLAME: A CLAssification of Mobile genetic Elements, update 2010. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(suppl_1). D57–D61. 247 indexed citations

Smeesters, Pierre R., Patrick Mardulyn, Anne Vergison, Raphaël Leplae, & Laurence Van Melderen. (2008). Genetic diversity of Group A Streptococcus M protein: Implications for typing and vaccine development. Vaccine. 26(46). 5835–5842. 56 indexed citations

Lima‐Mendez, Gipsi, Jacques van Helden, Ariane Toussaint, & Raphaël Leplae. (2008). Reticulate Representation of Evolutionary and Functional Relationships between Phage Genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25(4). 762–777. 165 indexed citations

Lima‐Mendez, Gipsi, Jacques van Helden, Ariane Toussaint, & Raphaël Leplae. (2008). Prophinder: a computational tool for prophage prediction in prokaryotic genomes. Bioinformatics. 24(6). 863–865. 157 indexed citations

Lima‐Mendez, Gipsi, Ariane Toussaint, & Raphaël Leplae. (2007). Analysis of the phage sequence space: The benefit of structured information. Virology. 365(2). 241–249. 50 indexed citations

Toussaint, Ariane, Gipsi Lima‐Mendez, & Raphaël Leplae. (2007). PhiGO, a phage ontology associated with the ACLAME database. Research in Microbiology. 158(7). 567–571. 13 indexed citations

Leplae, Raphaël, Gipsi Lima‐Mendez, & Ariane Toussaint. (2006). A first global analysis of plasmid encoded proteins in the ACLAME database. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 30(6). 980–994. 33 indexed citations

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Roosens, Nancy H. C., Raphaël Leplae, Catherine Bernard, & Nathalie Verbruggen. (2005). Variations in plant metallothioneins: the heavy metal hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens as a study case. Planta. 222(4). 716–729. 84 indexed citations

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Roosens, Nancy H. C., Catherine Bernard, Raphaël Leplae, & Nathalie Verbruggen. (2005). Adaptative Evolution of Metallothionein 3 in the Cd/Zn Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C. 60(3-4). 224–228. 7 indexed citations

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Méndez, Raúl, Raphaël Leplae, Marc F. Lensink, & Shoshana J. Wodak. (2005). Assessment of CAPRI predictions in rounds 3–5 shows progress in docking procedures. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 60(2). 150–169. 291 indexed citations

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Roosens, Nancy H. C., Catherine Bernard, Raphaël Leplae, & Nathalie Verbruggen. (2004). Evidence for copper homeostasis function of metallothionein (MT3) in the hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens. FEBS Letters. 577(1-2). 9–16. 123 indexed citations

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Toussaint, Ariane, Christophe Merlin, Sébastien Monchy, et al.. (2003). The Biphenyl- and 4-Chlorobiphenyl-Catabolic Transposon Tn 4371 , a Member of a New Family of Genomic Islands Related to IncP and Ti Plasmids. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69(8). 4837–4845. 74 indexed citations

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Méndez, Raúl, Raphaël Leplae, Leonardo De Maria, & Shoshana J. Wodak. (2003). Assessment of blind predictions of protein–protein interactions: Current status of docking methods. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 52(1). 51–67. 343 indexed citations

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Leplae, Raphaël. (2003). ACLAME: A CLAssification of Mobile genetic Elements. Nucleic Acids Research. 32(90001). 45D–49. 166 indexed citations

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Tramontano, Anna, Raphaël Leplae, & Veronica Morea. (2001). Analysis and assessment of comparative modeling predictions in CASP4. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 45(S5). 22–38. 103 indexed citations

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Morea, Veronica, Raphaël Leplae, & Anna Tramontano. (1998). Protein structure prediction and design. PubMed. 4. 177–214. 6 indexed citations

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Leplae, Raphaël, et al.. (1998). GLASS: A tool to visualize protein structure prediction data in three dimensions and evaluate their consistency. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 30(4). 339–351. 3 indexed citations

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Bolle, Xavier De, Deborah Prozzi, Jean‐Yves Paquet, et al.. (1995). Identification of Residues Potentially Involved in the Interactions Between Subunits in Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenases. European Journal of Biochemistry. 231(1). 214–219. 13 indexed citations

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