Raphaël Mercier

10.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
85 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Raphaël Mercier is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Raphaël Mercier has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Plant Science and 13 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Raphaël Mercier's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (39 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (35 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (29 papers). Raphaël Mercier is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (39 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (35 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (29 papers). Raphaël Mercier collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United Kingdom. Raphaël Mercier's co-authors include Christian Gautier, Manolo Gouy, Richard Grantham, Mathilde Grelon, Liudmila Chelysheva, Nicole Froger, Christine Mézard, Sylvie Jolivet, Christine Horlow and Nicolas Macaisne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Raphaël Mercier

84 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Codon catalog usage is a genome strategy modulated for gene expressivity

1981 828 citations Raphaël Mercier et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Codon catalog usage and the genome hypothesis

1980 642 citations Raphaël Mercier et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The Molecular Biology of Meiosis in Plants

2014 401 citations Raphaël Mercier, Christine Mézard et al. profile →
A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds

2018 305 citations Raphaël Mercier, Venkatesan Sundaresan et al. profile →
Clonal seeds from hybrid rice by simultaneous genome engineering of meiosis and fertilization genes

2019 241 citations Raphaël Mercier et al. profile →
A pan-genome of 69 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions reveals a conserved genome structure throughout the global species range

2024 59 citations Qichao Lian, Bruno Hüettel et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raphaël Mercier France	44	5.9k	4.1k	977	750	598	85	7.4k
Josef Glössl Austria	44	3.2k 0.5×	2.8k 0.7×	941 1.0×	347 0.5×	1.3k 2.2×	86	6.5k
David Lonsdale United Kingdom	37	2.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	481 0.5×	411 0.5×	320 0.5×	117	4.2k
Oleksiy Kohany United States	11	4.2k 0.7×	3.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	397 0.5×	244 0.4×	11	5.9k
Shunichi Kosugi Japan	29	3.9k 0.7×	4.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	229 0.3×	351 0.6×	45	6.5k
Dacheng Tian China	34	1.8k 0.3×	3.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	316 0.4×	275 0.5×	71	4.3k
Andrew J. Flavell United Kingdom	48	3.5k 0.6×	6.8k 1.7×	1.5k 1.6×	477 0.6×	328 0.5×	102	8.1k
Bruce McClure United States	37	4.7k 0.8×	3.9k 1.0×	423 0.4×	2.3k 3.1×	118 0.2×	69	5.5k
Walter R. Terra Brazil	49	4.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	751 1.0×	85 0.1×	208	7.9k
Linda Cardle United Kingdom	26	1.9k 0.3×	3.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	217 0.3×	219 0.4×	39	4.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Durand, Stéphanie, et al.. (2025). MutLγ enforces meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(5).

Guérin, J., Aurélie Hurel, Aurélie Chambon, et al.. (2024). FIGL 1 attenuates meiotic interhomolog repair and is counteracted by the RAD 51 paralog XRCC 2 and the chromosome axis protein ASY 1 during meiosis. New Phytologist. 244(6). 2442–2457. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yazhong, Roven Rommel Fuentes, Rainer Franzen, et al.. (2024). Harnessing clonal gametes in hybrid crops to engineer polyploid genomes. Nature Genetics. 56(6). 1075–1079. 28 indexed citations

Gilbault, Elodie, Qichao Lian, Manish Goel, et al.. (2024). Enhanced recombination empowers the detection and mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci. Communications Biology. 7(1). 829–829. 3 indexed citations

Mercier, Raphaël, et al.. (2023). Tracing the evolution of the plant meiotic molecular machinery. Plant Reproduction. 36(1). 73–95. 13 indexed citations

Vrielynck, Nathalie, Stéphanie Durand, Qichao Lian, et al.. (2023). SCEP1 and SCEP2 are two new components of the synaptonemal complex central element. Nature Plants. 9(12). 2016–2030. 10 indexed citations

Walkemeier, Birgit, Jelle Van Leene, Geert De Jaeger, et al.. (2022). The FANCC–FANCE–FANCF complex is evolutionarily conserved and regulates meiotic recombination. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(6). 2516–2528. 12 indexed citations

Lonhienne, Thierry, Louisa Matthew, Christopher A. Brosnan, et al.. (2021). DEFECTIVE EMBRYO AND MERISTEMS genes are required for cell division and gamete viability in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genetics. 17(5). e1009561–e1009561. 5 indexed citations

Desnos, Thierry, et al.. (2019). A TOR-YAK1 signaling axis controls cell cycle, meristem activity and plant growth in Arabidopsis. Development. 146(3). 59 indexed citations

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Cromer, Laurence, Sylvie Jolivet, Nancy De Winne, et al.. (2019). Patronus is the elusive plant securin, preventing chromosome separation by antagonizing separase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(32). 16018–16027. 23 indexed citations

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Serra, Heïdi, Christophe Lambing, Catherine Griffin, et al.. (2018). Massive crossover elevation via combination of HEI10 and recq4a recq4b during Arabidopsis meiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(10). 2437–2442. 93 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Joiselle Blanche, et al.. (2017). Unleashing meiotic crossovers in hybrid plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(10). 2431–2436. 125 indexed citations

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Mieulet, Delphine, Sylvie Jolivet, Laurence Cromer, et al.. (2016). Turning rice meiosis into mitosis. Cell Research. 26(11). 1242–1254. 124 indexed citations

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Cifuentes, Marta, Sylvie Jolivet, Laurence Cromer, et al.. (2016). TDM1 Regulation Determines the Number of Meiotic Divisions. PLoS Genetics. 12(2). e1005856–e1005856. 42 indexed citations

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Cromer, Laurence, Sylvie Jolivet, Christine Horlow, et al.. (2013). Centromeric Cohesion Is Protected Twice at Meiosis, by SHUGOSHINs at Anaphase I and by PATRONUS at Interkinesis. Current Biology. 23(21). 2090–2099. 67 indexed citations

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Crismani, Wayne & Raphaël Mercier. (2013). Identifying Meiotic Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana. Methods in molecular biology. 990. 227–234. 7 indexed citations

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Crismani, Wayne, Chloé Girard, Nicole Froger, et al.. (2012). FANCM Limits Meiotic Crossovers. Science. 336(6088). 1588–1590. 217 indexed citations

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Mercier, Raphaël, Sylvie Jolivet, Julien Vignard, et al.. (2008). Outcrossing as an Explanation of the Apparent Unconventional Genetic Behavior of Arabidopsis thaliana hth Mutants. Genetics. 180(4). 2295–2297. 11 indexed citations

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Sánchez‐Morán, Eugenio, Raphaël Mercier, James D. Higgins, et al.. (2005). A strategy to investigate the plant meiotic proteome. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 109(1-3). 181–189. 29 indexed citations

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Mercier, Raphaël, Susan J. Armstrong, Christine Horlow, et al.. (2003). The meiotic protein SWI1 is required for axial element formation and recombination initiation in Arabidopsis. Development. 130(14). 3309–3318. 126 indexed citations

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