Romain Barrès

10.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
98 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Romain Barrès is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Romain Barrès has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Physiology and 21 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Romain Barrès's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (33 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (28 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (18 papers). Romain Barrès is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (33 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (28 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (18 papers). Romain Barrès collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Sweden and France. Romain Barrès's co-authors include Juleen R. Zierath, Anna Krook, Ida Donkin, D. Ross Laybutt, Julie A. Owens, Ruby C.Y. Lin, Margaret J. Morris, Lars R. Ingerslev, Kenneth Caidahl and Jonas T. Treebak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Romain Barrès

95 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

  1. Chronic high-fat diet in fathers programs β-cell dysfunction in female rat offspring
    2010 971 citations Romain Barrès et al. profile →
  2. Acute Exercise Remodels Promoter Methylation in Human Skeletal Muscle
    2012 660 citations Romain Barrès, Jonas T. Treebak et al. profile →
  3. Skeletal Muscle PGC-1α1 Modulates Kynurenine Metabolism and Mediates Resilience to Stress-Induced Depression
    2014 560 citations Anna Krook, Romain Barrès et al. profile →
  4. Obesity and Bariatric Surgery Drive Epigenetic Variation of Spermatozoa in Humans
    2015 375 citations Ida Donkin, Soetkin Versteyhe et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Romain Barrès 3.8k 2.2k 1.5k 991 612 98 6.9k
Sherin U. Devaskar 2.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.8× 2.7k 1.8× 708 0.7× 1.2k 2.0× 203 7.1k
Gil Atzmon 2.3k 0.6× 2.5k 1.1× 790 0.5× 1.6k 1.6× 517 0.8× 135 7.2k
Xirong Guo 2.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.7× 368 0.4× 592 1.0× 232 6.7k
Ian M. Bird 2.0k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 441 0.7× 193 6.5k
Hemmo A. Drexhage 1.8k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 648 0.4× 2.2k 2.2× 1.2k 1.9× 249 13.3k
Jesús Argente 2.0k 0.5× 2.3k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 1.7k 1.7× 785 1.3× 403 9.4k
Megan C. Holmes 2.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 2.7k 1.8× 1.8k 1.8× 712 1.2× 112 10.4k
Anne White 2.5k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 797 0.5× 1.1k 1.1× 1.4k 2.2× 234 9.2k
Anna Krook 6.9k 1.8× 5.2k 2.4× 698 0.5× 1.0k 1.0× 1.7k 2.7× 174 11.9k
Andrew N. Margioris 1.8k 0.5× 941 0.4× 567 0.4× 505 0.5× 367 0.6× 145 7.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Ni, Duan, Jian Tan, Alistair M. Senior, et al.. (2025). High Fat Low Carbohydrate Diet Is Linked to CNS Autoimmunity Protection. Advanced Science. 12(22). e2412236–e2412236. 1 indexed citations
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Farris, Kathryn, Alistair M. Senior, Débora R. Sobreira, et al.. (2024). Dietary macronutrient composition impacts gene regulation in adipose tissue. Communications Biology. 7(1). 194–194. 5 indexed citations
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Crean, Angela J., Alistair M. Senior, Tamara Pulpitel, et al.. (2024). Paternal dietary macronutrient balance and energy intake drive metabolic and behavioral differences among offspring. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2982–2982. 7 indexed citations
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Basse, A., Iuliia Karavaeva, Lars R. Ingerslev, et al.. (2023). NAMPT-dependent NAD + biosynthesis controls circadian metabolism in a tissue-specific manner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(14). e2220102120–e2220102120. 15 indexed citations
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Small, Lewin, Amy M. Ehrlich, Stephen P. Ashcroft, et al.. (2022). Comparative analysis of oral and intraperitoneal glucose tolerance tests in mice. Molecular Metabolism. 57. 101440–101440. 53 indexed citations
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Small, Lewin, Lars R. Ingerslev, Rhianna C. Laker, et al.. (2021). Ablation of DNA-methyltransferase 3A in skeletal muscle does not affect energy metabolism or exercise capacity. PLoS Genetics. 17(1). e1009325–e1009325. 11 indexed citations
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Wohlwend, Martin, Pirkka‐Pekka Laurila, Kristine Williams, et al.. (2021). The exercise-induced long noncoding RNA CYTOR promotes fast-twitch myogenesis in aging. Science Translational Medicine. 13(623). eabc7367–eabc7367. 40 indexed citations
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Isidor, Marie S., Wentao Dong, Julia Villarroel, et al.. (2021). Insulin resistance rewires the metabolic gene program and glucose utilization in human white adipocytes. International Journal of Obesity. 46(3). 535–543. 11 indexed citations
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Gabriel, Brendan M., Ali Altıntaş, Jonathon A. B. Smith, et al.. (2021). Disrupted circadian oscillations in type 2 diabetes are linked to altered rhythmic mitochondrial metabolism in skeletal muscle. Science Advances. 7(43). eabi9654–eabi9654. 74 indexed citations
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Lundell, L, Evelyn B. Parr, Brooke L. Devlin, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Time-restricted feeding alters lipid and amino acid metabolite rhythmicity without perturbing clock gene expression. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5142–5142. 3 indexed citations
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Small, Lewin, Ali Altıntaş, Rhianna C. Laker, et al.. (2020). Contraction influences Per2 gene expression in skeletal muscle through a calcium‐dependent pathway. The Journal of Physiology. 598(24). 5739–5752. 36 indexed citations
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Dollerup, Ole L., Sabina Chubanava, Marianne Agerholm, et al.. (2019). Nicotinamide riboside does not alter mitochondrial respiration, content or morphology in skeletal muscle from obese and insulin‐resistant men. The Journal of Physiology. 598(4). 731–754. 99 indexed citations
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Lundh, Morten, Marie S. Isidor, Kaja Plucińska, et al.. (2019). Afadin is a scaffold protein repressing insulin action via HDAC 6 in adipose tissue. EMBO Reports. 20(8). e48216–e48216. 19 indexed citations
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Jacques, Macsue, Danielle Hiam, Jeffrey M. Craig, et al.. (2019). Epigenetic changes in healthy human skeletal muscle following exercise– a systematic review. Epigenetics. 14(7). 633–648. 74 indexed citations
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Andersen, Emil, Ali Altıntaş, Ulrika Andersson‐Hall, Agneta Holmäng, & Romain Barrès. (2019). Environmental Factors Influence the Epigenetic Signature of Newborns from Mothers with Gestational Diabetes. Epigenomics. 11(8). 861–873. 7 indexed citations
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Hiam, Danielle, David Simar, Rhianna C. Laker, et al.. (2019). Epigenetic Reprogramming of Immune Cells in Women With PCOS Impact Genes Controlling Reproductive Function. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 104(12). 6155–6170. 25 indexed citations
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Donkin, Ida & Romain Barrès. (2018). Sperm epigenetics and influence of environmental factors. Molecular Metabolism. 14. 1–11. 225 indexed citations
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Ingerslev, Lars R., Ida Donkin, Odile Fabre, et al.. (2018). Endurance training remodels sperm-borne small RNA expression and methylation at neurological gene hotspots. Clinical Epigenetics. 10(1). 12–12. 81 indexed citations
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Andersen, Emil, Lars R. Ingerslev, Odile Fabre, et al.. (2018). Preadipocytes from obese humans with type 2 diabetes are epigenetically reprogrammed at genes controlling adipose tissue function. International Journal of Obesity. 43(2). 306–318. 43 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Thaís de Castro, Lars R. Ingerslev, Petter S. Alm, et al.. (2015). High-fat diet reprograms the epigenome of rat spermatozoa and transgenerationally affects metabolism of the offspring. Molecular Metabolism. 5(3). 184–197. 288 indexed citations

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