Roman Barth

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 580 citations indexed

About

Roman Barth is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roman Barth has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 580 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Roman Barth's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Roman Barth is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Roman Barth collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Austria and France. Roman Barth's co-authors include Haitham A. Shaban, Kerstin Bystricky, Cees Dekker, Jaco van der Torre, Eugene Kim, Iain F. Davidson, Jan‐Michael Peters, Richard Janissen, Biswajit Pradhan and Gordana Wutz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Roman Barth

20 papers receiving 577 citations

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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.

CTCF is a DNA-tension-dependent barrier to cohesin-mediated loop extrusion

2023 94 citations Iain F. Davidson, Roman Barth et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roman Barth Netherlands	12	517	107	85	47	41	21	580
Yong-Woon Han Japan	11	351 0.7×	57 0.5×	61 0.7×	43 0.9×	21 0.5×	20	450
Guanwen Li China	4	546 1.1×	128 1.2×	110 1.3×	34 0.7×	51 1.2×	4	596
Lea B. Witkowsky United States	5	583 1.1×	77 0.7×	93 1.1×	16 0.3×	34 0.8×	5	611
Aaron J. Plys United States	6	662 1.3×	53 0.5×	78 0.9×	16 0.3×	31 0.8×	7	698
Aleksandra A. Galitsyna Russia	13	495 1.0×	120 1.1×	62 0.7×	28 0.6×	8 0.2×	24	613
Aafke A. van den Berg United States	7	349 0.7×	103 1.0×	82 1.0×	17 0.4×	13 0.3×	9	408
Guy Nir United States	9	433 0.8×	134 1.3×	77 0.9×	29 0.6×	47 1.1×	16	531
Jennifer F. Garcia United States	10	692 1.3×	113 1.1×	34 0.4×	12 0.3×	28 0.7×	10	721
Shipeng Shao China	11	500 1.0×	61 0.6×	48 0.6×	20 0.4×	40 1.0×	32	609
Samuel Corless United Kingdom	8	522 1.0×	87 0.8×	73 0.9×	48 1.0×	9 0.2×	13	565

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roman Barth

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Barth, Roman, Richard Janissen, Jaco van der Torre, et al.. (2025). Two CTCF motifs impede cohesin-mediated DNA loop extrusion. Molecular Cell. 85(23). 4304–4317.e9. 1 indexed citations

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Barth, Roman, Iain F. Davidson, Jaco van der Torre, et al.. (2025). SMC motor proteins extrude DNA asymmetrically and can switch directions. Cell. 188(3). 749–763.e21. 15 indexed citations

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Davidson, Iain F., Roman Barth, Kota Nagasaka, et al.. (2025). Cohesin supercoils DNA during loop extrusion. Cell Reports. 44(6). 115856–115856. 2 indexed citations

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Torre, Jaco van der, Allard J. Katan, Roman Barth, et al.. (2025). Telomeres stall DNA loop extrusion by condensin. Cell Reports. 44(7). 115900–115900. 2 indexed citations

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Janissen, Richard, Roman Barth, Iain F. Davidson, Jan‐Michael Peters, & Cees Dekker. (2024). All eukaryotic SMC proteins induce a twist of −0.6 at each DNA loop extrusion step. Science Advances. 10(50). eadt1832–eadt1832. 9 indexed citations

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Valades‐Cruz, Cesar Augusto, et al.. (2024). Genome-wide analysis of the biophysical properties of chromatin and nuclear proteins in living cells with Hi-D. Nature Protocols. 20(1). 163–179. 1 indexed citations

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Barth, Roman, Biswajit Pradhan, Eugene Kim, et al.. (2023). Testing pseudotopological and nontopological models for SMC-driven DNA loop extrusion against roadblock-traversal experiments. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 8100–8100. 10 indexed citations

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Janissen, Richard, Roman Barth, Jaco van der Torre, et al.. (2023). Dynamic ParB–DNA interactions initiate and maintain a partition condensate for bacterial chromosome segregation. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(21). 11856–11875. 18 indexed citations

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Janissen, Richard, et al.. (2023). Single-molecule visualization of twin-supercoiled domains generated during transcription. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(4). 1677–1687. 15 indexed citations

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Davidson, Iain F., Roman Barth, Jaco van der Torre, et al.. (2023). CTCF is a DNA-tension-dependent barrier to cohesin-mediated loop extrusion. Nature. 616(7958). 822–827. 94 indexed citations breakdown →

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Franceschi, Nicola De, et al.. (2023). Dynamin A as a one-component division machinery for synthetic cells. Nature Nanotechnology. 19(1). 70–76. 14 indexed citations

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Kim, Eugene, Roman Barth, & Cees Dekker. (2023). Looping the Genome with SMC Complexes. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 92(1). 15–41. 44 indexed citations

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Soh, Young‐Min, Roman Barth, Biswajit Pradhan, et al.. (2022). ParB proteins can bypass DNA-bound roadblocks via dimer-dimer recruitment. Science Advances. 8(26). eabn3299–eabn3299. 32 indexed citations

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Pradhan, Biswajit, Roman Barth, Eugene Kim, et al.. (2022). SMC complexes can traverse physical roadblocks bigger than their ring size. Cell Reports. 41(3). 111491–111491. 87 indexed citations

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Pradhan, Biswajit, Roman Barth, Eugene Kim, et al.. (2022). SMC Complexes Can Traverse Physical Roadblocks Bigger Than Their Ring Size. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Barth, Roman & Haitham A. Shaban. (2022). Spatially coherent diffusion of human RNA Pol II depends on transcriptional state rather than chromatin motion. Nucleus. 13(1). 196–204. 5 indexed citations

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Barth, Roman, Geneviève Fourel, & Haitham A. Shaban. (2020). Dynamics as a cause for the nanoscale organization of the genome. Nucleus. 11(1). 83–98. 9 indexed citations

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Shaban, Haitham A., et al.. (2020). Hi-D: nanoscale mapping of nuclear dynamics in single living cells. Genome biology. 21(1). 95–95. 68 indexed citations

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Shaban, Haitham A., Roman Barth, & Kerstin Bystricky. (2020). Navigating the crowd: visualizing coordination between genome dynamics, structure, and transcription. Genome biology. 21(1). 278–278. 23 indexed citations

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Shaban, Haitham A., Roman Barth, & Kerstin Bystricky. (2018). Formation of correlated chromatin domains at nanoscale dynamic resolution during transcription. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(13). e77–e77. 73 indexed citations

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