Ruben Dries

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Ruben Dries is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruben Dries has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 4 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Ruben Dries's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (9 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (4 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers). Ruben Dries is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (9 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (4 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers). Ruben Dries collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Ruben Dries's co-authors include Guo‐Cheng Yuan, Qian Zhu, Long Cai, Noushin Koulena, Jina Yun, Yodai Takei, Christopher J. Cronin, Michael J. Lawson, Rani E. George and Nico Pierson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Ruben Dries

23 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Transcriptome-scale super-resolved imaging in tissues by RNA seqFISH+

2019 1.1k citations Michael J. Lawson, Qian Zhu et al. Nature profile →
Giotto: a toolbox for integrative analysis and visualization of spatial expression data

2021 510 citations Ruben Dries, Qian Zhu et al. Genome biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruben Dries United States	12	2.1k	413	373	323	319	25	2.5k
Fredrik Salmén Sweden	14	2.0k 0.9×	315 0.8×	438 1.2×	268 0.8×	524 1.6×	15	2.4k
Sanja Vicković Sweden	14	1.6k 0.7×	238 0.6×	348 0.9×	214 0.7×	381 1.2×	18	2.0k
Maren Büttner Germany	16	2.2k 1.0×	514 1.2×	489 1.3×	240 0.7×	422 1.3×	27	2.7k
Malte D. Luecken Germany	11	1.8k 0.8×	387 0.9×	435 1.2×	164 0.5×	394 1.2×	18	2.2k
Laleh Haghverdi Germany	9	2.5k 1.2×	557 1.3×	637 1.7×	250 0.8×	491 1.5×	14	3.1k
Robert R. Stickels United States	6	2.0k 0.9×	359 0.9×	438 1.2×	182 0.6×	367 1.2×	6	2.3k
Dalia Barkley United States	5	1.4k 0.6×	200 0.5×	435 1.2×	380 1.2×	453 1.4×	6	1.8k
Marius Lange Germany	7	1.5k 0.7×	213 0.5×	476 1.3×	232 0.7×	290 0.9×	11	2.0k
Volker Bergen Germany	6	1.4k 0.7×	197 0.5×	472 1.3×	230 0.7×	290 0.9×	9	2.0k
Marco Mignardi Sweden	11	1.4k 0.7×	187 0.5×	604 1.6×	249 0.8×	452 1.4×	17	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruben Dries

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ruben Dries. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ruben Dries based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ruben Dries. Ruben Dries is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Chen, Jiaji G., Matthew O’Brien, Edward C. Ruiz, et al.. (2025). Giotto Suite: a multiscale and technology-agnostic spatial multiomics analysis ecosystem. Nature Methods. 22(10). 2052–2064.

Reinecke, James B., Amanda J. Saraf, John Hinckley, et al.. (2025). Metastasis-Initiating Osteosarcoma Subpopulations Establish Paracrine Interactions with Lung and Tumor Cells to Create a Metastatic Niche. Cancer Research. 85(22). 4341–4358. 1 indexed citations

Reinecke, James B., Amanda J. Saraf, John Hinckley, et al.. (2025). Data from Metastasis-Initiating Osteosarcoma Subpopulations Establish Paracrine Interactions with Lung and Tumor Cells to Create a Metastatic Niche.

Reinecke, James B., Amy C. Gross, Maren Cam, et al.. (2024). Aberrant Activation of Wound-Healing Programs within the Metastatic Niche Facilitates Lung Colonization by Osteosarcoma Cells. Clinical Cancer Research. 31(2). 414–429. 3 indexed citations

Sokolov, Artem, Brian R. Herb, Heather H. Creasy, et al.. (2024). MAMS: matrix and analysis metadata standards to facilitate harmonization and reproducibility of single-cell data. Genome biology. 25(1). 205–205. 4 indexed citations

Volegova, Marina P., Lauren E. Brown, Ruben Dries, et al.. (2024). The MYCN 5′ UTR as a therapeutic target in neuroblastoma. Cell Reports. 43(5). 114134–114134. 2 indexed citations

Ikonomou, Laertis, Mattias Magnusson, Ruben Dries, et al.. (2022). Stem cells, cell therapies, and bioengineering in lung biology and disease 2021. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 323(3). L341–L354. 7 indexed citations

Qiu, Yuhan, et al.. (2022). The crosstalk within the breast tumor microenvironment in type II diabetes: Implications for cancer disparities. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 13. 1044670–1044670. 9 indexed citations

Vanuytsel, Kim, Carlos Villacorta-Martín, Jonathan Lindstrom-Vautrin, et al.. (2022). Multi-modal profiling of human fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells reveals the molecular signature of engraftment. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1103–1103. 22 indexed citations

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Jiang, Baishan, Yang Gao, Jianwei Che, et al.. (2021). Discovery and resistance mechanism of a selective CDK12 degrader. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(6). 675–683. 96 indexed citations

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Dries, Ruben, et al.. (2021). Advances in spatial transcriptomic data analysis. Genome Research. 31(10). 1706–1718. 130 indexed citations

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Dries, Ruben, Qian Zhu, Rui Dong, et al.. (2021). Giotto: a toolbox for integrative analysis and visualization of spatial expression data. Genome biology. 22(1). 78–78. 510 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stappers, Elke, Ruben Dries, Elise Peyre, et al.. (2020). Multifaceted actions of Zeb2 in postnatal neurogenesis from the ventricular-subventricular zone to the olfactory bulb. Development. 147(10). 6 indexed citations

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Krajewska, Małgorzata, Ruben Dries, Andrew V. Grassetti, et al.. (2019). CDK12 loss in cancer cells affects DNA damage response genes through premature cleavage and polyadenylation. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1757–1757. 181 indexed citations

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Tracy, Samuel, Guo‐Cheng Yuan, & Ruben Dries. (2019). RESCUE: imputing dropout events in single-cell RNA-sequencing data. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(1). 388–388. 30 indexed citations

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Lawson, Michael J., Qian Zhu, Ruben Dries, et al.. (2019). Transcriptome-scale super-resolved imaging in tissues by RNA seqFISH+. Nature. 568(7751). 235–239. 1092 indexed citations breakdown →

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Debruyne, David, Ruben Dries, Satyaki Sengupta, et al.. (2019). BORIS promotes chromatin regulatory interactions in treatment-resistant cancer cells. Nature. 572(7771). 676–680. 74 indexed citations

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Liu, Yan, Yuyang Li, Shengwu Liu, et al.. (2018). NK Cells Mediate Synergistic Antitumor Effects of Combined Inhibition of HDAC6 and BET in a SCLC Preclinical Model. Cancer Research. 78(13). 3709–3717. 40 indexed citations

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Zhu, Qian, Sheel Shah, Ruben Dries, Long Cai, & Guo‐Cheng Yuan. (2018). Identification of spatially associated subpopulations by combining scRNAseq and sequential fluorescence in situ hybridization data. Nature Biotechnology. 36(12). 1183–1190. 151 indexed citations

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Dries, Ruben, Matthias S. Roost, Stefan Semrau, et al.. (2015). BMP-SMAD Signaling Regulates Lineage Priming, but Is Dispensable for Self-Renewal in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells. Stem Cell Reports. 6(1). 85–94. 23 indexed citations

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