Samir M. Hamdan

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Samir M. Hamdan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Samir M. Hamdan has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Samir M. Hamdan's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (45 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (40 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (22 papers). Samir M. Hamdan is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (45 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (40 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (22 papers). Samir M. Hamdan collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, United States and Australia. Samir M. Hamdan's co-authors include Antoine M. van Oijen, Nicholas E. Dixon, Slobodan Jergic, Nathan A. Tanner, Joseph J. Loparo, Charles C. Richardson, Masateru Takahashi, Muhammad Tehseen, Jong‐Bong Lee and Fahad Rashid and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Samir M. Hamdan

90 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Real-time single-molecule observation of rolling-circle DNA replication

2009 1.2k citations Nathan A. Tanner, Joseph J. Loparo et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samir M. Hamdan Saudi Arabia	30	3.5k	914	419	377	302	91	4.3k
Niek Dekker Netherlands	35	3.4k 1.0×	868 0.9×	286 0.7×	154 0.4×	468 1.5×	71	4.4k
Beáta G. Vértessy Hungary	35	2.9k 0.9×	467 0.5×	219 0.5×	197 0.5×	151 0.5×	188	3.9k
Constance J. Jeffery United States	29	2.6k 0.8×	316 0.3×	255 0.6×	184 0.5×	169 0.6×	73	3.9k
William K. Russell United States	37	2.4k 0.7×	659 0.7×	140 0.3×	336 0.9×	111 0.4×	131	4.0k
Guillermo Montoya Spain	44	5.0k 1.5×	865 0.9×	165 0.4×	251 0.7×	364 1.2×	134	5.8k
O. Gileadi United Kingdom	44	4.3k 1.2×	568 0.6×	158 0.4×	162 0.4×	333 1.1×	108	5.5k
François Stricher Spain	25	4.0k 1.2×	746 0.8×	134 0.3×	187 0.5×	120 0.4×	32	4.9k
Gavin Dollinger United States	19	2.1k 0.6×	264 0.3×	379 0.9×	285 0.8×	118 0.4×	38	3.7k
Daniel Boehringer Switzerland	38	4.7k 1.4×	573 0.6×	93 0.2×	367 1.0×	149 0.5×	105	6.0k
Yasufumi Murakami Japan	28	4.6k 1.3×	904 1.0×	326 0.8×	376 1.0×	247 0.8×	111	6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samir M. Hamdan

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Tehseen, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). Structural dynamics of DNA unwinding by a replicative helicase. Nature. 641(8061). 240–249. 1 indexed citations

Bi, Chongwei, Muhammad Tehseen, Gang Yi, et al.. (2024). Modulation of the microhomology-mediated end joining pathway suppresses large deletions and enhances homology-directed repair following CRISPR-Cas9-induced DNA breaks. BMC Biology. 22(1). 101–101. 7 indexed citations

Ali, Zahir, Muhammad Tehseen, Evan F. Haney, et al.. (2023). Efficient in planta production of amidated antimicrobial peptides that are active against drug-resistant ESKAPE pathogens. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1464–1464. 29 indexed citations

Mueller, S.H., et al.. (2022). Rapid single-molecule characterisation of enzymes involved in nucleic-acid metabolism. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(1). e5–e5. 4 indexed citations

Abulikemu, Mutalifu, et al.. (2022). In Situ Growth of PbS Nanoparticles without Organic Linker on ZnO Nanostructures via Successive Ionic Layer Adsorption and Reaction (SILAR). Coatings. 12(10). 1486–1486. 4 indexed citations

Mishiba, Kei‐ichiro, et al.. (2022). Unpaired nucleotides on the stem of microRNA precursor are important for precise cleavage by Dicer‐like 1 in Arabidopsis. Genes to Cells. 27(4). 280–292. 3 indexed citations

Tehseen, Muhammad, Vlad‐Stefan Raducanu, Fahad Rashid, et al.. (2022). Mechanism of human Lig1 regulation by PCNA in Okazaki fragment sealing. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7833–7833. 22 indexed citations

Raducanu, Vlad‐Stefan, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic investigation of human maturation of Okazaki fragments reveals slow kinetics. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6973–6973. 10 indexed citations

Tehseen, Muhammad, S. K. Bakshi, Masateru Takahashi, et al.. (2021). Cryo-EM structure of human Pol κ bound to DNA and mono-ubiquitylated PCNA. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6095–6095. 29 indexed citations

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Aleisa, Fajr A., Jae Man Lee, Dina B. AbuSamra, et al.. (2020). Functional binding of E-selectin to its ligands is enhanced by structural features beyond its lectin domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(11). 3719–3733. 15 indexed citations

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Ali, Zahir, Ashwag Shami, Khalid Sedeek, et al.. (2020). Fusion of the Cas9 endonuclease and the VirD2 relaxase facilitates homology-directed repair for precise genome engineering in rice. Communications Biology. 3(1). 44–44. 83 indexed citations

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Raducanu, Vlad‐Stefan, et al.. (2020). Simplified detection of polyhistidine-tagged proteins in gels and membranes using a UV-excitable dye and a multiple chelator head pair. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(34). 12214–12223. 10 indexed citations

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Tsutakawa, Susan E., Chi-Lin Tsai, Chunli Yan, et al.. (2020). Envisioning how the prototypic molecular machine TFIIH functions in transcription initiation and DNA repair. DNA repair. 96. 102972–102972. 41 indexed citations

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Raducanu, Vlad‐Stefan, et al.. (2020). Two chromatographic schemes for protein purification involving the biotin/avidin interaction under native conditions. Journal of Chromatography A. 1621. 461051–461051. 19 indexed citations

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Sobhy, Mohamed A., Vlad‐Stefan Raducanu, Muhammad Tehseen, et al.. (2019). Single-Molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Methods for Real-Time Investigation of the Holliday Junction Resolution by GEN1. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations

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Hamdan, Samir M., et al.. (2018). Microfluidics-based super-resolution microscopy enables nanoscopic characterization of blood stem cell rolling. Science Advances. 4(7). eaat5304–eaat5304. 34 indexed citations

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Tsutakawa, Susan E., Mark J. Thompson, A.S. Arvai, et al.. (2017). Phosphate steering by Flap Endonuclease 1 promotes 5′-flap specificity and incision to prevent genome instability. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15855–15855. 88 indexed citations

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Hamdan, Samir M., Joseph J. Loparo, Masateru Takahashi, Charles C. Richardson, & Antoine M. van Oijen. (2008). Dynamics of DNA replication loops reveal temporal control of lagging-strand synthesis. Nature. 457(7227). 336–339. 119 indexed citations

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Hamdan, Samir M., Donald E. Johnson, Nathan A. Tanner, et al.. (2007). Dynamic DNA Helicase-DNA Polymerase Interactions Assure Processive Replication Fork Movement. Molecular Cell. 27(4). 539–549. 92 indexed citations

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Qimron, Udi, Seung‐Joo Lee, Samir M. Hamdan, & Charles C. Richardson. (2006). Primer initiation and extension by T7 DNA primase. The EMBO Journal. 25(10). 2199–2208. 29 indexed citations

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