Sébastien Phan

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Sébastien Phan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Structural Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sébastien Phan has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Structural Biology and 13 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Sébastien Phan's work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (14 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (11 papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (9 papers). Sébastien Phan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (14 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (11 papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (9 papers). Sébastien Phan collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and China. Sébastien Phan's co-authors include Mark H. Ellisman, Thomas J. Deerinck, Andrea Thor, Horng D. Ou, Clodagh C. O’Shea, Eric A. Bushong, Daniela Boassa, Keun-Young Kim, Elizabeth Mills and Chung-ha O. Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sébastien Phan

51 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

ChromEMT: Visualizing 3D chromatin structure and compaction in interphase and mitotic cells

2017 577 citations Horng D. Ou, Sébastien Phan et al. profile →
Transcellular degradation of axonal mitochondria

2014 513 citations Chung-ha O. Davis, Keun-Young Kim et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sébastien Phan United States	20	1.5k	329	317	252	209	52	2.3k
C. Shan Xu United States	21	1.5k 1.0×	476 1.4×	695 2.2×	185 0.7×	499 2.4×	49	3.0k
Chan‐Gi Pack South Korea	29	2.5k 1.7×	169 0.5×	382 1.2×	136 0.5×	246 1.2×	110	3.4k
Uri Manor United States	22	1.1k 0.7×	133 0.4×	345 1.1×	146 0.6×	123 0.6×	54	2.0k
Jan Schmoranzer Germany	24	1.8k 1.2×	348 1.1×	1.6k 5.1×	148 0.6×	339 1.6×	44	2.9k
Rubén Fernández‐Busnadiego Germany	24	1.6k 1.1×	622 1.9×	791 2.5×	178 0.7×	157 0.8×	43	2.4k
Junlin Teng China	25	1.5k 1.0×	550 1.7×	1.2k 3.7×	456 1.8×	161 0.8×	66	2.9k
Ilya Belevich Finland	32	2.1k 1.4×	770 2.3×	671 2.1×	126 0.5×	194 0.9×	60	3.3k
Etsuo A. Susaki Japan	19	1.3k 0.8×	365 1.1×	273 0.9×	85 0.3×	907 4.3×	41	2.9k
Ivana Nikić Germany	23	1.2k 0.8×	261 0.8×	177 0.6×	115 0.5×	271 1.3×	28	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sébastien Phan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sébastien Phan

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Acree, Christopher, Keunyoung Kim, Ali Zahraei, et al.. (2025). Spatial patterns of hepatocyte glucose flux revealed by stable isotope tracing and multi-scale microscopy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5850–5850. 1 indexed citations

Lewis, Tylor R., Sébastien Phan, Keunyoung Kim, et al.. (2025). Unique ultrastructural organization of human rod photoreceptors. Communications Biology. 8(1). 63–63. 1 indexed citations

Phan, Sébastien, Thomas R. Shaw, Sarah H. Shahmoradian, et al.. (2024). TorsinA is essential for neuronal nuclear pore complex localization and maturation. Nature Cell Biology. 26(9). 1482–1495. 6 indexed citations

Ou, Horng D., et al.. (2024). ChromEMT: visualizing and reconstructing chromatin ultrastructure and 3D organization in situ. Nature Protocols. 20(4). 934–966. 3 indexed citations

Castillon, Guillaume A., Sébastien Phan, Sara McArdle, et al.. (2023). Spatial and functional arrangement of Ebola virus polymerase inside phase-separated viral factories. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4159–4159. 13 indexed citations

Cheung, Chris, Tingting Huang, Shuqi Zhang, et al.. (2022). Unconventional tonicity-regulated nuclear trafficking of NFAT5 mediated by KPNB1, XPOT and RUVBL2. Journal of Cell Science. 135(13). 4 indexed citations

Bushong, Eric A., Sébastien Phan, Steven T. Peltier, et al.. (2022). A Uniform and Isotropic Cytoskeletal Tiling Fills Dendritic Spines. eNeuro. 9(5). ENEURO.0342–22.2022. 8 indexed citations

Ayala, Anthony X., Jonathan B. Grimm, Ariana N. Tkachuk, et al.. (2020). Rational Design of Bioavailable Photosensitizers for Manipulation and Imaging of Biological Systems. Cell chemical biology. 27(8). 1063–1072.e7. 18 indexed citations

Spencer, William J., Jindong Ding, Tylor R. Lewis, et al.. (2019). PRCD is essential for high-fidelity photoreceptor disc formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(26). 13087–13096. 36 indexed citations

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Wesseling, John F., Sébastien Phan, Eric A. Bushong, et al.. (2019). Sparse force-bearing bridges between neighboring synaptic vesicles. Brain Structure and Function. 224(9). 3263–3276. 9 indexed citations

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Boassa, Daniela, Varda Lev‐Ram, Junru Hu, et al.. (2019). Split-miniSOG for Spatially Detecting Intracellular Protein-Protein Interactions by Correlated Light and Electron Microscopy. Cell chemical biology. 26(10). 1407–1416.e5. 25 indexed citations

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Kim, Keunyoung, Hiep D. Le, Álex Pérez, et al.. (2019). Synaptic Specializations of Melanopsin-Retinal Ganglion Cells in Multiple Brain Regions Revealed by Genetic Label for Light and Electron Microscopy. Cell Reports. 29(3). 628–644.e6. 15 indexed citations

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García, Guadalupe C., Thomas M. Bartol, Sébastien Phan, et al.. (2019). Mitochondrial morphology provides a mechanism for energy buffering at synapses. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18306–18306. 63 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yongchuan, Min Huang, Eric A. Bushong, et al.. (2019). Class IIa HDACs regulate learning and memory through dynamic experience-dependent repression of transcription. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3469–3469. 39 indexed citations

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Drigo, Rafael Arrojo e, Varda Lev‐Ram, Swati Tyagi, et al.. (2019). Age Mosaicism across Multiple Scales in Adult Tissues. Cell Metabolism. 30(2). 343–351.e3. 94 indexed citations

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Bushong, Eric A., Daniela Boassa, Junru Hu, et al.. (2018). High-quality ultrastructural preservation using cryofixation for 3D electron microscopy of genetically labeled tissues. eLife. 7. 49 indexed citations

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Haberl, Matthias G., Christopher Churas, Daniela Boassa, et al.. (2018). CDeep3M—Plug-and-Play cloud-based deep learning for image segmentation. Nature Methods. 15(9). 677–680. 117 indexed citations

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Hammerling, Babette C., Rita H. Najor, Melissa Q. Cortez, et al.. (2017). A Rab5 endosomal pathway mediates Parkin-dependent mitochondrial clearance. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14050–14050. 149 indexed citations

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Davis, Chung-ha O., Keun-Young Kim, Eric A. Bushong, et al.. (2014). Transcellular degradation of axonal mitochondria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(26). 9633–9638. 513 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Ruijuan, Xiaohua Wan, İlkay Altıntaş, et al.. (2014). EPiK-a Workflow for Electron Tomography in Kepler1. Procedia Computer Science. 29. 2295–2305. 5 indexed citations

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