Şerban Nacu

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Şerban Nacu is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Molecular Biology and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Şerban Nacu has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Mathematical Physics, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Şerban Nacu's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (4 papers), Plant and animal studies (2 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (2 papers). Şerban Nacu is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (4 papers), Plant and animal studies (2 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (2 papers). Şerban Nacu collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Burundi. Şerban Nacu's co-authors include Thomas D. Wu, Susan Holmes, Rebecca J. Critchley-Thorne, Peter P. Lee, Deborah M. Gordon, Ning Yan, Jeffrey S. Weber, Yuval Peres, Wendelin Werner and Zora Modrušan and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS Medicine and Behavioral Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Şerban Nacu

10 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Fast and SNP-tolerant detection of complex variants and splicing in short reads

2010 1.4k citations Thomas D. Wu, Şerban Nacu Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Şerban Nacu United States	9	1.2k	401	347	251	198	10	1.9k
Adrian Alexa Germany	8	1.2k 1.1×	350 0.9×	432 1.2×	250 1.0×	189 1.0×	8	2.1k
Toshinori Endo Japan	16	997 0.9×	257 0.6×	200 0.6×	148 0.6×	128 0.6×	42	1.6k
Enrique Blanco Spain	26	1.9k 1.6×	391 1.0×	434 1.3×	158 0.6×	157 0.8×	55	2.4k
Rasmus Wernersson Denmark	15	1.1k 1.0×	264 0.7×	204 0.6×	110 0.4×	122 0.6×	27	1.6k
Guruprasad Ananda United States	17	1.1k 1.0×	354 0.9×	234 0.7×	242 1.0×	113 0.6×	30	1.8k
Christian Iseli Switzerland	30	2.1k 1.8×	550 1.4×	589 1.7×	326 1.3×	326 1.6×	60	3.1k
Nathan C. Sheffield United States	20	2.1k 1.8×	540 1.3×	220 0.6×	375 1.5×	166 0.8×	52	2.6k
Albert J. Vilella United Kingdom	10	2.1k 1.8×	886 2.2×	661 1.9×	314 1.3×	159 0.8×	11	3.1k
Artem Tarasov Russia	4	1.0k 0.9×	330 0.8×	249 0.7×	214 0.9×	90 0.5×	7	1.6k
Brian J. Raney United States	19	1.9k 1.6×	830 2.1×	504 1.5×	343 1.4×	142 0.7×	24	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Şerban Nacu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Şerban Nacu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Şerban Nacu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Şerban Nacu 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 Şerban Nacu. Şerban Nacu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Nacu, Şerban & Wendelin Werner. (2011). Random soups, carpets and fractal dimensions. Journal of the London Mathematical Society. 83(3). 789–809. 21 indexed citations

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Nacu, Şerban, Wenlin Yuan, Zhengyan Kan, et al.. (2011). Deep RNA sequencing analysis of readthrough gene fusions in human prostate adenocarcinoma and reference samples. BMC Medical Genomics. 4(1). 122 indexed citations

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Wu, Thomas D. & Şerban Nacu. (2010). Fast and SNP-tolerant detection of complex variants and splicing in short reads. Bioinformatics. 26(7). 873–881. 1356 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nacu, Şerban, et al.. (2009). How site fidelity leads to individual differences in the foraging activity of harvester ants. Behavioral Ecology. 20(3). 633–638. 84 indexed citations

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Critchley-Thorne, Rebecca J., Ning Yan, Şerban Nacu, et al.. (2007). Down-Regulation of the Interferon Signaling Pathway in T Lymphocytes from Patients with Metastatic Melanoma. PLoS Medicine. 4(5). e176–e176. 106 indexed citations

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Nacu, Şerban, Rebecca J. Critchley-Thorne, Peter P. Lee, & Susan Holmes. (2007). Gene expression network analysis and applications to immunology. Bioinformatics. 23(7). 850–858. 114 indexed citations

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Gordon, Deborah M., Susan Holmes, & Şerban Nacu. (2007). The short-term regulation of foraging in harvester ants. Behavioral Ecology. 19(1). 217–222. 52 indexed citations

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Nacu, Şerban. (2006). Increments of Random Partitions. Combinatorics Probability Computing. 15(4). 589–595. 4 indexed citations

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Nacu, Şerban & Yuval Peres. (2005). Fast simulation of new coins from old. The Annals of Applied Probability. 15(1A). 25 indexed citations

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Nacu, Şerban. (2003). Glauber dynamics on the cycle is monotone. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 127(2). 177–185. 8 indexed citations

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