Sophie Dumont

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Sophie Dumont is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sophie Dumont has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cell Biology, 31 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sophie Dumont's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (35 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (17 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (12 papers). Sophie Dumont is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (35 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (17 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (12 papers). Sophie Dumont collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Canada. Sophie Dumont's co-authors include Ignacio Tinoco, Carlos Bustamante, Timothy J. Mitchison, Jan Liphardt, Steven B. Smith, Wei Cheng, Christina L. Hueschen, Dylan B. Udy, Mary Williard Elting and Anna Marie Pyle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sophie Dumont

38 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Equilibrium Information from Nonequilibrium Measurements in an Experimental Test of Jarzynski's Equality

2002 845 citations Jan Liphardt, Sophie Dumont et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sophie Dumont United States	23	1.5k	1.1k	653	571	255	43	2.6k
Peng‐Ye Wang China	30	1.8k 1.2×	444 0.4×	351 0.5×	179 0.3×	176 0.7×	201	2.9k
Daniel Needleman United States	34	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.5×	166 0.3×	222 0.4×	235 0.9×	90	3.6k
Anatoly B. Kolomeisky United States	34	2.2k 1.4×	744 0.7×	723 1.1×	847 1.5×	77 0.3×	181	4.2k
Stefan Klumpp Germany	34	3.2k 2.1×	1.1k 1.1×	284 0.4×	576 1.0×	141 0.6×	122	5.2k
Olga K. Dudko United States	22	1.4k 0.9×	291 0.3×	1.6k 2.5×	229 0.4×	62 0.2×	42	2.9k
Charles L. Asbury United States	33	2.9k 1.9×	3.2k 2.9×	436 0.7×	115 0.2×	797 3.1×	81	4.4k
Pierre Sens France	36	3.1k 2.0×	2.0k 1.8×	844 1.3×	110 0.2×	103 0.4×	77	5.0k
Albrecht Ott Germany	31	783 0.5×	1.5k 1.4×	727 1.1×	212 0.4×	42 0.2×	68	3.1k
Christoph A. Weber Germany	25	2.9k 1.9×	592 0.5×	148 0.2×	506 0.9×	114 0.4×	70	4.8k
Andrew J. Spakowitz United States	33	2.4k 1.5×	373 0.3×	525 0.8×	346 0.6×	149 0.6×	100	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Sophie Dumont

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sophie Dumont

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sophie Dumont

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Das, Moumita, et al.. (2025). SKAP binding to microtubules reduces friction at the kinetochore-microtubule interface and increases attachment stability under force. Current Biology. 35(8). 1805–1815.e4. 1 indexed citations

Neahring, Lila, Nathan Cho, Gaoxiang Liu, et al.. (2024). Torques within and outside the human spindle balance twist at anaphase. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(9). 1 indexed citations

Cho, Nathan & Sophie Dumont. (2024). NuMA mechanically reinforces mammalian spindle poles independent of its partner dynein. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). 539a–539a.

Dumont, Sophie, et al.. (2023). Cytoplasmic division cycles without the nucleus and mitotic CDK/cyclin complexes. Cell. 186(21). 4694–4709.e16. 12 indexed citations

Neahring, Lila, et al.. (2023). Kinetochore-fiber lengths are maintained locally but coordinated globally by poles in the mammalian spindle. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Suresh, Pooja, et al.. (2022). Modeling and mechanical perturbations reveal how spatially regulated anchorage gives rise to spatially distinct mechanics across the mammalian spindle. eLife. 11.

Suresh, Pooja, et al.. (2020). Individual kinetochore-fibers locally dissipate force to maintain robust mammalian spindle structure. The Journal of Cell Biology. 219(8). 17 indexed citations

Serra-Marques, Andrea, et al.. (2020). The mitotic protein NuMA plays a spindle-independent role in nuclear formation and mechanics. The Journal of Cell Biology. 219(12). 12 indexed citations

Hueschen, Christina L., et al.. (2019). Microtubule End-Clustering Maintains a Steady-State Spindle Shape. Current Biology. 29(4). 700–708.e5. 17 indexed citations

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Shah, Khyati N., Julia Rotow, Julia Rohrberg, et al.. (2019). Abstract 2902: Non-genetic TPX2/AURKA signaling facilitates tumor evolution in EGFR-TKI resistance in NSCLC. Cancer Research. 79(13_Supplement). 2902–2902. 2 indexed citations

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Hueschen, Christina L., Samuel J. Kenny, Ke Xu, & Sophie Dumont. (2017). NuMA recruits dynein activity to microtubule minus-ends at mitosis. eLife. 6. 72 indexed citations

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Elting, Mary Williard, Manu Prakash, Dylan B. Udy, & Sophie Dumont. (2017). Mapping Load-Bearing in the Mammalian Spindle Reveals Local Kinetochore Fiber Anchorage that Provides Mechanical Isolation and Redundancy. Current Biology. 27(14). 2112–2122.e5. 42 indexed citations

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Udy, Dylan B., et al.. (2017). Hec1 Tail Phosphorylation Differentially Regulates Mammalian Kinetochore Coupling to Polymerizing and Depolymerizing Microtubules. Current Biology. 27(11). 1692–1699.e3. 29 indexed citations

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Kuhn, Jonathan & Sophie Dumont. (2014). Imaging and physically probing kinetochores in live dividing cells. Methods in cell biology. 123. 467–487. 2 indexed citations

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Dumont, Sophie, Edward D. Salmon, & Timothy J. Mitchison. (2012). Deformations Within Moving Kinetochores Reveal Different Sites of Active and Passive Force Generation. Science. 337(6092). 355–358. 75 indexed citations

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Dumont, Sophie. (2011). Chromosome Segregation: Spindle Mechanics Come To Life. Current Biology. 21(18). R688–R690.

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Wühr, Martin, Sophie Dumont, Aaron C. Groen, Daniel Needleman, & Timothy J. Mitchison. (2009). How does a millimeter-sized cell find its center?. Cell Cycle. 8(8). 1115–1121. 79 indexed citations

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Dumont, Sophie & Timothy J. Mitchison. (2009). Force and Length in the Mitotic Spindle. Current Biology. 19(17). R749–R761. 195 indexed citations

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Dumont, Sophie, Wei Cheng, Victor Serebrov, et al.. (2006). RNA translocation and unwinding mechanism of HCV NS3 helicase and its coordination by ATP. Nature. 439(7072). 105–108. 284 indexed citations

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Onoa, Bibiana, Sophie Dumont, Jan Liphardt, et al.. (2003). Identifying Kinetic Barriers to Mechanical Unfolding of the T. thermophila Ribozyme. Science. 299(5614). 1892–1895. 180 indexed citations

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