Wouter Meuleman

17.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
20 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Wouter Meuleman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter Meuleman has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Wouter Meuleman's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and Nuclear Structure and Function (4 papers). Wouter Meuleman is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and Nuclear Structure and Function (4 papers). Wouter Meuleman collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Wouter Meuleman's co-authors include Bas van Steensel, Lodewyk F.A. Wessels, Ludo Pagie, Wouter de Laat, Bert H.J. Eussen, Émilie Brasset, Lars Guelen, Annelies de Klein, Marius B. Faza and Wendy Talhout and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Wouter Meuleman

20 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Domain organization of human chromosomes revealed by mapping of nuclear lamina interactions

2008 1.4k citations Lars Guelen, Ludo Pagie et al. Nature profile →
FTO Obesity Variant Circuitry and Adipocyte Browning in Humans

2015 878 citations Melina Claussnitzer, Simon N. Dankel et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
Molecular Maps of the Reorganization of Genome-Nuclear Lamina Interactions during Differentiation

2010 763 citations Daan Peric‐Hupkes, Wouter Meuleman et al. Molecular Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter Meuleman Netherlands	16	4.0k	845	532	299	288	20	4.6k
David Valle‐García United States	20	2.2k 0.5×	784 0.9×	257 0.5×	167 0.6×	402 1.4×	35	3.0k
Benjamin C. Hitz United States	14	3.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	247 0.5×	185 0.6×	580 2.0×	16	4.3k
Oriol Fornés Canada	17	2.9k 0.7×	540 0.6×	392 0.7×	148 0.5×	656 2.3×	34	3.8k
Tony Cox United Kingdom	12	2.4k 0.6×	789 0.9×	187 0.4×	134 0.4×	169 0.6×	25	3.0k
Nisha Rajagopal United States	12	3.3k 0.8×	593 0.7×	461 0.9×	107 0.4×	337 1.2×	28	3.8k
Tristan Kooistra United States	9	2.7k 0.7×	474 0.6×	231 0.4×	183 0.6×	380 1.3×	16	3.6k
Giovanni Perini Italy	33	2.4k 0.6×	427 0.5×	233 0.4×	218 0.7×	479 1.7×	69	3.3k
Dennis G. Ballinger United States	23	1.6k 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	281 0.5×	170 0.6×	183 0.6×	33	3.3k
Hualin Simon Xi United States	25	2.1k 0.5×	488 0.6×	689 1.3×	100 0.3×	267 0.9×	35	2.7k
Andreas Klingenhoff Germany	12	2.4k 0.6×	513 0.6×	262 0.5×	130 0.4×	503 1.7×	14	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wouter Meuleman

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Castillo-Hair, Sebastian M., et al.. (2025). Iterative deep learning design of human enhancers exploits condensed sequence grammar to achieve cell-type specificity. Cell Systems. 16(7). 101302–101302. 5 indexed citations

Boix, Carles A., Benjamin T. James, Yongjin Park, Wouter Meuleman, & Manolis Kellis. (2021). Regulatory genomic circuitry of human disease loci by integrative epigenomics. Nature. 590(7845). 300–307. 183 indexed citations

Wainberg, Michael, Roarke A. Kamber, Akshay Balsubramani, et al.. (2021). A genome-wide atlas of co-essential modules assigns function to uncharacterized genes. Nature Genetics. 53(5). 638–649. 103 indexed citations

Vierstra, Jeff, John Lazar, Richard Sandstrom, et al.. (2020). Global reference mapping of human transcription factor footprints. Nature. 583(7818). 729–736. 186 indexed citations

Meuleman, Wouter, Eric Rynes, Jessica Halow, et al.. (2020). Index and biological spectrum of human DNase I hypersensitive sites. Nature. 584(7820). 244–251. 155 indexed citations

Werken, Harmen J.G. van de, Josien Haan, Yana Feodorova, et al.. (2017). Small chromosomal regions position themselves autonomously according to their chromatin class. Genome Research. 27(6). 922–933. 27 indexed citations

Marco, Eugenio, Wouter Meuleman, Jialiang Huang, et al.. (2017). Multi-scale chromatin state annotation using a hierarchical hidden Markov model. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15011–15011. 29 indexed citations

Ven, Robert A. H. van de, et al.. (2015). Nuclear p120-catenin contributes to anoikis resistance of Lobular Breast Cancer through Kaiso-dependent Wnt11 expression. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 8(4). 373–84. 25 indexed citations

Claussnitzer, Melina, Simon N. Dankel, Kyoung-Han Kim, et al.. (2015). FTO Obesity Variant Circuitry and Adipocyte Browning in Humans. New England Journal of Medicine. 373(10). 895–907. 878 indexed citations breakdown →

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Akhtar, Waseem, Johann de Jong, Alexey V. Pindyurin, et al.. (2013). Chromatin Position Effects Assayed by Thousands of Reporters Integrated in Parallel. Cell. 154(4). 914–927. 235 indexed citations

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Guelen, Lars, Ludo Pagie, Émilie Brasset, et al.. (2013). Correction: Corrigendum: Domain organization of human chromosomes revealed by mapping of nuclear lamina interactions. Nature. 500(7461). 242–242. 2 indexed citations

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Kubben, Nard, Michiel Adriaens, Wouter Meuleman, et al.. (2012). Mapping of lamin A- and progerin-interacting genome regions. Chromosoma. 121(5). 447–464. 70 indexed citations

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Meuleman, Wouter, Daan Peric‐Hupkes, Jop Kind, et al.. (2012). Constitutive nuclear lamina–genome interactions are highly conserved and associated with A/T-rich sequence. Genome Research. 23(2). 270–280. 329 indexed citations

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Peric‐Hupkes, Daan, Wouter Meuleman, Ludo Pagie, et al.. (2010). Molecular Maps of the Reorganization of Genome-Nuclear Lamina Interactions during Differentiation. Molecular Cell. 38(4). 603–613. 763 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bemmel, Joke G. van, Ludo Pagie, Ulrich Braunschweig, et al.. (2010). The Insulator Protein SU(HW) Fine-Tunes Nuclear Lamina Interactions of the Drosophila Genome. PLoS ONE. 5(11). e15013–e15013. 87 indexed citations

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Meuleman, Wouter, Judith YMN Engwegen, Marie‐Christine W. Gast, Lodewyk F.A. Wessels, & Marcel Reinders. (2009). Analysis of mass spectrometry data using sub-spectra. BMC Bioinformatics. 10(S1). S51–S51. 8 indexed citations

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Meuleman, Wouter, Judith YMN Engwegen, Marie‐Christine W. Gast, et al.. (2008). Comparison of normalisation methods for surface-enhanced laser desorption and ionisation (SELDI) time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry data. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 88–88. 42 indexed citations

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Uitert, Miranda van, Wouter Meuleman, & Lodewyk F.A. Wessels. (2008). Biclustering Sparse Binary Genomic Data. Journal of Computational Biology. 15(10). 1329–1345. 34 indexed citations

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Guelen, Lars, Ludo Pagie, Émilie Brasset, et al.. (2008). Domain organization of human chromosomes revealed by mapping of nuclear lamina interactions. Nature. 453(7197). 948–951. 1418 indexed citations breakdown →

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Engwegen, Judith YMN, Annekatrien Depla, Marianne E. Smits, et al.. (2008). Detection of Colorectal Cancer by Serum and Tissue Protein Profiling: A Prospective Study in a Population at Risk. Biomarker Insights. 3. BMI.S790–BMI.S790. 15 indexed citations

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