Wouter‐Jan Rappel

13.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
164 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Wouter‐Jan Rappel is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter‐Jan Rappel has authored 164 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Cell Biology, 42 papers in Molecular Biology and 41 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wouter‐Jan Rappel's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (47 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (38 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (26 papers). Wouter‐Jan Rappel is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (47 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (38 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (26 papers). Wouter‐Jan Rappel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Israel. Wouter‐Jan Rappel's co-authors include Alain Karma, Herbert Levine, Sanjiv M. Narayan, David E. Krummen, Brian A. Camley, John M. Miller, Kalyanam Shivkumar, William F. Loomis, Paul Clopton and Inon Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wouter‐Jan Rappel

159 papers receiving 9.5k 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.

Quantitative phase-field modeling of dendritic growth in two and three dimensions

1998 1.2k citations Wouter‐Jan Rappel et al. profile →
Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation by the Ablation of Localized Sources

2012 782 citations Sanjiv M. Narayan, David E. Krummen et al. profile →
Phase-field method for computationally efficient modeling of solidification with arbitrary interface kinetics

1996 586 citations Wouter‐Jan Rappel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter‐Jan Rappel United States	51	2.3k	2.1k	2.0k	1.8k	1.6k	164	9.7k
Jonathon Howard United States	79	893 0.4×	12.4k 5.9×	1.0k 0.5×	10.5k 5.9×	3.2k 2.0×	227	22.6k
András Czirók Hungary	39	461 0.2×	1.2k 0.6×	95 0.0×	2.4k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	119	9.6k
F. C. MacKintosh United States	74	2.9k 1.2×	9.9k 4.7×	385 0.2×	3.9k 2.2×	6.1k 3.8×	197	20.6k
John P. Wikswo United States	50	354 0.2×	396 0.2×	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	3.2k 2.0×	297	9.6k
Masaki Sano Japan	39	1.0k 0.4×	461 0.2×	91 0.0×	965 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	162	8.2k
Jean‐François Joanny France	58	2.1k 0.9×	3.7k 1.7×	104 0.1×	2.5k 1.4×	3.8k 2.4×	194	12.2k
Yuhai Tu United States	44	861 0.4×	382 0.2×	85 0.0×	3.4k 1.9×	1.4k 0.9×	142	9.1k
Alain Goriely United Kingdom	55	5.9k 2.6×	1.8k 0.8×	125 0.1×	1.1k 0.6×	3.7k 2.3×	295	16.5k
John Bechhoefer Canada	37	1.1k 0.5×	782 0.4×	69 0.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	106	6.8k
Edgar Meyhöfer United States	41	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	194 0.1×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	111	7.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wouter‐Jan Rappel

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20 of 20 papers shown

Simmchen, Juliane, Daniel Gordon, J.A. Mackenzie, et al.. (2025). Perspective on Interdisciplinary Approaches on Chemotaxis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(47). e202504790–e202504790.

Rappel, Wouter‐Jan, et al.. (2025). Codes for "Single-cell chiral symmetry breaking under confinement". Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Rappel, Wouter‐Jan, et al.. (2025). Prediction of excitable wave dynamics using machine learning. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 192. 115990–115990. 1 indexed citations

Rappel, Wouter‐Jan, et al.. (2024). Annihilation dynamics during spiral defect chaos revealed by particle models. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 34(5). 3 indexed citations

Azoulay‐Shemer, Tamar, Sebastian Schulze, Or Shapira, et al.. (2023). A role for ethylene signaling and biosynthesis in regulating and accelerating CO₂‐ and abscisic acid‐mediated stomatal movements in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist. 238(6). 2460–2475. 17 indexed citations

Rappel, Wouter‐Jan, David E. Krummen, Tina Baykaner, et al.. (2022). Stochastic Termination of Spiral Wave Dynamics in Cardiac Tissue. PubMed. 2. 17 indexed citations

Camley, Brian A., et al.. (2021). Cellular memory in eukaryotic chemotaxis depends on the background chemoattractant concentration. Physical review. E. 103(1). 12402–12402. 8 indexed citations

Hsu, Po‐Kai, et al.. (2021). Boolink: a graphical interface for open access Boolean network simulations and use in guard cell CO2 signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 187(4). 2311–2322. 6 indexed citations

Krummen, David E., Gordon Ho, Kurt S. Hoffmayer, et al.. (2021). Electrical Substrate Ablation for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation. Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. 14(3). e008868–e008868. 6 indexed citations

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Cao, Yuansheng, et al.. (2021). The mechanics and dynamics of cancer cells sensing noisy 3D contact guidance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(10). 23 indexed citations

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Dai, Wei, Xiaoran Guo, Yuansheng Cao, et al.. (2020). Tissue topography steers migrating Drosophila border cells. Science. 370(6519). 987–990. 43 indexed citations

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Alhusseini, Mahmood, Firas Abuzaid, Albert J. Rogers, et al.. (2020). Machine Learning to Classify Intracardiac Electrical Patterns During Atrial Fibrillation. Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. 13(8). e008160–e008160. 40 indexed citations

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Rogers, Albert J., Mahmood Alhusseini, David E. Krummen, et al.. (2020). Machine Learned Cellular Phenotypes in Cardiomyopathy Predict Sudden Death. Circulation Research. 128(2). 172–184. 31 indexed citations

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Xiong, Liyang, Yuansheng Cao, Robert Cooper, et al.. (2020). Flower-like patterns in multi-species bacterial colonies. eLife. 9. 51 indexed citations

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Wang, Cun, Honghong Hu, Xue Qin, et al.. (2016). Reconstitution of CO ₂ Regulation of SLAC1 Anion Channel and Function of CO ₂ -Permeable PIP2;1 Aquaporin as CARBONIC ANHYDRASE4 Interactor. The Plant Cell. 28(2). 568–582. 106 indexed citations

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Hu, Honghong, Wouter‐Jan Rappel, Rossana Occhipinti, et al.. (2015). Distinct Cellular Locations of Carbonic Anhydrases Mediate Carbon Dioxide Control of Stomatal Movements. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 169(2). 1168–1178. 89 indexed citations

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Skoge, Monica, Michael Erickstad, Albert Bae, et al.. (2014). Cellular memory in eukaryotic chemotaxis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(40). 14448–14453. 96 indexed citations

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Camley, Brian A., Yunsong Zhang, Yanxiang Zhao, et al.. (2014). Polarity mechanisms such as contact inhibition of locomotion regulate persistent rotational motion of mammalian cells on micropatterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(41). 14770–14775. 122 indexed citations

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Levine, Herbert, et al.. (2012). Coupling actin flow, adhesion, and morphology in a computational cell motility model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(18). 6851–6856. 190 indexed citations

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Hu, Bo, Wouter‐Jan Rappel, & Herbert Levine. (2009). Mechanisms and Constraints on Yeast MAPK Signaling Specificity. Biophysical Journal. 96(12). 4755–4763. 5 indexed citations

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