2026 Xavier Darzacq: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	65	1648	1474	834	732	158	21740

Xavier Darzacq publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xavier Darzacq sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 158 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Xavier Darzacq D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xavier Darzacq sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Xavier Darzacq is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a specialization in Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Plant Science, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
RNA Research and Splicing
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
Cell Image Analysis Techniques
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Xavier Darzacq include Robert Tjian, Gina M. Dailey, Thomas G.W. Graham, Claire Dugast-Darzacq, and Alec Heckert.

The researcher has published notably in the following venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eLife
Molecular Cell
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
RNA

Selected recent publications by Xavier Darzacq include:

Resolving the 3D Landscape of Transcription-Linked Mammalian Chromatin Folding, 2020, Molecular Cell
Overcoming the bottleneck to widespread testing: a rapid review of nucleic acid testing approaches for COVID-19 detection, 2020, RNA
Enhancer-promoter interactions and transcription are largely maintained upon acute loss of CTCF, cohesin, WAPL or YY1, 2022, Nature Genetics
Tuning levels of low-complexity domain interactions to modulate endogenous oncogenic transcription, 2022, Molecular Cell
The transcription factor activity gradient (TAG) model: contemplating a contact-independent mechanism for enhancer-promoter communication, 2021, Genes & Development

Best Publications

Phase Separation Drives Heterochromatin Domain Formation

Amy R. Strom;Alexander V. Emelyanov;Mustafa R. Mir;Dmitry V. Fyodorov

1730
Citations
Imaging dynamic and selective low-complexity domain interactions that control gene transcription

Shasha Chong;Claire Dugast-Darzacq;Zhe Liu;Peng Dong

872
Citations
In vivo dynamics of RNA polymerase II transcription

Xavier Darzacq;Yaron Shav-Tal;Yaron Shav-Tal;Valeria de Turris;Yehuda Brody

777
Citations
Cajal body-specific small nuclear RNAs: a novel class of 2'-O-methylation and pseudouridylation guide RNAs.

Xavier Darzacq;Beáta E. Jády;Céline Verheggen;Arnold M. Kiss

607
Citations
RNA polymerase II clustering through carboxy-terminal domain phase separation

Marc Boehning;Claire Dugast-Darzacq;Marija Rankovic;Anders S Hansen

599
Citations
CTCF and cohesin regulate chromatin loop stability with distinct dynamics

Anders S Hansen;Iryna Pustova;Claudia Cattoglio;Robert Tjian

581
Citations
Dynamics of Single mRNPs in Nuclei of Living Cells

Yaron Shav-Tal;Xavier Darzacq;Shailesh M. Shenoy;Dahlene Fusco

557
Citations
Resolving the 3D Landscape of Transcription-Linked Mammalian Chromatin Folding.

Tsung-Han S. Hsieh;Claudia Cattoglio;Elena Slobodyanyuk;Anders S. Hansen

542
Citations
Real-Time Dynamics of RNA Polymerase II Clustering in Live Human Cells

Ibrahim I. Cisse;Ibrahim I. Cisse;Ignacio Izeddin;Sebastien Z. Causse;Lydia Boudarene

518
Citations
Phase-separation mechanism for C-terminal hyperphosphorylation of RNA polymerase II.

Huasong Lu;Huasong Lu;Dan Yu;Anders S. Hansen;Sourav Ganguly

509
Citations
Fast multicolor 3D imaging using aberration-corrected multifocus microscopy

Sara Abrahamsson;Sara Abrahamsson;Sara Abrahamsson;Jiji Chen;Bassam Hajj;Sjoerd Stallinga

503
Citations
Evaluating phase separation in live cells: diagnosis, caveats, and functional consequences

David T. McSwiggen;Mustafa Mir;Xavier Darzacq;Robert Tjian

502
Citations
Overcoming the bottleneck to widespread testing: a rapid review of nucleic acid testing approaches for COVID-19 detection.

Meagan N. Esbin;Oscar N. Whitney;Shasha Chong;Anna Maurer

494
Citations
Dynamic Sorting of Nuclear Components into Distinct Nucleolar Caps during Transcriptional Inhibition

Yaron Shav-Tal;Janna Blechman;Xavier Darzacq;Cristina Montagna

420
Citations
FISH-quant: automatic counting of transcripts in 3D FISH images

Florian Mueller;Florian Mueller;Adrien Senecal;Katjana Tantale;Hervé Marie-Nelly

391
Citations
A transgenic mouse for in vivo detection of endogenous labeled mRNA

Timothée Lionnet;Kevin Czaplinski;Xavier Darzacq;Yaron Shav-Tal

384
Citations
Gene Expression Is Circular: Factors for mRNA Degradation Also Foster mRNA Synthesis

Gal Haimovich;Daniel A. Medina;Sebastien Z. Causse;Manuel Garber

381
Citations
Single-molecule tracking in live cells reveals distinct target-search strategies of transcription factors in the nucleus

Ignacio Izeddin;Vincent Récamier;Lana Bosanac;Lana Bosanac;Ibrahim I Cissé

341
Citations
Modification of Sm small nuclear RNAs occurs in the nucleoplasmic Cajal body following import from the cytoplasm

Beáta E. Jády;Xavier Darzacq;Karen E. Tucker;A. Gregory Matera

304
Citations
Transcription Factors Modulate c-Fos Transcriptional Bursts

Adrien Senecal;Brian Munsky;Florence Proux;Nathalie Ly

296
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Tjian University of California, Berkeley

Robert H. Singer Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Edouard Bertrand Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Antoine Triller École Normale Supérieure

Olivier Bensaude École Normale Supérieure

Michael R. Botchan University of California, Berkeley

Carl Wu Johns Hopkins University

James M. Berger Johns Hopkins University

Job Dekker University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Carlos Bustamante Stanford University

External Links

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