Mats Nilsson

17.5k citations
225 papers · 10.4k · 5 hit papers · h-index 50

Impact in

    • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
    • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
    • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
    • Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
    • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Biophysics top 0.5%

Papers in

    • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques 78
    • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics 35
    • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications 21
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 21
    • Gene expression and cancer classification 16
    • Biosensors and Analytical Detection 40
    • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies 25

Mats Nilsson

214 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Mats Nilsson's Hit Papers

Optimizing Xenium In Situ data utility by quality assessment and best-practice analysis workflows 2025 · 41 citations
410+10+21Years since publication200400600

Peers

Mats Nilsson
Comparison fields: 5 of 175
  • Molecular Biology 7.4k
  • Biophysics 450
  • Cancer Research 1.0k
  • Biomedical Engineering 2.8k
  • Developmental Neuroscience 200
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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Mats Nilsson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1
In situ sequencing for RNA analysis in preserved tissue and cells
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2013639
2
Padlock Probes: Circularizing Oligonucleotides for Localized DNA Detection
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1994582
3
A Spatiotemporal Organ-Wide Gene Expression and Cell Atlas of the Developing Human Heart
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2019459
4 1998407
5 2003394
6 2010316
7
Molecular architecture of the developing mouse brain
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2021278
8 1998258
9 2004255
10 2019218
11 2020186
12 2019184
13 2004174
14 2011174
15 2006164
16 2007162
17 2019150
18 2018146
19 1997144
20 2003127

About Mats Nilsson

Mats Nilsson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Research, Ecology and Genetics, having authored 225 papers that have together received 10.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (78 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (40 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (35 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (25 papers), Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (17 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (7.4k citations), Biophysics (450 citations), Cancer Research (1.0k citations), Biomedical Engineering (2.8k citations) and Developmental Neuroscience (200 citations). Mats Nilsson has collaborated with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Ulf Landegren, Johan Banér, Chatarina Larsson, Maritha Mendel-Hartvig, Marco Mignardi, Rongqin Ke, Marek Kwiatkowski, Xiaoyan Qian, Ola Söderberg and Carolina Wählby. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Analytical Chemistry, PLoS ONE, Biosensors and Bioelectronics and Nature Communications.

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