Alexander J. Westermann

4.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
55 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Alexander J. Westermann is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander J. Westermann has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Alexander J. Westermann's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). Alexander J. Westermann is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). Alexander J. Westermann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Canada. Alexander J. Westermann's co-authors include Jörg Vogel, Stanislaw A. Gorski, Antoine‐Emmanuel Saliba, Lars Barquist, Leon N. Schulte, Konrad U. Förstner, Daphne A. C. Stapels, Sophie Hélaine, Richard Reinhardt and Peter F. Stadler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alexander J. Westermann

51 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Single-cell RNA-seq: advances and future challenges

2014 563 citations Antoine‐Emmanuel Saliba, Alexander J. Westermann et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Dual RNA-seq of pathogen and host

2012 530 citations Alexander J. Westermann, Stanislaw A. Gorski et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Dual RNA-seq unveils noncoding RNA functions in host–pathogen interactions

2016 367 citations Alexander J. Westermann, Konrad U. Förstner et al. profile →
Salmonella persisters undermine host immune defenses during antibiotic treatment

2018 247 citations Daphne A. C. Stapels, Peter W. S. Hill et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander J. Westermann Germany	24	1.9k	517	509	501	389	55	3.2k
Zamin Iqbal United Kingdom	28	1.9k 1.0×	163 0.3×	388 0.8×	805 1.6×	635 1.6×	61	3.6k
Vijay Pancholi United States	26	1.5k 0.8×	445 0.9×	246 0.5×	372 0.7×	660 1.7×	49	3.6k
Paul Coupland United Kingdom	16	2.0k 1.0×	182 0.4×	396 0.8×	421 0.8×	267 0.7×	23	3.0k
Hélène Bierne France	39	2.4k 1.2×	786 1.5×	245 0.5×	529 1.1×	338 0.9×	71	5.1k
Frédéric Taïeb France	25	1.8k 0.9×	190 0.4×	193 0.4×	469 0.9×	271 0.7×	40	2.8k
Kimmo Virtaneva United States	31	1.2k 0.6×	689 1.3×	200 0.4×	888 1.8×	794 2.0×	55	4.5k
Lorraine D. Hernandez United States	19	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 3.5×	219 0.4×	376 0.8×	890 2.3×	25	4.0k
Jost Enninga France	30	1.8k 0.9×	852 1.6×	233 0.5×	504 1.0×	893 2.3×	75	4.0k
Sven Findeiß Germany	17	2.3k 1.2×	142 0.3×	694 1.4×	595 1.2×	145 0.4×	35	2.9k
Hervé Agaisse United States	30	2.4k 1.2×	1.4k 2.6×	302 0.6×	682 1.4×	392 1.0×	66	4.6k

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Kurzai, Oliver, Arnhild Grothey, Lars Dölken, et al.. (2025). Unveiling immune interference: how the dendritic cell response to co-infection with Aspergillus fumigatus is modulated by human cytomegalovirus and its virokine _CMV IL-10. mBio. 16(11). e0154125–e0154125. 1 indexed citations

Ellis, Michael J., et al.. (2025). A Small RNA Derived From the 5′ End of the IS 200 tnpA Transcript Regulates Multiple Virulence Regulons in Salmonella typhimurium. Molecular Microbiology. 124(5). 413–432. 1 indexed citations

Clavel, Thomas, Franziska Faber, Mathieu Groussin, et al.. (2025). Enabling next-generation anaerobic cultivation through biotechnology to advance functional microbiome research. Nature Biotechnology. 43(6). 878–888. 2 indexed citations

Venturini, Elisa, Sandra Maaß, Thorsten Bischler, et al.. (2025). Functional characterization of the DUF1127-containing small protein YjiS of Salmonella Typhimurium. PubMed. 6. uqae026–uqae026.

Liao, Chunyu, et al.. (2024). CRISPR-based screening of small RNA modulators of bile susceptibility in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(6). e2311323121–e2311323121. 7 indexed citations

Ryan, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Global analysis of the RNA–RNA interactome in Acinetobacter baumannii AB5075 uncovers a small regulatory RNA repressing the virulence-related outer membrane protein CarO. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(18). 11283–11300. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Kaiyi, Urška Repnik, Michael Hensel, et al.. (2024). Non-professional efferocytosis of Salmonella-infected intestinal epithelial cells in the neonatal host. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 221(3). 6 indexed citations

Ryan, Daniel, et al.. (2024). An expanded transcriptome atlas for Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron reveals a small RNA that modulates tetracycline sensitivity. Nature Microbiology. 9(4). 1130–1144. 8 indexed citations

Hooven, Thomas A., Giulia Barbieri, Alexander J. Westermann, et al.. (2024). Group B Streptococcus transcriptome when interacting with brain endothelial cells. Journal of Bacteriology. 206(6). e0008724–e0008724. 3 indexed citations

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Jiao, Chunlei, Christina Homberger, Jörg Vogel, et al.. (2023). RNA recording in single bacterial cells using reprogrammed tracrRNAs. Nature Biotechnology. 41(8). 1107–1116. 17 indexed citations

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Glaser, Katharina M., Michael Mihlan, Anna Bremser, et al.. (2022). TFEB induces mitochondrial itaconate synthesis to suppress bacterial growth in macrophages. Nature Metabolism. 4(7). 856–866. 68 indexed citations

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Fulde, Marcus, Kira van Vorst, Kaiyi Zhang, et al.. (2021). SPI2 T3SS effectors facilitate enterocyte apical to basolateral transmigration of Salmonella -containing vacuoles in vivo. Gut Microbes. 13(1). 1973836–1973836. 10 indexed citations

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Venturini, Elisa, Sarah L. Svensson, Sandra Maaß, et al.. (2020). A global data-driven census of Salmonella small proteins and their potential functions in bacterial virulence. PubMed. 1(1). uqaa002–uqaa002. 35 indexed citations

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Heckel, Tobias, et al.. (2020). Improved bacterial RNA-seq by Cas9-based depletion of ribosomal RNA reads. RNA. 26(8). 1069–1078. 42 indexed citations

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Simon, Lukas M., Alexander J. Westermann, Marion Engel, et al.. (2018). MetaMap: an atlas of metatranscriptomic reads in human disease-related RNA-seq data. GigaScience. 7(6). 16 indexed citations

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Stapels, Daphne A. C., Peter W. S. Hill, Alexander J. Westermann, et al.. (2018). Salmonella persisters undermine host immune defenses during antibiotic treatment. Science. 362(6419). 1156–1160. 247 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sánchez-Romero, María Antonia, et al.. (2018). CRP-cAMP mediates silencing of Salmonella virulence at the post-transcriptional level. PLoS Genetics. 14(6). e1007401–e1007401. 36 indexed citations

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Frönicke, Lutz, Denise N. Bronner, Mariana X. Byndloss, et al.. (2018). Toward Cell Type-Specific In Vivo Dual RNA-Seq. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 612. 505–522. 3 indexed citations

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Westermann, Alexander J., Stanislaw A. Gorski, & Jörg Vogel. (2012). Dual RNA-seq of pathogen and host. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 10(9). 618–630. 530 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stauffer, Eva, Alexander J. Westermann, Gabriele Wagner, & Andreas Wachter. (2010). Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein homologues from Arabidopsis underlie regulatory circuits based on alternative splicing and downstream control. The Plant Journal. 64(2). 243–255. 67 indexed citations

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