Alexander Olek

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Alexander Olek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Olek has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Alexander Olek's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (10 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (5 papers). Alexander Olek is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (10 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (5 papers). Alexander Olek collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Alexander Olek's co-authors include Jörn Walter, Joachim Oswald, Sabine Engemann, Wolf Reik, Wolfgang Mayer, Reinald Fundele, Wendy Dean, Sabine Maier, Christian Piepenbrock and Stephan Beck and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Olek

13 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Active demethylation of the paternal genome in the mouse zygote

2000 772 citations Joachim Oswald, Sabine Engemann et al. Current Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Olek Germany	12	1.7k	661	330	179	151	13	2.0k
Julian R. Peat United Kingdom	7	1.4k 0.8×	353 0.5×	270 0.8×	101 0.6×	212 1.4×	8	1.5k
Kohzoh Mitsuya Japan	19	2.3k 1.3×	1.4k 2.0×	758 2.3×	99 0.6×	222 1.5×	32	2.7k
Thomas M. Stubbs United States	18	1.2k 0.7×	234 0.4×	271 0.8×	109 0.6×	166 1.1×	30	1.9k
Sarah Hevi United States	10	1.6k 0.9×	368 0.6×	136 0.4×	66 0.4×	122 0.8×	12	1.8k
Rahul Karnik United States	14	1.6k 0.9×	294 0.4×	167 0.5×	104 0.6×	259 1.7×	25	1.8k
Julia Arand Germany	16	3.1k 1.8×	860 1.3×	446 1.4×	255 1.4×	160 1.1×	23	3.4k
Michael N. Edmonson United States	17	922 0.5×	413 0.6×	109 0.3×	200 1.1×	219 1.5×	26	1.5k
Joomyeong Kim United States	31	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	431 1.3×	72 0.4×	224 1.5×	91	2.5k
Thierry Forné France	21	2.6k 1.5×	864 1.3×	388 1.2×	89 0.5×	531 3.5×	46	2.9k
Xiaochen Kou China	20	2.1k 1.2×	284 0.4×	203 0.6×	378 2.1×	235 1.6×	48	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Olek

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Olek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Olek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Olek based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexander Olek. Alexander Olek is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Martens, John W.M., Inko Nimmrich, Thomas Koenig, et al.. (2005). Association of DNA Methylation of Phosphoserine Aminotransferase with Response to Endocrine Therapy in Patients with Recurrent Breast Cancer. Cancer Research. 65(10). 4101–4117. 102 indexed citations

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Rakyan, Vardhman K., Thomas Hildmann, Karen Novik, et al.. (2004). DNA Methylation Profiling of the Human Major Histocompatibility Complex: A Pilot Study for the Human Epigenome Project. PLoS Biology. 2(12). e405–e405. 265 indexed citations

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Hájková, Petra, Osman El‐Maarri, Sabine Engemann, et al.. (2003). DNA-Methylation Analysis by the Bisulfite-Assisted Genomic Sequencing Method. Humana Press eBooks. 200. 143–154. 90 indexed citations

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Olek, Alexander, et al.. (2003). The Epigenome: Molecular Hide and Seek. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 23 indexed citations

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Novik, Karen, Inko Nimmrich, Sabine Maier, et al.. (2002). Epigenomics: Genome-Wide Study of Methylation Phenomena. Current Issues in Molecular Biology. 4(4). 111–28. 106 indexed citations

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Maier, Sabine & Alexander Olek. (2002). Diabetes: A Candidate Disease for Efficient DNA Methylation Profiling. Journal of Nutrition. 132(8). 2440S–2443S. 77 indexed citations

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Shi, Huidong, Sabine Maier, Inko Nimmrich, et al.. (2002). Oligonucleotide‐based microarray for DNA methylation analysis: Principles and applications. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 88(1). 138–143. 80 indexed citations

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Maier, Sabine, Péter Adorján, Juergen Distler, et al.. (2001). Tumour class prediction and discovery by microarray-based DNA methylation analysis. European Journal of Cancer. 37. S24–S24. 14 indexed citations

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Model, Fabian, Péter Adorján, Alexander Olek, & Christian Piepenbrock. (2001). Feature selection for DNA methylation based cancer classification. Bioinformatics. 17(suppl_1). S157–S164. 98 indexed citations

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Oswald, Joachim, Sabine Engemann, Wolfgang Mayer, et al.. (2000). Active demethylation of the paternal genome in the mouse zygote. Current Biology. 10(8). 475–478. 772 indexed citations breakdown →

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El‐Maarri, Osman, Alexander Olek, Başak Balaban, et al.. (1998). Methylation Levels at Selected CpG Sites in the Factor VIII and FGFR3 Genes, in Mature Female and Male Germ Cells: Implications for Male-Driven Evolution. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 63(4). 1001–1008. 32 indexed citations

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Olek, Alexander, et al.. (1998). Analysis of DNA methylation processes related to the inhibition of DNA synthesis by 5-azacytidine in Streptomyces antibioticus ETH 7451.. PubMed. 379(4-5). 559–62. 6 indexed citations

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Olek, Alexander, Joachim Oswald, & Jörn Walter. (1996). A Modified and Improved Method for Bisulphite Based Cytosine Methylation Analysis. Nucleic Acids Research. 24(24). 5064–5066. 322 indexed citations

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