Altuna Akalin

11.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Altuna Akalin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Altuna Akalin has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Cancer Research and 10 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Altuna Akalin's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers). Altuna Akalin is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers). Altuna Akalin collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Norway. Altuna Akalin's co-authors include Christopher E. Mason, Ari Melnick, Sheng Li, Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman, Matthías Kormáksson, María E. Figueroa, Vedran Franke, Dirk Schübeler, C Wirbelauer and Juliane Schmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Altuna Akalin

60 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

methylKit: a comprehensive R package for the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles

2012 1.4k citations Altuna Akalin et al. Genome biology profile →
Genomic profiling of DNA methyltransferases reveals a role for DNMT3B in genic methylation

2015 472 citations Altuna Akalin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Altuna Akalin Germany	30	3.4k	746	583	438	254	61	4.4k
Cory Y. McLean United States	15	3.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.7×	703 1.2×	439 1.0×	391 1.5×	21	5.0k
Marcelo A. Nóbrega United States	35	4.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.9×	616 1.1×	574 1.3×	262 1.0×	69	5.8k
Aimée M. Deaton United States	15	3.4k 1.0×	868 1.2×	505 0.9×	275 0.6×	263 1.0×	20	4.0k
Adam Ameur Sweden	32	2.4k 0.7×	738 1.0×	485 0.8×	264 0.6×	234 0.9×	96	3.7k
Michael D. Wilson Canada	34	4.4k 1.3×	915 1.2×	841 1.4×	709 1.6×	345 1.4×	100	5.5k
Marnie E. Blewitt Australia	30	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	333 0.6×	290 0.7×	372 1.5×	68	3.6k
Elia Stupka Italy	27	2.0k 0.6×	631 0.8×	843 1.4×	266 0.6×	246 1.0×	61	3.1k
Steffen Heyne Germany	10	4.1k 1.2×	628 0.8×	513 0.9×	936 2.1×	466 1.8×	14	5.1k
Lingyun Song United States	30	3.9k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	537 0.9×	336 0.8×	238 0.9×	59	4.5k
Álvaro Rada-Iglesias Germany	27	3.9k 1.1×	846 1.1×	426 0.7×	466 1.1×	252 1.0×	62	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Altuna Akalin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Altuna Akalin

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20 of 20 papers shown

Neugebauer, Eva, Stephanie Wälter, Nir Drayman, et al.. (2025). Herpesviruses mimic zygotic genome activation to promote viral replication. Nature Communications. 16(1). 710–710. 3 indexed citations

Akalin, Altuna, et al.. (2025). Leveraging large language models for data analysis automation. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0317084–e0317084. 4 indexed citations

Gruber, Sylvia, Bernhard Kratzer, Winfried F. Pickl, et al.. (2024). Cytosolic nucleic acid sensors and interferon beta-1 activation drive radiation-induced anti-tumour immune effects in human pancreatic cancer cells. Frontiers in Immunology. 15. 1286942–1286942. 1 indexed citations

Roske, Yvette, Bora Uyar, Altuna Akalin, et al.. (2024). Pathogenic mutations of human phosphorylation sites affect protein–protein interactions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3146–3146. 9 indexed citations

Kratzer, Adelheid, Héctor Giral, Vedran Franke, et al.. (2024). Acute myocardial infarction leads to distinct sex differences in the coding transcriptome of human monocytes with a potential impact in disease aetiopathology. European Heart Journal. 45(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Franke, Vedran, Melania Bruno, Anton A. Polyansky, et al.. (2023). The SPOC proteins DIDO3 and PHF3 co-regulate gene expression and neuronal differentiation. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7912–7912. 1 indexed citations

Cuadrat, Rafael R. C., Adelheid Kratzer, M Moobed, et al.. (2023). Cardiovascular disease biomarkers derived from circulating cell-free DNA methylation. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 5(2). lqad061–lqad061. 12 indexed citations

Franke, Vedran, Irina Grishkovskaya, Anton A. Polyansky, et al.. (2023). The SPOC domain is a phosphoserine binding module that bridges transcription machinery with co- and post-transcriptional regulators. Nature Communications. 14(1). 166–166. 15 indexed citations

Kopp, Wolfgang, Altuna Akalin, & Uwe Ohler. (2022). Simultaneous dimensionality reduction and integration for single-cell ATAC-seq data using deep learning. Nature Machine Intelligence. 4(2). 162–168. 19 indexed citations

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Kopp, Wolfgang, Rieke Kempfer, Antje Hirsekorn, et al.. (2022). Single-cell-resolved dynamics of chromatin architecture delineate cell and regulatory states in zebrafish embryos. Cell Genomics. 2(1). 100083–100083. 11 indexed citations

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Menzel, Lutz, Vedran Franke, Michael Grau, et al.. (2021). Lymphocyte access to lymphoma is impaired by high endothelial venule regression. Cell Reports. 37(4). 109878–109878. 12 indexed citations

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Kolesnichenko, Marina, Uta E. Höpken, Eva Kärgel, et al.. (2021). Transcriptional repression of NFKBIA triggers constitutive IKK‐ and proteasome‐independent p65/RelA activation in senescence. The EMBO Journal. 40(6). e104296–e104296. 51 indexed citations

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Balasubramanian, Sandhya, Marieta Cagánová, Robin Graf, et al.. (2020). PDGFA-associated protein 1 protects mature B lymphocytes from stress-induced cell death and promotes antibody gene diversification. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(10). 7 indexed citations

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Sommermann, Thomas, Tomoharu Yasuda, Jonathan Ronen, et al.. (2020). Functional interplay of Epstein-Barr virus oncoproteins in a mouse model of B cell lymphomagenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(25). 14421–14432. 21 indexed citations

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Uyar, Bora, Daniel H. Palmer, Axel Kowald, et al.. (2020). Single-cell analyses of aging, inflammation and senescence. Ageing Research Reviews. 64. 101156–101156. 134 indexed citations

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Uyar, Bora, et al.. (2019). The conserved histone chaperone LIN‐53 is required for normal lifespan and maintenance of muscle integrity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Aging Cell. 18(6). e13012–e13012. 18 indexed citations

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Wessels, Hans‐Hermann, Svetlana Lebedeva, Antje Hirsekorn, et al.. (2019). Global identification of functional microRNA-mRNA interactions in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1626–1626. 36 indexed citations

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Wurmus, Ricardo, et al.. (2018). PiGx: reproducible genomics analysis pipelines with GNU Guix. GigaScience. 7(12). 36 indexed citations

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Plessy, Charles, Giovanni Pascarella, Nicolas Bertin, et al.. (2011). Promoter architecture of mouse olfactory receptor genes. Genome Research. 22(3). 486–497. 48 indexed citations

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Akalin, Altuna, David Fredman, Erik Arner, et al.. (2009). Transcriptional features of genomic regulatory blocks. Genome biology. 10(4). R38–R38. 75 indexed citations

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