Anna Deplazes‐Zemp

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Anna Deplazes‐Zemp is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Deplazes‐Zemp has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 8 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Anna Deplazes‐Zemp's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (10 papers), Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers). Anna Deplazes‐Zemp is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (10 papers), Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers). Anna Deplazes‐Zemp collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Austria and United Kingdom. Anna Deplazes‐Zemp's co-authors include Matthias Peter, Claudine Kraft, Marc Sohrmann, Mollie Chapman, Nikola Biller‐Andorno, Daniel Auerbach, Brian Luke, Alexander Kelle, Agomoni Ganguli‐Mitra and Markus Schmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, The EMBO Journal and Nature Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Anna Deplazes‐Zemp

38 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

  1. Mature ribosomes are selectively degraded upon starvation by an autophagy pathway requiring the Ubp3p/Bre5p ubiquitin protease
    2008 565 citations Claudine Kraft, Anna Deplazes‐Zemp et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anna Deplazes‐Zemp Switzerland 14 728 337 183 150 78 39 1.2k
Irene Gallego Romero Estonia 22 1.0k 1.4× 57 0.2× 102 0.6× 162 1.1× 42 0.5× 44 2.1k
Gary S. McDowell United States 17 607 0.8× 77 0.2× 122 0.7× 40 0.3× 21 0.3× 44 971
Robert L. Dorit United States 14 963 1.3× 22 0.1× 40 0.2× 446 3.0× 22 0.3× 38 1.4k
John Armstrong Canada 22 750 1.0× 61 0.2× 145 0.8× 55 0.4× 146 1.9× 106 1.6k
Marc Haber Lebanon 20 684 0.9× 44 0.1× 25 0.1× 155 1.0× 28 0.4× 33 1.7k
Qasim Ayub United Kingdom 28 806 1.1× 66 0.2× 55 0.3× 158 1.1× 13 0.2× 93 2.5k
Lawrence Hon United States 11 931 1.3× 39 0.1× 84 0.5× 150 1.0× 27 0.3× 17 1.6k
Aurora M. Nedelcu Canada 23 766 1.1× 32 0.1× 58 0.3× 156 1.0× 28 0.4× 61 1.4k
Isabelle S. Peter United States 18 1.2k 1.7× 19 0.1× 72 0.4× 90 0.6× 26 0.3× 29 1.6k
Chandrasekhar Natarajan United States 22 503 0.7× 17 0.1× 311 1.7× 48 0.3× 11 0.1× 50 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Anna Deplazes‐Zemp

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anna Deplazes‐Zemp

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anna Deplazes‐Zemp

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Anna Deplazes‐Zemp. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Anna Deplazes‐Zemp 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 Anna Deplazes‐Zemp. Anna Deplazes‐Zemp is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Otero, Iago, et al.. (2025). Exploring the personal sphere of transformative change in researchers and stakeholders working on nature. Ecosystems and People. 21(1). 1 indexed citations
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Chapman, Mollie & Anna Deplazes‐Zemp. (2024). Moving beyond stewardship to partnership with nature: how Swiss alpine farmers’ relationships to nature and relational values are co-constituted. Ecosystems and People. 20(1). 5 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna. (2023). Beyond Intrinsic and Instrumental: Third-Category Value in Environmental Ethics and Environmental Policy. Ethics Policy & Environment. 27(2). 166–188. 9 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna, et al.. (2022). Otherness-based Reasons for the Protection of (Bio)Diversity. Environmental Ethics. 44(2). 161–184. 4 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna. (2022). Are People Part of Nature? Yes and No. Environmental Ethics. 44(2). 99–119. 7 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna, et al.. (2020). Freedom of research in a democratic society. EMBO Reports. 21(6). e49928–e49928. 3 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna & Mollie Chapman. (2020). The ABCs of Relational Values: Environmental Values that Include Aspects of Both Intrinsic and Instrumental Valuing. Environmental Values. 30(6). 669–693. 41 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna. (2019). Challenges of Justice in the Context of Plant Genetic Resources. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1266–1266. 3 indexed citations
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Biller‐Andorno, Nikola, et al.. (2017). The role of scientific self‐regulation for the control of genome editing in the human germline. EMBO Reports. 18(3). 355–358. 13 indexed citations
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Ineichen, Christian, Nikola Biller‐Andorno, & Anna Deplazes‐Zemp. (2017). Image of Synthetic Biology and Nanotechnology: A Survey among University Students. Frontiers in Genetics. 8. 122–122. 9 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna. (2016). Artificial Cell Research as a Field that Connects Chemical, Biological and Philosophical Questions. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 70(6). 443–443. 7 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna. (2012). The Moral Impact of Synthesising Living Organisms: Biocentric Views on Synthetic Biology. Environmental Values. 21(1). 63–82. 13 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna. (2011). The Conception of Life in Synthetic Biology. Science and Engineering Ethics. 18(4). 757–774. 23 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Markus, Agomoni Ganguli‐Mitra, Helge Torgersen, et al.. (2009). A priority paper for the societal and ethical aspects of synthetic biology. PubMed. 3(1-4). 3–7. 46 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna, et al.. (2009). Yeast Uri1p promotes translation initiation and may provide a link to cotranslational quality control. The EMBO Journal. 28(10). 1429–1441. 33 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna, et al.. (2009). Synthetic organisms and living machines. PubMed. 3(1-4). 55–63. 46 indexed citations
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Kraft, Claudine, Anna Deplazes‐Zemp, Marc Sohrmann, & Matthias Peter. (2008). Mature ribosomes are selectively degraded upon starvation by an autophagy pathway requiring the Ubp3p/Bre5p ubiquitin protease. Nature Cell Biology. 10(5). 602–610. 565 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schmidt, Markus, Helge Torgersen, Agomoni Ganguli‐Mitra, et al.. (2008). SYNBIOSAFE e-conference: online community discussion on the societal aspects of synthetic biology. PubMed. 2(1-2). 7–17. 26 indexed citations
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Deplazes‐Zemp, Anna, Paul O. Hassa, Zhaolei Zhang, et al.. (2007). Yeast Split-Ubiquitin-Based Cytosolic Screening System to Detect Interactions Between Transcriptionally Active Proteins. BioTechniques. 42(6). 725–730. 67 indexed citations
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Luke, Brian, Claus M. Azzalin, Nele Hug, et al.. (2007). Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ebs1p is a putative ortholog of human Smg7 and promotes nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(22). 7688–7697. 60 indexed citations

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