B. Sakmann

23.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 20.0k citations indexed

About

B. Sakmann is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Sakmann has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 20.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in B. Sakmann's work include Ion channel regulation and function (12 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (10 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers). B. Sakmann is often cited by papers focused on Ion channel regulation and function (12 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (10 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers). B. Sakmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and Switzerland. B. Sakmann's co-authors include Owen P. Hamill, Erwin Neher, Alain Marty, Fred J. Sigworth, Greg J. Stuart, David Colquhoun, Akinori Noma, W. Trautwein, Joachim Bormann and Yitzhak Schiller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

B. Sakmann

19 papers receiving 19.2k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches

1981 16.3k citations Owen P. Hamill, Alain Marty et al. Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology profile →
Fast events in single‐channel currents activated by acetylcholine and its analogues at the frog muscle end‐plate.

1985 653 citations David Colquhoun, B. Sakmann The Journal of Physiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. Sakmann Germany	18	16.4k	13.0k	5.2k	1.6k	1.3k	19	20.0k
Owen P. Hamill United States	31	17.7k 1.1×	13.2k 1.0×	5.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.6×	65	22.0k
Todd Scheuer United States	90	18.8k 1.2×	13.3k 1.0×	6.5k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	859 0.7×	182	22.9k
John P. Adelman United States	76	13.3k 0.8×	9.1k 0.7×	4.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	191	18.8k
Bertil Hille United States	82	18.3k 1.1×	14.5k 1.1×	3.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	208	26.0k
Alain Marty France	57	22.8k 1.4×	19.9k 1.5×	6.1k 1.2×	3.1k 1.9×	2.3k 1.8×	126	29.6k
Clay M. Armstrong United States	56	10.6k 0.6×	9.6k 0.7×	3.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	595 0.5×	96	13.6k
Bruce P. Bean United States	66	13.7k 0.8×	12.8k 1.0×	3.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	125	19.6k
Jörg Striessnig Austria	69	12.5k 0.8×	8.2k 0.6×	4.2k 0.8×	880 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	224	16.9k
Bernardo Rudy United States	72	11.8k 0.7×	12.2k 0.9×	3.4k 0.7×	5.2k 3.2×	1.0k 0.8×	149	19.3k
Steven A. Siegelbaum United States	66	8.9k 0.5×	10.8k 0.8×	2.0k 0.4×	3.9k 2.4×	1.2k 0.9×	122	15.6k

Countries citing papers authored by B. Sakmann

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of B. Sakmann's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by B. Sakmann with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites B. Sakmann more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by B. Sakmann

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by B. Sakmann. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by B. Sakmann. The network helps show where B. Sakmann may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. Sakmann

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

19 of 19 papers shown

Schiller, Jackie, Yitzhak Schiller, Greg J. Stuart, & B. Sakmann. (1997). Calcium action potentials restricted to distal apical dendrites of rat neocortical pyramidal neurons. The Journal of Physiology. 505(3). 605–616. 384 indexed citations

Häusser, Michael, Greg J. Stuart, Claudia Racca, & B. Sakmann. (1995). Axonal initiation and active dendritic propagation of action potentials in substantia nigra neurons. Neuron. 15(3). 637–647. 239 indexed citations

Stuart, Greg J. & B. Sakmann. (1995). Amplification of EPSPs by axosomatic sodium channels in neocortical pyramidal neurons. Neuron. 15(5). 1065–1076. 349 indexed citations

Sommer, Bernd, Nail Burnashev, Todd A. Verdoorn, et al.. (1992). A glutamate receptor channel with high affinity for domoate and kainate.. The EMBO Journal. 11(4). 1651–1656. 264 indexed citations

Witzemann, Veit, Elke Stein, Takashi Konno, et al.. (1990). Primary structure and functional expression of the α‐, β‐, γ‐, δ‐ and ɛ‐subunits of the acetylcholine receptor from rat muscle. European Journal of Biochemistry. 194(2). 437–448. 96 indexed citations

Rahamimoff, R, Susan A. DeRiemer, Simona Ginsburg, et al.. (1990). IONIC CHANNELS AND PROTEINS IN SYNAPTIC VESICLES: FACTS AND SPECULATIONS. Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology. 1(1-4). 7–18. 4 indexed citations

Witzemann, Veit, et al.. (1987). Differential regulation of muscle acetylcholine receptor γ‐and ϵ‐subunit mRNAs. FEBS Letters. 223(1). 104–112. 174 indexed citations

Takahashi, Tomoyuki, Erwin Neher, & B. Sakmann. (1987). Rat brain serotonin receptors in Xenopus oocytes are coupled by intracellular calcium to endogenous channels.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(14). 5063–5067. 153 indexed citations

Colquhoun, David & B. Sakmann. (1985). Fast events in single‐channel currents activated by acetylcholine and its analogues at the frog muscle end‐plate.. The Journal of Physiology. 369(1). 501–557. 653 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Brenner, Hans Rudolf & B. Sakmann. (1983). Neurotrophic control of channel properties at neuromuscular synapses of rat muscle. The Journal of Physiology. 337(1). 159–171. 58 indexed citations

11.

Sakmann, B., Akinori Noma, & W. Trautwein. (1983). Acetylcholine activation of single muscarinic K+ channels in isolated pacemaker cells of the mammalian heart. Nature. 303(5914). 250–253. 374 indexed citations

12.

Hamill, Owen P., Joachim Bormann, & B. Sakmann. (1983). Activation of multiple-conductance state chloride channels in spinal neurones by glycine and GABA. Nature. 305(5937). 805–808. 328 indexed citations

13.

Hamill, Owen P., Alain Marty, Erwin Neher, B. Sakmann, & Fred J. Sigworth. (1981). Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches. Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology. 391(2). 85–100. 16306 indexed citations breakdown →

14.

Hamill, Owen P. & B. Sakmann. (1981). Multiple conductance states of single acetylcholine receptor channels in embryonic muscle cells. Nature. 294(5840). 462–464. 255 indexed citations

15.

Sakmann, B., et al.. (1980). Receptor stability and channel conversion in the subsynaptic membrane of the developing mammalian neuromuscular junction. Developmental Biology. 80(1). 1–17. 82 indexed citations

16.

Sakmann, B. & G. Boheim. (1979). Alamethicin-induced single channel conductance fluctuations in biological membranes. Nature. 282(5736). 336–339. 39 indexed citations

17.

Neher, Erwin & B. Sakmann. (1976). Noise analysis of drug induced voltage clamp currents in denervated frog muscle fibres.. The Journal of Physiology. 258(3). 705–729. 167 indexed citations

18.

Sakmann, B., O. Creutzfeldt, & Henning Scheich. (1969). An experimetal comparison between the ganglion cell receptive field and the receptive field of the adaptation pool in the cat retina. Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology. 307(3). 133–137. 23 indexed citations

19.

Creutzfeldt, O. & B. Sakmann. (1969). Neurophysiology of Vision. Annual Review of Physiology. 31(1). 499–544. 23 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact