Benedikt Bauer

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Benedikt Bauer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Benedikt Bauer has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Benedikt Bauer's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (5 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers). Benedikt Bauer is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (5 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers). Benedikt Bauer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Benedikt Bauer's co-authors include Jan‐Michael Peters, Iain F. Davidson, Gordana Wutz, Wen Tang, Tom A. Rapoport, H. Krause, M. Kohlhardt, A. Fleckenstein, Arne Traulsen and Angela Mally and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benedikt Bauer

26 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

DNA loop extrusion by human cohesin

2019 538 citations Iain F. Davidson, Benedikt Bauer 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
Benedikt Bauer Germany	19	1.2k	336	227	157	109	30	1.7k
Doeke R. Hekstra United States	15	1.1k 0.9×	210 0.6×	126 0.6×	87 0.6×	90 0.8×	28	1.7k
Adrian W.R. Serohijos United States	21	998 0.9×	344 1.0×	98 0.4×	46 0.3×	132 1.2×	44	1.5k
Kazuhiro Mio Japan	24	1.2k 1.0×	126 0.4×	129 0.6×	138 0.9×	272 2.5×	78	2.1k
Mark Isalan United Kingdom	30	2.3k 2.0×	654 1.9×	186 0.8×	189 1.2×	61 0.6×	80	2.7k
Yuichi Taniguchi Japan	12	1.6k 1.4×	549 1.6×	100 0.4×	248 1.6×	115 1.1×	32	2.1k
Andriy Anishkin United States	30	2.0k 1.7×	159 0.5×	189 0.8×	312 2.0×	274 2.5×	78	2.6k
Elizabeth Tran United States	33	2.6k 2.3×	127 0.4×	145 0.6×	96 0.6×	122 1.1×	74	3.3k
Takashi Yokogawa Japan	26	3.4k 2.9×	646 1.9×	92 0.4×	188 1.2×	72 0.7×	68	3.6k
Jason D. Perlmutter United States	18	968 0.8×	107 0.3×	140 0.6×	111 0.7×	90 0.8×	22	1.5k
Toshiyuki Kojima Japan	23	616 0.5×	275 0.8×	88 0.4×	119 0.8×	18 0.2×	79	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benedikt Bauer

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Davidson, Iain F., Roman Barth, Kota Nagasaka, et al.. (2025). Cohesin supercoils DNA during loop extrusion. Cell Reports. 44(6). 115856–115856. 2 indexed citations

Kellner, Max J., Irina Grishkovskaya, Dominik Handler, et al.. (2025). A lyophilized open-source RT-LAMP assay for molecular diagnostics in resource-limited settings. Life Science Alliance. 8(10). e202403167–e202403167.

Bauer, Benedikt, et al.. (2025). Ion-exchange chromatography, capillary isoelectric focusing, and capillary zone electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry for charge variant analysis of monoclonal antibodies. mAbs. 17(1). 2537116–2537116.

Pradhan, Biswajit, Roman Barth, Eugene Kim, et al.. (2022). SMC complexes can traverse physical roadblocks bigger than their ring size. Cell Reports. 41(3). 111491–111491. 87 indexed citations

Pradhan, Biswajit, Roman Barth, Eugene Kim, et al.. (2022). SMC Complexes Can Traverse Physical Roadblocks Bigger Than Their Ring Size. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Bauer, Benedikt, Iain F. Davidson, Gordana Wutz, et al.. (2021). Cohesin mediates DNA loop extrusion by a “swing and clamp” mechanism. Cell. 184(21). 5448–5464.e22. 101 indexed citations

Bauer, Benedikt, et al.. (2021). Exploration of zebrafish larvae as an alternative whole-animal model for nephrotoxicity testing. Toxicology Letters. 344. 69–81. 13 indexed citations

Bauer, Benedikt, Angela Mally, & Daniel Liedtke. (2021). Zebrafish Embryos and Larvae as Alternative Animal Models for Toxicity Testing. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(24). 13417–13417. 88 indexed citations

Sonn-Segev, Adar, Katarina Belačić, Tatyana Bodrug, et al.. (2020). Quantifying the heterogeneity of macromolecular machines by mass photometry. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1772–1772. 142 indexed citations

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Davidson, Iain F., et al.. (2019). DNA loop extrusion by human cohesin. Science. 366(6471). 1338–1345. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bauer, Benedikt, et al.. (2019). Protein translocation by the SecA ATPase occurs by a power‐stroke mechanism. The EMBO Journal. 38(9). 45 indexed citations

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Traulsen, Arne, et al.. (2016). Exact numerical calculation of fixation probability and time on graphs. Biosystems. 150. 87–91. 33 indexed citations

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Hagel, Kristin, Maria Abou Chakra, Benedikt Bauer, & Arne Traulsen. (2016). Which risk scenarios can drive the emergence of costly cooperation?. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 19269–19269. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Yu, Benedikt Bauer, Tom A. Rapoport, & James C. Gumbart. (2015). Conformational Changes of the Clamp of the Protein Translocation ATPase SecA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 427(14). 2348–2359. 23 indexed citations

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Bauer, Benedikt & Chaitanya S. Gokhale. (2015). Repeatability of evolution on epistatic landscapes. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 9607–9607. 5 indexed citations

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Bauer, Benedikt, Reiner Siebert, & Arne Traulsen. (2014). Cancer initiation with epistatic interactions between driver and passenger mutations. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 358. 52–60. 20 indexed citations

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Bauer, Benedikt, Tom Shemesh, Yu Chen, & Tom A. Rapoport. (2014). A “Push and Slide” Mechanism Allows Sequence-Insensitive Translocation of Secretory Proteins by the SecA ATPase. Cell. 157(6). 1416–1429. 83 indexed citations

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Knyazev, Denis G., et al.. (2014). Ion Conductivity of the Bacterial Translocation Channel SecYEG Engaged in Translocation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(35). 24611–24616. 19 indexed citations

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Bajaj, Chandrajit, et al.. (2013). Nonuniform Fourier Transforms for Rigid-Body and Multidimensional Rotational Correlations. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 35(4). B821–B845. 5 indexed citations

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Bauer, Benedikt, Andreas Rudolph, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, et al.. (2010). Position controlled self-catalyzed growth of GaAs nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy. Nanotechnology. 21(43). 435601–435601. 76 indexed citations

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