Benjamin Lang

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Lang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Lang has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cell Biology and 3 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Lang's work include RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Benjamin Lang is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Benjamin Lang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and United Kingdom. Benjamin Lang's co-authors include M. Madan Babu, Mónika Fuxreiter, Robin van der Lee, Rohit V. Pappu, Joerg Gsponer, Robert J. Weatheritt, Philip M. Kim, Gary W. Daughdrill, Peter E. Wright and A. Keith Dunker and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Lang

22 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Classification of Intrinsically Disordered Regions and Proteins

2014 1.6k citations Robin van der Lee, Marija Buljan et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Lang United States	13	2.3k	375	356	311	241	24	2.8k
Bálint Mészáros Hungary	20	2.8k 1.2×	561 1.5×	322 0.9×	246 0.8×	171 0.7×	33	3.3k
Veronika Csizmók Canada	17	2.9k 1.3×	692 1.8×	397 1.1×	228 0.7×	188 0.8×	26	3.4k
Jonathan J. Ward United Kingdom	12	3.0k 1.3×	719 1.9×	528 1.5×	271 0.9×	285 1.2×	14	3.5k
Elizabeth H. Kellogg United States	19	2.3k 1.0×	360 1.0×	764 2.1×	308 1.0×	149 0.6×	31	2.9k
Ishwar Radhakrishnan United States	30	3.0k 1.3×	360 1.0×	227 0.6×	317 1.0×	115 0.5×	65	3.4k
Jan Kosiński Germany	31	2.6k 1.1×	371 1.0×	310 0.9×	269 0.9×	107 0.4×	56	3.2k
Voula Kanelis Canada	20	1.8k 0.8×	265 0.7×	208 0.6×	282 0.9×	130 0.5×	34	2.4k
Andrew Campen United States	5	2.1k 0.9×	651 1.7×	229 0.6×	207 0.7×	135 0.6×	6	2.5k
Marija Buljan United Kingdom	8	2.1k 0.9×	421 1.1×	268 0.8×	146 0.5×	122 0.5×	13	2.5k
Gary W. Daughdrill United States	26	3.3k 1.5×	899 2.4×	403 1.1×	391 1.3×	190 0.8×	56	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Lang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lang, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). AlphaSync is an enhanced AlphaFold structure database synchronized with UniProt. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(12). 2628–2632. 1 indexed citations

Tripathi, Swarnendu, David W. Baggett, Aaron H. Phillips, et al.. (2025). Proteome-wide computational analyses reveal links between protein condensate formation and RNA biology. Science Advances. 11(49). eady1420–eady1420.

Hohlbaum, Katharina, Benjamin Lang, Kai Diederich, et al.. (2024). Lockbox enrichment facilitates manipulative and cognitive activities for mice. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 108–108.

Mészáros, Bálint, Duccio Malinverni, Besian I. Sejdiu, et al.. (2023). Recent breakthroughs in computational structural biology harnessing the power of sequences and structures. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 80. 102608–102608. 3 indexed citations

Schwarzl, Thomas, Sudeep Sahadevan, Benjamin Lang, et al.. (2023). Improved discovery of RNA-binding protein binding sites in eCLIP data using DEWSeq. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(1). e1–e1. 8 indexed citations

Lang, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Challenges and advanced concepts for the assessment of learning and memory function in mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 17. 1230082–1230082. 9 indexed citations

Cava, Claudia, Alexandros Armaos, Benjamin Lang, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, & Isabella Castiglioni. (2022). Identification of long non-coding RNAs and RNA binding proteins in breast cancer subtypes. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 693–693. 18 indexed citations

Lang, Benjamin, Jae‐Seong Yang, Mireia Garriga-Canut, et al.. (2021). Matrix-screening reveals a vast potential for direct protein-protein interactions among RNA binding proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(12). 6702–6721. 12 indexed citations

Guo, Cuncai, Benjamin Lang, John McLauchlan, et al.. (2021). Conserved Induction of Distinct Antiviral Signalling Kinetics by Primate Interferon Lambda 4 Proteins. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 772588–772588. 6 indexed citations

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Conrad, Thomas, Evgenia Ntini, Benjamin Lang, et al.. (2020). Determination of primary microRNA processing in clinical samples by targeted pri-miR-sequencing. RNA. 26(11). 1726–1730. 7 indexed citations

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Lang, Benjamin, et al.. (2019). BacFITBase: a database to assess the relevance of bacterial genes during host infection. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(D1). D511–D516. 10 indexed citations

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Hennrich, Marco L., Natalie Romanov, Patrick Horn, et al.. (2018). Cell-specific proteome analyses of human bone marrow reveal molecular features of age-dependent functional decline. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4004–4004. 63 indexed citations

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Gelabert‐Baldrich, Mariona, Benjamin Lang, Nieves Lorenzo-Gotor, et al.. (2018). An Integrative Study of Protein-RNA Condensates Identifies Scaffolding RNAs and Reveals Players in Fragile X-Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome. Cell Reports. 25(12). 3422–3434.e7. 54 indexed citations

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Lee, Robin van der, Marija Buljan, Benjamin Lang, et al.. (2014). Classification of Intrinsically Disordered Regions and Proteins. Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Robin van der, Benjamin Lang, Kai Kruse, et al.. (2014). Intrinsically Disordered Segments Affect Protein Half-Life in the Cell and during Evolution. Cell Reports. 8(6). 1832–1844. 170 indexed citations

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Xie, Sheila Q., Fabian Hosp, Benjamin Lang, et al.. (2011). Proteomic Analysis of Mitotic RNA Polymerase II Reveals Novel Interactors and Association With Proteins Dysfunctional in Disease. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 11(6). M111.011767–M111.011767. 32 indexed citations

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Pardo, Mercedes, Benjamin Lang, Lu Yu, et al.. (2010). An Expanded Oct4 Interaction Network: Implications for Stem Cell Biology, Development, and Disease. Cell stem cell. 6(4). 382–395. 298 indexed citations

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Babu, M. Madan, Benjamin Lang, & L. Aravind. (2009). Methods to Reconstruct and Compare Transcriptional Regulatory Networks. Methods in molecular biology. 541. 163–180. 32 indexed citations

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Lang, Benjamin, Nicolas Blot, Emeline Bouffartigues, et al.. (2007). High-affinity DNA binding sites for H-NS provide a molecular basis for selective silencing within proteobacterial genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(18). 6330–6337. 208 indexed citations

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Leach, Jan E., Benjamin Lang, & O. C. Yoder. (1982). Methods for Selection of Mutants and In Vitro Culture of Cochliobolus heterostrophus. Microbiology. 128(8). 1719–1729. 171 indexed citations

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