Benjamin M. Friedrich

3.4k total citations
62 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Benjamin M. Friedrich is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin M. Friedrich has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Benjamin M. Friedrich's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (31 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (12 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (10 papers). Benjamin M. Friedrich is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (31 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (12 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (10 papers). Benjamin M. Friedrich collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Israel and United States. Benjamin M. Friedrich's co-authors include Frank Jülicher, Jonathon Howard, Ingmar H. Riedel‐Kruse, U. Benjamin Kaupp, Luis Álvarez, Jochen C. Rink, Steffen Werner, Veikko F. Geyer, Gerhard Gompper and S. A. Safran and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin M. Friedrich

60 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin M. Friedrich Germany 26 1.2k 841 676 282 245 62 2.2k
Ingmar H. Riedel‐Kruse United States 22 892 0.8× 834 1.0× 708 1.0× 171 0.6× 194 0.8× 64 2.3k
Douglas A. Brown United States 10 738 0.6× 852 1.0× 879 1.3× 111 0.4× 202 0.8× 43 2.2k
Marco Polin United Kingdom 22 1.6k 1.4× 1.2k 1.4× 270 0.4× 375 1.3× 88 0.4× 37 2.3k
Pascal Martin France 29 145 0.1× 741 0.9× 441 0.7× 286 1.0× 230 0.9× 64 3.5k
Jens Elgeti Germany 24 1.8k 1.5× 1.6k 1.9× 437 0.6× 238 0.8× 1.1k 4.6× 43 3.1k
Fernando Peruani France 28 2.5k 2.1× 979 1.2× 798 1.2× 67 0.2× 169 0.7× 60 3.4k
Anna Zafeiris Hungary 5 1.1k 0.9× 445 0.5× 329 0.5× 51 0.2× 103 0.4× 8 2.1k
Tim Sanchez United States 10 1.1k 1.0× 359 0.4× 281 0.4× 92 0.3× 273 1.1× 15 1.7k
Ken Nagai Japan 16 908 0.8× 411 0.5× 227 0.3× 65 0.2× 113 0.5× 48 1.4k
Yaouen Fily United States 13 1.6k 1.4× 576 0.7× 218 0.3× 121 0.4× 151 0.6× 25 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin M. Friedrich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin M. Friedrich

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All Works

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Chan, Eunice HoYee, et al.. (2025). Muscle growth by sarcomere divisions. Science Advances. 11(28). eadw9445–eadw9445. 1 indexed citations
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Diez, Stefan, et al.. (2025). Twist–torsion coupling in beating axonemes. Nature Physics. 21(4). 599–607. 2 indexed citations
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Simmchen, Juliane, Daniel Gordon, J.A. Mackenzie, et al.. (2025). Perspective on Interdisciplinary Approaches on Chemotaxis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(47). e202504790–e202504790.
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Sidor, Clara, et al.. (2024). Mechanisms of Sarcomere Assembly in Muscle Cells Inferred from Sequential Ordering of Myofibril Components. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 2(1). 2 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Benjamin M., et al.. (2024). Active fluctuations of axoneme oscillations scale with number of dynein motors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(46). e2406244121–e2406244121. 3 indexed citations
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Ringers, Christa, Stephan Bialonski, Jan N. Hansen, et al.. (2023). Novel analytical tools reveal that local synchronization of cilia coincides with tissue-scale metachronal waves in zebrafish multiciliated epithelia. eLife. 12. 19 indexed citations
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Feistel, Kerstin, Benjamin M. Friedrich, Anne Grapin‐Botton, et al.. (2023). Emerging principles of primary cilia dynamics in controlling tissue organization and function. The EMBO Journal. 42(21). e113891–e113891. 25 indexed citations
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Novak, Maja, et al.. (2022). Gradient sensing in Bayesian chemotaxis. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 138(1). 12001–12001. 5 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Benjamin M., et al.. (2021). Fluctuation-response theorem for Kullback-Leibler divergences to quantify causation. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations
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Gong, An, Gerhard Gompper, U. Benjamin Kaupp, et al.. (2021). Reconstruction of the three-dimensional beat pattern underlying swimming behaviors of sperm. The European Physical Journal E. 44(7). 87–87. 26 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Benjamin M., et al.. (2021). Micromotor-mediated sperm constrictions for improved swimming performance. The European Physical Journal E. 44(5). 67–67. 5 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Benjamin M., et al.. (2021). Sperm chemotaxis in marine species is optimal at physiological flow rates according theory of filament surfing. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(4). e1008826–e1008826. 11 indexed citations
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Wagner, Christian, et al.. (2016). Load Response of the Flagellar Beat. Physical Review Letters. 117(25). 258101–258101. 43 indexed citations
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Jikeli, Jan F., Luis Álvarez, Benjamin M. Friedrich, et al.. (2015). Sperm navigation along helical paths in 3D chemoattractant landscapes. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7985–7985. 153 indexed citations
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Liu, Song, Claudia Selck, Benjamin M. Friedrich, et al.. (2013). Reactivating head regrowth in a regeneration-deficient planarian species. Nature. 500(7460). 81–84. 137 indexed citations
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Armon, Leah, S. Roy Caplan, Michael Eisenbach, & Benjamin M. Friedrich. (2012). Testing Human Sperm Chemotaxis: How to Detect Biased Motion in Population Assays. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e32909–e32909. 13 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Benjamin M., Amnon Buxboim, Dennis E. Discher, & S. A. Safran. (2011). Striated Acto-Myosin Fibers Can Reorganize and Register in Response to Elastic Interactions with the Matrix. Biophysical Journal. 100(11). 2706–2715. 37 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Benjamin M. & Frank Jülicher. (2009). Steering Chiral Swimmers along Noisy Helical Paths. Physical Review Letters. 103(6). 68102–68102. 67 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Benjamin M.. (2006). A mesoscopic model for helical bacterial flagella. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 53(1). 162–178. 6 indexed citations

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