Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cancer Research and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (10 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (10 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler's co-authors include Ben Lehner, Alex Bateman, Markéta Tomková, Jörg Schultz, Sven Rahmann, Skirmantas Kriaučionis, Chun‐Xiao Song, Paulina Siejka-Zielińska, Gavin J. Wright and Yibin Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler

26 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Bisulfite-free direct detection of 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine at base resolution

2019 315 citations Yibin Liu, Paulina Siejka-Zielińska et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler United Kingdom	19	1.6k	540	358	183	161	26	2.1k
Roland F. Schwarz Germany	17	977 0.6×	563 1.0×	284 0.8×	99 0.5×	240 1.5×	44	2.0k
Damek V. Spacek United States	11	1.6k 1.1×	382 0.7×	412 1.2×	204 1.1×	153 1.0×	15	2.2k
Jeroen de Ridder Netherlands	25	1.9k 1.2×	438 0.8×	466 1.3×	316 1.7×	228 1.4×	77	2.6k
Olena Morozova Canada	14	1.4k 0.9×	449 0.8×	284 0.8×	294 1.6×	227 1.4×	21	2.2k
Jason Reuter United States	8	1.1k 0.7×	341 0.6×	227 0.6×	116 0.6×	184 1.1×	15	1.7k
Hailiang Mei Netherlands	26	1.5k 1.0×	439 0.8×	302 0.8×	258 1.4×	226 1.4×	133	2.6k
Junfeng Xia China	30	2.2k 1.4×	545 1.0×	334 0.9×	184 1.0×	163 1.0×	139	3.2k
Thomas Zichner Germany	12	1.4k 0.9×	402 0.7×	760 2.1×	396 2.2×	205 1.3×	19	2.2k
Peter Krusche United Kingdom	9	914 0.6×	457 0.8×	469 1.3×	250 1.4×	180 1.1×	15	1.5k
San Ming Wang United States	27	1.8k 1.1×	541 1.0×	591 1.7×	318 1.7×	262 1.6×	99	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler

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Schuster‐Böckler, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). Gestational trophoblastic disease: understanding the molecular mechanisms of placental tumours. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 18(1). 2 indexed citations

Gilchrist, James J., Hai Fang, Sara Danielli, et al.. (2024). Characterization of the genetic determinants of context-specific DNA methylation in primary monocytes. Cell Genomics. 4(5). 100541–100541. 1 indexed citations

Schuster‐Böckler, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma cells in co-culture with cerebellar organoids converge towards in vivo malignant cell states. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 7(1). vdae218–vdae218. 2 indexed citations

Tomková, Markéta, Gilles Crevel, Jakub Tomek, et al.. (2024). Human DNA polymerase ε is a source of C>T mutations at CpG dinucleotides. Nature Genetics. 56(11). 2506–2516. 9 indexed citations

Schuster‐Böckler, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Cytosine Methylation Affects the Mutability of Neighboring Nucleotides in Germline and Soma. Genetics. 214(4). 809–823. 21 indexed citations

Liu, Yibin, Paulina Siejka-Zielińska, Gergana Velikova, et al.. (2019). Bisulfite-free direct detection of 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine at base resolution. Nature Biotechnology. 37(4). 424–429. 315 indexed citations breakdown →

Tomková, Markéta, Claire Renard, Lara Urban, et al.. (2019). Abstract 4661: Deciphering the causes of the COSMIC mutational signature 17 by combining pan-cancer data with experimental mouse models. Tumor Biology. 4661–4661. 1 indexed citations

Temko, Daniel, Ian Tomlinson, Simone Severini, Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler, & Trevor A. Graham. (2018). The effects of mutational processes and selection on driver mutations across cancer types. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1857–1857. 74 indexed citations

Tomková, Markéta, Jakub Tomek, Skirmantas Kriaučionis, & Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler. (2018). Mutational signature distribution varies with DNA replication timing and strand asymmetry. Genome biology. 19(1). 129–129. 85 indexed citations

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Owen, Richard, Michael J. White, David T. Severson, et al.. (2018). Single cell RNA-seq reveals profound transcriptional similarity between Barrett’s oesophagus and oesophageal submucosal glands. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4261–4261. 59 indexed citations

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Severson, David T., Richard Owen, Michael J. White, Xin Lü, & Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler. (2018). BEARscc determines robustness of single-cell clusters using simulated technical replicates. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1187–1187. 8 indexed citations

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Tomková, Markéta & Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler. (2018). DNA Modifications: Naturally More Error Prone?. Trends in Genetics. 34(8). 627–638. 38 indexed citations

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Tomková, Markéta, Michael McClellan, Skirmantas Kriaučionis, & Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler. (2017). DNA Replication and associated repair pathways are involved in the mutagenesis of methylated cytosine. DNA repair. 62. 1–7. 32 indexed citations

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Stracquadanio, Giovanni, Xuting Wang, Marsha D. Wallace, et al.. (2016). The importance of p53 pathway genetics in inherited and somatic cancer genomes. Nature reviews. Cancer. 16(4). 251–265. 101 indexed citations

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Schuster‐Böckler, Benjamin, Donald F. Conrad, & Alex Bateman. (2010). Dosage Sensitivity Shapes the Evolution of Copy-Number Varied Regions. PLoS ONE. 5(3). e9474–e9474. 73 indexed citations

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Schuster‐Böckler, Benjamin & Alex Bateman. (2008). Protein interactions in human genetic diseases. Genome biology. 9(1). R9–R9. 94 indexed citations

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Söllner, Christian, et al.. (2008). Large-scale screening for novel low-affinity extracellular protein interactions. Genome Research. 18(4). 622–630. 174 indexed citations

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Schuster‐Böckler, Benjamin & Alex Bateman. (2007). Reuse of structural domain–domain interactions in protein networks. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(1). 259–259. 38 indexed citations

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Schuster‐Böckler, Benjamin & Alex Bateman. (2005). Visualizing profile-profile alignment: pairwise HMM logos. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(12). 2912–2913. 32 indexed citations

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Schuster‐Böckler, Benjamin, Jörg Schultz, & Sven Rahmann. (2004). HMM Logos for visualization of protein families. BMC Bioinformatics. 5(1). 7–7. 191 indexed citations

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