Birgit Schönfisch

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Birgit Schönfisch is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Schönfisch has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 1 paper in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Birgit Schönfisch's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (9 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers). Birgit Schönfisch is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (9 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers). Birgit Schönfisch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and Switzerland. Birgit Schönfisch's co-authors include Nikolaus Pfanner, Chris Meisinger, Bernard Guiard, Agnieszka Chacińska, Albert Sickmann, René P. Zahedi, Helmut E. Meyer, Nils Wiedemann, Vera Kozjak‐Pavlovic and Inge Perschil and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Schönfisch

11 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

The proteome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria

2003 708 citations Albert Sickmann, Jörg Reinders et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Birgit Schönfisch Germany	11	1.9k	405	206	126	121	11	2.0k
Geneviève Dujardin France	28	2.1k 1.1×	155 0.4×	112 0.5×	59 0.5×	86 0.7×	55	2.3k
Cécile Dahout-Gonzalez France	8	1.1k 0.6×	343 0.8×	71 0.3×	73 0.6×	68 0.6×	9	1.3k
Nicole Zufall Germany	14	1.2k 0.6×	247 0.6×	194 0.9×	107 0.8×	37 0.3×	16	1.3k
Rupert Pfaller Germany	19	1.9k 1.0×	290 0.7×	215 1.0×	37 0.3×	29 0.2×	29	2.0k
Jordan Kolarov Slovakia	21	1.3k 0.7×	195 0.5×	145 0.7×	58 0.5×	34 0.3×	54	1.4k
Michiel Meijer Germany	20	1.7k 0.9×	228 0.6×	354 1.7×	85 0.7×	16 0.1×	23	2.0k
Philip Heacock United States	14	1.3k 0.7×	206 0.5×	238 1.2×	76 0.6×	21 0.2×	14	1.5k
Christophe Wirth Germany	13	1.0k 0.5×	139 0.3×	68 0.3×	36 0.3×	33 0.3×	25	1.3k
Gottfried Schatz Switzerland	14	1.6k 0.9×	213 0.5×	193 0.9×	35 0.3×	16 0.1×	17	1.7k
Feiran Lu United States	10	776 0.4×	72 0.2×	179 0.9×	108 0.9×	59 0.5×	13	1.3k

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All Works

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Weinhäupl, Katharina, Caroline Lindau, Audrey Hessel, et al.. (2018). Structural Basis of Membrane Protein Chaperoning through the Mitochondrial Intermembrane Space. Cell. 175(5). 1365–1379.e25. 78 indexed citations

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Harbauer, Angelika B., Magdalena Opalińska, Carolin Gerbeth, et al.. (2014). Cell cycle–dependent regulation of mitochondrial preprotein translocase. Science. 346(6213). 1109–1113. 106 indexed citations

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Rao, Sanjana, Oliver Schmidt, Angelika B. Harbauer, et al.. (2012). Biogenesis of the preprotein translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane: protein kinase A phosphorylates the precursor of Tom40 and impairs its import. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 23(9). 1618–1627. 62 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Oliver, Angelika B. Harbauer, Sanjana Rao, et al.. (2011). Regulation of Mitochondrial Protein Import by Cytosolic Kinases. Cell. 144(2). 227–239. 190 indexed citations

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Zahedi, René P., Albert Sickmann, Andreas Boehm, et al.. (2006). Proteomic Analysis of the Yeast Mitochondrial Outer Membrane Reveals Accumulation of a Subclass of Preproteins. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(3). 1436–1450. 179 indexed citations

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Meisinger, Chris, Nils Wiedemann, Michael Rissler, et al.. (2006). Mitochondrial Protein Sorting. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(32). 22819–22826. 83 indexed citations

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Meisinger, Chris, Michael Rissler, Agnieszka Chacińska, et al.. (2004). The Mitochondrial Morphology Protein Mdm10 Functions in Assembly of the Preprotein Translocase of the Outer Membrane. Developmental Cell. 7(1). 61–71. 218 indexed citations

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Sickmann, Albert, Jörg Reinders, Cornelia Joppich, et al.. (2003). The proteome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(23). 13207–13212. 708 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wiedemann, Nils, Vera Kozjak‐Pavlovic, Agnieszka Chacińska, et al.. (2003). Machinery for protein sorting and assembly in the mitochondrial outer membrane. Nature. 424(6948). 565–571. 315 indexed citations

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Geissler, Andreas, Thomas Krimmer, Birgit Schönfisch, Michiel Meijer, & Joachim Rassow. (2000). Biogenesis of the yeast frataxin homolog Yfh1p. European Journal of Biochemistry. 267(11). 3167–3180. 12 indexed citations

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Moczko, Martin, Birgit Schönfisch, Wolfgang Voos, Nikolaus Pfanner, & Joachim Rassow. (1995). The Mitochondrial ClpB Homolog Hsp78 Cooperates with Matrix Hsp70 in Maintenance of Mitochondrial Function. Journal of Molecular Biology. 254(4). 538–543. 47 indexed citations

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