Birka Lalkens

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Birka Lalkens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Birka Lalkens has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Birka Lalkens's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (18 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (13 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (8 papers). Birka Lalkens is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (18 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (13 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (8 papers). Birka Lalkens collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Birka Lalkens's co-authors include Philip Tinnefeld, Guillermo P. Acuna, Phil Holzmeister, Friederike M. Möller, Carolin Vietz, Enrico Pibiri, Kateryna Trofymchuk, Dongfang Wang, Tim Schröder and Andreas Gietl and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Birka Lalkens

19 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Fluorescence Enhancement at Docking Sites of DNA-Directed... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Fluorescence Enhancement at Docking Sites of DNA-Directed Self-Assembled Nanoantennas
    2012 570 citations Guillermo P. Acuna, Friederike M. Möller et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Birka Lalkens Germany 15 978 801 411 178 158 19 1.3k
Phil Holzmeister Germany 16 1.3k 1.3× 916 1.1× 544 1.3× 247 1.4× 257 1.6× 20 1.8k
Carolin Vietz Germany 12 660 0.7× 608 0.8× 269 0.7× 84 0.5× 88 0.6× 13 848
B. Wünsch Germany 6 535 0.5× 343 0.4× 110 0.3× 75 0.4× 53 0.3× 6 682
Yara X. Mejia United States 7 271 0.3× 332 0.4× 276 0.7× 61 0.3× 98 0.6× 10 645
Mauricio Pilo‐Pais Switzerland 13 328 0.3× 319 0.4× 183 0.4× 67 0.4× 83 0.5× 17 562
Verena Schüller Germany 9 1.0k 1.1× 413 0.5× 237 0.6× 32 0.2× 212 1.3× 10 1.3k
Bryce P. Nelson United States 7 826 0.8× 743 0.9× 266 0.6× 40 0.2× 128 0.8× 11 1.3k
Priscilla Choo United States 12 381 0.4× 489 0.6× 334 0.8× 28 0.2× 198 1.3× 14 821
Peter Wiktor United States 15 381 0.4× 350 0.4× 109 0.3× 37 0.2× 130 0.8× 34 940
Sergiy Patskovsky Canada 24 426 0.4× 1.1k 1.3× 391 1.0× 62 0.3× 222 1.4× 52 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Birka Lalkens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birka Lalkens

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Liu, Zhe, et al.. (2023). Positional control of DNA origami based gold dimer hybrid nanostructures on pre-structured surfaces. Nanotechnology. 34(42). 425301–425301. 1 indexed citations
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Trofymchuk, Kateryna, et al.. (2022). Maximizing the Accessibility in DNA Origami Nanoantenna Plasmonic Hotspots. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(24). 9 indexed citations
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Trofymchuk, Kateryna, Viktorija Glembockyte, Lennart Grabenhorst, et al.. (2021). Addressable nanoantennas with cleared hotspots for single-molecule detection on a portable smartphone microscope. Nature Communications. 12(1). 950–950. 82 indexed citations
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Zhong, Jing, Aidin Lak, Zhe Liu, et al.. (2021). Point-of-need detection of pathogen-specific nucleic acid targets using magnetic particle spectroscopy. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 192. 113536–113536. 20 indexed citations
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Schedlbauer, Jessica L., Lennart Grabenhorst, Birka Lalkens, et al.. (2019). Ultrafast Single-Molecule Fluorescence Measured by Femtosecond Double-Pulse Excitation Photon Antibunching. Nano Letters. 20(2). 1074–1079. 21 indexed citations
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Vietz, Carolin, Qingshan Wei, Lars Richter, et al.. (2019). Benchmarking Smartphone Fluorescence-Based Microscopy with DNA Origami Nanobeads: Reducing the Gap toward Single-Molecule Sensitivity. ACS Omega. 4(1). 637–642. 49 indexed citations
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Tinnefeld, Philip, Guillermo P. Acuna, Qingshan Wei, et al.. (2019). DNA origami nanotools for single-molecule biosensing and superresolution microscopy. AW5E.5–AW5E.5. 2 indexed citations
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Vietz, Carolin, et al.. (2017). Optical Nanoantenna for Single Molecule-Based Detection of Zika Virus Nucleic Acids without Molecular Multiplication. Analytical Chemistry. 89(23). 13000–13007. 94 indexed citations
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Vietz, Carolin, Birka Lalkens, Guillermo P. Acuna, & Philip Tinnefeld. (2017). Synergistic Combination of Unquenching and Plasmonic Fluorescence Enhancement in Fluorogenic Nucleic Acid Hybridization Probes. Nano Letters. 17(10). 6496–6500. 30 indexed citations
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Wang, Dongfang, Carolin Vietz, Tim Schröder, et al.. (2017). A DNA Walker as a Fluorescence Signal Amplifier. Nano Letters. 17(9). 5368–5374. 111 indexed citations
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Vietz, Carolin, Birka Lalkens, Guillermo P. Acuna, & Philip Tinnefeld. (2016). Functionalizing large nanoparticles for small gaps in dimer nanoantennas. New Journal of Physics. 18(4). 45012–45012. 26 indexed citations
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Holzmeister, Phil, et al.. (2015). Simple and aberration-free 4color-STED - multiplexing by transient binding. Optics Express. 23(7). 8630–8630. 27 indexed citations
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Acuna, Guillermo P., Phil Holzmeister, Andreas Gietl, et al.. (2014). Controlled Reduction of Photobleaching in DNA Origami–Gold Nanoparticle Hybrids. Nano Letters. 14(5). 2831–2836. 62 indexed citations
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Pibiri, Enrico, Phil Holzmeister, Birka Lalkens, Guillermo P. Acuna, & Philip Tinnefeld. (2014). Single-Molecule Positioning in Zeromode Waveguides by DNA Origami Nanoadapters. Nano Letters. 14(6). 3499–3503. 42 indexed citations
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Holzmeister, Phil, et al.. (2014). Choosing dyes for cw-STED nanoscopy using self-assembled nanorulers. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(15). 6990–6996. 28 indexed citations
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Zander, Adrian, Andreas Gietl, Phil Holzmeister, et al.. (2014). A Starting Point for Fluorescence-Based Single-Molecule Measurements in Biomolecular Research. Molecules. 19(10). 15824–15865. 61 indexed citations
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Acuna, Guillermo P., et al.. (2013). DNA-templated nanoantennas for single-molecule detection at elevated concentrations. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 18(6). 65001–65001. 7 indexed citations
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Schmied, Jürgen J., Carsten Forthmann, Enrico Pibiri, et al.. (2013). DNA Origami Nanopillars as Standards for Three-Dimensional Superresolution Microscopy. Nano Letters. 13(2). 781–785. 64 indexed citations
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Acuna, Guillermo P., et al.. (2012). Fluorescence Enhancement at Docking Sites of DNA-Directed Self-Assembled Nanoantennas. Science. 338(6106). 506–510. 570 indexed citations breakdown →

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