Daniel Heß

12.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
126 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Daniel Heß is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Heß has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cell Biology and 17 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Daniel Heß's work include RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (13 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers). Daniel Heß is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (13 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers). Daniel Heß collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Daniel Heß's co-authors include Brian A. Hemmings, Jan Hofsteenge, Peter Cron, Patrick Matthias, Jianhua Feng, Jongsun Park, C Wirbelauer, Na Li, Saadi Khochbin and Gabriele Matthias and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Heß

124 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

HDAC-6 interacts with and deacetylates tubulin and microt... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2018 200 400 600
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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. HDAC-6 interacts with and deacetylates tubulin and microtubules in vivo
    2003 604 citations Daniel Heß, Patrick Matthias et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
  2. Zc3h13/Flacc is required for adenosine methylation by bridging the mRNA-binding factor Rbm15/Spenito to the m6A machinery component Wtap/Fl(2)d
    2018 463 citations Sarah H. Carl, Daniel Heß et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel Heß Switzerland 53 6.6k 1.2k 1.1k 965 735 126 8.6k
Luis Sánchez‐Pulido Spain 47 4.9k 0.7× 1.5k 1.3× 988 0.9× 1.9k 1.9× 575 0.8× 112 8.0k
Markku Varjosalo Finland 39 4.3k 0.6× 815 0.7× 999 0.9× 414 0.4× 475 0.6× 152 6.1k
Toshiaki Isobe Japan 62 10.1k 1.5× 957 0.8× 1.6k 1.5× 1.1k 1.2× 1.5k 2.1× 247 13.4k
Roberto Mantovani Italy 58 8.0k 1.2× 2.0k 1.7× 513 0.5× 1.7k 1.8× 781 1.1× 181 10.5k
Nobumoto Watanabe Japan 36 3.9k 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 1.9k 1.8× 417 0.4× 382 0.5× 128 5.7k
Bořivoj Vojtěšek Czechia 53 6.4k 1.0× 5.0k 4.3× 1.2k 1.2× 1.7k 1.8× 1.0k 1.4× 314 10.8k
Makoto Adachi Japan 28 3.1k 0.5× 606 0.5× 868 0.8× 328 0.3× 352 0.5× 103 4.6k
G Carpenter United States 35 7.1k 1.1× 3.0k 2.6× 1.7k 1.6× 731 0.8× 917 1.2× 58 10.8k
Marı́a S. Soengas United States 32 6.6k 1.0× 2.6k 2.3× 1.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 1.4k 1.9× 63 8.7k
Jason Wright United States 12 7.9k 1.2× 843 0.7× 992 0.9× 936 1.0× 914 1.2× 16 9.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Heß

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Heß

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Daniel Heß. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Daniel Heß based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Daniel Heß. Daniel Heß is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Durdu, Sevi, Murat Iskar, Luke Isbel, et al.. (2025). Chromatin-dependent motif syntax defines differentiation trajectories. Molecular Cell. 85(15). 2900–2918.e16.
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Soneson, Charlotte, Michael Stadler, Michaela Schwaiger, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive Schizosaccharomyces pombe atlas of physical transcription factor interactions with proteins and chromatin. Molecular Cell. 85(7). 1426–1444.e8. 1 indexed citations
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Gudipati, Rajani Kanth, Dimos Gaidatzis, Jan Seebacher, et al.. (2024). Deep quantification of substrate turnover defines protease subsite cooperativity. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(12). 1303–1328. 1 indexed citations
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Heß, Daniel, et al.. (2023). The impact of salt stress on the physiology and the transcriptome of the model streptophyte green alga Chara braunii. Physiologia Plantarum. 175(6). e14123–e14123. 3 indexed citations
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Heß, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Insight into the nodal cells transcriptome of the streptophyte green alga Chara braunii S276. Physiologia Plantarum. 175(5). e14025–e14025. 5 indexed citations
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Olivieri, Daniel, Yumiko Kawamura, Panagiotis Papasaikas, et al.. (2021). Cooperation between HDAC3 and DAX1 mediates lineage restriction of embryonic stem cells. The EMBO Journal. 40(12). e106818–e106818. 8 indexed citations
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Gudipati, Rajani Kanth, Foivos Gypas, Daniel Heß, et al.. (2021). Protease-mediated processing of Argonaute proteins controls small RNA association. Molecular Cell. 81(11). 2388–2402.e8. 18 indexed citations
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Grand, Ralph S., Lukas Burger, Cathrin Gräwe, et al.. (2021). BANP opens chromatin and activates CpG-island-regulated genes. Nature. 596(7870). 133–137. 60 indexed citations
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Fontana, Gabriele, Daniel Heß, Stefano Mattarocci, et al.. (2019). Rif1 S-acylation mediates DNA double-strand break repair at the inner nuclear membrane. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2535–2535. 34 indexed citations
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Eid, Wassim, Daniel Heß, Christiane König, Christian Gentili, & Stefano Ferrari. (2019). The human Exonuclease-1 interactome and phosphorylation sites. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 514(3). 567–573. 5 indexed citations
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Saito, Makoto, Daniel Heß, Jan Eglinger, et al.. (2018). Acetylation of intrinsically disordered regions regulates phase separation. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(1). 51–61. 220 indexed citations
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Cannavò, Elda, Sara N. Andres, Vera M. Kissling, et al.. (2018). Regulatory control of DNA end resection by Sae2 phosphorylation. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4016–4016. 60 indexed citations
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Xue, Gongda, David F. Restuccia, Qiang Lan, et al.. (2012). Akt/PKB-Mediated Phosphorylation of Twist1 Promotes Tumor Metastasis via Mediating Cross-Talk between PI3K/Akt and TGF-β Signaling Axes. Cancer Discovery. 2(3). 248–259. 178 indexed citations
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Valsecchi, Claudia Isabelle Keller, Katrina Woolcock, Daniel Heß, & Marc Bühler. (2010). Proteomic and functional analysis of the noncanonical poly(A) polymerase Cid14. RNA. 16(6). 1124–1129. 21 indexed citations
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Merkouropoulos, Georgios, Erik Andréasson, Daniel Heß, Thomas Boller, & Scott C. Peck. (2008). An Arabidopsis Protein Phosphorylated in Response to Microbial Elicitation, AtPHOS32, Is a Substrate of MAP Kinases 3 and 6. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(16). 10493–10499. 64 indexed citations
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Yart, Armelle, Matthias Gstaiger, C Wirbelauer, et al.. (2005). The HRPT2 Tumor Suppressor Gene Product Parafibromin Associates with Human PAF1 and RNA Polymerase II. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(12). 5052–5060. 155 indexed citations
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El‐Shemerly, Mahmoud, Pavel Janščák, Daniel Heß, Josef Jiricny, & Stefano Ferrari. (2005). Degradation of Human Exonuclease 1b upon DNA Synthesis Inhibition. Cancer Research. 65(9). 3604–3609. 50 indexed citations
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Marone, Romina, Daniel Heß, David Dankort, et al.. (2004). Memo mediates ErbB2-driven cell motility. Nature Cell Biology. 6(6). 515–522. 106 indexed citations
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Krieg, Joachim, et al.. (1998). Recognition Signal for C-Mannosylation of Trp-7 in RNase 2 Consists of Sequence Trp-x-x-Trp. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 9(2). 301–309. 113 indexed citations

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