Dietmar Schmucker

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Dietmar Schmucker is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dietmar Schmucker has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Dietmar Schmucker's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (17 papers), Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (16 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (6 papers). Dietmar Schmucker is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (17 papers), Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (16 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (6 papers). Dietmar Schmucker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Germany. Dietmar Schmucker's co-authors include S Lawrence Zipursky, Masahiro Kondo, Huidy Shu, Jian Xiao, Marco Muda, Carolyn A. Worby, Jack E. Dixon, James C. Clemens, Fiona L. Watson and Brian Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Dietmar Schmucker

34 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Drosophila Dscam Is an Axon Guidance Receptor Exhibiting Extraordinary Molecular Diversity

2000 809 citations Dietmar Schmucker, S Lawrence Zipursky et al. Cell profile →
Extensive Diversity of Ig-Superfamily Proteins in the Immune System of Insects

2005 522 citations Fiona L. Watson, Franziska Thomas et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dietmar Schmucker United States	24	1.6k	1.2k	836	441	361	34	2.9k
Fiona L. Watson United Kingdom	23	1.1k 0.7×	992 0.8×	910 1.1×	323 0.7×	216 0.6×	51	2.8k
Shu Kondo Japan	36	1.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	511 1.2×	1.0k 2.8×	112	4.3k
Kuniaki Takahashi Japan	19	615 0.4×	650 0.5×	610 0.7×	251 0.6×	405 1.1×	29	1.5k
Rafael Cantera Sweden	28	889 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	638 0.8×	205 0.5×	563 1.6×	63	2.4k
Takeshi Awasaki Japan	26	1.1k 0.7×	2.0k 1.6×	643 0.8×	340 0.8×	287 0.8×	48	2.9k
Alain Vincent France	38	2.8k 1.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	600 1.4×	552 1.5×	93	4.1k
Ryu Ueda Japan	37	2.7k 1.7×	1.6k 1.3×	1.9k 2.3×	810 1.8×	1.3k 3.6×	79	5.4k
Frank Schnorrer Germany	31	3.0k 1.9×	1.6k 1.3×	593 0.7×	1.2k 2.8×	270 0.7×	56	4.5k
Ruth Steward United States	33	4.2k 2.6×	830 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	882 2.0×	430 1.2×	80	5.9k
Lizabeth A. Perkins United States	28	2.8k 1.7×	907 0.7×	609 0.7×	814 1.8×	187 0.5×	37	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dietmar Schmucker

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20 of 20 papers shown

Courchet, Julien, Derya Ayaz, Milan Petrović, et al.. (2021). Axon morphogenesis and maintenance require an evolutionary conserved safeguard function of Wnk kinases antagonizing Sarm and Axed. Neuron. 109(18). 2864–2883.e8. 24 indexed citations

Schmucker, Dietmar, et al.. (2021). Subtle Roles of Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecules in Embryonic Forebrain Development and Neuronal Migration. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8. 624181–624181. 12 indexed citations

Lievens, Sam, Luís F. Ribeiro, Katrien Horré, et al.. (2019). Nuclear import of the DSCAM ‐cytoplasmic domain drives signaling capable of inhibiting synapse formation. The EMBO Journal. 38(6). 38 indexed citations

Schmucker, Dietmar, et al.. (2019). Branch-restricted localization of phosphatase Prl-1 specifies axonal synaptogenesis domains. Science. 364(6439). 28 indexed citations

Koch, Marta, Natalie De Geest, Annelies Claeys, et al.. (2018). A Fat-Facets-Dscam1-JNK Pathway Enhances Axonal Growth in Development and after Injury. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 11. 416–416. 7 indexed citations

Petrović, Milan & Dietmar Schmucker. (2015). Axonal wiring in neural development: Target‐independent mechanisms help to establish precision and complexity. BioEssays. 37(9). 996–1004. 31 indexed citations

Erfurth, Maria‐Luise, Minmin Song, Rachel Bortnick, et al.. (2015). Slit and Receptor Tyrosine Phosphatase 69D Confer Spatial Specificity to Axon Branching via Dscam1. Cell. 162(5). 1140–1154. 57 indexed citations

Armitage, Sophie A. O., Wei Sun, Xintian You, et al.. (2014). Quantitative Profiling of Drosophila melanogaster Dscam1 Isoforms Reveals No Changes in Splicing after Bacterial Exposure. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e108660–e108660. 23 indexed citations

Kise, Yoshiaki & Dietmar Schmucker. (2013). Role of self-avoidance in neuronal wiring. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 23(6). 983–989. 24 indexed citations

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Sun, Wei, Xintian You, Andreas Gogol‐Döring, et al.. (2013). Ultra‐deep profiling of alternatively spliced Drosophila Dscam isoforms by circularization‐assisted multi‐segment sequencing. The EMBO Journal. 32(14). 2029–2038. 54 indexed citations

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Schmucker, Dietmar & Brian Chen. (2009). Dscam and DSCAM: complex genes in simple animals, complex animals yet simple genes. Genes & Development. 23(2). 147–156. 139 indexed citations

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Meijers, Rob, et al.. (2008). Decoding homophilic recognition specificity of Dscam, a neuronal receptor with thousands isoforms. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 64(a1). C89–C89. 1 indexed citations

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Bortnick, Rachel, Asako Tsubouchi, Philipp Bäumer, et al.. (2007). Homophilic Dscam Interactions Control Complex Dendrite Morphogenesis. Neuron. 54(3). 417–427. 207 indexed citations

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Meijers, Rob, et al.. (2006). Structural basis of Dscam isoform specificity. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 62(a1). s28–s28. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Brian E., et al.. (2006). The Molecular Diversity of Dscam Is Functionally Required for Neuronal Wiring Specificity in Drosophila. Cell. 125(3). 607–620. 155 indexed citations

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Watson, Fiona L., Franziska Thomas, David L. Lamar, et al.. (2005). Extensive Diversity of Ig-Superfamily Proteins in the Immune System of Insects. Science. 309(5742). 1874–1878. 522 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schmucker, Dietmar. (2003). Downstream of Guidance Receptors. Neuron. 40(1). 4–6. 7 indexed citations

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Schmucker, Dietmar & S Lawrence Zipursky. (2001). Signaling Downstream of Eph Receptors and Ephrin Ligands. Cell. 105(6). 701–704. 86 indexed citations

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Sheng, Guojun, Éric Thouvenot, Dietmar Schmucker, David Sloan Wilson, & Claude Desplan. (1997). Direct regulation of rhodopsin 1 by Pax-6/eyeless in Drosophila: evidence for a conserved function in photoreceptors.. Genes & Development. 11(9). 1122–1131. 153 indexed citations

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Schmucker, Dietmar, et al.. (1994). Chromophore-assisted laser inactivation of patched protein switches cell fate in the larval visual system of Drosophila.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91(7). 2664–2668. 43 indexed citations

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