Doug Tischer

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 605 citations indexed

About

Doug Tischer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Doug Tischer has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 605 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 1 paper in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Doug Tischer's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (1 paper) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (1 paper). Doug Tischer is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (1 paper) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (1 paper). Doug Tischer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and China. Doug Tischer's co-authors include Orion D. Weiner, Lauren Carter, David Baker, Brian Coventry, Yakov Kipnis, Pengchen Ma, Declan Evans, Gyu Rie Lee, Samer Halabiya and Michelle DeWitt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Doug Tischer

6 papers receiving 598 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.

De novo design of luciferases using deep learning

2023 241 citations Hsien‐Wei Yeh, Christoffer Norn et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Doug Tischer United States	4	378	186	120	103	87	6	605
Maximilian Hörner Germany	16	472 1.2×	182 1.0×	143 1.2×	189 1.8×	44 0.5×	35	750
Taras Redchuk United States	6	308 0.8×	227 1.2×	94 0.8×	185 1.8×	70 0.8×	12	494
Lopamudra Giri India	14	289 0.8×	110 0.6×	79 0.7×	38 0.4×	133 1.5×	53	631
Konstantin G. Chernov Finland	12	655 1.7×	279 1.5×	97 0.8×	212 2.1×	95 1.1×	17	893
Robert DeRose United States	9	579 1.5×	119 0.6×	86 0.7×	51 0.5×	70 0.8×	11	766
Raphael Engesser Germany	12	614 1.6×	296 1.6×	85 0.7×	348 3.4×	56 0.6×	17	883
Reiya Taniguchi Japan	8	429 1.1×	226 1.2×	60 0.5×	82 0.8×	63 0.7×	10	726
Madhusudan Natarajan United States	8	398 1.1×	111 0.6×	30 0.3×	89 0.9×	63 0.7×	11	648
Tobias Strittmatter Switzerland	13	369 1.0×	134 0.7×	130 1.1×	53 0.5×	25 0.3×	22	585
Shiva Razavi United States	8	489 1.3×	126 0.7×	68 0.6×	41 0.4×	57 0.7×	13	658

Countries citing papers authored by Doug Tischer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Doug Tischer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Doug Tischer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Doug Tischer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Doug Tischer 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 Doug Tischer. Doug Tischer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Kim, Donghyo, Woody Ahern, Doug Tischer, et al.. (2025). Computational design of metallohydrolases. Nature. 649(8095). 246–253. 1 indexed citations

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Ahern, Woody, Jason Yim, Doug Tischer, et al.. (2025). Atom-level enzyme active site scaffolding using RFdiffusion2. Nature Methods. 23(1). 96–105. 2 indexed citations

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Kim, David E., Davin R. Jensen, David Feldman, et al.. (2023). De novo design of small beta barrel proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(11). e2207974120–e2207974120. 21 indexed citations

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Yeh, Hsien‐Wei, Christoffer Norn, Yakov Kipnis, et al.. (2023). De novo design of luciferases using deep learning. Nature. 614(7949). 774–780. 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tischer, Doug & Orion D. Weiner. (2019). Light-based tuning of ligand half-life supports kinetic proofreading model of T cell signaling. eLife. 8. 62 indexed citations

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Tischer, Doug & Orion D. Weiner. (2014). Illuminating cell signalling with optogenetic tools. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 15(8). 551–558. 278 indexed citations

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