Egon Willighagen

14.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
126 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Egon Willighagen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Information Systems and Management and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Egon Willighagen has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Information Systems and Management and 35 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Egon Willighagen's work include Scientific Computing and Data Management (36 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (35 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (35 papers). Egon Willighagen is often cited by papers focused on Scientific Computing and Data Management (36 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (35 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (35 papers). Egon Willighagen collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Egon Willighagen's co-authors include Christoph Steinbeck, Stefan Kühn, Rajarshi Guha, Oliver Horlacher, Edgar Luttmann, Chris T. Evelo, Peter Murray‐Rust, Ola Spjuth, Andra Waagmeester and Christian Hoppe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Egon Willighagen

118 papers receiving 5.7k 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 Chemistry Development Kit (CDK): An Open-Source Java Library for Chemo- and Bioinformatics

2003 830 citations Christoph Steinbeck, Egon Willighagen et al. profile →
"The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete"

2008 557 citations Egon Willighagen profile →
WikiPathways: connecting communities

2020 507 citations Marvin Martens, Ammar Ammar et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) v2.0: atom typing, depiction, molecular formulas, and substructure searching

2017 366 citations Egon Willighagen, Nina Jeliazkova et al. Journal of Cheminformatics profile →
The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research

2022 188 citations Adriano Rutz, Maria Sorokina et al. eLife profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Egon Willighagen Netherlands	33	3.3k	2.2k	699	682	664	126	6.0k
Janna Hastings United Kingdom	26	3.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	850 1.2×	300 0.4×	497 0.7×	111	5.1k
Christoph Steinbeck Germany	41	6.2k 1.9×	3.0k 1.4×	564 0.8×	900 1.3×	1.5k 2.3×	156	9.2k
Jumin Lee United States	34	6.0k 1.8×	782 0.4×	590 0.8×	752 1.1×	503 0.8×	81	12.2k
Ola Spjuth Sweden	31	1.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	300 0.4×	332 0.5×	301 0.5×	125	2.9k
Rajarshi Guha United States	43	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	190 0.3×	548 0.8×	480 0.7×	124	6.5k
Peter Murray‐Rust United Kingdom	35	1.7k 0.5×	886 0.4×	558 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	779 1.2×	202	5.2k
Weida Tong United States	60	5.5k 1.7×	3.6k 1.7×	509 0.7×	613 0.9×	672 1.0×	344	13.3k
Ross D. King United Kingdom	39	2.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.5k 2.2×	526 0.8×	345 0.5×	153	5.7k
Stefan Kühn Germany	27	1.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	147 0.2×	686 1.0×	691 1.0×	134	3.8k
Henry S. Rzepa United Kingdom	51	1.8k 0.5×	560 0.3×	294 0.4×	2.0k 2.9×	1.2k 1.9×	486	10.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Egon Willighagen

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Ammar, Ammar, Chris T. Evelo, & Egon Willighagen. (2024). FAIR assessment of nanosafety data reusability with community standards. Scientific Data. 11(1). 503–503. 6 indexed citations

Willighagen, Egon, et al.. (2024). The Chemistry Development Kit in 2024: improving cheminformatics research. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10.

Exner, Thomas E., Martin Himly, Andreas Falk, et al.. (2024). The role of FAIR nanosafety data and nanoinformatics in achieving the UN sustainable development goals: the NanoCommons experience. RSC Sustainability. 2(5). 1378–1399. 7 indexed citations

Slenter, Denise, et al.. (2023). Extending inherited metabolic disorder diagnostics with biomarker interaction visualizations. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 18(1). 95–95.

Miller, Ryan A., Martina Kutmon, Anwesha Bohler, et al.. (2022). Understanding signaling and metabolic paths using semantified and harmonized information about biological interactions. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0263057–e0263057. 2 indexed citations

Martens, Marvin, Chris T. Evelo, & Egon Willighagen. (2022). Providing Adverse Outcome Pathways from the AOP-Wiki in a Semantic Web Format to Increase Usability and Accessibility of the Content. PubMed. 8(1). 2–13. 14 indexed citations

Stocker, Markus, Tina Heger, Artur M. Schweidtmann, et al.. (2022). SKG4EOSC - Scholarly Knowledge Graphs for EOSC: Establishing a backbone of knowledge graphs for FAIR Scholarly Information in EOSC. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 5 indexed citations

Rutz, Adriano, Maria Sorokina, Jakub Galgonek, et al.. (2022). The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research. eLife. 11. 188 indexed citations breakdown →

Ehrhart, Friederike, et al.. (2021). A resource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes. Scientific Data. 8(1). 124–124. 15 indexed citations

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Winckers, Laurent, Chris T. Evelo, Egon Willighagen, & Martina Kutmon. (2021). Investigating the Molecular Processes behind the Cell-Specific Toxicity Response to Titanium Dioxide Nanobelts. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(17). 9432–9432. 3 indexed citations

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Ehrhart, Friederike, Annika Jacobsen, Maria Rigau, et al.. (2021). A catalogue of 863 Rett-syndrome-causing MECP2 mutations and lessons learned from data integration. Scientific Data. 8(1). 10–10. 21 indexed citations

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Waagmeester, Andra, Egon Willighagen, Andrew I. Su, et al.. (2021). A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses. BMC Biology. 19(1). 12–12. 12 indexed citations

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Sochorová, Michaela, Kateřina Vávrová, Maria Fedorova, et al.. (2021). Research Techniques Made Simple: Lipidomic Analysis in Skin Research. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 142(1). 4–11.e1. 7 indexed citations

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Kyle, Jennifer, Lucila Aimo, Alan Bridge, et al.. (2021). Interpreting the lipidome: bioinformatic approaches to embrace the complexity. Metabolomics. 17(6). 55–55. 16 indexed citations

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Martens, Marvin, Ammar Ammar, Anders Riutta, et al.. (2020). WikiPathways: connecting communities. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D613–D621. 507 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stanstrup, Jan, Corey D. Broeckling, Rick Helmus, et al.. (2019). The metaRbolomics Toolbox in Bioconductor and beyond. Metabolites. 9(10). 200–200. 60 indexed citations

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Ehrhart, Friederike, Henk J. van Kranen, Mark D. Wilkinson, et al.. (2018). MECP2 variation in Rett syndrome-An overview of current coverage of genetic and phenotype data within existing databases. Human Mutation. 39(7). 914–924. 13 indexed citations

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Willighagen, Egon, John Rumble, Friederike Ehrhart, et al.. (2017). Integration among databases and data sets to support productive nanotechnology: Challenges and recommendations. NanoImpact. 9. 85–101. 46 indexed citations

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Waagmeester, Andra, Egon Willighagen, Núria Queralt-Rosiñach, et al.. (2016). Linking Wikidata to the Rest of the Semantic Web.. Research Publications (Maastricht University). 1 indexed citations

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Fu, Gang, Colin Batchelor, Michel Dumontier, et al.. (2015). PubChemRDF: towards the semantic annotation of PubChem compound and substance databases. Journal of Cheminformatics. 7(1). 34–34. 77 indexed citations

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