Erik Benson

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Erik Benson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik Benson has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Erik Benson's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (15 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (14 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers). Erik Benson is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (15 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (14 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers). Erik Benson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Finland and United Kingdom. Erik Benson's co-authors include Björn Högberg, Alan Shaw, Abdulmelik Mohammed, Pekka Orponen, Eugen Czeizler, Sergej Masich, Andreas M. Nyström, Xianghui Zeng, Yongxing Zhao and Ana I. Teixeira and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Erik Benson

14 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

DNA rendering of polyhedral meshes at the nanoscale

2015 539 citations Erik Benson, Abdulmelik Mohammed 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
Erik Benson Sweden	11	1.4k	453	322	85	72	15	1.5k
Florian Praetorius Germany	14	1.3k 0.9×	394 0.9×	346 1.1×	87 1.0×	79 1.1×	14	1.5k
Benjamin Kick Germany	7	867 0.6×	284 0.6×	221 0.7×	50 0.6×	48 0.7×	9	959
Thomas Gerling Germany	11	1.4k 1.0×	467 1.0×	329 1.0×	81 1.0×	85 1.2×	13	1.5k
Enrique Lin-Shiao United States	12	1.3k 0.9×	270 0.6×	175 0.5×	41 0.5×	39 0.5×	12	1.4k
Klaus F. Wagenbauer Germany	8	1.1k 0.8×	377 0.8×	268 0.8×	92 1.1×	64 0.9×	11	1.3k
Sherri Rinker United States	7	1.1k 0.8×	332 0.7×	273 0.8×	82 1.0×	71 1.0×	10	1.2k
Philipp Wortmann Germany	5	820 0.6×	262 0.6×	164 0.5×	41 0.5×	39 0.5×	8	883
Kasper Jahn Denmark	7	1.8k 1.3×	603 1.3×	387 1.2×	96 1.1×	78 1.1×	7	2.0k
Bryan Wei China	15	1.4k 1.0×	434 1.0×	318 1.0×	135 1.6×	84 1.2×	41	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Erik Benson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erik Benson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik Benson

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Nguyen, M., et al.. (2025). cONcat: Computational reconstruction of concatenated fragments from long Oxford Nanopore reads. PLoS ONE. 20(7). e0321246–e0321246.

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Reis, Sara, Erik Benson, Marco M. Domingues, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Neuronal Cell Uptake of Therapeutic Nucleic Acids with Tetrahedral DNA Nanostructures. Small. 20(29). e2309140–e2309140. 10 indexed citations

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Doye, Jonathan P. K., Lorenzo Rovigatti, Flavio Romano, et al.. (2023). The oxDNA Coarse-Grained Model as a Tool to Simulate DNA Origami. Methods in molecular biology. 2639. 93–112. 16 indexed citations

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Lill, Pascal, et al.. (2023). Multilayer DNA Origami with Terminal Interfaces That Are Flat and Wide-Area. ACS Nano. 18(1). 885–893. 2 indexed citations

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Benson, Erik, et al.. (2022). A DNA molecular printer capable of programmable positioning and patterning in two dimensions. Science Robotics. 7(65). eabn5459–eabn5459. 17 indexed citations

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Benson, Erik, et al.. (2021). Strategies for Constructing and Operating DNA Origami Linear Actuators. Small. 17(20). e2007704–e2007704. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Yang, et al.. (2021). DNA Origami Penetration in Cell Spheroid Tissue Models is Enhanced by Wireframe Design. Advanced Materials. 33(29). e2008457–e2008457. 47 indexed citations

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Benson, Erik, et al.. (2019). Evolutionary Refinement of DNA Nanostructures Using Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations. ACS Nano. 13(11). 12591–12598. 19 indexed citations

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Benson, Erik, et al.. (2018). Effects of Design Choices on the Stiffness of Wireframe DNA Origami Structures. ACS Nano. 12(9). 9291–9299. 33 indexed citations

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Benson, Erik, Abdulmelik Mohammed, Alessandro Bosco, et al.. (2016). Computer‐Aided Production of Scaffolded DNA Nanostructures from Flat Sheet Meshes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(31). 8869–8872. 47 indexed citations

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Benson, Erik, Abdulmelik Mohammed, Alessandro Bosco, et al.. (2016). Computer‐Aided Production of Scaffolded DNA Nanostructures from Flat Sheet Meshes. Angewandte Chemie. 128(31). 9015–9018. 6 indexed citations

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Benson, Erik, Abdulmelik Mohammed, Sergej Masich, et al.. (2015). DNA rendering of polyhedral meshes at the nanoscale. Nature. 523(7561). 441–444. 539 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shaw, Alan, Erik Benson, & Björn Högberg. (2015). Purification of Functionalized DNA Origami Nanostructures. ACS Nano. 9(5). 4968–4975. 109 indexed citations

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Shaw, Alan, Vanessa Lundin, Ekaterina Petrova, et al.. (2014). Spatial control of membrane receptor function using ligand nanocalipers. Nature Methods. 11(8). 841–846. 210 indexed citations

15.

Zhao, Yongxing, Alan Shaw, Xianghui Zeng, et al.. (2012). DNA Origami Delivery System for Cancer Therapy with Tunable Release Properties. ACS Nano. 6(10). 8684–8691. 418 indexed citations

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