Erwin Frey

17.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
281 papers, 12.3k citations indexed

About

Erwin Frey is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Molecular Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Erwin Frey has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 65 papers in Molecular Biology and 63 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Erwin Frey's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (53 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (41 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (38 papers). Erwin Frey is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (53 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (41 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (38 papers). Erwin Frey collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Erwin Frey's co-authors include Tobias Reichenbach, Mauro Mobilia, Thomas Franosch, Andreas R. Bausch, Klaus Kroy, Jan Wilhelm, Claus Heussinger, Christoph A. Weber, Jacob Halatek and Andrea Parmeggiani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Erwin Frey

272 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Hit Papers

Polar patterns of driven filaments 2007 2026 2013 2019 2010 2007 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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. Polar patterns of driven filaments
    2010 614 citations Erwin Frey et al. profile →
  2. Mobility promotes and jeopardizes biodiversity in rock–paper–scissors games
    2007 543 citations Erwin Frey 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
Erwin Frey Germany 57 3.9k 2.9k 2.6k 2.6k 2.0k 281 12.3k
Eshel Ben‐Jacob Israel 72 4.8k 1.2× 1.4k 0.5× 2.9k 1.1× 4.6k 1.8× 2.2k 1.1× 325 22.3k
Herbert Levine United States 84 3.5k 0.9× 3.6k 1.3× 2.7k 1.1× 7.5k 2.9× 1.6k 0.8× 461 24.0k
Boris I. Shraiman United States 61 7.2k 1.9× 1.5k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 3.1k 1.2× 1.9k 0.9× 120 16.6k
Stanislas Leibler United States 63 2.1k 0.5× 3.0k 1.0× 2.6k 1.0× 16.2k 6.3× 1.6k 0.8× 118 23.9k
George Oster United States 72 860 0.2× 4.7k 1.6× 2.5k 1.0× 7.1k 2.8× 1.6k 0.8× 187 17.3k
Raphaël Voituriez France 59 2.0k 0.5× 4.0k 1.4× 2.8k 1.1× 5.9k 2.3× 949 0.5× 191 11.8k
Henrik Flyvbjerg Denmark 44 1.2k 0.3× 1.2k 0.4× 2.5k 1.0× 2.8k 1.1× 2.0k 1.0× 152 9.7k
Hugues Chaté France 57 6.2k 1.6× 436 0.2× 1.5k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 709 0.3× 164 10.5k
Eric D. Siggia United States 80 4.2k 1.1× 2.7k 1.0× 3.5k 1.4× 14.9k 5.8× 4.4k 2.2× 181 29.4k
Raymond E. Goldstein United States 68 8.8k 2.3× 1.4k 0.5× 6.3k 2.5× 2.8k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 222 15.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Erwin Frey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erwin Frey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erwin Frey

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Jinghui, John F. Reinhard, Yu-Chen Chao, et al.. (2025). Light-induced cortical excitability reveals programmable shape dynamics in starfish oocytes. Nature Physics. 21(5). 846–855. 2 indexed citations
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Luca, F. De, et al.. (2024). Supramolecular Assemblies in Active Motor-Filament Systems: Micelles, Bilayers, and Foams. Physical Review X. 14(3). 3 indexed citations
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Brauns, Fridtjof, et al.. (2023). Coarsening and wavelength selection far from equilibrium: A unifying framework based on singular perturbation theory. Physical review. E. 108(6). 8 indexed citations
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Brauns, Fridtjof, et al.. (2023). Redundancy and the role of protein copy numbers in the cell polarization machinery of budding yeast. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6504–6504. 5 indexed citations
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Brauns, Fridtjof, et al.. (2023). Directing Min protein patterns with advective bulk flow. Nature Communications. 14(1). 450–450. 6 indexed citations
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Basu, Abhik, et al.. (2023). Anomalous Collective Dynamics of Autochemotactic Populations. Physical Review Letters. 131(8). 4 indexed citations
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Frey, Erwin, et al.. (2022). The time complexity of self-assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 21 indexed citations
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Ramm, Beatrice, Andriy Goychuk, Alena Khmelinskaia, et al.. (2021). A diffusiophoretic mechanism for ATP-driven transport without motor proteins. Nature Physics. 17(7). 850–858. 63 indexed citations
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Brauns, Fridtjof, et al.. (2021). Wavelength Selection by Interrupted Coarsening in Reaction-Diffusion Systems. Physical Review Letters. 126(10). 104101–104101. 38 indexed citations
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Brauns, Fridtjof, et al.. (2021). Bulk-surface coupling identifies the mechanistic connection between Min-protein patterns in vivo and in vitro. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3312–3312. 36 indexed citations
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Schumacher, Dominik, et al.. (2021). PomX, a ParA/MinD ATPase activating protein, is a triple regulator of cell division in Myxococcus xanthus. eLife. 10. 8 indexed citations
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Schmid, Bettina, et al.. (2020). Molecular underpinnings of cytoskeletal cross-talk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(8). 3944–3952. 14 indexed citations
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Brauns, Fridtjof, et al.. (2019). Design of biochemical pattern forming systems from minimal motifs. eLife. 8. 23 indexed citations
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Kretschmer, Simon, et al.. (2018). MinE conformational switching confers robustness on self-organized Min protein patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(18). 4553–4558. 52 indexed citations
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Rulands, Steffen, Alejandro Zielinski, & Erwin Frey. (2013). Global attractors and extinction dynamics of cyclically competing species. Physical Review E. 87(5). 52710–52710. 24 indexed citations
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Heussinger, Claus, et al.. (2010). Statics and dynamics of the wormlike bundle model. Physical Review E. 81(2). 21904–21904. 40 indexed citations
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Kirchgeßner, Norbert, Margret Giesen, Masashi Degawa, et al.. (2009). Direct observation of the tube model in F-actin solutions: Tube dimensions and curvatures. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 14 indexed citations
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Frey, Erwin, Andrea Parmeggiani, & Thomas Franosch. (2004). Phase Coexistence in Driven One-Dimensional Transport. APS. 2004. 8 indexed citations
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Frey, Erwin, et al.. (1981). Konstruktionsmorphologie Nr. 123: A New Reconstruction of the Pterosaur Wing. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 161(1). 1–27. 18 indexed citations

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