F. Alexander Wolf

19.3k citations

26 papers · 8.6k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 21

Impact in

Biophysics top 0.1%
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques
Molecular Biology top 1%
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Gene expression and cancer classification

Papers in

Biophysics 4
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques 4
Condensed Matter Physics 7
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism 7

Co-authors: Fabian J. Theis Philipp Angerer Volker Bergen Marius Lange Stefan Peidli Maren Büttner Florian Buettner Laleh Haghverdi
Journals: Physical Review B (6 papers)Physical Review A (4 papers)Nature Methods (3 papers)IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2 papers)Genome biology (2 papers)
Partner nations: Germany Australia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

F. Alexander Wolf

26 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Predicting cellular responses to complex perturbations in high‐throughput screens 2023 · 97 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Molecular Systems Biology
2020 Nature Biotechnology
2019 Genome biology
2018 Science
2018 Genome biology
2016 Nature Methods

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All Works

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#	Work
1	anndata: Access and store annotated datamatrices The Journal of Open Source Software ·Isaac Virshup, Sergei Rybakov, Fabian J. Theis, Philipp Angerer, F. Alexander Wolf	2024	43
2	Predicting cellular responses to complex perturbations in high‐throughput screens Molecular Systems Biology ·Mohammad Lotfollahi, Laurien de Korte, Carlo De Donno, Leon Hetzel, Yuge Ji, Ignacio L. Ibarra, Sanjay Srivatsan, Mohsen Naghipourfar, Riza M. Daza, Beth Martin, Jay Shendure, José L. McFaline‐Figueroa, Pierre Boyeau, F. Alexander Wolf, Nafissa Yakubova, Stephan Günnemann, Cole Trapnell, David López-Paz, Fabian J. Theis Hit paper breakdown →	2023	97
3	Generalizing RNA velocity to transient cell states through dynamical modeling Nature Biotechnology ·Volker Bergen, Marius Lange, Stefan Peidli, F. Alexander Wolf, Fabian J. Theis Hit paper breakdown →	2020	1377
4	scGen predicts single-cell perturbation responses Nature Methods ·Mohammad Lotfollahi, F. Alexander Wolf, Fabian J. Theis	2019	278
5	PAGA: graph abstraction reconciles clustering with trajectory inference through a topology preserving map of single cells Genome biology ·F. Alexander Wolf, Fiona Hamey, Mireya Plass, Jordi Solana, Joakim S. Dahlin, Berthold Göttgens, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Lukas M. Simon, Fabian J. Theis Hit paper breakdown →	2019	848
6	SCANPY: large-scale single-cell gene expression data analysis Genome biology ·F. Alexander Wolf, Philipp Angerer, Fabian J. Theis Hit paper breakdown →	2018	3750
7	A test metric for assessing single-cell RNA-seq batch correction Nature Methods ·Maren Büttner, Zhichao Miao, F. Alexander Wolf, Sarah A. Teichmann, Fabian J. Theis	2018	244
8	Cell type atlas and lineage tree of a whole complex animal by single-cell transcriptomics Science ·Mireya Plass, Jordi Solana, F. Alexander Wolf, Salah Ayoub, Aristotelis Misios, Petar Glažar, Benedikt Obermayer, Fabian J. Theis, Christine Kocks, Nikolaus Rajewsky Hit paper breakdown →	2018	288
9	Reconstructing cell cycle and disease progression using deep learning Nature Communications ·Néstor Sánchez Belda, Niklas Köhler, Thomas Blasi, Andrew Filby, Anne E. Carpenter, Paul Rees, Fabian J. Theis, F. Alexander Wolf	2017	182
10	Diffusion pseudotime robustly reconstructs lineage branching Nature Methods ·Laleh Haghverdi, Maren Büttner, F. Alexander Wolf, Florian Buettner, Fabian J. Theis Hit paper breakdown →	2016	714
11	How to discretize a quantum bath for real-time evolution Physical Review B ·Inés de Vega, Ulrich Schollwöck, F. Alexander Wolf	2015	57
12	Strictly single-site DMRG algorithm with subspace expansion Physical Review B ·Claudius Hubig, Ian P. McCulloch, Ulrich Schollwöck, F. Alexander Wolf	2015	103
13	Nonthermal Melting of Néel Order in the Hubbard Model Physical Review X ·Karsten Balzer, F. Alexander Wolf, Ian P. McCulloch, Philipp Werner, Martin Eckstein	2015	27
14	Chebyshev matrix product state impurity solver for dynamical mean-field theory Physical Review B ·F. Alexander Wolf, Ian P. McCulloch, Olivier Parcollet, Ulrich Schollwöck	2014	73
15	Solving nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory using matrix product states Physical Review B ·F. Alexander Wolf, Ian P. McCulloch, Ulrich Schollwöck	2014	81
16	A comprehensive model for the diffusion of boron in silicon in presence of fluorine Solid-State Electronics ·F. Alexander Wolf, Анна Олеговна Толбей, P. Pichler	2013	2
17	Supercurrent through Grain Boundaries of Cuprate Superconductors in the Presence of Strong Correlations Physical Review Letters ·F. Alexander Wolf, S. Gräser, Florian Loder, Thilo Kopp	2012	7
18	Exact real-time dynamics of the quantum Rabi model Physical Review A ·F. Alexander Wolf, Marcus Kollar, Daniel Braak	2012	46
19	Expansion of Bose-Hubbard Mott insulators in optical lattices Physical Review A ·Marta Genovés, Juan Carrasquilla, F. Alexander Wolf, Marcos Rigol	2011	26
20	Collapse and revival oscillations as a probe for the tunneling amplitude in an ultracold Bose gas Physical Review A ·F. Alexander Wolf, Itay Hen, Marcos Rigol	2010	15

About F. Alexander Wolf

F. Alexander Wolf is a scholar working on Biophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Sensory Systems and Molecular Biology, having authored 26 papers that have together received 8.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (9 papers), Quantum many-body systems (9 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (7 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (4 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (4 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (3 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (3 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biophysics (1.2k citations), Molecular Biology (6.0k citations), Immunology (1.8k citations), Cancer Research (1.1k citations) and Neurology (363 citations). F. Alexander Wolf has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Fabian J. Theis, Philipp Angerer, Volker Bergen, Marius Lange, Stefan Peidli, Maren Büttner, Florian Buettner, Laleh Haghverdi, Mireya Plass and Nikolaus Rajewsky. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review B, Physical Review A, Nature Methods, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics and Genome biology.

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