Florian Wilfling

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Florian Wilfling is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Wilfling has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Cell Biology and 14 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Florian Wilfling's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (12 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (11 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (8 papers). Florian Wilfling is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (12 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (11 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (8 papers). Florian Wilfling collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Florian Wilfling's co-authors include Tobias C. Walther, Robert V. Farese, Joel T. Haas, Natalie Krahmer, Joerg Bewersdorf, Travis J. Gould, Matthias Mann, Maximiliane Hilger, Klaus Heger and Romain Christiano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Florian Wilfling

33 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Triacylglycerol Synthesis Enzymes Mediate Lipid Droplet Growth by Relocalizing from the ER to Lipid Droplets

2013 618 citations Florian Wilfling, Joel T. Haas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Florian Wilfling Germany	20	1.7k	1.5k	718	452	412	34	2.6k
Jinglei Cheng Japan	28	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	571 1.3×	538 1.3×	39	2.9k
Jeeyun Chung United States	13	1.2k 0.7×	621 0.4×	678 0.9×	314 0.7×	184 0.4×	15	1.9k
Robin W. Klemm United States	19	2.0k 1.2×	530 0.4×	1.2k 1.6×	323 0.7×	160 0.4×	26	2.7k
Florian Fröhlich Germany	26	2.7k 1.6×	636 0.4×	1.2k 1.7×	393 0.9×	391 0.9×	57	3.8k
Symeon Siniossoglou United Kingdom	31	3.1k 1.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.7k 2.3×	381 0.8×	225 0.5×	43	3.9k
Derk D. Binns United States	26	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.8×	484 1.1×	186 0.5×	41	3.0k
Romain Christiano United States	18	1.6k 1.0×	662 0.4×	553 0.8×	252 0.6×	193 0.5×	21	2.1k
Alexandre Toulmay United States	18	1.8k 1.1×	584 0.4×	1.0k 1.4×	228 0.5×	234 0.6×	22	2.3k
Hong Hu China	17	850 0.5×	470 0.3×	236 0.3×	378 0.8×	170 0.4×	32	1.5k
Wolfgang Schliebs Germany	36	2.9k 1.7×	162 0.1×	214 0.3×	353 0.8×	353 0.9×	76	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Florian Wilfling

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Wilfling

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wilfling, Florian, et al.. (2025). In situ cryo-ET visualization of mitochondrial depolarization and mitophagic engulfment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(31). e2511890122–e2511890122. 3 indexed citations

Licheva, Mariya, et al.. (2025). To degrade or not to degrade: how phase separation modulates selective autophagy. Autophagy. 21(11). 2518–2520. 1 indexed citations

Börmel, Mandy, Sven Klumpe, Anja Becker, et al.. (2025). The small GTPase Ran defines nuclear pore complex asymmetry. Cell. 188(21). 5931–5946.e16.

Hoyer, Melissa, Ian R. Smith, João A. Paulo, et al.. (2024). Combinatorial selective ER-phagy remodels the ER during neurogenesis. Nature Cell Biology. 26(3). 378–392. 21 indexed citations

Wilfling, Florian, et al.. (2024). Osmotic stress induces formation of both liquid condensates and amyloids by a yeast prion domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(10). 107766–107766. 2 indexed citations

Wilfling, Florian, et al.. (2024). Selective Autophagy of Macromolecular Complexes: What Does It Take to be Taken?. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(15). 168574–168574. 1 indexed citations

Wilfling, Florian, et al.. (2023). Autophagy as a caretaker of nuclear integrity. FEBS Letters. 597(22). 2728–2738. 4 indexed citations

Wilfling, Florian, Marko Kaksonen, & Jeanne C. Stachowiak. (2023). Protein condensates as flexible platforms for membrane traffic. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 85. 102258–102258. 6 indexed citations

Erdmann, Philipp S., Florian Beck, Chia‐Wei Lee, et al.. (2022). In situ structural analysis reveals membrane shape transitions during autophagosome formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(39). e2209823119–e2209823119. 57 indexed citations

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Qiao, Shuai, Chia‐Wei Lee, Dawafuti Sherpa, et al.. (2022). Cryo-EM structures of Gid12-bound GID E3 reveal steric blockade as a mechanism inhibiting substrate ubiquitylation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3041–3041. 11 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Daniel, Süleyman Bozkurt, Stefan Eimer, et al.. (2022). Lipid and protein content profiling of isolated native autophagic vesicles. EMBO Reports. 23(12). e53065–e53065. 27 indexed citations

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Enenkel, Cordula, et al.. (2022). Intracellular localization of the proteasome in response to stress conditions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(7). 102083–102083. 34 indexed citations

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Erdmann, Philipp S., Sven Klumpe, Sagar Khavnekar, et al.. (2021). In situ cryo-electron tomography reveals gradient organization of ribosome biogenesis in intact nucleoli. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5364–5364. 48 indexed citations

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Wilfling, Florian, et al.. (2021). Sample Preparation by 3D-Correlative Focused Ion Beam Milling for High-Resolution Cryo-Electron Tomography. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 6 indexed citations

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Allegretti, Matteo, Christian E. Zimmerli, Vasileios Rantos, et al.. (2020). In-cell architecture of the nuclear pore and snapshots of its turnover. Nature. 586(7831). 796–800. 133 indexed citations

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Lee, Chia‐Wei, Florian Wilfling, Paolo Ronchi, et al.. (2020). Selective autophagy degrades nuclear pore complexes. Nature Cell Biology. 22(2). 159–166. 79 indexed citations

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Wilfling, Florian, Chia‐Wei Lee, Philipp S. Erdmann, et al.. (2020). A Selective Autophagy Pathway for Phase-Separated Endocytic Protein Deposits. Molecular Cell. 80(5). 764–778.e7. 72 indexed citations

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Frank, Daniel, Jörn Dengjel, Florian Wilfling, et al.. (2015). The Pro-Apoptotic BH3-Only Protein Bim Interacts with Components of the Translocase of the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane (TOM). PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0123341–e0123341. 26 indexed citations

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Wilfling, Florian, Joel T. Haas, Tobias C. Walther, & Robert V. Farese. (2014). Lipid droplet biogenesis. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 29. 39–45. 320 indexed citations

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Mejhert, Niklas, Florian Wilfling, David Estève, et al.. (2013). Semaphorin 3C is a novel adipokine linked to extracellular matrix composition. Diabetologia. 56(8). 1792–1801. 28 indexed citations

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