Gert Weber

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Gert Weber is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pollution and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Gert Weber has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Pollution and 10 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Gert Weber's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers). Gert Weber is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers). Gert Weber collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United States. Gert Weber's co-authors include M.C. Wahl, Simon Trowitzsch, André C. Stiel, Martin A. Andresen, Stefan Jakobs, Christian Eggeling, Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Reinhard Jahn, Alexander Stein and Yutaka Natsumeda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Gert Weber

60 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Mechanism-Based Design of Efficient PET Hydrolases

2022 184 citations Ren Wei, Lara Pfaff et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
Assessment of Four Engineered PET Degrading Enzymes Considering Large-Scale Industrial Applications

2023 133 citations Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Gert Weber et al. ACS Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gert Weber Germany	28	2.0k	755	685	599	509	61	3.9k
James R. Baker United Kingdom	42	3.3k 1.6×	62 0.1×	134 0.2×	839 1.4×	91 0.2×	131	5.9k
Yamin Li China	34	2.7k 1.3×	47 0.1×	212 0.3×	551 0.9×	58 0.1×	84	4.5k
Fengjuan Wang China	15	821 0.4×	36 0.0×	207 0.3×	305 0.5×	57 0.1×	30	2.2k
Dirk T. S. Rijkers Netherlands	41	3.7k 1.8×	41 0.1×	112 0.2×	868 1.4×	176 0.3×	121	5.4k
Jörg Kuharev Germany	15	2.0k 1.0×	33 0.0×	139 0.2×	1.9k 3.2×	166 0.3×	15	4.7k
Johannes Stigler Germany	13	1.6k 0.8×	60 0.1×	181 0.3×	1.7k 2.8×	34 0.1×	23	4.0k
Alexey V. Feofanov Russia	34	2.1k 1.0×	266 0.4×	43 0.1×	178 0.3×	208 0.4×	210	3.5k
Hyewon Youn South Korea	30	1.6k 0.8×	125 0.2×	43 0.1×	466 0.8×	104 0.2×	108	3.6k
Volker Oberle Germany	12	1.8k 0.9×	57 0.1×	79 0.1×	853 1.4×	42 0.1×	19	3.0k
Qinglian Hu China	32	1.0k 0.5×	41 0.1×	188 0.3×	602 1.0×	69 0.1×	67	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Gert Weber

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gert Weber

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gert Weber

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Müeller, U., Volodymyr Bon, Ronald Förster, et al.. (2025). The macromolecular crystallography beamlines of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin at the BESSY II storage ring: history, current status and future directions. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 32(3). 766–778.

Wei, Ren, Gert Weber, Lars M. Blank, & Uwe T. Bornscheuer. (2025). Process insights for harnessing biotechnology for plastic depolymerization. 2(2). 110–117. 13 indexed citations

Wei, Ren, Peter Westh, Gert Weber, Lars M. Blank, & Uwe T. Bornscheuer. (2025). Standardization guidelines and future trends for PET hydrolase research. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4684–4684. 10 indexed citations

Mičan, Jan, Da’san M. M. Jaradat, Weidong Liu, et al.. (2023). Exploring new galaxies: Perspectives on the discovery of novel PET-degrading enzymes. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 342. 123404–123404. 41 indexed citations

Wu, Shuke, Yi Zhou, Weidong Liu, et al.. (2022). A growth selection system for the directed evolution of amine-forming or converting enzymes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 35 indexed citations

Pfaff, Lara, Jian Gao, Zhishuai Li, et al.. (2022). Multiple Substrate Binding Mode-Guided Engineering of a Thermophilic PET Hydrolase. ACS Catalysis. 12(15). 9790–9800. 126 indexed citations

Preußner, Marco, Benno Kuropka, İbrahim Ilik, et al.. (2022). A multi-factor trafficking site on the spliceosome remodeling enzyme BRR2 recruits C9ORF78 to regulate alternative splicing. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1132–1132. 9 indexed citations

Preußner, Marco, Karine Santos, Jonathan Alles, et al.. (2022). Structural and functional investigation of the human snRNP assembly factor AAR2 in complex with the RNase H-like domain of PRPF8. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 78(11). 1373–1383. 1 indexed citations

Takenaka, Mizuki, Daniil Verbitskiy, Mareike Schallenberg‐Rüdinger, et al.. (2021). DYW domain structures imply an unusual regulation principle in plant organellar RNA editing catalysis. Nature Catalysis. 4(6). 510–522. 57 indexed citations

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Liu, Weidong, et al.. (2021). Structural analysis of PET-degrading enzymes PETase and MHETase from Ideonella sakaiensis. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 648. 337–356. 10 indexed citations

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Lang, Imke, et al.. (2020). Exploiting the potential of Cyanidiales as a valuable resource for biotechnological applications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 199–210. 16 indexed citations

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Berndt, Leona, et al.. (2017). Crystal structures of the Arabidopsis thaliana organellar RNA editing factors MORF1 and MORF9. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(8). 4915–4928. 33 indexed citations

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Said, Nelly, E. A. Anedchenko, Karine Santos, et al.. (2017). Structural basis for λN-dependent processive transcription antitermination. Nature Microbiology. 2(7). 17062–17062. 52 indexed citations

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Ulrich, Alexander, Cindy L. Will, M. Seeger, et al.. (2015). Multiple protein–protein interactions converging on the Prp38 protein during activation of the human spliceosome. RNA. 22(2). 265–277. 18 indexed citations

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Berggren, Olof, Andrei Alexsson, David L. Morris, et al.. (2015). IFN- production by plasmacytoid dendritic cell associations with polymorphisms in gene loci related to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(12). 3571–3581. 26 indexed citations

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Brakemann, T., André C. Stiel, Gert Weber, et al.. (2012). Dreiklang - the one, two, three in photoswitching.. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 1 indexed citations

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Brakemann, T., André C. Stiel, Gert Weber, et al.. (2011). A reversibly photoswitchable GFP-like protein with fluorescence excitation decoupled from switching. Nature Biotechnology. 29(10). 942–947. 222 indexed citations

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Brakemann, T., Gert Weber, Martin A. Andresen, et al.. (2010). Molecular Basis of the Light-driven Switching of the Photochromic Fluorescent Protein Padron. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(19). 14603–14609. 59 indexed citations

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Trowitzsch, Simon, Gert Weber, Reinhard Lührmann, & M.C. Wahl. (2008). An Unusual RNA Recognition Motif Acts as a Scaffold for Multiple Proteins in the Pre-mRNA Retention and Splicing Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(47). 32317–32327. 21 indexed citations

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Weber, Gert, et al.. (1982). Carotenoid and Chlorophyll Composition of Light-Harvesting and Reaction Centre Proteins of the Thylakoid Membrane. Photobiochemistry and photobiophysics.. 4(1-2). 1–8. 30 indexed citations

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