Gottfried Schatz

28.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
217 papers, 23.7k citations indexed

About

Gottfried Schatz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gottfried Schatz has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 23.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 190 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 21 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Gottfried Schatz's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (144 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (54 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (53 papers). Gottfried Schatz is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (144 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (54 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (53 papers). Gottfried Schatz collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Austria. Gottfried Schatz's co-authors include Giuseppe Attardi, Martin Eilers, G. Daum, Bernhard Dobberstein, P C Böhni, Dietmar Vestweber, Kitaru Suda, Michael P. Yaffe, B. Pesold-Hurt and Eduard C. Hurt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Gottfried Schatz

215 papers receiving 22.1k citations

Hit Papers

Biogenesis of Mitochondria 1982 2026 1996 2011 1988 1982 1996 1986 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. Biogenesis of Mitochondria
    1988 1.2k citations Gottfried Schatz et al. PubMed profile →
  2. Import of proteins into mitochondria. Cytochrome b2 and cytochrome c peroxidase are located in the intermembrane space of yeast mitochondria.
    1982 1.1k citations Gottfried Schatz et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  3. Common Principles of Protein Translocation Across Membranes
    1996 879 citations Gottfried Schatz et al. profile →
  4. Binding of a specific ligand inhibits import of a purified precursor protein into mitochondria
    1986 590 citations Martin Eilers, Gottfried Schatz Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Gottfried Schatz 21.6k 3.4k 2.8k 1.3k 1.2k 217 23.7k
Walter Neupert 29.7k 1.4× 5.3k 1.6× 3.4k 1.2× 926 0.7× 1.4k 1.2× 341 31.8k
Nikolaus Pfanner 30.6k 1.4× 6.1k 1.8× 3.2k 1.2× 875 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 305 32.6k
Alexander Tzagoloff 16.8k 0.8× 1.6k 0.5× 1.3k 0.5× 907 0.7× 860 0.7× 219 19.0k
Edmond H. Fischer 11.7k 0.5× 766 0.2× 3.5k 1.2× 1.2k 0.9× 694 0.6× 193 16.8k
Robert Schimke 13.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 2.4k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 3.3k 2.8× 215 20.5k
Suzanne Jackowski 8.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 2.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 944 0.8× 168 12.4k
Suresh Subramani 15.7k 0.7× 870 0.3× 2.2k 0.8× 960 0.7× 1.9k 1.6× 209 19.4k
Roderick Capaldi 14.4k 0.7× 2.0k 0.6× 1.2k 0.4× 577 0.4× 439 0.4× 238 16.7k
Edwin G. Krebs 14.4k 0.7× 663 0.2× 3.9k 1.4× 812 0.6× 1.5k 1.2× 150 20.6k
Gebhard von Jagow 12.1k 0.6× 686 0.2× 1.5k 0.5× 523 0.4× 1.6k 1.3× 72 16.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schatz, Gottfried. (2009). Coming in from the cold: how answering a postcard can launch a scientific career. Nature Cell Biology. 11(4). 364–364. 1 indexed citations
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Schatz, Gottfried. (2004). Postdocs. FEBS Letters. 568(1-3). 1–3. 1 indexed citations
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Schatz, Gottfried. (2004). Letting go. FEBS Letters. 576(3). 285–286. 1 indexed citations
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Schatz, Gottfried. (2001). What Mitochondria Have Told Me. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 12(4). 777–778. 2 indexed citations
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Tokatlidis, Kostas & Gottfried Schatz. (1999). Biogenesis of Mitochondrial Inner Membrane Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(50). 35285–35288. 34 indexed citations
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Horst, Martin, Abdussalam Azem, Gottfried Schatz, & Benjamin S. Glick. (1997). What is the driving force for protein import into mitochondria?. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1318(1-2). 71–78. 31 indexed citations
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Azem, Abdussalam, Wolfgang Oppliger, Ariel Lustig, et al.. (1997). The Mitochondrial hsp70 Chaperone System. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(33). 20901–20906. 60 indexed citations
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Schatz, Gottfried. (1996). Efraim Racker: June 28, 1913 - September 9, 1991.. PubMed. 70. 321–46. 1 indexed citations
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Schatz, Gottfried. (1996). The Protein Import System of Mitochondria. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(50). 31763–31766. 219 indexed citations
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Schatz, Gottfried. (1995). Mitochondria: beyond oxidative phosphorylation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1271(1). 123–126. 69 indexed citations
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Lithgow, Trevor, Benjamin S. Glick, & Gottfried Schatz. (1995). The protein import receptor of mitochondria. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 20(3). 98–101. 130 indexed citations
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Wachter, Clemens, Gottfried Schatz, & Benjamin S. Glick. (1994). Protein import into mitochondria: the requirement for external ATP is precursor-specific whereas intramitochondrial ATP is universally needed for translocation into the matrix.. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 5(4). 465–474. 109 indexed citations
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Müller, Sabina, et al.. (1993). The signal that sorts yeast cytochrome b2 to the mitochondrial intermembrane space contains three distinct functional regions.. The EMBO Journal. 12(6). 2303–2311. 67 indexed citations
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Hannavy, Kevin, Sabine Rospert, & Gottfried Schatz. (1993). Protein import into mitochondria: a paradigm for the translocation of polypeptides across membranes. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 5(4). 694–700. 73 indexed citations
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Pon, Liza A. & Gottfried Schatz. (1991). 7 Biogenesis of Yeast Mitochondria. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 333–406. 9 indexed citations
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Baker, Kevin P., et al.. (1990). A yeast mitochondrial outer membrane protein essential for protein import and cell viability. Nature. 348(6302). 605–609. 209 indexed citations
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Vestweber, Dietmar & Gottfried Schatz. (1988). A chimeric mitochondrial precursor protein with internal disulfide bridges blocks import of authentic precursors into mitochondria and allows quantitation of import sites.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 107(6). 2037–2043. 124 indexed citations
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Eilers, Martin, Keith Verner, Sam T. Hwang, & Gottfried Schatz. (1988). Import of proteins into mitochondria. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 319(1193). 121–126. 4 indexed citations
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Schatz, Gottfried & Ladislav Kováč. (1974). [65] Isolation of promitochondria from anaerobically grown saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 31. 627–632. 46 indexed citations
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Criddle, Richard S., et al.. (1969). Identification of Mitochondrial Inner Membranes in Anaerobically Grown Baker's Yeast. The Journal of General Physiology. 54(1). 57–65. 2 indexed citations

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