Günter P. Wagner

32.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
290 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

Günter P. Wagner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Günter P. Wagner has authored 290 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Molecular Biology, 121 papers in Genetics and 44 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Günter P. Wagner's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (68 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (48 papers) and Reproductive System and Pregnancy (40 papers). Günter P. Wagner is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (68 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (48 papers) and Reproductive System and Pregnancy (40 papers). Günter P. Wagner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Germany. Günter P. Wagner's co-authors include Vincent J. Lynch, Lee Altenberg, Koryu Kin, Mihaela Pavličev, James M. Cheverud, Homayoun C. Bagheri, Jianzhi Zhang, Joachim Hermisson, Manfred D. Laubichler and Gerd B. Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Günter P. Wagner

283 papers receiving 19.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Measurement of mRNA abundance using RNA-seq data: RPKM measure is inconsistent among samples

2012 1.4k citations Günter P. Wagner, Vincent J. Lynch et al. profile →
PERSPECTIVE: COMPLEX ADAPTATIONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLVABILITY

1996 1.2k citations Günter P. Wagner et al. Evolution profile →
The road to modularity

2007 691 citations Günter P. Wagner, Mihaela Pavličev et al. profile →
Homologues, Natural Kinds and the Evolution of Modularity

1996 600 citations Günter P. Wagner profile →
Perspective: Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability

1996 543 citations Günter P. Wagner et al. Evolution profile →
The origin and evolution of cell types

2016 473 citations Mihaela Pavličev, Günter P. Wagner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Günter P. Wagner United States	70	8.6k	7.4k	3.0k	2.3k	2.2k	290	20.4k
Sean B. Carroll United States	79	14.0k 1.6×	8.3k 1.1×	4.7k 1.6×	1.8k 0.8×	3.4k 1.6×	150	23.0k
James M. Cheverud United States	76	4.2k 0.5×	11.2k 1.5×	5.6k 1.9×	3.5k 1.5×	2.6k 1.2×	296	24.0k
Richard C Lewontin United States	69	4.9k 0.6×	11.3k 1.5×	5.0k 1.7×	892 0.4×	2.8k 1.3×	269	27.5k
Axel Meyer Germany	103	15.4k 1.8×	15.3k 2.1×	5.3k 1.8×	3.1k 1.3×	3.8k 1.7×	520	39.2k
George Oster United States	72	7.1k 0.8×	2.5k 0.3×	1.9k 0.6×	688 0.3×	761 0.3×	187	17.3k
Svante Pääbo Germany	122	23.1k 2.7×	24.3k 3.3×	2.9k 1.0×	7.2k 3.1×	3.2k 1.5×	305	50.5k
David B. Wake United States	66	2.9k 0.3×	5.0k 0.7×	5.4k 1.8×	3.1k 1.3×	791 0.4×	279	17.6k
Thomas F. Hansen Norway	49	1.8k 0.2×	4.7k 0.6×	5.0k 1.7×	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	135	11.5k
Diethard Tautz Germany	79	14.1k 1.6×	9.8k 1.3×	3.9k 1.3×	929 0.4×	4.9k 2.2×	250	25.0k
Allan C. Wilson United States	66	10.1k 1.2×	11.8k 1.6×	3.1k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	130	22.1k

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Wagner, Günter P., et al.. (2025). Pseudo-perplexity in one fell swoop for protein fitness estimation. 3(3). 1 indexed citations

Pavličev, Mihaela, James DiFrisco, Alan C. Love, & Günter P. Wagner. (2024). Metabolic complementation between cells drives the evolution of tissues and organs. Biology Letters. 20(11). 20240490–20240490.

Maziarz, Jamie, Eric M. Erkenbrack, Yansheng Liu, et al.. (2022). Evolution of higher mesenchymal CD44 expression in the human lineage. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 10(1). 447–462. 6 indexed citations

Pavličev, Mihaela & Günter P. Wagner. (2022). The value of broad taxonomic comparisons in evolutionary medicine: Disease is not a trait but a state of a trait!. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). e174–e174. 4 indexed citations

Lynch, Vincent J. & Günter P. Wagner. (2021). Cooption of polyalanine tract into a repressor domain in the mammalian transcription factor HoxA11. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 340(8). 486–495. 3 indexed citations

Wagner, Günter P., et al.. (2021). Single-cell analysis of prostaglandin E2-induced human decidual cell in vitro differentiation: a minimal ancestral deciduogenic signal. Biology of Reproduction. 106(1). 155–172. 34 indexed citations

Griffith, Oliver W., Matteo Fabbri, Laurel R. Yohe, et al.. (2021). Hidden limbs in the “limbless skink” Brachymeles lukbani : Developmental observations. Journal of Anatomy. 239(3). 693–703. 3 indexed citations

Love, Alan C. & Günter P. Wagner. (2021). Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties. Evolution. 76(3). 394–413. 22 indexed citations

Chavan, Arun R., Oliver W. Griffith, Jamie Maziarz, et al.. (2020). Evolution of Embryo Implantation Was Enabled by the Origin of Decidual Stromal Cells in Eutherian Mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(3). 1060–1074. 29 indexed citations

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DiFrisco, James, Alan C. Love, & Günter P. Wagner. (2020). Character identity mechanisms: a conceptual model for comparative-mechanistic biology. Biology & Philosophy. 35(4). 43 indexed citations

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Stewart, Thomas A., Cong Liang, Justin Cotney, et al.. (2019). Evidence against tetrapod-wide digit identities and for a limited frame shift in bird wings. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3244–3244. 17 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Don, Michael R. McGowen, Amy Weckle, et al.. (2017). The core transcriptome of mammalian placentas and the divergence of expression with placental shape. Placenta. 57. 71–78. 43 indexed citations

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Chavan, Arun R., Bhart‐Anjan S. Bhullar, & Günter P. Wagner. (2016). What was the ancestral function of decidual stromal cells? A model for the evolution of eutherian pregnancy. Placenta. 40. 40–51. 44 indexed citations

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Lynch, Vincent J., Andrea Tanzer, Yajun Wang, et al.. (2008). Adaptive changes in the transcription factor HoxA-11 are essential for the evolution of pregnancy in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(39). 14928–14933. 74 indexed citations

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Draghi, Jeremy A. & Günter P. Wagner. (2008). The evolutionary dynamics of evolvability in a gene network model. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22(3). 599–611. 68 indexed citations

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Hermisson, Joachim & Günter P. Wagner. (2004). The Population Genetic Theory of Hidden Variation and Genetic Robustness. Genetics. 168(4). 2271–2284. 200 indexed citations

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Calabretta, Raffaele, Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi, & Günter P. Wagner. (2000). An artificial life model for investigating the evolution of modularity. 103–113. 2 indexed citations

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Misof, Bernhard, Marı́a José Blanco, & Günter P. Wagner. (1996). PCR-survey of hox-genes of the zebrafish: New sequence information and evolutionary implications. Journal of Experimental Zoology. 274(3). 193–206. 23 indexed citations

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Wagner, Günter P., et al.. (1996). Recombination induced hypergraphs: a new approach to mutation-recombination isomorphism. Complexity. 2(1). 37–43. 20 indexed citations

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Wagner, Günter P., et al.. (1994). Festschrift Günter Wagner. Peter Lang eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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