Herbert Waldmann

48.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
840 papers, 38.6k citations indexed

About

Herbert Waldmann is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Herbert Waldmann has authored 840 papers receiving a total of 38.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 596 papers in Molecular Biology, 381 papers in Organic Chemistry and 121 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Herbert Waldmann's work include Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (216 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (105 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (104 papers). Herbert Waldmann is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (216 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (105 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (104 papers). Herbert Waldmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Herbert Waldmann's co-authors include Kamal Kumar, Andrey P. Antonchick, Stefan Wetzel, Slava Ziegler, Horst Kunz, Alfred Wittinghofer, Gemma Triola, Jürgen Kuhlmann, Rolf Breinbauer and Daniel Rauh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Herbert Waldmann

825 papers receiving 37.9k citations

Hit Papers

An Acylation Cycle Regulates Localization and Activity of... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2014 2010 2011 2010 200 400 600
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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. An Acylation Cycle Regulates Localization and Activity of Palmitoylated Ras Isoforms
    2005 672 citations Oliver Rocks, Martin Kahms et al. Science profile →
  2. Fluorogenic probes for live-cell imaging of the cytoskeleton
    2014 622 citations Herbert Waldmann et al. profile →
  3. Activation of the Raf-MEK-ERK pathway is required for neutrophil extracellular trap formation
    2010 617 citations Heino Prinz, Herbert Waldmann et al. profile →
  4. The Pictet–Spengler Reaction in Nature and in Organic Chemistry
    2011 615 citations Herbert Waldmann et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  5. Highly enantioselective synthesis and cellular evaluation of spirooxindoles inspired by natural products
    2010 519 citations Slava Ziegler, Herbert Waldmann et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
  6. Small molecule inhibition of the KRAS–PDEδ interaction impairs oncogenic KRAS signalling
    2013 474 citations Gunther Zimmermann, Bjoern Papke et al. profile →
  7. Catalytic Enantioselective 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Azomethine Ylides for Biology-Oriented Synthesis
    2014 433 citations Herbert Waldmann et al. profile →
  8. Chemical Evolution of Natural Product Structure
    2022 136 citations Michael Grigalunas, Herbert Waldmann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Herbert Waldmann Germany 95 23.3k 18.6k 4.9k 3.3k 2.7k 840 38.6k
Peter Wipf United States 84 12.4k 0.5× 13.0k 0.7× 2.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 1.7k 0.6× 616 26.7k
Samuel J. Danishefsky United States 97 19.9k 0.9× 33.4k 1.8× 5.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.4× 4.7k 1.7× 850 41.6k
Amos B. Smith United States 82 7.6k 0.3× 20.2k 1.1× 3.0k 0.6× 998 0.3× 1.7k 0.6× 764 30.9k
Hualiang Jiang China 80 17.1k 0.7× 6.4k 0.3× 2.8k 0.6× 813 0.2× 2.3k 0.8× 713 30.2k
W. Minor United States 52 25.8k 1.1× 6.1k 0.3× 1.3k 0.3× 2.9k 0.9× 4.3k 1.6× 233 42.5k
W. Clark Still United States 59 13.0k 0.6× 13.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.3× 457 0.1× 1.4k 0.5× 173 25.5k
K. C. Nicolaou United States 100 12.5k 0.5× 34.1k 1.8× 8.0k 1.7× 877 0.3× 4.0k 1.5× 600 41.9k
Yves Pommier United States 122 48.2k 2.1× 9.6k 0.5× 3.3k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 21.0k 7.8× 870 62.2k
Joel L. Sussman Israel 82 16.8k 0.7× 5.4k 0.3× 9.9k 2.0× 1.5k 0.5× 835 0.3× 282 28.5k
Jeffery W. Kelly United States 106 29.0k 1.2× 5.2k 0.3× 1.3k 0.3× 8.7k 2.7× 3.6k 1.3× 424 39.8k

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All Works

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Kaschani, Farnusch, et al.. (2025). Small Molecule‐Induced Alterations of Protein Polyubiquitination Revealed by Mass‐Spectrometric Ubiquitome Analysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(32). e202508916–e202508916. 1 indexed citations
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Burhop, Annina, Beate Schölermann, Jie Liu, et al.. (2025). An Indole Dearomatization Strategy for the Synthesis of Pseudo‐Natural Products. ChemBioChem. 26(10). e202500182–e202500182. 1 indexed citations
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Schölermann, Beate, Sukdev Bag, Axel Pahl, et al.. (2024). Discovery of a Novel Pseudo‐Natural Product Aurora Kinase Inhibitor Chemotype through Morphological Profiling. Advanced Science. 11(21). e2309202–e2309202. 9 indexed citations
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Zdrazil, Barbara, Paul D. Leeson, Robert J. Young, et al.. (2024). A compound-target pairs dataset: differences between drugs, clinical candidates and other bioactive compounds. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1160–1160. 4 indexed citations
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Flegel, Jana, Kerstin C. Maier, Kristina Žumer, et al.. (2024). The Pseudo‐Natural Product Tafbromin Selectively Targets the TAF1 Bromodomain 2. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(32). e202404645–e202404645. 4 indexed citations
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Bag, Sukdev, Jie Liu, Beate Schölermann, et al.. (2024). A divergent intermediate strategy yields biologically diverse pseudo-natural products. Nature Chemistry. 16(6). 945–958. 17 indexed citations
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Xie, Jianing, Matthias Hinterndorfer, Marko Cigler, et al.. (2023). Discovery of a Drug-like, Natural Product-Inspired DCAF11 Ligand Chemotype. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7908–7908. 23 indexed citations
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Xie, Jianing, Axel Pahl, Jie Liu, et al.. (2023). Synthetic Matching of Complex Monoterpene Indole Alkaloid Chemical Space. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(48). e202310222–e202310222. 7 indexed citations
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Xie, Jianing, Axel Pahl, Jie Liu, et al.. (2023). Synthetic Matching of Complex Monoterpene Indole Alkaloid Chemical Space. Angewandte Chemie. 135(48). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Jie, Axel Pahl, Rebecca Scheel, et al.. (2023). Collective Synthesis of Sarpagine and Macroline Alkaloid‐Inspired Compounds. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(5). e202303027–e202303027. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Jie, Jana Flegel, Carsten Strohmann, et al.. (2023). A highly enantioselective intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition yields novel pseudo-natural product inhibitors of the Hedgehog signalling pathway. Chemical Science. 14(29). 7936–7943. 6 indexed citations
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Young, Robert J., Sabine L. Flitsch, Michael Grigalunas, et al.. (2022). The Time and Place for Nature in Drug Discovery. JACS Au. 2(11). 2400–2416. 68 indexed citations
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Liu, Jie, Felix Otte, Carsten Strohmann, & Herbert Waldmann. (2021). Enantioselective synthesis of pyrro[3,4-c]quinoline pseudo-natural products. Tetrahedron Letters. 76. 153228–153228. 7 indexed citations
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Liu, Jie, et al.. (2020). Guided by evolution: from biology oriented synthesis to pseudo natural products. Natural Product Reports. 37(11). 1497–1510. 49 indexed citations
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Ziegler, Slava, Hiroki Yoshida, Mizuki Watanabe, et al.. (2019). Nutrient-Based Chemical Library as a Source of Energy Metabolism Modulators. ACS Chemical Biology. 14(9). 1860–1865. 3 indexed citations
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Papke, Bjoern, Sandip Murarka, Pablo Martín‐Gago, et al.. (2016). Identification of pyrazolopyridazinones as PDEδ inhibitors. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11360–11360. 131 indexed citations
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Rocks, Oliver, Martin Kahms, Peter J. Verveer, et al.. (2005). An Acylation Cycle Regulates Localization and Activity of Palmitoylated Ras Isoforms. Science. 307(5716). 1746–1752. 672 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fürstner, Alois, et al.. (2003). Total Synthesis and Reassessment of the Phosphatase‐Inhibitory Activity of the Antitumor Agent TMC‐69‐6H. Angewandte Chemie. 115(43). 5519–5522. 21 indexed citations
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Russell, NH, Gavin Cull, Jenny Byrne, et al.. (1999). Evaluation of non-myeloablative conditioning combining beam with in vivo pre-transplant Campath-IG for allogeneic transplantation in patients with lymphoma.. Blood. 94. 5 indexed citations

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