Jakob Birnbaum

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 700 citations indexed

About

Jakob Birnbaum is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jakob Birnbaum has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 700 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jakob Birnbaum's work include Malaria Research and Control (6 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (3 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers). Jakob Birnbaum is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (6 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (3 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers). Jakob Birnbaum collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Jakob Birnbaum's co-authors include Tobias Spielmann, Ernst Jonscher, Sven Flemming, Bärbel Bergmann, Paolo Mesén-Ramírez, Alexandra Blancke Soares, Marius Schmitt, Ricarda Sabitzki, Sabine Schmidt and Wieteke A. M. Hoeijmakers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Jakob Birnbaum

11 papers receiving 699 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.

A Kelch13-defined endocytosis pathway mediates artemisinin resistance in malaria parasites

2020 250 citations Jakob Birnbaum, Sabine Schmidt et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jakob Birnbaum Germany	8	549	224	125	116	102	11	700
Ernst Jonscher Germany	6	467 0.9×	149 0.7×	112 0.9×	97 0.8×	107 1.0×	8	587
Paolo Mesén-Ramírez Germany	11	683 1.2×	202 0.9×	145 1.2×	149 1.3×	159 1.6×	18	834
Kenneth Udenze United States	7	515 0.9×	284 1.3×	160 1.3×	119 1.0×	120 1.2×	7	723
Tom Metcalf United Kingdom	7	466 0.8×	260 1.2×	117 0.9×	206 1.8×	126 1.2×	9	694
Jean‐Philippe Semblat France	18	497 0.9×	242 1.1×	84 0.7×	229 2.0×	105 1.0×	35	995
Gareth Girling United Kingdom	7	406 0.7×	226 1.0×	141 1.1×	149 1.3×	111 1.1×	9	619
Christa Geeke Toenhake Netherlands	9	423 0.8×	231 1.0×	79 0.6×	160 1.4×	62 0.6×	10	582
Brendan Elsworth United States	12	490 0.9×	153 0.7×	106 0.8×	119 1.0×	195 1.9×	17	660
Natalie A. Counihan Australia	12	404 0.7×	148 0.7×	183 1.5×	133 1.1×	155 1.5×	20	695
Andrea Ecker United Kingdom	13	631 1.1×	192 0.9×	123 1.0×	253 2.2×	143 1.4×	16	851

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jakob Birnbaum

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Petris, Gianluca, Pierre Murat, Kim C. Liu, et al.. (2025). High-fidelity human chromosome transfer and elimination. Science. 390(6777). 1038–1043. 1 indexed citations

Robertson, Wesley E., Fabian B. H. Rehm, Martin Spinck, et al.. (2025). Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code. Science. 390(6771). eady4368–eady4368. 2 indexed citations

Schmidt, Sabine, Jan Stephan Wichers-Misterek, Hannah Michaela Behrens, et al.. (2023). The Kelch13 compartment contains highly divergent vesicle trafficking proteins in malaria parasites. PLoS Pathogens. 19(12). e1011814–e1011814. 10 indexed citations

Kleefeldt, Askar A., Louise F. H. Funke, Jakob Birnbaum, et al.. (2023). Continuous synthesis of E. coli genome sections and Mb-scale human DNA assembly. Nature. 619(7970). 555–562. 30 indexed citations

Birnbaum, Jakob, Sabine Schmidt, Ernst Jonscher, et al.. (2020). A Kelch13-defined endocytosis pathway mediates artemisinin resistance in malaria parasites. Science. 367(6473). 51–59. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

Kennedy, Kit, Simon A. Cobbold, Eric Hanssen, et al.. (2019). Delayed death in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is caused by disruption of prenylation-dependent intracellular trafficking. PLoS Biology. 17(7). e3000376–e3000376. 62 indexed citations

Hoeijmakers, Wieteke A. M., Jun Miao, Sabine Schmidt, et al.. (2019). Epigenetic reader complexes of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(22). 11574–11588. 44 indexed citations

Jonscher, Ernst, Sven Flemming, Marius Schmitt, et al.. (2018). PfVPS45 Is Required for Host Cell Cytosol Uptake by Malaria Blood Stage Parasites. Cell Host & Microbe. 25(1). 166–173.e5. 50 indexed citations

Spielmann, Tobias, Jakob Birnbaum, Sven Flemming, et al.. (2017). Selection linked integration (SLI) for endogenous gene tagging and knock sideways in Plasmodium falciparum parasites. Protocol Exchange. 3 indexed citations

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Birnbaum, Jakob, Sven Flemming, Alexandra Blancke Soares, et al.. (2017). A genetic system to study Plasmodium falciparum protein function. Nature Methods. 14(4). 450–456. 207 indexed citations

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Becker, Johanna, Paolo Mesén-Ramírez, Jakob Birnbaum, et al.. (2017). Identification of novel parasitophorous vacuole proteins in P. falciparum parasites using BioID. International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 308(1). 13–24. 41 indexed citations

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