Jan O. Korbel

115.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
114 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Jan O. Korbel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan O. Korbel has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Genetics and 28 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Jan O. Korbel's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (35 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (27 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (24 papers). Jan O. Korbel is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (35 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (27 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (24 papers). Jan O. Korbel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Jan O. Korbel's co-authors include Adrian M. Stütz, Tobias Rausch, Thomas Zichner, Andreas Schlattl, Vladimı́r Beneš, Mark Gerstein, M Snyder, Peer Bork, Peter J. Campbell and Joachim Weischenfeldt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jan O. Korbel

110 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

2 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.

DELLY: structural variant discovery by integrated paired-end and split-read analysis

2012 1.3k citations Tobias Rausch, Thomas Zichner et al. Bioinformatics profile →
Phenotypic impact of genomic structural variation: insights from and for human disease

2013 407 citations Joachim Weischenfeldt, Jan O. Korbel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan O. Korbel Germany	47	5.8k	2.9k	1.7k	1.5k	495	114	8.3k
Jared Maguire United States	8	4.5k 0.8×	3.7k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	582 1.2×	8	8.5k
Manuel A. Rivas United States	5	4.3k 0.7×	3.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	552 1.1×	5	8.4k
Anthony Philippakis United States	30	6.6k 1.1×	4.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	667 1.3×	70	11.6k
Adrian E. Platts United States	20	4.2k 0.7×	3.4k 1.2×	2.6k 1.6×	898 0.6×	388 0.8×	56	9.1k
Arend Sidow United States	36	6.5k 1.1×	2.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	894 0.6×	382 0.8×	62	8.6k
Fran Supek Spain	28	4.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	474 1.0×	57	7.3k
Brad Chapman United States	27	6.8k 1.2×	1.8k 0.6×	2.6k 1.6×	1.0k 0.7×	332 0.7×	47	9.6k
Deanna M. Church United States	30	4.8k 0.8×	3.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	792 0.5×	348 0.7×	55	7.1k
Jacob O. Kitzman United States	29	4.1k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	303 0.6×	55	6.4k
Guillermo del Angel United States	8	5.8k 1.0×	4.9k 1.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	857 1.7×	15	11.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan O. Korbel

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Andrades, Álvaro, Michael Jendrusch, Sonia Zumalave, et al.. (2025). Origins of chromosome instability unveiled by coupled imaging and genomics. Nature. 648(8093). 383–393.

Reeve, Mary Pat, Stephanie Loomis, Eija Nissilä, et al.. (2025). Loss of CFHR5 function reduces the risk for age-related macular degeneration. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5766–5766. 1 indexed citations

Jendrusch, Michael, Elisabetta Cacace, Jacob Bobonis, et al.. (2025). AlphaDesign: a de novo protein design framework based on AlphaFold. Molecular Systems Biology. 21(9). 1166–1189. 3 indexed citations

Jeong, Hyobin, Patrick Hasenfeld, Eva Benito, et al.. (2025). Structural variant and nucleosome occupancy dynamics postchemotherapy in a HER2+ breast cancer organoid model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(9). e2415475122–e2415475122. 1 indexed citations

Porubský, David, Mitchell R. Vollger, William T. Harvey, et al.. (2023). Gaps and complex structurally variant loci in phased genome assemblies. Genome Research. 33(4). 496–510. 23 indexed citations

Ebler, Jana, Peter Ebert, Wayne E. Clarke, et al.. (2022). Pangenome-based genome inference allows efficient and accurate genotyping across a wide spectrum of variant classes. Nature Genetics. 54(4). 518–525. 110 indexed citations

Mercuri, Ludovica, Alberto L’Abbate, Pietro D’Addabbo, et al.. (2022). A high-resolution map of small-scale inversions in the gibbon genome. Genome Research. 32(10). 1941–1951. 5 indexed citations

Gros, C., Ashley D. Sanders, Jan O. Korbel, Tobias Marschall, & Peter Ebert. (2021). ASHLEYS: automated quality control for single-cell Strand-seq data. Bioinformatics. 37(19). 3356–3357. 6 indexed citations

Sungalee, Stéphanie, Salvatore Benfatto, Özdemirhan Serçin, et al.. (2020). A scalable CRISPR/Cas9-based fluorescent reporter assay to study DNA double-strand break repair choice. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4077–4077. 30 indexed citations

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Karoutas, Adam, Witold Szymański, Tobias Rausch, et al.. (2019). The NSL complex maintains nuclear architecture stability via lamin A/C acetylation. Nature Cell Biology. 21(10). 1248–1260. 69 indexed citations

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Quaas, Alexander, Martina Kluth, Corinna Wittmer, et al.. (2016). Heterogeneity of ERG expression in prostate cancer: a large section mapping study of entire prostatectomy specimens from 125 patients. BMC Cancer. 16(1). 641–641. 19 indexed citations

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Bens, Susanne, Thomas Zichner, Adrian M. Stütz, et al.. (2014). SPAG7 is a candidate gene for the periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenopathy (PFAPA) syndrome. Genes and Immunity. 15(3). 190–194. 17 indexed citations

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Kluth, Martina, Antje Krohn, Stefan Steurer, et al.. (2013). Genomic deletion of MAP3K7 at 6q12-22 is associated with early PSA recurrence in prostate cancer and absence of TMPRSS2:ERG fusions. Modern Pathology. 26(7). 975–983. 80 indexed citations

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Schlattl, Andreas, Simon Anders, Sebastian M. Waszak, Wolfgang Huber, & Jan O. Korbel. (2011). Relating CNVs to transcriptome data at fine resolution: Assessment of the effect of variant size, type, and overlap with functional regions. Genome Research. 21(12). 2004–2013. 88 indexed citations

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Kasowski, Maya, Fabian Grubert, Christopher Heffelfinger, et al.. (2010). Variation in Transcription Factor Binding Among Humans. Science. 328(5975). 232–235. 423 indexed citations

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Gianoulis, Tara A., Jeroen Raes, Robert Bjornson, et al.. (2009). Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(5). 1374–1379. 139 indexed citations

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Abyzov, Alexej, et al.. (2008). MSB: A mean-shift-based approach for the analysis of structural variation in the genome. Genome Research. 19(1). 106–117. 30 indexed citations

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Rozowsky, Joel, Daniel E. Newburger, Jiaqian Wu, et al.. (2007). The DART classification of unannotated transcription within the ENCODE regions: Associating transcription with known and novel loci. Genome Research. 17(6). 732–745. 20 indexed citations

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Morett, Enrique, Jan O. Korbel, E. G. Rajan, et al.. (2002). Discovery of Analogous Enzymes in Thiamin Biosynthesis by Anticorrelation. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 13(13). 365–366. 1 indexed citations

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Kiełbasa, Szymon M., Jan O. Korbel, Dieter Beule, Johannes Schuchhardt, & Hanspeter Herzel. (2000). Finding Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Coregulated Genes by Exhaustive Sequence Search.. 55–62. 1 indexed citations

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