Jochen Förster

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Jochen Förster is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jochen Förster has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 13 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Jochen Förster's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (29 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (14 papers). Jochen Förster is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (29 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (14 papers). Jochen Förster collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Sweden and Germany. Jochen Förster's co-authors include Jens Nielsen, Iman Famili, Bernhard Ø. Palsson, Irina Borodina, Isabel Rocha, Jérôme Maury, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Vratislav Šťovíček, Markus J. Herrgård and Niels Bjerg Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Jochen Förster

48 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Genome-Scale Reconstruction of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Metabolic Network

2003 788 citations Jochen Förster, Iman Famili et al. Genome Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jochen Förster Denmark	28	3.6k	1.4k	485	304	251	49	4.1k
Walter M. van Gulik Netherlands	46	4.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.2×	375 0.8×	327 1.1×	365 1.5×	118	5.7k
Marco Oldiges Germany	33	3.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	164 0.3×	148 0.5×	204 0.8×	128	3.6k
Cornelis Verduyn Netherlands	21	3.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	633 1.3×	259 0.9×	361 1.4×	36	3.7k
Marijke A. H. Luttik Netherlands	26	3.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	700 1.4×	310 1.0×	433 1.7×	57	3.6k
Ralf Takors Germany	37	4.0k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	141 0.3×	203 0.7×	164 0.7×	181	4.9k
Marjan De Mey Belgium	33	3.0k 0.9×	916 0.6×	159 0.3×	298 1.0×	170 0.7×	94	3.6k
Xian Zhang China	32	2.3k 0.6×	834 0.6×	242 0.5×	371 1.2×	284 1.1×	202	3.1k
Johannes H. de Winde Netherlands	40	4.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	556 1.1×	344 1.1×	880 3.5×	90	5.5k
Markus J. Herrgård Denmark	41	6.5k 1.8×	2.3k 1.6×	221 0.5×	249 0.8×	192 0.8×	84	7.3k
Irina Borodina Denmark	44	4.8k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	414 0.9×	752 2.5×	387 1.5×	105	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Jochen Förster

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jochen Förster

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Özdemir, Emre, et al.. (2025). Characterizing heterologous protein burden in Komagataella phaffii. FEMS Yeast Research. 25. 1 indexed citations

Šťovíček, Vratislav, Klaus B. Lengeler, Toni Wendt, et al.. (2024). Modifying flavor profiles of Saccharomyces spp. for industrial brewing using FIND-IT, a non-GMO approach for metabolic engineering of yeast. New Biotechnology. 82. 92–106. 2 indexed citations

Chailyan, Anna, et al.. (2020). Assessing Population Diversity of Brettanomyces Yeast Species and Identification of Strains for Brewing Applications. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 637–637. 30 indexed citations

Lengeler, Klaus B., et al.. (2020). Never Change a Brewing Yeast? Why Not, There Are Plenty to Choose From. Frontiers in Genetics. 11. 582789–582789. 13 indexed citations

Chailyan, Anna, et al.. (2019). Multi-omics characterization of the necrotrophic mycoparasite Saccharomycopsis schoenii. PLoS Pathogens. 15(5). e1007692–e1007692. 24 indexed citations

Kang, Kang, B. Mikael Bergdahl, Daniel Machado, et al.. (2019). Linking genetic, metabolic, and phenotypic diversity among Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains using multi-omics associations. GigaScience. 8(4). 27 indexed citations

Chailyan, Anna, et al.. (2019). Uncovering carbohydrate metabolism through a genotype-phenotype association study of 56 lactic acid bacteria genomes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 103(7). 3135–3152. 81 indexed citations

Maury, Jérôme, Soumya Kannan, Niels Bjerg Jensen, et al.. (2018). Glucose-Dependent Promoters for Dynamic Regulation of Metabolic Pathways. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 6. 63–63. 24 indexed citations

Strucko, Tomas, Katharina Zirngibl, Filipa Pereira, et al.. (2018). Laboratory evolution reveals regulatory and metabolic trade-offs of glycerol utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metabolic Engineering. 47. 73–82. 41 indexed citations

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Kristensen, Mette, et al.. (2017). Quantifying the Metabolome of Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120: Evaluation of Hot and Cold Combined Quenching/Extraction Approaches. Analytical Chemistry. 89(17). 8738–8747. 10 indexed citations

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Kildegaard, Kanchana Rueksomtawin, Niels Bjerg Jensen, Konstantin Schneider, et al.. (2016). Engineering and systems-level analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid via malonyl-CoA reductase-dependent pathway. Microbial Cell Factories. 15(1). 53–53. 96 indexed citations

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Bergdahl, B. Mikael, et al.. (2016). Physiology ofSaccharomyces cerevisiaestrains isolated from Brazilian biomes: new insights into biodiversity and industrial applications. FEMS Yeast Research. 16(7). fow076–fow076. 27 indexed citations

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Stahlhut, Steen G., Solvej Siedler, Sailesh Malla, et al.. (2015). Assembly of a novel biosynthetic pathway for production of the plant flavonoid fisetin in Escherichia coli. Metabolic Engineering. 31. 84–93. 61 indexed citations

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Kildegaard, Kanchana Rueksomtawin, Björn M. Hallström, Thomas Blicher, et al.. (2014). Evolution reveals a glutathione-dependent mechanism of 3-hydroxypropionic acid tolerance. Metabolic Engineering. 26. 57–66. 65 indexed citations

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Borodina, Irina, Kanchana Rueksomtawin Kildegaard, Niels Bjerg Jensen, et al.. (2014). Establishing a synthetic pathway for high-level production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae via β-alanine. Metabolic Engineering. 27. 57–64. 170 indexed citations

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Vongsangnak, Wanwipa, Luís F. de Figueiredo, Jochen Förster, et al.. (2012). Genome‐scale metabolic representation of Amycolatopsis balhimycina. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 109(7). 1798–1807. 18 indexed citations

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Rocha, Isabel, Jochen Förster, & Jens Nielsen. (2008). Design and Application of Genome-Scale Reconstructed Metabolic Models. Methods in molecular biology. 416. 409–431. 39 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Ana Paula, Jens Nielsen, & Jochen Förster. (2005). Modeling Lactococcus lactis using a genome-scale flux model. BMC Microbiology. 5(1). 39–39. 179 indexed citations

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Patil, Kiran Raosaheb, Isabel Rocha, Jochen Förster, & Jens Nielsen. (2005). Evolutionary programming as a platform for in silico metabolic engineering. BMC Bioinformatics. 6(1). 308–308. 331 indexed citations

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Förster, Jochen, et al.. (2003). Genome-Scale Reconstruction of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Metabolic Network. Genome Research. 13(2). 244–253. 788 indexed citations breakdown →

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