Jochen Singer

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Jochen Singer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jochen Singer has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cancer Research and 5 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Jochen Singer's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (8 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Jochen Singer is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (8 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Jochen Singer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Jochen Singer's co-authors include Niko Beerenwinkel, Christian Beisel, Cinzia Donato, Barbara M. Szczerba, Sofia Gkountela, Viola Heinzelmann‐Schwarz, Francesc Castro-Giner, Marcus Vetter, Julia Landin and Nicola Aceto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Jochen Singer

12 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Neutrophils escort circulating tumour cells to enable cell cycle progression

2019 886 citations Barbara M. Szczerba, Francesc Castro-Giner et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jochen Singer Switzerland	9	634	443	419	342	150	12	1.2k
Munehide Nakatsugawa Japan	21	783 1.2×	193 0.4×	672 1.6×	683 2.0×	83 0.6×	79	1.4k
Jill A. Gershan United States	15	649 1.0×	156 0.4×	256 0.6×	442 1.3×	182 1.2×	23	1.1k
Sonja Offner Germany	8	641 1.0×	181 0.4×	496 1.2×	309 0.9×	71 0.5×	8	1.1k
Jessica Dal Col Italy	20	554 0.9×	125 0.3×	469 1.1×	550 1.6×	74 0.5×	35	1.2k
Despina Siolas United States	8	465 0.7×	301 0.7×	674 1.6×	188 0.5×	132 0.9×	21	1.2k
Michael Kragh Denmark	23	753 1.2×	137 0.3×	509 1.2×	318 0.9×	66 0.4×	51	1.4k
Bihui Xu United States	5	950 1.5×	537 1.2×	872 2.1×	924 2.7×	92 0.6×	5	1.9k
Anne Roslind Denmark	17	640 1.0×	391 0.9×	636 1.5×	298 0.9×	90 0.6×	32	1.3k
Natalie B. Collins United States	10	963 1.5×	189 0.4×	775 1.8×	826 2.4×	75 0.5×	21	1.7k
Jean-Michel Vernes United States	12	552 0.9×	192 0.4×	613 1.5×	462 1.4×	40 0.3×	15	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Jochen Singer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jochen Singer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jochen Singer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jochen Singer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jochen Singer. Jochen Singer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Szczerba, Barbara M., Katharina Jahn, Francesc Castro-Giner, et al.. (2025). Phylogenetic inference reveals clonal heterogeneity in circulating tumor cell clusters. Nature Genetics. 57(6). 1357–1361. 2 indexed citations

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Kuipers, Jack, Jochen Singer, & Niko Beerenwinkel. (2022). Single-cell mutation calling and phylogenetic tree reconstruction with loss and recurrence. Bioinformatics. 38(20). 4713–4719. 8 indexed citations

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Dimitrakopoulos, Christos, Sravanth K. Hindupur, Marco Colombi, et al.. (2021). Multi-omics data integration reveals novel drug targets in hepatocellular carcinoma. BMC Genomics. 22(1). 592–592. 10 indexed citations

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Kuipers, Jack, Jochen Singer, Elodie Burcklen, et al.. (2021). Spatial Distribution of Private Gene Mutations in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancers. 13(9). 2163–2163. 8 indexed citations

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Boettcher, Steffen, C. Matthias Wilk, Jochen Singer, et al.. (2020). Clonal hematopoiesis in donors and long-term survivors of related allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Blood. 135(18). 1548–1559. 50 indexed citations

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Szczerba, Barbara M., Francesc Castro-Giner, Marcus Vetter, et al.. (2019). Neutrophils escort circulating tumour cells to enable cell cycle progression. Nature. 566(7745). 553–557. 886 indexed citations breakdown →

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Singer, Franziska, Anja Irmisch, Nora C. Toussaint, et al.. (2018). SwissMTB: establishing comprehensive molecular cancer diagnostics in Swiss clinics. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 18(1). 89–89. 12 indexed citations

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Singer, Jochen, Jack Kuipers, Katharina Jahn, & Niko Beerenwinkel. (2018). Single-cell mutation identification via phylogenetic inference. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5144–5144. 50 indexed citations

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Behr, Jonas, Jochen Singer, Jack Kuipers, et al.. (2017). Detailed simulation of cancer exome sequencing data reveals differences and common limitations of variant callers. BMC Bioinformatics. 18(1). 8–8. 29 indexed citations

10.

Singer, Jochen, Anja Irmisch, Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh, et al.. (2017). Bioinformatics for precision oncology. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 20(3). 778–788. 49 indexed citations

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Seifert, David, Francesca Di Giallonardo, Armin Töpfer, et al.. (2015). A Comprehensive Analysis of Primer IDs to Study Heterogeneous HIV-1 Populations. Journal of Molecular Biology. 428(1). 238–250. 21 indexed citations

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Hauswedell, Hannes, Jochen Singer, & Knut Reinert. (2014). Lambda: the local aligner for massive biological data. Bioinformatics. 30(17). i349–i355. 53 indexed citations

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