Joshua Zimmerberg

19.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
226 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Joshua Zimmerberg is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Zimmerberg has authored 226 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Molecular Biology, 66 papers in Cell Biology and 32 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Joshua Zimmerberg's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (122 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (59 papers) and Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (21 papers). Joshua Zimmerberg is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (122 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (59 papers) and Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (21 papers). Joshua Zimmerberg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Hungary. Joshua Zimmerberg's co-authors include Michael M. Kozlov, Leonid Chernomordik, Vadim A. Frolov, Fred Cohen, V. Adrian Parsegian, Fredric S. Cohen, Paul S. Blank, Alexandr Chanturiya, Svetlana Glushakova and Steven S. Vogel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Zimmerberg

223 papers receiving 15.6k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua Zimmerberg United States	71	11.3k	4.0k	1.8k	1.5k	1.5k	226	15.9k
Wah Chiu United States	88	16.8k 1.5×	2.4k 0.6×	2.6k 1.5×	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	470	29.2k
Leonid Chernomordik United States	57	9.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	790 0.5×	125	12.9k
Gerrit van Meer Netherlands	61	15.6k 1.4×	5.1k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	856 0.6×	131	21.2k
Satyajit Mayor India	60	10.8k 1.0×	5.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	961 0.7×	146	15.5k
Yifan Cheng United States	67	16.6k 1.5×	2.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	940 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	213	25.5k
David A. Agard United States	90	24.7k 2.2×	6.1k 1.5×	979 0.6×	2.5k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	326	37.3k
Michael M. Kozlov Israel	60	10.8k 1.0×	6.8k 1.7×	860 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.4×	153	14.9k
Nigel W. Moriarty United States	35	26.8k 2.4×	3.1k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	835 0.6×	563 0.4×	77	37.9k
Félix M. Goñi Spain	67	12.0k 1.1×	1.7k 0.4×	849 0.5×	982 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	374	15.5k
Erwin London United States	66	15.7k 1.4×	3.5k 0.9×	558 0.3×	1.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	192	19.3k

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Blank, Paul S., Irene Jiménez-Munguía, Saima Sidik, et al.. (2025). Perforation of the host cell plasma membrane during Toxoplasma invasion requires rhoptry exocytosis. EMBO Reports. 26(20). 5027–5047. 1 indexed citations

Jiménez-Munguía, Irene, et al.. (2025). The invasion pore induced by Toxoplasma gondii. EMBO Reports. 26(20). 5009–5026. 1 indexed citations

Kamath, Pauline L., Benjamin L. King, Hang Waters, et al.. (2024). Conserved sequence features in intracellular domains of viral spike proteins. Virology. 599. 110198–110198. 3 indexed citations

Golding, Adriana E., Wenping Li, Paul S. Blank, Stephanie M. Cologna, & Joshua Zimmerberg. (2023). Relative quantification of progressive changes in healthy and dysferlin‐deficient mouse skeletal muscle proteomes. Muscle & Nerve. 68(5). 805–816. 2 indexed citations

Waters, Hang, et al.. (2022). Localization-based super-resolution microscopy reveals relationship between SARS-CoV2 spike and phosphatidylinositol (4,5): biphosphate. PubMed. 11965. 10–10. 7 indexed citations

Zimmerberg, Joshua, et al.. (2022). Initiation and evolution of pores formed by influenza fusion peptides probed by lysolipid inclusion. Biophysical Journal. 122(6). 1018–1032. 10 indexed citations

Nasamu, Armiyaw S., Svetlana Glushakova, Ilaria Russo, et al.. (2017). Plasmepsins IX and X are essential and druggable mediators of malaria parasite egress and invasion. Science. 358(6362). 518–522. 119 indexed citations

Bezrukov, Ludmila, et al.. (2016). Resin embedded multicycle imaging (REMI): a tool to evaluate protein domains. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30284–30284. 1 indexed citations

Frisz, Jessica F., Kaiyan Lou, Haley A. Klitzing, et al.. (2013). Direct chemical evidence for sphingolipid domains in the plasma membranes of fibroblasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(8). E613–22. 165 indexed citations

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Shnyrova, Anna V., Pavel V. Bashkirov, Sergey A. Akimov, et al.. (2013). Geometric Catalysis of Membrane Fission Driven by Flexible Dynamin Rings. Science. 339(6126). 1433–1436. 115 indexed citations

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Crivat, Georgeta, Vladimir A. Lizunov, Karin G. Stenkula, et al.. (2013). Insulin Stimulates Translocation of Human GLUT4 to the Membrane in Fat Bodies of Transgenic Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e77953–e77953. 13 indexed citations

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Polozov, Ivan V., Ludmila Bezrukov, Klaus Gawrisch, & Joshua Zimmerberg. (2008). Progressive ordering with decreasing temperature of the phospholipids of influenza virus. Nature Chemical Biology. 4(4). 248–255. 182 indexed citations

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Shnyrova, Anna V., Vadim A. Frolov, & Joshua Zimmerberg. (2008). ER Biogenesis: Self-Assembly of Tubular Topology by Protein Hairpins. Current Biology. 18(11). R474–R476. 12 indexed citations

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Zimmerberg, Joshua. (2006). Membrane biophysics. Current Biology. 16(8). R272–R276. 26 indexed citations

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Lizunov, Vladimir A., Hideko Matsumoto, Joshua Zimmerberg, Samuel W. Cushman, & Vadim A. Frolov. (2005). Insulin stimulates the halting, tethering, and fusion of mobile GLUT4 vesicles in rat adipose cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 169(3). 481–489. 150 indexed citations

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Duray, Paul H., Yoshinori Ito, Ludmila Bezrukov, et al.. (2005). Invasion of Human Tissue Ex Vivo byBorrelia burgdorferi. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 191(10). 1747–1754. 29 indexed citations

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Frolov, Vadim A., et al.. (2003). Membrane Permeability Changes at Early Stages of Influenza Hemagglutinin-Mediated Fusion. Biophysical Journal. 85(3). 1725–1733. 67 indexed citations

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Chanturiya, Alexandr, M Whitaker, & Joshua Zimmerberg. (1999). Calcium-induced fusion of sea urchin egg secretory vesicles with planar phospholipid bilayer membranes. Molecular Membrane Biology. 16(1). 89–94. 12 indexed citations

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Chanturiya, Alexandr, Eugenia Leikina, Joshua Zimmerberg, & Leonid Chernomordik. (1999). Short-Chain Alcohols Promote an Early Stage of Membrane Hemifusion. Biophysical Journal. 77(4). 2035–2045. 42 indexed citations

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Blank, Paul S., Myoung‐Soon Cho, Steven S. Vogel, et al.. (1998). Submaximal Responses in Calcium-triggered Exocytosis Are Explained by Differences in the Calcium Sensitivity of Individual Secretory Vesicles. The Journal of General Physiology. 112(5). 559–567. 49 indexed citations

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