Judith Becker

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Judith Becker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Judith Becker has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Judith Becker's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (53 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (24 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (23 papers). Judith Becker is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (53 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (24 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (23 papers). Judith Becker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and Chile. Judith Becker's co-authors include Christoph Wittmann, Oskar Zelder, Michael Kohlstedt, Hartwig Schröder, Stefan S. Hafner, Ignacio Poblete‐Castro, Vítor A. P. Martins dos Santos, Katrin Dohnt, Stefanie Kind and Gideon Gießelmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Judith Becker

64 papers receiving 5.6k 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 field of dreams: Lignin valorization into chemicals, materials, fuels, and health-care products

2019 362 citations Judith Becker, Christoph Wittmann Biotechnology Advances profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Judith Becker Germany	43	4.4k	2.4k	669	644	604	65	5.7k
Kristala L. J. Prather United States	43	6.0k 1.4×	2.2k 0.9×	734 1.1×	376 0.6×	852 1.4×	122	7.1k
Guillermo Gosset Mexico	46	4.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	575 0.9×	512 0.8×	1.5k 2.4×	138	5.7k
Hideaki Yukawa Japan	49	7.0k 1.6×	3.9k 1.6×	590 0.9×	876 1.4×	1.3k 2.2×	203	8.7k
K. T. Shanmugam United States	55	6.0k 1.4×	3.8k 1.6×	623 0.9×	835 1.3×	995 1.6×	133	8.3k
Jin‐Ho Seo South Korea	45	5.2k 1.2×	3.0k 1.2×	907 1.4×	251 0.4×	696 1.2×	236	6.9k
Rodrigo Ledesma‐Amaro United Kingdom	45	6.2k 1.4×	2.7k 1.1×	559 0.8×	212 0.3×	520 0.9×	193	7.4k
He Huang China	48	5.0k 1.2×	3.0k 1.2×	360 0.5×	747 1.2×	138 0.2×	212	7.3k
Brian F. Pfleger United States	41	4.2k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	268 0.4×	266 0.4×	700 1.2×	110	5.9k
Qingsheng Qi China	39	3.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	445 0.7×	294 0.5×	457 0.8×	147	4.0k
Philippe Soucaille France	48	4.0k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	467 0.7×	487 0.8×	495 0.8×	111	6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Judith Becker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Judith Becker

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Kohlstedt, Michael, et al.. (2025). Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for increased cis, cis-muconate production from plant-derived p-hydroxycinnamates via deregulated pathway flux and increased CoA intermediate availability. Metabolic Engineering. 92. 262–283.

Kohlstedt, Michael, et al.. (2023). Systems metabolic engineering upgrades Corynebacterium glutamicum for selective high-level production of the chiral drug precursor and cell-protective extremolyte L-pipecolic acid. Metabolic Engineering. 77. 100–117. 16 indexed citations

Kohlstedt, Michael, et al.. (2022). Systems metabolic engineering upgrades Corynebacterium glutamicum to high-efficiency cis, cis-muconic acid production from lignin-based aromatics. Metabolic Engineering. 75. 153–169. 37 indexed citations

Kohlstedt, Michael, Judith Becker, Edern Cahoreau, et al.. (2022). GC/MS-based 13C metabolic flux analysis resolves the parallel and cyclic photomixotrophic metabolism of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and selected deletion mutants including the Entner-Doudoroff and phosphoketolase pathways. Microbial Cell Factories. 21(1). 69–69. 22 indexed citations

Wolf, Sabrina, Judith Becker, Yota Tsuge, et al.. (2021). Advances in metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum to produce high-value active ingredients for food, feed, human health, and well-being. Essays in Biochemistry. 65(2). 197–212. 79 indexed citations

Ovchinnikov, Kirill V., Fernando Pérez‐García, Peter Crauwels, et al.. (2021). Establishing recombinant production of pediocin PA-1 in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Metabolic Engineering. 68. 34–45. 22 indexed citations

Kohlstedt, Michael, et al.. (2021). Cascaded valorization of brown seaweed to produce l-lysine and value-added products using Corynebacterium glutamicum streamlined by systems metabolic engineering. Metabolic Engineering. 67. 293–307. 38 indexed citations

Gläser, Lars, Sofija Jovanović Stojanov, Bastian Vögeli, et al.. (2020). A common approach for absolute quantification of short chain CoA thioesters in prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes. Microbial Cell Factories. 19(1). 160–160. 26 indexed citations

Becker, Judith & Christoph Wittmann. (2019). A field of dreams: Lignin valorization into chemicals, materials, fuels, and health-care products. Biotechnology Advances. 37(6). 107360–107360. 362 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gießelmann, Gideon, Demian Dietrich, Michael Kohlstedt, et al.. (2019). Metabolic Engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for High‐Level Ectoine Production: Design, Combinatorial Assembly, and Implementation of a Transcriptionally Balanced Heterologous Ectoine Pathway. Biotechnology Journal. 14(9). e1800417–e1800417. 77 indexed citations

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Becker, Judith & Christoph Wittmann. (2018). From systems biology to metabolically engineered cells — an omics perspective on the development of industrial microbes. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 45. 180–188. 43 indexed citations

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Becker, Judith, et al.. (2018). Metabolic flux analysis in Ashbya gossypii using 13C-labeled yeast extract: industrial riboflavin production under complex nutrient conditions. Microbial Cell Factories. 17(1). 162–162. 29 indexed citations

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Becker, Judith, et al.. (2018). Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the production of cis, cis-muconic acid from lignin. Microbial Cell Factories. 17(1). 115–115. 168 indexed citations

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Sankaran, Shrikrishnan, Judith Becker, Christoph Wittmann, & Aránzazu del Campo. (2018). Optoregulated Drug Release from an Engineered Living Material: Self‐Replenishing Drug Depots for Long‐Term, Light‐Regulated Delivery. Small. 15(5). e1804717–e1804717. 74 indexed citations

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Gläser, Lars, Michael Kohlstedt, Gideon Gießelmann, et al.. (2018). A bio-based route to the carbon-5 chemical glutaric acid and to bionylon-6,5 using metabolically engineeredCorynebacterium glutamicum. Green Chemistry. 20(20). 4662–4674. 87 indexed citations

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Becker, Judith & Christoph Wittmann. (2016). Systems metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the heterologous production of high value molecules — a veteran at new shores. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 42. 178–188. 32 indexed citations

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Becker, Judith, et al.. (2015). Top value platform chemicals: bio-based production of organic acids. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 36. 168–175. 221 indexed citations

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Dogs, Marco, Irene Wagner‐Döbler, Dieter Jahn, et al.. (2015). Large-Scale ¹³ C Flux Profiling Reveals Conservation of the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway as a Glycolytic Strategy among Marine Bacteria That Use Glucose. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81(7). 2408–2422. 63 indexed citations

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Kind, Stefanie, Judith Becker, Motonori Yamamoto, et al.. (2014). From zero to hero – Production of bio-based nylon from renewable resources using engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum. Metabolic Engineering. 25. 113–123. 233 indexed citations

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Rodrigues, André, Judith Becker, André Oliveira de Souza Lima, Luismar Marques Porto, & Christoph Wittmann. (2014). Systems metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for gram scale production of the antitumor drug deoxyviolacein from glycerol. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 111(11). 2280–2289. 42 indexed citations

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