Jürg Spring

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Jürg Spring is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Paleontology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jürg Spring has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Paleontology and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Jürg Spring's work include Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (8 papers), Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (5 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (5 papers). Jürg Spring is often cited by papers focused on Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (8 papers), Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (5 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (5 papers). Jürg Spring collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. Jürg Spring's co-authors include Merton Bernfield, Masato Kato, Michael T. Hinkes, Richard L. Gallo, Robert Kokenyesi, Edward J. Lose, Ruth Chiquet‐Ehrismann, Konrad Beck, Peter Müller and Mark Q. Martindale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Development.

In The Last Decade

Jürg Spring

22 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA

2000 1.9k citations Amy E. Pasquinelli, Brenda J. Reinhart et al. Nature profile →
Biology of the Syndecans: A Family of Transmembrane Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans

1992 923 citations Merton Bernfield, Robert Kokenyesi et al. PubMed profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jürg Spring Switzerland	19	2.9k	1.6k	1.1k	625	477	22	4.2k
Gerald H. Thomsen United States	30	5.8k 2.0×	414 0.3×	780 0.7×	170 0.3×	831 1.7×	48	6.7k
Joan M. Lemire United States	29	2.0k 0.7×	377 0.2×	649 0.6×	259 0.4×	304 0.6×	47	3.3k
Masanori Taira Japan	42	5.0k 1.7×	307 0.2×	728 0.6×	136 0.2×	957 2.0×	133	6.0k
Janet Heasman United States	52	7.6k 2.7×	321 0.2×	1.8k 1.6×	230 0.4×	2.0k 4.1×	119	8.8k
Masanobu Satake Japan	45	4.6k 1.6×	874 0.5×	889 0.8×	149 0.2×	609 1.3×	138	7.4k
Achim Gossler Germany	47	7.6k 2.7×	757 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	198 0.3×	1.9k 3.9×	102	9.3k
Christine Hartmann Germany	32	4.4k 1.5×	557 0.3×	388 0.3×	144 0.2×	1.4k 3.0×	55	5.7k
Ramila S. Patel‐King United States	29	2.3k 0.8×	253 0.2×	1.7k 1.5×	634 1.0×	750 1.6×	45	3.2k
Juan Carlos Izpisúa‐Belmonte United States	32	4.4k 1.5×	773 0.5×	463 0.4×	76 0.1×	1.3k 2.7×	41	5.5k
Suat Özbek Germany	32	1.6k 0.6×	252 0.2×	676 0.6×	179 0.3×	430 0.9×	68	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jürg Spring

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20 of 20 papers shown

Martinelli, Cosimo & Jürg Spring. (2005). T‐box and homeobox genes from the ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus: Comparison of Brachyury, Tbx2/3 and Tlx in basal metazoans and bilaterians. FEBS Letters. 579(22). 5024–5028. 23 indexed citations

Martinelli, Cosimo & Jürg Spring. (2004). Expression pattern of the homeobox gene Not in the basal metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens. Gene Expression Patterns. 4(4). 443–447. 20 indexed citations

Oshiro, Naomasa, Setsuko Iwanaga, Masatoshi Nozaki, et al.. (2004). A new membrane-attack complex/perforin (MACPF) domain lethal toxin from the nematocyst venom of the Okinawan sea anemone Actineria villosa. Toxicon. 43(2). 225–228. 44 indexed citations

Spring, Jürg. (2003). Major transitions in evolution by genome fusions: from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, metazoans, bilaterians and vertebrates. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 3(1-4). 19–25. 12 indexed citations

Spring, Jürg. (2003). Major transitions in evolution by genome fusions: from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, metazoans, bilaterians and vertebrates. PubMed. 3(1-4). 19–25. 13 indexed citations

Spring, Jürg, et al.. (2002). Conservation of Brachyury, Mef2, and Snail in the Myogenic Lineage of Jellyfish: A Connection to the Mesoderm of Bilateria. Developmental Biology. 244(2). 372–384. 108 indexed citations

Yanze, Nathalie, et al.. (2001). Conservation of Hox/ParaHox-Related Genes in the Early Development of a Cnidarian. Developmental Biology. 236(1). 89–98. 77 indexed citations

Spring, Jürg, et al.. (2000). The Mesoderm Specification Factor Twist in the Life Cycle of Jellyfish. Developmental Biology. 228(2). 363–375. 97 indexed citations

Pasquinelli, Amy E., Brenda J. Reinhart, Frank J. Slack, et al.. (2000). Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA. Nature. 408(6808). 86–89. 1873 indexed citations breakdown →

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Müller, Peter, Nathalie Yanze, Volker Schmid, & Jürg Spring. (1999). The Homeobox Gene Otx of the Jellyfish Podocoryne carnea: Role of a Head Gene in Striated Muscle and Evolution. Developmental Biology. 216(2). 582–594. 46 indexed citations

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Spring, Jürg. (1997). Vertebrate evolution by interspecific hybridisation – are we polyploid?. FEBS Letters. 400(1). 2–8. 214 indexed citations

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Schuchert, Peter, et al.. (1995). An Extracellular Matrix Protein of Jellyfish Homologous to Mammalian Fibrillins Forms Different Fibrils Depending on the Life Stage of the Animal. Developmental Biology. 169(2). 662–672. 62 indexed citations

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Spring, Jürg, Olga Goldberger, Nancy A. Jenkins, et al.. (1994). Mapping of the Syndecan Genes in the Mouse: Linkage with Members of the Myc Gene Family. Genomics. 21(3). 597–601. 20 indexed citations

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Spring, Jürg, Masato Kato, & Merton Bernfield. (1993). Epimorphin is related to a new class of neuronal and yeast vesicle targeting proteins. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 18(4). 124–125. 26 indexed citations

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Bernfield, Merton, Robert Kokenyesi, Masato Kato, et al.. (1992). Biology of the Syndecans: A Family of Transmembrane Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans. PubMed. 8(1). 365–393. 923 indexed citations breakdown →

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Umbhauer, Muriel, Jean‐François Riou, Jürg Spring, James C. Smith, & Jean‐Claude Boucaut. (1992). Expression of tenascin mRNA in mesoderm during Xenopus lævis embryogenesis: the potential role of mesoderm patterning in tenascin regionalization. Development. 116(1). 147–157. 17 indexed citations

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Wehrle‐Haller, Bernhard, Manuel Koch, Stefan Baumgartner, Jürg Spring, & Matthias Chiquet. (1991). Nerve-dependent and -independent tenascin expression in the developing chick limb bud. Development. 112(2). 627–637. 45 indexed citations

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Koch, Manuel, et al.. (1991). Epithelial synthesis of tenascin at tips of growing bronchi and graded accumulation in basement membrane and mesenchyme. Experimental Cell Research. 194(2). 297–300. 78 indexed citations

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Matsuoka, Yoichiro, Jürg Spring, Kurt Ballmer‐Hofer, Urs Hofer, & Ruth Chiquet‐Ehrismann. (1990). Differential expression of tenascin splicing variants in the chick gizzard and in cell cultures. Cell Differentiation and Development. 32(3). 417–423. 28 indexed citations

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Spring, Jürg, Konrad Beck, & Ruth Chiquet‐Ehrismann. (1989). Two contrary functions of tenascin: Dissection of the active sites by recombinant tenascin fragments. Cell. 59(2). 325–334. 378 indexed citations

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