Kai Kruse

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Kai Kruse is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Kruse has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kai Kruse's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (4 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers). Kai Kruse is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (4 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers). Kai Kruse collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Kai Kruse's co-authors include Juan M. Vaquerizas, Clemens B. Hug, Alexis Grimaldi, M. Madan Babu, Noèlia Díaz, Benjamin Lang, Mónika Fuxreiter, Andreas Matouschek, Jörg Gsponer and Martijn A. Huynen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Kai Kruse

33 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Chromatin Architecture Emerges during Zygotic Genome Activation Independent of Transcription

2017 323 citations Clemens B. Hug, Kai Kruse et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Kruse Germany	19	1.1k	331	128	76	72	39	1.5k
Xiangduo Kong United States	20	1.3k 1.2×	165 0.5×	144 1.1×	145 1.9×	105 1.5×	35	1.7k
Juntao Gao China	19	764 0.7×	172 0.5×	80 0.6×	44 0.6×	136 1.9×	44	1.1k
Kai Huang China	23	1.2k 1.1×	111 0.3×	85 0.7×	66 0.9×	161 2.2×	66	1.8k
Amy R. Strom United States	13	2.4k 2.2×	277 0.8×	109 0.9×	161 2.1×	42 0.6×	19	2.6k
Christian Münkel Germany	13	505 0.5×	134 0.4×	86 0.7×	35 0.5×	44 0.6×	25	774
Eden Fussner Canada	10	2.2k 2.0×	206 0.6×	188 1.5×	225 3.0×	55 0.8×	13	2.4k
Xiaojia Tang United States	19	813 0.7×	139 0.4×	101 0.8×	36 0.5×	208 2.9×	46	1.5k
Christian Bächer Germany	11	657 0.6×	103 0.3×	196 1.5×	185 2.4×	69 1.0×	17	953
Jie Yao China	21	1.2k 1.0×	61 0.2×	129 1.0×	55 0.7×	104 1.4×	53	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Kruse

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Kruse. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Kruse 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 Kai Kruse. Kai Kruse is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Kruse, Kai, et al.. (2025). ELMO2 is an essential regulator of carotid artery development. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5108–5108.

Bovay, Esther, Kai Kruse, Emma C. Watson, et al.. (2025). Artery formation in the intestinal wall and mesentery by intestine-derived Esm1+ endothelial cells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8423–8423.

Peters, Franziska, Susanne Brodesser, Kai Kruse, et al.. (2025). Sphingolipid metabolism orchestrates establishment of the hair follicle stem cell compartment. The Journal of Cell Biology. 224(4). 1 indexed citations

Stubb, Aki, Nadezda A. Fursova, Kai Kruse, et al.. (2025). Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells. Nature Cell Biology. 27(10). 1757–1770.

Kruse, Kai, Hyun‐Woo Jeong, Susanne Adams, et al.. (2024). Eph-ephrin signaling couples endothelial cell sorting and arterial specification. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2539–2539. 14 indexed citations

Miroshnikova, Yekaterina A., Satu-Marja Myllymäki, Gautier Follain, et al.. (2024). Multiparameter imaging reveals clinically relevant cancer cell-stroma interaction dynamics in head and neck cancer. Cell. 187(25). 7267–7284.e20. 12 indexed citations

Jeong, Hyun‐Woo, Rodrigo Diéguez‐Hurtado, Jian Song, et al.. (2022). Single-cell transcriptomics reveals functionally specialized vascular endothelium in brain. eLife. 11. 52 indexed citations

Kruse, Kai, et al.. (2020). CHESS enables quantitative comparison of chromatin contact data and automatic feature extraction. Nature Genetics. 52(11). 1247–1255. 23 indexed citations

Kruse, Kai, Clemens B. Hug, & Juan M. Vaquerizas. (2020). FAN-C: a feature-rich framework for the analysis and visualisation of chromosome conformation capture data. Genome biology. 21(1). 303–303. 118 indexed citations

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Rhodes, James, Angelika Feldmann, Benjamín Hernández-Rodríguez, et al.. (2020). Cohesin Disrupts Polycomb-Dependent Chromosome Interactions in Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell Reports. 30(3). 820–835.e10. 121 indexed citations

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Palmer, Guido, Martin Kellert, Moritz Emons, et al.. (2019). Pump–probe laser system at the FXE and SPB/SFX instruments of the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 26(2). 328–332. 15 indexed citations

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Díaz, Noèlia, Kai Kruse, Tabea Erdmann, et al.. (2018). Chromatin conformation analysis of primary patient tissue using a low input Hi-C method. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4938–4938. 64 indexed citations

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Rodriguez‐Terrones, Diego, Xavier Gaume, Takashi Ishiuchi, et al.. (2017). A molecular roadmap for the emergence of early-embryonic-like cells in culture. Nature Genetics. 50(1). 106–119. 125 indexed citations

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Kellert, Martin, Mikhail Pergament, Kai Kruse, et al.. (2015). 5kW burst-mode femtosecond amplifier system for the European XFEL pump-probe laser development. DESY (CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, and SLAC). 1 indexed citations

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Kellert, Martin, Guido Palmer, G. Priebe, et al.. (2014). Status of Pump-probe Laser Development for the European XFEL. DESY (CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, and SLAC). 1–4.

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Lee, Robin van der, Benjamin Lang, Kai Kruse, et al.. (2014). Intrinsically Disordered Segments Affect Protein Half-Life in the Cell and during Evolution. Cell Reports. 8(6). 1832–1844. 170 indexed citations

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Kruse, Kai & Oliver Ebenhöh. (2008). COMPARING FLUX BALANCE ANALYSIS TO NETWORK EXPANSION: PRODUCIBILITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND THE SCOPE OF COMPOUNDS:PRODUCIBILITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND THE SCOPE OF COMPOUNDS. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 20(20). 91–101. 3 indexed citations

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Flörsheimer, M., Kai Kruse, R. Klenze, & Th. Fanghänel. (2005). Observing the chemical composition and the point of zero charge of mineral surfaces in situ under water by nonlinear optics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 69(10). 2 indexed citations

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Kruse, Kai, et al.. (1978). Band-pass filter glasses in the region 550 nm to 616 nm. I. Transmission characteristics of multicomponent glasses containing Cu 2+ and Ni 2+ ions.. Optik. 51. 1–14. 1 indexed citations

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Kruse, Kai. (1956). Use of Partially Orientated Samples and Unpolarized Radiation in the Analysis of Infrared Absorption Spectra of P-Dichlorobenzene. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 25(3). 591–592. 3 indexed citations

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