Karin Nienhaus

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Karin Nienhaus is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Karin Nienhaus has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Cell Biology and 35 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Karin Nienhaus's work include Hemoglobin structure and function (45 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (34 papers) and Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (34 papers). Karin Nienhaus is often cited by papers focused on Hemoglobin structure and function (45 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (34 papers) and Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (34 papers). Karin Nienhaus collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Karin Nienhaus's co-authors include G. Ulrich Nienhaus, Li Shang, Beatrice Vallone, Maurizio Brunori, Pengchi Deng, Jan M. Kriegl, Jörg Wiedenmann, Haixia Wang, Pauline Maffre and Herbert Nar and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Karin Nienhaus

115 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Engineered nanoparticles interacting with cells: size matters

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karin Nienhaus Germany	39	3.3k	1.8k	1.4k	1.2k	889	115	6.0k
David M. Jameson United States	44	3.8k 1.2×	969 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	827 0.7×	675 0.8×	160	6.2k
Winslow S. Caughey United States	53	5.8k 1.8×	3.1k 1.7×	735 0.5×	2.0k 1.7×	301 0.3×	155	9.1k
Reinhard Schweitzer‐Stenner United States	45	4.3k 1.3×	851 0.5×	414 0.3×	1.4k 1.2×	181 0.2×	227	6.6k
John D. Simon United States	60	2.4k 0.7×	3.5k 1.9×	568 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	792 0.9×	243	11.0k
Cristiano Viappiani Italy	33	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	383 0.3×	706 0.6×	506 0.6×	150	3.3k
Franklyn G. Prendergast United States	42	4.6k 1.4×	659 0.4×	890 0.6×	874 0.7×	531 0.6×	121	7.2k
Sushmita Mukherjee United States	34	3.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	507 0.4×	259 0.2×	668 0.8×	74	5.6k
Amy E. Palmer United States	46	7.0k 2.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	2.0k 1.8×	908 1.0×	110	12.7k
David S. Lawrence United States	50	5.0k 1.5×	902 0.5×	352 0.2×	2.3k 2.0×	832 0.9×	179	8.7k
Dieter G. Weiss Germany	39	2.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	425 0.3×	882 0.8×	706 0.8×	180	5.5k

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Kobitski, Andrei Yu, Matthias Schulz, Oksana Voloshanenko, et al.. (2025). WNT5a export onto extracellular vesicles studied at single‐molecule and single‐vesicle resolution. FEBS Journal. 292(17). 4631–4649. 1 indexed citations

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Štefl, Martin, Masanari Takamiya, Karin Nienhaus, et al.. (2024). Caveolae disassemble upon membrane lesioning and foster cell survival. iScience. 27(2). 108849–108849. 2 indexed citations

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Nienhaus, Karin, Vandna Sharma, G. Ulrich Nienhaus, & Larissa M. Podust. (2022). Homodimerization Counteracts the Detrimental Effect of Nitrogenous Heme Ligands on the Enzymatic Activity of Acanthamoeba castellanii CYP51. Biochemistry. 61(13). 1363–1377. 3 indexed citations

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Nienhaus, Karin & G. Ulrich Nienhaus. (2022). Genetically encodable fluorescent protein markers in advanced optical imaging. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence. 10(4). 42002–42002. 18 indexed citations

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Nienhaus, Karin, Yumeng Xue, Li Shang, & G. Ulrich Nienhaus. (2022). Protein adsorption onto nanomaterials engineered for theranostic applications. Nanotechnology. 33(26). 262001–262001. 15 indexed citations

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VanOrman, Zachary A., et al.. (2021). Efficiency of bulk perovskite-sensitized upconversion: Illuminating matters. Applied Physics Letters. 118(20). 15 indexed citations

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Kobitski, Andrei Yu, et al.. (2021). Exploring the energy landscape of a SAM-I riboswitch. Journal of Biological Physics. 47(4). 371–386. 5 indexed citations

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Sünbül, Murat, et al.. (2021). Super-resolution RNA imaging using a rhodamine-binding aptamer with fast exchange kinetics. Nature Biotechnology. 39(6). 686–690. 102 indexed citations

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Nienhaus, Karin & G. Ulrich Nienhaus. (2021). Fluorescent proteins of the EosFP clade: intriguing marker tools with multiple photoactivation modes for advanced microscopy. RSC Chemical Biology. 2(3). 796–814. 23 indexed citations

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Wieghold, Sarah, Yanqi Luo, Alexander S. Bieber, et al.. (2021). Impact of Transition Metal Doping on the Structural and Optical Properties of Halide Perovskites. Chemistry of Materials. 33(15). 6099–6107. 9 indexed citations

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Nienhaus, Karin, Haixia Wang, & G. Ulrich Nienhaus. (2020). Nanoparticles for biomedical applications: exploring and exploiting molecular interactions at the nano-bio interface. Materials Today Advances. 5. 100036–100036. 81 indexed citations

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Wieghold, Sarah, et al.. (2020). One‐Step Fabrication of Perovskite‐Based Upconversion Devices. ChemPhotoChem. 4(9). 704–712. 22 indexed citations

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Gao, Peng, Janine Wesslowski, Xianxian Wang, et al.. (2020). Measuring ligand-cell surface receptor affinities with axial line-scanning fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. eLife. 9. 26 indexed citations

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Nienhaus, Karin & G. Ulrich Nienhaus. (2020). Brownian motion-based nanoparticle sizing—A powerful approach for in situ analysis of nanoparticle-protein interactions. Biointerphases. 15(6). 61201–61201. 7 indexed citations

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Mohr, Manuel, Andrei Yu Kobitski, Karin Nienhaus, et al.. (2017). Rational Engineering of Photoconvertible Fluorescent Proteins for Dual‐Color Fluorescence Nanoscopy Enabled by a Triplet‐State Mechanism of Primed Conversion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(38). 11628–11633. 38 indexed citations

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Mohr, Manuel, Andrei Yu Kobitski, Karin Nienhaus, et al.. (2017). Rational Engineering of Photoconvertible Fluorescent Proteins for Dual‐Color Fluorescence Nanoscopy Enabled by a Triplet‐State Mechanism of Primed Conversion. Angewandte Chemie. 129(38). 11786–11791. 7 indexed citations

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Gao, Peng, et al.. (2015). Monomeric Garnet, a far-red fluorescent protein for live-cell STED imaging. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 18006–18006. 34 indexed citations

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Nienhaus, Karin, G. Ulrich Nienhaus, Sylvia Dewilde, et al.. (2008). The Apolar Channel in Cerebratulus lacteus Hemoglobin Is the Route for O2 Entry and Exit. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(51). 35689–35702. 31 indexed citations

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Arcovito, Alessandro, M. Benfatto, Michele Cianci, et al.. (2007). X-ray structure analysis of a metalloprotein with enhanced active-site resolution using in situ x-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(15). 6211–6216. 56 indexed citations

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Vallone, Beatrice, Karin Nienhaus, Annemarie Matthes, Maurizio Brunori, & G. Ulrich Nienhaus. (2004). The structure of carbonmonoxy neuroglobin reveals a heme-sliding mechanism for control of ligand affinity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(50). 17351–17356. 164 indexed citations

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