Karsten Weis

13.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
104 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Karsten Weis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Karsten Weis has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cell Biology and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Karsten Weis's work include RNA Research and Splicing (82 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (54 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (22 papers). Karsten Weis is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (82 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (54 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (22 papers). Karsten Weis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Karsten Weis's co-authors include Rebecca Heald, Angus I. Lamond, Petr Kaláb, Katrin Stade, Christine Guthrie, Maxence V. Nachury, Stephanie Heinrich, Maria Hondele, Iain W. Mattaj and Carlo Petosa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Karsten Weis

100 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Exportin 1 (Crm1p) Is an Essential Nuclear Export Factor

1997 992 citations Karsten Weis et al. Cell profile →
Retinoic acid regulates aberrant nuclear localization of PML-RARα in acute promyelocytic leukemia cells

1994 581 citations Karsten Weis et al. Cell profile →
Regulating Access to the Genome

2003 569 citations Karsten Weis Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karsten Weis United States	54	9.3k	1.7k	737	432	429	104	10.4k
Stephen A. Adam United States	52	10.1k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	984 1.3×	508 1.2×	415 1.0×	90	11.7k
Ulrike Kutay Switzerland	56	13.1k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	626 1.4×	608 1.4×	108	14.7k
Tatiana Karpova United States	44	4.8k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	666 0.9×	632 1.5×	423 1.0×	113	6.4k
Lucas Pelkmans Switzerland	44	6.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.9×	955 1.3×	653 1.5×	396 0.9×	75	9.9k
Damarys Loew France	47	8.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	614 0.8×	772 1.8×	462 1.1×	159	11.2k
Michael Overduin United Kingdom	43	5.8k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	717 1.0×	391 0.9×	237 0.6×	129	7.6k
Anthony D. Mills United Kingdom	24	6.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.5k 2.0×	738 1.7×	761 1.8×	36	9.5k
Jie Zheng United States	47	6.0k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	618 0.8×	776 1.8×	147 0.3×	134	8.6k
Zsuzsanna Dosztányi Hungary	35	7.4k 0.8×	840 0.5×	651 0.9×	358 0.8×	450 1.0×	72	8.6k
Maria Carmo‐Fonseca Portugal	60	10.7k 1.1×	647 0.4×	1.3k 1.8×	728 1.7×	516 1.2×	183	12.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Karsten Weis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karsten Weis

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Şen, Nesli-Ece, et al.. (2026). Limited proteolysis-coupled mass spectrometry captures proteome-wide protein structural alterations and biomolecular condensation in living cells. Molecular Systems Biology. 22(3). 337–368.

Khawaja, Sarah, et al.. (2025). The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging—the impact of protein tags on biomolecular condensation. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 36(3). br10–br10. 11 indexed citations

Feuerbach, Frank, Mostafa Zedan, Laurence Decourty, et al.. (2024). RNA degradation triggered by decapping is largely independent of initial deadenylation. The EMBO Journal. 43(24). 6496–6524. 2 indexed citations

Heinrich, Stephanie, Maria Hondele, Mostafa Zedan, et al.. (2023). Glucose stress causes mRNA retention in nuclear Nab2 condensates. Cell Reports. 43(1). 113593–113593. 8 indexed citations

Wojtynek, Matthias, Roberta Mancini, Elisa Dultz, et al.. (2022). An amphipathic helix in Brl1 is required for nuclear pore complex biogenesis in S. cerevisiae. eLife. 11. 15 indexed citations

Weis, Karsten. (2021). Dead or alive: DEAD-box ATPases as regulators of ribonucleoprotein complex condensation. Biological Chemistry. 402(5). 653–661. 17 indexed citations

Sekar, Karthik, et al.. (2020). β-Oxidation and autophagy are critical energy providers during acute glucose depletion in S accharomyces cerevisiae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(22). 12239–12248. 28 indexed citations

Hondele, Maria, Stephanie Heinrich, Paolo De Los Rios, & Karsten Weis. (2020). Membraneless organelles: phasing out of equilibrium. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. 4(3). 343–354. 54 indexed citations

Mancini, Roberta, et al.. (2019). The RNA export factor Mex67 functions as a mobile nucleoporin. The Journal of Cell Biology. 218(12). 3967–3976. 35 indexed citations

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Sachdev, Ruchika, Maria Hondele, Miriam Linsenmeier, et al.. (2019). Pat1 promotes processing body assembly by enhancing the phase separation of the DEAD-box ATPase Dhh1 and RNA. eLife. 8. 51 indexed citations

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Vallotton, Pascal, et al.. (2018). Stoichiometry and compositional plasticity of the yeast nuclear pore complex revealed by quantitative fluorescence microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(17). E3969–E3977. 56 indexed citations

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Dultz, Elisa, et al.. (2018). Quantitative imaging of chromatin decompaction in living cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 29(14). 1763–1777. 17 indexed citations

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Chan, Leon Y, Christopher F Mugler, Stephanie Heinrich, Pascal Vallotton, & Karsten Weis. (2018). Non-invasive measurement of mRNA decay reveals translation initiation as the major determinant of mRNA stability. eLife. 7. 146 indexed citations

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Heinrich, Stephanie, Corinne Sidler, Claus M. Azzalin, & Karsten Weis. (2016). Stem–loop RNA labeling can affect nuclear and cytoplasmic mRNA processing. RNA. 23(2). 134–141. 73 indexed citations

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Lowe, Alan R., Jeffrey H. Tang, Michael Graf, et al.. (2015). Importin-β modulates the permeability of the nuclear pore complex in a Ran-dependent manner. eLife. 4. 99 indexed citations

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Onischenko, Evgeny & Karsten Weis. (2011). Nuclear pore complex—a coat specifically tailored for the nuclear envelope. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 23(3). 293–301. 34 indexed citations

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Kaláb, Petr, Karsten Weis, & Rebecca Heald. (2002). Visualization of a Ran-GTP Gradient in Interphase and Mitotic Xenopus Egg Extracts. Science. 295(5564). 2452–2456. 432 indexed citations

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Nilsson, Jakob, Karsten Weis, & Jørgen Kjems. (2002). The C-Terminal Extension of the Small GTPase Ran is Essential for Defining the GDP-Bound Form. Journal of Molecular Biology. 318(2). 583–593. 20 indexed citations

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Schmalz, Gottfried, et al.. (2001). Permeability Characteristics of Bovine and Human Dentin under Different Pretreatment Conditions. Journal of Endodontics. 27(1). 23–30. 79 indexed citations

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Nachury, Maxence V., Thomas J. Maresca, Wendy C. Salmon, et al.. (2001). Importin β Is a Mitotic Target of the Small GTPase Ran in Spindle Assembly. Cell. 104(1). 95–106. 329 indexed citations

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