Kathrin Leppek

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Kathrin Leppek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathrin Leppek has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Immunology and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Kathrin Leppek's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Kathrin Leppek is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Kathrin Leppek collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Kathrin Leppek's co-authors include Maria Barna, Rhiju Das, Georg Stoecklin, Johanna Schott, Sonja Reitter, Ming C. Hammond, Fabian Poetz, Gun Woo Byeon, Adele Xu and Howard Y. Chang and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Kathrin Leppek

11 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Functional 5′ UTR mRNA structures in eukaryotic translation regulation and how to find them

2017 589 citations Kathrin Leppek, Rhiju Das et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kathrin Leppek United States	9	1.2k	182	145	109	70	11	1.4k
Annarita Miluzio Italy	18	810 0.7×	135 0.7×	146 1.0×	104 1.0×	135 1.9×	28	1.1k
Mari Mito Japan	16	1.2k 1.0×	389 2.1×	193 1.3×	98 0.9×	94 1.3×	35	1.5k
Sylvain Egloff France	19	1.6k 1.3×	135 0.7×	120 0.8×	91 0.8×	130 1.9×	25	1.8k
Claudia Strein Germany	7	1.9k 1.6×	396 2.2×	128 0.9×	74 0.7×	43 0.6×	7	2.1k
Sarah F. Mitchell United States	14	1.8k 1.5×	121 0.7×	69 0.5×	94 0.9×	34 0.5×	20	1.9k
Rafael Cuesta United States	17	1.2k 1.0×	129 0.7×	107 0.7×	221 2.0×	115 1.6×	19	1.4k
François Bachand Canada	25	1.7k 1.4×	150 0.8×	76 0.5×	67 0.6×	65 0.9×	44	1.9k
Beáta E. Jády France	16	1.7k 1.4×	261 1.4×	59 0.4×	71 0.7×	57 0.8×	22	1.9k
Rafał Tomecki Poland	23	1.8k 1.5×	182 1.0×	75 0.5×	129 1.2×	38 0.5×	37	1.9k
Michael Wormington United States	11	1.3k 1.0×	108 0.6×	88 0.6×	108 1.0×	53 0.8×	11	1.4k

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Genuth, Naomi R., Teodorus Theo Susanto, Alena Khmelinskaia, et al.. (2025). A versatile toolbox for determining IRES activity in cells and embryonic tissues. The EMBO Journal. 44(9). 2695–2724. 4 indexed citations

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Leppek, Kathrin, Gun Woo Byeon, Kotaro Fujii, & Maria Barna. (2021). VELCRO-IP RNA-seq reveals ribosome expansion segment function in translation genome-wide. Cell Reports. 34(3). 108629–108629. 9 indexed citations

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Leppek, Kathrin, Kotaro Fujii, Nick Quade, et al.. (2020). Gene- and Species-Specific Hox mRNA Translation by Ribosome Expansion Segments. Molecular Cell. 80(6). 980–995.e13. 32 indexed citations

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Leppek, Kathrin, Rhiju Das, & Maria Barna. (2018). Author Correction: Functional 5′ UTR mRNA structures in eukaryotic translation regulation and how to find them. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 19(10). 673–673. 13 indexed citations

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Simsek, Deniz, Gerald C. Tiu, Ryan A. Flynn, et al.. (2017). The Mammalian Ribo-interactome Reveals Ribosome Functional Diversity and Heterogeneity. Cell. 169(6). 1051–1065.e18. 306 indexed citations

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Leppek, Kathrin, Rhiju Das, & Maria Barna. (2017). Functional 5′ UTR mRNA structures in eukaryotic translation regulation and how to find them. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 19(3). 158–174. 589 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leppek, Kathrin, et al.. (2015). A Distinct, Sequence-Induced Conformation Is Required for Recognition of the Constitutive Decay Element RNA by Roquin. Structure. 23(8). 1437–1447. 9 indexed citations

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Leppek, Kathrin & Georg Stoecklin. (2013). An optimized streptavidin-binding RNA aptamer for purification of ribonucleoprotein complexes identifies novel ARE-binding proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(2). e13–e13. 113 indexed citations

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Leppek, Kathrin, Johanna Schott, Sonja Reitter, et al.. (2013). Roquin Promotes Constitutive mRNA Decay via a Conserved Class of Stem-Loop Recognition Motifs. Cell. 153(4). 869–881. 249 indexed citations

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Friedel, Caroline C., Johanna Schott, Kathrin Leppek, et al.. (2012). Genome-Wide Assessment of AU-Rich Elements by the AREScore Algorithm. PLoS Genetics. 8(1). e1002433–e1002433. 54 indexed citations

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Leppek, Kathrin, Johanna Schott, & Georg Stoecklin. (2011). Protein synthesis and translational control: at eye level with the ribosome. EMBO Reports. 12(12). 1214–1216. 5 indexed citations

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