Leon Weber

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 688 citations indexed

About

Leon Weber is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon Weber has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 688 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Leon Weber's work include Topic Modeling (13 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (11 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers). Leon Weber is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (13 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (11 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers). Leon Weber collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Austria. Leon Weber's co-authors include Ulf Leser, Maryam Habibi, David Luis Wiegandt, Mariana Neves, Byron S. Gottfried, Ronald L. Reed, Jannes Münchmeyer, Tim Rocktäschel, Pasquale Minervini and Mario Sänger and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and Database.

In The Last Decade

Leon Weber

21 papers receiving 639 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.

  1. Deep learning with word embeddings improves biomedical named entity recognition
    2017 356 citations Maryam Habibi, Leon Weber et al. Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leon Weber Germany 9 424 337 114 70 32 22 688
Heejin Park South Korea 12 113 0.3× 181 0.5× 31 0.3× 9 0.1× 6 0.2× 64 425
Hongzhi Li China 14 48 0.1× 48 0.1× 123 1.1× 24 0.3× 11 0.3× 27 442
Rajasekaran Ekambaram India 10 56 0.1× 147 0.4× 37 0.3× 40 0.6× 4 0.1× 41 417
Michael B. James United Kingdom 10 67 0.2× 48 0.1× 173 1.5× 19 0.3× 26 0.8× 12 668
Hyunji Kim South Korea 11 67 0.2× 21 0.1× 143 1.3× 72 1.0× 41 1.3× 36 411

Countries citing papers authored by Leon Weber

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leon Weber

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leon Weber

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Xinpeng, Leon Weber, Paul Röttger, et al.. (2024). “My Answer is C”: First-Token Probabilities Do Not Match Text Answers in Instruction-Tuned Language Models. 7407–7416. 5 indexed citations
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Sänger, Mario, et al.. (2024). HunFlair2 in a cross-corpus evaluation of biomedical named entity recognition and normalization tools. Bioinformatics. 40(10). 5 indexed citations
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Weber, Leon, et al.. (2024). VariErr NLI: Separating Annotation Error from Human Label Variation. Digital Access to Libraries. 2256–2269.
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Weber, Leon, et al.. (2023). PEDL+: protein-centered relation extraction from PubMed at your fingertip. Bioinformatics. 39(11). 2 indexed citations
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Weber, Leon, et al.. (2023). BELB: a biomedical entity linking benchmark. Bioinformatics. 39(11). 2 indexed citations
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Goot, Rob van der, et al.. (2023). Establishing Trustworthiness: Rethinking Tasks and Model Evaluation. 193–203. 2 indexed citations
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Weber, Leon & Barbara Plank. (2023). ActiveAED: A Human in the Loop Improves Annotation Error Detection. 1 indexed citations
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Weber, Leon, et al.. (2022). Chemical–protein relation extraction with ensembles of carefully tuned pretrained language models. Database. 2022. 10 indexed citations
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Münchmeyer, Jannes, et al.. (2022). Graph Neural Networks for Learning Molecular Excitation Spectra. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18(7). 4408–4417. 22 indexed citations
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Fries, Jason, Gabriel Altay, Leon Weber, et al.. (2022). Dataset Debt in Biomedical Language Modeling. 137–145. 2 indexed citations
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Weber, Leon, et al.. (2020). Biomedical Event Extraction as Multi-turn Question Answering. 88–96. 19 indexed citations
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Weber, Leon, et al.. (2020). PEDL: extracting protein–protein associations using deep language models and distant supervision. Bioinformatics. 36(Supplement_1). i490–i498. 9 indexed citations
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Sänger, Mario, et al.. (2019). Classifying German Animal Experiment Summaries with Multi-lingual BERT at CLEF eHealth 2019 Task 1.. CLEF (Working Notes). 7 indexed citations
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Weber, Leon, Pasquale Minervini, Jannes Münchmeyer, Ulf Leser, & Tim Rocktäschel. (2019). NLProlog: Reasoning with Weak Unification for Question Answering in Natural Language. 6151–6161. 47 indexed citations
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Shi, Kilin, Robert Weigel, Alexander Koelpin, et al.. (2019). Segmentation of Radar-Recorded Heart Sound Signals Using Bidirectional LSTM Networks. PubMed. 2019. 6677–6680. 16 indexed citations
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Weber, Leon, Jannes Münchmeyer, Tim Rocktäschel, Maryam Habibi, & Ulf Leser. (2019). HUNER: improving biomedical NER with pretraining. Bioinformatics. 36(1). 295–302. 41 indexed citations
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Habibi, Maryam, Leon Weber, Mariana Neves, David Luis Wiegandt, & Ulf Leser. (2017). Deep learning with word embeddings improves biomedical named entity recognition. Bioinformatics. 33(14). i37–i48. 356 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reed, Ronald L., Leon Weber, & Byron S. Gottfried. (1965). Differentilal Thermal Analysis and Reaction Kinetics. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Fundamentals. 4(1). 38–46. 129 indexed citations
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Doscher, T.M. & Leon Weber. (1957). The Use of the Membrane Filter in Determining Quality of Water for Subsurface Injection. 2 indexed citations

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