Manfred Tacker

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Manfred Tacker is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Pollution and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Manfred Tacker has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Strategy and Management, 8 papers in Pollution and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Manfred Tacker's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (10 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (8 papers) and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (7 papers). Manfred Tacker is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (10 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (8 papers) and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (7 papers). Manfred Tacker collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Switzerland and United States. Manfred Tacker's co-authors include Peter Schuster, Peter F. Stadler, Ivo L. Hofacker, Walter Fontana, Victoria Krauter, Erich Bornberg‐Bauer, Pedro Tarazona, Edward D. Weinberger, Richard Stillwell and James A. McCloskey and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Manfred Tacker

29 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Fast folding and comparison of RNA secondary structures 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 500 1000 1.5k
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. Fast folding and comparison of RNA secondary structures
    1994 1.7k citations Ivo L. Hofacker, Walter Fontana et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Manfred Tacker Austria 18 1.8k 396 299 261 259 31 2.9k
Huihui Liu China 24 1.1k 0.6× 180 0.5× 78 0.3× 44 0.2× 109 0.4× 86 2.0k
Junhyung Park South Korea 28 602 0.3× 116 0.3× 89 0.3× 101 0.4× 316 1.2× 151 2.8k
Aakash Chawade Sweden 27 853 0.5× 387 1.0× 49 0.2× 96 0.4× 1.6k 6.0× 103 2.9k
G.A. Kleter Netherlands 31 1.5k 0.8× 379 1.0× 33 0.1× 200 0.8× 1.6k 6.3× 118 3.3k
Tingting Zhang China 21 899 0.5× 182 0.5× 127 0.4× 40 0.2× 286 1.1× 117 1.7k
Yunhe Li China 36 2.0k 1.1× 189 0.5× 68 0.2× 85 0.3× 1.7k 6.5× 187 4.0k
Donghua Liu China 25 282 0.2× 42 0.1× 74 0.2× 142 0.5× 661 2.6× 94 1.9k
Emilio Muñoz Spain 30 952 0.5× 120 0.3× 44 0.1× 311 1.2× 49 0.2× 107 2.5k
Michael T. Morrissey United States 34 2.5k 1.4× 178 0.4× 48 0.2× 71 0.3× 161 0.6× 107 4.5k
Hans Andersson Sweden 22 518 0.3× 283 0.7× 41 0.1× 24 0.1× 83 0.3× 84 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Manfred Tacker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Manfred Tacker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manfred Tacker

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2025). Product Waste Resulting from Insufficient Emptiability of Cosmetic Packaging and Its Economic and Environmental Implications. Sustainability. 17(3). 1056–1056. 2 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2025). Technical Recyclability and Carbon Footprint of Packaging for Butter, Yogurt, and Spreads. Recycling. 10(2). 31–31.
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2025). Life cycle assessment of polyethylene packaging and alternatives on the European market. Cleaner Environmental Systems. 17. 100270–100270. 3 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2025). Assessment of Sustainability Indicators for Cosmetic Product Packaging in the DACH Region. Cosmetics. 12(2). 56–56. 2 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2025). Composition of rigid polyolefin and polystyrene packaging waste in separate waste collection: An Austrian case study from 2021 to 2024. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 223. 108503–108503.
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2024). Influence of Packaging Design on Technical Emptiability of Dairy Products and Implications on Sustainability through Food Waste Reduction. Sustainability. 16(15). 6335–6335. 6 indexed citations
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Fellner, Johann, et al.. (2023). Rigid Polyethylene Terephthalate Packaging Waste: An Investigation of Waste Composition and Its Recycling Potential in Austria. Resources. 12(11). 128–128. 6 indexed citations
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Krauter, Victoria, et al.. (2020). Environmental and economic assessment of food-packaging systems with a focus on food waste. Case study on tomato ketchup. The Science of The Total Environment. 738. 139846–139846. 60 indexed citations
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Czerny, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of the Suitability of Mammalian In Vitro Assays to Assess the Genotoxic Potential of Food Contact Materials. Foods. 9(2). 237–237. 14 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2020). Sustainability of flexible multilayer packaging: Environmental impacts and recyclability of packaging for bacon in block. Cleaner Environmental Systems. 1. 100001–100001. 51 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2019). Packaging-Related Food Losses and Waste: An Overview of Drivers and Issues. Sustainability. 11(1). 264–264. 130 indexed citations
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Czerny, Thomas, et al.. (2019). Mutagenicity assessment of food contact material migrates with the Ames MPF assay. Food Additives & Contaminants Part A. 36(9). 1419–1432. 20 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2019). Technical emptiability of dairy product packaging and its environmental implications in Austria. PeerJ. 7. e7578–e7578. 29 indexed citations
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Bergmair, Johannes, et al.. (2013). Detection and Identification of Oestrogen‐Active Substances in Plastic Food Packaging Migrates. Packaging Technology and Science. 27(6). 467–478. 29 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, et al.. (2002). Determination of microbial contamination of plastic cups for dairy products and utilization of electron beam treatment for sterilization. Food Additives & Contaminants. 19(sup1). 178–184. 6 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, Peter F. Stadler, Erich Bornberg‐Bauer, Ivo L. Hofacker, & Peter Schuster. (1996). Algorithm independent properties of RNA secondary structure predictions ARTICLE. 1 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, Peter F. Stadler, Erich Bornberg‐Bauer, Ivo L. Hofacker, & Peter Schuster. (1996). Algorithm independent properties of RNA secondary structure predictions. European Biophysics Journal. 25(2). 115–130. 70 indexed citations
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Tacker, Manfred, Walter Fontana, Peter F. Stadler, & Peter Schuster. (1994). Statistics of RNA melting kinetics. European Biophysics Journal. 23(1). 29–38. 39 indexed citations

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