Marcus Ludwig

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Marcus Ludwig is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcus Ludwig has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Spectroscopy and 5 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Marcus Ludwig's work include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (12 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (7 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (5 papers). Marcus Ludwig is often cited by papers focused on Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (12 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (7 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (5 papers). Marcus Ludwig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Finland. Marcus Ludwig's co-authors include Sebastian Böcker, Kai Dührkop, Markus Fleischauer, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Juho Rousu, Marvin Meusel, Alexey V. Melnik, Alexander A. Aksenov, Martin Hoffmann and Louis‐Félix Nothias and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Marcus Ludwig

14 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

  1. SIRIUS 4: a rapid tool for turning tandem mass spectra into metabolite structure information
    2019 1.2k citations Kai Dührkop, Markus Fleischauer et al. Nature Methods profile →
  2. Systematic classification of unknown metabolites using high-resolution fragmentation mass spectra
    2020 467 citations Kai Dührkop, Louis‐Félix Nothias et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marcus Ludwig Germany 10 1.4k 432 291 248 235 16 2.1k
Markus Fleischauer Germany 7 1.3k 0.9× 405 0.9× 288 1.0× 243 1.0× 219 0.9× 9 2.0k
Marvin Meusel Germany 5 1.3k 0.9× 474 1.1× 247 0.8× 216 0.9× 278 1.2× 6 2.0k
Alexey V. Melnik United States 22 1.5k 1.1× 313 0.7× 255 0.9× 387 1.6× 195 0.8× 36 2.5k
Ricardo Silva Brazil 24 1.3k 1.0× 280 0.6× 278 1.0× 336 1.4× 160 0.7× 67 2.2k
Alejandro Villar‐Briones Japan 17 2.5k 1.8× 650 1.5× 495 1.7× 349 1.4× 367 1.6× 23 3.7k
Michael Witting Germany 27 1.3k 1.0× 423 1.0× 270 0.9× 65 0.3× 223 0.9× 80 2.1k
Sandra Castillo Finland 15 2.7k 1.9× 843 2.0× 456 1.6× 343 1.4× 500 2.1× 27 3.9k
Kai Dührkop Germany 18 2.5k 1.8× 943 2.2× 410 1.4× 379 1.5× 510 2.2× 29 3.6k
Duane Rinehart United States 12 1.5k 1.1× 462 1.1× 224 0.8× 108 0.4× 310 1.3× 14 2.0k
Mitsuhiro Kanazawa Japan 5 1.7k 1.3× 519 1.2× 337 1.2× 118 0.5× 303 1.3× 6 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcus Ludwig

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcus Ludwig

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Ludwig, Marcus, et al.. (2025). Coverage bias in small molecule machine learning. Nature Communications. 16(1). 554–554. 11 indexed citations
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Gao, Qingsong, Martin Hoffmann, Marcus Ludwig, et al.. (2025). Barcode-free hit discovery from massive libraries enabled by automated small molecule structure annotation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9479–9479.
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Hoffmann, Martin, et al.. (2023). MAD HATTER Correctly Annotates 98% of Small Molecule Tandem Mass Spectra Searching in PubChem. Metabolites. 13(3). 314–314. 7 indexed citations
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Koester, Irina, Zachary A. Quinlan, Louis‐Félix Nothias, et al.. (2022). Illuminating the dark metabolome of Pseudo‐nitzschia –microbiome associations. Environmental Microbiology. 24(11). 5408–5424. 19 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Martin, Louis‐Félix Nothias, Marcus Ludwig, et al.. (2021). High-confidence structural annotation of metabolites absent from spectral libraries. Nature Biotechnology. 40(3). 411–421. 161 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Marcus, Louis‐Félix Nothias, Kai Dührkop, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Database-independent molecular formula annotation using Gibbs sampling through ZODIAC. Nature Machine Intelligence. 2(11). 727–727. 2 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Marcus, Corey D. Broeckling, Pieter C. Dorrestein, et al.. (2020). Studying Charge Migration Fragmentation of Sodiated Precursor Ions in Collision-Induced Dissociation at the Library Scale. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 32(1). 180–186. 4 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Marcus, Louis‐Félix Nothias, Kai Dührkop, et al.. (2020). Database-independent molecular formula annotation using Gibbs sampling through ZODIAC. Nature Machine Intelligence. 2(10). 629–641. 134 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Marcus, Markus Fleischauer, Kai Dührkop, Martin Hoffmann, & Sebastian Böcker. (2020). De Novo Molecular Formula Annotation and Structure Elucidation Using SIRIUS 4. Methods in molecular biology. 2104. 185–207. 25 indexed citations
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Dührkop, Kai, Louis‐Félix Nothias, Markus Fleischauer, et al.. (2020). Systematic classification of unknown metabolites using high-resolution fragmentation mass spectra. Nature Biotechnology. 39(4). 462–471. 467 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tripathi, Anupriya, Yoshiki Vázquez‐Baeza, Julia M. Gauglitz, et al.. (2020). Chemically informed analyses of metabolomics mass spectrometry data with Qemistree. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(2). 146–151. 70 indexed citations
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Dührkop, Kai, Markus Fleischauer, Marcus Ludwig, et al.. (2019). SIRIUS 4: a rapid tool for turning tandem mass spectra into metabolite structure information. Nature Methods. 16(4). 299–302. 1157 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ludwig, Marcus, Kai Dührkop, & Sebastian Böcker. (2018). Bayesian networks for mass spectrometric metabolite identification via molecular fingerprints. Bioinformatics. 34(13). i333–i340. 34 indexed citations
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McClure, Ryan, Christopher M. Overall, Jason McDermott, et al.. (2016). Network analysis of transcriptomics expands regulatory landscapes inSynechococcussp. PCC 7002. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(18). 8810–8825. 24 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Marcus, et al.. (2012). Finding Characteristic Substructures for Metabolite Classes. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 6 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Marcus & Rolf E. Hummel. (1993). Differential Reflectance Studies of Structural Changes in GaAs Caused by Ar+ Ion Bombardment. MRS Proceedings. 300.

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