Martin Beck

18.5k citations

136 papers · 11.6k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 55

Impact in

Structural Biology top 0.05%
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Nuclear Structure and Function
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Papers in

Structural Biology 20
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications 20
Molecular Biology 106
- RNA Research and Splicing 49
- Nuclear Structure and Function 39
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 30
- RNA modifications and cancer 22
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 12

Co-authors: Ruedi Aebersold Ed Hurt Wolfgang Baumeister Alessandro Ori‬‬Oliver Rinner Alexander Schmidt Franz Herzog Thomas Walzthoeni
Journals: Nature Communications (14 papers)Cell (10 papers)Science (8 papers)Nature Methods (6 papers)Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (6 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States Switzerland

In The Last Decade

Martin Beck

128 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Passage of the HIV capsid cracks the nuclear pore 2025 · 26 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Cell
2022 Science
2021 Cell
2021 Science
2020 Science
2016 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2011 Molecular Systems Biology

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Martin Beck, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Systematic membrane thickness variation across cellular organelles revealed by cryo-ET The Journal of Cell Biology ·丁丽芳, Stefanie Böhm, Martin Beck	2025	0
2	In situ architecture of the nuclear pore complex of the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana Nature Plants ·俊一守田, Patrick C. Hoffmann, Agnieszka Obarska-Kosińska, Walter R. Magnussen, Martin Beck, Hugo Germain	2025	0
3	Understanding the cell: Future views of structural biology Cell ·Martin Beck, Roberto Covino, Inga Hänelt, Michaela Müller-McNicoll	2024	24
4	Thinner is not always better: Optimizing cryo-lamellae for subtomogram averaging Science Advances ·Maarten W. Tuijtel, Sergio Cruz-León, Jan Philipp Kreysing, Sonja Welsch, Gerhard Hummer, Martin Beck, Beata Turoňová	2024	12
5	Preparing Arabidopsis thaliana root protoplasts for cryo electron tomography Frontiers in Plant Science ·俊一守田, Patrick C. Hoffmann, 임종득, Martin Beck, Hugo Germain	2023	10
6	Visualizing the disordered nuclear transport machinery in situ Nature ·Miao Yu, Maziar Heidari, Sofya Mikhaleva, Piau Siong Tan, 福田隆文, Wilma Klever, Christopher D. Reinkemeier, Agnieszka Obarska-Kosińska, Marc Siggel, Martin Beck, Gerhard Hummer, Edward A. Lemke	2023	67
7	Co-translational binding of importins to nascent proteins Nature Communications ·А.О. Селиванов, Natalie Romanov, Agnieszka Obarska-Kosińska, Anja Becker, Nayara Azevedo, Jan Provazník, 苏倩, Jonathan J. M. Landry, Vladimı́r Beneš, Martin Beck	2023	18
8	Operation of a TCA cycle subnetwork in the mammalian nucleus Science Advances ·Eleni Kafkia, Amparo Andrés‐Pons, Kerstin Ganter, Markus Seiler, Tom Smith, Anna Andrejeva, Paula Jouhten, Filipa Pereira, Catarina Franco, Ashraf Ale Yasin, Jacek Andruszkiewicz, Ritwick Sawarkar, 何海平, James Thaventhiran, Judith B. Zaugg, Kathryn S. Lilley, Christophe Lancrin, Martin Beck, Kiran Raosaheb Patil	2022	48
9	Structural impact of K63 ubiquitin on yeast translocating ribosomes under oxidative stress Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ye Zhou, Panagiotis L. Kastritis, A Saar, Jonathan Bouvette, Allen L. Hsu, Laura Burbaum, Shyamal Mosalaganti, Stefan Pfeffer, Wim J. H. Hagen, Friedrich Förster, Mario J. Borgnia, Christine Vogel, Martin Beck, Alberto Bartesaghi, Gustavo M. Silva	2020	22
10	In-cell architecture of the nuclear pore and snapshots of its turnover Nature ·Matteo Allegretti, Christian E. Zimmerli, Vasileios Rantos, Florian Wilfling, Paolo Ronchi, Herman K.H. Fung, Chia‐Wei Lee, Wim J. H. Hagen, Beata Turoňová, Kai Karius, Mandy Börmel, Xiaojie Zhang, Christoph W. Müller, Yannick Schwab, Julia Mahamid, Boris Pfander, Jan Kosiński, Martin Beck	2020	133
11	Proteasomes tether to two distinct sites at the nuclear pore complex Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sahradha Albert, Miroslava Schaffer, Florian Beck, Shyamal Mosalaganti, Shoh Asano, Henry Thomas, Jürgen M. Plitzko, Martin Beck, Wolfgang Baumeister, Benjamin D. Engel	2017	115
12	Postmitotic nuclear pore assembly proceeds by radial dilation of small membrane openings Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Shotaro Otsuka, Anna M. Steyer, Martin Schorb, Jean-Karim Hèriché, M. Julius Hossain, Alessandro Gisbert, Moritz Kueblbeck, Yannick Schwab, Martin Beck, Jan Ellenberg	2017	67
13	Architecture of the yeast Elongator complex EMBO Reports ·A D Wright, Jan Kosiński, Olga Kolaj‐Robin, Ambroise Desfosses, Alessandro Ori‬‬, Céline Faux, N. Hoffmann, E. Adiyetova, Karin D. Breunig, Martin Beck, Carsten Sachse, Bertrand Séraphin, Sebastian Glatt, Christoph W. Müller	2016	61
14	Molecular architecture of the inner ring scaffold of the human nuclear pore complex Science ·Jan Kosiński, Shyamal Mosalaganti, Alexander von Appen, Miguel E. Combariza, Amanda L. DiGuilio, William Wan, Khanh Huy Bui, Wim J. H. Hagen, John A. G. Briggs, Joseph S. Glavy, Ed Hurt, Martin Beck	2016	233
15	Nuclear pore assembly proceeds by an inside-out extrusion of the nuclear envelope eLife ·Shotaro Otsuka, Khanh Huy Bui, Martin Schorb, M. Julius Hossain, Antonio Z. Politi, Birgit Koch, Mikhail Eltsov, Martin Beck, Jan Ellenberg	2016	128
16	A structure of the COPI coat and the role of coat proteins in membrane vesicle assembly Science ·Svetlana Dodonova, Samer Hani Barsoum, Alexander von Appen, Wim J. H. Hagen, Rainer Beck, Martin Beck, Felix Wieland, John A. G. Briggs	2015	136
17	Structural Probing of a Protein Phosphatase 2A Network by Chemical Cross-Linking and Mass Spectrometry Science ·Franz Herzog, Abdullah Kahraman, Daniel Boehringer, Raymond Mak, Andreas Bracher, Thomas Walzthoeni, Alexander Leitner, Martin Beck, F. Ulrich Hartl, Nenad Ban, Lars Malmström, Ruedi Aebersold	2012	326
18	Structure of the 26S proteasome from Schizosaccharomyces pombe at subnanometer resolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Stefan Bohn, Florian Beck, Eri Sakata, Thomas Walzthoeni, Martin Beck, Ruedi Aebersold, Friedrich Förster, Wolfgang Baumeister, Stephan Nickell	2010	112
19	Luminal particles within cellular microtubules The Journal of Cell Biology ·Boyan K. Garvalov, Benoît Zuber, Cédric Bouchet‐Marquis, Mikhail Kudryashev, Manuela Gruska, Martin Beck, Andrew Leis, Friedrich Frischknecht, Frank Bradke, Wolfgang Baumeister, Jacques Dubochet, Marek Cyrklaff	2006	90
20	Nuclear Pore Complex Structure and Dynamics Revealed by Cryoelectron Tomography Science ·Martin Beck, Friedrich Förster, Mary Ecke, Jürgen M. Plitzko, Frauke Melchior, Günther Gerisch, Wolfgang Baumeister, Ohad Medalia	2004	397

About Martin Beck

Martin Beck is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and Biophysics, having authored 136 papers that have together received 11.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include RNA Research and Splicing (49 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (39 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (30 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (22 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (20 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (17 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (12 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (1.4k citations), Molecular Biology (8.8k citations), Biophysics (661 citations), Spectroscopy (1.9k citations) and Cell Biology (1.4k citations). Martin Beck has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Ruedi Aebersold, Ed Hurt, Wolfgang Baumeister, Alessandro Ori‬‬, Oliver Rinner, Alexander Schmidt, Franz Herzog, Thomas Walzthoeni, Friedrich Förster and Khanh Huy Bui. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, Cell, Science, Nature Methods and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.

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