Martin Ott

7.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Martin Ott is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin Ott has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cell Biology and 5 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Martin Ott's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (54 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (30 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (23 papers). Martin Ott is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (54 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (30 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (23 papers). Martin Ott collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and Austria. Martin Ott's co-authors include Sten Orrenius, Boris Zhivotovsky, Vladimir Gogvadze, John D. Robertson, Johannes M. Herrmann, Alan Brown, Alexey Amunts, Kirsten Kehrein, Soledad Funes and Sabrina Büttner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Martin Ott

70 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Mitochondria, oxidative stress and cell death

2007 1.6k citations Martin Ott, Vladimir Gogvadze et al. APOPTOSIS profile →
Cytochrome c release from mitochondria proceeds by a two-step process

2002 783 citations Martin Ott, Vladimir Gogvadze et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martin Ott Sweden	35	4.0k	504	425	390	370	73	5.4k
Anna‐Liisa Nieminen United States	34	2.7k 0.7×	239 0.5×	323 0.8×	463 1.2×	398 1.1×	48	5.0k
Ivano Eberini Italy	36	2.6k 0.7×	213 0.4×	325 0.8×	195 0.5×	449 1.2×	151	4.4k
Icksoo Lee United States	40	3.6k 0.9×	323 0.6×	289 0.7×	430 1.1×	750 2.0×	82	5.5k
Masaru Miyagi United States	37	3.8k 1.0×	218 0.4×	339 0.8×	196 0.5×	506 1.4×	128	5.9k
Jens Knudsen Denmark	39	4.0k 1.0×	448 0.9×	772 1.8×	406 1.0×	790 2.1×	95	5.4k
Jan M. Suski Poland	19	2.7k 0.7×	178 0.4×	521 1.2×	508 1.3×	523 1.4×	29	4.2k
Boris V. Chernyak Russia	37	3.2k 0.8×	320 0.6×	172 0.4×	410 1.1×	511 1.4×	140	4.9k
Antoni Barrientos United States	53	6.5k 1.6×	1.2k 2.3×	490 1.2×	397 1.0×	721 1.9×	135	8.0k
Giovanna Musco Italy	35	3.0k 0.8×	691 1.4×	226 0.5×	247 0.6×	239 0.6×	99	5.3k
Andrea Rasola Italy	40	4.2k 1.1×	301 0.6×	503 1.2×	457 1.2×	535 1.4×	86	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Martin Ott

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Fields of papers citing papers by Martin Ott

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Martin Ott

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

All Works

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Bridgers, Joseph B., Mary Couvillion, Abeer Prakash Singh, et al.. (2025). A molecular switch at the yeast mitoribosomal tunnel exit controls cytochrome b synthesis. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(13). 2 indexed citations

Kohler, Verena, Xinxin Hao, Axel Imhof, et al.. (2024). Nuclear Hsp104 safeguards the dormant translation machinery during quiescence. Nature Communications. 15(1). 315–315. 5 indexed citations

Kohler, Verena, et al.. (2023). Newly imported proteins in mitochondria are particularly sensitive to aggregation. Acta Physiologica. 238(3). e13985–e13985. 9 indexed citations

Sridhara, S., et al.. (2023). Early steps in the biogenesis of mitochondrially encoded oxidative phosphorylation subunits. IUBMB Life. 76(3). 125–139. 3 indexed citations

Ott, Martin, et al.. (2022). Multi-omic integration by machine learning (MIMaL). Bioinformatics. 38(21). 4908–4918. 8 indexed citations

Berndtsson, Jens, Sorbhi Rathore, Lorena Marín-Buera, et al.. (2020). Respiratory supercomplexes enhance electron transport by decreasing cytochrome c diffusion distance. EMBO Reports. 21(12). e51015–e51015. 81 indexed citations

Aftab, Wasim, et al.. (2020). Mapping protein networks in yeast mitochondria using proximity-dependent biotin identification coupled to proteomics. STAR Protocols. 1(3). 100219–100219. 4 indexed citations

Schäfer, Jacob, et al.. (2020). Rcf1 Modulates Cytochrome c Oxidase Activity Especially Under Energy-Demanding Conditions. Frontiers in Physiology. 10. 1555–1555. 19 indexed citations

Bareth, Bettina, Miroslav Nikolov, Isotta Lorenzi, et al.. (2016). Oms1 associates with cytochromecoxidase assembly intermediates to stabilize newly synthesized Cox1. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 27(10). 1570–1580. 3 indexed citations

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Kuzmenko, Anton, Stoyan Tankov, Gemma C. Atkinson, et al.. (2016). Aim-less translation: loss of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial translation initiation factor mIF3/Aim23 leads to unbalanced protein synthesis. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 18749–18749. 22 indexed citations

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Ott, Martin, Martin Blaimer, David Grodzki, et al.. (2015). Acoustic-noise-optimized diffusion-weighted imaging. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and Medicine. 28(6). 511–521. 11 indexed citations

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Kehrein, Kirsten, Christian A. Wurm, Stefan Jakobs, et al.. (2015). Organization of Mitochondrial Gene Expression in Two Distinct Ribosome-Containing Assemblies. Cell Reports. 10(6). 843–853. 87 indexed citations

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Burguillos, Miguel Ángel, F.‐Nora Vögtle, Pedro Filipe Teixeira, et al.. (2014). The novel component Kgd4 recruits the E3 subunit to the mitochondrial α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(21). 3342–3349. 45 indexed citations

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Bauerschmitt, Heike, David U. Mick, Markus Deckers, et al.. (2010). Ribosome-binding Proteins Mdm38 and Mba1 Display Overlapping Functions for Regulation of Mitochondrial Translation. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21(12). 1937–1944. 49 indexed citations

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Ott, Martin, Erik Norberg, Boris Zhivotovsky, & Sten Orrenius. (2009). Mitochondrial targeting of tBid/Bax: a role for the TOM complex?. Cell Death and Differentiation. 16(8). 1075–1082. 79 indexed citations

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Ott, Martin & Johannes M. Herrmann. (2009). Co-translational membrane insertion of mitochondrially encoded proteins. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1803(6). 767–775. 122 indexed citations

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Vogel, Frank, et al.. (2009). Mrpl36 Is Important for Generation of Assembly Competent Proteins during Mitochondrial Translation. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 20(10). 2615–2625. 41 indexed citations

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Ott, Martin, Vladimir Gogvadze, Sten Orrenius, & Boris Zhivotovsky. (2007). Mitochondria, oxidative stress and cell death. APOPTOSIS. 12(5). 913–922. 1630 indexed citations breakdown →

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Preuss, Marc, Martin Ott, Soledad Funes, Joen Luirink, & Johannes M. Herrmann. (2005). Evolution of Mitochondrial Oxa Proteins from Bacterial YidC. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(13). 13004–13011. 82 indexed citations

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Iverson, Suzanne L., Mari Enoksson, Vladimir Gogvadze, Martin Ott, & Sten Orrenius. (2004). Cardiolipin Is Not Required for Bax-mediated Cytochrome c Release from Yeast Mitochondria. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(2). 1100–1107. 65 indexed citations

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