Matthias Schaefer

7.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Matthias Schaefer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthias Schaefer has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 6 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Matthias Schaefer's work include RNA modifications and cancer (26 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (13 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (13 papers). Matthias Schaefer is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (26 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (13 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (13 papers). Matthias Schaefer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Matthias Schaefer's co-authors include Frank Lyko, Juergen A. Knoblich, Édouard Bertrand, Pascal Chartrand, Shailesh M. Shenoy, Roy Long, Robert H. Singer, Tim Pollex, Katharina Hanna and Mark Helm and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Matthias Schaefer

47 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Localization of ASH1 mRNA Particles in Living Yeast

1998 1.3k citations Édouard Bertrand, Pascal Chartrand et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Control of Human Telomere Length by TRF1 and TRF2

2000 617 citations Matthias Schaefer et al. profile →
RNA methylation by Dnmt2 protects transfer RNAs against stress-induced cleavage

2010 561 citations Matthias Schaefer, Tim Pollex et al. Genes & Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthias Schaefer Germany	28	5.0k	1.1k	655	633	470	49	5.8k
Raúl Méndez Spain	38	4.9k 1.0×	670 0.6×	841 1.3×	203 0.3×	287 0.6×	71	6.1k
Eivind Valen Norway	30	6.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	560 0.9×	176 0.3×	604 1.3×	50	7.5k
Robert A. Lindquist United States	10	4.8k 1.0×	480 0.5×	1.3k 2.0×	581 0.9×	183 0.4×	10	7.5k
John I. Murray United States	30	3.6k 0.7×	478 0.4×	480 0.7×	332 0.5×	222 0.5×	57	5.0k
Scot A. Wolfe United States	48	7.2k 1.4×	736 0.7×	915 1.4×	175 0.3×	768 1.6×	97	8.3k
Max A. Horlbeck United States	24	5.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	413 0.6×	141 0.2×	266 0.6×	31	6.1k
Marc Hild United States	20	3.5k 0.7×	541 0.5×	795 1.2×	318 0.5×	141 0.3×	27	4.7k
Susan Tweedie United Kingdom	28	4.8k 1.0×	503 0.5×	246 0.4×	201 0.3×	337 0.7×	45	5.8k
Israel Steinfeld Israel	19	4.1k 0.8×	870 0.8×	212 0.3×	238 0.4×	358 0.8×	27	5.5k
Gloria A. Brar United States	23	6.1k 1.2×	587 0.6×	516 0.8×	97 0.2×	634 1.3×	40	6.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthias Schaefer

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Kreutz, Christoph, et al.. (2025). Copy number determination of sperm-borne small RNAs implied in the intergenerational inheritance of metabolic syndromes. RNA. 31(8). 1041–1052.

Bauer, Ingo, Dietmar Rieder, Matthias Schaefer, et al.. (2025). mRNA turnover dynamics are affected by cell differentiation and loss of the cytosine methyltransferase Nsun2. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(19).

Capitanchik, Charlotte, et al.. (2023). Identification of RNA helicases with unwinding activity on angiogenin-processed tRNAs. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(3). 1326–1352. 18 indexed citations

Léger, Bertrand, Clara Dees, Christian Beyer, et al.. (2020). Translational engagement of lysophosphatidic acid receptor 1 in skin fibrosis: from dermal fibroblasts of patients with scleroderma to tight skin 1 mouse. British Journal of Pharmacology. 177(18). 4296–4309. 20 indexed citations

Silva, Bruno da, Virginie Marchand, Caroline Jacquier, et al.. (2020). tRNA 2′-O-methylation by a duo of TRM7/FTSJ1 proteins modulates small RNA silencing in Drosophila. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(4). 2050–2072. 34 indexed citations

Durdevic, Zeljko, Katharina Hanna, Bruno da Silva, et al.. (2018). Mutations in Cytosine-5 tRNA Methyltransferases Impact Mobile Element Expression and Genome Stability at Specific DNA Repeats. Cell Reports. 22(7). 1861–1874. 50 indexed citations

Bourgeois, Gabrielle, Imre Gáspár, Christelle Aigueperse, et al.. (2015). Eukaryotic rRNA Modification by Yeast 5-Methylcytosine-Methyltransferases and Human Proliferation-Associated Antigen p120. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0133321–e0133321. 81 indexed citations

Duggimpudi, Sujitha, et al.. (2014). A cluster of methylations in the domain IV of 25S rRNA is required for ribosome stability. RNA. 20(10). 1632–1644. 65 indexed citations

Raddatz, Günter, Paloma M. Guzzardo, Nelly Olova, et al.. (2013). Dnmt2-dependent methylomes lack defined DNA methylation patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(21). 8627–8631. 175 indexed citations

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Tuorto, Francesca, Reinhard Liebers, Tanja Musch, et al.. (2012). RNA cytosine methylation by Dnmt2 and NSun2 promotes tRNA stability and protein synthesis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 19(9). 900–905. 465 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Matthias, Tim Pollex, Katharina Hanna, et al.. (2010). RNA methylation by Dnmt2 protects transfer RNAs against stress-induced cleavage. Genes & Development. 24(15). 1590–1595. 561 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pollex, Tim, Katharina Hanna, & Matthias Schaefer. (2010). Detection of Cytosine Methylation in RNA Using Bisulfite Sequencing. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2010(10). pdb.prot5505–pdb.prot5505. 12 indexed citations

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Yi, Xia, Katarzyna Siudeja, Anil Rana, et al.. (2008). Stwl Modifies Chromatin Compaction and Is Required to Maintain DNA Integrity in the Presence of Perturbed DNA Replication. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 20(3). 983–994. 21 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Matthias, Madeleine Meusburger, & Frank Lyko. (2007). Non-mammalian models for epigenetic analyses in cancer. Human Molecular Genetics. 16(R1). R1–R6. 9 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Matthias & Frank Lyko. (2007). DNA methylation with a sting: An active DNA methylation system in the honeybee. BioEssays. 29(3). 208–211. 26 indexed citations

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Erdoğan, Ali, Christian Schaefer, Matthias Schaefer, et al.. (2005). Margatoxin Inhibits VEGF-Induced Hyperpolarization, Proliferation and Nitric Oxide Production of Human Endothelial Cells. Journal of Vascular Research. 42(5). 368–376. 30 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Matthias & Juergen A. Knoblich. (2001). Protein Localization during Asymmetric Cell Division. Experimental Cell Research. 271(1). 66–74. 12 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Matthias, et al.. (2001). Heterotrimeric G Proteins Direct Two Modes of Asymmetric Cell Division in the Drosophila Nervous System. Cell. 107(2). 183–194. 267 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Matthias, Anna Shevchenko, Andrej Shevchenko, & Juergen A. Knoblich. (2000). A protein complex containing Inscuteable and the Gα-binding protein Pins orients asymmetric cell divisions in Drosophila. Current Biology. 10(7). 353–362. 273 indexed citations

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Bertrand, Édouard, Pascal Chartrand, Matthias Schaefer, et al.. (1998). Localization of ASH1 mRNA Particles in Living Yeast. Molecular Cell. 2(4). 437–445. 1254 indexed citations breakdown →

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