Matthias Weiß

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
136 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Matthias Weiß is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthias Weiß has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Cell Biology and 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Matthias Weiß's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (36 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (21 papers) and Diffusion and Search Dynamics (14 papers). Matthias Weiß is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (36 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (21 papers) and Diffusion and Search Dynamics (14 papers). Matthias Weiß collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Matthias Weiß's co-authors include Gernot Guigas, Tommy Nilsson, Jędrzej Szymański, Markus Elsner, Fredrik Kartberg, Claudia Kalla, Hitoshi Hashimoto, Ulrich Schmidt, Jürgen Köhler and Dominique Ernst and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Physical Review Letters and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Matthias Weiß

126 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Anomalous Subdiffusion Is a Measure for Cytoplasmic Crowd... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Anomalous Subdiffusion Is a Measure for Cytoplasmic Crowding in Living Cells
    2004 574 citations Matthias Weiß et al. Biophysical Journal profile →

Peers

Matthias Weiß
Michael J. Saxton United States
Lene B. Oddershede Denmark
Olivier Bénichou France
Yuval Garini Israel
Aaron R. Dinner United States
Diego Krapf United States
Santiago Schnell United States
Edward C. Cox United States
Timothy C. Elston United States
Kirstine Berg‐Sørensen Denmark
Michael J. Saxton United States
Matthias Weiß
Citations per year, relative to Matthias Weiß Matthias Weiß (= 1×) peers Michael J. Saxton

Countries citing papers authored by Matthias Weiß

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthias Weiß

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthias Weiß

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Matthias Weiß. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Matthias Weiß 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 Matthias Weiß. Matthias Weiß 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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Alfano, Caterina, Yann Fichou, Klaus Huber, et al.. (2024). Molecular Crowding: The History and Development of a Scientific Paradigm. Chemical Reviews. 124(6). 3186–3219. 58 indexed citations
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Weiß, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Controlling phase separations and reactions in trapped microfluidic droplets. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 20998–20998.
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Weiß, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Microtubule polyglutamylation is an essential regulator of cytoskeletal integrity in Trypanosoma brucei. Journal of Cell Science. 137(3). 4 indexed citations
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Weiß, Matthias, et al.. (2020). Microtubule polyglutamylation is important for regulating cytoskeletal architecture and motility in Trypanosoma brucei. Journal of Cell Science. 133(18). 6 indexed citations
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Wolf, Stephan, et al.. (2020). Splicing Endonuclease Is an Important Player in rRNA and tRNA Maturation in Archaea. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 594838–594838. 11 indexed citations
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Weiß, Matthias, et al.. (2019). A versatile cis-acting element reporter system to study the function, maturation and stability of ribosomal RNA mutants in archaea. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(4). 2073–2090. 16 indexed citations
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Böckler, Stefan, Till Klecker, M. Wolter, et al.. (2017). Fusion, fission, and transport control asymmetric inheritance of mitochondria and protein aggregates. The Journal of Cell Biology. 216(8). 2481–2498. 47 indexed citations
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Weiß, Matthias. (2016). Group sparsity techniques for data fusion of a passive MISO radar network. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1–5. 3 indexed citations
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Guigas, Gernot, et al.. (2016). Shaping the endoplasmic reticulum in vitro. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1858(9). 2035–2040. 8 indexed citations
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Pawar, Nisha, et al.. (2015). An organelle-exclusion envelope assists mitosis and underlies distinct molecular crowding in the spindle region. The Journal of Cell Biology. 210(5). 695–704. 47 indexed citations
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Hartel, Andreas, Marius Glogger, Gernot Guigas, et al.. (2015). The molecular size of the extra-membrane domain influences the diffusion of the GPI-anchored VSG on the trypanosome plasma membrane. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 10394–10394. 16 indexed citations
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Pawar, Nisha, et al.. (2014). Anisotropic Diffusion of Macromolecules in the Contiguous Nucleocytoplasmic Fluid during Eukaryotic Cell Division. Current Biology. 24(16). 1905–1908. 20 indexed citations
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Weiß, Matthias. (2014). Crowding, Diffusion, and Biochemical Reactions. International review of cell and molecular biology. 307. 383–417. 89 indexed citations
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Berkovich, Ronen, Haguy Wolfenson, Marcelo Ehrlich, et al.. (2011). Accurate Quantification of Diffusion and Binding Kinetics of Non‐integral Membrane Proteins by FRAP. Traffic. 12(11). 1648–1657. 22 indexed citations
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Weiß, Matthias, et al.. (2010). Initial ARTINO Radar Experiments. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1–4. 14 indexed citations
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Shillcock, Julian C., et al.. (2010). A Modeling Approach to the Self-Assembly of the Golgi Apparatus. Biophysical Journal. 98(12). 2839–2847. 13 indexed citations
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Weiß, Matthias, et al.. (2008). First Flight Trials with ARTINO. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1–4. 7 indexed citations
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Marino, Giovanni & Matthias Weiß. (2008). A real time simulation model for estimation of position and orientation of two airborne SAR systems platforms inMatlab/Simulink: description,. 1–4.
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Guigas, Gernot, Claudia Kalla, & Matthias Weiß. (2007). The degree of macromolecular crowding in the cytoplasm and nucleoplasm of mammalian cells is conserved. FEBS Letters. 581(26). 5094–5098. 91 indexed citations
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Guigas, Gernot & Matthias Weiß. (2006). Size-Dependent Diffusion of Membrane Inclusions. Biophysical Journal. 91(7). 2393–2398. 108 indexed citations

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