Meik Sacher

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Meik Sacher is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Meik Sacher has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Pharmacology and 1 paper in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Meik Sacher's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (2 papers). Meik Sacher is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (2 papers). Meik Sacher collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Meik Sacher's co-authors include Stefan Jentsch, Boris Pfander, Carsten Hoege, George‐Lucian Moldovan, Ivana Šunjevarić, Nadine Eckert‐Boulet, Jordi Torres‐Rosell, Robert Huber, Luís Aragón and Robert J. D. Reid and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Meik Sacher

8 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

SUMO-modified PCNA recruits Srs2 to prevent recombination during S phase

2005 501 citations Boris Pfander, George‐Lucian Moldovan et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meik Sacher Germany	8	1.1k	205	177	126	97	8	1.3k
P. Poorman‐Allen United States	8	660 0.6×	38 0.2×	103 0.6×	82 0.7×	147 1.5×	11	981
Kent L. Redman United States	12	584 0.5×	110 0.5×	73 0.4×	92 0.7×	36 0.4×	18	722
Roald Bøe Norway	12	456 0.4×	102 0.5×	82 0.5×	57 0.5×	40 0.4×	12	805
Jiangchuan Shen United States	12	643 0.6×	86 0.4×	54 0.3×	151 1.2×	64 0.7×	16	838
Xiaoxia Dai China	21	965 0.9×	146 0.7×	30 0.2×	242 1.9×	60 0.6×	51	1.2k
Jia Zhou United States	13	829 0.7×	226 1.1×	80 0.5×	99 0.8×	83 0.9×	22	1.1k
Agneta Önfelt Sweden	14	455 0.4×	56 0.3×	75 0.4×	226 1.8×	81 0.8×	35	773
Kaoru Yoshiyama Japan	18	1.3k 1.1×	92 0.4×	98 0.6×	147 1.2×	147 1.5×	27	1.7k
Jeffrey J. Jackson United States	15	321 0.3×	112 0.5×	59 0.3×	30 0.2×	32 0.3×	35	771
Akio Uchida Japan	11	977 0.9×	97 0.5×	138 0.8×	146 1.2×	115 1.2×	21	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meik Sacher

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Roesti, David, et al.. (2017). Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy as method of choice for non-invasive and automated detection of microbial growth in media fills. Talanta. 167. 21–29. 13 indexed citations

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Torres‐Rosell, Jordi, Ivana Šunjevarić, Giacomo De Piccoli, et al.. (2007). The Smc5–Smc6 complex and SUMO modification of Rad52 regulates recombinational repair at the ribosomal gene locus. Nature Cell Biology. 9(8). 923–931. 313 indexed citations

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Sacher, Meik, Boris Pfander, Carsten Hoege, & Stefan Jentsch. (2006). Control of Rad52 recombination activity by double-strand break-induced SUMO modification. Nature Cell Biology. 8(11). 1284–1290. 149 indexed citations

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Pfander, Boris, George‐Lucian Moldovan, Meik Sacher, Carsten Hoege, & Stefan Jentsch. (2005). SUMO-modified PCNA recruits Srs2 to prevent recombination during S phase. Nature. 436(7049). 428–433. 501 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sacher, Meik, Boris Pfander, & Stefan Jentsch. (2005). Identification of SUMO–Protein Conjugates. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 399. 392–404. 20 indexed citations

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Ruan, Benfang Helen, Michael Bovée, Meik Sacher, et al.. (2004). A Unique Hydrophobic Cluster Near the Active Site Contributes to Differences in Borrelidin Inhibition among Threonyl-tRNA Synthetases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(1). 571–577. 50 indexed citations

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Korencic, Dragana, Ivan Ahel, James Schelert, et al.. (2004). A freestanding proofreading domain is required for protein synthesis quality control in Archaea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(28). 10260–10265. 93 indexed citations

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Huber, Robert, et al.. (2000). Respiration of Arsenate and Selenate by Hyperthermophilic Archaea. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 23(3). 305–314. 156 indexed citations

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