Melina Schuh

7.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
51 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Melina Schuh is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melina Schuh has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 27 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Melina Schuh's work include Reproductive Biology and Fertility (31 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (27 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (11 papers). Melina Schuh is often cited by papers focused on Reproductive Biology and Fertility (31 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (27 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (11 papers). Melina Schuh collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and France. Melina Schuh's co-authors include Jan Ellenberg, Dean Clift, Binyam Mogessie, Zuzana Holubcová, Alexandre Webster, Kay Elder, Martyn Blayney, Christian F. Lehner, Stefan Heidmann and William A. McEwan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Melina Schuh

48 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Method for the Acute and Rapid Degradation of Endogenous Proteins

2017 372 citations Dean Clift, William A. McEwan et al. Cell profile →
Aneuploidy in mammalian oocytes and the impact of maternal ageing

2022 93 citations Melina Schuh et al. profile →
Mammalian oocytes store proteins for the early embryo on cytoplasmic lattices

2023 68 citations Felix J.B. Bäuerlein, Luisa M. Welp et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melina Schuh Germany	33	3.0k	2.3k	2.0k	726	592	51	4.7k
Christer Höög Sweden	46	5.3k 1.7×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	597 1.0×	91	6.5k
Marie‐Hélène Verlhac France	34	2.5k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	2.8k 1.4×	501 0.7×	304 0.5×	67	4.3k
Bernard Maro France	49	5.3k 1.8×	4.0k 1.7×	4.6k 2.3×	750 1.0×	626 1.1×	102	7.9k
Michael A. Lampson United States	47	6.5k 2.2×	5.0k 2.2×	936 0.5×	1.9k 2.7×	505 0.9×	94	8.3k
Ricardo Benavente Germany	41	4.7k 1.6×	1.0k 0.5×	627 0.3×	771 1.1×	176 0.3×	111	5.5k
Mary Ann Handel United States	45	4.2k 1.4×	666 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	914 1.3×	326 0.6×	116	5.9k
Christa Heyting Netherlands	40	4.9k 1.6×	1.1k 0.5×	606 0.3×	1.5k 2.1×	377 0.6×	79	5.7k
Noriyuki Sagata Japan	31	2.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	339 0.5×	59 0.1×	60	4.0k
Peter B. Møens Canada	49	5.6k 1.9×	1.2k 0.5×	722 0.4×	2.2k 3.0×	277 0.5×	131	6.9k
Petr Kaláb United States	30	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	294 0.4×	55 0.1×	67	3.9k

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Schuh, Melina, et al.. (2025). Ex Vivo Imaging Reveals the Spatiotemporal Control of Ovulation. Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 80(3). 167–168.

Cheng, Shiya & Melina Schuh. (2024). Two mechanisms repress cyclin B1 translation to maintain prophase arrest in mouse oocytes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10044–10044. 5 indexed citations

Letort, Gaëlle, Hervé Turlier, Raphaël Voituriez, et al.. (2024). Aberrant cortex contractions impact mammalian oocyte quality. Developmental Cell. 59(7). 841–852.e7. 7 indexed citations

Bäuerlein, Felix J.B., Luisa M. Welp, Benjamin H. Cooper, et al.. (2023). Mammalian oocytes store proteins for the early embryo on cytoplasmic lattices. Cell. 186(24). 5308–5327.e25. 68 indexed citations breakdown →

Uraji, Julia, et al.. (2023). Actin-driven chromosome clustering facilitates fast and complete chromosome capture in mammalian oocytes. Nature Cell Biology. 25(3). 439–452. 18 indexed citations

Cheng, Shiya, Chun So, Luisa M. Welp, et al.. (2022). Mammalian oocytes store mRNAs in a mitochondria-associated membraneless compartment. Science. 378(6617). eabq4835–eabq4835. 94 indexed citations

Cavazza, Tommaso, Yuko Takeda, Antonio Z. Politi, et al.. (2021). Parental genome unification is highly error-prone in mammalian embryos. Cell. 184(11). 2860–2877.e22. 103 indexed citations

Wartosch, Lena, Karen Schindler, Melina Schuh, et al.. (2021). Origins and mechanisms leading to aneuploidy in human eggs. Prenatal Diagnosis. 41(5). 620–630. 44 indexed citations

Elinati, Elias, Agata P. Zielinska, Afshan McCarthy, et al.. (2020). The BCL-2 pathway preserves mammalian genome integrity by eliminating recombination-defective oocytes. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2598–2598. 25 indexed citations

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So, Chun, et al.. (2019). A liquid-like spindle domain promotes acentrosomal spindle assembly in mammalian oocytes. Science. 364(6447). 123 indexed citations

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Zielinska, Agata P., Jennifer R. Gruhn, Martyn Blayney, et al.. (2019). Meiotic Kinetochores Fragment into Multiple Lobes upon Cohesin Loss in Aging Eggs. Current Biology. 29(22). 3749–3765.e7. 62 indexed citations

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Clift, Dean, Chun So, William A. McEwan, Leo C. James, & Melina Schuh. (2018). Acute and rapid degradation of endogenous proteins by Trim-Away. Nature Protocols. 13(10). 2149–2175. 117 indexed citations

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Mogessie, Binyam & Melina Schuh. (2017). Actin protects mammalian eggs against chromosome segregation errors. Science. 357(6353). 113 indexed citations

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Boulanger, Jérôme, et al.. (2016). Two pathways regulate cortical granule translocation to prevent polyspermy in mouse oocytes. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13726–13726. 40 indexed citations

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Holubcová, Zuzana, Martyn Blayney, Kay Elder, & Melina Schuh. (2015). Error-prone chromosome-mediated spindle assembly favors chromosome segregation defects in human oocytes. Science. 348(6239). 1143–1147. 232 indexed citations

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Pasternak, Michał, et al.. (2015). Live imaging RNAi screen reveals genes essential for meiosis in mammalian oocytes. Nature. 524(7564). 239–242. 67 indexed citations

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Mogessie, Binyam & Melina Schuh. (2014). Nuclear Envelope Breakdown: Actin’ Quick to Tear Down the Wall. Current Biology. 24(13). R605–R607. 5 indexed citations

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Montaville, Pierre, Antoine Jégou, Julien Pernier, et al.. (2014). Spire and Formin 2 Synergize and Antagonize in Regulating Actin Assembly in Meiosis by a Ping-Pong Mechanism. PLoS Biology. 12(2). e1001795–e1001795. 61 indexed citations

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Holubcová, Zuzana, Gillian Howard, & Melina Schuh. (2013). Vesicles modulate an actin network for asymmetric spindle positioning. Nature Cell Biology. 15(8). 937–947. 119 indexed citations

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Schuh, Melina, Christian F. Lehner, & Stefan Heidmann. (2007). Incorporation of Drosophila CID/CENP-A and CENP-C into Centromeres during Early Embryonic Anaphase. Current Biology. 17(3). 237–243. 297 indexed citations

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