Michael Lässig

6.1k total citations
83 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Lässig is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Lässig has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Michael Lässig's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (33 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (17 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers). Michael Lässig is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (33 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (17 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers). Michael Lässig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Lässig's co-authors include Ville Mustonen, Johannes Berg, Marta Łuksza, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Natalja Strelkowa, Harald Kinzelbach, Giuseppe Mussardo, Andreas Wagner, Terence Hwa and Ugo Bastolla and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Lässig

82 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Lässig Germany	33	1.6k	1.3k	428	413	367	83	3.4k
Susanna C. Manrubia Spain	36	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	688 1.6×	182 0.4×	149 0.4×	131	4.1k
Oskar Hallatschek United States	28	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	773 1.8×	356 0.9×	44 0.1×	65	3.6k
Aleksandra M. Walczak France	42	2.9k 1.9×	1.1k 0.9×	220 0.5×	332 0.8×	180 0.5×	138	5.5k
Edward C. Cox United States	48	5.4k 3.5×	2.2k 1.7×	175 0.4×	327 0.8×	184 0.5×	95	10.3k
Stanley Sawyer United States	26	1.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	129 0.3×	70 0.2×	190 0.5×	68	4.4k
Stephen J. Cornell United Kingdom	34	371 0.2×	708 0.5×	189 0.4×	1.0k 2.5×	136 0.4×	88	5.7k
Paul G. Higgs Canada	40	2.7k 1.8×	1.5k 1.1×	533 1.2×	106 0.3×	83 0.2×	98	4.9k
Tohey Matsuyama Japan	32	1.1k 0.7×	452 0.3×	133 0.3×	498 1.2×	141 0.4×	79	2.8k
Daniel Coombs Canada	35	892 0.6×	397 0.3×	128 0.3×	72 0.2×	405 1.1×	85	3.5k
Claude Loverdo France	19	1.4k 0.9×	232 0.2×	67 0.2×	178 0.4×	69 0.2×	35	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Lässig

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Karmakar, Malancha, et al.. (2025). Concepts and Methods for Predicting Viral Evolution. Methods in molecular biology. 2890. 253–290. 3 indexed citations

Łuksza, Marta, et al.. (2023). Population immunity predicts evolutionary trajectories of SARS-CoV-2. Cell. 186(23). 5151–5164.e13. 26 indexed citations

Frazão, Nelson, et al.. (2022). Two modes of evolution shape bacterial strain diversity in the mammalian gut for thousands of generations. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5604–5604. 30 indexed citations

Warsi, Omar, et al.. (2021). Metabolic fitness landscapes predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(5). 677–687. 46 indexed citations

Lässig, Michael & Ville Mustonen. (2020). Eco-evolutionary control of pathogens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(33). 19694–19704. 9 indexed citations

Frazão, Nelson, Ana Sousa, Michael Lässig, & Isabel Gordo. (2019). Horizontal gene transfer overrides mutation in Escherichia coli colonizing the mammalian gut. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(36). 17906–17915. 117 indexed citations

Lässig, Michael, et al.. (2017). Fitness cost of reassortment in human influenza. PLoS Pathogens. 13(11). e1006685–e1006685. 40 indexed citations

Morris, Dylan H., Katelyn M. Gostic, Simone Pompei, et al.. (2017). Predictive Modeling of Influenza Shows the Promise of Applied Evolutionary Biology. Trends in Microbiology. 26(2). 102–118. 82 indexed citations

Strelkowa, Natalja & Michael Lässig. (2012). Clonal Interference in the Evolution of Influenza. Genetics. 192(2). 671–682. 114 indexed citations

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Mustonen, Ville & Michael Lässig. (2008). Molecular Evolution under Fitness Fluctuations. Physical Review Letters. 100(10). 108101–108101. 41 indexed citations

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Lässig, Michael. (2007). From biophysics to evolutionary genetics: statistical aspects of gene regulation. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(S6). S7–S7. 78 indexed citations

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Bastolla, Ugo, Michael Lässig, Susanna C. Manrubia, & Angelo Valleriani. (2005). Biodiversity in model ecosystems, II: species assembly and food web structure. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 235(4). 531–539. 24 indexed citations

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Berg, Johannes, et al.. (2004). Adaptive evolution of transcription factor binding sites. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 4(1). 42–42. 158 indexed citations

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Kschischo, Maik, Michael Lässig, & Yongjae Yu. (2004). Toward an accurate statistics of gapped alignments. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 67(1). 169–191. 16 indexed citations

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Lässig, Michael, Francesca Tria, & Luca Peliti. (2003). Evolutionary games and quasispecies. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 62(3). 446–451. 5 indexed citations

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Berg, Johannes, Michael Lässig, & Andreas Wagner. (2002). Evolutionary dynamics of protein networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Bundschuh, Ralf & Michael Lässig. (2002). Delocalization transitions of semiflexible manifolds. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 65(6). 61502–61502. 7 indexed citations

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Berg, Johannes & Michael Lässig. (2002). Correlated Random Networks. Physical Review Letters. 89(22). 228701–228701. 92 indexed citations

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Lässig, Michael & Harald Kinzelbach. (1998). Lässig and Kinzelbach Reply:. Physical Review Letters. 80(4). 889–889. 17 indexed citations

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Lässig, Michael & M J Martins. (1991). Finite-size effects in theories with factorizable S-matrices. Nuclear Physics B. 354(2-3). 666–688. 20 indexed citations

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