Michael Springer

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Michael Springer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Springer has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Infectious Diseases and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michael Springer's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (13 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (11 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers). Michael Springer is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (13 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (11 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers). Michael Springer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Michael Springer's co-authors include Ron Milo, Paul Jorgensen, Uri Moran, Griffin M. Weber, Marc W. Kirschner, John Ingraham, Hanno Steen, Chris Sander, Charlotta Schärfe and Thomas A. Hopf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Michael Springer

63 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

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2009 725 citations Ron Milo, Michael Springer et al. profile →
Mutation effects predicted from sequence co-variation

2017 447 citations John Ingraham, Michael Springer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Springer United States	27	2.9k	534	338	319	299	66	3.8k
Francisco Melo Chile	26	4.0k 1.4×	396 0.7×	470 1.4×	202 0.6×	260 0.9×	70	5.5k
Alan Bridge Switzerland	23	3.1k 1.1×	458 0.9×	400 1.2×	189 0.6×	297 1.0×	44	4.1k
Ashley M. Buckle Australia	43	4.1k 1.4×	773 1.4×	232 0.7×	195 0.6×	320 1.1×	156	7.2k
Dmitrij Frishman Germany	36	6.0k 2.1×	884 1.7×	501 1.5×	198 0.6×	255 0.9×	160	7.5k
Christopher J. Williams United States	17	2.8k 1.0×	429 0.8×	260 0.8×	119 0.4×	357 1.2×	33	4.4k
Mathias Walzer Germany	13	3.2k 1.1×	353 0.7×	316 0.9×	152 0.5×	197 0.7×	20	4.9k
Matteo Dal Peraro Switzerland	43	3.5k 1.2×	635 1.2×	322 1.0×	585 1.8×	410 1.4×	139	5.6k
Johannes Schuchhardt Germany	22	4.5k 1.5×	509 1.0×	284 0.8×	167 0.5×	326 1.1×	63	6.3k
Beáta G. Vértessy Hungary	35	2.9k 1.0×	467 0.9×	207 0.6×	219 0.7×	361 1.2×	188	3.9k
Mohan Babu Canada	34	3.6k 1.2×	990 1.9×	517 1.5×	292 0.9×	116 0.4×	139	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Springer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Springer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Springer

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

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Soltysiak, Maximillian P. M., et al.. (2025). Expansion and revision of the genus Xanthobacter and proposal of Roseixanthobacter gen. nov.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 75(9). 1 indexed citations

Soltysiak, Maximillian P. M., et al.. (2025). XanthoMoClo─A Robust Modular Cloning Genetic Toolkit for the Genera Xanthobacter and Roseixanthobacter. ACS Synthetic Biology. 14(4). 1173–1190. 1 indexed citations

Brock-Fisher, Taylor, Brittany A. Petros, Gage K. Moreno, et al.. (2024). Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Household Transmission During the Omicron Era in Massachusetts: A Prospective, Case-Ascertained Study Using Genomic Epidemiology. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 11(11). ofae591–ofae591.

Jalihal, Amogh P., et al.. (2023). Quantitatively assessing early detection strategies for mitigating COVID-19 and future pandemics. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8479–8479. 3 indexed citations

Walworth, Nathan G., Neil C. Dalvie, Christopher L. Dupont, et al.. (2023). Microbial Catalysis for CO₂Sequestration: A Geobiological Approach. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 16(5). a041673–a041673. 3 indexed citations

Ricci-Tam, Chiara, et al.. (2021). Decoupling transcription factor expression and activity enables dimmer switch gene regulation. Science. 372(6539). 292–295. 32 indexed citations

Hua, Bo, et al.. (2021). Computational analysis of GAL pathway pinpoints mechanisms underlying natural variation. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(9). e1008691–e1008691. 1 indexed citations

Davidi, Dan, Susan Fitzgerald, Catherine M. Klapperich, et al.. (2021). Amplicon residues in research laboratories masquerade as COVID-19 in surveillance tests. Cell Reports Methods. 1(1). 100005–100005. 9 indexed citations

Hua, Bo, et al.. (2020). Computational study on ratio-sensing in yeast galactose utilization pathway. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(12). e1007960–e1007960. 3 indexed citations

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Hua, Bo & Michael Springer. (2018). Widespread Cumulative Influence of Small Effect Size Mutations on Yeast Quantitative Traits. Cell Systems. 7(6). 590–600.e6. 6 indexed citations

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Savir, Yonatan, Sean M. Carroll, John Ingraham, et al.. (2015). Galactose metabolic genes in yeast respond to a ratio of galactose and glucose. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(5). 1636–1641. 92 indexed citations

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Stefan, Melanie I., et al.. (2015). The Quantitative Methods Boot Camp: Teaching Quantitative Thinking and Computing Skills to Graduate Students in the Life Sciences. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(4). e1004208–e1004208. 25 indexed citations

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Marquardt, Sebastian, Renan Escalante-Chong, Nam Pho, et al.. (2014). A Chromatin-Based Mechanism for Limiting Divergent Noncoding Transcription. Cell. 157(7). 1712–1723. 89 indexed citations

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Lim, Sze Chern, Justine E. Marum, Elena J. Tucker, et al.. (2013). Mutations in LYRM4, encoding iron–sulfur cluster biogenesis factor ISD11, cause deficiency of multiple respiratory chain complexes. Human Molecular Genetics. 22(22). 4460–4473. 81 indexed citations

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Merbl, Yifat, et al.. (2013). Profiling of Ubiquitin-like Modifications Reveals Features of Mitotic Control. Cell. 152(5). 1160–1172. 87 indexed citations

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DeLuna, Alexander, Michael Springer, Marc W. Kirschner, & Roy Kishony. (2010). Need-Based Up-Regulation of Protein Levels in Response to Deletion of Their Duplicate Genes. PLoS Biology. 8(3). e1000347–e1000347. 66 indexed citations

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Milo, Ron, et al.. (2007). The relationship between evolutionary and physiological variation in hemoglobin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(43). 16998–17003. 29 indexed citations

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Palazzo, Alexander F., Michael Springer, Yoko Shibata, et al.. (2007). The Signal Sequence Coding Region Promotes Nuclear Export of mRNA. PLoS Biology. 5(12). e322–e322. 96 indexed citations

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Mawrin, Christian, et al.. (2006). Role of Altered Regulation of the Creb–Dependent Genes C–fos and Bcl–2 Following Acute Optic Nerve Damage for Retinal Ganglion Cell Death. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 47(13). 729–729. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, David, Anatoly Urisman, Yu‐Tsueng Liu, et al.. (2003). Viral Discovery and Sequence Recovery Using DNA Microarrays. PLoS Biology. 1(2). e2–e2. 326 indexed citations

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