Michael Sterr

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Sterr is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Sterr has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Surgery and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michael Sterr's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (17 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (6 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers). Michael Sterr is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (17 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (6 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers). Michael Sterr collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Canada. Michael Sterr's co-authors include Heiko Lickert, Ingo Burtscher, Martin Irmler, Johannes Beckers, Jens Popken, Daniel Smeets, Yolanda Markaki, Marion Cremer, Fabian J. Theis and Mostafa Bakhti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael Sterr

29 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Sterr Germany 17 703 373 259 147 104 33 1.1k
Anika Böttcher Germany 16 474 0.7× 334 0.9× 234 0.9× 143 1.0× 75 0.7× 21 800
Junko Umetani United States 9 668 1.0× 165 0.4× 157 0.6× 39 0.3× 92 0.9× 9 1.2k
Rhonda Bacher United States 15 768 1.1× 101 0.3× 157 0.6× 72 0.5× 74 0.7× 39 1.1k
Seth J. Salpeter Israel 13 216 0.3× 204 0.5× 129 0.5× 92 0.6× 46 0.4× 18 521
Sharron X. Lin United States 16 861 1.2× 248 0.7× 48 0.2× 36 0.2× 106 1.0× 33 1.4k
Gabriela Imreh Sweden 12 666 0.9× 90 0.2× 74 0.3× 54 0.4× 75 0.7× 19 845
Christine Powers United States 20 768 1.1× 137 0.4× 209 0.8× 109 0.7× 55 0.5× 23 1.3k
Raul Lacson United States 15 402 0.6× 87 0.2× 68 0.3× 217 1.5× 107 1.0× 20 718
Yelena Dayn United States 6 647 0.9× 76 0.2× 288 1.1× 17 0.1× 72 0.7× 6 808
Darshini Kuruppu United States 16 287 0.4× 59 0.2× 170 0.7× 27 0.2× 185 1.8× 29 750

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Sterr

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Sterr

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

All Works

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Weber, Peter, Süheda Erener, Daniela Hass, et al.. (2025). Chronic intermittent fasting impairs β cell maturation and function in adolescent mice. Cell Reports. 44(2). 115225–115225. 5 indexed citations
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Karampelias, Christos, Kaiyuan Yang, Michael Sterr, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking porcine pancreatic ductal organoids for drug screening applications. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 17(12). 3657–3688.
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Hrovatin, Karin, Aimée Bastidas-Ponce, Mostafa Bakhti, et al.. (2023). Delineating mouse β-cell identity during lifetime and in diabetes with a single cell atlas. Nature Metabolism. 5(9). 1615–1637. 34 indexed citations
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Vornholz, Larsen, Zsuzsanna Kurgyis, Daniel Strobl, et al.. (2023). Synthetic enforcement of STING signaling in cancer cells appropriates the immune microenvironment for checkpoint inhibitor therapy. Science Advances. 9(11). eadd8564–eadd8564. 36 indexed citations
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Cota, Perla, Özüm Şehnaz Çalışkan, Aimée Bastidas-Ponce, et al.. (2023). Insulin regulates human pancreatic endocrine cell differentiation in vitro. Molecular Metabolism. 79. 101853–101853. 2 indexed citations
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Cebrian-Serrano, Alberto, Silvia Schirge, Michael Sterr, et al.. (2023). Inceptor facilitates acrosomal vesicle formation in spermatids and is required for male fertility. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 11. 1240039–1240039. 2 indexed citations
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Gottmann, Pascal, Mandy Stadion, Michael Sterr, et al.. (2022). Heterogeneous Development of β-Cell Populations in Diabetes-Resistant and -Susceptible Mice. Diabetes. 71(9). 1962–1978. 6 indexed citations
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Cui, Xiaona, Jin Feng, Tianjiao Wei, et al.. (2022). Pancreatic alpha cell glucagon–liver FGF21 axis regulates beta cell regeneration in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. 66(3). 535–550. 25 indexed citations
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Tarquis-Medina, Marta, Katharina Scheibner, Ismael González‐García, et al.. (2021). Synaptotagmin-13 Is a Neuroendocrine Marker in Brain, Intestine and Pancreas. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(22). 12526–12526. 4 indexed citations
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Böttcher, Anika, Maren Büttner, Sophie Tritschler, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Non-canonical Wnt/PCP signalling regulates intestinal stem cell lineage priming towards enteroendocrine and Paneth cell fates. Nature Cell Biology. 23(5). 566–576. 1 indexed citations
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Tritschler, Sophie, Michael Sterr, Julia Hinterdobler, et al.. (2021). Diet-induced alteration of intestinal stem cell function underlies obesity and prediabetes in mice. Nature Metabolism. 3(9). 1202–1216. 77 indexed citations
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Scheibner, Katharina, Silvia Schirge, Ingo Burtscher, et al.. (2021). Publisher Correction: Epithelial cell plasticity drives endoderm formation during gastrulation. Nature Cell Biology. 23(8). 925–925. 1 indexed citations
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Böttcher, Anika, Maren Büttner, Sophie Tritschler, et al.. (2021). Non-canonical Wnt/PCP signalling regulates intestinal stem cell lineage priming towards enteroendocrine and Paneth cell fates. Nature Cell Biology. 23(1). 23–31. 55 indexed citations
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Scheibner, Katharina, Silvia Schirge, Ingo Burtscher, et al.. (2021). Epithelial cell plasticity drives endoderm formation during gastrulation. Nature Cell Biology. 23(7). 692–703. 53 indexed citations
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Scheibner, Katharina, Md Ansarullah, Michael Sterr, et al.. (2020). Generation of pancreatic β cells from CD177+ anterior definitive endoderm. Nature Biotechnology. 38(9). 1061–1072. 69 indexed citations
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Cernilogar, Filippo M., Katharina Scheibner, Ingo Burtscher, et al.. (2019). Pre-marked chromatin and transcription factor co-binding shape the pioneering activity of Foxa2. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(17). 9069–9086. 54 indexed citations
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Wang, Xianming, Michael Sterr, Ingo Burtscher, et al.. (2018). Genome-wide analysis of PDX1 target genes in human pancreatic progenitors. Molecular Metabolism. 9. 57–68. 66 indexed citations
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Bastidas-Ponce, Aimée, Sara S. Roscioni, Ingo Burtscher, et al.. (2017). Foxa2 and Pdx1 cooperatively regulate postnatal maturation of pancreatic β-cells. Molecular Metabolism. 6(6). 524–534. 61 indexed citations
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Wang, Xianming, Chen Shen, Ingo Burtscher, et al.. (2016). Generation of a human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line from a patient carrying a P33T mutation in the PDX1 gene. Stem Cell Research. 17(2). 273–276. 12 indexed citations
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Mueller, Nikola S., Michael Sterr, Ingo Burtscher, et al.. (2015). The global gene expression profile of the secondary transition during pancreatic development. Mechanisms of Development. 139. 51–64. 25 indexed citations

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