Oliver Koch

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Oliver Koch is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Koch has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 16 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Oliver Koch's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (22 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (15 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (8 papers). Oliver Koch is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (22 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (15 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (8 papers). Oliver Koch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Oliver Koch's co-authors include Tom N. Grossmann, Adrian Glas, Marta Pelay‐Gimeno, Christiane Ehrt, G. Klebe, Lina Humbeck, Mauro S. Nogueira, Gunter Lipowsky, Carolin Welter and Petra Mutzel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Koch

84 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Structure‐Based Design of Inhibitors of Protein–Protein I... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Structure‐Based Design of Inhibitors of Protein–Protein Interactions: Mimicking Peptide Binding Epitopes
    2015 555 citations Adrian Glas, Oliver Koch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Oliver Koch Germany 21 1.4k 576 386 205 186 89 1.9k
Iris Antes Germany 25 1.1k 0.8× 327 0.6× 201 0.5× 122 0.6× 110 0.6× 67 1.8k
Renate Griffith Australia 27 1.0k 0.8× 641 1.1× 240 0.6× 129 0.6× 64 0.3× 90 2.0k
Martin J. Drysdale United Kingdom 30 2.1k 1.5× 704 1.2× 664 1.7× 171 0.8× 224 1.2× 61 2.9k
Renée L. DesJarlais United States 28 1.5k 1.1× 727 1.3× 768 2.0× 264 1.3× 230 1.2× 61 2.5k
Francesca Milletti United States 18 1.4k 1.0× 283 0.5× 415 1.1× 511 2.5× 179 1.0× 32 2.2k
Edward W. Lowe United States 11 976 0.7× 314 0.5× 828 2.1× 142 0.7× 238 1.3× 24 1.8k
Jeffrey R. Huth United States 26 2.2k 1.6× 548 1.0× 637 1.7× 156 0.8× 254 1.4× 40 3.3k
Konrad Bleicher Switzerland 18 903 0.7× 388 0.7× 405 1.0× 137 0.7× 120 0.6× 38 1.5k
Shelli R. McAlpine Australia 28 1.6k 1.2× 586 1.0× 255 0.7× 187 0.9× 202 1.1× 87 2.2k
Gregory Sliwoski United States 11 1.1k 0.8× 296 0.5× 793 2.1× 185 0.9× 199 1.1× 17 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver Koch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Koch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Koch

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wagner, Stefan, Angelika Griep, Róisín M. McManus, et al.. (2025). Naphtho[1,2- b ][1,4]diazepinedione-Based P2X4 Receptor Antagonists from Structure–Activity Relationship Studies toward PET Tracer Development. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 68(7). 6965–7002. 4 indexed citations
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Koch, Oliver, et al.. (2024). Piperazine‐based P2X4 receptor antagonists. Archiv der Pharmazie. 358(1). e2400860–e2400860.
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Koch, Oliver, et al.. (2023). Introduction to artificial intelligence and deep learning using interactive electronic programming notebooks. Archiv der Pharmazie. 356(7). 3 indexed citations
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Koch, Oliver, Samuel Pironon, Tim Pagella, et al.. (2021). Modelling potential range expansion of an underutilised food security crop in Sub-Saharan Africa. Environmental Research Letters. 17(1). 14022–14022. 20 indexed citations
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Koch, Oliver, et al.. (2021). Using Domain-Specific Fingerprints Generated Through Neural Networks to Enhance Ligand-Based Virtual Screening. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 61(2). 664–675. 20 indexed citations
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Humbeck, Lina, et al.. (2021). Discovery of an Unexpected Similarity in Ligand Binding between BRD4 and PPARγ. ACS Chemical Biology. 16(7). 1255–1265. 2 indexed citations
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Zacarı́as, Natalia V. Ortiz, Petra Hundehege, Oliver Koch, et al.. (2021). Piperazine squaric acid diamides, a novel class of allosteric P2X7 receptor antagonists. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 226. 113838–113838. 10 indexed citations
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Bulk, Etmar, Zoltán Pethő, Thomas Budde, et al.. (2020). Co‐staining of KCa3.1 Channels in NSCLC Cells with a Small‐Molecule Fluorescent Probe and Antibody‐Based Indirect Immunofluorescence. ChemMedChem. 15(24). 2462–2469. 7 indexed citations
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Ehrt, Christiane, et al.. (2019). SCOT: Rethinking the classification of secondary structure elements. Bioinformatics. 36(8). 2417–2428. 7 indexed citations
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Morgen, Michael, Peter Sehr, Raphael R. Steimbach, et al.. (2019). Selective Inhibition of Histone Deacetylase 10: Hydrogen Bonding to the Gatekeeper Residue is Implicated. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 62(9). 4426–4443. 66 indexed citations
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Nogueira, Mauro S. & Oliver Koch. (2019). The Development of Target-Specific Machine Learning Models as Scoring Functions for Docking-Based Target Prediction. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 59(3). 1238–1252. 39 indexed citations
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Ehrt, Christiane, et al.. (2019). Binding site characterization – similarity, promiscuity, and druggability. MedChemComm. 10(7). 1145–1159. 19 indexed citations
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Witte, Anna Kristina, et al.. (2018). Complete, Programmable Decoding of Oxidized 5-Methylcytosine Nucleobases in DNA by Chemoselective Blockage of Universal Transcription-Activator-Like Effector Repeats. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(18). 5904–5908. 11 indexed citations
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Ehrt, Christiane, et al.. (2018). A benchmark driven guide to binding site comparison: An exhaustive evaluation using tailor-made data sets (ProSPECCTs). PLoS Computational Biology. 14(11). e1006483–e1006483. 48 indexed citations
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Krüger, D., Adrian Glas, David Bier, et al.. (2017). Structure-Based Design of Non-natural Macrocyclic Peptides That Inhibit Protein–Protein Interactions. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 60(21). 8982–8988. 42 indexed citations
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Kriege, Nils M., et al.. (2017). Scaffold Hunter: a comprehensive visual analytics framework for drug discovery. Journal of Cheminformatics. 9(1). 28–28. 46 indexed citations
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Marquardt, Viktoria, Brigita Vı̄gante, Г. Дубурс, et al.. (2015). Design, synthesis and 3D-QSAR studies of novel 1,4-dihydropyridines as TGFβ/Smad inhibitors. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 95. 249–266. 21 indexed citations

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