Oliver Rocks

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Oliver Rocks is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Rocks has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Cell Biology and 5 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Oliver Rocks's work include Cellular transport and secretion (8 papers), Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (8 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (5 papers). Oliver Rocks is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (8 papers), Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (8 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (5 papers). Oliver Rocks collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Oliver Rocks's co-authors include Philippe I. H. Bastiaens, Peter J. Verveer, Herbert Waldmann, Jürgen Kuhlmann, Alfred Wittinghofer, María Lumbierres, Martin Kahms, Stefan Grimm, Nachiket Vartak and Manuel Bauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Rocks

28 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

An Acylation Cycle Regulates Localization and Activity of Palmitoylated Ras Isoforms

2005 672 citations Oliver Rocks, Martin Kahms et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver Rocks Germany	16	2.1k	673	299	194	181	28	2.5k
Heiko Düßmann Ireland	28	1.8k 0.9×	401 0.6×	227 0.8×	235 1.2×	233 1.3×	62	2.6k
Günter Stier Germany	30	2.9k 1.4×	472 0.7×	194 0.6×	220 1.1×	206 1.1×	59	3.6k
Xuemei Han United States	25	2.0k 1.0×	780 1.2×	273 0.9×	95 0.5×	240 1.3×	44	2.9k
Sang Hoon Ha South Korea	24	1.8k 0.8×	439 0.7×	195 0.7×	193 1.0×	171 0.9×	49	2.6k
Vaughan M. Latham United States	15	3.6k 1.7×	793 1.2×	629 2.1×	247 1.3×	309 1.7×	16	4.5k
Luc G. Berthiaume Canada	31	2.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	369 1.2×	239 1.2×	214 1.2×	68	3.2k
Chang-Deng Hu United States	17	2.3k 1.1×	559 0.8×	167 0.6×	213 1.1×	233 1.3×	20	3.1k
Bo Zhai United States	25	2.4k 1.2×	541 0.8×	370 1.2×	229 1.2×	184 1.0×	29	2.9k
Étienne Coyaud Canada	28	1.9k 0.9×	922 1.4×	254 0.8×	79 0.4×	200 1.1×	68	2.6k
Aaron O. Bailey United States	21	3.3k 1.6×	1.1k 1.7×	418 1.4×	287 1.5×	152 0.8×	42	4.0k

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Hiepen, Christian, Jorge Barrasa‐Fano, Mar Cóndor, et al.. (2025). Endothelial tip-cell position, filopodia formation and biomechanics require BMPR2 expression and signaling. Communications Biology. 8(1). 21–21. 4 indexed citations

Jüttner, René, Peter Moritz Becher, Dirk Westermann, et al.. (2023). CAR links hypoxia signaling to improved survival after myocardial infarction. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 55(3). 643–652. 2 indexed citations

Woodsmith, Jonathan, Victoria Casado‐Medrano, Rebecca L. Eccles, et al.. (2018). Interaction modulation through arrays of clustered methyl-arginine protein modifications. Life Science Alliance. 1(5). e201800178–e201800178. 7 indexed citations

Arumughan, Anup, Yvette Roske, Kenny Bravo‐Rodriguez, et al.. (2016). Quantitative interaction mapping reveals an extended UBX domain in ASPL that disrupts functional p97 hexamers. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13047–13047. 29 indexed citations

Paul, Florian, et al.. (2016). Quantitative GTPase Affinity Purification Identifies Rho Family Protein Interaction Partners. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 16(1). 73–85. 13 indexed citations

Eccles, Rebecca L., Paul Markus Müller, Erik McShane, et al.. (2016). Bimodal antagonism of PKA signalling by ARHGAP36. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12963–12963. 28 indexed citations

Becker, Michael, Paul Markus Müller, Anne Schroeder, et al.. (2016). The anticancer phytochemical rocaglamide inhibits Rho GTPase activity and cancer cell migration. Oncotarget. 7(32). 51908–51921. 21 indexed citations

Gray, Elizabeth J., Evangelia Petsalaki, D. Andrew James, et al.. (2014). Src Homology 2 Domain Containing Protein 5 (SH2D5) Binds the Breakpoint Cluster Region Protein, BCR, and Regulates Levels of Rac1-GTP. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(51). 35397–35408. 15 indexed citations

Fröhlich, Chris, David Schwefel, Katja Faelber, et al.. (2013). Structural insights into oligomerization and mitochondrial remodelling of dynamin 1‐like protein. The EMBO Journal. 32(9). 1280–1292. 233 indexed citations

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Schwefel, David, Stephen F. Marino, Björn Lamprecht, et al.. (2013). Structural Insights into the Mechanism of GTPase Activation in the GIMAP Family. Structure. 21(4). 550–559. 36 indexed citations

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Rocks, Oliver, Nachiket Vartak, Sebastian Koch, et al.. (2010). The Palmitoylation Machinery Is a Spatially Organizing System for Peripheral Membrane Proteins. Cell. 141(3). 458–471. 366 indexed citations

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Dekker, Frank J., Oliver Rocks, Nachiket Vartak, et al.. (2010). Small-molecule inhibition of APT1 affects Ras localization and signaling. Nature Chemical Biology. 6(6). 449–456. 331 indexed citations

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Rocks, Oliver, et al.. (2006). Spatio-temporal segregation of Ras signals: one ship, three anchors, many harbors. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 18(4). 351–357. 106 indexed citations

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Verveer, Peter J., Oliver Rocks, Ailsa G. Harpur, & Philippe I. H. Bastiaens. (2006). Measuring FRET by Acceptor Photobleaching. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2006(6). pdb.ip15–pdb.ip15. 5 indexed citations

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Verveer, Peter J., Oliver Rocks, Ailsa G. Harpur, & Philippe I. H. Bastiaens. (2006). Imaging Protein Interactions by FRET Microscopy: FRET Measurements by Sensitized Emission. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2006(6). pdb.prot4597–pdb.prot4597. 4 indexed citations

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Rocks, Oliver, Martin Kahms, Peter J. Verveer, et al.. (2005). An Acylation Cycle Regulates Localization and Activity of Palmitoylated Ras Isoforms. Science. 307(5716). 1746–1752. 672 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rocks, Oliver, et al.. (2005). Imaging Activation of Two Ras Isoforms Simultaneously in a Single Cell. ChemBioChem. 6(1). 78–85. 55 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Andrew R., Christian Tischer, Peter J. Verveer, Oliver Rocks, & Philippe I. H. Bastiaens. (2003). EGFR activation coupled to inhibition of tyrosine phosphatases causes lateral signal propagation. Nature Cell Biology. 5(5). 447–453. 186 indexed citations

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Squire, Anthony, Peter J. Verveer, Oliver Rocks, & Philippe I. H. Bastiaens. (2003). Red-edge anisotropy microscopy enables dynamic imaging of homo-FRET between green fluorescent proteins in cells. Journal of Structural Biology. 147(1). 62–69. 60 indexed citations

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Engelke, Michael, Petra Budde, Christof Zitt, et al.. (2002). Structural domains required for channel function of the mouse transient receptor potential protein homologue TRP1β. FEBS Letters. 523(1-3). 193–199. 39 indexed citations

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