Patrick Cramer

42.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
283 papers, 25.6k citations indexed

About

Patrick Cramer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Cramer has authored 283 papers receiving a total of 25.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 264 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Cramer's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (172 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (163 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (133 papers). Patrick Cramer is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (172 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (163 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (133 papers). Patrick Cramer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Patrick Cramer's co-authors include Dimitry Tegunov, David Bushnell, Roger D. Kornberg, Christian Dienemann, Lucas Farnung, Alan C. M. Cheung, Karim‐Jean Armache, Hubert Kettenberger, Florian Brueckner and Anton Meinhart and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Cramer

279 papers receiving 25.3k citations

Hit Papers

Structural Basis of Transcription: RNA Polymerase II at 2... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2001 2001 2019 2020 2021 250 500 750
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. Structural Basis of Transcription: RNA Polymerase II at 2.8 Ångstrom Resolution
    2001 973 citations Patrick Cramer et al. Science profile →
  2. Structural Basis of Transcription: An RNA Polymerase II Elongation Complex at 3.3 Å Resolution
    2001 737 citations Patrick Cramer et al. Science profile →
  3. Real-time cryo-electron microscopy data preprocessing with Warp
    2019 725 citations Dimitry Tegunov, Patrick Cramer profile →
  4. Structure of replicating SARS-CoV-2 polymerase
    2020 570 citations Hauke S. Hillen, Goran Kokić et al. Nature profile →
  5. Mechanism of molnupiravir-induced SARS-CoV-2 mutagenesis
    2021 473 citations Florian Kabinger, Carina Stiller et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →
  6. Organization and regulation of gene transcription
    2019 453 citations Patrick Cramer Nature profile →
  7. Architecture of RNA Polymerase II and Implications for the Transcription Mechanism
    2000 450 citations Patrick Cramer et al. Science profile →
  8. RNA polymerase II clustering through carboxy-terminal domain phase separation
    2018 408 citations Goran Kokić, Patrick Cramer et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →
  9. Mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase stalling by remdesivir
    2021 399 citations Goran Kokić, Hauke S. Hillen et al. Nature Communications profile →
  10. Multi-particle cryo-EM refinement with M visualizes ribosome-antibiotic complex at 3.5 Å in cells
    2021 266 citations Dimitry Tegunov, Christian Dienemann 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
Patrick Cramer Germany 88 22.2k 3.0k 1.5k 1.5k 1.3k 283 25.6k
Nenad Ban Switzerland 66 15.1k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 740 0.5× 884 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 173 17.8k
V. Ramakrishnan United Kingdom 77 20.3k 0.9× 4.3k 1.4× 797 0.5× 622 0.4× 1.4k 1.1× 167 22.2k
Taekjip Ha United States 91 22.5k 1.0× 2.3k 0.8× 661 0.4× 488 0.3× 1.5k 1.1× 400 32.0k
Bernhard Lohkamp Sweden 15 16.0k 0.7× 2.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.8k 1.2× 1.2k 1.0× 26 22.3k
Robert D. Oeffner United Kingdom 13 14.7k 0.7× 2.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 1.8k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 20 20.4k
W.B. Arendall United States 13 16.3k 0.7× 2.3k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 1.9k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 16 22.6k
Nathaniel Echols United States 30 20.1k 0.9× 3.2k 1.1× 1.5k 1.0× 2.3k 1.6× 1.4k 1.1× 43 27.5k
Tom A. Rapoport United States 99 24.0k 1.1× 6.2k 2.1× 1.3k 0.9× 575 0.4× 1.8k 1.4× 246 32.8k
Peter H. Zwart United States 31 20.6k 0.9× 3.4k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 2.3k 1.5× 1.6k 1.3× 60 28.6k
Ian Davis United States 23 20.8k 0.9× 3.1k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 2.4k 1.6× 1.5k 1.1× 56 28.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kabinger, Florian, et al.. (2025). Structural basis of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase inhibition by nonnucleoside inhibitor HeE1-2Tyr. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(10). e2419854122–e2419854122. 2 indexed citations
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Kokić, Goran, Diana van den Heuvel, Yana van der Weegen, et al.. (2024). Structural basis for RNA polymerase II ubiquitylation and inactivation in transcription-coupled repair. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(3). 536–547. 24 indexed citations
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Rengachari, Srinivasan, et al.. (2024). Mechanism of polyadenylation-independent RNA polymerase II termination. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(2). 339–345.
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Oberbeckmann, Elisa, et al.. (2024). In vitro reconstitution of chromatin domains shows a role for nucleosome positioning in 3D genome organization. Nature Genetics. 56(3). 483–492. 25 indexed citations
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Dienemann, Christian, Lucas Farnung, Juliane P. Schwarz, et al.. (2023). Structural insights into human co-transcriptional capping. Molecular Cell. 83(14). 2464–2477.e5. 17 indexed citations
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Kabinger, Florian, Carina Stiller, Jana Schmitzová, et al.. (2021). Mechanism of molnupiravir-induced SARS-CoV-2 mutagenesis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(9). 740–746. 473 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Suyang, Shintaro Aibara, Seychelle M. Vos, et al.. (2021). Structure of a transcribing RNA polymerase II–U1 snRNP complex. Science. 371(6526). 305–309. 83 indexed citations
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Aibara, Shintaro, Christian Dienemann, & Patrick Cramer. (2021). Structure of an inactive RNA polymerase II dimer. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(18). 10747–10755. 9 indexed citations
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Kokić, Goran, Hauke S. Hillen, Dimitry Tegunov, et al.. (2021). Mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase stalling by remdesivir. Nature Communications. 12(1). 399 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dienemann, Christian, et al.. (2021). Structural basis of RNA processing by human mitochondrial RNase P. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(9). 713–723. 66 indexed citations
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Rengachari, Srinivasan, S. Schilbach, Shintaro Aibara, Christian Dienemann, & Patrick Cramer. (2021). Structure of the human Mediator–RNA polymerase II pre-initiation complex. Nature. 594(7861). 129–133. 89 indexed citations
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Sohrabi-Jahromi, Salma, Katharina Hofmann, Saskia Gressel, et al.. (2019). Transcriptome maps of general eukaryotic RNA degradation factors. eLife. 8. 20 indexed citations
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Żylicz, Jan J, Aurélie Bousard, Kristina Žumer, et al.. (2018). The Implication of Early Chromatin Changes in X Chromosome Inactivation. Cell. 176(1-2). 182–197.e23. 183 indexed citations
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Köhler, Rebecca, Rachel A. Mooney, Deryck J. Mills, Robert Landick, & Patrick Cramer. (2017). Architecture of a transcribing-translating expressome. Science. 356(6334). 194–197. 125 indexed citations
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Eser, Philipp, Leonhard Wachutka, Kerstin C. Maier, et al.. (2016). Determinants of RNA metabolism in the Schizosaccharomyces pombe genome. Molecular Systems Biology. 12(2). 857–857. 58 indexed citations
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Lidschreiber, Michael, Kristin Leike, & Patrick Cramer. (2013). Cap Completion and C-Terminal Repeat Domain Kinase Recruitment Underlie the Initiation-Elongation Transition of RNA Polymerase II. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 33(19). 3805–3816. 46 indexed citations
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Mayer, Andreas, Martin Heidemann, Michael Lidschreiber, et al.. (2012). CTD Tyrosine Phosphorylation Impairs Termination Factor Recruitment to RNA Polymerase II. Science. 336(6089). 1723–1725. 201 indexed citations
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Sydow, J.F., Florian Brueckner, Alan C. M. Cheung, et al.. (2009). Structural Basis of Transcription: Mismatch-Specific Fidelity Mechanisms and Paused RNA Polymerase II with Frayed RNA. Molecular Cell. 34(6). 710–721. 149 indexed citations
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Andrecka, Joanna, et al.. (2007). Single-molecule tracking of mRNA exiting from RNA polymerase II. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(1). 135–140. 91 indexed citations
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Brueckner, Florian, Ulrich Hennecke, Thomas Carell, & Patrick Cramer. (2007). CPD damage recognition by transcribing RNA polymerase II. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 63(a1). s132–s133. 3 indexed citations

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