Petra Schwille

38.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
391 papers, 28.7k citations indexed

About

Petra Schwille is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Petra Schwille has authored 391 papers receiving a total of 28.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 294 papers in Molecular Biology, 110 papers in Biophysics and 72 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Petra Schwille's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (154 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (107 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (41 papers). Petra Schwille is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (154 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (107 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (41 papers). Petra Schwille collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Petra Schwille's co-authors include Kirsten Bacia, Salvatore Chiantia, Jonas Ries, Watt W. Webb, Nicoletta Kahya, Elke Haustein, Zdeněk Petrášek, Sally A. Kim, Mikael Simons and Lawrence Rajendran and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Petra Schwille

385 papers receiving 28.4k citations

Hit Papers

Ceramide Triggers Budding... 1997 2026 2006 2016 2008 2018 1999 1997 1999 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Ceramide Triggers Budding of Exosome Vesicles into Multivesicular Endosomes
    2008 2.8k citations Petra Schwille et al. Science profile →
  2. Liposomes and polymersomes: a comparative review towards cell mimicking
    2018 842 citations Petra Schwille et al. profile →
  3. Characterization of lipid bilayer phases by confocal microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
    1999 709 citations Petra Schwille et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Dual-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy for multicomponent diffusional analysis in solution
    1997 620 citations Petra Schwille et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
  5. Molecular Dynamics in Living Cells Observed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy with One- and Two-Photon Excitation
    1999 539 citations Petra Schwille et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
  6. Spatial Regulators for Bacterial Cell Division Self-Organize into Surface Waves in Vitro
    2008 403 citations Martin Loose, Elisabeth Fischer‐Friedrich et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Petra Schwille Germany 85 20.9k 6.2k 5.2k 3.5k 3.2k 391 28.7k
Enrico Gratton United States 109 20.7k 1.0× 9.7k 1.6× 9.4k 1.8× 4.2k 1.2× 5.2k 1.6× 723 40.5k
Xiaowei Zhuang United States 95 21.2k 1.0× 15.5k 2.5× 8.8k 1.7× 3.1k 0.9× 4.7k 1.5× 196 41.2k
Taekjip Ha United States 91 22.5k 1.1× 7.2k 1.2× 4.6k 0.9× 3.7k 1.1× 4.3k 1.3× 400 32.0k
David A. Agard United States 90 24.7k 1.2× 3.9k 0.6× 2.5k 0.5× 6.1k 1.7× 1.8k 0.6× 326 37.3k
Michael W. Davidson United States 65 11.7k 0.6× 12.0k 1.9× 6.3k 1.2× 5.3k 1.5× 2.9k 0.9× 204 26.3k
Jennifer Lippincott‐Schwartz United States 118 30.2k 1.4× 12.3k 2.0× 5.6k 1.1× 17.5k 5.0× 2.4k 0.7× 289 51.8k
Ernst H. K. Stelzer Germany 72 8.0k 0.4× 6.9k 1.1× 7.2k 1.4× 4.7k 1.3× 3.6k 1.1× 288 22.3k
Markus Sauer Germany 80 11.2k 0.5× 9.6k 1.5× 4.9k 0.9× 1.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.6× 402 23.1k
Wolfgang Baumeister Germany 109 28.2k 1.3× 1.9k 0.3× 1.6k 0.3× 6.9k 2.0× 3.1k 1.0× 481 38.8k
Juan S. Bonifacino United States 103 23.2k 1.1× 4.9k 0.8× 2.8k 0.5× 19.6k 5.6× 1.2k 0.4× 301 42.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Masiá, Esther, Cristián Huck‐Iriart, Pavel Arsenyan, et al.. (2025). Polyproline‐Polyornithine Diblock Copolymers with Inherent Mitochondria Tropism. Advanced Materials. 37(8). e2411595–e2411595. 6 indexed citations
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Kurth, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Fine-tuning of Fgf8 morphogen gradient by heparan sulfate proteoglycans in the extracellular matrix. Biophysical Journal. 124(6). 996–1010. 2 indexed citations
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Stein, Johannes, Sebastian Strauss, Alexander Cumberworth, et al.. (2023). Dual-color DNA-PAINT single-particle tracking enables extended studies of membrane protein interactions. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4345–4345. 17 indexed citations
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Schwille, Petra, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Propagation of a Minimal Catalytic RNA Network in GUV Protocells by Temperature Cycling and Phase Separation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(17). e202218507–e202218507. 12 indexed citations
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Nachmias, Dikla, Alvah Zorea, Reut Yemini, et al.. (2022). Asgard ESCRT-III and VPS4 reveal conserved chromatin binding properties of the ESCRT machinery. The ISME Journal. 17(1). 117–129. 8 indexed citations
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Stasi, Michele, Leon Babl, Sreekar Wunnava, et al.. (2022). Regulating DNA-Hybridization Using a Chemically Fueled Reaction Cycle. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(48). 21939–21947. 15 indexed citations
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Cox, Jürgen, et al.. (2022). Tracing back variations in archaeal ESCRT-based cell division to protein domain architectures. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0266395–e0266395. 11 indexed citations
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Orlikowska-Rzeznik, Hanna, et al.. (2021). Hydration Layer of Only a Few Molecules Controls Lipid Mobility in Biomimetic Membranes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(36). 14551–14562. 41 indexed citations
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Ramm, Beatrice, Andriy Goychuk, Alena Khmelinskaia, et al.. (2021). A diffusiophoretic mechanism for ATP-driven transport without motor proteins. Nature Physics. 17(7). 850–858. 63 indexed citations
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Heermann, Tamara, et al.. (2021). Mass-sensitive particle tracking to elucidate the membrane-associated MinDE reaction cycle. Nature Methods. 18(10). 1239–1246. 43 indexed citations
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Sonal, Kristina A. Ganzinger, Sven Vogel, et al.. (2018). Myosin-II activity generates a dynamic steady state with continuous actin turnover in a minimal actin cortex. Journal of Cell Science. 132(4). 43 indexed citations
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Kretschmer, Simon, et al.. (2018). MinE conformational switching confers robustness on self-organized Min protein patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(18). 4553–4558. 52 indexed citations
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Jia, Haiyang, Michaël Heymann, Frank Bernhard, Petra Schwille, & Lei Kai. (2017). Cell-free protein synthesis in micro compartments: building a minimal cell from biobricks. New Biotechnology. 39(Pt B). 199–205. 50 indexed citations
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Fischer, Janine, et al.. (2016). Transport efficiency of membrane-anchored kinesin-1 motors depends on motor density and diffusivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(46). E7185–E7193. 61 indexed citations
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Arumugam, Senthil, Zdeněk Petrášek, & Petra Schwille. (2014). MinCDE exploits the dynamic nature of FtsZ filaments for its spatial regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(13). E1192–200. 58 indexed citations
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Schwille, Petra, et al.. (2014). Lattice-Based Monte Carlo Simulations of Lipid Membranes: Correspondence between Triangular and Square Lattices. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 290a–291a.
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Schweizer, Jakob, et al.. (2012). Geometry sensing by self-organized protein patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(38). 15283–15288. 91 indexed citations
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Ewers, Helge, Winfried Römer, Alicia E. Smith, et al.. (2009). GM1 structure determines SV40-induced membrane invagination and infection. Nature Cell Biology. 12(1). 11–18. 346 indexed citations
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Loose, Martin, Elisabeth Fischer‐Friedrich, Jonas Ries, Karsten Kruse, & Petra Schwille. (2008). Spatial Regulators for Bacterial Cell Division Self-Organize into Surface Waves in Vitro. Science. 320(5877). 789–792. 403 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bacia, Kirsten, Petra Schwille, & Teymuras V. Kurzchalia. (2005). Sterol structure determines the separation of phases and the curvature of the liquid-ordered phase in model membranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(9). 3272–3277. 342 indexed citations

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