Sara Hetzel

655 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 250 citations indexed

About

Sara Hetzel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Hematology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Hetzel has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 250 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 2 papers in Hematology. Recurrent topics in Sara Hetzel's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers) and Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research (2 papers). Sara Hetzel is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers) and Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research (2 papers). Sara Hetzel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Sara Hetzel's co-authors include Alexander Meissner, Zachary D. Smith, Helene Kretzmer, Abhishek Sampath Kumar, Lars Wittler, Stefanie Grosswendt, Bernd Timmermann, Shankar Mukherji, Sven Klages and Pay Gießelmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Blood and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Sara Hetzel

12 papers receiving 250 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.

DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

2024 70 citations Zachary D. Smith, Sara Hetzel et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Hetzel Germany	7	203	32	31	30	23	12	250
Asuka Kamio Japan	6	245 1.2×	51 1.6×	32 1.0×	26 0.9×	22 1.0×	8	274
Julia Kolarova Germany	9	127 0.6×	76 2.4×	55 1.8×	19 0.6×	28 1.2×	20	190
Jiaoyang Liao China	7	168 0.8×	67 2.1×	18 0.6×	9 0.3×	11 0.5×	12	219
Kalin Mayberry United States	7	160 0.8×	48 1.5×	24 0.8×	8 0.3×	12 0.5×	16	227
Benoît Souquet France	8	228 1.1×	100 3.1×	25 0.8×	89 3.0×	25 1.1×	9	325
Brody Holohan United States	6	182 0.9×	25 0.8×	10 0.3×	42 1.4×	10 0.4×	7	307
Maria Suciu United Kingdom	4	236 1.2×	52 1.6×	144 4.6×	15 0.5×	24 1.0×	6	388
Grace Hancock United States	5	199 1.0×	67 2.1×	8 0.3×	53 1.8×	10 0.4×	7	251
Katarzyna Janik-Papis Poland	9	197 1.0×	52 1.6×	8 0.3×	33 1.1×	38 1.7×	18	288
Sandra Fert‐Ferrer France	7	46 0.2×	39 1.2×	32 1.0×	24 0.8×	12 0.5×	10	117

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Hetzel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Hetzel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Hetzel

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Hetzel, Sara, Eran Hodis, Alexander Kovacsovics, et al.. (2025). Direct genetic transformation bypasses tumor-associated DNA methylation alterations. Genome biology. 26(1). 212–212. 2 indexed citations

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Batki, Júlia, Sara Hetzel, Dennis Schifferl, et al.. (2024). Extraembryonic gut endoderm cells undergo programmed cell death during development. Nature Cell Biology. 26(6). 868–877. 6 indexed citations

3.

Hauswedell, Hannes, et al.. (2024). Lambda3: homology search for protein, nucleotide, and bisulfite-converted sequences. Bioinformatics. 40(3). 1 indexed citations

4.

Smith, Zachary D., Sara Hetzel, & Alexander Meissner. (2024). DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 26(1). 7–30. 70 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hetzel, Sara, İbrahim Ilik, Philip Yuk Kwong Yung, et al.. (2023). Dynamic antagonism between key repressive pathways maintains the placental epigenome. Nature Cell Biology. 25(4). 579–591. 15 indexed citations

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Sträng, Eric, Sara Hetzel, Anna Dolnik, et al.. (2023). AML with complex karyotype: extreme genomic complexity revealed by combined long-read sequencing and Hi-C technology. Blood Advances. 7(21). 6520–6531. 6 indexed citations

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Hetzel, Sara, Alexandra L. Mattei, Helene Kretzmer, et al.. (2022). Acute lymphoblastic leukemia displays a distinct highly methylated genome. Nature Cancer. 3(6). 768–782. 35 indexed citations

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Hetzel, Sara, Pay Gießelmann, Knut Reinert, Alexander Meissner, & Helene Kretzmer. (2021). RLM: fast and simplified extraction of read-level methylation metrics from bisulfite sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 37(21). 3934–3935. 5 indexed citations

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Grosswendt, Stefanie, Helene Kretzmer, Zachary D. Smith, et al.. (2020). Epigenetic regulator function through mouse gastrulation. Nature. 584(7819). 102–108. 91 indexed citations

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Sträng, Eric, Uirá Souto Melo, Sara Hetzel, et al.. (2020). Integration of Hi-C and Nanopore Sequencing for Structural Variant Analysis in AML with a Complex Karyotype: (Chromothripsis)². Blood. 136(Supplement 1). 28–28. 2 indexed citations

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Twine, Natalie A., Sara Hetzel, Christopher Pockrandt, Knut Reinert, & Denis C. Bauer. (2019). VARSCOT: variant-aware detection and scoring enables sensitive and personalized off-target detection for CRISPR-Cas9. BMC Biotechnology. 19(1). 40–40. 9 indexed citations

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Gießelmann, Pay, Sara Hetzel, Frank Müller, Alexander Meissner, & Helene Kretzmer. (2019). Nanopype: a modular and scalable nanopore data processing pipeline. Bioinformatics. 35(22). 4770–4772. 8 indexed citations

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