Sara Weirich

894 total citations
37 papers, 479 citations indexed

About

Sara Weirich is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Weirich has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 479 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Oncology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sara Weirich's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (29 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (24 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (18 papers). Sara Weirich is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (29 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (24 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (18 papers). Sara Weirich collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Egypt and United States. Sara Weirich's co-authors include Albert Jeltsch, Srikanth Kudithipudi, Jinrong Min, Ina Kycia, Dong Cheng, W. Tempel, Shun‐Jia Chen, Alexander Varshavsky, Kelly Sun and Artem Melnykov and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sara Weirich

34 papers receiving 475 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sara Weirich Germany 13 437 49 30 21 21 37 479
Ildikó V. Akey United States 8 425 1.0× 27 0.6× 27 0.9× 41 2.0× 20 1.0× 9 479
Lynn Lehmann United States 8 317 0.7× 44 0.9× 47 1.6× 29 1.4× 26 1.2× 9 406
Ellis L. Ryan United Kingdom 5 230 0.5× 77 1.6× 32 1.1× 19 0.9× 27 1.3× 5 305
Poorwa Awasthi India 5 182 0.4× 63 1.3× 17 0.6× 31 1.5× 34 1.6× 11 249
Chih Hao Hsu United States 3 253 0.6× 43 0.9× 15 0.5× 16 0.8× 16 0.8× 3 287
Calley Hirsch Canada 11 525 1.2× 39 0.8× 70 2.3× 46 2.2× 25 1.2× 15 579
Tomasz Kallas Sweden 7 436 1.0× 38 0.8× 75 2.5× 58 2.8× 36 1.7× 8 481
Lee Davidson United Kingdom 10 580 1.3× 48 1.0× 26 0.9× 22 1.0× 57 2.7× 12 616
Audrey Forest Canada 9 518 1.2× 31 0.6× 23 0.8× 46 2.2× 27 1.3× 12 546
Pabitra K. Parua United States 12 481 1.1× 70 1.4× 35 1.2× 40 1.9× 14 0.7× 17 538

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Weirich

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Sara Weirich's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Sara Weirich with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Sara Weirich more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Weirich

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sara Weirich. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sara Weirich. The network helps show where Sara Weirich may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Weirich

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Weirich. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Weirich 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 Weirich. Sara Weirich 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
1.
Małecki, Jędrzej, Sara Weirich, Lars Hagen, et al.. (2025). Identification of substrates and sequence requirements for CARNMT1-mediated histidine methylation of C3H zinc fingers. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(7). 110335–110335. 1 indexed citations
2.
3.
Pleiss, Jürgen, et al.. (2025). Investigation and design of the dual specificity of the PRDM9 protein lysine methyltransferase. Communications Biology. 8(1). 823–823. 1 indexed citations
4.
Weirich, Sara, Marta Hammerstad, H.-P. Hersleth, et al.. (2025). Orthologues of the human protein histidine methyltransferase METTL9 display distinct substrate specificities. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(7). 110318–110318.
5.
Weirich, Sara, et al.. (2024). SETDB1 activity is globally directed by H3K14 acetylation via its Triple Tudor Domain. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(22). 13690–13705.
6.
Weirich, Sara, et al.. (2024). Discovery of NSD2 non-histone substrates and design of a super-substrate. Communications Biology. 7(1). 707–707. 6 indexed citations
7.
Radde, Nicole, et al.. (2022). Reversible switching and stability of the epigenetic memory system in bacteria. FEBS Journal. 290(8). 2115–2126. 7 indexed citations
8.
Zhao, Yueling, Xiaojie Yan, Chen Ye, et al.. (2022). CRL2ZER1/ZYG11B recognizes small N-terminal residues for degradation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7636–7636. 18 indexed citations
9.
Weirich, Sara & Albert Jeltsch. (2022). Specificity Analysis of Protein Methyltransferases and Discovery of Novel Substrates Using SPOT Peptide Arrays. Methods in molecular biology. 2529. 313–325. 10 indexed citations
10.
Weirich, Sara, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic basis of the increased methylation activity of the SETD2 protein lysine methyltransferase towards a designed super-substrate peptide. Communications Chemistry. 5(1). 139–139. 8 indexed citations
11.
Weirich, Sara, et al.. (2022). The H3.3 G34W oncohistone mutation increases K36 methylation by the protein lysine methyltransferase NSD1. Biochimie. 198. 86–91. 2 indexed citations
12.
Fuchs, Marina, Sara Weirich, Mareike Roth, et al.. (2021). A functional LSD1 coregulator screen reveals a novel transcriptional regulatory cascade connecting R-loop homeostasis with epigenetic regulation. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(8). 4350–4370. 17 indexed citations
13.
Beldar, Serap, et al.. (2020). Sequence specificity analysis of the SETD2 protein lysine methyltransferase and discovery of a SETD2 super-substrate. Communications Biology. 3(1). 511–511. 16 indexed citations
14.
Elsawy, Hany, et al.. (2019). Somatic Cancer Mutations in the SUV420H1 Protein Lysine Methyltransferase Modulate Its Catalytic Activity. Journal of Molecular Biology. 431(17). 3068–3080. 12 indexed citations
15.
Rolando, Monica, et al.. (2018). The Legionella pneumophila Methyltransferase RomA Methylates Also Non-histone Proteins during Infection. Journal of Molecular Biology. 430(13). 1912–1925. 15 indexed citations
16.
Jurkowska, Renata Z., Qin Su, Goran Kungulovski, et al.. (2017). H3K14ac is linked to methylation of H3K9 by the triple Tudor domain of SETDB1. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2057–2057. 62 indexed citations
17.
Weirich, Sara, et al.. (2015). Investigation of the methylation of Numb by the SET8 protein lysine methyltransferase. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 13813–13813. 7 indexed citations
18.
Weirich, Sara, Srikanth Kudithipudi, Ina Kycia, & Albert Jeltsch. (2015). Somatic cancer mutations in the MLL3-SET domain alter the catalytic properties of the enzyme. Clinical Epigenetics. 7(1). 36–36. 31 indexed citations
19.
Kudithipudi, Srikanth, et al.. (2014). Activity and specificity of the human SUV39H2 protein lysine methyltransferase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1849(1). 55–63. 42 indexed citations
20.
Kudithipudi, Srikanth, et al.. (2014). Specificity Analysis of Protein Lysine Methyltransferases Using SPOT Peptide Arrays. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e52203–e52203. 31 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ildikó V. Akey Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Lynn Lehmann Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ellis L. Ryan Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Poorwa Awasthi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Chih Hao Hsu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Calley Hirsch Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tomasz Kallas Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Lee Davidson Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Audrey Forest Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Pabitra K. Parua
Rankless by CCL
2026