Sascha Martens

19.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
70 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Sascha Martens is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sascha Martens has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Epidemiology, 39 papers in Cell Biology and 38 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sascha Martens's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (51 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (24 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (15 papers). Sascha Martens is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (51 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (24 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (15 papers). Sascha Martens collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Sascha Martens's co-authors include Harvey T. McMahon, Gabriele Zaffagnini, Michael M. Kozlov, Dorotea Fracchiolla, Marta Walczak, Julia Romanov, Jonathan C. Howard, Claudine Kraft, Alberto Danieli and Eleonora Turco and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sascha Martens

69 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Phosphorylation of OPTN by TBK1 enhances its binding to Ub chains and promotes selective autophagy of damaged mitochondria

2016 587 citations Petra Beli, Sascha Martens et al. profile →
Mechanisms of membrane fusion: disparate players and common principles

2008 573 citations Sascha Martens, Harvey T. McMahon profile →
Mechanisms of Selective Autophagy

2016 450 citations Sascha Martens et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Mechanism and functions of membrane binding by the Atg5–Atg12/Atg16 complex during autophagosome formation

2012 371 citations Julia Romanov, Claudine Kraft et al. The EMBO Journal profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sascha Martens Austria	37	3.8k	3.7k	2.3k	709	678	70	6.8k
Claudia Puri United Kingdom	37	3.2k 0.8×	3.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.2×	457 0.6×	385 0.6×	56	7.0k
Michael J. Clague United Kingdom	51	2.6k 0.7×	8.8k 2.4×	3.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.5×	232 0.3×	131	11.5k
Sylvie Urbé United Kingdom	49	2.4k 0.6×	8.7k 2.3×	4.4k 2.0×	1.1k 1.5×	253 0.4×	92	11.5k
Hemmo Meyer Germany	38	2.3k 0.6×	5.5k 1.5×	4.3k 1.9×	484 0.7×	211 0.3×	91	8.1k
Eric Spooner United States	43	1.6k 0.4×	5.6k 1.5×	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 2.3×	418 0.6×	58	8.4k
Janice Griffith Netherlands	38	1.3k 0.3×	3.9k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 2.0×	168 0.2×	46	6.5k
Christian Ungermann Germany	56	2.1k 0.6×	6.6k 1.8×	6.5k 2.9×	392 0.6×	217 0.3×	149	10.0k
Nicholas A. Bright United Kingdom	43	1.5k 0.4×	4.5k 1.2×	4.5k 2.0×	779 1.1×	151 0.2×	73	8.7k
Thomas J. Melia United States	35	1.6k 0.4×	3.6k 1.0×	2.8k 1.3×	219 0.3×	131 0.2×	62	5.2k
Maria Antonietta De Matteis Italy	49	1.5k 0.4×	5.9k 1.6×	4.9k 2.2×	693 1.0×	141 0.2×	129	9.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sascha Martens

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Adriaenssens, Elias, Justyna Sawa‐Makarska, Thanh Ngoc Nguyen, et al.. (2025). Reconstitution of BNIP3/NIX-mitophagy initiation reveals hierarchical flexibility of the autophagy machinery. Nature Cell Biology. 27(8). 1272–1287. 2 indexed citations

Fracchiolla, Dorotea, et al.. (2025). The rapidly expanding role of LC3-interacting regions in autophagy. The Journal of Cell Biology. 224(8). 1 indexed citations

Baumann, Verena, et al.. (2024). Faa1 membrane binding drives positive feedback in autophagosome biogenesis via fatty acid activation. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(7). 4 indexed citations

Martens, Sascha, et al.. (2024). The Role of ATG9 Vesicles in Autophagosome Biogenesis. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(15). 168489–168489. 22 indexed citations

Adriaenssens, Elias, Thanh Ngoc Nguyen, Justyna Sawa‐Makarska, et al.. (2024). Control of mitophagy initiation and progression by the TBK1 adaptors NAP1 and SINTBAD. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(11). 1717–1731. 17 indexed citations

Ferrari, Luca, Bernd Bauer, Martina Schuschnig, et al.. (2024). Tau fibrils evade autophagy by excessive p62 coating and TAX1BP1 exclusion. Science Advances. 10(24). eadm8449–eadm8449. 16 indexed citations

Danieli, Alberto, et al.. (2023). Sequestration of translation initiation factors in p62 condensates. Cell Reports. 42(12). 113583–113583. 5 indexed citations

Martens, Sascha, et al.. (2023). Damaged mitochondria recruit the effector NEMO to activate NF-κB signaling. Molecular Cell. 83(17). 3188–3204.e7. 50 indexed citations

Picchianti, Lorenzo, Víctor Sánchez de Medina Hernández, Ni Zhan, et al.. (2023). Shuffled ATG8 interacting motifs form an ancestral bridge between UFMylation and autophagy. The EMBO Journal. 42(10). e112053–e112053. 29 indexed citations

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Bauer, Bernd, Sascha Martens, & Luca Ferrari. (2023). Aggrephagy at a glance. Journal of Cell Science. 136(10). 25 indexed citations

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Adriaenssens, Elias, Luca Ferrari, & Sascha Martens. (2022). Orchestration of selective autophagy by cargo receptors. Current Biology. 32(24). R1357–R1371. 66 indexed citations

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Jensen, Liv, Shanlin Rao, Martina Schuschnig, et al.. (2022). Membrane curvature sensing and stabilization by the autophagic LC3 lipidation machinery. Science Advances. 8(50). eadd1436–eadd1436. 30 indexed citations

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Kataura, Tetsushi, Elsje G. Otten, Yoana Rabanal‐Ruiz, et al.. (2022). NDP52 acts as a redox sensor in PINK1/Parkin‐mediated mitophagy. The EMBO Journal. 42(5). e111372–e111372. 40 indexed citations

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Fracchiolla, Dorotea, Chunmei Chang, James H. Hurley, & Sascha Martens. (2020). A PI3K-WIPI2 positive feedback loop allosterically activates LC3 lipidation in autophagy. The Journal of Cell Biology. 219(7). 72 indexed citations

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Sawa‐Makarska, Justyna, Verena Baumann, Nicolas Coudevylle, et al.. (2020). Reconstitution of autophagosome nucleation defines Atg9 vesicles as seeds for membrane formation. Science. 369(6508). 188 indexed citations

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Reiter, Wolfgang, Thorsten Brach, Daniel Papinski, et al.. (2014). Hrr25 kinase promotes selective autophagy by phosphorylating the cargo receptor A tg19. EMBO Reports. 15(8). 862–870. 73 indexed citations

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Groffen, Alexander J., Sascha Martens, L. Niels Cornelisse, et al.. (2010). Doc2b Is a High-Affinity Ca ²⁺ Sensor for Spontaneous Neurotransmitter Release. Science. 327(5973). 1614–1618. 253 indexed citations

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Lynch, Kara L., et al.. (2008). Synaptotagmin-1 Utilizes Membrane Bending and SNARE Binding to Drive Fusion Pore Expansion. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 19(12). 5093–5103. 99 indexed citations

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Martens, Sascha, Michael M. Kozlov, & Harvey T. McMahon. (2007). How Synaptotagmin Promotes Membrane Fusion. Science. 316(5828). 1205–1208. 428 indexed citations

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Martens, Sascha, et al.. (2004). Mechanisms Regulating the Positioning of Mouse p47 Resistance GTPases LRG-47 and IIGP1 on Cellular Membranes: Retargeting to Plasma Membrane Induced by Phagocytosis. The Journal of Immunology. 173(4). 2594–2606. 99 indexed citations

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