Sebastian Köhler

13.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Köhler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Köhler has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Köhler's work include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (25 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (24 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (19 papers). Sebastian Köhler is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (25 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (24 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (19 papers). Sebastian Köhler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Sebastian Köhler's co-authors include Peter N. Robinson, Sebastian Bauer, Denise Horn, Stefan Mundlos, Dominik Seelow, Chris Mungall, Damian Smedley, Melissa Haendel, Nicole Washington and Marcel H. Schulz and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Köhler

49 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Walking the Interactome for Prioritization of Candidate Disease Genes

2008 907 citations Sebastian Köhler, Sebastian Bauer et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →
The Human Phenotype Ontology: A Tool for Annotating and Analyzing Human Hereditary Disease

2008 622 citations Peter N. Robinson, Sebastian Köhler et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →
How many rare diseases are there?

2019 279 citations Melissa Haendel, Nicole Vasilevsky et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastian Köhler Germany	21	2.8k	1.7k	458	391	295	52	3.9k
Dexter Hadley United States	21	1.2k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	292 0.6×	291 0.7×	204 0.7×	56	2.8k
John V. Pearson Australia	24	1.8k 0.6×	745 0.5×	566 1.2×	659 1.7×	125 0.4×	59	3.7k
Tony Burdett United Kingdom	13	2.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	125 0.3×	477 1.2×	144 0.5×	32	4.2k
Denise Horn Germany	37	3.9k 1.4×	3.0k 1.8×	225 0.5×	351 0.9×	256 0.9×	134	6.1k
Michael Rebhan Germany	12	2.9k 1.0×	756 0.5×	110 0.2×	351 0.9×	108 0.4×	21	3.8k
Natali Gulbahce United States	15	2.8k 1.0×	497 0.3×	185 0.4×	359 0.9×	778 2.6×	26	4.2k
Dominik Seelow Germany	19	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	149 0.3×	217 0.6×	49 0.2×	50	2.6k
Annie Chiang United States	12	1.9k 0.7×	728 0.4×	159 0.3×	129 0.3×	829 2.8×	21	2.6k
Jörg Menche Austria	24	2.3k 0.8×	343 0.2×	162 0.4×	146 0.4×	759 2.6×	53	3.2k
Danielle Welter Luxembourg	6	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	58 0.1×	368 0.9×	102 0.3×	12	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Köhler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Köhler

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20 of 20 papers shown

Köhler, Sebastian. (2025). Good classification matters: conceptual engineering in data science. Synthese. 205(1).

Huque, Md Hamidul, Scherazad Kootar, Kim M. Kiely, et al.. (2024). A single risk assessment for the most common diseases of ageing, developed and validated on 10 cohort studies. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 501–501. 3 indexed citations

Schmid, Andreas, Gerhard Liebisch, Ralph Burkhardt, et al.. (2024). Dynamics of the human bile acid metabolome during weight loss. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 25743–25743. 1 indexed citations

Lo, Jessica, E. Allart, Sebastian Köhler, et al.. (2024). Prevalence of poststroke anxiety and its associations with global cognitive impairment: An individual participant data analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders. 369. 1136–1144. 5 indexed citations

Köhler, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). Validation of the Updated “LIfestyle for BRAin health” (LIBRA) Index in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Maastricht Aging Study. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 101(4). 1237–1248. 5 indexed citations

Köhler, Sebastian, et al.. (2020). A Collection of Benchmark Data Sets for Knowledge Graph-based Similarity in the Biomedical Domain. Database. 2020. 7 indexed citations

Schwarz, Jana Marie, et al.. (2019). RegulationSpotter: annotation and interpretation of extratranscriptic DNA variants. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(W1). W106–W113. 17 indexed citations

Schwarz, Jana Marie, et al.. (2018). Phenotero: Annotate as you write. Clinical Genetics. 95(2). 287–292. 2 indexed citations

Olry, Annie, Marc Hanauer, Valérie Serrière-Lanneau, et al.. (2018). Harmonising phenomics information for a better interoperability in the rare disease field. European Journal of Medical Genetics. 61(11). 706–714. 16 indexed citations

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Smedley, Damian, Julius O.B. Jacobsen, Marten Jäger, et al.. (2015). Next-generation diagnostics and disease-gene discovery with the Exomiser. Nature Protocols. 10(12). 2004–2015. 228 indexed citations

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Haendel, Melissa, Nicole Vasilevsky, Matthew Brush, et al.. (2015). Disease insights through cross-species phenotype comparisons. Mammalian Genome. 26(9-10). 548–555. 16 indexed citations

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Groza, Tudor, Sebastian Köhler, Nicole Vasilevsky, et al.. (2015). The Human Phenotype Ontology: Semantic Unification of Common and Rare Disease. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 97(1). 111–124. 150 indexed citations

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Khattari, Z. Y., et al.. (2014). Stalk formation as a function of lipid composition studied by X-ray reflectivity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1848(1). 41–50. 16 indexed citations

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Smedley, Damian, Anika Oellrich, Sebastian Köhler, et al.. (2013). PhenoDigm: analyzing curated annotations to associate animal models with human diseases. Database. 2013(0). bat025–bat025. 86 indexed citations

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Köhler, Sebastian, Sandra C. Doelken, Ana Rath, Ségolène Aymé, & Peter N. Robinson. (2012). Ontological phenotype standards for neurogenetics. Human Mutation. 33(9). 1333–1339. 16 indexed citations

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Köhler, Sebastian, Sebastian Bauer, Chris Mungall, et al.. (2011). Improving ontologies by automatic reasoning and evaluation of logical definitions. BMC Bioinformatics. 12(1). 418–418. 21 indexed citations

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Rödelsperger, Christian, Gao Guo, Mateusz Kolanczyk, et al.. (2010). Integrative analysis of genomic, functional and protein interaction data predicts long-range enhancer-target gene interactions. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(7). 2492–2502. 18 indexed citations

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Köhler, Sebastian, Marcel H. Schulz, Peter Krawitz, et al.. (2009). Clinical Diagnostics in Human Genetics with Semantic Similarity Searches in Ontologies. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 85(4). 457–464. 349 indexed citations

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Rule, K. C., A. U. B. Wolter, S. Süllow, et al.. (2008). Nature of the Spin Dynamics and1/3Magnetization Plateau in Azurite. Physical Review Letters. 100(11). 117202–117202. 98 indexed citations

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Köhler, Sebastian, Sebastian Bauer, Denise Horn, & Peter N. Robinson. (2008). Walking the Interactome for Prioritization of Candidate Disease Genes. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 82(4). 949–958. 907 indexed citations breakdown →

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