Sebastian Rühl

3.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
11 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Rühl is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Rühl has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Immunology and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Rühl's work include Inflammasome and immune disorders (7 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (4 papers) and Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (3 papers). Sebastian Rühl is often cited by papers focused on Inflammasome and immune disorders (7 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (4 papers) and Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (3 papers). Sebastian Rühl collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Sebastian Rühl's co-authors include Petr Brož, Rosalie Heilig, Sebastian Hiller, Lorenzo Sborgi, Christopher J. Farady, Daniel J. Müller, Estefania Mulvihill, Henning Stahlberg, José Carlos Santos and Kateryna Shkarina and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Rühl

11 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

GSDMD membrane pore formation constitutes the mechanism of pyroptotic cell death

2016 915 citations Lorenzo Sborgi, Sebastian Rühl et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
ESCRT-dependent membrane repair negatively regulates pyroptosis downstream of GSDMD activation

2018 543 citations Sebastian Rühl, Kateryna Shkarina et al. Science profile →
Caspase‐11 activates a canonical NLRP3 inflammasome by promoting K ⁺ efflux

2015 432 citations Sebastian Rühl, Petr Brož European Journal of Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastian Rühl Switzerland	9	2.4k	1.1k	411	238	237	11	2.7k
Dave Boucher Australia	17	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	376 0.9×	275 1.2×	244 1.0×	29	2.9k
Lichen Hu China	5	2.3k 1.0×	897 0.8×	454 1.1×	210 0.9×	230 1.0×	6	2.6k
Rosalie Heilig Switzerland	13	2.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	433 1.1×	214 0.9×	293 1.2×	14	3.0k
Salina Louie United States	9	2.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	281 0.7×	243 1.0×	187 0.8×	14	2.7k
Charles L. Evavold United States	12	1.7k 0.7×	888 0.8×	241 0.6×	162 0.7×	150 0.6×	17	2.2k
Irma B. Stowe France	9	1.5k 0.7×	861 0.8×	231 0.6×	180 0.8×	156 0.7×	9	1.9k
Alessandra Pontillo Brazil	29	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	172 0.4×	266 1.1×	140 0.6×	91	2.5k
Mercedes Monteleone Australia	14	1.7k 0.7×	866 0.8×	192 0.5×	180 0.8×	222 0.9×	20	2.2k
Thomas S. Ebert Germany	11	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	197 0.5×	177 0.7×	129 0.5×	17	2.1k
Dhruv Chauhan Germany	10	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	192 0.5×	161 0.7×	126 0.5×	11	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Rühl

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sebastian Rühl

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Rühl

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

Rühl, Sebastian, Zhenrui Li, Shiv Srivastava, et al.. (2024). Inhibition of BAK-mediated apoptosis by the BH3-only protein BNIP5. Cell Death and Differentiation. 32(2). 320–336. 7 indexed citations

Kalkavan, Halime, Sebastian Rühl, Jeremy J.P. Shaw, & Douglas R. Green. (2023). Non-lethal outcomes of engaging regulated cell death pathways in cancer. Nature Cancer. 4(6). 795–806. 27 indexed citations

Rühl, Sebastian, et al.. (2022). Stress‐induced increase of monoclonal antibody production in CHO cells. Engineering in Life Sciences. 22(5). 427–436. 11 indexed citations

Rühl, Sebastian & Petr Brož. (2021). Regulation of Lytic and Non-Lytic Functions of Gasdermin Pores. Journal of Molecular Biology. 434(4). 167246–167246. 45 indexed citations

Tummers, Bart, Luigi Mari, Clifford S. Guy, et al.. (2020). Caspase-8-Dependent Inflammatory Responses Are Controlled by Its Adaptor, FADD, and Necroptosis. Immunity. 52(6). 994–1006.e8. 105 indexed citations

Rühl, Sebastian, Kateryna Shkarina, Benjamin Demarco, et al.. (2018). ESCRT-dependent membrane repair negatively regulates pyroptosis downstream of GSDMD activation. Science. 362(6417). 956–960. 543 indexed citations breakdown →

Sborgi, Lorenzo, Sebastian Rühl, Estefania Mulvihill, et al.. (2016). GSDMD membrane pore formation constitutes the mechanism of pyroptotic cell death. The EMBO Journal. 35(16). 1766–1778. 915 indexed citations breakdown →

Dick, Mathias S., Lorenzo Sborgi, Sebastian Rühl, Sebastian Hiller, & Petr Brož. (2016). ASC filament formation serves as a signal amplification mechanism for inflammasomes. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11929–11929. 308 indexed citations

Meunier, Étienne, Pierre Wallet, Roland F. Dreier, et al.. (2015). Guanylate-binding proteins promote activation of the AIM2 inflammasome during infection with Francisella novicida. Nature Immunology. 16(5). 476–484. 286 indexed citations

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Rühl, Sebastian & Petr Brož. (2015). Caspase‐11 activates a canonical NLRP3 inflammasome by promoting K ⁺ efflux. European Journal of Immunology. 45(10). 2927–2936. 432 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Xiaolong, Somdeb BoseDasgupta, Rajesh Jayachandran, et al.. (2015). Activation of the cAMP/protein kinase A signalling pathway by coronin 1 is regulated by cyclin‐dependent kinase 5 activity. FEBS Letters. 590(2). 279–287. 7 indexed citations

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