Sebastian Westenhoff

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Westenhoff is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Westenhoff has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 23 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Westenhoff's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (29 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (24 papers) and Light effects on plants (23 papers). Sebastian Westenhoff is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (29 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (24 papers) and Light effects on plants (23 papers). Sebastian Westenhoff collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Finland and United Kingdom. Sebastian Westenhoff's co-authors include Neil C. Greenham, Richard H. Friend, Janne A. Ihalainen, Heikki Takala, Stephan Niebling, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Alexander Björling, Ian A. Howard, Donatas Zigmantas and Arkady Yartsev and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Westenhoff

60 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Quantum biology revisited

2020 321 citations Jianshu Cao, Richard J. Cogdell et al. Science Advances profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastian Westenhoff Sweden	32	1.3k	1.3k	849	810	773	64	3.4k
Delmar S. Larsen United States	42	968 0.7×	2.5k 1.9×	1.8k 2.1×	236 0.3×	1.9k 2.4×	100	5.8k
Chao‐Ping Hsu Taiwan	39	2.1k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	2.0k 2.3×	767 0.9×	324 0.4×	128	5.6k
Tomáš Kubař Germany	26	714 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	535 0.6×	95 0.1×	252 0.3×	63	2.6k
Elisabetta Collini Italy	28	746 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	211 0.3×	710 0.9×	85	3.8k
Till Biskup Germany	24	887 0.7×	198 0.2×	494 0.6×	675 0.8×	424 0.5×	50	2.0k
Rob B. M. Koehorst Netherlands	21	405 0.3×	850 0.7×	685 0.8×	221 0.3×	201 0.3×	50	1.8k
Stefan Haacke France	35	1.0k 0.8×	588 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	222 0.3×	898 1.2×	130	3.6k
Tessa R. Calhoun United States	17	571 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	449 0.5×	129 0.2×	845 1.1×	33	3.9k
Spiros S. Skourtis Cyprus	31	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	484 0.6×	95 0.1×	303 0.4×	58	2.8k
Tihana Mirkovic Canada	17	919 0.7×	754 0.6×	1.4k 1.6×	57 0.1×	379 0.5×	25	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Westenhoff

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sebastian Westenhoff

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Westenhoff

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

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Takala, Heikki, et al.. (2024). Cryo-EM structures of a bathy phytochrome histidine kinase reveal a unique light-dependent activation mechanism. Structure. 32(11). 1952–1962.e3. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, S. Madan, Weixiao Yuan Wahlgren, Antonia Furrer, et al.. (2022). Structural basis of the radical pair state in photolyases and cryptochromes. Chemical Communications. 58(31). 4889–4892. 6 indexed citations

Wahlgren, Weixiao Yuan, Léocadie Henry, Suraj Pandey, et al.. (2021). The three-dimensional structure of Drosophila melanogaster (6–4) photolyase at room temperature. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 77(8). 1001–1009. 6 indexed citations

Nanekar, Rahul, Dmitry Morozov, Weixiao Yuan Wahlgren, et al.. (2021). Comparative analysis of two paradigm bacteriophytochromes reveals opposite functionalities in two-component signaling. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4394–4394. 37 indexed citations

Henry, Léocadie, Oskar Berntsson, Matthijs R. Panman, et al.. (2020). New Light on the Mechanism of Phototransduction in Phototropin. Biochemistry. 59(35). 3206–3215. 12 indexed citations

Cao, Jianshu, Richard J. Cogdell, D. F. Coker, et al.. (2020). Quantum biology revisited. Science Advances. 6(14). eaaz4888–eaaz4888. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

Henry, Léocadie, Matthijs R. Panman, Linnéa Isaksson, et al.. (2020). Real-time tracking of protein unfolding with time-resolved x-ray solution scattering. Structural Dynamics. 7(5). 54702–54702. 15 indexed citations

Berntsson, Oskar, Léocadie Henry, Matthijs R. Panman, et al.. (2019). Photoactivation of Drosophila melanogaster cryptochrome through sequential conformational transitions. Science Advances. 5(7). eaaw1531–eaaw1531. 33 indexed citations

Sharma, Amit, Peter Berntsen, Roberto Appio, et al.. (2019). A simple adaptation to a protein crystallography station to facilitate difference X-ray scattering studies. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 52(2). 378–386.

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Berntsson, Oskar, Ralph P. Diensthuber, Matthijs R. Panman, et al.. (2017). Sequential conformational transitions and α-helical supercoiling regulate a sensor histidine kinase. Nature Communications. 8(1). 284–284. 56 indexed citations

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Hoernke, Maria, Elin Larsson, Jeanette Blomberg, et al.. (2017). EHD2 restrains dynamics of caveolae by an ATP-dependent, membrane-bound, open conformation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(22). E4360–E4369. 43 indexed citations

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Berntsson, Oskar, Ralph P. Diensthuber, Matthijs R. Panman, et al.. (2017). Time-Resolved X-Ray Solution Scattering Reveals the Structural Photoactivation of a Light-Oxygen-Voltage Photoreceptor. Structure. 25(6). 933–938.e3. 32 indexed citations

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Björling, Alexander, Oskar Berntsson, Heli Lehtivuori, et al.. (2016). Structural photoactivation of a full-length bacterial phytochrome. Science Advances. 2(8). e1600920–e1600920. 92 indexed citations

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Niebling, Stephan, Emma Danelius, Ulrika Brath, Sebastian Westenhoff, & Máté Erdélyi. (2015). The impact of interchain hydrogen bonding on β ‐hairpin stability is readily predicted by molecular dynamics simulation. Biopolymers. 104(6). 703–706. 2 indexed citations

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Kovacsova, G., Emil Gustavsson, Jiajun Wang, et al.. (2015). Cell-free expression of a functional pore-only sodium channel. Protein Expression and Purification. 111. 42–47. 8 indexed citations

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Niebling, Stephan, Alexander Björling, & Sebastian Westenhoff. (2014). MARTINI bead form factors for the analysis of time-resolved X-ray scattering of proteins. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 47(4). 1190–1198. 18 indexed citations

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Westenhoff, Sebastian, E. S. Nazarenko, Erik Malmerberg, et al.. (2010). Time-resolved structural studies of protein reaction dynamics: a smorgasbord of X-ray approaches. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 66(2). 207–219. 40 indexed citations

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Westenhoff, Sebastian, Ian A. Howard, Justin M. Hodgkiss, et al.. (2008). Charge Recombination in Organic Photovoltaic Devices with High Open-Circuit Voltages. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(41). 13653–13658. 186 indexed citations

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Westenhoff, Sebastian, Wichard J. D. Beenken, Richard H. Friend, et al.. (2006). Anomalous Energy Transfer Dynamics due to Torsional Relaxation in a Conjugated Polymer. Physical Review Letters. 97(16). 166804–166804. 134 indexed citations

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Westenhoff, Sebastian & Nicholas A. Kotov. (2002). Quantum Dot on a Rope. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124(11). 2448–2449. 71 indexed citations

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