Stefan Schuster

10.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
99 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Stefan Schuster is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Schuster has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 9 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Stefan Schuster's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (56 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (30 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (19 papers). Stefan Schuster is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (56 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (30 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (19 papers). Stefan Schuster collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Stefan Schuster's co-authors include David A. Fell, Thomas Dandekar, Claus C. Hilgetag, Steffen Klamt, Christoph Kaleta, Luís F. de Figueiredo, Ernst Dieter Gilles, Axel von Kamp, Katja Bettenbrock and Jörg Stelling and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Schuster

95 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

A general definition of metabolic pathways useful for systematic organization and analysis of complex metabolic networks

2000 674 citations Stefan Schuster, David A. Fell et al. profile →
Metabolic network structure determines key aspects of functionality and regulation

2002 562 citations Steffen Klamt, Stefan Schuster et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefan Schuster Germany	37	4.9k	1.3k	447	300	230	99	5.7k
Jeremy S. Edwards United States	33	6.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	734 1.6×	373 1.2×	207 0.9×	108	6.9k
Christopher S. Henry United States	34	5.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	449 1.0×	242 0.8×	213 0.9×	88	6.0k
Jason A. Papin United States	47	5.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	581 1.3×	162 0.5×	437 1.9×	141	7.2k
Jeffrey D. Orth United States	9	5.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.6×	520 1.2×	312 1.0×	149 0.6×	10	5.6k
Wolfram Liebermeister Germany	30	4.4k 0.9×	684 0.5×	752 1.7×	112 0.4×	175 0.8×	59	5.3k
Stefan Schuster Germany	39	3.9k 0.8×	492 0.4×	678 1.5×	128 0.4×	120 0.5×	149	6.0k
Frank J. Bruggeman Netherlands	38	4.0k 0.8×	538 0.4×	712 1.6×	70 0.2×	246 1.1×	124	4.9k
Vassily Hatzimanikatis Switzerland	54	7.4k 1.5×	2.4k 1.8×	639 1.4×	512 1.7×	392 1.7×	158	8.6k
Wolfgang Wiechert Germany	49	6.8k 1.4×	2.3k 1.8×	555 1.2×	342 1.1×	118 0.5×	270	8.2k
Edda Klipp Germany	39	4.4k 0.9×	495 0.4×	358 0.8×	111 0.4×	264 1.1×	161	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Schuster

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Schuster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Schuster

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schuster, Stefan, et al.. (2025). How hosts and pathogens choose the strengths of defense and counterdefense: a game-theoretical view. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 12.

Limaye, Sewanti, et al.. (2023). Accurate prostate cancer detection based on enrichment and characterization of prostate cancer specific circulating tumor cells. Cancer Medicine. 12(8). 9116–9127. 12 indexed citations

Schuster, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Was die Liquid Biopsy über Krebs verrät. PubMed Central. 28(3). 20–23.

Crook, Timothy, Robert Leonard, Kefah Mokbel, et al.. (2022). Accurate Screening for Early-Stage Breast Cancer by Detection and Profiling of Circulating Tumor Cells. Cancers. 14(14). 3341–3341. 24 indexed citations

Ewald, Jan, et al.. (2021). Dynamic optimization reveals alveolar epithelial cells as key mediators of host defense in invasive aspergillosis. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(12). e1009645–e1009645. 13 indexed citations

Schuster, Stefan, Jan Ewald, & Christoph Kaleta. (2021). Modeling the energy metabolism in immune cells. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 68. 282–291. 19 indexed citations

Schuster, Stefan. (2017). A New Solution Concept for the Ultimatum Game leading to the Golden Ratio. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 5642–5642. 18 indexed citations

Bohl, Katrin, Sarah Werner, David Basanta, et al.. (2014). Evolutionary game theory: molecules as players. Molecular BioSystems. 10(12). 3066–3074. 32 indexed citations

Kaleta, Christoph, Luís F. de Figueiredo, Sarah Werner, et al.. (2011). In Silico Evidence for Gluconeogenesis from Fatty Acids in Humans. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(7). e1002116–e1002116. 34 indexed citations

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Bohl, Katrin, Luís F. de Figueiredo, Oliver Hädicke, et al.. (2010). CASOP GS : Computing intervention strategies targeted at production improvement in genome-scale metabolic networks. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 71–80. 15 indexed citations

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Ruppin, Eytan, Jason A. Papin, Luís F. de Figueiredo, & Stefan Schuster. (2010). Metabolic reconstruction, constraint-based analysis and game theory to probe genome-scale metabolic networks. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 21(4). 502–510. 67 indexed citations

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Schuster, Stefan, Jan‐Ulrich Kreft, Naama Brenner, et al.. (2010). Cooperation and cheating in microbial exoenzyme production – Theoretical analysis for biotechnological applications. Biotechnology Journal. 5(7). 751–758. 28 indexed citations

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Figueiredo, Luís F. de, et al.. (2009). Computing Elementary Flux Modes in Genome-scale Metabolic Networks.. 83(10). 179–189. 3 indexed citations

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Meilijson, Isaac, et al.. (2008). Can single knockouts accurately single out gene functions?. BMC Systems Biology. 2(1). 50–50. 39 indexed citations

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Schuster, Stefan, et al.. (2002). Reaction routes in biochemical reaction systems: Algebraic properties, validated calculation procedure and example from nucleotide metabolism. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 45(2). 153–181. 143 indexed citations

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Schuster, Stefan, et al.. (2002). Treatment of multifunctional enzymes in metabolic pathway analysis. Biophysical Chemistry. 99(1). 63–75. 5 indexed citations

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Schuster, Stefan, Thomas Pfeiffer, F. Moldenhauer, Ina Koch, & Thomas Dandekar. (2000). Structural analysis of metabolic networks: elementary flux modes, analogy to petri nets, and application to Mycoplasma pneumoniae. 115–120. 10 indexed citations

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Zahn, Ralf, Rudolf Schiele, K. Seidl, et al.. (1999). Primary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction: differences between referred patients and those treated in hospitals with on-site facilities?. PubMed. 11(4). 213–9. 8 indexed citations

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Schuster, Stefan, et al.. (1999). Detection of elementary flux modes in biochemical networks: a promising tool for pathway analysis and metabolic engineering. Trends in biotechnology. 17(2). 53–60. 474 indexed citations

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Schuster, Stefan. (1999). Use and Limitations of Modular Metabolic Control Analysis in Medicine and Biotechnology. Metabolic Engineering. 1(3). 232–242. 24 indexed citations

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