Stephan Werner

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
140 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Stephan Werner is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Radiation and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Werner has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Materials Chemistry, 26 papers in Radiation and 24 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Stephan Werner's work include Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (26 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (24 papers) and Formal Methods in Verification (11 papers). Stephan Werner is often cited by papers focused on Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (26 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (24 papers) and Formal Methods in Verification (11 papers). Stephan Werner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and Denmark. Stephan Werner's co-authors include Peter Guttmann, Gerd Schneider, Stefan Rehbein, Bettina V. Lotsch, Viola Düppel, Wilfried Sigle, Leo Diehl, Janina Kneipp, Mark Helm and Yuri Motorin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Werner

134 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Revealing catalyst restructuring and composition during nitrate electroreduction through correlated operando microscopy and spectroscopy

2025 43 citations Aram Yoon, Lichen Bai et al. Nature Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephan Werner Germany	29	566	557	534	411	300	140	2.4k
Alke Meents Germany	24	959 1.7×	661 1.2×	445 0.8×	295 0.7×	116 0.4×	77	1.7k
Sergei G. Kruglik France	28	482 0.9×	1.0k 1.9×	115 0.2×	204 0.5×	171 0.6×	77	2.4k
Zhong Ren United States	28	1.4k 2.5×	2.2k 3.9×	227 0.4×	211 0.5×	179 0.6×	89	3.8k
Oh‐Hoon Kwon South Korea	36	2.0k 3.5×	397 0.7×	168 0.3×	809 2.0×	226 0.8×	132	4.6k
José A. Rodríguez United States	28	633 1.1×	1.8k 3.3×	339 0.6×	322 0.8×	51 0.2×	51	3.5k
Liberato De Italy	26	1.7k 3.0×	538 1.0×	373 0.7×	148 0.4×	857 2.9×	139	5.1k
Martin R. Fuchs United States	19	513 0.9×	648 1.2×	96 0.2×	65 0.2×	88 0.3×	43	1.5k
Johan Hattne United States	23	1.2k 2.1×	1.1k 2.0×	321 0.6×	575 1.4×	33 0.1×	47	2.1k
R. Prazérès France	28	336 0.6×	235 0.4×	312 0.6×	37 0.1×	88 0.3×	105	2.5k
Osamu Miyashita Japan	26	986 1.7×	1.8k 3.3×	129 0.2×	435 1.1×	23 0.1×	115	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephan Werner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Werner

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Yoon, Aram, Lichen Bai, Federico Franco, et al.. (2025). Revealing catalyst restructuring and composition during nitrate electroreduction through correlated operando microscopy and spectroscopy. Nature Materials. 24(5). 762–769. 43 indexed citations breakdown →

Szomek, Maria, Line Lauritsen, Douglas F. Covey, et al.. (2024). Ergosterol promotes aggregation of natamycin in the yeast plasma membrane. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1866(7). 184350–184350. 1 indexed citations

Szomek, Maria, et al.. (2023). Direct Observation of Uptake and Dissolution of Cholesterol Crystals by Macrophages Using Combined Fluorescence and X-ray Microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(Supplement_1). 1158–1159. 1 indexed citations

Cüppers, Felix, Carsten Funck, Stephan Werner, et al.. (2023). Correlation between Electronic Structure, Microstructure, and Switching Mode in Valence Change Mechanism Al₂O₃/TiO_x‐Based Memristive Devices. Advanced Electronic Materials. 9(12). 9 indexed citations

Werner, Stephan, Henrique E. Toma, Fauze Jacó Anaissi, et al.. (2023). Copper(II) and Cobalt(II) Complexes Based on Abietate Ligands from Pinus Resin: Synthesis, Characterization and Their Antibacterial and Antiviral Activity against SARS-CoV-2. Nanomaterials. 13(7). 1202–1202. 5 indexed citations

Guttmann, Peter, et al.. (2023). Nanoscale spectromicroscopy with the full-field X-ray microscope at the BESSY II electron storage ring in the soft and tender X-ray range. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 266. 147344–147344. 2 indexed citations

Lund, Frederik W., Maria Szomek, Christian W. Heegaard, et al.. (2021). Niemann Pick C2 protein enables cholesterol transfer from endo-lysosomes to the plasma membrane for efflux by shedding of extracellular vesicles. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 235. 105047–105047. 26 indexed citations

Spedalieri, Cecilia, Gergő Péter Szekeres, Stephan Werner, Peter Guttmann, & Janina Kneipp. (2021). Probing the Intracellular Bio-Nano Interface in Different Cell Lines with Gold Nanostars. Nanomaterials. 11(5). 1183–1183. 8 indexed citations

Drescher, Daniela, Petra Schrade, Heike Traub, et al.. (2021). Influence of Nuclear Localization Sequences on the Intracellular Fate of Gold Nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 15(9). 14838–14849. 21 indexed citations

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Werner, Stephan, Florian Pichot, Virginie Marchand, et al.. (2020). NOseq: amplicon sequencing evaluation method for RNA m6A sites after chemical deamination. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(4). e23–e23. 36 indexed citations

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Szekeres, Gergő Péter, Stephan Werner, Peter Guttmann, et al.. (2020). Relating the composition and interface interactions in the hard corona of gold nanoparticles to the induced response mechanisms in living cells. Nanoscale. 12(33). 17450–17461. 20 indexed citations

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Hempel, Casper, Sergey Kapishnikov, Ana J. Pérez-Berná, et al.. (2020). The need to freeze—Dehydration during specimen preparation for electron microscopy collapses the endothelial glycocalyx regardless of fixation method. Microcirculation. 27(7). e12643–e12643. 13 indexed citations

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Marchand, Virginie, et al.. (2020). Manganese Ions Individually Alter the Reverse Transcription Signature of Modified Ribonucleosides. Genes. 11(8). 950–950. 15 indexed citations

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Kapishnikov, Sergey, Trine Staalsøe, Yang Yang, et al.. (2019). Mode of action of quinoline antimalarial drugs in red blood cells infected by Plasmodium falciparum revealed in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(46). 22946–22952. 70 indexed citations

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Drescher, Daniela, et al.. (2019). X-ray tomography shows the varying three-dimensional morphology of gold nanoaggregates in the cellular ultrastructure. Nanoscale Advances. 1(8). 2937–2945. 14 indexed citations

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Lübcke, A., M. Schnürer, H. Stiel, et al.. (2019). Soft X-ray nanoscale imaging using a sub-pixel resolution charge coupled device (CCD) camera. Review of Scientific Instruments. 90(4). 43111–43111. 7 indexed citations

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Werner, Stephan, et al.. (2016). CoverageAnalyzer (CAn): A Tool for Inspection of Modification Signatures in RNA Sequencing Profiles. Biomolecules. 6(4). 42–42. 16 indexed citations

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Mill, B. V., B. A. Maksimov, Yu. V. Pisarevsky, et al.. (2005). Phase transitions in langasite family crystals. 52–60. 4 indexed citations

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Werner, Stephan, et al.. (1998). Assumption-Commitment Specifications and Safety-Critical Systems.. 125–135. 1 indexed citations

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Werner, Stephan, et al.. (1997). Tool Support for the Compositional Development of Distributed Systems.. 89–98. 5 indexed citations

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