Sven Diederichs

20.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
112 papers, 15.6k citations indexed

About

Sven Diederichs is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sven Diederichs has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 15.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Molecular Biology, 59 papers in Cancer Research and 20 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Sven Diederichs's work include RNA modifications and cancer (46 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (40 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (36 papers). Sven Diederichs is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (46 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (40 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (36 papers). Sven Diederichs collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Sven Diederichs's co-authors include Tony Gutschner, Julia Winter, Stephanie Jung, Daniel A. Haber, Sarina Keller, Richard I. Gregory, Monika Hämmerle, Carsten Müller‐Tidow, Hubert Serve and Matthias Groß and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sven Diederichs

108 papers receiving 15.4k 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.

Many roads to maturity: microRNA biogenesis pathways and their regulation

2009 2.1k citations Julia Winter, Stephanie Jung et al. profile →
MALAT-1, a novel noncoding RNA, and thymosin β4 predict metastasis and survival in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer

2003 1.8k citations Ping Ji, Sven Diederichs et al. profile →
The hallmarks of cancer

2012 1.5k citations Tony Gutschner, Sven Diederichs RNA Biology profile →
The Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Is a Critical Regulator of the Metastasis Phenotype of Lung Cancer Cells

2012 1.3k citations Tony Gutschner, Monika Hämmerle et al. Cancer Research profile →
Detection of Mutations in EGFR in Circulating Lung-Cancer Cells

2008 1.3k citations Sven Diederichs, Daniel A. Haber et al. profile →
MALAT1 — a paradigm for long noncoding RNA function in cancer

2013 586 citations Tony Gutschner, Monika Hämmerle et al. profile →
Dual Role for Argonautes in MicroRNA Processing and Posttranscriptional Regulation of MicroRNA Expression

2007 510 citations Sven Diederichs, Daniel A. Haber profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sven Diederichs Germany	47	12.4k	11.1k	1.9k	1.2k	784	112	15.6k
Xianghuo He China	63	11.8k 0.9×	9.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	789 0.7×	873 1.1×	206	14.2k
David M. Feldser United States	27	8.1k 0.7×	6.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	799 0.7×	814 1.0×	42	11.1k
Marilena V. Iorio Italy	30	14.8k 1.2×	13.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	629 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	59	17.6k
Gregory J. Goodall Australia	61	13.3k 1.1×	9.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.5×	856 0.7×	1.6k 2.1×	149	17.2k
Naohiko Seki Japan	70	12.1k 1.0×	8.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	357	16.4k
Andrea Vecchione Italy	44	8.4k 0.7×	6.5k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	886 1.1×	300	12.3k
Kounosuke Watabe United States	56	6.8k 0.5×	4.3k 0.4×	2.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	773 1.0×	166	10.0k
Leonardo Salmena Canada	31	13.9k 1.1×	9.0k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.9×	66	16.6k
Chang‐Gong Liu United States	54	24.8k 2.0×	23.4k 2.1×	2.5k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	1.8k 2.3×	76	30.3k
Alberto Villanueva Spain	49	6.6k 0.5×	3.9k 0.3×	2.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	806 1.0×	138	9.9k

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Schmidt, Carla, Luc Friboulet, Antoine Hollebecque, et al.. (2025). Saturation mutagenesis identifies activating and resistance-inducing FGFR kinase domain mutations. Nature Genetics. 58(1). 157–168.

Diederichs, Sven, et al.. (2024). Refining the pool of RNA-binding domains advances the classification and prediction of RNA-binding proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(13). 7504–7522. 7 indexed citations

Schmidt, Carla, et al.. (2024). Suppressive cancer nonstop extension mutations increase C-terminal hydrophobicity and disrupt evolutionarily conserved amino acid patterns. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9209–9209. 2 indexed citations

Ganner, Athina, Laura Cubitt, Dong‐Kyu Kim, et al.. (2024). Saturation genome editing maps the functional spectrum of pathogenic VHL alleles. Nature Genetics. 56(7). 1446–1455. 16 indexed citations

Steen, Nele Van Der, et al.. (2020). The Circular RNA Landscape of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells. Cancers. 12(5). 1091–1091. 29 indexed citations

Goyal, Ashish, Evgenij Fiškin, Tony Gutschner, et al.. (2017). A cautionary tale of sense-antisense gene pairs: independent regulation despite inverse correlation of expression. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(21). 12496–12508. 62 indexed citations

Frank, Lukas, Maria Polycarpou‐Schwarz, Matthias Groß, et al.. (2017). The long non-coding RNA LINC00152 is essential for cell cycle progression through mitosis in HeLa cells. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2265–2265. 46 indexed citations

Guia, Roldan M. de, Adam J. Rose, Daniela Strzoda, et al.. (2014). micro RNA ‐379 couples glucocorticoid hormones to dysfunctional lipid homeostasis. The EMBO Journal. 34(3). 344–360. 36 indexed citations

Palm, Thomas, Kathrin Hemmer, Julia Winter, et al.. (2013). A systemic transcriptome analysis reveals the regulation of neural stem cell maintenance by an E2F1–miRNA feedback loop. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(6). 3699–3712. 28 indexed citations

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Gutschner, Tony, Monika Hämmerle, Moritz F. Eissmann, et al.. (2012). The Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Is a Critical Regulator of the Metastasis Phenotype of Lung Cancer Cells. Cancer Research. 73(3). 1180–1189. 1307 indexed citations breakdown →

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Konermann, Carolin, Sebastian Aulmann, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, et al.. (2012). Genome‐wide methylation screen in low‐grade breast cancer identifies novel epigenetically altered genes as potential biomarkers for tumor diagnosis. The FASEB Journal. 26(12). 4937–4950. 77 indexed citations

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Luo, Chonglin, Paul W. Tetteh, P. Merz, et al.. (2012). miR-137 Inhibits the Invasion of Melanoma Cells through Downregulation of Multiple Oncogenic Target Genes. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 133(3). 768–775. 121 indexed citations

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Heinemann, Anja, Fang Zhao, Sonali Pechlivanis, et al.. (2011). Tumor Suppressive MicroRNAs miR-34a/c Control Cancer Cell Expression of ULBP2, a Stress-Induced Ligand of the Natural Killer Cell Receptor NKG2D. Cancer Research. 72(2). 460–471. 167 indexed citations

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Winter, Julia & Sven Diederichs. (2011). Argonaute proteins regulate microRNA stability. RNA Biology. 8(6). 9 indexed citations

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Bäumer, Nicole, Lara Tickenbrock, Petra Tschanter, et al.. (2011). Inhibitor of Cyclin-dependent Kinase (CDK) Interacting with Cyclin A1 (INCA1) Regulates Proliferation and Is Repressed by Oncogenic Signaling. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(32). 28210–28222. 19 indexed citations

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Breiling, Achim, N. Vishal Gupta, Mahdi Malekpour, et al.. (2010). Epigenetically Deregulated microRNA-375 Is Involved in a Positive Feedback Loop with Estrogen Receptor α in Breast Cancer Cells. Cancer Research. 70(22). 9175–9184. 232 indexed citations

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Diederichs, Sven, Stephanie Jung, S. Michael Rothenberg, et al.. (2008). Coexpression of Argonaute-2 enhances RNA interference toward perfect match binding sites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(27). 9284–9289. 82 indexed citations

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Diederichs, Sven & Daniel A. Haber. (2006). Sequence Variations of MicroRNAs in Human Cancer: Alterations in Predicted Secondary Structure Do Not Affect Processing. Cancer Research. 66(12). 6097–6104. 139 indexed citations

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Böhm, Markus, Zhuo Li, Stefan W. Schneider, et al.. (2005). Detection of Functionally Active Melanocortin Receptors and Evidence for an Immunoregulatory Activity of α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone in Human Dermal Papilla Cells. Endocrinology. 146(11). 4635–4646. 46 indexed citations

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Diederichs, Sven, Etmar Bulk, Björn Steffen, et al.. (2004). S100 Family Members and Trypsinogens Are Predictors of Distant Metastasis and Survival in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Cancer Research. 64(16). 5564–5569. 168 indexed citations

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