Thomas Becker

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas Becker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Becker has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Becker's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (47 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (37 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers). Thomas Becker is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (47 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (37 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers). Thomas Becker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Thomas Becker's co-authors include Roland Beckmann, Otto Berninghausen, Thorsten Mielke, Jingdong Cheng, Mario Halić, Jean‐Paul Armache, Robert Buschauer, Birgitta Beatrix, Petr Těšina and Martin Pool and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Becker

59 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Structural basis for translational shutdown and immune evasion by the Nsp1 protein of SARS-CoV-2

2020 549 citations Matthias Thoms, Robert Buschauer et al. Science profile →
Structure of the signal recognition particle interacting with the elongation-arrested ribosome

2004 333 citations Thomas Becker, Roland Beckmann et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Becker Germany	35	4.2k	727	466	434	386	62	5.0k
Kliment A. Verba United States	9	4.3k 1.0×	643 0.9×	531 1.1×	593 1.4×	350 0.9×	19	5.9k
Björn Forsberg Sweden	13	3.2k 0.8×	454 0.6×	390 0.8×	376 0.9×	516 1.3×	18	4.8k
Imre Berger United Kingdom	42	4.9k 1.2×	658 0.9×	644 1.4×	368 0.8×	203 0.5×	133	6.0k
Dari Kimanius United Kingdom	14	4.1k 1.0×	531 0.7×	527 1.1×	507 1.2×	275 0.7×	22	5.8k
Daniel Boehringer Switzerland	38	4.7k 1.1×	573 0.8×	148 0.3×	389 0.9×	273 0.7×	105	6.0k
Christiane Schaffitzel United Kingdom	38	3.9k 0.9×	849 1.2×	495 1.1×	352 0.8×	201 0.5×	90	4.7k
Nelly Panté Canada	40	5.1k 1.2×	703 1.0×	420 0.9×	668 1.5×	179 0.5×	84	6.3k
Yong Xiong United States	44	4.0k 0.9×	650 0.9×	730 1.6×	373 0.9×	495 1.3×	151	5.8k
Sua Myong United States	41	5.6k 1.3×	397 0.5×	173 0.4×	277 0.6×	261 0.7×	111	6.6k
Scott M. Stagg United States	31	3.2k 0.8×	681 0.9×	324 0.7×	928 2.1×	117 0.3×	75	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Becker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Becker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Becker

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

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Berninghausen, Otto, et al.. (2025). UFMylation orchestrates spatiotemporal coordination of RQC at the ER. Science Advances. 11(18). eadv0435–eadv0435. 3 indexed citations

Saba, James A., Timo Denk, Eugene Park, et al.. (2025). ZAK activation at the collided ribosome. Nature. 649(8098). 1051–1060.

Ikeuchi, Ken, Robert Buschauer, Jingdong Cheng, et al.. (2023). Molecular basis for recognition and deubiquitination of 40S ribosomes by Otu2. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2730–2730. 11 indexed citations

Ahn, Minkoo, Tomasz Włodarski, Thomas Becker, et al.. (2022). Modulating co-translational protein folding by rational design and ribosome engineering. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4243–4243. 21 indexed citations

Su, Ting, Renuka Kudva, Thomas Becker, et al.. (2021). Structural basis of l-tryptophan-dependent inhibition of release factor 2 by the TnaC arrest peptide. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(16). 9539–9547. 10 indexed citations

Matsuo, Yoshitaka, Petr Těšina, Akinori Endo, et al.. (2020). RQT complex dissociates ribosomes collided on endogenous RQC substrate SDD1. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(4). 323–332. 105 indexed citations

Kratzat, Hanna, Timur Mackens‐Kiani, Michael Ameismeier, et al.. (2020). A structural inventory of native ribosomal ABCE1‐43S pre‐initiation complexes. The EMBO Journal. 40(1). e105179–e105179. 39 indexed citations

Buschauer, Robert, Yoshitaka Matsuo, Takato Sugiyama, et al.. (2020). The Ccr4-Not complex monitors the translating ribosome for codon optimality. Science. 368(6488). 171 indexed citations

Thoms, Matthias, Robert Buschauer, Michael Ameismeier, et al.. (2020). Structural basis for translational shutdown and immune evasion by the Nsp1 protein of SARS-CoV-2. Science. 369(6508). 1249–1255. 549 indexed citations breakdown →

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Steinchen, Wieland, Birgitta Beatrix, Otto Berninghausen, et al.. (2020). Architecture of the active post‐translational Sec translocon. The EMBO Journal. 40(3). e105643–e105643. 32 indexed citations

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Buschauer, Robert, Timur Mackens‐Kiani, Hanna Kratzat, et al.. (2020). Structure and function of yeast Lso2 and human CCDC124 bound to hibernating ribosomes. PLoS Biology. 18(7). e3000780–e3000780. 68 indexed citations

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Těšina, Petr, Jingdong Cheng, Micheline Fromont‐Racine, et al.. (2019). Structure of the 80S ribosome–Xrn1 nuclease complex. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(4). 275–280. 60 indexed citations

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Ikeuchi, Ken, Petr Těšina, Yoshitaka Matsuo, et al.. (2019). Collided ribosomes form a unique structural interface to induce Hel2‐driven quality control pathways. The EMBO Journal. 38(5). 216 indexed citations

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Braunger, Katharina, Stefan Pfeffer, Shiteshu Shrimal, et al.. (2018). Structural basis for coupling protein transport and N-glycosylation at the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum. Science. 360(6385). 215–219. 161 indexed citations

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Heuer, André, Milan Gerovac, Christian Schmidt, et al.. (2017). Structure of the 40S–ABCE1 post-splitting complex in ribosome recycling and translation initiation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 24(5). 453–460. 62 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Christian, Eva Kowalinski, Vivekanandan Shanmuganathan, et al.. (2016). The cryo-EM structure of a ribosome–Ski2-Ski3-Ski8 helicase complex. Science. 354(6318). 1431–1433. 86 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Christian, Thomas Becker, André Heuer, et al.. (2015). Structure of the hypusinylated eukaryotic translation factor eIF-5A bound to the ribosome. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(4). 1944–1951. 97 indexed citations

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Frauenfeld, Jens, James C. Gumbart, Eli O. van der Sluis, et al.. (2011). Cryo-EM structure of the ribosome–SecYE complex in the membrane environment. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 18(5). 614–621. 230 indexed citations

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Bhushan, Shashi, Agata L. Starosta, Thomas Becker, et al.. (2010). Structural Basis for Translational Stalling by Human Cytomegalovirus and Fungal Arginine Attenuator Peptide. Molecular Cell. 40(1). 138–146. 89 indexed citations

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Blau, Michael, Srinivas Mullapudi, Thomas Becker, et al.. (2005). ERj1p uses a universal ribosomal adaptor site to coordinate the 80S ribosome at the membrane. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 12(11). 1015–1016. 59 indexed citations

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