Tim Clausen

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
102 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Tim Clausen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Clausen has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 48 papers in Materials Chemistry and 21 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Tim Clausen's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (48 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (18 papers). Tim Clausen is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (48 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (18 papers). Tim Clausen collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United Kingdom. Tim Clausen's co-authors include Michael Ehrmann, Robert Huber, T. Krojer, Christopher Southan, Markus Kaiser, Justyna Sawa‐Makarska, R Kurzbauer, Albrecht Messerschmidt, Karl Mechtler and Bernd Laber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Tim Clausen

100 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

The HtrA Family of Proteases

2002 523 citations Tim Clausen, Christopher Southan et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Moyamoya disease: diagnosis and interventions

2022 184 citations Tim Clausen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Clausen Austria	47	4.7k	1.3k	1.2k	753	700	102	7.1k
Robert Schwarzenbacher United States	33	4.8k 1.0×	310 0.2×	579 0.5×	408 0.5×	641 0.9×	51	6.7k
Dirk Jan Slotboom Netherlands	43	3.4k 0.7×	477 0.4×	1.0k 0.9×	91 0.1×	330 0.5×	117	5.1k
Markus Kaiser Germany	49	4.0k 0.9×	306 0.2×	288 0.2×	243 0.3×	535 0.8×	204	6.6k
Didier Vertommen Belgium	52	5.4k 1.2×	394 0.3×	769 0.7×	82 0.1×	708 1.0×	193	7.8k
Nam‐Chul Ha South Korea	42	4.0k 0.8×	527 0.4×	863 0.7×	118 0.2×	360 0.5×	219	6.8k
Oriano Marin Italy	43	4.4k 0.9×	334 0.3×	524 0.4×	156 0.2×	863 1.2×	165	6.0k
M J Runswick United Kingdom	16	5.9k 1.2×	533 0.4×	1.2k 1.0×	118 0.2×	588 0.8×	17	7.9k
Tony Atkinson United Kingdom	39	3.0k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	486 0.4×	304 0.4×	309 0.4×	149	4.3k
Gourisankar Ghosh United States	55	7.2k 1.5×	361 0.3×	574 0.5×	100 0.1×	672 1.0×	138	11.3k
Åke Engström Sweden	47	4.8k 1.0×	456 0.3×	729 0.6×	59 0.1×	442 0.6×	112	8.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Clausen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Clausen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Clausen

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

All Works

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Yagita, Yuichi, Paul V. Murphy, R Kurzbauer, et al.. (2025). Convergence of orphan quality control pathways at a ubiquitin chain-elongating ligase. Molecular Cell. 85(4). 815–828.e10. 5 indexed citations

Grabarczyk, Daniel B., Paul V. Murphy, R Kurzbauer, et al.. (2025). Architecture of the UBR4 complex, a giant E4 ligase central to eukaryotic protein quality control. Science. 389(6763). 909–914. 2 indexed citations

Deszcz, Luiza, et al.. (2024). UNC-45 assisted myosin folding depends on a conserved FX3HY motif implicated in Freeman Sheldon Syndrome. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6272–6272. 2 indexed citations

Picchianti, Lorenzo, Víctor Sánchez de Medina Hernández, Ni Zhan, et al.. (2023). Shuffled ATG8 interacting motifs form an ancestral bridge between UFMylation and autophagy. The EMBO Journal. 42(10). e112053–e112053. 29 indexed citations

Schäfer, Markus, et al.. (2023). HUWE1 controls tristetraprolin proteasomal degradation by regulating its phosphorylation. eLife. 12. 6 indexed citations

Grishkovskaya, Irina, Adar Sonn-Segev, Manish S. Kushwah, et al.. (2021). The linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex (LUBAC) generates heterotypic ubiquitin chains. eLife. 10. 38 indexed citations

Suskiewicz, Marcin J., Nikolas Hundt, Anton Meinhart, et al.. (2021). McsB forms a gated kinase chamber to mark aberrant bacterial proteins for degradation. eLife. 10. 16 indexed citations

Loll, Bernhard, et al.. (2014). RNA Specificity and Regulation of Catalysis in the Eukaryotic Polynucleotide Kinase Clp1. Molecular Cell. 54(6). 975–986. 18 indexed citations

Trentini, Débora Broch, Jakob Fuhrmann, Karl Mechtler, & Tim Clausen. (2014). Chasing Phosphoarginine Proteins: Development of a Selective Enrichment Method Using a Phosphatase Trap. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 13(8). 1953–1964. 47 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Andreas, Débora Broch Trentini, Jakob Fuhrmann, et al.. (2013). Quantitative Phosphoproteomics Reveals the Role of Protein Arginine Phosphorylation in the Bacterial Stress Response. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 13(2). 537–550. 94 indexed citations

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Hellerschmied, Doris & Tim Clausen. (2013). Myosin chaperones. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 25. 9–15. 26 indexed citations

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Tennstaedt, Annette, Linda Truebestein, Patrick Hauske, et al.. (2012). Human High Temperature Requirement Serine Protease A1 (HTRA1) Degrades Tau Protein Aggregates. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(25). 20931–20941. 73 indexed citations

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Hauske, Patrick, Sonja Hasenbein, Christian Ottmann, et al.. (2009). Peptidic small molecule activators of the stress sensor DegS. Molecular BioSystems. 5(9). 980–985. 12 indexed citations

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Kurzbauer, R, Corinna Wilken, T. Krojer, et al.. (2007). Regulation of the σE stress response by DegS: how the PDZ domain keeps the protease inactive in the resting state and allows integration of different OMP-derived stress signals upon folding stress. Genes & Development. 21(20). 2659–2670. 75 indexed citations

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Worbs, Michael, Clemens Steegborn, M.C. Wahl, et al.. (2003). Determinants of Enzymatic Specificity in the Cys-Met-Metabolism PLP-Dependent Enzyme Family: Crystal Structure of Cystathionine γ-Lyase from Yeast and Intrafamiliar Structure Comparison. Biological Chemistry. 384(3). 373–86. 92 indexed citations

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Clausen, Tim, Christopher Southan, & Michael Ehrmann. (2002). The HtrA Family of Proteases. Molecular Cell. 10(3). 443–455. 523 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laber, Bernd, et al.. (2001). Structural Basis for the Function of Pyridoxine 5′-Phosphate Synthase. Structure. 9(3). 245–253. 22 indexed citations

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Steegborn, Clemens, Bernd Laber, Albrecht Messerschmidt, Robert Huber, & Tim Clausen. (2001). Crystal structures of cystathionine γ-synthase inhibitor complexes rationalize the increased affinity of a novel inhibitor. Journal of Molecular Biology. 311(4). 789–801. 21 indexed citations

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Wahl, M.C., Robert Huber, Lars Prade, et al.. (1997). Cloning, purification, crystallization, and preliminary X‐ray diffraction analysis of cystathionine γ‐synthase from E. coli. FEBS Letters. 414(3). 492–496. 13 indexed citations

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Laber, Bernd, Tim Clausen, Robert Huber, et al.. (1996). Cloning, purification, and crystallization of Escherichia coli cystathionine β‐lyase. FEBS Letters. 379(1). 94–96. 12 indexed citations

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