Timo Zimmermann

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Timo Zimmermann is a scholar working on Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Timo Zimmermann has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Biophysics, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Timo Zimmermann's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (18 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (6 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers). Timo Zimmermann is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (18 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (6 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers). Timo Zimmermann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and United States. Timo Zimmermann's co-authors include Jens Rietdorf, Rainer Pepperkok, Josipa Bilić, Mariann Bienz, Christof Niehrs, Ya‐Lin Huang, Gary Davidson, Fotis C. Kafatos, Virginie Georget and Andreas Girod and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Timo Zimmermann

43 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Wnt Induces LRP6 Signalosomes and Promotes Dishevelled-Dependent LRP6 Phosphorylation

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timo Zimmermann Germany	19	1.7k	697	571	315	304	45	3.0k
Beth A. Cimini United States	16	3.0k 1.7×	1.1k 1.6×	409 0.7×	245 0.8×	293 1.0×	44	4.6k
Lee Kamentsky United States	13	1.5k 0.9×	984 1.4×	329 0.6×	229 0.7×	280 0.9×	21	2.9k
Holger Erfle Germany	28	1.8k 1.1×	614 0.9×	407 0.7×	239 0.8×	255 0.8×	87	2.8k
William A. Mohler United States	30	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.8×	798 1.4×	302 1.0×	819 2.7×	59	4.2k
Vannary Meas‐Yedid France	24	834 0.5×	593 0.9×	386 0.7×	232 0.7×	226 0.7×	47	2.6k
Thibault Lagache France	20	1.2k 0.7×	459 0.7×	400 0.7×	239 0.8×	139 0.5×	44	2.3k
Joseph Chang United States	12	2.5k 1.5×	1.3k 1.9×	581 1.0×	270 0.9×	428 1.4×	13	4.4k
Nicolas Chenouard France	17	1.1k 0.6×	491 0.7×	364 0.6×	142 0.5×	175 0.6×	35	2.3k
Justin E. Molloy United Kingdom	33	2.3k 1.3×	344 0.5×	1.3k 2.3×	244 0.8×	741 2.4×	87	4.7k
Arthur Edelstein United States	5	1.3k 0.8×	628 0.9×	511 0.9×	107 0.3×	438 1.4×	7	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timo Zimmermann

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Ugarte‐Uribe, Begoña, M. Vincent, Kaarjel K. Narayanasamy, et al.. (2025). A Photoswitchable HaloTag for Spatiotemporal Control of Fluorescence in Living Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(50). e202424955–e202424955.

Ugarte‐Uribe, Begoña, M. Vincent, Kaarjel K. Narayanasamy, et al.. (2025). A Photoswitchable HaloTag for Spatiotemporal Control of Fluorescence in Living Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 137(50).

Zimmermann, Timo. (2024). Setting up a light microscopy core facility: Facility design. Journal of Microscopy. 294(3). 255–267. 1 indexed citations

Volkov, Vladimir A., Sebastian Schnorrenberg, Kelly E. Stecker, et al.. (2023). CSPP1 stabilizes growing microtubule ends and damaged lattices from the luminal side. The Journal of Cell Biology. 222(4). 21 indexed citations

Isola, Jorma, Markku Mäki, Martin Hils, et al.. (2023). The Oral Transglutaminase 2 Inhibitor ZED1227 Accumulates in the Villous Enterocytes in Celiac Disease Patients during Gluten Challenge and Drug Treatment. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(13). 10815–10815. 14 indexed citations

Power, Rory M., et al.. (2022). Super-Resolution Microscopy of the Synaptonemal Complex Within the <em>Caenorhabditis elegans</em> Germline. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

Bosch‐Presegué, Laia, Helena Raurell‐Vila, Joshua K. Thackray, et al.. (2017). Mammalian HP1 Isoforms Have Specific Roles in Heterochromatin Structure and Organization. Cell Reports. 21(8). 2048–2057. 57 indexed citations

Merino, David, et al.. (2017). STED imaging performance estimation by means of Fourier transform analysis. Biomedical Optics Express. 8(5). 2472–2472. 7 indexed citations

Seitz, Arne, Stefan Terjung, Timo Zimmermann, & Rainer Pepperkok. (2012). Quantifying the influence of yellow fluorescent protein photoconversion on acceptor photobleaching–based fluorescence resonance energy transfer measurements. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 17(1). 11010–11010. 6 indexed citations

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Buntru, Alexander, Stefan Pils, Timo Zimmermann, et al.. (2012). Grb14 Is a Negative Regulator of CEACAM3-mediated Phagocytosis of Pathogenic Bacteria. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(46). 39158–39170. 7 indexed citations

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Blume, Julia von, Anne-Marie Alleaume, Gerard Cantero-Recasens, et al.. (2011). ADF/Cofilin Regulates Secretory Cargo Sorting at the TGN via the Ca2+ ATPase SPCA1. Developmental Cell. 20(5). 652–662. 78 indexed citations

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Schubert, Alexis, Thien‐Phong Vu Manh, Luísa de Andrés-Aguayo, et al.. (2009). A Robust and Highly Efficient Immune Cell Reprogramming System. Cell stem cell. 5(5). 554–566. 118 indexed citations

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Ma, Bin, Timo Zimmermann, Manfred Rohde, et al.. (2006). Use of Autostitch for automatic stitching of microscope images. Micron. 38(5). 492–499. 71 indexed citations

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Moita, Luís F., Rui Wang‐Sattler, Kristin Michel, et al.. (2005). In Vivo Identification of Novel Regulators and Conserved Pathways of Phagocytosis in A. gambiae. Immunity. 23(1). 65–73. 110 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Timo. (2005). Spectral Imaging and Linear Unmixing in Light Microscopy. Advances in biochemical engineering, biotechnology. 95. 245–265. 225 indexed citations

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Pepperkok, Rainer, Jeremy C. Simpson, Jens Rietdorf, et al.. (2005). Imaging Platforms for Measurement of Membrane Trafficking. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 404. 8–18. 13 indexed citations

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Vlachou, Dina, Timo Zimmermann, Rafael Cantera, et al.. (2004). Real-time, in vivo analysis of malaria ookinete locomotion and mosquito midgut invasion. Cellular Microbiology. 6(7). 671–685. 147 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Timo, Jens Rietdorf, & Rainer Pepperkok. (2003). Spectral imaging and its applications in live cell microscopy. FEBS Letters. 546(1). 87–92. 400 indexed citations

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Rietdorf, Jens, Aspasia Ploubidou, Inge Reckmann, et al.. (2001). Kinesin-dependent movement on microtubules precedes actin-based motility of vaccinia virus. Nature Cell Biology. 3(11). 992–1000. 244 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Timo & Florian Siegert. (1998). 4D confocal microscopy of Dictyostelium discoideum morphogenesis and its presentation on the Internet. Development Genes and Evolution. 208(7). 411–420. 5 indexed citations

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