Tobias Spielmann

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Tobias Spielmann is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tobias Spielmann has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 20 papers in Immunology and 17 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Tobias Spielmann's work include Malaria Research and Control (66 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (40 papers) and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (16 papers). Tobias Spielmann is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (66 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (40 papers) and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (16 papers). Tobias Spielmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and Switzerland. Tobias Spielmann's co-authors include Tim‐Wolf Gilberger, Hans‐Peter Beck, Bärbel Bergmann, Paolo Mesén-Ramírez, Sven Flemming, Katharine R. Trenholme, Alexandra Blancke Soares, Donald L. Gardiner, Christof Grüring and Jakob Birnbaum and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Tobias Spielmann

78 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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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.

A Kelch13-defined endocytosis pathway mediates artemisinin resistance in malaria parasites

2020 250 citations Jakob Birnbaum, Sabine Schmidt et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tobias Spielmann Germany	38	3.0k	925	875	785	596	79	3.8k
Melanie Rug Australia	29	3.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	829 1.1×	533 0.9×	47	4.2k
Tim‐Wolf Gilberger Germany	38	3.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	806 1.4×	99	4.3k
Photini Sinnis United States	41	3.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	1.8k 2.0×	853 1.1×	722 1.2×	98	5.0k
Olivier Silvie France	31	2.0k 0.7×	853 0.9×	820 0.9×	502 0.6×	514 0.9×	68	3.0k
Munira Grainger United Kingdom	27	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	635 0.8×	589 1.0×	36	3.6k
Tania F. de Koning‐Ward Australia	35	3.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.8×	853 1.1×	552 0.9×	94	4.5k
Blandine Franke‐Fayard Netherlands	33	3.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	1.7k 2.0×	847 1.1×	637 1.1×	96	4.8k
Matthias Marti United States	40	3.8k 1.3×	1.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	594 1.0×	86	5.3k
Kim C. Williamson United States	34	2.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.8×	466 0.6×	544 0.9×	81	4.0k
Christopher J. Tonkin Australia	35	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.7×	862 1.0×	1.6k 2.1×	1.1k 1.9×	63	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tobias Spielmann

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Sondermann, Holger, et al.. (2025). HOPS/CORVET tethering complexes are critical for endocytosis and protein trafficking to invasion related organelles in malaria parasites. PLoS Pathogens. 21(4). e1013053–e1013053. 1 indexed citations

Mesén-Ramírez, Paolo, et al.. (2024). A system for functional studies of the major virulence factor of malaria parasites. 1 indexed citations

Behrens, Hannah Michaela, Sabine Schmidt, Ricarda Sabitzki, et al.. (2024). Impact of different mutations on Kelch13 protein levels, ART resistance, and fitness cost in Plasmodium falciparum parasites. mBio. 15(6). e0198123–e0198123. 6 indexed citations

Schmidt, Sabine, Jan Stephan Wichers-Misterek, Hannah Michaela Behrens, et al.. (2023). The Kelch13 compartment contains highly divergent vesicle trafficking proteins in malaria parasites. PLoS Pathogens. 19(12). e1011814–e1011814. 10 indexed citations

Schmitt, Marius, Christa Geeke Toenhake, Jan Stephan Wichers-Misterek, et al.. (2023). Gene-by-gene screen of the unknown proteins encoded on Plasmodium falciparum chromosome 3. Cell Systems. 14(1). 9–23.e7. 15 indexed citations

Wichers-Misterek, Jan Stephan, Paolo Mesén-Ramírez, Heidrun von Thien, et al.. (2022). PMRT1, a Plasmodium -Specific Parasite Plasma Membrane Transporter, Is Essential for Asexual and Sexual Blood Stage Development. mBio. 13(2). e0062322–e0062322. 10 indexed citations

Wichers-Misterek, Jan Stephan, Jan Strauss, Marius Schmitt, et al.. (2021). Identification of novel inner membrane complex and apical annuli proteins of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum . Cellular Microbiology. 23(9). e13341–e13341. 19 indexed citations

Kehrer, Jessica, et al.. (2021). Proximity‐dependent biotinylation approaches to study apicomplexan biology. Molecular Microbiology. 117(3). 553–568. 12 indexed citations

Mesén-Ramírez, Paolo, Bärbel Bergmann, Mourad Elhabiri, et al.. (2021). The parasitophorous vacuole nutrient channel is critical for drug access in malaria parasites and modulates the artemisinin resistance fitness cost. Cell Host & Microbe. 29(12). 1774–1787.e9. 23 indexed citations

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Birnbaum, Jakob, Sabine Schmidt, Ernst Jonscher, et al.. (2020). A Kelch13-defined endocytosis pathway mediates artemisinin resistance in malaria parasites. Science. 367(6473). 51–59. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kennedy, Kit, Simon A. Cobbold, Eric Hanssen, et al.. (2019). Delayed death in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is caused by disruption of prenylation-dependent intracellular trafficking. PLoS Biology. 17(7). e3000376–e3000376. 62 indexed citations

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Jonscher, Ernst, Sven Flemming, Marius Schmitt, et al.. (2018). PfVPS45 Is Required for Host Cell Cytosol Uptake by Malaria Blood Stage Parasites. Cell Host & Microbe. 25(1). 166–173.e5. 50 indexed citations

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Bergmann, Bärbel, et al.. (2017). Substrate-analogous inhibitors exert antimalarial action by targeting the Plasmodium lactate transporter PfFNT at nanomolar scale. PLoS Pathogens. 13(2). e1006172–e1006172. 48 indexed citations

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Spielmann, Tobias, Jakob Birnbaum, Sven Flemming, et al.. (2017). Selection linked integration (SLI) for endogenous gene tagging and knock sideways in Plasmodium falciparum parasites. Protocol Exchange. 3 indexed citations

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Marti, Matthias & Tobias Spielmann. (2013). Protein export in malaria parasites: many membranes to cross. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 16(4). 445–451. 30 indexed citations

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Zhang, Rou, Zhangli Peng, Andreas Undisz, et al.. (2012). Host cell deformability is linked to transmission in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 90 indexed citations

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Spielmann, Tobias, et al.. (2012). Molecular make-up of the Plasmodium parasitophorous vacuolar membrane. International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 302(4-5). 179–186. 67 indexed citations

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Spielmann, Tobias, Paula L. Hawthorne, Matthew W. A. Dixon, et al.. (2006). A Cluster of Ring Stage–specific Genes Linked to a Locus Implicated in Cytoadherence in Plasmodium falciparum Codes for PEXEL-negative and PEXEL-positive Proteins Exported into the Host Cell. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(8). 3613–3624. 101 indexed citations

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Gardiner, Donald L., Matthew W. A. Dixon, Tobias Spielmann, et al.. (2005). Implication of a Plasmodium falciparum gene in the switch between asexual reproduction and gametocytogenesis. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 140(2). 153–160. 28 indexed citations

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Daubenberger, Claudia, Markus S. Mueller, Tobias Spielmann, et al.. (2003). Identification and Characterization of a Conserved, Stage-Specific Gene Product of Plasmodium falciparum Recognized by Parasite Growth Inhibitory Antibodies. Infection and Immunity. 71(4). 2173–2181. 4 indexed citations

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