Udo Häcker

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Udo Häcker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Udo Häcker has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cell Biology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Udo Häcker's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (8 papers), Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (6 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (5 papers). Udo Häcker is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (8 papers), Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (6 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (5 papers). Udo Häcker collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and United States. Udo Häcker's co-authors include Norbert Perrimon, Kent Nybakken, Xinhua Lin, Stephen L. Rogers, Ernst A. Wimmer, Sverker Nystedt, Carsten Horn, Herbert Jäckle, Chris W. Turck and Ronald D. Vale and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Genes & Development and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Udo Häcker

22 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Heparan sulphate proteoglycans: the sweet side of development

2005 534 citations Udo Häcker, Kent Nybakken et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Udo Häcker Sweden	18	1.6k	1.1k	267	260	175	22	2.1k
Hiroshi Nakato United States	26	2.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	531 2.0×	452 1.7×	151 0.9×	63	2.7k
Esther M. Verheyen Canada	25	1.4k 0.9×	784 0.7×	256 1.0×	315 1.2×	117 0.7×	55	2.0k
James E. Wilhelm United States	21	2.3k 1.5×	525 0.5×	247 0.9×	267 1.0×	211 1.2×	33	2.7k
Yi Sun Taiwan	28	2.0k 1.3×	686 0.6×	471 1.8×	540 2.1×	164 0.9×	74	2.8k
Michael Zavortink United States	22	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	293 1.1×	333 1.3×	253 1.4×	26	2.3k
Simon L. Bullock United Kingdom	34	3.5k 2.2×	1.6k 1.5×	532 2.0×	515 2.0×	321 1.8×	52	4.2k
Vladislav M. Panin United States	16	2.1k 1.3×	495 0.5×	246 0.9×	309 1.2×	118 0.7×	32	2.3k
Uwe Plessmann Germany	26	2.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	178 0.7×	228 0.9×	110 0.6×	48	2.9k
Arash Bashirullah United States	21	1.8k 1.2×	643 0.6×	261 1.0×	414 1.6×	216 1.2×	38	2.3k
Rahul Warrior United States	24	1.9k 1.2×	555 0.5×	409 1.5×	215 0.8×	300 1.7×	34	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Udo Häcker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Udo Häcker

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Adolfsson, Karl, et al.. (2017). Direct comparison between in vivo and in vitro microsized particle phagocytosis assays in Drosophila melanogaster. Toxicology in Vitro. 46. 213–218. 14 indexed citations

Adolfsson, Karl, Martina Schneider, Greger Hammarin, Udo Häcker, & Christelle N. Prinz. (2013). Ingestion of gallium phosphide nanowires has no adverse effect onDrosophilatissue function. Nanotechnology. 24(28). 285101–285101. 33 indexed citations

Azevedo, Dulce, Søren Prag, Xiaoyan Ma, et al.. (2011). DRhoGEF2 Regulates Cellular Tension and Cell Pulsations in the Amnioserosa during Drosophila Dorsal Closure. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e23964–e23964. 36 indexed citations

Mulinari, Shai & Udo Häcker. (2010). Rho-guanine nucleotide exchange factors during development. Small GTPases. 1(1). 28–43. 16 indexed citations

Mulinari, Shai, et al.. (2008). DRhoGEF2andDiaphanousRegulate Contractile Force during Segmental Groove Morphogenesis in theDrosophilaEmbryo. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 19(5). 1883–1892. 40 indexed citations

Mulinari, Shai, Udo Häcker, & Casimiro Castillejo-López. (2006). Expression and regulation of Spätzle‐processing enzyme in Drosophila. FEBS Letters. 580(22). 5406–5410. 28 indexed citations

Castillejo-López, Casimiro & Udo Häcker. (2005). The serine protease Sp7 is expressed in blood cells and regulates the melanization reaction in Drosophila. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 338(2). 1075–1082. 46 indexed citations

Häcker, Udo, Kent Nybakken, & Norbert Perrimon. (2005). Heparan sulphate proteoglycans: the sweet side of development. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 6(7). 530–541. 534 indexed citations breakdown →

Rogers, Stephen L., et al.. (2005). DRhoGEF2 regulates actin organization and contractility in the Drosophila blastoderm embryo. The Journal of Cell Biology. 168(4). 575–585. 72 indexed citations

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Fischer, Matthias, Sebastian Heeger, Udo Häcker, & Christian F. Lehner. (2004). The Mitotic Arrest in Response to Hypoxia and of Polar Bodies during Early Embryogenesis Requires Drosophila Mps1. Current Biology. 14(22). 2019–2024. 60 indexed citations

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Rogers, Stephen L., Ursula Wiedemann, Udo Häcker, Chris W. Turck, & Ronald D. Vale. (2004). Drosophila RhoGEF2 Associates with Microtubule Plus Ends in an EB1-Dependent Manner. Current Biology. 14(20). 1827–1833. 179 indexed citations

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Häcker, Udo, et al.. (2003). piggyBac -based insertional mutagenesis in the presence of stably integrated P elements in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(13). 7720–7725. 76 indexed citations

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Horn, Carsten, Nils Offen, Sverker Nystedt, Udo Häcker, & Ernst A. Wimmer. (2003). piggyBac-Based Insertional Mutagenesis and Enhancer Detection as a Tool for Functional Insect Genomics. Genetics. 163(2). 647–661. 129 indexed citations

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Selva, Erica M., Kyoungja Hong, Gyeong‐Hun Baeg, et al.. (2001). Dual role of the fringe connection gene in both heparan sulphate and fringe-dependent signalling events. Nature Cell Biology. 3(9). 809–815. 97 indexed citations

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Häcker, Udo & Norbert Perrimon. (1998). DRhoGEF2 encodes a member of the Dbl family of oncogenes and controls cell shape changes during gastrulation in Drosophila. Genes & Development. 12(2). 274–284. 260 indexed citations

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Häcker, Udo, Eckhard Kaufmann, Christine Hartmann, et al.. (1995). The Drosophila fork head domain protein crocodile is required for the establishment of head structures.. The EMBO Journal. 14(21). 5306–5317. 74 indexed citations

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Stucka, Rolf, et al.. (1992). Molecular analysis of the yeast Ty4 element: homology with Ty1, copia, and plant retrotransposons. Gene. 122(1). 119–128. 16 indexed citations

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Häcker, Udo, Ueli Grossniklaus, W J Gehring, & Herbert Jäckle. (1992). Developmentally regulated Drosophila gene family encoding the fork head domain.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 89(18). 8754–8758. 111 indexed citations

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Häcker, Udo, et al.. (1992). pYLZ vectors: Saccharomyces cerevisiae/Escherichia coli shuttle plasmids to analyze yeast promoters. Gene. 119(1). 137–141. 26 indexed citations

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Oechsner, Ulrich, et al.. (1988). Yeast adenylate kinase is transcribed constitutively from a promoter in the short intergenic region to the histone H2A‐1 gene. FEBS Letters. 242(1). 187–193. 18 indexed citations

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