Uwe Weierstall

18.0k citations

75 papers · 3.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 29

Impact in

Structural Biology top 0.05%
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Radiation top 0.1%
- Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques
- X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis

Papers in

Structural Biology 39
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications 39
Radiation 36
- Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques 33
- X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis 10

Co-authors: John C. H. Spence Henry N. Chapman Stefano Marchesini Malcolm R. Howells R. Bruce Doak Haifeng He Stefan P. Hau‐Riege Aleksandr Noy
Journals: Microscopy and Microanalysis (9 papers)Ultramicroscopy (6 papers)Optics Express (4 papers)IUCrJ (4 papers)Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Uwe Weierstall

73 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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High-resolution ab initio three-dimensional x-ray diffraction microscopy 2006 · 422 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2006 Journal of the Optical Society of America A
2003 Physical review. B, Condensed matter

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1	Serial macromolecular crystallography at ALBA Synchrotron Light Source Figshare ·José M. Martín-García, Sabine Botha, Hao Hu, Seunghee 진승희Jin, ʿAbd al-Salām Ṭawīl, Stella Lisova, F. Gil-Ortiz, Boyu Qi, Isidro Crespo, Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury, N. Ti, Gihan Ketawala, Uwe Weierstall, John C. H. Spence, Petra Fromme, Nadia A. Zatsepin, Roeland Boer, X. Carpena	2022	3
2	Molecular basis for lipid recognition by the prostaglandin D₂receptor CRTH2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Heng Liu, R. N. V. Krishna Deepak, Anna Shiriaeva, Cornelius Gati, A. Batyuk, Hao Hu, Uwe Weierstall, Wei Liu, Lei Wang, Vadim Cherezov, Hao Fan, Cheng Zhang	2021	11
3	Harnessing the power of an X-ray laser for serial crystallography of membrane proteins crystallized in lipidic cubic phase IUCrJ ·Ming-Yue Lee, James H. Geiger, Andrii Ishchenko, Gye Won Han, Anton Barty, Thomas A. White, Cornelius Gati, A. Batyuk, Mark S. Hunter, Andrew Aquila, Sébastien Boutet, Uwe Weierstall, Vadim Cherezov, Wei Liu	2020	13
4	Supersaturation-controlled microcrystallization and visualization analysis for serial femtosecond crystallography Scientific Reports ·優希服部, Jong‐Min Kim, Jong Hyeon Seok, Ji-Hye Lee, Maybin Mukando, Ji Young Mun, Chelsie E. Conrad, Jesse Coe, Garrett Nelson, Brenda G. Hogue, Thomas A. White, Nadia A. Zatsepin, Uwe Weierstall, Anton Barty, Henry N. Chapman, Petra Fromme, John C. H. Spence, Mi Sook Chung, Chang-Hyun Oh, Kyung Hyun Kim	2018	10
5	Serial Femtosecond Crystallography of Membrane Proteins Advances in experimental medicine and biology ·Lan Zhu, Uwe Weierstall, Vadim Cherezov, Wei Liu	2016	10
6	Biphasic droplet-based sample delivery of protein crystals for serial femtosecond crystallography with an x-ray free electron laser Austin Echelmeier, Garrett Nelson, 吉澤正一, Daniel James, Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury, A. Tolstikova, Valerio Mariani, Richard A. Kirian, D. Oberthüer, Katerina Dörner, Petra Fromme, Henry N. Chapman, Uwe Weierstall, John C. H. Spence, Alexandra Ros	2015	2
7	Serial femtosecond crystallography of soluble proteins in lipidic cubic phase IUCrJ ·Raimund Fromme, Andrii Ishchenko, Markus Metz, Patni Anil, Shibom Basu, Sébastien Boutet, Petra Fromme, Thomas A. White, Anton Barty, John C. H. Spence, Uwe Weierstall, Wei Liu, Vadim Cherezov	2015	52
8	X-ray lasers for structural and dynamic biology Reports on Progress in Physics ·John C. H. Spence, Uwe Weierstall, Henry N. Chapman	2012	153
9	X-ray Diffraction from Membrane Protein Nanocrystals Biophysical Journal ·Mark S. Hunter, Daniel P. DePonte, David A. Shapiro, Richard A. Kirian, P. J. Amado, D. Starodub, Stefano Marchesini, Uwe Weierstall, R. Bruce Doak, John C. H. Spence, Petra Fromme	2011	51
10	Liquid Capillary Micro/Nanojets in Free‐Jet Expansion Small ·Alfonso M. Gañán‐Calvo, Daniel P. DePonte, Miguel A. Herrada, John C. H. Spence, Uwe Weierstall, R. Bruce Doak	2010	27
11	Three-Dimensional Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Imaging of a Ceramic Nanofoam: Determination of Structural Deformation Mechanisms Physical Review Letters ·Anton Barty, Stefano Marchesini, Henry N. Chapman, Chuan Cui, Malcolm R. Howells, David A. Shapiro, A. M. Minor, John C. H. Spence, Uwe Weierstall, Ján Ilavský, Aleksandr Noy, Stefan P. Hau‐Riege, Alexander B. Artyukhin, Theodore F. Baumann, Trevor M. Willey, J. S. Stölken, T. van Buuren, J.H. Kinney	2008	80
12	SEM imaging of liquid jets Micron ·Daniel P. DePonte, R. Bruce Doak, Mark S. Hunter, Zhenquan Liu, Uwe Weierstall, John C. H. Spence	2008	29
13	Dose, exposure time and resolution in serial X-ray crystallography Journal of Synchrotron Radiation ·D. Starodub, Peter Rez, G. G. Hembree, M. Howells, David A. Shapiro, Henry N. Chapman, Petra Fromme, K. E. Schmidt, Uwe Weierstall, R. Bruce Doak, J. C. H. Spence	2007	34
14	High-resolution ab initio three-dimensional x-ray diffraction microscopy Journal of the Optical Society of America A ·Henry N. Chapman, Anton Barty, Stefano Marchesini, Aleksandr Noy, Stefan P. Hau‐Riege, Congwu Cui, Malcolm R. Howells, Rachel Rosen, Haifeng He, John C. H. Spence, Uwe Weierstall, Tobias Beetz, Chris Jacobsen, David A. Shapiro Hit paper breakdown →	2006	422
15	Iterative phase retrieval without support Optics Letters ·Jinsong Wu, Uwe Weierstall, J. C. H. Spence, Christoph T. Koch	2004	34
16	Coherence and sampling requirements for diffractive imaging Ultramicroscopy ·John C. H. Spence, Uwe Weierstall, M. Howells	2004	93
17	Imaging without lenses arXiv (Cornell University) ·Stefano Marchesini, Hailin He, Henry N. Chapman, S Hau-Riege, Aleksandr Noy, Malcolm R. Howells, Uwe Weierstall, John C. H. Spence	2003	1
18	Ordering Energies and Occupancies in Doped TiAl, and Dedicated ALCHEMI Instrumentation Microscopy and Microanalysis ·John C. H. Spence, Nan Jiang, Uwe Weierstall	2002	1
19	Image reconstruction from electron and X-ray diffraction patterns using iterative algorithms: experiment and simulation Ultramicroscopy ·Uwe Weierstall, Qing Chen, J. C. H. Spence, Malcolm R. Howells, M. Isaacson, Roberto R. Panepucci	2002	87
20	Electron holography with a superconducting objective lens Ultramicroscopy ·Uwe Weierstall, Hannes Lichte	1996	6

About Uwe Weierstall

Uwe Weierstall is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Radiation, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Chemistry, having authored 75 papers that have together received 3.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (39 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (33 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (20 papers), Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (14 papers), X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (10 papers), Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena (9 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers) and Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (1.6k citations), Radiation (2.2k citations), Condensed Matter Physics (346 citations), Surfaces, Coatings and Films (207 citations) and Materials Chemistry (1.2k citations). Uwe Weierstall has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include John C. H. Spence, Henry N. Chapman, Stefano Marchesini, Malcolm R. Howells, R. Bruce Doak, Haifeng He, Stefan P. Hau‐Riege, Aleksandr Noy, John C. H. Spence and K. E. Schmidt. Their work appears in journals such as Microscopy and Microanalysis, Ultramicroscopy, Optics Express, IUCrJ and Journal of Synchrotron Radiation.

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