Victor Sourjik

12.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
144 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Victor Sourjik is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Sourjik has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Molecular Biology, 79 papers in Genetics and 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Victor Sourjik's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (67 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (28 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (22 papers). Victor Sourjik is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (67 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (28 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (22 papers). Victor Sourjik collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Victor Sourjik's co-authors include Howard C. Berg, Ned S. Wingreen, Rémy Colin, Leanid Laganenka, David Kentner, Rüdiger Schmitt, Silke Neumann, Shuangyu Bi, Nikita Vladimirov and Bin Ni and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Victor Sourjik

138 papers receiving 9.0k 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.

Soft erythrocyte-based bacterial microswimmers for cargo delivery

2018 337 citations Oliver Schauer, Victor Sourjik et al. profile →
Multiple functions of flagellar motility and chemotaxis in bacterial physiology

2021 208 citations Rémy Colin, Bin Ni et al. profile →
Quantitative image analysis of microbial communities with BiofilmQ

2021 194 citations Olga Lamprecht, Victor Sourjik et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Victor Sourjik Germany	52	6.2k	3.2k	1.7k	1.2k	1.1k	144	9.2k
Judith P. Armitage United Kingdom	52	5.8k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	175	8.7k
Michio Homma Japan	53	5.3k 0.9×	3.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	291	8.6k
Keiichi Namba Japan	62	7.8k 1.3×	5.2k 1.6×	968 0.6×	2.9k 2.4×	1.0k 0.9×	326	13.2k
John S. Parkinson United States	51	7.7k 1.3×	5.4k 1.7×	640 0.4×	1.7k 1.4×	456 0.4×	126	10.1k
David F. Blair United States	47	4.4k 0.7×	2.6k 0.8×	812 0.5×	906 0.8×	1000 0.9×	75	6.2k
Julius Adler United States	57	8.0k 1.3×	3.4k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	118	12.2k
Tohru Minamino Japan	55	5.0k 0.8×	5.0k 1.5×	542 0.3×	2.0k 1.7×	663 0.6×	186	8.4k
Igor B. Zhulin United States	46	5.8k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	706 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	239 0.2×	122	8.8k
Robert M. Macnab United States	67	7.6k 1.2×	6.6k 2.0×	1.3k 0.8×	2.9k 2.4×	1.5k 1.3×	127	12.5k
Mark Goulian United States	44	4.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	612 0.4×	783 0.7×	332 0.3×	103	6.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Victor Sourjik

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victor Sourjik

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All Works

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Wang, Liyun, et al.. (2025). Swimming or sessile: the interplay between c-di-GMP signalling and flagellar motility. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 87. 102632–102632. 2 indexed citations

Muñoz, Rafael R. Segura & Victor Sourjik. (2025). Collective dynamics of Escherichia coli growth under near-lethal acid stress. mBio. 16(11). e0193225–e0193225.

Robinson, David G., Jon Mallatt, Wendy Ann Peer, Victor Sourjik, & Lincoln Taiz. (2024). Cell consciousness: a dissenting opinion. EMBO Reports. 25(5). 2162–2167. 4 indexed citations

Mascarenhas, Judita, et al.. (2023). Engineering a Synthetic RNA Segregation System. ChemSystemsChem. 5(3). 1 indexed citations

Lamprecht, Olga, et al.. (2023). Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli. PLoS Genetics. 19(5). e1010750–e1010750. 6 indexed citations

Bi, Shuangyu, et al.. (2023). Dynamic fluctuations in a bacterial metabolic network. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2173–2173. 11 indexed citations

Martín‐Mora, David, Wenhao Xu, Victor Sourjik, et al.. (2022). The pH Robustness of Bacterial Sensing. mBio. 13(5). e0165022–e0165022. 9 indexed citations

Skružný, Michal, et al.. (2020). The protein architecture of the endocytic coat analyzed by FRET microscopy. Molecular Systems Biology. 16(5). e9009–e9009. 15 indexed citations

Malengo, Gabriele, et al.. (2020). Ratiometric population sensing by a pump-probe signaling system in Bacillus subtilis. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1176–1176. 15 indexed citations

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Schauer, Oliver, et al.. (2019). Red/Far‐Red Light Switchable Cargo Attachment and Release in Bacteria‐Driven Microswimmers. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 9(1). e1900956–e1900956. 38 indexed citations

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Colin, Rémy, Knut Drescher, & Victor Sourjik. (2019). Chemotactic behaviour of Escherichia coli at high cell density. Nature Communications. 10(1). 39 indexed citations

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Ni, Bin, Rémy Colin, Hannes Link, Robert G. Endres, & Victor Sourjik. (2019). Growth-rate dependent resource investment in bacterial motile behavior quantitatively follows potential benefit of chemotaxis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(1). 595–601. 86 indexed citations

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Laganenka, Leanid & Victor Sourjik. (2017). Autoinducer 2-Dependent Escherichia coli Biofilm Formation Is Enhanced in a Dual-Species Coculture. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(5). 90 indexed citations

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Laganenka, Leanid, Rémy Colin, & Victor Sourjik. (2016). Chemotaxis towards autoinducer 2 mediates autoaggregation in Escherichia coli. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12984–12984. 158 indexed citations

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Steuer, Ralf, Steffen Waldherr, Victor Sourjik, & Markus Kollmann. (2011). Robust Signal Processing in Living Cells. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(11). e1002218–e1002218. 34 indexed citations

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Ruttorf, Michaela, et al.. (2008). Protein exchange dynamics at chemoreceptor clusters in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(17). 6403–6408. 71 indexed citations

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Endres, Robert G., Olga Oleksiuk, Clinton H. Hansen, et al.. (2008). Variable sizes of Escherichia coli chemoreceptor signaling teams. Molecular Systems Biology. 4(1). 211–211. 61 indexed citations

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Plaimas, Kitiporn, Jan‐Philipp Mallm, Marcus Oswald, et al.. (2008). Machine learning based analyses on metabolic networks supports high-throughput knockout screens. BMC Systems Biology. 2(1). 67–67. 36 indexed citations

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Sourjik, Victor & Howard C. Berg. (2002). Binding of the Escherichia coli response regulator CheY to its target measured in vivo by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(20). 12669–12674. 218 indexed citations

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Sourjik, Victor & Howard C. Berg. (2001). Receptor sensitivity in bacterial chemotaxis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(1). 123–127. 419 indexed citations

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