Volker Bergen

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Volker Bergen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Finance and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Volker Bergen has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Finance and 2 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Volker Bergen's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers). Volker Bergen is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers). Volker Bergen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Slovakia. Volker Bergen's co-authors include Fabian J. Theis, Marius Lange, F. Alexander Wolf, Stefan Peidli, Heiko Lickert, Peter V. Kharchenko, Ruslan Soldatov, Dana Pe’er, Michal Klein and Herbert B. Schiller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology and Development.

In The Last Decade

Volker Bergen

7 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Generalizing RNA velocity to transient cell states through dynamical modeling

2020 1.4k citations Volker Bergen, Marius Lange et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
CellRank for directed single-cell fate mapping

2022 282 citations Marius Lange, Volker Bergen et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Volker Bergen Germany	6	1.4k	472	290	230	197	9	2.0k
Marius Lange Germany	7	1.5k 1.0×	476 1.0×	290 1.0×	232 1.0×	213 1.1×	11	2.0k
Diya Das United States	6	1.1k 0.8×	499 1.1×	257 0.9×	228 1.0×	141 0.7×	7	1.8k
Stefan Peidli Germany	3	1.0k 0.7×	368 0.8×	197 0.7×	181 0.8×	122 0.6×	5	1.4k
Robrecht Cannoodt Belgium	10	1.9k 1.4×	561 1.2×	403 1.4×	237 1.0×	326 1.7×	20	2.5k
Johanna Klughammer Austria	13	2.1k 1.5×	767 1.6×	415 1.4×	265 1.2×	241 1.2×	17	2.9k
Kristofer Davie Belgium	14	1.3k 0.9×	358 0.8×	252 0.9×	254 1.1×	72 0.4×	20	1.8k
Marco Mignardi Sweden	11	1.4k 1.0×	604 1.3×	452 1.6×	249 1.1×	187 0.9×	17	2.2k
Xingfan Huang United States	9	2.6k 1.8×	663 1.4×	540 1.9×	300 1.3×	249 1.3×	9	3.5k
Michael D. Morgan United Kingdom	16	1.5k 1.1×	573 1.2×	298 1.0×	195 0.8×	278 1.4×	25	2.3k
Quin F. Wills United Kingdom	11	1.4k 1.0×	501 1.1×	470 1.6×	293 1.3×	106 0.5×	18	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Volker Bergen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Volker Bergen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Volker Bergen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Volker Bergen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Volker Bergen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Volker Bergen. Volker Bergen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Bergen, Volker. (2025). Theoretische und empirische Untersuchungen zur längerfristigen Geldnachfrage in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1950–1967). Mohr Siebeck eBooks.

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Bergen, Volker, Konstantia Kodella, Ornella Barrandon, et al.. (2025). A large-scale human toxicogenomics resource for drug-induced liver injury prediction. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9860–9860.

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Lange, Marius, Volker Bergen, Michal Klein, et al.. (2022). CellRank for directed single-cell fate mapping. Nature Methods. 19(2). 159–170. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

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Musumeci, Andrea, Christopher Sie, Elena Winheim, et al.. (2022). Ly6D+Siglec-H+ precursors contribute to conventional dendritic cells via a Zbtb46+Ly6D+ intermediary stage. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3456–3456. 15 indexed citations

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Bergen, Volker, Ruslan Soldatov, Peter V. Kharchenko, & Fabian J. Theis. (2021). RNA velocity—current challenges and future perspectives. Molecular Systems Biology. 17(8). e10282–e10282. 136 indexed citations

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Bergen, Volker, Marius Lange, Stefan Peidli, F. Alexander Wolf, & Fabian J. Theis. (2020). Generalizing RNA velocity to transient cell states through dynamical modeling. Nature Biotechnology. 38(12). 1408–1414. 1377 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tritschler, Sophie, Maren Büttner, David S. Fischer, et al.. (2019). Concepts and limitations for learning developmental trajectories from single cell genomics. Development. 146(12). 131 indexed citations

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Bergen, Volker, Marcos Escobar, Alexey Rubtsov, & Rudi Zagst. (2018). Robust multivariate portfolio choice with stochastic covariance in the presence of ambiguity. Quantitative Finance. 18(8). 1265–1294. 14 indexed citations

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Bergen, Volker, et al.. (2013). Forstökonomie. Vahlen eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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