Walter Knöchel

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
106 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Walter Knöchel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Knöchel has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Cell Biology and 12 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Walter Knöchel's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (35 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (23 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers). Walter Knöchel is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (35 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (23 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers). Walter Knöchel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Walter Knöchel's co-authors include Eckhard Kaufmann, Daniel E. Martínez, Klaus H. Kaestner, Manfred Köster, Joachim H. Clement, Sigrun Knöchel, Ying Cao, Barbara Pohl, Franz Oswald and Cornelia Donow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Walter Knöchel

104 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Unified nomenclature for the winged helix/forkhead transcription factors

2000 966 citations Walter Knöchel et al. profile →
Five years on the wings of fork head

1996 547 citations Eckhard Kaufmann, Walter Knöchel Mechanisms of Development profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Knöchel

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	RITA, a novel modulator of Notch signalling, acts via nuclear export of RBP‐J 2010 ·The EMBO Journal ·S. Wacker, Cristóbal Alvarado, Götz von Wichert, Uwe Knippschild, Jörg Wiedenmann, (unknown), G. Ulrich Nienhaus, H. Hameister, Bernd Baumann, Tilman Borggrefe, Walter Knöchel, Franz Oswald	53
2	Functional dissection of XDppa2/4 structural domains in Xenopus development 2009 ·Mechanisms of Development ·(unknown), Maximilian Schuff, Franz Oswald, Ying Cao, Walter Knöchel	11
3	FoxO genes are dispensable during gastrulation but required for late embryogenesis in Xenopus laevis 2009 ·Developmental Biology ·Maximilian Schuff, (unknown), Nabila Bardine, Franz Oswald, Cornelia Donow, Walter Knöchel	19
4	FoxN3 is required for craniofacial and eye development of Xenopus laevis 2006 ·Developmental Dynamics ·Maximilian Schuff, (unknown), S. Wacker, Cornelia Donow, Susanne Gessert, Walter Knöchel	53
5	Xenopus POU factors of subclass V inhibit activin/nodal signaling during gastrulation 2006 ·Mechanisms of Development ·Ying Cao, (unknown), Walter Knöchel	54
6	Temporal and spatial expression patterns of FoxN genes in Xenopus laevis embryos 2006 ·The International Journal of Developmental Biology ·Maximilian Schuff, (unknown), Cornelia Donow, Walter Knöchel	21
7	Autoregulation of Xvent-2B; Direct Interaction and Functional Cooperation of Xvent-2 and Smad1 2002 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Kristine A. Henningfeld, (unknown), Sepand Rastegar, Walter Knöchel	38
8	Sequence and expression of FoxB2 (XFD-5) and FoxI1c (XFD-10) in Xenopus embryogenesis 2002 ·Mechanisms of Development ·Barbara Pohl, Sigrun Knöchel, (unknown), Walter Knöchel	24
9	Pluripotent cells (stem cells) and their determination and differentiation in early vertebrate embryogenesis^† 2001 ·Development Growth & Differentiation ·H. Tiedemann, Makoto Asashima, Horst Grunz, Walter Knöchel	39
10	Structure and expression of Xenopus tropicalis BMP-2 and BMP-4 genes 2001 ·Mechanisms of Development ·Sigrun Knöchel, (unknown), Manfred Köster, Walter Knöchel	24
11	The Homeodomain Transcription Factor Xvent-2 Mediates Autocatalytic Regulation of BMP-4 Expression in XenopusEmbryos 2000 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·(unknown), Sigrun Knöchel, Eckhard Kaufmann, Walter Knöchel	45
12	Activin A signaling directly activates Xenopus winged helix factors XFD-4/4’, the orthologues to mammalian MFH-1 2000 ·Development Genes and Evolution ·Manfred Köster, (unknown), Walter Knöchel	5
13	Expression pattern of the winged helix factor XFD-11 during Xenopus embryogenesis 1998 ·Mechanisms of Development ·Manfred Köster, (unknown), Walter Knöchel	25
14	Determination, induction and pattern formation in early amphibian embryos 1996 ·Development Growth & Differentiation ·Heinz Tiedemann, Makoto Asashima, Jan Born, Horst Grunz, Walter Knöchel, Hildegard Tiedemann	14
15	Five years on the wings of fork head breakdown → 1996 ·Mechanisms of Development ·Eckhard Kaufmann, Walter Knöchel	547
16	Suramin prevents transcription of dorsal marker genes in Xenopus laevis embryos, isolated dorsal blastopore lips and activin A induced animal caps 1993 ·Mechanisms of Development ·(unknown), Joachim H. Clement, Walter Knöchel, (unknown)	12
17	Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in rodent testis Presence of bFGF mRNA and of a 30 kDa bFGF protein in pachytene spermatocytes 1992 ·FEBS Letters ·Georgia Lahr, Artur Mayerhofer, Klaus Seidl, Sabine Bucher, (unknown), Walter Knöchel, Manfred Gratzl	27
18	Second-order repeats in Xenopus laevis finger proteins 1989 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Wilfried Nietfeld, Tarek T.A.L. El-Baradi, H. Mentzel, Tomas Pieler, Manfred Köster, Annette Pöting, Walter Knöchel	41
19	Primary structure and evolutionary relationship between the adult α-globin genes and their 5′-flanking regions ofXenopus laevis andXenopus tropicalis 1988 ·Journal of Molecular Evolution ·Jürg Stalder, (unknown), J. Beck, Andreas Gruber, Wolfgang Meyerhof, Walter Knöchel, Rudolf Weber	5
20	Nucleotide sequence of theXenopus tropicalislarval β globin gene 1987 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Walter Knöchel, J. Beck, Wolfgang Meyerhof	4

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