Wolf Reik

76.0k total citations · 28 hit papers
271 papers, 52.2k citations indexed

About

Wolf Reik is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolf Reik has authored 271 papers receiving a total of 52.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 245 papers in Molecular Biology, 150 papers in Genetics and 82 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Wolf Reik's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (196 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (126 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (67 papers). Wolf Reik is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (196 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (126 papers) and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (67 papers). Wolf Reik collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Wolf Reik's co-authors include Wendy Dean, Jörn Walter, Chris P. Ponting, Peter L. Oliver, Fátima Santos, Felix Krueger, Gavin Kelsey, Gabriella Ficz, M. Azim Surani and Miguel R. Branco and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Wolf Reik

267 papers receiving 51.3k citations

Hit Papers

Evolution and Functions of Long Noncoding RNAs 2000 2026 2008 2017 2009 2001 2001 2007 2005 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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.

  1. Evolution and Functions of Long Noncoding RNAs
    2009 4.1k citations Wolf Reik et al. profile →
  2. Epigenetic Reprogramming in Mammalian Development
    2001 2.3k citations Wolf Reik, Wendy Dean et al. Science profile →
  3. Genomic imprinting: parental influence on the genome
    2001 1.7k citations Wolf Reik, Jörn Walter profile →
  4. Stability and flexibility of epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian development
    2007 1.5k citations Wolf Reik Nature profile →
  5. Epigenetic reprogramming in mammals
    2005 980 citations Hugh D. Morgan, Fátima Santos et al. Human Molecular Genetics profile →
  6. Dynamic Reprogramming of DNA Methylation in the Early Mouse Embryo
    2002 946 citations Fátima Santos, Wolf Reik et al. profile →
  7. SC3: consensus clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data
    2017 920 citations Wolf Reik et al. profile →
  8. Epigenetic reprogramming in mouse primordial germ cells
    2002 894 citations Wolf Reik, Jörn Walter et al. profile →
  9. Dynamic regulation of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in mouse ES cells and during differentiation
    2011 877 citations Gabriella Ficz, Miguel R. Branco et al. Nature profile →
  10. Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant and Animal Development
    2010 850 citations Wolf Reik et al. Science profile →
  11. Conservation of methylation reprogramming in mammalian development: Aberrant reprogramming in cloned embryos
    2001 805 citations Wendy Dean, Fátima Santos et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  12. Single-cell genome-wide bisulfite sequencing for assessing epigenetic heterogeneity
    2014 790 citations Heather Lee, Felix Krueger et al. profile →
  13. Active genes dynamically colocalize to shared sites of ongoing transcription
    2004 781 citations Wolf Reik et al. profile →
  14. Placental-specific IGF-II is a major modulator of placental and fetal growth
    2002 778 citations Miguel Constância, Wendy Dean et al. Nature profile →
  15. Active demethylation of the paternal genome in the mouse zygote
    2000 772 citations Wendy Dean, Wolf Reik et al. profile →
  16. The Dynamics of Genome-wide DNA Methylation Reprogramming in Mouse Primordial Germ Cells
    2012 724 citations Stefanie Seisenberger, Simon Andrews et al. profile →
  17. Quantitative Sequencing of 5-Methylcytosine and 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine at Single-Base Resolution
    2012 711 citations Michael J. Booth, Miguel R. Branco et al. Science profile →
  18. Resetting Transcription Factor Control Circuitry toward Ground-State Pluripotency in Human
    2014 696 citations Jennifer Nichols, Gabriella Ficz et al. profile →
  19. Genome-wide erasure of DNA methylation in mouse primordial germ cells is affected by AID deficiency
    2010 663 citations Wendy Dean, Simon Andrews et al. Nature profile →
  20. The H19 lincRNA is a developmental reservoir of miR-675 that suppresses growth and Igf1r
    2012 657 citations David Oxley, Wolf Reik et al. profile →
  21. 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in the mammalian zygote is linked with epigenetic reprogramming
    2011 596 citations Mark Wossidlo, Konstantin Lepikhov et al. Nature Communications profile →
  22. Uncovering the role of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in the epigenome
    2011 592 citations Miguel R. Branco, Gabriella Ficz et al. profile →
  23. A single-cell molecular map of mouse gastrulation and early organogenesis
    2019 546 citations Carla Mulas, Wolf Reik et al. Nature profile →
  24. Parallel single-cell sequencing links transcriptional and epigenetic heterogeneity
    2016 510 citations Heather Lee, Felix Krueger et al. profile →
  25. In utero undernourishment perturbs the adult sperm methylome and intergenerational metabolism
    2014 457 citations Elizabeth J. Radford, Mitsuteru Ito et al. Science profile →
  26. scNMT-seq enables joint profiling of chromatin accessibility DNA methylation and transcription in single cells
    2018 437 citations Heather Lee, Celia Alda-Catalinas et al. Nature Communications profile →
  27. Dynamics of the epigenetic landscape during the maternal-to-zygotic transition
    2018 296 citations Mélanie Eckersley-Maslin, Celia Alda-Catalinas et al. profile →
  28. Integration of spatial and single-cell transcriptomic data elucidates mouse organogenesis
    2021 169 citations Wolf Reik, Jennifer Nichols et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wolf Reik United Kingdom 117 43.9k 17.2k 11.3k 7.3k 4.5k 271 52.2k
Andrew P. Feinberg United States 92 45.0k 1.0× 15.5k 0.9× 5.6k 0.5× 6.8k 0.9× 2.0k 0.4× 235 62.2k
M. Azim Surani United Kingdom 96 31.3k 0.7× 14.1k 0.8× 6.3k 0.6× 3.5k 0.5× 4.7k 1.0× 334 36.9k
Adrian Bird United Kingdom 100 51.3k 1.2× 21.6k 1.3× 3.9k 0.3× 4.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.3× 232 61.8k
Janet Rossant Canada 130 49.6k 1.1× 11.9k 0.7× 3.5k 0.3× 4.3k 0.6× 5.4k 1.2× 397 61.8k
Yi Zhang United States 110 52.9k 1.2× 9.3k 0.5× 2.7k 0.2× 5.6k 0.8× 2.0k 0.4× 420 60.2k
Peter A. Jones United States 112 48.9k 1.1× 8.9k 0.5× 2.5k 0.2× 10.9k 1.5× 1.3k 0.3× 352 61.5k
Stylianos E. Antonarakis Switzerland 102 21.9k 0.5× 13.3k 0.8× 3.1k 0.3× 3.4k 0.5× 3.0k 0.7× 602 40.8k
Stuart H. Orkin United States 157 51.2k 1.2× 10.2k 0.6× 3.9k 0.3× 6.0k 0.8× 2.3k 0.5× 539 76.4k
Michael K. Skinner United States 88 13.6k 0.3× 6.2k 0.4× 5.1k 0.5× 1.6k 0.2× 6.0k 1.3× 327 27.1k
Argiris Efstratiadis United States 73 20.1k 0.5× 8.5k 0.5× 3.2k 0.3× 2.2k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 120 29.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wolf Reik

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wolf Reik

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wolf Reik. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wolf Reik 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 Wolf Reik. Wolf Reik is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wong, Chee-Wai, Ilona Dunkel, Philipp Voigt, et al.. (2023). Epigenetic dynamics during capacitation of naïve human pluripotent stem cells. Science Advances. 9(39). eadg1936–eadg1936. 9 indexed citations
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Martin, Sally, Daniel Poppe, Nelly Olova, et al.. (2023). Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Neurons as a Model System for Epigenome Maturation during Development. Genes. 14(5). 957–957. 3 indexed citations
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Santos, Fátima, et al.. (2021). Maternal Dppa2 and Dppa4 are dispensable for zygotic genome activation but important for offspring survival. Development. 148(24). 13 indexed citations
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Thompson, Oliver, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Zoë Hewitt, et al.. (2020). Low rates of mutation in clinical grade human pluripotent stem cells under different culture conditions. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1528–1528. 82 indexed citations
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Eckersley-Maslin, Mélanie, Celia Alda-Catalinas, Marloes Blotenburg, et al.. (2019). Dppa2 and Dppa4 directly regulate the Dux-driven zygotic transcriptional program. Genes & Development. 33(3-4). 194–208. 132 indexed citations
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Ito, Mitsuteru, et al.. (2019). TET3 prevents terminal differentiation of adult NSCs by a non-catalytic action at Snrpn. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1726–1726. 34 indexed citations
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Boroviak, Thorsten, Giuliano Giuseppe Stirparo, Sabine Dietmann, et al.. (2018). Single cell transcriptome analysis of human, marmoset and mouse embryos reveals common and divergent features of preimplantation development. Development. 145(21). 142 indexed citations
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Kalkan, Tüzer, Nelly Olova, Mila Roode, et al.. (2017). Tracking the embryonic stem cell transition from ground state pluripotency. Development. 144(7). 1221–1234. 196 indexed citations
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Arand, Julia, Mark Wossidlo, Konstantin Lepikhov, et al.. (2015). Selective impairment of methylation maintenance is the major cause of DNA methylation reprogramming in the early embryo. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 8(1). 1–1. 138 indexed citations
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Radford, Elizabeth J., Mitsuteru Ito, Hui Shi, et al.. (2014). In utero undernourishment perturbs the adult sperm methylome and intergenerational metabolism. Science. 345(6198). 1255903–1255903. 457 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ficz, Gabriella, et al.. (2013). The ageing brain; effects on DNA repair and DNA methylation in mice. Proceedings of The Physiological Society.
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Raddatz, Günter, Paloma M. Guzzardo, Nelly Olova, et al.. (2013). Dnmt2-dependent methylomes lack defined DNA methylation patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(21). 8627–8631. 175 indexed citations
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Walker, Simon, et al.. (2013). Etoposide Induces Nuclear Re-Localisation of AID. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e82110–e82110. 3 indexed citations
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Ficz, Gabriella, Timothy A. Hore, Fátima Santos, et al.. (2013). FGF Signaling Inhibition in ESCs Drives Rapid Genome-wide Demethylation to the Epigenetic Ground State of Pluripotency. Cell stem cell. 13(3). 351–359. 301 indexed citations
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Booth, Michael J., Miguel R. Branco, Gabriella Ficz, et al.. (2012). Quantitative Sequencing of 5-Methylcytosine and 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine at Single-Base Resolution. Science. 336(6083). 934–937. 711 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reik, Wolf. (2007). Stability and flexibility of epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian development. Nature. 447(7143). 425–432. 1482 indexed citations breakdown →
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Constância, Miguel, Emily Angiolini, Ionel Sandovici, et al.. (2005). Adaptation of nutrient supply to fetal demand in the mouse involves interaction between the Igf2 gene and placental transporter systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(52). 19219–19224. 245 indexed citations
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Morgan, Hugh D., Fátima Santos, Kelly Green, Wendy Dean, & Wolf Reik. (2005). Epigenetic reprogramming in mammals. Human Molecular Genetics. 14(suppl_1). R47–R58. 980 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dean, Wendy, Fátima Santos, Miodrag Stojković, et al.. (2001). Conservation of methylation reprogramming in mammalian development: Aberrant reprogramming in cloned embryos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(24). 13734–13738. 805 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schofield, Paul N., Johanna A. Joyce, Wayne Lam, et al.. (2001). Genomic imprinting and cancer; new paradigms in the genetics of neoplasia. Toxicology Letters. 120(1-3). 151–160. 34 indexed citations

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