Wolfgang Ott

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 811 citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Ott is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Ott has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 811 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Ott's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (7 papers), Biochemical and Structural Characterization (6 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (3 papers). Wolfgang Ott is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (7 papers), Biochemical and Structural Characterization (6 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (3 papers). Wolfgang Ott collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Wolfgang Ott's co-authors include Hermann E. Gaub, Markus Jobst, Michael Nash, Ellis Durner, Constantin Schoeler, Lukas F. Milles, W. M. Shaw, George L. Sun, Tom Ellis and Charlie Gilbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Ott

16 papers receiving 802 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Living materials with programmable functionalities grown from engineered microbial co-cultures
    2021 222 citations Charlie Gilbert, Tzu‐Chieh Tang et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wolfgang Ott Germany 13 431 341 194 112 105 16 811
Nicola Ilk Austria 21 758 1.8× 230 0.7× 227 1.2× 54 0.5× 80 0.8× 29 1.3k
Olivier Piétrement France 23 991 2.3× 325 1.0× 257 1.3× 98 0.9× 150 1.4× 49 1.6k
Charles Roduit Switzerland 11 203 0.5× 256 0.8× 130 0.7× 204 1.8× 37 0.4× 14 587
Richard Janissen Netherlands 19 526 1.2× 125 0.4× 241 1.2× 51 0.5× 97 0.9× 35 920
Carina Huber Austria 15 484 1.1× 110 0.3× 134 0.7× 38 0.3× 49 0.5× 24 871
Margot M. E. Snel Netherlands 18 748 1.7× 551 1.6× 305 1.6× 120 1.1× 152 1.4× 30 1.3k
Frédéric A. Denis Belgium 7 180 0.4× 236 0.7× 278 1.4× 66 0.6× 101 1.0× 7 686
Curtis Mosher United States 16 477 1.1× 153 0.4× 410 2.1× 36 0.3× 243 2.3× 25 985
Yuping Shan China 20 455 1.1× 216 0.6× 232 1.2× 79 0.7× 112 1.1× 44 957
Nikolay A. Barinov Russia 13 277 0.6× 71 0.2× 102 0.5× 19 0.2× 43 0.4× 39 565

Countries citing papers authored by Wolfgang Ott

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wolfgang Ott

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wolfgang Ott

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Gilbert, Charlie, Tzu‐Chieh Tang, Wolfgang Ott, et al.. (2021). Living materials with programmable functionalities grown from engineered microbial co-cultures. Nature Materials. 20(5). 691–700. 222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ott, Wolfgang, et al.. (2020). Data‐driven enzyme immobilisation: a case study using DNA to immobilise galactose oxidase. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 43–46. 1 indexed citations
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Vanderlinden, Willem, Lukas F. Milles, Wolfgang Ott, et al.. (2019). The free energy landscape of retroviral integration. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4738–4738. 12 indexed citations
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Ott, Wolfgang, Ellis Durner, & Hermann E. Gaub. (2018). Enzyme‐Mediated, Site‐Specific Protein Coupling Strategies for Surface‐Based Binding Assays. Angewandte Chemie. 130(39). 12848–12851. 3 indexed citations
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Ott, Wolfgang, Ellis Durner, & Hermann E. Gaub. (2018). Enzyme‐Mediated, Site‐Specific Protein Coupling Strategies for Surface‐Based Binding Assays. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(39). 12666–12669. 24 indexed citations
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Ott, Wolfgang, Markus Jobst, Magnus S. Bauer, et al.. (2017). Elastin-like Polypeptide Linkers for Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy. ACS Nano. 11(6). 6346–6354. 62 indexed citations
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Bernardi, Rafael C., et al.. (2017). Combining in Vitro and in Silico Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy to Characterize and Tune Cellulosomal Scaffoldin Mechanics. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(49). 17841–17852. 42 indexed citations
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Durner, Ellis, Wolfgang Ott, Michael Nash, & Hermann E. Gaub. (2017). Post-Translational Sortase-Mediated Attachment of High-Strength Force Spectroscopy Handles. ACS Omega. 2(6). 3064–3069. 36 indexed citations
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Ott, Wolfgang, Markus Jobst, Constantin Schoeler, Hermann E. Gaub, & Michael A. Nash. (2016). Single-molecule force spectroscopy on polyproteins and receptor–ligand complexes: The current toolbox. Journal of Structural Biology. 197(1). 3–12. 98 indexed citations
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Ott, Wolfgang, Thomas Nicolaus, Hermann E. Gaub, & Michael Nash. (2016). Sequence-Independent Cloning and Post-Translational Modification of Repetitive Protein Polymers through Sortase and Sfp-Mediated Enzymatic Ligation. Biomacromolecules. 17(4). 1330–1338. 25 indexed citations
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Jobst, Markus, Lukas F. Milles, Constantin Schoeler, et al.. (2015). Resolving dual binding conformations of cellulosome cohesin-dockerin complexes using single-molecule force spectroscopy. eLife. 4. 35 indexed citations
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Schoeler, Constantin, Rafael C. Bernardi, Klara H. Malinowska, et al.. (2015). Mapping Mechanical Force Propagation through Biomolecular Complexes. Nano Letters. 15(11). 7370–7376. 71 indexed citations
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Ott, Wolfgang, Markus Jobst, Lukas F. Milles, et al.. (2014). From genes to protein mechanics on a chip. Nature Methods. 11(11). 1127–1130. 62 indexed citations
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Pick, André, et al.. (2014). Improving the NADH-cofactor specificity of the highly active AdhZ3 and AdhZ2 from Escherichia coli K-12. Journal of Biotechnology. 189. 157–165. 20 indexed citations
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Schoeler, Constantin, Klara H. Malinowska, Rafael C. Bernardi, et al.. (2014). Ultrastable cellulosome-adhesion complex tightens under load. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5635–5635. 89 indexed citations
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Pahlich, Edwin, et al.. (1980). Immunochemical Investigations with Highly Purified Glutamate Dehydrogenase from Pea Seeds by Means of the Ouchterlony Test. Journal of Experimental Botany. 31(2). 419–423. 9 indexed citations

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