Wolfgang Wiechert

11.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
270 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Wiechert is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Wiechert has authored 270 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 196 papers in Molecular Biology, 91 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 27 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Wiechert's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (149 papers), Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (60 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (44 papers). Wolfgang Wiechert is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (149 papers), Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (60 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (44 papers). Wolfgang Wiechert collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Wolfgang Wiechert's co-authors include Albert A. de Graaf, Katharina Nöh, Stephan Noack, Marco Oldiges, Dietrich Kohlheyer, Alexander Grünberger, Achim Marx, Hermann Sahm, Lothar Eggeling and A. Wahl and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Wiechert

242 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

13C Metabolic Flux Analysis 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 100 200 300 400 500
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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. 13C Metabolic Flux Analysis
    2001 599 citations Wolfgang Wiechert Metabolic Engineering 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 Wiechert Germany 49 6.8k 2.3k 555 545 500 270 8.2k
An‐Ping Zeng Germany 60 8.7k 1.3× 4.8k 2.1× 715 1.3× 168 0.3× 569 1.1× 325 12.0k
Vassily Hatzimanikatis Switzerland 54 7.4k 1.1× 2.4k 1.0× 639 1.2× 192 0.4× 311 0.6× 158 8.6k
Hiroshi Shimizu Japan 43 4.4k 0.6× 1.5k 0.7× 476 0.9× 217 0.4× 189 0.4× 302 6.4k
Jennifer L. Reed United States 47 8.7k 1.3× 2.6k 1.1× 830 1.5× 314 0.6× 361 0.7× 97 10.9k
Adam M. Feist United States 48 10.3k 1.5× 4.0k 1.8× 1.7k 3.0× 145 0.3× 327 0.7× 127 11.7k
Bas Teusink Netherlands 52 7.1k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 1.9× 235 0.4× 162 0.3× 167 9.0k
John Villadsen Denmark 43 4.0k 0.6× 2.4k 1.1× 243 0.4× 381 0.7× 587 1.2× 150 7.1k
Tomer Shlomi Israel 40 7.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.5× 385 0.7× 246 0.5× 106 0.2× 68 8.4k
Matthias Reuß Germany 44 3.8k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 449 0.8× 357 0.7× 220 0.4× 115 5.8k
Christopher J. Petzold United States 49 6.9k 1.0× 2.1k 0.9× 565 1.0× 535 1.0× 349 0.7× 175 9.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Wolfgang Wiechert

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wolfgang Wiechert

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wolfgang Wiechert

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wolfgang Wiechert. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wolfgang Wiechert 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 Wiechert. Wolfgang Wiechert 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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Osthege, Michael, et al.. (2024). Automated Processing of Pipelines Managing Now- and Forecasting of Infectious Diseases. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1157–1162. 1 indexed citations
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Wiechert, Wolfgang, et al.. (2024). Optimizing microbioreactor cultivation strategies for Trichoderma reesei: from batch to fed-batch operations. Microbial Cell Factories. 23(1). 2 indexed citations
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Reiter, Alexander M., et al.. (2024). Rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics: A powerful tool for bioprocess optimization. Engineering in Life Sciences. 25(2). 2300222–2300222.
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Osthege, Michael, et al.. (2024). PeakPerformance - A tool for Bayesian inference-based fitting of LC-MS/MS peaks. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(104). 7313–7313.
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Wiechert, Wolfgang, et al.. (2024). hopsy — a methods marketplace for convex polytope sampling in Python. Bioinformatics. 40(7). 1 indexed citations
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Tenhaef, Niklas, Jan Marienhagen, Marco Oldiges, et al.. (2023). From Microbial Succinic Acid Production to Polybutylene Bio‐Succinate Synthesis. Chemie Ingenieur Technik. 95(4). 587–595. 5 indexed citations
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Wiechert, Wolfgang, et al.. (2023). From frozen cell bank to product assay: high-throughput strain characterisation for autonomous Design-Build-Test-Learn cycles. Microbial Cell Factories. 22(1). 130–130. 6 indexed citations
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Wiechert, Wolfgang, et al.. (2022). CellSium: versatile cell simulator for microcolony ground truth generation. Bioinformatics Advances. 2(1). vbac053–vbac053. 1 indexed citations
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Strohmeier, Daniel, Katharina Nöh, Dietrich Kohlheyer, et al.. (2022). Communities of Niche-optimized Strains (CoNoS) – Design and creation of stable, genome-reduced co-cultures. Metabolic Engineering. 73. 91–103. 10 indexed citations
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Jäger, Vera D., Alexander Grünberger, Meike Baumgart, et al.. (2018). Tailor-made catalytically active inclusion bodies for different applications in biocatalysis. Catalysis Science & Technology. 8(22). 5816–5826. 26 indexed citations
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Unthan, Simon, Meike Baumgart, Andreas Radek, et al.. (2014). Chassis organism from Corynebacterium glutamicum – a top‐down approach to identify and delete irrelevant gene clusters. Biotechnology Journal. 10(2). 290–301. 95 indexed citations
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Junne, Stefan, et al.. (2014). Process inhomogeneity leads to rapid side product turnover in cultivation of Corynebacterium glutamicum. Microbial Cell Factories. 13(1). 6–6. 45 indexed citations
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Grünberger, Alexander, C. Probst, Wolfgang Wiechert, & Dietrich Kohlheyer. (2012). High‐Throughput Growth Rate Determination of Bacteria Microcolonies on Single Cell Level. Chemie Ingenieur Technik. 84(8). 1336–1337.
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Wiechert, Wolfgang, et al.. (2008). Simulation based Optimization of Bi- and Multistatic SAR-Missions. 1–4. 3 indexed citations
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Wiechert, Wolfgang, et al.. (2007). The topology of metabolic isotope labeling networks. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(1). 315–315. 28 indexed citations
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Graf, Karlheinz, et al.. (2006). Evaporation of Solvent Microdrops on Polymer Substrates: Crater Geometries and Parameter Sensitivity Analysis. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt).
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Wiechert, Wolfgang, et al.. (2004). Kleene's theorem and the solution of metabolic carbon labeling systems. 16(6). 75–84.
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Qeli, Ermir, Wolfgang Wiechert, & Bernd Freisleben. (2004). Visualizing time-varying matrices using multidimensional scaling and reorderable matrices. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2004. IV 2004.. 561–567. 5 indexed citations
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Freisleben, Bernd, et al.. (2002). Distributed Simulation of Metabolic Networks with Model Variants. 436–440. 1 indexed citations
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Wiechert, Wolfgang. (2002). An Introduction to 13C Metabolic Flux Analysis. PubMed. 24. 215–238. 28 indexed citations

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