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Wolfgang Baumeister

Wolfgang Baumeister

Max Planck Society
Germany

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Biology and Biochemistry
Germany
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
142
Citations
66255
World Ranking
251
National Ranking
18

Wolfgang Baumeister publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Baumeister sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 677 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Wolfgang Baumeister D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Baumeister sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 142 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Wolfgang Baumeister is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has made significant contributions within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans a broad range of subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Structural Biology, Epidemiology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The primary topics of Wolfgang Baumeister's research focus on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, Cellular Transport and Secretion, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Ubiquitin and Proteasome Pathways, and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include Jürgen M. Plitzko, Qiang Guo, Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego, Florian Beck, and Florian Wilfling.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Cell Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Methods

Recent notable papers include:

  • "The promise and the challenges of cryo-electron tomography," 2020, FEBS Letters
  • "Stress- and ubiquitylation-dependent phase separation of the proteasome," 2020, Nature
  • "Structural basis for VIPP1 oligomerization and maintenance of thylakoid membrane integrity," 2021, Cell
  • "High-resolution structure and biophysical characterization of the nucleocapsid phosphoprotein dimerization domain from the Covid-19 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2," 2020, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • "Charting the native architecture of Chlamydomonas thylakoid membranes with single-molecule precision," 2020, eLife

Wolfgang Baumeister has received several awards throughout their career including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften for Biochemistry and Biophysics (2001)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • The 26S Proteasome: A Molecular Machine Designed for Controlled Proteolysis

    D. Voges;P. Zwickl;W. Baumeister

  • Crystal structure of the 20S proteasome from the archaeon T. acidophilum at 3.4 A resolution.

    Jan Löwe;Daniela Stock;Bing Jap;Peter Zwickl

  • The proteasome - paradigm of a self-compartmentalizing protease

    Wolfgang Baumeister;Jochen Walz;Frank Zühl;Erika Seemüller

  • A subcomplex of the proteasome regulatory particle required for ubiquitin-conjugate degradation and related to the COP9-signalosome and eIF3.

    Michael H Glickman;David M Rubin;Olivier Coux;Inge Wefes

  • The correlation averaging of a regularly arranged bacterial cell envelope protein

    W. O. Saxton;W. Baumeister

  • Macromolecular Architecture in Eukaryotic Cells Visualized by Cryoelectron Tomography

    Ohad Medalia;Igor Weber;Achilleas S. Frangakis;Daniela Nicastro

  • Proteasome from Thermoplasma acidophilum: A threonine protease

    Erika Seemüller;Andrei Lupas;Daniela Stock;Jan Löwe

  • Structural studies by electron tomography: from cells to molecules.

    Vladan Lučić;Friedrich Förster;Wolfgang Baumeister

  • Three-Dimensional Structure of Herpes Simplex Virus from Cryo-Electron Tomography

    Kay Grünewald;Prashant Desai;Dennis C. Winkler;J. Bernard Heymann;J. Bernard Heymann

  • From words to literature in structural proteomics

    Andrej Sali;Robert Glaeser;Thomas Earnest;Wolfgang Baumeister

  • Nuclear Pore Complex Structure and Dynamics Revealed by Cryoelectron Tomography

    Martin Beck;Friedrich Förster;Mary Ecke;Jürgen M. Plitzko

  • Phase separation of a yeast prion protein promotes cellular fitness

    Titus M. Franzmann;Marcus Jahnel;Marcus Jahnel;Andrei Pozniakovsky;Julia Mahamid

  • The molecular sociology of the cell

    Carol V. Robinson;Andrej Sali;Wolfgang Baumeister

  • Visualizing the molecular sociology at the HeLa cell nuclear periphery

    Julia Mahamid;Stefan Pfeffer;Miroslava Schaffer;Elizabeth Villa

  • Molecular architecture of the 26S proteasome holocomplex determined by an integrative approach

    Keren Lasker;Friedrich Förster;Stefan Bohn;Thomas Walzthoeni

  • Chaperonin-mediated protein folding: GroES binds to one end of the GroEL cylinder, which accommodates the protein substrate within its central cavity.

    T. Langer;G. Pfeifer;J. Martin;W. Baumeister

  • The genome sequence of the thermoacidophilic scavenger Thermoplasma acidophilum

    Andreas Ruepp;Werner Graml;Martha-Leticia Santos-Martinez;Kristin K. Koretke

  • Volta potential phase plate for in-focus phase contrast transmission electron microscopy

    Radostin Danev;Bart Buijsse;Maryam Khoshouei;Jürgen M. Plitzko

  • Perspectives of molecular and cellular electron tomography.

    Abraham J. Koster;Rudo Grimm;Dieter Typke;Reiner Hegerl

  • TOM software toolbox: acquisition and analysis for electron tomography

    Stephan Nickell;Friedrich Förster;Alexandros Linaroudis;William Del Net

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei N. Lupas
Andrei N. Lupas Max Planck Society
Tomohiro Tamura
Tomohiro Tamura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Friedrich Lottspeich
Friedrich Lottspeich Max Planck Society
Andreas Engel
Andreas Engel University of Basel
Abraham J. Koster
Abraham J. Koster Leiden University Medical Center
Martin Beck
Martin Beck TU Dresden
F. Ulrich Hartl
F. Ulrich Hartl Max Planck Society
Robert Huber
Robert Huber University of Duisburg-Essen
Alasdair C. Steven
Alasdair C. Steven National Institutes of Health
Günther Gerisch
Günther Gerisch Max Planck Society

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