Stefan W. Hell
Impact in
- Structural Biology top 0.01%
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
- Biophysics top 0.01%
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques
Papers in
- Biophysics 370
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques 364
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques 47
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- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications 120
- Co-authors
- Stefan Jakobs (71 shared papers)Christian Eggeling (73 shared papers)Katrin I. Willig (33 shared papers)Volker Westphal (37 shared papers)Alexander Egner (40 shared papers)Vladimir N. Belov (65 shared papers)Andreas Schönle (44 shared papers)Thomas Arno Klar (6 shared papers)
- Journals
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (30 papers)Biophysical Journal (28 papers)Optics Express (25 papers)Nature Methods (18 papers)Chemistry - A European Journal (18 papers)
- Partner nations
- GermanyUnited KingdomUnited States
In The Last Decade
Stefan W. Hell
489 papers receiving 55.3k citations
Stefan W. Hell's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 184
- Structural Biology 11.5k
- Biophysics 33.3k
- Biomedical Engineering 20.4k
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics 333
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 6.4k
Countries citing papers authored by Stefan W. Hell
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 4632 |
| 2 | Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 2357 |
| 3 | Fluorescence microscopy with diffraction resolution barrier broken by stimulated emission Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 1434 |
| 4 | Direct observation of the nanoscale dynamics of membrane lipids in a living cell Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 1271 |
| 5 | STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains clustered after synaptic vesicle exocytosis Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 950 |
| 6 | Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon fluxes Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 880 |
| 7 | Toward fluorescence nanoscopy Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 805 |
| 8 | Microscopy and its focal switch Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 804 |
| 9 | Fluorescence nanoscopy in cell biology Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 784 |
| 10 | Breaking the diffraction barrier in fluorescence microscopy at low light intensities by using reversibly photoswitchable proteins Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 687 |
| 11 | Subdiffraction resolution in far-field fluorescence microscopy Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 664 |
| 12 | Fluorogenic probes for live-cell imaging of the cytoskeleton Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 662 |
| 13 | Video-Rate Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy Dissects Synaptic Vesicle Movement Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 643 |
| 14 | Fluorescence nanoscopy by ground-state depletion and single-molecule return Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 643 |
| 15 | 2006 | 626 | |
| 16 | STED microscopy reveals crystal colour centres with nanometric resolution Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 621 |
| 17 | Aberrations in confocal fluorescence microscopy induced by mismatches in refractive index Hit paper breakdown → | 1993 | 536 |
| 18 | 2011 | 500 | |
| 19 | 1992 | 439 | |
| 20 | MINFLUX nanoscopy delivers 3D multicolor nanometer resolution in cells Hit paper breakdown → | 2020 | 426 |
About Stefan W. Hell
Stefan W. Hell is a scholar working on Biophysics, Structural Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Molecular Biology, having authored 498 papers that have together received 57.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (364 papers), Near-Field Optical Microscopy (139 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (120 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (47 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (43 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (37 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (37 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (36 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (11.5k citations), Biophysics (33.3k citations), Biomedical Engineering (20.4k citations), Acoustics and Ultrasonics (333 citations) and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (6.4k citations). Stefan W. Hell has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Stefan Jakobs, Christian Eggeling, Katrin I. Willig, Volker Westphal, Alexander Egner, Vladimir N. Belov, Andreas Schönle, Thomas Arno Klar, Marcus Dyba and Rebecca Medda. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biophysical Journal, Optics Express, Nature Methods and Chemistry - A European Journal.
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