In its recent issue, Laborjournal (LJ) publishes a citation analysis in the field of cell biology covering the period from 2007 to 2010. Instead of asking the mirror, LJ searched the database "Web of Science" for authors based in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Amongst the Top 5: IBC2 director Ivan Dikic with 1886 citations of 35 articles. One article from the Dikic lab made it under the Top 10 of most cited articles: the report about a role for the protein NBR1 in autophagy , published by Kirkin and collaborators 2009 in the journal Molecular Cell.