Aaron D. Gitler

28.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
118 papers, 14.4k citations indexed

About

Aaron D. Gitler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron D. Gitler has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 14.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Molecular Biology, 74 papers in Neurology and 32 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Aaron D. Gitler's work include Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (53 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (28 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (24 papers). Aaron D. Gitler is often cited by papers focused on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (53 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (28 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (24 papers). Aaron D. Gitler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Aaron D. Gitler's co-authors include James Shorter, Oliver D. King, Susan Lindquist, Jonathan A. Epstein, Brian S. Johnson, J. Michael McCaffery, Leslie A. Lange, Min Lü, Asa Abeliovich and Gregor Bieri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Aaron D. Gitler

117 papers receiving 14.2k 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. α-Synuclein Blocks ER-Golgi Traffic and Rab1 Rescues Neuron Loss in Parkinson's Models
    2006 1.1k citations Antony A. Cooper, Aaron D. Gitler et al. Science profile →
  2. Stress granules as crucibles of ALS pathogenesis
    2013 678 citations Leslie A. Lange, Aaron D. Gitler et al. profile →
  3. TDP-43 Is Intrinsically Aggregation-prone, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-linked Mutations Accelerate Aggregation and Increase Toxicity
    2009 605 citations Aaron D. Gitler et al. profile →
  4. The tip of the iceberg: RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains in neurodegenerative disease
    2012 513 citations Aaron D. Gitler et al. profile →
  5. Modifiers of C9orf72 dipeptide repeat toxicity connect nucleocytoplasmic transport defects to FTD/ALS
    2015 446 citations Ana Jovičić, Steven Boeynaems et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  6. Therapeutic reduction of ataxin-2 extends lifespan and reduces pathology in TDP-43 mice
    2017 396 citations Lindsay A. Becker, Gregor Bieri et al. Nature profile →
  7. Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes induce cell death via saturated lipids
    2021 361 citations Kevin A. Guttenplan, Maya K. Weigel et al. Nature profile →
  8. Spontaneous driving forces give rise to protein−RNA condensates with coexisting phases and complex material properties
    2019 341 citations Steven Boeynaems, Alex S. Holehouse et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Stress Granule Assembly Disrupts Nucleocytoplasmic Transport
    2018 279 citations Alyssa N. Coyne, Frank Rigo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aaron D. Gitler United States 58 9.1k 6.7k 3.0k 2.4k 2.2k 118 14.4k
Dieter Edbauer Germany 50 6.0k 0.7× 3.9k 0.6× 1.7k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 77 10.1k
Nancy M. Bonini United States 57 9.3k 1.0× 3.9k 0.6× 5.8k 1.9× 761 0.3× 2.3k 1.1× 124 14.0k
Christopher E. Henderson France 51 7.1k 0.8× 2.3k 0.3× 5.7k 1.9× 2.1k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 129 13.5k
Zuoshang Xu United States 46 5.2k 0.6× 3.6k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 1.9k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 86 9.3k
Kenneth H. Fischbeck United States 66 13.1k 1.4× 4.4k 0.7× 9.4k 3.1× 3.8k 1.6× 1.8k 0.8× 207 18.9k
Vincent Timmerman Belgium 57 5.2k 0.6× 2.7k 0.4× 6.5k 2.2× 1.1k 0.5× 2.6k 1.2× 221 11.8k
Veerle Baekelandt Belgium 58 5.3k 0.6× 4.7k 0.7× 3.4k 1.1× 421 0.2× 1.1k 0.5× 218 11.7k
Mark E. Gurney United States 36 3.9k 0.4× 5.9k 0.9× 1.8k 0.6× 3.2k 1.3× 720 0.3× 89 11.0k
Mari Yoshida Japan 50 4.8k 0.5× 7.0k 1.1× 2.2k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 485 0.2× 311 11.5k
Clive N. Svendsen United States 74 10.5k 1.2× 3.2k 0.5× 7.3k 2.4× 3.2k 1.3× 567 0.3× 243 19.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zeng, Yi, Tetsuya Akiyama, Stephanie L. Rayner, et al.. (2025). TDP-43 nuclear loss in FTD/ALS causes widespread alternative polyadenylation changes. Nature Neuroscience. 28(11). 2180–2189. 3 indexed citations
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Chemparathy, Augustine, Yann Le Guen, Yi Zeng, et al.. (2024). A 3′UTR Insertion Is a Candidate Causal Variant at the TMEM106B Locus Associated With Increased Risk for FTLD-TDP. Neurology Genetics. 10(1). e200124–e200124. 5 indexed citations
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Lasker, Keren, Steven Boeynaems, Vinson Lam, et al.. (2022). The material properties of a bacterial-derived biomolecular condensate tune biological function in natural and synthetic systems. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5643–5643. 74 indexed citations
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Blum, Jacob A. & Aaron D. Gitler. (2022). Singling out motor neurons in the age of single-cell transcriptomics. Trends in Genetics. 38(9). 904–919. 10 indexed citations
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Guttenplan, Kevin A., Maya K. Weigel, Priya Prakash, et al.. (2021). Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes induce cell death via saturated lipids. Nature. 599(7883). 102–107. 361 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnson, Alex G., Ryan A. Flynn, Christopher P. Lapointe, et al.. (2020). A memory of eS25 loss drives resistance phenotypes. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(13). 7279–7297. 9 indexed citations
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Boeynaems, Steven, Alex S. Holehouse, Venera Weinhardt, et al.. (2019). Spontaneous driving forces give rise to protein−RNA condensates with coexisting phases and complex material properties. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(16). 7889–7898. 341 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cheng, Cheng, Kan Yang, Xinwei Wu, et al.. (2019). Loss of CREST leads to neuroinflammatory responses and ALS-like motor defects in mice. Translational Neurodegeneration. 8(1). 13–13. 7 indexed citations
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Kramer, Nicholas J., Michael S. Haney, David W. Morgens, et al.. (2018). CRISPR–Cas9 screens in human cells and primary neurons identify modifiers of C9ORF72 dipeptide-repeat-protein toxicity. Nature Genetics. 50(4). 603–612. 160 indexed citations
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Li, Lixi, Hai‐Lin Dong, Zhijun Liu, et al.. (2018). Targeted next-generation sequencing improves diagnosis of hereditary spastic paraplegia in Chinese patients. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 96(7). 701–712. 23 indexed citations
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Becker, Lindsay A., Gregor Bieri, K. Rosanna, et al.. (2017). Therapeutic reduction of ataxin-2 extends lifespan and reduces pathology in TDP-43 mice. Nature. 544(7650). 367–371. 396 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jovičić, Ana, Joseph W. Paul, & Aaron D. Gitler. (2016). Nuclear transport dysfunction: a common theme in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurochemistry. 138(S1). 134–144. 39 indexed citations
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Dikiy, Igor, Bruno Fauvet, Ana Jovičić, et al.. (2016). Semisynthetic and in Vitro Phosphorylation of Alpha-Synuclein at Y39 Promotes Functional Partly Helical Membrane-Bound States Resembling Those Induced by PD Mutations. ACS Chemical Biology. 11(9). 2428–2437. 65 indexed citations
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Coyne, Alyssa N., Shizuka Yamada, Patricia S. Estes, et al.. (2015). Fragile X protein mitigates TDP-43 toxicity by remodeling RNA granules and restoring translation. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(24). ddv389–ddv389. 64 indexed citations
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Jovičić, Ana & Aaron D. Gitler. (2014). TDP-43 in ALS: Stay on Target…Almost There. Neuron. 81(3). 463–465. 8 indexed citations
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Couthouis, Julien, Alya R. Raphael, Carly E. Siskind, et al.. (2014). Exome sequencing identifies a DNAJB6 mutation in a family with dominantly-inherited limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. Neuromuscular Disorders. 24(5). 431–435. 28 indexed citations
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Hart, Michael P., Johannes Brettschneider, Virginia M.‐Y. Lee, John Q. Trojanowski, & Aaron D. Gitler. (2012). Distinct TDP-43 pathology in ALS patients with ataxin 2 intermediate-length polyQ expansions. Acta Neuropathologica. 124(2). 221–230. 33 indexed citations
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Liu‐Yesucevitz, Liqun, Gary J. Bassell, Aaron D. Gitler, et al.. (2011). Local RNA Translation at the Synapse and in Disease: Figure 1.. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(45). 16086–16093. 239 indexed citations
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Lange, Leslie A., Caroline Ingre, Markus Weber, et al.. (2011). Ataxin-2 intermediate-length polyglutamine expansions in European ALS patients. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(9). 1697–1700. 113 indexed citations
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Cooper, Antony A., Aaron D. Gitler, Anil G. Cashikar, et al.. (2006). α-Synuclein Blocks ER-Golgi Traffic and Rab1 Rescues Neuron Loss in Parkinson's Models. Science. 313(5785). 324–328. 1064 indexed citations breakdown →

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