Abby Oehler

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Abby Oehler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Abby Oehler has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Neurology and 13 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Abby Oehler's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (34 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (23 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (12 papers). Abby Oehler is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (34 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (23 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (12 papers). Abby Oehler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Abby Oehler's co-authors include Stanley B. Prusiner, Kurt Giles, Joel C. Watts, Stephen J. DeArmond, Jan Stöhr, Lefkos Middleton, Steve Gentleman, Smita S. Patel, Amanda L. Woerman and Daniel A. Mordes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Abby Oehler

41 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Evidence for α-synuclein prions causing multiple system atrophy in humans with parkinsonism

2015 542 citations Stanley B. Prusiner, Amanda L. Woerman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abby Oehler United States	23	1.7k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	461	42	2.8k
Joel C. Watts Canada	32	2.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	595 1.3×	69	4.1k
Fabio Moda Italy	25	1.3k 0.8×	594 0.5×	646 0.5×	506 0.5×	224 0.5×	68	2.0k
Emiliano Biasini Italy	25	1.7k 1.0×	752 0.6×	918 0.8×	157 0.1×	231 0.5×	57	2.1k
Kiran Yanamandra Sweden	14	909 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	613 0.5×	575 0.5×	479 1.0×	17	2.0k
Morvane Colin France	27	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	665 0.6×	338 0.3×	730 1.6×	58	2.8k
Zhanyun Fan United States	22	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	433 0.4×	567 0.5×	802 1.7×	34	2.9k
Nadia Angeretti Italy	21	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	970 0.8×	142 0.1×	413 0.9×	28	2.5k
Bruno Permanne United States	14	1.3k 0.7×	798 0.6×	513 0.4×	162 0.1×	166 0.4×	18	1.8k
Stéphane Haı̈k France	30	1.9k 1.1×	567 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	432 0.4×	263 0.6×	91	2.5k
Amanda L. Woerman United States	17	744 0.4×	757 0.6×	584 0.5×	988 0.9×	376 0.8×	35	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Abby Oehler

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Yang, Hyunjun, Abby Oehler, Julia P. G. Jones, et al.. (2025). High-throughput discovery of fluoroprobes that recognize amyloid fibril polymorphs. Nature Chemistry. 17(10). 1565–1575. 1 indexed citations

Ayers, Jacob I., Theresa Lopez, Abby Oehler, et al.. (2024). Severe neurodegeneration in brains of transgenic rats producing human tau prions. Acta Neuropathologica. 148(1). 25–25. 2 indexed citations

Oehler, Abby, Aye C. Thwin, Koli Basu, et al.. (2024). Phosphorylation of tau at a single residue inhibits binding to the E3 ubiquitin ligase, CHIP. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7972–7972. 7 indexed citations

Spina, Salvatore, Abby Oehler, Isabel Elaine Allen, et al.. (2024). Comprehensive mapping of synaptic vesicle protein 2A (SV2A) in health and neurodegenerative diseases: a comparative analysis with synaptophysin and ground truth for PET-imaging interpretation. Acta Neuropathologica. 148(1). 58–58. 6 indexed citations

Woerman, Amanda L., Smita S. Patel, Sabeen A. Kazmi, et al.. (2020). Kinetics of α-synuclein prions preceding neuropathological inclusions in multiple system atrophy. PLoS Pathogens. 16(2). e1008222–e1008222. 24 indexed citations

Johnson, Noah R., Carlo Condello, Shenheng Guan, et al.. (2017). Evidence for sortilin modulating regional accumulation of human tau prions in transgenic mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(51). E11029–E11036. 21 indexed citations

Woerman, Amanda L., Sabeen A. Kazmi, Smita S. Patel, et al.. (2017). MSA prions exhibit remarkable stability and resistance to inactivation. Acta Neuropathologica. 135(1). 49–63. 73 indexed citations

Lopez, Theresa, Kurt Giles, Brittany N. Dugger, et al.. (2017). A novel vector for transgenesis in the rat CNS. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 5(1). 84–84. 3 indexed citations

Prusiner, Stanley B., Amanda L. Woerman, Daniel A. Mordes, et al.. (2015). Evidence for α-synuclein prions causing multiple system atrophy in humans with parkinsonism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(38). E5308–17. 542 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tousseyn, Thomas, Henry Sánchez, Abby Oehler, et al.. (2015). Prion Disease Induces Alzheimer Disease—Like Neuropathologic Changes. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 74(9). 873–888. 27 indexed citations

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Giles, Kurt, David B. Berry, Carlo Condello, et al.. (2015). Different 2-Aminothiazole Therapeutics Produce Distinct Patterns of Scrapie Prion Neuropathology in Mouse Brains. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 355(1). 2–12. 34 indexed citations

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Watts, Joel C., Kurt Giles, Smita S. Patel, et al.. (2014). Evidence That Bank Vole PrP Is a Universal Acceptor for Prions. PLoS Pathogens. 10(4). e1003990–e1003990. 86 indexed citations

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Ahn, Misol, et al.. (2014). Convection-Enhanced Delivery of AAV2-PrPshRNA in Prion-Infected Mice. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e98496–e98496. 8 indexed citations

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Caverzasi, Eduardo, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Stephen J. DeArmond, et al.. (2014). White matter involvement in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Brain. 137(12). 3339–3354. 36 indexed citations

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Lü, Duo, Kurt Giles, Zhe Li, et al.. (2013). Biaryl Amides and Hydrazones as Therapeutics for Prion Disease in Transgenic Mice. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 347(2). 325–338. 32 indexed citations

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Ghaemmaghami, Sina, David W. Colby, Hoang-Oanh B. Nguyen, et al.. (2013). Convergent Replication of Mouse Synthetic Prion Strains. American Journal Of Pathology. 182(3). 866–874. 30 indexed citations

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Calì, Ignazio, Abby Oehler, Jamie Fong, et al.. (2013). Genetic CJD with a novel E200G mutation in the prion protein gene and comparison with E200K mutation cases. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 1(1). 80–80. 22 indexed citations

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Silvius, Derek, Rose Pitstick, Misol Ahn, et al.. (2013). Levels of the Mahogunin Ring Finger 1 E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Do Not Influence Prion Disease. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e55575–e55575. 11 indexed citations

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Stöhr, Jan, Joel C. Watts, Zachary L. Mensinger, et al.. (2012). Purified and synthetic Alzheimer’s amyloid beta (Aβ) prions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(27). 11025–11030. 286 indexed citations

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Watts, Joel C., Jan Stöhr, Sumita Bhardwaj, et al.. (2011). Protease-Resistant Prions Selectively Decrease Shadoo Protein. PLoS Pathogens. 7(11). e1002382–e1002382. 39 indexed citations

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