Alexander Bartelt

7.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
53 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Alexander Bartelt is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Bartelt has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Physiology, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Alexander Bartelt's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (26 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (14 papers) and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (9 papers). Alexander Bartelt is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (26 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (14 papers) and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (9 papers). Alexander Bartelt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Alexander Bartelt's co-authors include Jöerg Heeren, Philip L.S.M. Gordts, Martin Merkel, Oliver T. Bruns, Rudolph Reimer, Barbara Freund, Franz Rinninger, Horst Weller, Ulrich I. Tromsdorf and Harald Ittrich and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Bartelt

52 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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What are hit papers?

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.

Brown adipose tissue activity controls triglyceride clearance

2011 1.3k citations Alexander Bartelt, Oliver T. Bruns et al. profile →
Adipose tissue browning and metabolic health

2013 892 citations Alexander Bartelt, Jöerg Heeren Nature Reviews Endocrinology profile →
Brown fat activation reduces hypercholesterolaemia and protects from atherosclerosis development

2015 324 citations Jimmy F.P. Berbée, Mariëtte R. Boon et al. Nature Communications profile →
A guide to understanding endoplasmic reticulum stress in metabolic disorders

2021 220 citations Nienke Willemsen, Alexander Bartelt et al. Molecular Metabolism profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Bartelt Germany	23	2.8k	1.6k	1.2k	871	567	53	4.3k
Tim J. Schulz Germany	36	3.5k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	2.5k 2.1×	705 0.8×	531 0.9×	115	6.7k
Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm Sweden	30	2.1k 0.8×	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	777 0.9×	270 0.5×	64	4.2k
Philip L.S.M. Gordts United States	25	1.6k 0.6×	887 0.5×	877 0.7×	919 1.1×	534 0.9×	57	3.5k
Rana K. Gupta United States	44	4.5k 1.6×	2.9k 1.8×	2.5k 2.1×	1.4k 1.6×	462 0.8×	72	7.5k
Jacob B. Hansen Denmark	31	1.6k 0.6×	806 0.5×	1.7k 1.4×	247 0.3×	249 0.4×	59	3.3k
Tsu‐Shuen Tsao United States	27	3.2k 1.2×	3.7k 2.3×	2.2k 1.8×	866 1.0×	381 0.7×	48	6.2k
Haihong Zong United States	22	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	2.5k 2.0×	287 0.3×	458 0.8×	38	4.4k
Lily Dong United States	41	1.7k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	2.7k 2.2×	417 0.5×	638 1.1×	74	5.2k
Jae Myoung Suh United States	23	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	2.4k 2.0×	347 0.4×	376 0.7×	42	4.7k
Robert E. McGehee United States	27	1.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	387 0.4×	206 0.4×	48	3.6k

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Weber, Peter, Süheda Erener, Daniela Hass, et al.. (2025). Chronic intermittent fasting impairs β cell maturation and function in adolescent mice. Cell Reports. 44(2). 115225–115225. 5 indexed citations

Brunetta, Henver S., Anna Jung, Annelise Francisco, et al.. (2024). IF1 is a cold-regulated switch of ATP synthase hydrolytic activity to support thermogenesis in brown fat. The EMBO Journal. 43(21). 4870–4891. 3 indexed citations

Kotschi, Stefan, Nienke Willemsen, Anna Jung, et al.. (2024). Activating the NFE2L1-ubiquitin-proteasome system by DDI2 protects from ferroptosis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 32(3). 480–487. 8 indexed citations

Bartelt, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Cardiac proteostasis in obesity and cardiovascular disease. Herz. 49(2). 118–123. 4 indexed citations

Egea, Virginia, Dirk Steinritz, Konrad Steinestel, et al.. (2024). Targeting miR-497-5p rescues human keratinocyte dysfunction upon skin exposure to sulfur mustard. Cell Death and Disease. 15(8). 585–585. 3 indexed citations

Willemsen, Nienke, et al.. (2023). The role of proteasome activators PA28αβ and PA200 in brown adipocyte differentiation and function. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1176733–1176733. 2 indexed citations

Bartelt, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Brown fat has a sweet tooth. Nature Metabolism. 5(7). 1080–1081. 1 indexed citations

Gregório, Bianca Martins, Christina Maeda Takiya, Andrea Cláudia Freitas Ferreira, et al.. (2022). Exercise Improves Redox Homeostasis and Mitochondrial Function in White Adipose Tissue. Antioxidants. 11(9). 1689–1689. 8 indexed citations

Willemsen, Nienke, et al.. (2022). Proteasome dysfunction disrupts adipogenesis and induces inflammation via ATF3. Molecular Metabolism. 62. 101518–101518. 23 indexed citations

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Ying, Zhixiong, Mariëtte R. Boon, Niels Kloosterhuis, et al.. (2022). Mirabegron-induced brown fat activation does not exacerbate atherosclerosis in mice with a functional hepatic ApoE-LDLR pathway. Pharmacological Research. 187. 106634–106634. 6 indexed citations

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Bartelt, Alexander, Frank Timo Beil, Till Koehne, et al.. (2018). Lrp1 in osteoblasts controls osteoclast activity and protects against osteoporosis by limiting PDGF–RANKL signaling. Bone Research. 6(1). 4–4. 44 indexed citations

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Bartelt, Alexander, Clara John, Nicola Schaltenberg, et al.. (2017). Thermogenic adipocytes promote HDL turnover and reverse cholesterol transport. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15010–15010. 111 indexed citations

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Bartelt, Alexander, Frank Timo Beil, Brigitte Müller, et al.. (2014). Hepatic lipase is expressed by osteoblasts and modulates bone remodeling in obesity. Bone. 62. 90–98. 10 indexed citations

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Heine, Markus, Alexander Bartelt, Oliver T. Bruns, et al.. (2014). The cell-type specific uptake of polymer-coated or micelle-embedded QDs and SPIOs does not provoke an acute pro-inflammatory response in the liver. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. 5. 1432–1440. 14 indexed citations

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Bartelt, Alexander & Jöerg Heeren. (2013). Adipose tissue browning and metabolic health. Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 10(1). 24–36. 892 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eissing, L., Thomas Scherer, Klaus Tödter, et al.. (2013). De novo lipogenesis in human fat and liver is linked to ChREBP-β and metabolic health. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1528–1528. 245 indexed citations

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Freund, Barbara, Ulrich I. Tromsdorf, Oliver T. Bruns, et al.. (2012). A Simple and Widely Applicable Method to ⁵⁹Fe-Radiolabel Monodisperse Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for In Vivo Quantification Studies. ACS Nano. 6(8). 7318–7325. 74 indexed citations

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Bartelt, Alexander & Jöerg Heeren. (2012). The holy grail of metabolic disease. Current Opinion in Lipidology. 23(3). 190–195. 58 indexed citations

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Bartelt, Alexander, Pierangelo Orlando, Chiara Mele, et al.. (2011). Altered endocannabinoid signalling after a high-fat diet in Apoe −/− mice: relevance to adipose tissue inflammation, hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance. Diabetologia. 54(11). 2900–2910. 59 indexed citations

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Prawitt, Janne, Frank Timo Beil, Robert Percy Marshall, et al.. (2010). Short-term activation of liver X receptors inhibits osteoblasts but long-term activation does not have an impact on murine bone in vivo. Bone. 48(2). 339–346. 17 indexed citations

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